Holsom Wellness

07/25/2025

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07/25/2025

07/18/2025

🌿 Celebrate Parks Day with Me! 🌿

Let’s walk together in nature today at 7:00 PM at Police Point Park in Medicine Hat.

Everyone’s welcome—come connect with others, unwind, and honour the role parks play in our health and well-being. This isn't therapy, and there is no cost. 💚

🗓️ What: Walk in Nature for Parks Day
📍 Where: Meet at the main parking lot at Police Point Park
🕔 When: Friday, July 19 at 7:00 PM

🌎 Parks Day is a national celebration of the healing power of nature and the importance of protecting green spaces for generations to come. Let’s take a mindful pause together—all are welcome.

Bring water, good shoes, and anyone who could use a little more nature. Hope to see you there! 🌱

07/16/2025

Let’s talk about something important that often gets overlooked — your right to access your own clinical records.

For many people, requesting their file can feel intimidating or overwhelming — especially if they’re unsure what’s in it, or if past experiences in care left them with unresolved questions. Whether you're seeking clarity, preparing for a process, or simply trying to better understand your care, this step can bring up a lot.

What’s documented in a file doesn’t always reflect how an experience felt. Sometimes the information can be difficult to interpret, or it may raise new questions. That can be deeply personal — and sometimes emotional.

Here’s why this matters now more than ever:

Recent and ongoing legislative changes in Alberta — including amendments to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act, the Compassionate Intervention Act, and changes to the structure of regulatory colleges — are creating a new landscape around how records are accessed and how professionals are regulated. These systems are complex, and under some circumstances, requests for records may be limited or delayed, especially when concerns about harm are cited.

That’s why it’s increasingly important for individuals to be informed about the process, and for professionals to approach record-keeping and disclosure with care, clarity, and a strong understanding of evolving legal and ethical obligations.

It’s also important to understand that therapy records are not protected by legal privilege in Alberta. While therapeutic conversations are confidential, that confidentiality can be overridden in certain legal, administrative, or legislative contexts. This makes it even more important to understand how and why information is recorded.

Supporting clients and professionals in navigating this process is part of my work. Whether it’s helping someone understand how to request their records, offering consultation to colleagues, or processing what comes up through this journey — I approach these conversations with compassion and care.

Everyone deserves access to accurate, ethical care — and to feel safe reclaiming their own story.

If this speaks to you, you’re welcome to reach out or share this post. You’re not alone — and you don’t have to navigate this alone either.

07/15/2025

Congratulations to all nominees! I am so grateful for all the support from our community. ~ Thank you ~ It's a good day to talk about feelings.

Official 2025 Community Voting Awards Platform for Medicine Hat, AB. Where the community votes for their favourites every year.

07/14/2025

Exciting news: I am now a registered psychologist in Saskatchewan as well as Alberta! ❤️

This is a small part of my overall effort to decrease barriers for my clients to access support.

~ Holly

07/07/2025

New week, perfect time to reset.
New motivation.
New mindset.
Love my Mondays, let's go!
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07/02/2025

🎉 July in Medicine Hat is PACKED with fun! 🎉

From Canada Day celebrations to Quonset Days, Summer Jam, and the iconic Medicine Hat Stampede – there’s something for everyone! 🐎🎪🍔

✨ Must-do events:
🍁 July 1 – Beat the Heat at Kin Coulee Park
🎉 July 5 – The Great Big Paddle at Echo Dale
🌺 July 13 – Annual Garden Tour
🎶 July 21 – Summer Jam
🤠 July 23–26 – Medicine Hat Stampede & Exhibition
🎠 July 18–20 – Quonset Days + All Breed Horse Show
🏒 Don’t miss the Medicine Hat Mavericks games all month!

PLUS: farmers markets, food trucks, trolley tours, pool & spray park fun, and more!

📍Plan your July adventures now – local fun is heating up! 🔥

07/01/2025

We are so lucky to call this beautiful land our home. ❤️ Wishing you and yours a wonderful Canada Day! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦

~Holly

06/24/2025

❤️ Therapists, counsellors, healers, and to all those in the thick of it, this one's for you. ❤️

"When real attunement happens, when suffering meets precisely the right quality of resonant presence, something alchemical occurs. There's an immediate shift throughout the body: releasing, integration, transformation that changes everything."

"Something in us can sense when the presence being offered genuinely trusts our suffering versus when it secretly wants it to go away. Our systems are exquisitely attuned to this difference. Authentic meeting only becomes possible when there's no hidden agenda for transformation—paradoxically, this is precisely when transformation occurs."

"When something is emerging in our psyche that is more than we are able to hold, we're usually well served by seeking support from somebody who has moved through similar territory before. It's generally the case that only people who have themselves reckoned with, explored, and resolved imprints at particular depths can fully meet us in the suffering we find there. As we deepen in the path and our own clarification, the pool of people who can hold us at our edge becomes smaller."

"Usually we'll know when we've found the right support because their very presence will naturally evoke whatever material is surfacing, as if it were pushing into consciousness toward the attuned contact they might offer. Once the material has moved in relationship—once it's been precisely met and felt—we often find ourselves more able to offer that quality of attunement to ourselves and others. Receiving attunement teaches us to offer it."

https://intimatemirror.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-attunement?triedRedirect=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawLHDFhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvWjgWA-x4syCYG_CLPuMwbQ2tUe0Vk63-Tz9_OT_WduptIAjDDwkWMh5TNY_aem_2uiLBfu7dkjvp6ztx1m3nQ

How Precise Meeting Creates the Conditions for Wholeness

06/20/2025

Breathe in.

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Breathe out.

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