Onsite Journal | Vol. 3 | 2023

ONSITE JOURNAL

STORIES OF GROWTH, TRANSFORMATION, AND RESILIENCE

HOW ARE WE REALLY?

90% of people in the U.S. agree we’re currently in a mental health crisis. But what do we do now? The Onsite team weighs in on our current emotional health landscape and offers us a glimpse into how we move forward.

PUT YOUR SUPERPOWER TO WORK

Traditionally emotions are something we have tried to keep out of the workplace, but the data is in, and EQ outpaces IQ 4 to 1. Learn to harness your superpower and bring Emotionally Smart Leadership into your work.

FIGHTING FAIR

Have you ever felt like you’re stuck on a merry-go-round trying to navigate conflict with your partner? You’re not alone. Discover four rules of engagement for healthy and connecting conflict.

LETTER FROM OUR EDITOR

MICKENZIE VOUGHT, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

If I could sit down across from you right now, I’d look you in the eyes and say, “How are you?” And when you inevitably answered— like most of us do when asked—“Good. Busy.” I’d take a beat and ask you again, “But how are you, really?”

If you were honest, the answer might be a mixed bag of good, bad, tired, ovewhelmed, happy, and just okay. Maybe you’d share experiences that are challenging you in this season or celebrate a recent success. Maybe like me, you’d begin to reflect on the last year.

I’ve spent many moments over the last year wondering when I’ll stop saying we’re in unprecedented times and simply embrace my present. Taken at face value, the last few years have been difficult for many of us. Statistics would tell us that levels of loneliness, anxiety, depression, and unrest are at an all time high.

But I don’t want to take it just at face value. What I’ve also seen over the last few years in myself, and in others, is an immense amount of resilience. Collectively we’re living through a global pandemic, navigating uncertainty, pain, and division, and overcoming personal loss and unimaginable grief. Many of us have dared to trade good for great and imagine a different life than the one we were living before March 2020. We’ve moved, had babies, changed jobs, and taken strides toward the life we want to be living. We’ve come face to face with injustice, and many of us have gotten curious about our role in the systems that prop up and perpetuate inequality around us.

As a society, we’ve been forced to face the fact that how we were living wasn’t working—and we’ve been invited to make a change or double-down.

On page 8, you’ll find an article from Amelia and Lizzy, who dive into the question I posed at the beginning: How are we, really? Together they explore how we are meeting the demands and ever-changing needs of what 9 out of 10 of us are calling a mental health crisis. In Amelia’s words, “Many people are reckoning with the trauma that the pandemic caused, which seems to give people permission to care for themselves in ways they never considered.”

In her article on page 20, “Fighting Fair,” therapist and Onsite guide Caroline Bravo lays out four rules of engagement for healthy conflict with your partner. Many of us think the presence of conflict in our relationships signifies unhealth, but this article explores how conflict can strengthen and deepen your partnership. As Caroline says, “What matters more is how we approach conflict, not how often it occurs. That’s why we need to learn to fight fair with our partner.”

On page 100, we have an article from Brendan McCarthy, a therapist and Onsite Guide, exploring the messages that help form kids into emotionally healthy adults. This article is a beautiful gift to all of us with an invitation to better (re)parent ourselves and show up for those around us. Brendan eloquently invites people to step into this process, “We get to step into the tough parts of our story. We get to stand in the gap and do the work that our parents didn’t know how to do. We get to walk out into the world and be the person we needed when we were younger, for ourselves and others.”

We hope this journal is just one small way that Onsite can help bolster your journey in 2023 and beyond. Here’s to creating an emotionally healthy world, starting with ourselves.

As we worked to compile this year’s Onsite Journal, we wanted to curate a resource that would meet you exactly where you are—in your pain, your growth, your exploration, and your discomfort.

What I’ve seen over the last few years in myself, and in others, is an immense amount of resilience.

LETTER FROM OUR PUBLISHER

MILES ADCOX, CHAIRMAN & PROPRIETOR

Onsite has been helping people create and sustain meaningful con nections with themselves and others for years. Planting, nurturing, and harvesting authentic relationships is in our DNA—it’s one of the primary things that gets us up in the morning excited and in spired to help meet the growing need for genuine, undistracted hu man-to-human interaction.

The world’s obsession with speed and automation continues to plow forward—and often at the cost of our relationships and what makes us all human. The pandemic, which brought many of our worlds to an unexpected halt before whiplashing us back into our hurried lives, is having a lingering impact that has produced alarming statis tics about our overall mental well-being.

