On the inside it feels like healing, on the outside it looks like growth. Change is inevitable but how we deal with it is fluid. As life does what life does, you choose what parts of it to nurture. Growth is the way of pure potential sprouting through the darkness and into light. It’s what’s blooming and dying and dormant and producing. As conscious people we get to be deliberate about what we shed, and what fruit we wish to harvest. At Healing Oaks we’re committed not only to helping others grow through their healing, but we’re a team committed to our own growth as individuals and professionals.

Just as the root systems of trees can be intricately intertwined just below the surface, we believe that so too are all human beings intricately linked. In that light, one person’s healing also heals the collective. Healing Oaks believes that work to heal oneself also expands into improving relationships and the community at large. In kind, it also follows that one person’s suffering is linked to all of our suffering. On the macro level, if we do not acknowledge the systems that we are all entrenched in that privilege some and marginalize others then we as a whole cannot fully heal and thrive, therefore, our value of interconnection endorses a social justice framework through an intersectional lens.

Sentience is the capacity to experience sensations and feelings. It speaks to a baseline of awareness that all living things possess and the ability to raise consciousness to contain more of our here-and-now experience. So much of healing work comes from the cessation of numbing and running from our difficult feelings and learning to be more present to them. At Healing Oaks, we believe everyone has the ability to increase their capacity for mindfulness and greater awareness. We value mindfulness interventions and techniques that help us to turn back inward to the shared experience of living: Sentience.