My Heart Academy
With a seasonal membership, your 6-14 year old will gain experiences and practice life skills within:
- Community & Friendship
- Somatic & Sensory
- Executive Functioning
- Emotional Regulation
We are a community getting intentional about living with the seasons, checking in with the moon, and honoring the ebs and flows of emotion.
Our focus is relationship. Our path is wellness.
Does this sound like your child?
Prior to joining, members often report:
Lacking confidence and overall enjoyment in life.
Feeling lonely, shy, anxious, overwhelmed, misunderstood and depressed daily.
Mean Girls and Bad Boys make up their inner circle.
Feeling disconnected from their family.
Pretending to be someone else so people will like them.
Parents often witness their child struggling to:
Set boundaries and use their voice.
Maintain daily hygiene.
Find and keep a healthy friend group and romantic partner.
Avoid burn-out and pressure to be perfect.
Love their bodies.
Youth Guide
Kelly Taxter is a future thinker, creating a wellness community that fosters intuitive living, youth empowerment and family attachment.
Earning her Bachelors of Psychology in 2006 and her Masters of Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2009, Kelly spent 15 years providing intensive in-home, family counseling services. As an LCPC she spent her time reunifying families, exploring relationship & attachment dynamics within a family systems approach. It was this work that prompted Kelly to redirect the focus on how we support our children’s mental health. Her time spent within an adult psychiatric hospital and youth residential treatment facility solidified her desire to offer strengths-based, social-emotional, holistic care for families.
Kelly eventually dropped her clinical license for new labels that felt aligned with her vision. In 2013, she became a trauma informed Certified Wellness Coach and in 2014 added Certified Personal Trainer to her resume.
Kelly’s approach has been called “groundbreaking and thought provoking” and “exactly what my teen and our family needed.” When not serving her in-person and virtual communities, she enjoys wandering the Maine woods and beaches with her husband, two kids and dog.
Mission & Method
My Heart Academy is connection. We need each other. At the Academy, we practice connecting to ourselves and others in ways that feel supportive and fun. We are a community.
Our emergent curriculum is based in emotional regulation, communication (verbal & physical), beliefs of self, body image, navigating friendships & relationships (and more!). We introduce movement & meditation in a way that feels fun & easy, via nature + arts + animals + journaling.
We are a bottom up approach to caring for ourselves. Our community allows not only for the verbal processing (mind) but also the physical release (body). My Heart Academy is soul work.
Trust your gut
How do I know if this is the right fit??
Has your family gone round and round with all the therapists and medications and still not seeing any improvements?
Is your child, tween & teen resistant to anything that looks or feels like “mental health treatment”?
Are you home/unschooling or is your child not feeling connected to their current school and longing for more peer connections?
Looking for your village?
Mom Community
24/7 Virtual Access
Monthly
Live & Recorded Classes & Gatherings
Private, Trauma Informed, Community
Daily Workouts
Group Process
Special Guests
Parent/Child Opportunities
Meal prep
Organization
Reiki
Plus daily interactions with journal prompts, movement challenges, family self-care practices and budding friendships posted to the community feed.
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