Disability
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An Open Letter To My POC and LGBTQ+ Activist Friends …
It’s been a while since I published a blog post. I’m still alive and kicking, but I’ve had a lot of thoughts swirling around in my head and I have been taking some time to sit, think, reflect and process them (whilst dealing with a medical crisis or three in our family!) What’s been kicking Continue reading
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Symptoms
A simple enough question for a doctor to ask a patient. But it causes me to pause and flip through my memories like I flip through the pages of my grandmother’s hundred-year-old cookbook. Continue reading
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Choice and Healing
Choice and Healing Choice and Healing A friend and I were debriefing after a course on mental health and we realized they were missing a really important healing method: choice. Continue reading
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Preventing, Protecting and Healing: Part 3 – (Re-)Attachment
Today I want to finish off our week-long series by looking at what we can do when this happens to help ourselves or our loved ones heal. Continue reading
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Preventing, Protecting and Healing – Part 2: Support
What happens when we can’t prevent the procedures and experiences that we know might be potentially traumatic? When individuals and caregivers deal with lifelong disabilities or chronic illnesses, some portion of our lives is spent doing really hard things. Sometimes we get so ‘used’ to these things that we start to think of them as… Continue reading
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Preventing, Protecting and Healing – Part 1: Advocacy
Advocacy is a bit of a ‘buzz-word’ in many circles, and that is definitely true when it comes to disabilities. But anytime you have buzz-words, you also end up with a lot of confusion about what advocacy looks like and how it works – especially when you are dealing with people who are vulnerable either… Continue reading
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When Helping Hands Still Hurt – Part 2
Today I want to tell some stories of my own medical trauma, to help those of you who haven’t experienced this to start to wrap your head around what medical trauma might look and feel like and how that might impact someone, and to help break the silence for those who have experienced medical trauma… Continue reading
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When Helping Hands Still Hurt – Part 1
Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. So this week seems like a good week to get back to writing and to think about some of the issues that go hand-in-hand with disabilities. Today I want to touch on a difficult topic for a lot of people, and that is the issue of… Continue reading
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Representation, Trailblazers and Kona 2018
I have a question for you: what did you want to be when you grew up? But regardless of what your unique dreams were for the future, it is very difficult for us to dream of things when we can’t see ourselves already in those places. Continue reading
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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