Sabita Holistic Center

Welcome home to me, and I’m a lucky girl! Went back to work today which meant I had to miss the Westport Farmers Market. Thankfully my weekly client Joanna didn’t want me to completely miss out! I received these stunning flowers from Miranda Gould and mushrooms from Seacoast Mushrooms!! A whole bag full!
Grateful for the purposeful life I get to live and for my clients who feel my love and show me so much appreciation.❤️❤️❤️. Can’t wait to bring these pretty petals to the pink house tomorrow so everyone can enjoy them! 💐💯💃🏾. So I’ve got two questions for you What would you do with a full bag of shiitake mushrooms from Seacoast Mushrooms? What are you grateful for this week?

One of my longtime clients, Joe, said something to me the other day that every leader should hear: "There's always a why."

Then he told me his, the reason he keeps coming to see me.

"My wife trusts me to drive again because I can actually turn my neck now."

And: "On family vacations, my daughter and grandchildren are all doing Sabita stretches with me."

I'm not going to lie, that one got me.

Joe and his daughter Katie are leaders, at work and at home. And they're proof that when one person feels better, it doesn't stay with them. It goes home to their family. It comes back to work with them.

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin says it best: people give their all when they understand the why. And there's science behind it. Our brains relax when we know the why, and once the reason is clear, we stick with it.

I'm curious, what's your why? Comment below!

Galvin M. Macdonald

Does she sound familiar? 💭

Smart. Capable. Counted on by everyone. And quietly wondering, "Why don't I feel like myself anymore?"

I wrote about her, and maybe about you, for GenX, Unmuted.

📖 Read the full article here:

https://genx-unmuted.com/the-library/what-if-your-body-isnt-the-problem/

Why Smart Teams Keep Making the Same Mistake:

September has that back to school feeling. New notebooks, new schedules, a fresh start.

I am lucky. In 23 years at SHC, almost everyone I work with is a lifetime learner. Nobody hands them a syllabus. They learn in meetings, in feedback they did not ask for, in the middle of a launch that is going sideways.

Over those years I have grown my own capacity too, as an educator and speaker. One of my favorite projects has been teaching longevity at senior centers for the last 2 years. They ask the best questions, and they still show up curious.

That room looks nothing like a corporate offsite, but the work is the same. People do not really learn until they feel seen and heard. That is the room I build, for individuals and for teams under pressure.

So I got curious. What happens in the brain when we learn something new, and why do the same old problems keep circling back?

Learning is not one process. It is two systems arguing. Research from MIT found that the basal ganglia, the older and faster part of the brain, picks up a new rule quickly, while the prefrontal cortex, the planner, catches up more slowly and sees the bigger picture. That is why you can know the new process on day 2 and still not understand it until week 6. https://news.mit.edu/2005/basalganglia

Cognitive flexibility is the ability to drop a rule that stopped working and pick up a new one. Chronic stress blocks it. Under pressure, the brain repeats what it knows anyway. Researchers call it perseverative error. Doing the old thing, harder.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11407068/

Sound familiar in an organization?

When a team keeps making the same mistake, we usually look at the person. Deming argued that roughly 94 percent of problems belong to the system, not the individual. The person is often just the most visible part of a process that was set up to fail. And you cannot ask people to be flexible inside a system that punishes them for it. https://deming.org/managers-must-understand-that-blaming-employees-doesnt-help/

So the question this September is not who needs training. It is what in our system is teaching people to repeat this.

A few things I have watched work. Slow the pace before you add information. A stressed nervous system cannot learn, it can only repeat.

Here is the integrative part: pay attention to how they actually take in what you give them. Start from what your people already know. Say it and show it. Repeat it in more than one format. And make it safe for someone to say I do not understand my own plan.

That is the work I do in the room. I take a benefit you already pay for and make it land, so people feel seen enough to actually use it.

Low participation is rarely a motivation problem. It is a design problem, and design is something you can fix.

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Energy and body work gets described as "mysterious" a lot. It isn't, really. It's a fully clothed, light-touch session in a quiet room with someone who has spent 30 years learning how to read a body.

She has openings:

Friday, September 4
- 10 AM
- 2 PM
- 3:30 PM

Swipe through to see which one sounds like your week. Then book the hour.

Call 203-254-2633 to book now! or book using link in bio!

Tuesday Testimonial 💗

There’s something special about leaving a wellness appointment feeling not only relaxed, but also more empowered to care for yourself at home.

Thank you, Sarah, for sharing your experience with us! We’re so glad you felt heard, supported, and comfortable, and that the take home tips felt realistic and manageable. 🌿

At SHC, we believe wellness shouldn’t feel overwhelming. It should feel like something you can actually incorporate into your life.

Ready for your own reset? 💆🏽‍♀️✨

Call 203-254-2633 to book or use the link in Bio!