Do you want nappy and successful children who will think independently and can make good choices in their lives?

Come to the Essential Parenting Seminar, held in a warm and friendly atmosphere and learn to:

*Break self-defeating behaviors and thoughts in yourself and your kids.

*Instill beliefs that will empower your children toward choice and success.

Help them to deal effectively with challenges at school and at home.

*foster interests and acdtivites that electonic, cell phones, etc. have taken away.

You are their key to the future.We can help to open the door with our innovative, life-changing techniques.

Producers: Molly Salans and Sally Sacks.

We are licensed psychotherapists and coaches with combined 44 years of experience helping others to help themselves.

Next Seminar: Thursday December 4, 9:30-12:30 p.m.

Fee: $140 per person

Westford and Acton locations

Register now as space is limited

@ 978-392-5998

Family Affairs

An Afternoon of Family Constellations

Sun.Nov. 2, 2008 12-5pm.

290 Littleton Rd.,Chelmsford, Ma.

Call or email Molly to register.

Cost is only $85

You don’t want to miss this!

Bring your friends, and family.

You don’t have to be a parent to come to this, but you do need to be 18 years or older.

Are you stuck in the same habits and patterns,

And can’t seem to get out from under?

Constellation work is a healing approach that allows you to witness and step into an old relationship in order to see it with new eyes.

Our relationship with our family of origin impacts our relationship with family, friends, heath, work, money and more.

Constellations tap into the energy field of your family, revealing these unwanted patterns that were created out of love and loyalty.

When the pattern is revealed you have the opportunity to see it in a new way.

This is an experiential six-week workshop for those who are ready to wake-up.

Meeting day and time: Six Weds. Evenings from May 28-July 9. 7-9pm. There’s no class on July 2.

Meeting place: Karendyth Holistic Center 254 Littleton Rd., Westford MA. 01886

This is an innovative and inspiring group for those who are ready for a profound change.

How do you Awaken when your life is so hectic?

What does it mean to detach from negative feelings?

In this experiential, spiritual group we will explore these and so many other questions together. Each group session will include meditative exercises you do at home. The exercises are designed to help you have experiences of your own true self.

You will most likely walk away with:

1.Effective and differentmedtiations you can do on your own.

2.More confidence in knowing that you can have an experience of your true sel

3.Having experiences of your own inner purpose that will help you to conitue to awken after the group is done.

The cost is only $300 for the entire course. 

 Please do call or email me for more information. I can’t wait to see you all there. This is so exciting!

“To thine ownself be true,and it will followas the night the daythat thou canst be false to any man. Hamlet-            

Meditation is for Every Parent and Non-Parent

What does it mean to be “true to yourself”? In this day and age we are all so busy, torn between helping our children, our family and our friends, that we believe it is “selfish” to pay attention to ourselves.  And even when we have a minute to be “true”to ourselves, we have no idea which “truth” to follow!

Meditation is a wonderful way of quieting all of those “shoulds” and allowing space and quiet to fill our beings. This space and quiet gives us a much larger picture from which to see our struggles. It is also a creative space, so new ideas can emerge that we wouldn’t have otherwise thought about. It also helps us to sit with unclarity, until true clarity comes.

How many times have I had clients tell me, “well I’ve tried to meditate but I can’t. I can’t quiet my mind.”

Everyone who meditates has this experience over and over again.  I’ve been meditating for over 20 years and I still feel, at times,  that I can’t quiet my mind!  The whole point of meditation is to bring awareness to ourselves and to shed light on just how distracted we are. As you begin to see the obstacles in the way of your own truth, then you can define and follow your own truth with more clarity.

I teach both guided and quiet meditations which will help you understand more clearly how to be true to yourself. Once you have this clarity, then you will most likely see, that you really can’t help others unless you are also being true to yourself. It is a paradox. The more you ignore your own calling, the more pulled you’ll be to help others find theirs.  But all you will receive is more neediness from those you are trying to help and in turn you will become more exhausted, which will lead you to help even more but you will continue to feel more and more exhausted.Once you can begin to fullfill your  own calling, then you will find that those you are helping will be able to follow theirs as well. You will feel more energized and less pulled upon. The more energy you have, the more inspired you are to follow your own calling, which in turn inspires those you are trying to help.

