When you are living in stress, your body produces cholesterol and adrenaline, these chemicals are meant to help you fight or run from a threat. But most people are living in stress chronically,, they are producing these chemicals every single day without relief. Not because they’re being chased by a predator but because they’re thinking about their problems and in that state your body breaks down. Your immune system becomes suppressed and your digestive system shuts down; the body’s energy goes toward the perceived threat. There is no energy left for creating, healing and thriving.

But when you sit down and do this 20 minute ritual, when you get present and open your heart, you generate emotions like gratitude and joy. Your body shifts from a state of stress to a state of coherence; your stress hormones drop, your healing hormones increase. You start producing oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin and endorphins-all chemicals associated with well-being, with health, with vitality —and in that state, your body can heal. It can regenerate, it can create because now your energy isn’t going toward surviving, it’s going toward thriving. You’ve literally changed your internal chemistry through your thoughts and emotions. This is the science that tells us we are not victims of our genes. We are not hard-wired to be a certain way because of our DNA..

Yes you have genes but which genes get turned on and which genes get turned off is determined by your environment.

And the most powerful part of your environment is your internal environment.

Here’s how to feel more peaceful in the midst of change.

When you do this 20 minute ritual everyday, when you consistently generate elevated emotions, you’re telling your body to make different chemicals and neural connections, to upgrade its operating system. You’re giving your body the instructions to calm and be present.

This is the most important thing you can do for yourself.

And here’s another thing that happens, when you slow down your brain produces alpha

waves, it creates a harmonic resonance between your heart and your brain and from that state of coherence, you have access to your subconscious mind.

Springtime energy is the vital energy of new growth. New, novel ideas are possible, you can implant new beliefs.

3 Step Process

1. Select seeds to symbolize growth of your new beliefs.

2. Place the seeds into an egg carton and water.

3. Label each section of the carton with a word to describe your new belief.

Emotional well-being is as important as physical well-being because it affects our immune system, nervous system, heart and brain. The mind follows the body not the other way around. Each of us carries a Light of Consciousness that can be directed. Start with a seed-thought of something new, calm, intentional. Now, notice how your body feels.

Receive the guidance and vibrational support you need to move beyond survival, stress and anxiety and begin building a foundation of true inner peace that will allow you to meet each day with balance, clarity, and gratitude.

Imagine being able to start your day empowered with a strong sense of connection to who you really are. Imagine operating from a place of peace so strong that you are able to access what’s truly possible in life. When your energy is clear, it can flow naturally without friction or resistance. That’s where quantum regeneration begins to unfold. The sunlight is more intense this month, bringing us higher levels of awareness through our senses.

You will experience natural extra sensory perceptions. These solar light codes effect us on a cellular level and crystalline structure. We have accelerated capacities to build our crystalline light body, crystalline heart, crystalline brain and crystalline eyes. That means we can awaken our full potential for self-healing to renew, restore and rejuvenate.

Did you know your body, heart and brain have crystalline structure?

Given the optimum conditions these structures can be activated and align. Alignment is a state of internal order. It is what happens when different parts of you stop pulling in opposite directions. When thoughts are no longer arguing with emotions. When emotions are no longer fighting the body. When actions no longer feel forced or delayed. Alignment is simply coherence. Want to tap into your infinite potential?

FOLLOW THIS TO RESET YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
The Universe is always sending waves of ENERGY, we call them subtle, but they are powerful and they INFLUENCE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS MORE THAN WE OFTEN REALIZE.

Our thoughts, our emotions, our energy fields interact with this waves constantly. But here’s THE KEY: Before you sleep, your brain is uniquely receptive- the barriers of the conscious mind relax, allowing the subconscious awareness to absorb and integrate these higher frequencies.

Your mind, your heart and your body become a tuning instrument. Tonight that tuning instrument can be precise. Let’s step into this practice.

1) Lie down or sit in a quiet space.

2) Let your body settle and be comfortable.

