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HI
Ellen here, writing from Tucson on Thanksgiving, just wanting to say hi to all of you and let you know i miss getting to see your faces and naps! What I don’t miss: stairs, in general. Tucson is a very one-story town and I am not sad about it! I’ll be back at the end of December and hope to fill in at the clinic a little bit, hope to see you soon. Hope you are all having a beautiful day!
Last summer, PCA partnered with 7 other POCA clinics and collectively raised over $5000 for The Florence Project. The need is no less great this year, and we are hoping to surpass last year's efforts! There will be a donation jar out at the clinic from now until July 20th. Anyone who contributes to the fundraiser will be entered into a raffle to win a 5-pack of treatments at PCA!
"The Florence Project is the only organization in Arizona that provides free legal services to detained children in deportation proceedings. The Florence Project provides : education through age-appropriate legal orientation, empowerment through role plays where children act out immigration court, and direct representation of children in immigration court or referrals to pro bono attorneys in the community."
I am obsessed with sleep these days. My family is getting annoyed with me, that’s how obsessed I am. I recently moved our collective bedtimes up by a half an hour and basically refuse to go anywhere that requires my presence after 8:30 PM. I’ve started resisting the usual TV-time naps that used to drag me down hard in the late evening, not wanting to release the valve on the sleep pressure that needs to build up during the day in order to increase chances of a solid eight hours of sleep at night. I have turned my clock away from my pillow so as to ward off night-time anxiety about how much time I have left until the sun rises and the dogs start clamoring for their breakfast. I turn the thermostat down to 65 degrees and wash my face before bed in order to start cooling down my core temperature.
Read More“Hi, Erin? It’s Ellen Vincent. I’m calling to see what your plans are after graduation!” Erin was pregnant with her second child Georgia at the time, by the way.
“Well, I was hoping to maybe work for you, to pick up some shifts in West Philly!” she said.
“That’s actually a terrible idea… we don’t need to hire anyone right now or probably ever again since I’m moving to Tucson in 6 months, but I was thinking… what if we open a clinic in Mt. Airy together?”
Read More“At this point, research suggests that the only way to heal the brain from the vicious cycle of compulsive relief-seeking and amplified pain is to gently re-establish connections in the brain that provide small, reliable doses of positive feeling. Over time, low-key rewards that don’t swamp and overwhelm the circuitry can begin to have an effect on the pain amplifier, and actually turn it down. Neuroplasticity can be engaged for the purpose of learning how to feel other things than pain.”
Read MoreThe first blog post on our new website is, of course, about POCA! Read all about it.
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