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Salt therapy is a centuries-old practice that can help treat certain health issues, strengthen the immune system, reduce stress and even improve concentration and ease addictions. Asheville Salt Cave is the only salt room in the country that is fashioned entirely from natural materials, offering a variety of salt therapy and healing sessions.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 14 Issue 1, January 2017,
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31046
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Shining Hope Farms, a therapeutic riding facility in Gaston County, North Carolina, serves people with a wide range of disabilities, including Asperger syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and brain injuries. The farm is run by Paul and Milinda Kirkpatrick, and offers various programs for Special Olympics athletes and handicapped horseback riders.
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Grace Freeman is a renown, award-winning poet who, for the last eight years, has worked as a poetry therapist at Gaston-Lincoln Mental Health Center in Gastonia. Freeman helps patients to reduce their anxiety and to express their true feelings through poetry. Her work has helped make poetry therapy as acceptable to health care institutions as alternative therapy techniques involving the creative and fine arts.
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A local Fayetteville couple, Deb and John Foley, founded the nonprofit Horses That Heal to provide local veterans with equine therapy. Horses, which have high emotional intelligence, are used to assist those struggling with mental health problems. For service members, the first dozen sessions are free with the cost supplemented by private donations. Recently, the program has expanded by partnering with the Lone Survivor Foundation to assist with therapeutic retreats for service members.
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