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Knitting Circle Charity Project
by Jen Fusco Perry
 The Knitting Circle at The Resiliency Center has been working on a project, named ‘Warm Hugs', to deliver 170 lap blankets (36"x36") to patients in a local Nursing Home. Our goal is to benefit nursing home patients by providing physical and emotional warmth.
Warm Hugs was inspired by the mother of someone in our Knitting Circle. She spent the last three months of her life in a nursing home. Her family visited throughout the week and gave her love and care she needed. Not all the residents were as fortunate and she noticed that some did not have the benefit of care and visits from relatives and friends. While no one can take the place of a caring family, Warm Hugs hopes to show love to the patients by providing them with a colorful, warm and handmade reminder that someone cares.
So far, the Resiliency Knitting Circle has completed 60 lap blankets that will be handed out to the nursing home patients in January. When we go to the nursing home to deliver the blankets, the Activities staff will identify the patients who do not have family or visitors so they can receive priority in benefiting from our 'warm hugs'.
This has been an effort of love and caring by people in our Knitting Circle. They have given much time and love to make this a reality. This is an on-going project. There are 170 patients in the Nursing Home. Our goal is to continue to provide their patients with our 'Warm Hugs' on an on-going basis.
If you like to crochet or knit or would like to learn, we could use your help to make lap blankets for even more patients!
The Knitting Circle meets the Second Saturday of every month at 10am.
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Listening to the Body
by Dana L. Barron
 The human body has the innate capacity to heal, given the proper conditions. While outside interventions may facilitate healing, the body is doing the actual healing work. The more we can tap into and enable that innate capacity, the healthier and more resilient we will be. The first step is to learn to pay attention to and respect the body’s messages. Symptoms are signals, guides. They indicate that our system is out of balance, that we need to take action to return to equilibrium. Pain is a message to stop. Fatigue is a message to rest.
This all may seem obvious, but it is not what we are conditioned to do. We are more likely to fight our symptoms than to heed their signals. We live according to clocks and calendars, not the rhythms of the body. And so we learn to “power through†discomfort. We treat symptoms as nuisances to be overcome or quieted. We respond to pain with medications, fatigue with food or caffeine, and use antacids and gas pills for indigestion. And medicine – with its focus on procedures and pharmaceuticals – is based more on fighting symptoms than on asking why they are there in the first place. Quelling symptoms may allow us to continue to function, but over time the cost of ignoring what the body is telling us can be very serious.
As a health coach, I start with helping clients reorient their understanding of the body’s messages.
» Read More on our Blog
To learn more or schedule an appointment, contact Dana L. Barron, PhD, Health coach, advocate, and herbalist at healingpathcoaching@yahoo.com
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Featured Events
Teen Movie Night
Friday, 2/13 7:30 - 10pm
$25 per teen, $5 discount if you bring a friend.
Your teen is invited to a Teen Movie Night to gather and watch a film that inspires connection, emotion and creativity.
Join practitioners Katie K. May and John Muraco for an opening activity, a teen movie (this month: Mean Girls) and a discussion to help teens connect characters, events and emotional circumstances from the movie to their own lives. Popcorn and drinks will be served.
» Call 610-813-2575 or register online.
Parents Night Out
Saturday 2/14, 6:30 - 9pm
$35 per child, $20 each additional sibling.
Enjoy a night out with your loved one while your children (ages 4 - 10) enjoy exploring their creativity.
Join licensed child therapist Katie K. May for a fun-filled night includes games, music, a harmonizing yoga sequence, and a Valentine’s themed arts activity and craft project. Your kids will be ready for bedtime after pick up!
» Call 610-813-2575 or register online.
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Recommended Resources
Delia Nessim, Marriage and family therapist and EFT practitioner, recommends this TEDxStJohns talk by Evan Marc Katz called “No More Bad Dates.â€
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Quotes of the Month
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
-Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
-Rumi
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