These factors continue to create an overwhelming demand for what Onsite offers. Our mission has become even more urgent and nec essary as humanity faces rapid change and a wave of new challenges.

Our extensive experience in the psychology space has shown us that unexpected change in the absence of trust is a breeding ground for conflict. We also know that unaddressed conflict creates a high volume of stress. Statistics show that humanity is experiencing re cord levels of polarity, anxiety, depression, strained relationships, enhanced loneliness, and an overall sense of overwhelm. Historical and current adversities continue to limit record numbers of people from living fully into who they are and who they deserve to be.

Just as many of you have shared with us, the last two years have also created some unique challenges for our team and organization. A host of obstacles during and after the pandemic have, at times, stretched our capacity, pushed our limitations, stressed our systems, and challenged our culture. Thankfully, our team continues to utilize the tools we often share with others in navigating adversity. By col lectively embracing our vulnerability, empathy, and well-earned resil ience, the Onsite team continues to persevere with renewed energy and a deeper connection to our mission.

We also took this unique opportunity to realign on our values and clear the path toward prioritizing the same character, integrity, and quality that helped bring us to the trusted and special place we feel honored to represent as a brand. This process naturally unearthed some needed change and growth. We doubled down on our com mitment to our people, our culture, and to creating one of the safest and best work environments available. This heightened focus helped us work toward getting the right people at our table and in the right seat. We also determined the need to add new faces to our growing mission while helping some people transition out of our organiza tion, who we wish well in their next professional endeavors.

We recently refreshed our mission and vision to ensure they reflect the path we envision for the future we want to live into as individuals and an organization.

Building meaning and value back into the human experience is not only key to elevating communities, but we also believe it is a birth right. The pressure and pace of life has a unique way of taking us offcourse. Coming back to center is not about fixing something that’s broken inside of us; it’s about optimizing the life we’re already living.

Our team has grown and stretched. We’re a multi-site company now with operations for in-person experiences at both our Tennessee and California retreat spaces. We continue to make positive strides and gain traction in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts. I am so proud of our alumni, our teams, and all of you on the journey to living out a mission and vision of service. Together we can better humanity for the next generation.

The growing demand for our services has created a significant need to diversify how we deliver our supportive experiences. Our team has spent months optimizing and developing new digital offerings to meet people exactly where they are in their journeys and from the comfort of their own space.

We launched a new entertainment division to better serve this pop ulation of public-facing professionals and those who support them with whom we have a long history. With a devoted, strong, and ex perienced team in place, we will now offer a menu of concierge services to come alongside and meet the unique needs of the music, film, television, sports, literary, and pastoral communities.

organizations that are anchored to their wellness. We believe people become better leaders by becoming better humans.

As we all begin to reimagine life in a new world, we cannot neglect what we reveal about ourselves, our relationships, and the state of our world.

I hope the last few years have prompted you to take a step toward reconnecting to your own humanity and have encouraged you to pursue emotional wellness in your everyday. This publication is an extension of the Onsite mission and vision—and an invitation to optimize the life you’re already living and build meaning back into your experience.

With that in mind, I’d like to leave you with four prompts to help you explore what means the most to you:

What are my top three priorities? Do my days reflect these priorities?

• Who are the most important people to me? On a scale of 1-10, how connected do I feel to myself and them today?

If failure wasn’t an option, what would I do with my time?

• How can I infuse more of that into my current schedule?

Onsite’s Vision Statement

An emotionally well world…humanity reconnected

Onsite’s Mission Statement

Design and deliver transformational experiences that optimize life and build meaning and value into the human experience.

I’ve never felt more energy or optimism about where we’re going as an organization. I believe we’ve spent the last decade-plus discover ing the recipe to effectively help people reconnect with themselves and find the hope and healing we all deserve. When we authentical ly reconnect with ourselves, we can create impactful and compas sionate connections with others. We believe and have seen how this recipe has the power to reconnect our world, one person and one community at a time.

After years of observing what we believe current leadership mod els are missing, we’ve formalized our leadership offerings, expand ing into digital and in-person offerings with Emotionally Smart Leadership. As the inherent stresses of the last few years have in filtrated every area of our lives, individuals are craving leaders and

Emotional and mental wellness is not just something we need; it’s something we all deserve.

