The Holistic Hive

09/19/2025

These are the moments we LIVE for! 🐝💛

09/08/2025

🐝 Play It Out
A connection workshop for caregivers of wild little bees

🎨 Ever wish you had a manual for meltdowns? Or a reset button for your kiddo's emotional rollercoaster?

This hands-on workshop blends play therapy and early learning strategies to help you build connection, not just correction—so your little one grows up emotionally wise and ready to thrive.

✨ What you'll do:
🖐️ Make your own sensory bin and calm-down jar.
🧠 Learn the why behind play therapy and how it supports early brain development and self-regulation.
🍯 Mix up DIY recipes for kinetic sand, playdoh, edible finger paint, and other early learning sensory tools.
💬 Explore how to use play to teach feelings, reduce tantrums, and boost developmental skills.

This isn’t just another parenting class. It’s a field guide for raising connected, curious, emotionally grounded kids—with sticky fingers and big imaginations.

🎟️ Spots are limited! Come play with us.

📍Delmar Public Library
📅 October 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

✨ Buzz Tip: When play is the language of childhood, every sensory scoop and squish becomes a lesson in love, learning, and letting go.

This workshop is brought to you by The Holistic Hive—where wellness meets wonder, and families learn to grow together, one playful moment at a time.

09/06/2025

Don’t miss this!!!

🌟 You're Invited! 🌟

The Wicomico Partnership for Families and Children and the Wicomico County Judy Center Early Learning Hub are excited to present:

🎉Free Mini Symposium: Strengthening Families, Shaping Futures
📅 Saturday, September 27, 2025
📍 Wor-Wic Community College – see flyer for details!

We’re bringing together dynamic speakers and community leaders for a day of learning, connection, and empowerment. Whether you're a parent, caregiver, educator, or service provider, this is an event you won’t want to miss!

✨ Special guest speakers
✨ Engaging breakout sessions
✨ Breakfast & Lunch will be provided

📌 Check out the flyer for more information!
📲 Register by scanning the QR code or using the link provided.

Click here register: https://forms.gle/FdXn2A983kuC9KvNA

Please share this flyer with your families, colleagues, and the organizations you work with.

💬 We can’t wait to see you on September 27th!

09/02/2025

The Holistic Hive is where wellness meets community—where licensed clinicians, yoga therapists, artists, families, and change-makers gather to restore balance, build connection, and co-create healing ecosystems that are as diverse and dynamic as the bees themselves.

We are not your average therapy practice. We blend evidence-based mental health care with embodied practices, expressive arts, and inclusive, justice-rooted values. Our hive is bold. It buzzes. And it’s growing.

Your Role in the Hive:
As an LMSW/LGPC therapist, you’ll be part clinician, part collaborator, part change-maker. You’ll provide individual and family therapy services rooted in trauma-informed, strengths-based care. You’ll receive weekly supervision and abundant support to help you grow your clinical wings.

What We’re Looking For:
🐝LMSW or LGPC in Maryland (must be licensed and ready to see clients)
🐝Strong grounding in trauma-informed, client-centered therapy models
🐝Commitment to culturally affirming, LGBTQIA+ inclusive, anti-racist practice
🐝Capacity to work with children, adolescents, and/or families
🐝Comfort with collaborative care and being part of a buzzing interdisciplinary hive
🐝Openness to learning from expressive, somatic, and community-based practices
🐝🐝Bonus nectar: experience in yoga, movement, expressive arts, or working with court-involved youth and families

To Apply:
Send your resume and a short letter of interest to info@the-holistic-hive.com with the subject line: “Therapist Application – LMSW/LGPC”.
Tell us who you are, how you buzz, and what brings you to the hive.

The Holistic Hive is committed to building a healing space that reflects the diversity of our communities.

We especially encourage applicants who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, multilingual, or hold lived experience.

“The work of the hive is not to tame the bee, but to guide the buzz.”

For the Collective Good
We believe in the strength of collective connection and support which drives us to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for everyone. We acknowledge and honor our interconnectedness to the natural world.

08/21/2025

Things are BUZZING Delmar Public Library’s back to school night!

Make a beeline and come see us! 🐝

08/20/2025

🐝 BIG NEWS: The Holistic Hive just got stronger.

