Seed Digging

Seed Digging Seed Digging is a simple but powerful technique that teaches how to sustain emotional healing.

Seed Digging is a compassionate counseling approach that blends multiple models and techniques of counseling into a simple language of a garden; it seeks to help children (and adults) overcome debilitating emotional and behavioral issues and addictions and equips them with strategies to sustain healing once the counseling process has ended. Over the past few years, Seed Digging has expanded to also include a trauma-informed school based mental health model with trainings specific to students, teachers, nurses, counselors, and mental health professionals. Seed Digging has 5 books, mini curriculums, and live and online training programs. To purchase books or resources or for more information, please visit our website at www.seeddigging.com. If you would like schedule a counseling or consultation session with Shawna or another Seed Digging Professional or book a Seed Digging conference/training, please call us at 870-204-6016 or send an email to info@seeddigging.com

We are excited to be nominated as best mental health provider in Harrison! We appreciate the support and would love your...
01/02/2026

We are excited to be nominated as best mental health provider in Harrison! We appreciate the support and would love your vote!💚🙏

12/29/2025

I was sexually abused by my mother, and physically abused by my father.
My father was a monster, there is really no other way to describe him. I suppose he was rapid-cycling bipolar, or maybe some darker pathology. I’m not sure. Living in his household, was stressful and traumatic. Perpetual PTSD. I watched him drag my mother by the hair, speaking to her in ways I can’t imagine, almost in some unknown, otherworldly, tongues. He was mean to me too, but I learned to avoid his abuse, in large part, by trying to be small. I also learned to feel small. I guess I still do. I knew about his abuse, and his philandering. Many times he was late/absent to dinner, even Christmas dinner. My mother and I often ate in silence, relieved by his absence I guess. I knew about his abuse, but recounting the almost innumerable stories about that abuse would be all but pointless. How many slaps and chokes before the vignettes become repetitive and tiresome? After he died in 2007, my mother, and my sisters, began to tell me about things he had done. Things I didn’t know, and couldn’t have imagined. He r@ped my sisters many times. He abused my mom in a way I can't describe, causing her to lose her unborn child. She was in her 9th month. He decided he didn’t want another child, so he r@ped her till she miscarried. He even made my mother drink some abortifacient concoction, while she was pregnant with me. It didn’t work, at least not in the way he intended.
In 2008, one of his childhood friends contacted me. He had many stories he wanted to tell, tales of racism, r@pes, violence and even murder. 3 murders to be exact, that he knew of. He said that there were almost certainly more corpses, scattered in the forgotten Georgia forests. I wanted to dig my father up, and drive a sharpened stake of holly through his heart. I still might. He’s dead, but that didn’t end it, not at all. My mother died in January of 2019. I always felt sorry for her, but then I began to remember things about her, and me, that had always seemed distant, apocryphal, dreamlike almost. I think I had always known that she too had abused me, in a different way, maybe a more depraved one. Her passing freed those memories. I don’t want to write about those things here, in any detail. They are as bad as you can imagine, maybe worse. I taught for 3 decades in public school. I encouraged innumerable kids to, “Tell Somebody.” Many of them did. The messages of thanks I often receive from my former students, are more valuable to me than the little money I earned, and the many awards I won. Follow me on Facebook: Alan Caldwell
or check out my website thealancaldwell.com. I began writing about my family, and other things, in 2022. Dozens of my stories and poems have been published in magazines and literary journals. I have since published two books, a short story collection and a collection of poetry. I’m still trying to tell somebody, and still trying to encourage others to do likewise.

You can help a child protect themselves from abusers, by gifting them a FREE Tell Somebody book! 📚 gofundme.com/GiveAFreeBook

Child abusers, please stop and seek therapy and God.
Parents, talk with and believe your children. ❤️
Survivors, seek therapy. 💪🏽
(To share your story of abuse, message me)
www.TellSomebodyToday.com

12/27/2025

December 26th, 2025:

It’s time for another !

First, we hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! As 2025 comes to a close, we felt it was important to come back with part two of a conversation that really matters.

Not long ago, American farmers lived lives of prosperity, pride, and were very much respected. Today, many are struggling just to survive — living below what’s considered the poverty line in our country. Last week we explored the questions “how” and “why” this happened.