Onsite Veterans Weigh In on Our Current Emotional Health Landscape

AMELIA BALDWIN serves as a Business Development Director. In her role she helps individuals, families, and professionals identify the next right step in their healing journey, whether that is at one of our programs or another facility. Amelia’s broad exposure and various roles at Onsite over her 13 years of tenure have provided her with a strong perspective and understanding of the holistic client experience.

LIZZY MCGLOTHLIN serves as the Operations Director for Onsite’s Entertainment Division. She has worked in the behavioral health field for over 14 years in various administrative and leadership roles. Lizzy’s familiarity working with and understanding the unique challenges faced by those in the spotlight, her vast institutional knowledge, and her expertise in both business development and programming make her a natural fit to scale Onsite’s new offerings to meet the needs of those with public-facing professions.

Did you know that 1 in 5 U.S. adults report experiencing mental illness yearly?

(National Association of Mental Illness)

Despite the number of us who are impacted, mental health and emotional wellness have historically been taboo subjects. The thing we hid from the people closest to us and handled in the quiet of a private office. In the last couple of years, conversations around mental health have been happening at our dinner tables. Our newsfeeds are full of people discussing burnout, anxiety and depression, and self-care. And therapy sessions have begun taking place virtually from any room in our house.

Onsite Editorial Director Mickenzie Vought sat down with two longtime Onsite team members, Business Development Director Amelia Baldwin and Operations Director of Onsite Entertainment Lizzy McGlothlin, to talk about the state of mental health. Amelia and Lizzy help connect individuals, families, and couples to the next step in their healing journey, whether at one of our programs or another facility. They are on the front lines of facing what 9 out of 10 Americans call a “Mental Health Crisis” (CNN/The Kaiser Family Foundation).

MICKENZIE VOUGHT: What are the most prevalent posi tive and negative mental health trends you’ve seen over the last couple of years?

LIZZY MCGLOTHLIN I love that we’re seeing a normaliza tion of taking care of our mental health. It’s everywhere we look these days.

We’re seeing an increase in both the inquiries about Onsite’s pro grams and the severity and level of needs from the individuals seek ing help.

AMELIA BALDWIN : Many people are reckoning with the trau ma that the pandemic caused, which seems to give people permis sion to care for themselves in ways they never considered.

MV: Can you speak to the increased and unique needs you are seeing in those seeking help?

AB: There’s no denying that stress and anxiety are at an all-time high for many of us.

The isolation and loneliness of the pandemic have brought to light anxiety and depression that seemed to be just under the surface for some folks. The busyness of our lives allowed many of us to disregard the pain and hurt of our past traumas. When the distraction of work was taken away during the pandemic, people became more aware of their pain and feelings. I’ve noticed this brings on a “flooding” of sorts that drives people to feel the need for immediate and urgent help.

MV: What shifts have we seen around people discussing and prioritizing their mental health?

LM: We’re not only talking about mental health more but also tak ing action to improve our mental health. We’re collectively seeing a recognition, destigmatization, and prioritization of mental health.

One of the most significant shifts we see on a macro level is that businesses and organizations are investing in supporting their employees with mental health needs.

Leaders are funding therapy for their staff company-wide, organiza tions are investing in Employee Assistance Programs and paying for staff to do therapeutic experiences, and the pause of the pandemic has taught people to slow down and implement balance.

MV: What trends have you seen regarding how people cope with stress?

organizations, and clinicians utilizing telehealth, we’ve seen an in crease in demand. As a result, there are more apps and offerings, and the overall quality of the experience has improved. Necessity spurred innovation.

From an organizational standpoint, in 2020, Onsite very quickly saw the need (as did most companies) to offer online services. So, out of necessity and with a fair amount of skepticism, we pivoted some inperson experiences online. We feared that the power of experiential therapy wouldn’t be as effective over a screen. This was a fear of a lot of mental health professionals. But instead, we found that the work translated over digital, opening up our opportunities to serve more people, meet them where they are, and even expand our offerings into the digital space with courses and emotional health master classes.

MV: What are you hearing from therapists, treatment centers, and other mental health professionals regarding the trends we’ve seen?

AB: Mental health professionals are VERY busy right now. Find ing clinicians with space in their practice to take on new clients is difficult. The demand has increased for various reasons, as we’ve discussed. There is a shortage of therapists for the growing needs of the population.

in the number of couples contemplating divorce in the early days of the pandemic compared to 2019. Unfortunately, we’re also seeing the number of therapists willing to work with couples declining as the level of care needed increases.