We’re proud to announce the official launch of The Swarm Mentor Network — a movement built to nurture confidence, resilience, and leadership in kids, teens, and caregivers.

Buzz. Build. Become.

Here’s how the Network works:
🌼 MiniSwarm (Ages 5–10) → Play-based mentoring that teaches friendship, empathy, teamwork, and confidence.
🌟 MegaSwarm (Tweens/Teens) → Leadership development, guidance, and mentorship for young people navigating their biggest years of growth.
💛 SwarmBase (Caregivers) → The hive’s foundation — resources, tools, and community to support parents every step of the way.

The Swarm isn’t just a program — it’s a beeline for families.
Together, we’re building brighter futures, one bee at a time.

Learn more + join the swarm: www.the-holistic-hive.com

For the Collective Good
We believe in the strength of collective connection and support which drives us to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for everyone. We acknowledge and honor our interconnectedness to the natural world.

08/19/2025

New Program Alert: Got Your Six

Got Your Six is a wellness + mental health movement built for the protectors, the responders, the heroes who hold it down when it matters most. Whether you’re serving your country, your city, or your community, this program is about recharging your body, mind, and spirit so you can keep showing up strong.

We’re talking real talk, real tools, and real support to help you:
✨ Shake off stress
✨ Build resilience
✨ Strengthen your mental health
✨ Strengthen your relationships
✨ Find balance between duty and downtime

Because wellness isn’t a luxury. It’s armor. And we’ve got you covered.

For the Collective Good
We believe in the strength of collective connection and support which drives us to create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment for everyone. We acknowledge and honor our interconnectedness to the natural world.

08/09/2025

We are so grateful to be invited to support Wicomico County Judy Center Early Learning Hub and Eugene Schneeberg’s Fathers Forward 2nd Annual Man to Man retreat. What an honor and privilege to spend time with this amazing group of men.

08/09/2025

We’re BUZZING to partner with Wicomico County Judy Center Early Learning Hub Beaver Run families for Taming the Tantrum Bees!

08/02/2025

BIG CONGRATS to Venessa Bowers, LCSW-C, TCTSY-F on officially earning her Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) credential!

This gold-standard certification recognizes years of advanced training, clinical integration, and heart-led service. We couldn’t be more proud.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, TCTSY-F, and now C-IAYT, Venessa blends the best of mental health care and yoga therapy to support healing across the lifespan, whether you're navigating trauma, chronic illness, emotional overwhelm, or just trying to breathe again.

This milestone expands our ability to offer:
🐝 Personalized, therapeutic yoga sessions
🐝 Trauma-informed care rooted in evidence-based practices
🐝 Inclusive support for children, adults, recovering, and perinatal clients
🐝 Nervous system healing through breath, movement, and mindfulness

Help us celebrate this next chapter in making embodied healing more accessible to every body!

07/15/2025

STUCK IN A STICKY PARENTING SITUATION?
Say less. We got you. 🐝💥

Welcome to BuzzWords:
Where meltdowns meet mindfulness, and parents get the honey-dripped hacks to handle Hive life.

Car seat standoff?
Drama in pajamas. Every. Night.
You’re doing great. Your tiny bee’s just discovering their buzz power.

We share tools that work, tips that won’t make you roll your eyes, and mindset flips you can do mid-meltdown.
No fluff. Just the good stuff - with a side of honey.

One breath.
One vibe shift.
One less meltdown in aisle five.

06/22/2025

Hey Mama!

🖤 10 reminders for moms raising girls who don’t back down:

1. this world will try to label her difficult — don’t let your home be the first place that does.

2. if she challenges you, good. it means she’s learning that her voice matters.

3. every time you show up calm when she’s storming? you’re modeling power that doesn’t harm.

4. you don’t need to prove you’re the authority. you already are. lead with love, not ego.

5. obedience is not the goal — critical thinking, empathy, and confidence are.

6. when she slams doors and pushes buttons, she’s not broken — she’s processing.

7. don’t punish her for traits the world rewards in men.

8. protect her softness without policing her strength.

9. you’re not losing control — you’re building trust. that takes time.

10. she doesn’t need to fear you to respect you. she needs to feel you. and she will.

because you’re not just raising a daughter.
you’re raising a future woman who will know how to speak up, show up, and stand tall —
because she had a mother who didn’t try to make her small.