Dr. Wendy Hueners

04/21/2026

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Often our brain doesn't understand "overwhelmed" and thinks that you are in danger or threatened in a serious way so it shifts into survival mode and freezes: increased heart rate, hard to think clearly and focus. Your brain now thinks:

**Overwhelm = I am in danger**

If you can change the way you think about overwhelm and give a direction for your mind to follow like:

**I need to slow down and focus**

This will activate your prefrontal cortex which is the part of the brain that handles executive functioning instead of you being hijacked by your "lizard" brain (the primitive brain in charge of basic survival). Now your brain will start sorting, planning, and making decisions again with clarity.

When you are feeling overwhelmed your brain is trying process everything at once. If you can slow down and focus on what matters then your brain can filter out the noise.

04/21/2026

Sharing a list of ways to help calm an anxious nervous system....

Regulating your nervous system when you’re anxious doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s as simple as doing things that signal safety to your body that you’re not in any danger.

See if you can slow the pace that you’re moving at today and incorporate some of these activities.

Which of these ideas will you try today? Let me know in the comments!

⭐️ Anxious folks, high-achievers, perfectionists, people-pleasers, and overthinkers in Texas or Florida: comment “THRIVETHERAPY” to learn more about how we can work together. ⭐️

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12/25/2025

Generative Healing Arts got a new paint job this Fall!

07/30/2025

I am finishing up a masters in mental health counseling to add to my other credentials and am starting my last year of internship. As part of my internship, I am offering lower cost mental health therapy appointments ($120/55 mins) and sliding scale. I see clients remotely or in person in Georgetown. I specialize in LGBTQIA+, life transitions (parenting, divorce, menopause etc...), grief/loss, anxiety, and chronic pain. I see clients age 16 and older and couples. I would really appreciate any referrals you can send my way! www.attunenaturalhealth.com www.generativehealingarts.com

Generative Healing Arts is an intergenerational, intentional community of healers based in the historic Georgetown neighborhood in Seattle and a farmland in Onalaska, WA. We orient our work around three core values - equity, embodiment, and relational healing. Our purpose is to attempt - in an ongoi...

11/05/2024

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04/19/2024

Another great and poignant post from my colleague Dr Liz Carter from New Leaf Natural Medicine.

Just a few thoughts I have about the healing process. Let me know yours in the comments 👇

10/08/2023

Check out my new website and business: www.attunenaturalhealth.com. I will be specializing in mental health and therapy. I will be working remotely as well as with the amazing group of practitioners at Georgetown Healing Arts. Practice is opening November 1st 2023!

12/29/2022

Boy is this the truth! Check out my colleague’s latest post about life hacks and healing.

I want to talk about the life hack trend in the health and wellness space.

My hot take is that there are no life hacks for healing. Let me explain.

If you’re doing it right, healing is a deep, uncomfortable, sometimes painful, and always humbling experience.

Life hacks in the health space can provide you with cool new tools or gadgets and sometimes they make a very positive impact in helping you to change your habits.

But those new habits and your use of those gadgets just won’t stick if you haven’t done the deeper work.

There’s a reason why you always go back to coffee or stop exercising or forget to meditate or eat stuff that you know is inflammatory. No amount of life hacking your health is going to get to te root of why these patterns keep coming up for you.

At their worst, health-based life hacks distract us from true healing. They give us a shiny object to chase that we believe will solve our problems while we continue to neglect underlying issues.

If those issues are neglected for a long time, they'll start to get more intense and impact more of your life and you’ll want to reach for more quick fixes or trendy solutions.

So if you’re obsessed with healthy life hacks, it’s time to look deeper and realize that health isn’t going to be found with a bunch of simple fixes.

There’s no shortcut to healing.
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Does this resonate? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

02/08/2022

Our bodies need time in nature!

It almost always works!

04/02/2020

Great information from a favorite colleague of mine....Epsom Salts have so many benefits! Read on!

Dr. Liz Carter, acupuncturist and naturopath in West Seattle, explains her love of the ultra healing, soothing, and relaxing epsom salt bath.