Planting Seeds Counseling & Coaching, PLLC

08/05/2025

Join us for a critical community conversation. All are invited and welcome. We will also be joined by to explore the range of treatment options available.

08/03/2025

As we set our eyes on starting another week, here are a few good reminders from .health.with.emma.

08/01/2025

Mommy & Me is a counseling group for mothers and infants navigating postpartum, starting in September. Please see the flyer below for more info. If you or someone you know would benefit, please reach out to Katie-Beth.💛

Planting Seeds has locations in Frisco and Prosper and provides counseling services for all ages.

07/23/2025

Mommy & Me is a counseling group for mothers and infants navigating postpartum, and it starts August 29. Please see the flyer below for more info. If you or someone you know would benefit, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Katie-Beth. 💛

07/23/2025

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

There are so many ways to serve our neighbors. The Hill Country will need support for months to come. Families need help with school supplies. Kids need help with meals. Marginalized groups need to know they matter. Maybe someone in your home just needs a hug and your presence. We know life can feel overwhelming Pick one manageable way to serve. Helping someone else has been proven to support our own mental health. What seeds are you planting today?

07/13/2025

Dear God, may we find strength in each other, courage in community, and peace in the presence of love. May those grieving be held gently, and may we all be prepared not just for disaster, but for compassion, connection, and healing. Amen.

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07/11/2025

A reminder from Texas Counseling Association. So many are deeply grieving. And grief will look different for each of us. Give yourself the permission you need.

07/07/2025

Sharing a staple in our work as grief specialists. Most people have heard of the five stages of grief. Grief is not linear and that particular model was for a very specific population. Instead, we utilize the grief ball of emotions and have found it represents most people’s journey more accurately. Grief is messy and we will experience myriad of emotions sometimes all at once. This image helps people begin to learn, name and unpack all the feelings we expect during our grief journey. We know so many in our state are grieving and hope this resource might be helpful.

Credit goes to the remarkable Dr Norman Wright.

07/06/2025

We know there will be many difficult conversations taking place within families about the tragic loss of life in the Texas Hill Country. We are so often asked for guidance on what and how to tell our children. Here are a few overarching recommendations. If you desire specifics, please give us a call (or email jennifer@plantingseedsntx.com). We will gladly hop on a phone call with you this week.
* First and foremost, tell your children. They need to know you will share difficult things with them and be honest. Even our littles know when something is wrong. Telling them all is well when they can sense all is not creates a foundation for children to not trust their instincts.
* Share age appropriate information. For additional guidance, please check out resources at www.nctsn.org
* Tears makes sense, yours and theirs. Tears are like putting salve on a burn, they are comprised of calming neurochemicals that help our brains move back towards regulation when we feel strong emotion. Please do not tell a child not to cry (or an adult).
* Emotions of any type simply need to be witnessed. It is not your job to make them stop but to be present while they are processed. Let your children know you also feel scared or sad or angry---they all make sense.
* Remind your child he/she is safe right now.
* Keep to as much routine as possible.
* Make space for your own emotions and grief.
* Always allow your child to ask any questions. If you are unsure how to answer, be honest. There are no bad questions.
* Please proceed with great caution when incorporating faith. Telling a child that this is "all part of God's plan" creates a fear and distrust of God. Right now, a simple reminder that God is near the broken hearted and the suffering and God sees and cares deeply for our pain will help the most.

OUR MISSION is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.

07/05/2025

Pray for the rain to subside, for endurance, strength and safety of our first responders and for all those lost, wondering, waiting and especially for those who know their friends and family members are not coming home. The destruction zone continues to spread further north, now with Travis and Williamson Counties being impacted.

Right now what they need most is financial support so those on the ground can purchase supplies: water, food for survivors and first responders, diapers, pet food and first aid supplies. Please help by contributing whatever you can to any of the following:

www.tinyurl.com/KerrFloodRelief

https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201&fbclid=IwY2xjawLWMpFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTV0JkUXk5ZTlZWDgxbzRjAR4DaLjDOM8VVGT6EZoRqPVdqTtITph3c-5YTEYPwr_tZdE6j5YDqaXVCoFohw_aem_VVpHI38XerzdaOM2-4elUQ

www.adrn.org (Austin Disaster Relief)

www.austinpetsalive.org

venmo@kerrvillepetsalive

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07/05/2025

A glimpse into the devastation and the human experience. It is time to love our neighbors. Yes, pray. And take action. Please do not look away. We are collecting on the ground places where you can send donations. Stay tuned.

07/04/2025

A prayer for this Independence Day…

Each year on July 4, we share A Prayer for Independence Day written by Rev. Tom Graves. Each year, a new line sticks out for our context. We offer this prayer to you again, hoping that we may read it anew and allow these words to speak peace into the world:

God of our fathers and mothers, we thank you for this land we call home, and for those whose vision and wisdom made freedom a cherished blessing for our time.

We confess that we take our citizenship for granted. We stake our claim to its countless privileges but resist its responsibilities.

We like to remember the sacrifices of those who began the American Revolution, but we fail to see the urgent need for new dedication in our own lives to the continuing revolution in our midst.

Help us to see our nation as an unfinished creation that needs our love and devotion as well as our intelligence and hard work.

Deliver us from words or deeds that turn the ideal of liberty and justice for all into the vulgarity of liberty and justice for some.

May the hope for our community and our nation be that we become the kind of society where every person knows you and has the opportunity to be all that they can possibly be.

Enable us to see that this kind of hope will never become a reality until we become brothers and sisters by conscious effort and mature patience. Transform our Fourth of July festivities into a celebration of the common life we have been given.

Make our brightest fireworks be those of indignation and holy wrath at blindness and bigotry toward any person or community of persons.

Translate the patriotism we espouse into deeds of constructive citizenship, and make the flag we fly, a banner of joy to be a part of a nation that could be this weary world’s best sign of hope.

May the possibility of peace and the gift of life give us the courage we need to live like Christians in America.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who loved his land, but never more than its people, Amen.