Holding Hope Counseling

12/23/2025

WINNER of the YOGA GIVEAWAY is Samantha Mercedez Beshears!! YAY! I'm so excited for you. Your contemplative spirit will enjoy this. Message me for your gift certificate!

💚❤️🎄This past Fall I was approaching burn out fast, and I needed something to help me slow down and nurture my mind and body. I couldn’t muster up the discipline of mindfulness and movement on my own this season so I decided to try yoga classes at Yoga7. It immediately helped me bring awareness back to my body and boosted my mood and focus. Yoga brought me back to myself. Every session I walk away lighter and peaceful.

So as a gift to you, I’m giving away a FREE month of yoga at Yoga7 in Batesville, AR.
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Bonus Entry: Reshare to your feed and/or tag a friend

Winner will be announced Dec.10th!

12/02/2025

💚❤️🎄This past Fall I was approaching burn out fast, and I needed something to help me slow down and nurture my mind and body. I couldn’t muster up the discipline of mindfulness and movement on my own this season so I decided to try yoga classes at Yoga7. It immediately helped me bring awareness back to my body and boosted my mood and focus. Yoga brought me back to myself. Every session I walk away lighter and peaceful.

So as a gift to you, I’m giving away a FREE month of yoga at Yoga7 in Batesville, AR.
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HOW TO ENTER:

Mandatory Entry: Follow *Holding Hope Counseling and *Yoga7 and like the post.

Bonus Entry: Reshare to your feed and/or tag a friend

Winner will be announced Dec.10th!

12/02/2025

💚❤️🎄This past Fall I was approaching burn out fast, and I needed something to help me slow down and nurture my mind and body. I couldn't muster up the discipline of mindfulness and movement on my own this season so I decided to try yoga classes at Yoga7. It immediately helped me bring awareness back to my body and boosted my mood and focus. Yoga brought me back to myself. Every session I walk away lighter and peaceful.

So as a gift to you, I'm giving away a FREE month of yoga at Yoga7 in Batesville, AR.
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HOW TO ENTER:

Mandatory Entry: Follow *Holding Hope Counseling and *Yoga7 and like the post.

Bonus Entry: Reshare to your feed and/or tag a friend

Winner will be announced Dec.10th!

06/21/2025

Safe connections start at home. 🏡💻
Whether it’s gaming, social media, or texting, your kids need you in their corner. Open up the conversation—ask questions, share values, and explore the digital world together.
Because connection is strongest when it’s safe and honest. 💙

06/09/2025

🔒 Protecting teens starts with awareness.
Image-based sexual abuse isn’t just a “teen drama” — it’s a serious violation of trust and consent.

👀 Talk to your teens about:
✅ Digital boundaries
✅ What consent really means online
✅ How to speak up if something feels wrong

💬 Open conversations = real prevention.



Children's Advocacy Center of Independence County

05/27/2025

Hi everyone! I’m honored to serve as one of the mental health therapists at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Batesville, AR. I’ve been with the CAC since August 2024, and it has quickly become one of the most meaningful parts of my career. I also operate my local private practice, Holding Hope, where I specialize in marriage and family.

Our center exists to provide a safe, supportive space for children who have experienced abuse or trauma—we work to ensure they are heard, protected, and given the tools to heal. I feel incredibly grateful to be part of a team that is so dedicated about walking alongside these children and their families with compassion and care. 💙

06/24/2024

I still occasionally show up to my own therapist, my friends, google, or Instagram with my heart and expectations pleading, “Help! I need a cure!” I’m wanting them to help me eliminate the disease, the problem. I think only if I could just remove this problem then I’ll be all better.

I have seen it, too, in a clients’ eyes, “Cure me, please.” And listen sometimes, we pinpoint something so specific it “cures” the problem…until it comes back.

Curing comes from an external intervention, an outside-in, but healing, that is from the inside out.

Healing is becoming whole and involves the body, the mind, and the soul. It is a process. It is not cause and effect. It is niot linear. It is circular and all encompassing. It is not black and white, it is grey. It is the becoming of.

Curing is eliminating, but Healing is embracing.

Both are necessary, but today in my inpatient, weary bones, one feels a whole lot easier for me to sign up for.

06/19/2024

What do you think? Can these responses lead to rupture? (Rupture being disconnection)

⭐️Like, comment and share! I appreciate your support in this crazy, media world. ⭐️

05/12/2024

05/10/2024

How do you approach repair?
Relational repair takes self reflection. It’s a process of setting aside m your ego and your position. As a culture we tend to approach people with the motivation to be right, to not lose. We engage to be heard, not to understand.
When we are convinced we are right and we care a whole lot about being right, there is little room to connect and understand with the other. This affects all relationships: your partner, your parent, your child, your neighbor.
So when it’s time to address the rupture (the break in connection), check your motivations. Are you seeking to understand, connect, and own your part or are you looking to defend, protect, and win.

01/20/2024

Return to that from which we’ve been hiding.

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01/18/2024

For as long as I can remember, ever so often, a random feeling of humiliation would hit me and then a flood of connected memories rush in. My face turns hot, and I want to hide. So, naturally, in order to avoid this discomfort, I would quickly throw that thought away. I would distract myself with tv or I would try to pray it away. It helped me get out of that moment, but the problem is, I never returned to the feeling to see what all that was about. No way—I was afraid of that feeling.

And overtime I developed a pattern of dodging that feeling at all cost.

I have a different relationship with that feeling now. Now when I become aware of that feeling, I welcome it and say, “there you are old friend.” And I nurture it like I would my child. “Are you feeling afraid? I assure you, you are safe. What do you need in order to feel safe right now?”

You do not have to be afraid of your emotions, Step by step, return to that from which you’ve been hiding.
-Jacklyn

One of my favorite modules in the Resilience course is over emotional processing. I’m so excited for it to start next week. Not too late to join!