Meet Karen & Meg
We are excited to meet you and together become our own best self-care connoisseurs!
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The Caregivers Connection MasterMind Support Group
Caregivers Connection MasterMind is designed to reimagine and experience caregiving and leadership from a place of vitality, balance, and joy.
Whether you care for and guide our children and youth as a parent or educator, or your work with adults as a nurse, aid, therapist, or other role, you are a caregiver AND a leader. You have experiences that are important for others to hear and value. At the same time, you may have given up on receiving the care, support, and well-being that YOU need.
This is the norm for most of us that lead in caregiving roles. We are too exhausted to do something extra for ourselves and when we do, we can be confused about what we really want to do. This is especially true for caregivers who are going through a divorce or who are already single. Living on our own while leading and caring for others can be very lonely and draining. In addition, our schools and societal norms place self-care last and can even make it feel selfish.
Well, its time to be a part of a group that are breaking through similar things, where you can build relationships and support. No matter if our group is composed of 10 or 100 individuals, you will discover information and practices that have the potential to transform your burnout or your lack of valuing your own self-care, to a life of more balance, joy, energy and fulfillment. As you commit to your transformation, this MasterMind of leaders will be here to support you in beginning to get unstuck.
We also know that the words Self-Care and Wellness have been thrown around with promotions of products we "should-take" or practices we "should-do". As a result, many of us don't know what to believe or practice for ourselves. However, there are evidence-based self-coaching skills that have been time-tested in the "real world" that give a blue-print for higher levels of self-care and well-being through self-love and our connection to our Higher Selves.
This entails understanding our early developmental disempowering patterns (trauma) as children that can contribute to our lack of understanding about how to truly give ourselves what we need to feel good in all situations we are confronted with.
Our Quantum Connection Self-Coaching Blueprint give you the ability to move through these disempowering patterns and emotional wounds (emotional triggers) and build a life of leadership and caring that is in service to yourself first which catapults high levels of support for others.
You will begin to learn these proven emotional intelligence strategies during our times together as well as get to talk to others and build relationships about what's happening in your life!
With the long history of education experience, research, and trauma-based professional coaching, Dr. Meg Hanshaw is excited to hold the space for our MasterMind Group of leaders and caregivers! She will share these self-coaching practices that build emotional intelligence with you in the flow of our connections.
In addition, Karen Amestoy, with her 30 years of caregiving, is a beautiful example of in-real-time vulnerability and courage as she openly shares what she is breaking through as a true MasterMind. She has experienced and navigated through extreme challenges with her clients and is learning what she needs to take aligned action towards her highest levels of self-love and self-care as she continues to lead and serve.
No one can tell you how to DO your well-being journey. You must learn what your body, mind, and spirit need and go from there! But we are here to see, hear, and value you and provide a way to enhance your self-care, self-love, and self-worth. We all need that in these days and times!
We both look forward to meeting you!
Join us to unlock your new level of self-care success.
After quitting her college basketball team, Meg was driven to find out why she had shifted from passion, joy, and vitality, to burnout, fear, and sickness. She was determined to discover what made young people (herself included) have the best chance of reaching their full potential in life.
She spent thirty years researching, piloting and benchmarking positive youth development and well-being practices and programs with her basketball players and physical education and health students. She then became a credentialed, trauma-informed transformational Life, Wellness and Health Coach while she carried out her duties as a Wellness Director at a semi-large non-profit medical campus.
In 2010, she founded a a nonprofit, ibmee.org, (I Be Me) to train and coach educators who work in our school systems to break through their epidemics of burn-out, depression, and toxic stress without quitting their jobs. Her first ever program trains educators to become certified Empowerment Coaches in the classroom. She has now been training and coaching educators, parents, couples, and other caregivers for over 15 years using her research-based, trauma-informed, transformational program called the
Empowerment Education® System of W.E.L.L.-Being.
She is now offering her program in a series for caregivers who work with adults.
Karen has faced life's adversities with unwavering resilience and compassion. From a young age, Karen experienced loss and illness, with the early loss of her beloved dog and kittens, and family members falling ill. These early experiences shaped her into a compassionate caregiver and a strong pillar for her family.
During her married years, she became the sole provider after her ex-husband suffered a catastrophic traumatic brain injury followed by a heart attack. Her caregiving role expanded as she supported her mother through her father's palliative care journey and subsequent medical challenges, including brain tumor removal and hip replacement.
Karen's dedication extends to her daughter, who faced a traumatic brain injury in her developmental years, leading to addiction issues due to years of medical neglect. She has worked on secured floors with individuals dealing with dementia and traumatic brain injuries, provided behavioral support, assisted a quadriplegic, and supported elders with daily living activities. Now she is working with adults with behavioral issues, such as zedx syndrome.
Although, life brought Karen situations that catapulted her into being a highly skilled caregiver, she didn't have the awareness of how to keep herself from burning out. So after her physical, mental, and emotional health fizzled, she has since then, been bringing herself back as her own self-care connoisseur. She is passionate about inspiring caregivers to put themselves first and have fun. Karen's life, thus far, is a testament to her strength, empathy, and commitment to supporting other.