3) Let your eyes close, feel the surface support you. Notice the points of contact.Take a slow, deep breath in and let it out fully. Again slow and deliberate. Each breath relaxes tension, opens energy channels of your body and signals to your nervous system that you are ready to receive

4) .Now, focus your attention on your HEART SPACE- not just the physical organ but THE ENERGETIC CENTER OF YOUR BEING.

5) Imagine a warm glow, the brilliance of your heart, like beautiful crystals in the light. This is where the subtle shifts begin.

6) Whisper to yourself, say: “I align with the highest good.” This simple phrase is the bridge between the mind that knows and the heart that feels. Allow the energy to radiate over you. Open your eyes and step into your day feeling your infinite potential.

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Happy New Year 🌿

As we step into a new year, I want to share a simple, joyful ritual you can do with your child—one that helps reset the body, calm the nervous system, and make the idea of “new beginnings” something they can actually feel.

Children understand change best through experience, imagination, and connection. This ritual takes just a few minutes and works beautifully during the first days of January.

A Simple New Year Ritual: Open to the New in You!

1. 1. Open all the windows in your home (just briefly if it’s cold).
      
      2. Open the front door.
      
      3. Stand together at the threshold and say:
      “As I open the windows and doors of my home, I open the windows and doors of my soul. In comes fresh air. In comes new light. In comes the loving energy of a brand-new year.”
      
      4. Take three slow, energizing breaths together.
      
      5. As you close the door and windows, notice the freshness in the air—and how your body feels.
      
      

Did it make you smile? That’s your nervous system responding to safety, breath, and connection.

Why this helps:
Rituals like this gently regulate the nervous system by combining movement, breath, sensory input, and meaning. For anxious or neurodivergent children especially, predictable steps and shared language create a sense of safety during transitions—times when stress often spikes.

This approach is grounded in neuroscience and mind–body research showing that intentional breath, sensory awareness, and meaning-making support emotional regulation in children.

✨ If your child struggles with anxiety, overwhelm, or big emotions, this ritual is just one small doorway into deeper calm.
If you’d like more tools that combine breath, creativity, and nervous-system regulation, I invite you to explore my programs and resources for parents and children.

Wishing you a year filled with calm, creativity, and connection,

Dr. Roxie

This year for the holiday gift, consider introducing your child to an activity that can keep him going as he grows. Perhaps, he’s mentioned he wants to learn how to play an instrument or draw?

Remember, when a child is engaged in an activity that brings him joy, he will self-start and develop self-esteem. It is the feeling of joy that motivates from within. Just the act of doing something he enjoys, cultivates the art of happiness and contentment–without anyone bribing or coaxing. 

The most valuable life skills are self-reliance, resourcefulness and perseverance.

When your child can use their talents and strengths, they feel more confident. Practicing a new skill everyday builds mastery and self-satisfaction.

Everyone is born with innate gifts. When you guide your child to find theirs, it’s the best present you can have them uncover. Here are three ways to help your child discover their talents:

1. Start with questions– “What is it that you enjoy doing when time seems to fly? What do you find so interesting that you are focused?” Some kids like to draw, color or doodle. Some are adapt at fine motor skills, they like to take things apart and then build something new. 
2. .Notice and encourage when your child delights in an activity and is totally absorbed. Describe the skill, “I can see you are musically clever composing tunes and songs; let’s hear more!’ Keep the conversation going. Let your child fully express what lights them up?
3.  Explore new realms together. Go on a discovery trip to the Museum of History,  Science, Art or Planetarium. Perhaps taking your child on a short trip to a music store or special event like a drumming circle, craft fair or live theater production.

You are your child’s first teacher and the purpose of spiritual education is to draw out the innate gifts of your child so that their inner light is illuminated.