MV: What do you wish more people knew about emotional and mental health?

LM: I wish people knew that taking care of your mental health improves your overall quality of life. I think a common fear people have about addressing past traumas and stepping into a therapeutic experience is that they will fall apart, and it will cause a strain or significant disruption to life. Although there is a level of reconstruction with mental health, the increased awareness of your emotions and releasing of past hurts frees us up to fully enjoy life and relationships. It is a journey, not a destination, but the journey is well worth it!

If you are a mental health professional, our Business Development team would love to connect to discuss how our breadth of offerings can serve your clients and meet them where they are. If you are personally struggling or looking to take the next step in your emotional and mental health journey, our Admissions team would love to connect with you for a confidential call at 1-800-341-7432, or you can email them at admissions@onsiteworkshops.com

AB: The last few years have heightened and exasperated the un healthy ways we cope with the stress in our lives.

At Onsite, we often call these behaviors medicators defining them as any external thing we use to turn down internal noise, discomfort, or stress within us. We all have ways we medicate, some healthy and some unhealthy. Unfortunately, it feels like many of the healthier ways we once dealt with stress were either taken away from us or no longer served the purpose they once did in taking the edge of our ever-increasing stress.

We’ve seen an increase in and normalization of drug and alcohol use and abuse, in addition to process addictions like gambling and pornography.

MV: What role has technology played in accessing and utiliz ing mental health services?

LM: Telehealth was a game-changer for many of us over the last few years, and I don’t see it going away. With so many individuals,

Additionally, many therapists had a dual process with their clients —experiencing the trauma of the pandemic while helping clients navigate their new realities, anxiety, and the effects of isolation. This dual process took a toll on mental health experts, with severe burnout prevalent among these providers.

MV: How were couples impacted by the last two years?

AB: The pandemic had a significant effect on couples. We’ve been discussing all the things it brought to light on an individual level, but that was exasperated for those in close quarters with partners, facing unprecedented stress and decisions and a complete disruption of family and relationship rhythms. Their forced co-existence has high lighted their differences and brought up insecurities that once were unnoticed. For this reason, couples tend to find more fault in their partners, which often stems from the need to avoid their feelings of loneliness and pain.

LM: We continue to see a considerable uptick in the request for couples’ work as people navigate the tension and differences that were agitated over the last few years. According to data collected from a U.S. legal contract-creation website, there was a 34% increase

LAUREL POWELL ONSITE CLINICAL MANAGER

Anxious Avoidant SECURE Disorganized

How to Stop Repeating Unhealthy Patterns and Start Forming the Relationships You Deserve

We all want healthy relationships. We want our interactions with our partners, children, coworkers, family members, and friends to feel safe and supported. However, without even realizing it, we may be sabotaging the health of the relationships we value the most.

You have a friend who feels like she doesn’t have the support she desires but is afraid people won’t come through for her. So instead, she refuses to ask for or accept help, assuring everyone she can do it on her own, and then feels resentful when no one shows up.

Early in our childhood, we develop something called an attach ment style. Simply put, your expectations of what love should be like were defined by your relationship with your caregivers. Your un derstanding of yourself and how you relate to others today depend on how your physical and emotional needs were met at that time.

Without recognizing our attachment styles, we tend to recreate the relationship patterns we fear the most.

Let me explain.

You’re afraid your boss will find you incompetent. So instead of feeling confident in your work, you find yourself seeking constant reassurance from your boss that everything is fine and you’re doing a good job, perpetuating an unhealthy, cyclical dynamic.

Your partner wants to connect with you but is afraid that their needs might be too much or that you might leave. So instead of reaching out when they’re stressed, they retreat, and you pull away trying to give them space.

These impulses are all reflective of attachment styles. They speak to the strategies we learned at an early age to find and sustain safety and connection. While they worked for us as children, they may now be negatively impacting our relationships as an adult.

FOUR STYLES OF ATTACHMENT

There are four attachment styles: Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, and Disorganized. We must first recognize where we are so that we can heal and move toward health.

