An Interview with a Coaching Client. Learn more about Trauma Informed Coaching

With courage and clarity Krista will share some very challenging aspects of her journey, and how recognizing them as experiences from the past she could step away and let them pass through her.

Building Healthy Relationships

“This experience has given me greater confidence to encourage others to go on this journey. It also gives me hope, knowing that there are others who understand the importance of this work.”

Dodging Bullets (not really)

ACES, Changing what we do, Healthy Relationships, Story Telling, Thoughts & ReflectionsJessie GrahamNovember 3, 2023Healing, Healthy Relationships, Mental Health, StoryComment

Is the System (Education, Health Care, Social Services, Political, Government) Broken, or do the humans in the system collectively and individually “feel” broken?

Education, Community Connection, Changing what we do, ACES, Healthy Relationships, Healing ACES, Story Telling, WellbeingJessie GrahamFebruary 10, 2023Trauma Informed Care, Trauma Informed Coaching, Be the Change, Systems Change, Education, Wellbeing, Mental Health, Social EmotionalComment

Coaching Concept: The Power of “And”

When we consider possibility we need to add options, not limit them.

Changing what we do, Thoughts & Reflections, Coaching ConceptJessie GrahamDecember 11, 2022CoachingComment

Breaking the Cycle of “Trauma Drama” and Creating a Calm, Connected Community that Flourishes in the Most Challenging of Times!

When there is an intentional process that supports the building of relationships community members can learn about each others stories and lived experiences, share common interests and strengths, understand differences, and become inspired to do things we had not thought were possible in both developing an ever evolving mission and supporting it.

Using Language to Shape our Future and Open our Minds; From Protection to Connection

I believe my world is connected to your world, and together we can co-create the world we wish to see by acknowledging our lives, feelings and consciously deciding to put our energy on what we want instead of ruminating in what we don’t want and past issues. Re-framing situations is so powerful.

Breaking the Cycle At Home, At School, At Work and in the Community - An opportunity for Positive Change

Regardless of where people have worked, they bring their lived experiences and their relationship patterns to their roles and positions. Those patterns are either subconscious or somewhat conscious as they may or may not be self aware. When we surround ourselves with people who are “leading us” or “modeling for us” or “directing us” we want those relationships to be healthy.

Who is the Character in Your Story?

Your personality is different from how you feel. By engaging in this story telling process you can begin to find out where you are out of alignment. Of course our emotions change, and our personality can change too. You are not your feelings and you change!

Changing what we do, Story TellingJessie GrahamDecember 1, 2021Character, Story, Storytelling, Story Grammar, Who, PersonalityComment

Changing the way we do things: The Journey to Do More Good Than Harm.

I realize this is a significant change in the way we “serve” children and families currently. However, there is a concern that by “finding something wrong” with a child we are doing more harm than good. We are “evaluating children ” instead of “understanding them” and we are “diagnosing” instead of accepting them for who they are at the moment and meeting them in the “zone of proximal development”.

Changing what we doJessie GrahamJuly 19, 2021CO-CREATE CHANGEComment

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