The Lion's Lamb

The Lion's Lamb Vickie Starkey, MDiv,
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

09/20/2026
09/16/2026
09/13/2026
09/07/2026

You sat through the same meeting as everyone else today.
You answered the same number of emails. Walked into the same number of rooms.

Except for you, it took three times the effort. You forgot why you walked into half of them. Everyone else finished the day tired. You finished it running on fumes.

That gap, between what the day actually required and what it took out of you, comes from a nervous system stuck working overtime to pay attention, make decisions, and follow through.
When your body treats ordinary tasks like emergencies, it's not acting dramatic. It's doing what it learned to do to survive something. The cost is that everything, even sitting through a meeting, gets processed like a threat.
ART works with that overtime pattern directly. Bilateral eye movements paired with guided imagery help calm a nervous system that's been stuck in overdrive.
The result isn't more willpower. Tasks may still take extra effort, but they don’t have to take everything you have.

Find an ART therapist near you → ARTworksnow.com

02/12/2026

It’s nice when healing is fun!

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523 W Lamar Alexander Pkwy
Maryville, TN
37801

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