RELATIONSHIP Secure ATTACHMENT

Partner Employee Friend

Comfortable expressing needs

Feels safe, stable, and satisfied with their partner

Can pursue personal interests and hobbies outside the relationship

Anxious ATTACHMENT Avoidant ATTACHMENT Disorganized ATTACHMENT

Can act clingy and seek reassurance

Struggles to trust partner

Labels themselves as independent

Pushes people away before they have the chance to be rejected

Has no consistent or clear ways of engaging with others

Displays push and pull dynamics

Parent Child

Addresses issues quickly Believes they are competent and confident

Doesn’t fear setting boundaries when necessary

Has deep fear of being abandoned or forgotten Struggles with personal and interpersonal relationships in the workplace

High levels of insecurity, worry, and self-doubt

Constantly seek approval from those they work with

Acts as though they need no one

Often have a negative opinion of the people in their work environment

Have a natural distrust toward others

Wants to be connected but fears the relationship

Displays a combination of anxious and avoidant characteristics

Inconsistent and erratic in a working environment

Experiences both anxiety and high avoidance

Recognize their value and the value of their friends

Are capable of addressing conflict as it arises

Needs regular reassurance that their friends are not angry and will not leave them

They are easily threatened when a friend develops a new relationship

Find it difficult to tolerate close friendships

Uncomfortable with the vulnerability required to form lasting connections

Meet the needs of their children consistently and in a timely manner

Provide opportunities for children to exercise autonomy

Are not attuned to the needs of their child

Often inconsistent in meeting needs

Look to their kids to meet their emotional needs instead of vice versa

Doesn’t show care beyond meeting the essential needs such as food and shelter

Have trouble responding to child on emotional level

Displays a combination of anxious and avoidant characteristics

Sometimes really attentive, and sometimes very removed in relationship

Experiences both anxiety and high avoidance

Consistent failure to meet the needs of the child and inconsistent responses to the child’s needs

Often have unprocessed trauma in their past, and many experienced some sort of abuse in their childhood home

Feel safe and protected Know they have someone to rely on

Presence of the caregiver is a comfort to them

Exhibit low self-esteem

Have a high fear of rejection/abandonment

Clings to others

Disregards their own needs in an effort to feel safe and at peace

Develops an inability to connect with own emotions and desires

Poor emotional regulation Seeks extreme closeness or extreme distance with caregivers Often anxious about others’ intentions and exhibits low self-esteem

“Without recognizing our attachment styles, we tend to recreate the relationship patterns we fear the most.”

Seeking healthy attachment is essential to forming authentic connections without fear of healthy boundaries or abandonment. On the previous page is a chart with a quick overview of how different attachments can show up in the various relationships we exist within.

Thankfully, you do not have to remain in unhealthy cycles. Your attachment style isn’t set in stone.

Secure attachment can be achieved regardless of the attach ment style you developed as a child.

HOW DO I MOVE TOWARD SECURE ATTACHMENT?

There are many ways to start healing. The first step in pursuing health in almost any area is to get curious. If you want to better understand how your attachment style is affecting you, get curious about your patterns in relationships. Ask yourself a few hard questions about your caregivers:

Were they present, neglectful, or inconsistent?

Who could you go to when there was a problem?

How do I operate in relationships today?

What do I believe about relationships based on my earliest experiences?

These questions are not about blaming our caregivers, but rather naming the patterns we lived and messages we inherited about relationships so that we can work to find health.

However you sought connection in your earliest years makes sense. There is no wrong way to attach; we are incredibly adaptive at getting our needs met.

If patterns that aren’t serving you well are present, meet those with compassion and recognition that growth can occur. With work, our attachment styles can become steady and secure, and we can have healthy, life-giving relationships.

6 STEPS TOWARD HEALTHY ATTACHMENT

Begin to Experience Learned Secure Attachment

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Desire a New Path Forward

The first step toward healing is wanting to change. Changing the way we relate to others takes effort, and we have to be willing to put in the work required to create those new pathways.

Look Back Objectively for Patterns

It can be scary to take an honest look at your relationships both past and present. But when you do, you will likely be able to see patterns in the ways you relate to others. Do not judge these patterns; simply become aware of them. Remember everything makes sense in context.

As you reprogram your beliefs, find support, and practice these new ideas, you will begin to experience healthier relationships. Taking the steps to uncover and heal your attachment style protects the relationships that you care about the most and helps you relate to those around you in secure, supported ways.

You deserve to have good relationships. The best gift you can give yourself and the people around you is a healthy and fulfilled you. Regardless of the ideas you learned as a child, secure attachment is within reach, and it starts with a simple desire for more and a vulnerability to risk to find healing.

