Disability
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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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“What Exactly Is a Life Coach?”
I was sitting with a friend the other day and she asked me, “Heather, what exactly is a life coach? What do you do?” And I figured maybe she wasn’t the only one who was uncertain… Continue reading
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Sitting With
Sitting with requires that we allow ourselves to feel the feelings of loss and grief, fear, rejection, being silenced or abandoned. It’s difficult, but difficult isn’t the same as impossible. Continue reading
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Living in Liminal Space
Essentially, a liminal space is the space that we occupy in the midst of transitions. And there is something about a liminal space that puts us humans on edge. Continue reading
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I Always Wished …
Disability is a tricky thing. No one would say that there was a hierarchy – we would say that everyone was equally valuable. But the truth of the matter is that some conditions are sexy – they get money and press and attention and extra resources and walks and big, multi-million-dollar foundations. And other conditions… Continue reading
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Infant Loss and Awareness Day
Today is Infant Loss and Awareness Day – and the 15th one I’ve observed as a mother who lost her child. The little boy at the top of this screen is my son. He was born the day before my 23rd birthday – the second of my three children – fifteen years ago this past… 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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