Springing ahead.....just happened. This time of year can be met with a yahoo as the evenings have more light OR a groan because of the "lost time". Actually, I think that we all lose time, in some way or another especially when I look at how long it's been since I posted here.
My hiatus (see last post) was fruitful. I moved into a new house. I lost my beloved Ella, who inspired me to write a blog about eating crap. I got Covid - twice. One of my kids got engaged. I dove down some deep and interesting studies, completing a 10 month course about biotensegrity specifically for physical therapists. I expanded my JFB MFR skill set with repeats of two courses - Fascial Pelvis and MFR 2 and by attending Cervical Thoracic and Womens' Health classes in the last year. I grew so much professionally and personally from those last two courses!! I got to meet other therapists with similar outlooks about care. I met mentors, some of whom I now call friends, from all around the world. People fascinated with learning about the fascial system and more importantly, what it means to move when we look at movement through the lens of the fascial system. I felt part of a community again.
However, there has been a nudge that I needed to do something different. It began to get bigger and bigger and bigger last year too. Like the first buds on a tree in the Spring. But unlike the tree or really any flower or grass that grows - even after a late spring snow - I was afraid to to follow that nudge into something different, to branch out in new ways that I knew deep in my core that I NEEDED to do, at least until now.
Which leads to the new adventure part of this post - or at least an expansion of something that always was but I treated as more of a hobby versus a true calling. In February of this year, I left the comfort of a dependable paycheck because what I knew I needed to do was not going to be something that I would get to do in that setting. I am happy, and to be truthful, sometimes scared, to say that I have decided to make Haelen Hands what it needs to be in order to grow, my full time gig, not just a part time, when I have the time, business.
I am excited at what the future holds! I plan to share more about what I have been learning in the past few years of my hiatus. I hope you come along on this adventure with me!
My hiatus (see last post) was fruitful. I moved into a new house. I lost my beloved Ella, who inspired me to write a blog about eating crap. I got Covid - twice. One of my kids got engaged. I dove down some deep and interesting studies, completing a 10 month course about biotensegrity specifically for physical therapists. I expanded my JFB MFR skill set with repeats of two courses - Fascial Pelvis and MFR 2 and by attending Cervical Thoracic and Womens' Health classes in the last year. I grew so much professionally and personally from those last two courses!! I got to meet other therapists with similar outlooks about care. I met mentors, some of whom I now call friends, from all around the world. People fascinated with learning about the fascial system and more importantly, what it means to move when we look at movement through the lens of the fascial system. I felt part of a community again.
However, there has been a nudge that I needed to do something different. It began to get bigger and bigger and bigger last year too. Like the first buds on a tree in the Spring. But unlike the tree or really any flower or grass that grows - even after a late spring snow - I was afraid to to follow that nudge into something different, to branch out in new ways that I knew deep in my core that I NEEDED to do, at least until now.
Which leads to the new adventure part of this post - or at least an expansion of something that always was but I treated as more of a hobby versus a true calling. In February of this year, I left the comfort of a dependable paycheck because what I knew I needed to do was not going to be something that I would get to do in that setting. I am happy, and to be truthful, sometimes scared, to say that I have decided to make Haelen Hands what it needs to be in order to grow, my full time gig, not just a part time, when I have the time, business.
I am excited at what the future holds! I plan to share more about what I have been learning in the past few years of my hiatus. I hope you come along on this adventure with me!
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