See also: Integrated Kabalistic Healings

                  Family Constellation Work 

When I work with children, I play, We play games and/or do simple art work. We color and paint, or  play with the doll house, dolls, non-electronic toys, cards and more. While I am playing in this way, a very relaxed atmosphere comes in, and the children are able to tell me so many things either directly, or non-directly through the play.

 The children love coming because it is 50 minutes of pure play. If they are drawing picures, sometimes I suggest putting words to their pictures, so they can make a picture book.  I can discern a child’s dificulties through the pictures they create, and Ican help them talk about these difficulties by asking questions about their pictures. Many times, simply reamining quiet is also very therapeutic.  I can discuss the meaning of the drawings with the you, the parents, at another time.

I don’t expect anything of the children, they are allowed to be completely who they are. In this way I can assess more clearly where the difficulties and strengths are.  Once I can assess this, I pull on the strengths in order to raise self-esteem and help the child build more self-confidence.  Once the strengths are shining it is easier to place their weaknesses in a place of light and love. 

 The children may not “get it” but that’s not the point. They feel happier from their core, and to children that’s all that matters.  All children want is to be happy, that is what they gravitate toward, and I base my work on that truth.

 I work with children who have anxiety, ADHD, depression, poor grades, learning problems: I work with children going through changes such as divorce, moves, remarriages and stepfamilies. I also work with children who have difficulty getting along with siblings; parents/teachers and/or friends.

I often include the parents in the play/art therapy because you are the two most important people in your child’s life. So sessions can include the parents only, can include the child with the parents, and the child only.  In this way I receive a really good understanding of the family dynamics involved and can help your child even more. 

See also: Story & Poetry Therapy & Storytelling Therapy 

Empowering Parents, Parenting from the Inside Out

A two-hour conversation with parents of children of all age

Do you need innovative, inspiring parenting ideas? Are you stuck inside a parenting pattern that never ends? Do your children have learning problems, ADHD, Depression/and or Anxiety?

Do you make lists of affirmations, and have your mind set to positive thinking, only to find yourself in the same old arguments with your children again and again?

There is a way to parent with discipline, clarity and love, regardless of or because of the gifts and ailments your children were born with.

Did you know that you can turn your entire outlook around, from the inside out, which will completely change the way you parent?

While this method is not easy, mainly because parenting is NEVER easy, it is a worthwhile method to learn and know about.

Come for this two -hour discussion with Molly Salans, psychotherapist, and author of Storytelling With Children in Crisis. We will explore these ideas of empowerment which will most likely leave you feeling relieved, inspired and not alone!

Molly Salans is a cofounder of Transitions Counseling Center in Littleton Ma. She is a licensed social worker and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has provided counseling for adults, couples, families, adolescents and children since 1988.

Molly incorporates the principals of well-being and wholeness in each session. She offers a variety of modalities in her work incorporating, but not limited to, Integrated Kabalistic Healing, Constellation Work, Meditation, Storytelling Therapy, Poetry Therapy and Play/art Therapy.

The waterwheel accepts water

turns and gives it away weeping

that way it stays in the garden

Whereas another roundness rolls on

through a dry riverbed looking

for what it thinks it wants

Stay here quivering with each moment

like a drop of mercury

-Rumi-

Within the ideas of Kabalistic healing is the understanding that there is a place of wholeness that exists vibrantly within each of us. This place has never been broken, and receives our brokennesss as Holy. When we are out of relationship with ourselves, and we believe that our suffering is our only reality, then this suffering creates more suffering. We then travel down the dry riverbed looking desperately for what we want, and our actions tend to be those that take us more and more out of ourselves, creating yet more disconnection and brokenness. Paradoxically, suffering itself can lead us back to wholeness.

A healing session consists of about forty minutes of conversation and then a twenty minute process for the healing. During the session Molly Holds this principal of wholeness and chooses one of many Kabalistic Healings to give you. After a healing you will feel relaxed and during the week, at some point your body will register it’s had a healing and will come back into balance. When this happens, you will most likely notice some changes in your energy and the way you handle frustrating situations.

Molly cleaves to the principle of wholeness in all of her sessions, regardless of whether you receive a hands-on-healing or not.

She also offers classes on the Kaballah.

See Also:

Individual Therapy