[From the 2025 Spring Magazine]
When fighting to manage your health, complementary alternative medicine techniques empower you to feel better fast.
Train your brain and tap into your body with research-backed therapies that break through energetic blockages to relieve stress, depression, anxiety, and other conditions.
“Mental issues are a really difficult thing to go through. They are invisible and a lot of people suffer silently. With anxiety or depression, for instance, getting out of bed everyday is a fight, feeding yourself and your family is a battle - and it can really feel like you’re fighting with yourself,” said Sandra Gazdecki, a therapist at Osika & Scarano Psychological Services, licensed clinical social worker, and certified integrative mental health professional.
With simple, sustainable, easily-accessible techniques including breathwork, meditation, EFT tapping, bilateral stimulation (visual, auditory, or tactile movements that occur in a rhythmic left-right pattern), and progressive muscle relaxation techniques, she empowers the warrior within.
With the SandiGaz Wellness Journal, Webinar, New Mama Survival Guide, and other tools, Sandi guides you how to direct your energy to where it needs to be.
Managing your emotions (or teaching kids to manage theirs) doesn’t have to be complicated or involve intense measures, said Sandi.
Instead, prioritize wellness - connect the body and the mind through self-awareness.
For more information, visit www.sandigazwellness.com.
The Way of the Warrior -
The SandiGaz Wellness Journal (2023) invites you to cultivate mindfulness with guided reflective writing prompts. When done in the morning, this quick daily check-in is an opportunity to set intentions for the day. It provides space to acknowledge gratitude for the good days - and if it was a tough one - explore why, then brainstorm ways to find relief.
EFT Tapping: An Easy, Effective Tool
Much in the same way blood flows through the arteries and veins, energy flows through the body along defined pathways. Activate energetic healing with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping.
“EFT Tapping is really cool because it is foolproof – you really can’t mess it up,” said health and wellness professional Sandi Gazdecki.
EFT Tapping exists at the place where ancient Chinese principles meet modern psychology. By identifying and activating the body’s acupressure points with gentle tapping, the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and sends calming signals to the brain, indicating it’s safe to relax.
Points on the head, temples, eyebrows; under the eyes, nose, and mouth; on the chin, the collarbone, the side of body and hand, target this network of nerves responsible for the “rest and digest” response, resulting in positive effects. EFT Tapping slows heartrate, relaxes muscles, and quiets the mind. You’ll feel less stress and anxiety immediately. Long-term benefits include better-quality sleep, weight loss, improved mood, and pain relief.
Get started with EFT Tapping Today:
Download the SandiGaz Wellness EFT Tapping Script for mantras to use while tapping that build a bridge between your mind and body.
www.sandigazwellness.com/shop/p/eft-tapping-script
Confidence.
Although participants are primarily first-time parents wondering what to expect, those with children already at home are also invited to attend The Parent Collective.
“Sometimes the first time around can feel like a fever dream, or you may not have found friends with children at the same stage. If you’re looking for a different labor experience, or struggled with breastfeeding before, we have the tools for your toolbox that will help you slip back into the role of being new parents again,” said Jessica.
Mindful to emphasize the partner’s role in the process, The Parent Collection answers questions about how to be supportive while mom is breastfeeding or acting as a gatekeeper (by managing visits from family and friends excited to see the baby). They also help to build both parents’ confidence with hands-on diapering demonstrations, soothing, and swaddling techniques.
For more information, go to
www.theparentcollective.com