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By Dr. Roxanne Daleo

“ …and that’s true love!” said my grandpa…
his voice made my mind conjure up the entire scene: I see it as if it were real, mom serving
dessert after a big Italian-American feast for Thanksgiving Day, always prepared with love by
my parents in what I believed to be our beautiful New Jersey home. But the fact is, it was only
my grandfather’s voice coming from an audio cassette player. A tape I nearly tossed in the
trash moments before to clear the clutter from my garage. So glad I have this priceless treasure
today.
Through “imaging” you mentally “see.” Your brain takes the audio input of a voice and provides
you a “mental picture”. In this case, it pulled out a memory of the past and my brain served up a
scene so vivid you relive it as if it were happening in the present. My grandfather’s philosophy
about true love were his words of wisdom I’ll treasure forever.
Your brain can also take an idea or visualization to create a future-self. Your brain can be
directed using mental imagery which is really a kind of storytelling.
When you add the auditory aspect, such as a voice, you add a person’s energy because your
voice is the blueprint of your soul. Listening to the sound of your own voice is a powerful way
to imprint and direct your subconscious mind.
Add the background music and the brain automatically enhances the imagery experience as if it
were real. The mind makes no distinction between real and imagined information; this is why
using guided imagery narrations for relaxation are a powerful form of mind/body medicine.
Scientists are learning how we manipulate and examine pictures of the mind and develop
internal states of awareness, resilience and balance.
Many world cultures have been using the power of mental imagery in the form of storytelling.
Let’s look at the Native American culture specifically, they have been using the art of telling
stories passed down from one generation to the next as their primary form of wisdom
communication. Traditionally, Native Americans transmit by story their mythology, spiritual and
historical understandings of themselves and the world in which they live to their children.
Storytelling creates the mental imagery in the minds and hearts of the young, that which elders
did not want forgotten. In this way, the elders ensured young would not lose sight of their roots,
important knowledge that would allow them to live in harmony and cooperation with the natural
world.
So this Thanksgiving why not try to capture more voices of the elders in your tribe, the seniors in
your family. Allow them to pass on their words of wisdom to the children as part of the formal
celebration for which we are giving thanks and deep appreciation. In this way, you can be sure
your children and their children have your family’s important knowledge through the beautiful
storytelling tradition.

7 Keys to Cultivate Storytelling Family Tradition

1.Give your children and their children a beautiful way to honor their elders by asking
questions about their roots, heritage, country of origin and the ways of their people.
2.Use a recording devise to capture and remember forever, the voices of the senior family
members and their words of wisdom.
3.Make the bedtime ritual include recounting meaningful memories you made this Thanksgiving
holiday (holy day).
4.Create a work of art. Draw, paint, sing a song or dance your newly realized wisdom tradition.
5. Each year collect keepsake photos, images and quotes in a box or a book.
6.Ask your child to express the kind of person they want to become; share the vision of a world
they want to see and live in.
7.Have your child record their own voice to express their visions. Speak about appreciation,
love and peace. Play this recording before sleep so the subconscious mind can bring good
thoughts to every cell in your child’s body.

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Well, t’s that time of year when you give in to the candy limit because it’s a tradition! 

Want to know how you can help your child calm down after a crazy day of too much stimulation? Here’s the trick! These top seven foods along with one of my audios will promote sleep and helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system- your body’s natural rest-and restore mode. Here’s the treat! With regular, daily practice, you and your child will feel more grounded and tap into inner resources for calm and restoration.

Top 7 Foods to Promote Sleep:

1. Cherries, especially tart cherries contain a melatonin booster, inflammation reducer and also potent antioxidants like anthocyanin.

Anthocyanins are naturally occurring pigments found in various fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, blackberries raspberries. Drink 100% tart cherry juice 1 hour before bed.

2. Almonds, assists rest, calms your muscles to relax and are packed with magnesium and vitamin E.  Eat 7-10 almonds or almond butter on dark bread 1 hour before bed.
3. Bananas contain potassium and magnesium relax your muscles and adds B6 production of neurotransmitters.
   
4. Oatmeal for dinner! Oatmeal contains zinc and tryptophan which converts to melatonin. 
5. Warm milk with nutmeg is a delightful taste and effective sleeping potion.
6. Kiwi can be eaten alone or made into salsa with avocado. I hour before bed.
7. Chamomile tea known for calming effects which can be sweetened with a teaspoon of honey or add warm milk and its nectar from the gods.

There it is! Dr. Roxie’s rescue remedies to promote sleep any day of the year.

