Carrie Seay from Mantis Creative Wellness

Leo and Sheri welcome Carrie Seay of Mantis Creative Wellness of Frankfort.

• Carrie has worked in the service industry since age fourteen, from restaurants to retail to management.
• She earned her degree in art and photography from the University of Louisville in 1997.
• Carrie has struggled with severe anxiety and depression and has learned to acclimate to any situation.
• She moved to Frankfort about thirteen years ago when her husband at the time got a job with the state.
• She began homeschooling her daughter at her request, and they joined a local homeschooling group for children aged 4-16 that is not religious-based.  Carrie taught a lot of the science. Her daughter is now 25.
• Back in Louisville, when her daughter was born, Carrie began looking into Cranial Psychotherapy, because the baby wasn’t eating and couldn’t stop crying because of sensory integration issues. She is also on the autism spectrum.
• They saw a cranial psychotherapist who practiced light-touch bodywork, which is excellent for people who prefer not to be pressed. It helped the baby so much that Carrie went for herself to help her nervous system.
• Carrie worked with the Light Clinic as a practitioner for about ten years.
• She has an ability to connect with other people’s bodies, and cranial psychotherapy work puts that to use.
• Math, science, art, and music all complement each other in this work. 
• Carrie has recently opened Mantis Creative Wellness in a spacious location in downtown Frankfort, combining all these elements.
• After working at the Light Clinic, she had a smaller space in the McClure Building for a while, where she offered cranial sacral work and guided meditation, followed by art sessions to help clients integrate the work they were doing in their bodies.
• That space was too small, and she closed shop there, went through a divorce, sent her daughter off to college, and had a breakdown.
• She spent three years looking for the right storefront.
• Several places fell through after she acquired some infrared sauna pods ,which she then had to move to her home, as she went back to working as a cranial psychotherapist.
• Carrie is friends with the women owners of River City Provisions. One of them suggested a space right down the street from them.
• The space was being gutted, and it was huge.
• After some renovation delays, she moved into the space in March.
• She delayed her official opening until the April flood.
• She has hired two part-time employees to help.
• She is no longer technically working as a cranial psychotherapist, but she does occasionally see former clients at the Light Clinic.
• She is trying to reach a new demographic with the infrared sauna pods, especially with people who don’t like to be touched, for example, those with PTSD.
• Carrie uses Instagram and has also started using Facebook, as Frankfort is a Facebook town.
• Sheri first connected with Carrie after watching her Facebook video about her solstice guided meditation and joined the session on Zoom.
• Carrie began teaching and leading meditations nearly twenty years ago, wi