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Choosing to Heal at Beachwood: What are the physical, emotional, and psychological benefits of Integrative Equine Therapy?

Choosing to Heal at Beachwood: What are the physical, emotional, and psychological benefits of Integrative Equine Therapy?

At Beachwood, we’re aware of the significant experiences that people are having during their integrative equine therapy sessions and afterwards.  In our centers in Rhode Island, Florida, Pennsylvania, and California, we’ve been noticing what has changed for clients. Whether Beachwood clients come  for a 7-session Beachwood intensives and or choose integrative equine therapy sessions weekly – (more)

Overwhelming Emotions: Why do I feel stress, anxiety, worry, and burnout around the holiday season?

Overwhelming Emotions: Why do I feel stress, anxiety, worry, and burnout around the holiday season?

For some people, the holidays contain an emotional bundle of memories that get triggered by smells, sounds, experiences, and even our loved ones.  In one of our most popular videos, Beachwood Executive Director, Lynne Bryan Phipps, explains that when we experience overwhelming events earlier in life, then our whole body holds the memory of the – (more)

Anxious? Stressed? Worried? Why are we experiencing an anxiety epidemic?

Anxious? Stressed? Worried? Why are we experiencing an anxiety epidemic?

Anxiety is the most contagious affect in the human experience.  Whether or not we realize it, we are designed to pick up on the anxiety of others.  It’s how we stay safe when we are young, and it carries into adulthood.  The problem is, our bodies are not designed for us to be anxious and – (more)

How Bullying Affects Our Whole Body: Limbic System, Fight, Flight, or Freeze

How Bullying Affects Our Whole Body: Limbic System, Fight, Flight, or Freeze

At Beachwood we get many questions about human relationships: why people behave the way we do and why we feel the way we do. In our previous Beachwood post on bullying we wrote: “One of the issues that we’ve been helping clients with at Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy, especially after the disruptions of COVID-19, is – (more)

Bullying, Bullies, and How to Help Prevent Bullying: FAQs at Beachwood from Clients Dealing with Anxiety, Trauma, Depression, and Stress after Bullying

Bullying, Bullies, and How to Help Prevent Bullying: FAQs at Beachwood from Clients Dealing with Anxiety, Trauma, Depression, and Stress after Bullying

One of the issues that we’ve been helping clients with at Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy, especially after the disruptions of COVID-19, is how to prevent and disrupt bullying. 

Integrative Equine Therapy and Mental Health Awareness: Tuning In and Building Resiliency

Integrative Equine Therapy and Mental Health Awareness: Tuning In and Building Resiliency

How are you doing? How is your family doing? Yes, really? How are you all doing? Before we launch into the holiday season it’s a good time to check in and take stock on our own wellbeing.  Are you all doing, well? Just okay? Are you feeling fabulous? We know how disruptive COVID-19 has been to – (more)

There’s a hidden place called Beachwood: Why Integrative Equine Therapy with Horses helps heal Anxiety and Stress

There’s a hidden place called Beachwood: Why Integrative Equine Therapy with Horses helps heal Anxiety and Stress

There’s a hidden place called Beachwood… Lynne Bryan Phipps’, Beachwood’s Executive Director, was interviewed recently on “It’s Your Voice,” talking about how Beachwood’s horses and Integrative Equine Therapy can help people heal from anxiety trauma and stress related illness. Integrative Equine Therapy Can Help with Anxiety and Stress Right Now Host, Bahia Yackzan, was asking – (more)

Going Back to School? 5 Ways You Can “Tune-in/Tune-up” with Beachwood for Self-Care

Going Back to School? 5 Ways You Can “Tune-in/Tune-up” with Beachwood for Anxiety

Anxious about Going Back to School? Here are 5 Ways Beachwood Can Help with Anxiety with our “Tune-in/Tune-up” Program. As the seasons start to change, and Autumn is upon us, one of the biggest transitions can be returning to school or college. Going back to school can make people feel very anxious and stressed.  We – (more)

Palm Beach, FL Equine Therapy

Six Ways Stress Shows up Physically

We are often asked at Beachwood; how do I know when I’m experiencing stress? This is especially challenging when people have been in stressful situations for a long time. Eventually, it just feels normal to feel anxious and stressed. Luckily our bodies provide a guide to help us tune in to stress and anxiety and – (more)

Integrative Equine Therapy for Trauma

US Equestrian Federation Names Beachwood as a First 21 “Community Outreach Organization”

On June 17th 2022, the US Equestrian Federation (USEF) announced that Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy has been selected to become one of their Community Outreach Organizations. Twenty-one organizations have been selected so far, and each of us provides “equine-based learning opportunities and supports the positive impact horses can have” within our local communities. About US – (more)