Kim Holman 8 Hands Healing

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For educators: a day to exhale (April 18)🤗 Meg and I led a beautiful retreat at Breitenbush, completed two additional (Re)Parenting Empowerment trainings, and I spent a week in Colorado continuing my studies in Heart-Centered Therapy and specialized bodywork for autism.

Wednesday musings, a practice, and a poem

The sun is out, the cherry blossoms are blooming, and today I am focused on gratitude. Last week Kim and I facilitated our 2-night retreat up at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Detroit, OR. We had 9 lovely and wonderful participants. Our time together was filled with community connection, self-connection, and nature connection. We offered supportive information and tools, opportunities for self-acknowledgement and validation, and time for the deep work of unpacking the belief systems and patterns that no longer serve us but still influence our daily lives. I am so proud of the bravery it took for our participants to show up for themselves and for each other. I am continually in awe of the vulnerability and movement towards self-trust that our participants engage in. Each person present made the experience what it was for everyone involved and for that I am so grateful.

I have included a few photos. Any photos of participants were taken with consent. You will not see photos of the deep work and vulnerable times as Kim and I believe that these experiences belong to the participants and they deserve to experience them without being captured on film. Our presence with each other held powerful witnessing.

I love this!

Sometimes it looks like they’re ignoring you.

You’ve asked.
You’ve repeated it.
You’ve explained it again.
And nothing happens.

But a lot of the time… they’re not ignoring you.
They’re getting stuck.

Stuck starting
Stuck switching from what they’re doing
Stuck stopping something they’re enjoying

And when that happens, repeating the instruction usually doesn’t help.

It just adds more pressure.

What helps more is supporting the first step.

Getting closer
Saying it once
Helping them begin

That’s how follow-through is actually built.

Not by saying it louder.
Not by saying it more times.
But by bridging the gap between knowing and doing.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re repeating yourself all day, this is usually the piece that’s missing.

I go deeper into how to support follow-through without nagging or punishments inside my programs.

You can find them at
www.thetherapistparent.com⁠
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