Dr. Walters

Mental health is something we all have, yet it is often only discussed when there is a crisis. While May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, caring for our mental and emotional well-being is a year-round journey. In this four-part series, we will take time to explore mental health in a practical and compassionate way, including understanding what mental health really means, recognizing triggers and warning signs, and learning healthy coping strategies. We begin with the...

This month, I found myself sitting with uncertainty about what to share in this space. Nothing felt quite right at first. As I reflected more deeply, and as I witnessed the ongoing shifts, challenges, and collective heaviness in the world, I realized I didn’t need to search for something complex or perfectly articulated. Instead, I felt called to offer something simple. Something grounding. What emerged is a gentle, guided meditation. One that reflects where I am in this moment, and extends a...

February 2026 marks the year of the Fire Horse in the Lunar New Year tradition. The energy of the Fire Horse is described as intense with a sense of passion, restlessness, and an unwillingness to be confined. It embodies movement, heat, and truth. Bessell van der Kolk reminds us that the body keeps score. Traumatic experiences, personal, ancestral, or collective, live in the body often as unfinished stories, boundaries that were never honored, or grief that never felt safe to land. The...