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with Dr. Roxanne Daleo

The School of Heritage is a podcast dedicated to exploring the heart of education, healing, personal growth, and emotional resilience. Each episode dives into meaningful conversations with authors, educators, thinkers, and everyday people who share powerful stories and insights that inspire hope and transformation.

In this inspiring episode of The School of Heritage, I’m joined by Roxanne Daleo, a creative arts therapist, Harvard-trained Wellness Coach, author, and speaker, to explore how art, writing, and movement can open doors to transformation. Roxanne shares how expressive practices give voice to emotions that words alone cannot capture and how creativity becomes a powerful tool for both children and adults in navigating life’s challenges.

From storytelling and imagery that help us rewrite our personal narratives to artistic expression that fosters resilience, hope, and self-discovery, Roxanne reveals why art truly functions as medicine for the soul.

This episode is a reminder that healing doesn’t always come through logic or language—sometimes it flows through colors, shapes, and stories that reconnect us to our deepest selves.

LISTEN NOW 

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The Art of Healing: How Creativity Transforms Stress into Strength

What if the key to reducing stress wasn’t in your mind—but in your hands? Explore how creative expression rewires the nervous system for calm and balance.

When words fall short, art speaks—guiding you from tension to tranquility with every stroke, swirl, and splash of color.

Each page of this issue is filled with inspiring stories, creative
voices, and resilient journeys that we are thrilled to share with
you.

On behalf of the entire Relatable Media team, I want to express
my gratitude for your contribution to The Relatable Voice
Magazine. We were thrilled to feature your work, Dr. Roxanne
“The Secret Garden Within”
in our September issue, digital edition is now live on our website:

www.relatable-media.com

Lucia Matuonto, Editor and Author of children’s books- available on
Amazon.com

Zoe and the Crab and Out of the Box

Many mothers have been working extra hard- homeschooling, planning activities and
outings on top of their regular household routines of cooking, laundry, bedtime baths,
stories and so much more. Mom’s are exhausted!

Let’s give mom a break this summer. Come rest and recharge yourself while I engage
your child in the wonders of expressive arts and forest wisdom: lessons in grounding,
self-calming, creativity and improvisation. A fun-filled, therapeutic program from which
your child and you can benefit. 

Everyone needs a little rest everyday. Here at Dr. Roxie’s Retreat House and Forest
Garden, you can stand still and pause from the rushing through life. Nestled among
ninety foot ancient, pine trees in the area 45 minutes west of Boston and not far from
Still River, the retreat space offers the atmosphere and charm of potent quiet places.

The best part is that you can come with your child to recharge yourself completely while
Dr. Roxie teaches life skills using nature’s energies to reset even the most anxious,
hyper child.

It’s better than camp, a unique setting and service expertly designed by Dr. Roxie for
both you and your child.

1. MIND: Find a harmonic engagement with your environment.
   When we look at our surroundings and we see beauty and order, something happens in our brains, it calms and brain wave patterns change to a slower frequency. Research in the field of neuro-aesthetics reveal powerful effects of beauty on our brains and nervous system. It gives reason to pick wild flowers, feathers, seashells or a circle of smooth stones and place them in your home where you can view them as a reminder of beauty\ and oder. Display a floral arrangement on your dining table or in your bedroom where you can feel the effects immediately.
2. BODY: Find a practice for inner balance that works for you.
   Whether you are outdoors in nature or in your home, a daily relaxation practice is essential for all of us. Remember “nap time” as a child? Believe it or not, our bodies need rest everyday. And resting before we get exhausted is the best method for reigniting our spark. The conscious breathing technique has been associated with vitality and longevity. Did you know the longer and slower you can stretch out your breath, the longer your life? Yes! Scientific research on meditative practices proves, the results of elongating the breath is associated with longevity.
3. SPIRIT: Find a creative expression that brings you joy.
   Keep a box of crayons, colored pencils or watercolor paints accessible so that you can craft calm at a moment’s notice. Simply doodling, coloring or writing affirmations can change your mood and inspire your creative impulse. Each day is filled with productive energy and your spirit is filled with the same potential. Use it and start to love yourself more and more.