Excerpt: "My goals for the presentation were pretty simple:

* to help people feel seen, heard, and known;

* to introduce them to resources to help strengthen their minds, bodies, spirits;

* to experientially share a couple of techniques and practices that could help connect them to a sense of well-being and alleviate some suffering;

* and to close our time by facilitating an experience of deep rest, relaxation, and restoration.

As I got out of my vehicle and walked toward the building on the night of the presentation, I paused and thought back to what life was like when I used to come in and out of these doors."