perspective

​    Here's a summary of what we would cover in our sessions:

reflection.

 
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      Let's begin with that fact that we all drink our own Kool-Aid! You are probably working very hard to get what you
     think you need and deserve from life, what you think will make you and others happy. Your heart is, and has always
     been in the right place. Please pause right now (see? we're already growing) and give yourself a pat on the back
     for that. Genuinely. I do!

      But                        teaches us that the very things we do to be safe or happy can oftentimes 
     our anxiety / sadness / anger / or lack of safety and connection with others. Compassion is understanding that
     we all do                               It's as simple as that. That's what is leading you to this page today - those missing skills!

     Coaching allows you to bring in the adult skills you've never seen, like
     and                        We take your life as you're living it each week and pick it apart for opportunities to see your child
     skills and begin to incorporate adult skills. This does't happen overnight because
​                                                    But as we see life play out each week, we see that it offers us exactly the
    opportunities we are ready for to practice a new skill. That's the magic of this work! When you are ready, so is life.

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              I draw from many modalities including but not limited to: DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) /
       Gottman & Terry Real Relational Therapy / Esther Perel & Harriet Learner Psychodynamics Therapy /
       Eden Energy Medicine Holistic Body Therapy.  I encourage all clients to start with weekly or bi-weekly
       (2x/week) sessions to get momentum going and benefit from the support they have been probably
       missing for a long time. Women heal with consistent, dependable companionship. That's one of our
​       first lessons together!​​

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Never doubt that small changes daily can lead to huge life awakenings

• UNDERSTAND current life transitions  (professional / marital / family / parenting / middle age / elderly care)
• EXPLOREyour communication and emotion regulation skills - how you tick right now
• IDENTIFYyour missing life skills that are bringing you suffering
• BUILD your self care system with daily use
• PRACTICEconnecting with your body emotionally and physically for clues to daily balance 
• CREATEyour self soothe kit for life challenges and set backs
• DISCOVER your purpose, that unique piece of you that cannot be replaced. This will ground you!
• ADD multiple stress management tools to daily life
• LEARN about the power of gratitude 
• RECEIVEresources at each stage of your work

boundaries, balance, self care 

Image: Amanda Greavette

slowly and consistently.​

"Sometimes we stare so long
at the door that is closing
​that we see too late
the one that has opened."
                                -  Alexander Graham Bell

Start a 12 week group with friends to keep each other accountable or

co-workers to improve office morale OR  join one of the upcoming groups.

safe change happens 

what we know.

This is what group is for! To help you all remember and return to yourselves.

    Holistic Expectations Individual Coaching  

cause

Holistic Expectations Dare to Dance Women's Groups 

     Women used to be part of each other's lives. They lived intimately. Caring for each other's children. Helping with each
    other's homes. Contributing to each other's daily dialogue. In this way, women wove protective nets around their
    families and larger nets around their communities. They shared stories and passed down traditions. They were the
    guardians of the home and the touchstones in society. Then we stopped gathering. Everyone stayed in the home and
    extended families and friends moved away. We piled expectations of the whole village on one woman and her partner
    and she stopped checking in with herself and instead answered the needs of others, becoming run down and anxious.
    A shell of who she was. 
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​    Group work is about having a safe place for all of the lost pieces of you to gather in. In a group, the individual struggles
    and shame becomes systemic dysfunction, not personal failure. Women begin to see that they are the one's to make
    change in their lives and they are not alone. Together, in weekly group meetings, and with the help of a rich curriculum
    ranging from emotion regulation, to interrelatedness, to intimacy, to shame, to boundary setting and de-selfing, group
    members begin to change their behaviors, roles and expectations of themselves and others. They learn to lean on
    others, ask for help, be accountable for their emotions and actions and to speak their truth in all areas of their lives.
    They learn about the origins of anger, anxiety, depression and sadness and explore where their joy and adventure went.

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