Tag: mastery skills in trauma recovery

For You Mental Health Champions

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Announcing “Coffee With Heidi” on Zoom for Anyone and Everyone To Take On Their Day With Recovery Goal Planning and Positive Support

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Join me at my new site, The Mental Health Detective — click on Zoom Room Enter in the main menu! Participants at “Coffee With Heidi” get a free, hand-painted coffee mug heat wrap from me — take good care, Heidi

The 5 Acumens of Trauma Recovery — Join Heidi for A New Trauma Project Workshop September 28

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There are five masteries — high life-affirming skills — to learn in our recovery and resiliency of traumatic experience:

  1. Creating meaning;
  2. Finding restorative justice;
  3. Body reconciliation;
  4. Creating and strengthening your sense of Self;
  5. High engagement with life-affirming activities.

I am hosting another Trauma Project workshop to provide safe, private and renewing education on these 5 acumens — and I really hope you’ll join us for this. It’s on Saturday, September 28, 2019, at 9 a.m. in Vancouver, Washington.

It’s free, and I’m bringing the coffee — the good kind!

Journals and sketchbooks will be provided at no charge, and good pens.

Email me at dog.hotel.hansen@gmail.com to RSVP and confirm location details.

Remember, trauma changes us, but we get to say how.

So until then, rest, restore, and renew.

— Heidi D. Hansen, M.A.

…I’d love to see you there on the 28th!

cash.app/$doghotel2018 is the link to donate a tad of cash to help fund The Trauma Project. Heidi is an experienced clinician and understands the necessity of providing truly excellent mental health care to those who can least afford it, and everything about the Trauma Project is free to all. So, donations here at this link go directly and exclusively to fund the overhead and upkeep of The Trauma Project, and I will write and sign a receipt for your tax purposes and also express exactly where your donation went — was it printing costs, or stamps for mail-outs, was it to pay for the meeting space, the sketchbooks/journals we use in our workshops, was it for refreshment in the workshops — I’ll let you know. That’s Heidi’s promise, your money goes exactly where I say it goes. Thank You!

Sailin’ On The River of Grace

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I made this dog-story art-song video to represent that living creatures, including people, can only thrive when they have environments to live in that are permanent, safe, secure, predictable and nourishing as well as in their control. This is also a segway to a mural I am starting that represents some insights around the experience of homelessness that the typical stereotypes don’t capture. I’ll be posting the progress of that mural, with photos, and there will be a charitable auction for ownership of it when it is completed. Thank you for your time, your energy, and motivation to upgrade our city neighbors who do not have secure, safe, predictable homes in which to grow and thrive as persons. And their dogs.