About Heart and Goal

Heart and Goal, INC is a women-owned small business co-created by Jamie Hartman, M.Ed., B.S. Human Development and Family Studies, and Angela Andiorio, B.S. Therapeutic Recreation, and Certified Yoga Teacher. We met through a local support group of moms seeking connection while going through the daily struggles and joys that come along with parenting. Each of us had come from service industry work and had experienced our own personal burnout journeys. Yoga, spending time in nature, and mindfulness were what helped each of us through challenging times. We wanted to share our success with others thus Heart and Goal was formed in 2020.

Who we serve

Our intention is to support caregivers (parents, those who care for spouses or aging relatives) and those who work in service industries (education, healthcare, etc) who are susceptible to chronic stress, burnout, empathy fatigue, and compassion fatigue. Through our Stepping Stones of Resilience^SM program, we share our unique and effective approach for managing stress and building skills to cultivate a strong, centered and safe place within yourself.

In addition, children are struggling with stress, trauma and problems with self-regulation. Therefore, we offer our trauma-informed and CASEL-aligned mindful movement program in schools offering direct services to students. We believe that a holistic wellness support for students, teachers, staff and families helps the whole education system function more cohesively. A win-win-win situation!

Mindfulness + Nature=Stress Reduction

Where does the power of nature come in? Recent literature shows that people are spending less time outdoors. One in six adults report never spending free time in nature. The average child spends 4-7 minutes per day outside!

In a large-scale study it has been found that if we spend even 120 minutes outdoors every week we experience amazing health benefits including building stress resilience. Since nature is an easy and accessible tool, we like to intentionally connect to nature in our programming as much as possible.

All in all, spending more time in nature and practicing self-regulation skills through movement, breathing and mindfulness weave beautifully with social emotional learning skills for children and adults alike!

What inspires us

Our inspiration for this service was born out of the powerful healing we both received from these self-regulating experiences and practices. The Heart and Goal logo is symbolic both as a path and as a nature spiral. Spirals appear in nature (in galaxies, plants and even the weather). They are both a symbol of resilience and a representation of the journey from the inside out. The colors of purple and yellow are found abundantly in nature and often together as a complementary pair. In some color systems, like the chakra colors in yoga philosophy, purple represents intuition and yellow, inner strength . Cultivating resilience through self care requires self knowledge, self compassion and deeper awareness of the self.

Our values