A human services provider = def: a being who has chosen to devote their professional life to helping to improve the quality of life for other human beings through direct interaction with them in their lives, their health, their emotional world, their hopes, dreams and endeavors. It is a high calling. We choose to let ourselves be in the space with those who are struggling with thousands of variations of the challenges of life, grieving, feeling as though they are falling apart, ill and dying. We celebrate their accomplishments, their healing and growth, their transformations and their moving on in their lives.

 

It is work of the heart...of our hearts...and it takes our brilliance, our curiosity, our determination, our wisdom, our skills, our physical and psychic strength, our spiritual connections and our energetic vibrancy to do this work. 

 

We often are ones who have what seems to be a natural resilience...an ability...well-earned...to be strong when needed, open and receptive, supportive and encouraging...and more. And we can assume that we have what we need for resilience and so focus on helping and teaching others to find and develop more resilience within them...overlooking ourselves. Those who work in service to others very often overlook themselves. And yet, to do so now...becomes increasingly perilous to our well-being. 

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You are here, so you must be feeling some level of stress and strain from the challenges of your calling. Maybe the need is to increase your self care to grow or maintain a high level of well-being, maybe it is to rebalance yourself before you feel like your are sinking or perhaps it's to get your head and heart back above water?  You are not alone...by any stretch! We might say with a high degree of certainty that everyone is feeling some level of this larger experience now. 

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Why?

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These dynamics are significantly contributing to increasing pressure on providers of health care to people, whether you are a therapist, doctor, chiropractor, healthcare professional, teacher, minister, energy healer...

• increasing social and political turbulence

• decreasing health and increased challenges (increases in death rates, childhood illness, chronic illness, cancer)

• increasing revelations of organizational practices fucntioning out of integrity, polluting our world, exploiting children and women, keeping people feeling small and unhealthy

• higher levels of developmental anxiety as lingering effects from the lockdowns

• existential dread from climate worries to global destabilization to the sudden rise of AI

• the apparent speeding up of time 

• people becoming more conscious and aware and choosing to be more intentional in their lives

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These dynamics are all contributing to a breaking down of the old social order, bringing increased chaos and turbulence, which will ever increasingly result in the creation of a world more conscious, more filled with possibility for all from a view of supporting the well-being of all levels of life on Gaia. 

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This is my view. One I share with many people; likely you, too. It's a healthy perspective and one that is supported in various ways by history... by precedence if we can take in a longer view. So with it, we have a vision that can help lead us forward. Without it, we fall more into the patterns of emotional stress and strain.

What we need are road maps and tools to navigate in these very challenging times...times that seem to grow more challenging by the season. 

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This has been a focus of mine now for more than 5 years...how to help practitioners develop greater fortitude, a more resilient worldview, and healthier practices to increase our own capacity to be the calm in the middle of the storm, leading the way, and helping others to boost their capacities to navigate well in these rougher waters. 

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Here you will find an increasing library or professional back pack of practices, perspectives, tools and programs to help you on your journey to boosting your own resilience as you help others boost theirs. 

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