LAUREL POWELL oversees the team responsible for coming alongside clients during their application process to ensure they are con nected to the right Onsite program that will help them meet their personal and clinical goals. With over 10 years of mental health ex perience, primarily working with children and families, Laurel brings an incredible level of clinical expertise to her role as Clinical Coor dinator.

Prior to coming to Onsite, Laurel provided a variety of interventions and modalities for families to improve bonding and facilitate secure attachment within the parent/child relationship.

Onsite offers multiple experiences that support you in exploration of negative relationship patterns. Healthy Love and Relationships (page 38) is a group experiential workshop that addresses how attachment and pain in your past can affect how you show up in relationships. The Living Centered Program is a group experiential workshop that helps you come back into alignment with your true self and formulate a plan to improve your relationships so that you can live the life you desire (page 32).

Identify False Beliefs and Replace Them with Truth

When we grow up in unhealthy environments, we don’t always know what healthy relationships look like. Consider inviting in a therapist or a safe person to help you wade through the false beliefs you may be carrying about relationships. Consider questioning their validity and dare to replace them with healthy beliefs. For example “I cannot trust anyone,” might become “I can trust others. I have an avoidant attachment style that I can heal, making it easier for me to trust.”

Seek Out Support

At Onsite we often say we’re wounded in community, therefore we heal in community. Give yourself the permission to connect with the support and tools you need to heal. That might include a combination of books, workshops, supportive community, therapy or 12-step groups.

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Take Risks and Be Vulnerable in Safe Community

Healthy attachment isn’t going to happen overnight. It takes reps and practice in the context of safe community. Put your new healthy beliefs and attachments into practice. There are many ways to do this, such as allowing yourself to play around others, expressing your needs instead of being self-sufficient, and being willing to remain present with emotions even when others may feel differently. Small risks go a long way to rebuilding trust in yourself and others.

Perfectly Imperfect

Bakari’s Story

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sion to acknowledge what’s going on inside of us. I was given full permission to feel and express every emotion, even my anger and my sadness. I used to jokingly say that if I held in any more tears, I might mildew inside—nobody deserves to mildew inside.

Onsite taught me that suppressing my emo tions wasn’t healthy. I learned that every emotion has a place and that I could use all my understanding to give each one a healthy outlet.

Sometimes I still struggle with holding things in, but that’s okay. I’m learning that healing and growth are a process. I know that it’s okay to mess up. Although I teach that to my kids, I struggled to apply that to my own life. Now I can give myself grace, too!

Before attending Onsite, I was really strug gling. I lost sight of who I was and didn’t even feel worthy of being here anymore. After sharing with some friends how I was questioning my purpose, they paved the way for me to come to Onsite for the Liv ing Centered Program. They were worried I would be mad at them for intervening, but they cared enough about me to get me the help I needed.

I had no idea what to expect. I just knew I didn’t want to feel this way anymore. I knew there had to be a way out of the muck I felt stuck in. I needed help, a guide to show me the way forward.

I first went through the Living Centered Program and experienced a week where I could be open and present. One of the first and most impactful things I learned was that it was okay to feel everything. In the “outside world,” we don’t often get permis

I returned a few weeks later to take my healing to a deeper level by attending the Healing Trauma Program. After both these programs, I felt more equipped to stay grounded and true to myself. I learned how to show up in my life and set healthy boundaries. I learned to express my inside world and let people know what was hap pening with me.

Onsite showed me the way forward. I now know I matter, I am worthy, and I am still growing in that knowledge today.

I have learned that I am perfectly imperfect, and that’s totally fine. Sometimes you buy something that has a flaw or an imperfec tion, and that feature makes it even more special to you. I think that’s what I am for the people around me and for the world.

I know some people feel like they are not ready for this work. They might be scared. I was scared too. Doing this work is like opening a door when you don’t know what’s on the other side. But you don’t have to go alone. You can have somebody go through that dark, scary place with you, supporting you. That’s what Onsite is. You’re not doing this by yourself. They’re guiding you every step of the way.

I will always be grateful for the angels who connected me with Onsite and for the work

I was able to do at Onsite. I can’t say that enough. I only hope that one day I can be somebody else’s angel.

Onsite’s Living Centered Program (page 32) and Healing Trauma Program (page 36) have supported thousands of people like Bakari, helping them reconnect with themselves and find hope and healing.