Deep Breaths and Baby Steps

January 20, 2020

Deep Breaths and Baby Steps

And the walls came tumbling down!

Our accessibility build involves connecting an existing, older structure to a new extension. Part of making that possible requires that some of the walls of both the original foundation and the original structure get moved/removed to allow flow from one space to the next.

It was really interesting to watch the steps that went into getting to this point.

They didn’t just carve a hole off the back of the house and then connect the two. The amazing folks at @communitybuildersbarrie wanted to maintain structural integrity for the original home throughout the process, so first they created all sorts of supports – both under the existing foundation and in place of the existing foundation as it came down one section at a time. The result is a super solid structure that will serve us well for a very long time!

Making room for new ideas and ways of living is like this as well. I talk to people sometimes that just want to blow the old way of doing things straight out of the water without first putting up the new structures that will support their new way of life. But the order of our process matters. We need the foundation to stay solid – even get stronger – before we can open our lives out to a more expansive, functional way of living.

So on this Blue Monday my wish for you is simple: don’t try to jump ahead of where you’re at in your process. Instead think “Deep breaths and baby steps.” Reach out and ask for a hand. A good solid foundation can take you a really long way forward!

#deepbreathsandbabysteps #accessiblehousing #lifecoaching #lifecoach

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Heather Morgan

About the program

In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.

Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!

After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.

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