If you haven’t watched part one, please take a few minutes to do that first. Then come back and finish with this 5-minute episode where we start exploring “solutions”— ideas that could help my generation protect American farming before the “American farmer” disappears altogether.

Every statistic I hear from Farmer Jack makes this feel more urgent. The facts are clear and the trends are alarming. If we don’t change course now, the next 50 years could mark the extinction of the American Farmer, which means dependence upon foreign beef (which has very minimal regulations).   

This is our moment to speak up, to educate ourselves, and take action! The American Farmer’s future, which directly affects the American Family’s future, ultimately depends on it!

To watch, visit this link:

https://youtu.be/gtAbzsiXf-M?si=NNyImdnYoNpcOPlM

12/20/2025

From a 13-year-old missing for 8 months to a 1-year-old missing from Leon County, a total of 43 children, all reported as critically missing, have been found, according to local law enforcement. MORE DETAILS⬇️

This week has been a BLAST at the Seed Digging Wellness Center! Thank you to our staff and our awesome clients for dress...
12/19/2025

This week has been a BLAST at the Seed Digging Wellness Center! Thank you to our staff and our awesome clients for dressing up and bringing the Christmas Spirit! The adult grinch shoes, hats, socks, Christmas attire, especially the adult Christmas “onesies”were ALL GREAT🤣🎄❤️🎄
Even though we had to separate the siblings a time or two😆 (aka Shawna and Brandon), the week was super fun, at times a little grinchy💚, but overall…. When you have the BEST staff + the BEST clients, then you absolutely will have the BEST of times!❤️💚
Ps Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and much love to you all!🎄❤️🎄🧑‍🎄🎄❤️🧑‍🎄🙏

The Seed Digging Staff are embracing the Christmas spirit this week! If any of our wonderful clients would like to parti...
12/15/2025

The Seed Digging Staff are embracing the Christmas spirit this week! If any of our wonderful clients would like to participate in dressing up in your favorite festive attire, you are welcome to join in the fun!!!🧑‍🎄🤶🎄❤️💚❤️

On Friday, I had the privilege of providing a mental health awareness and su***de prevention training for students in gr...
12/15/2025

On Friday, I had the privilege of providing a mental health awareness and su***de prevention training for students in grades 7–12 at the Shirley School District. Every student was respectful, engaged, and attentive throughout the entire session. As I’ve said many times about this generation—never underestimate their journey. They will do great things and make a meaningful difference, and I truly believe that.

The questions they ask and the conversations they’re willing to have matter. We must invest in them, amplify their voices, and be attentive to their emotional well-being, because one day they will be leading our world.

As I shared with them on Friday, I believe in them. They are our future leaders, and it’s essential that they never doubt their value or purpose while continuing to build confidence in who they are🙏

Thank you Shirley School District and Deborah Roman Swink for inviting me to come!💙

- ❤ Shawna B

Hello friends! We need your help! The staff at Seed Digging partnered up to design gingerbread houses on 3 teams within ...
12/06/2025

Hello friends! We need your help! The staff at Seed Digging partnered up to design gingerbread houses on 3 teams within 25 minutes. The winning team will receive gift cards for each team member; please choose the most creative/festive house!
Please comment with #1, #2, or #3…….
❤️💚❤️💚

12/06/2025

Not sure how to explain our work crew except to say we truly are “family”❤️The 2025 Christmas party was a blast! The game masters Rebeka and Candy never cease to amaze us with the BEST games! The food from Jamie’s was incredible, and the double dirty Santa games were super fun!:) We truly are blessed at Seed Digging with the best crew and the best clients!🎄💚❤️

I had a great time at UCA as a guest speaker in Kathleen Courtney’s mental health classes yesterday! Great group of youn...
12/05/2025

I had a great time at UCA as a guest speaker in Kathleen Courtney’s mental health classes yesterday! Great group of young adults — many took this class as an elective to learn more about mental health. I hope Arkansas is lucky enough to have some of them join the mental health workforce one day! We need more students like these in the field🙏
— Shawna
Kathleen J. Courtney
University of Central Arkansas

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