Please tell me that when you were a kid you played the game “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board”...at least once. (☝️these ladies look like they have, right?!)

 

It goes something like this:

...one kid at the sleepover (usually an Enneagram 3 or 4, if we’re honest) takes the metaphorical microphone 🎤 and spins a tale about levitation

…they ask for a volunteer and invariably someone excitedly lies down

...the rest of the group - now behaving like a tiny coven 🧙🧙🧙 - encircles the brave volunteer and crouches down to the ground, all of them placing two fingers of each hand underneath the volunteer’s body

...next comes the crucial ingredient…the chant: “Light as a feather. Stiff as a board. Light as a feather. Stiff as a board.”

...and by ✨magic✨ the volunteer rises right into the air!

 

(Okay, usually everyone falls into a fit of laughter before they can actually prove or disprove the magic 🪄 …but for the sake of my analogy, stick with me, okay?)

 

The magic of this little game *may not* be the power of levitation, BUT it does in fact reveal actual magic…the power of collective effort.

 

If one girl tries to lift her friend all by herself…sure she could probably do it, but she would have to exert SO 👏 MUCH 👏 ENERGY 👏

 

…but together? Together is where the real magic happens. When we all circle up, we can each give just a tad and all of the sudden, what would’ve been heavy on our own is suddenly light as a feather 🪶.

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Okay - as if I haven’t referenced magic enough - now let’s time travel from 4th grade sleepovers to grad school clinical training.

 

Your grown-up coven (of good witches, duh 💁) are your grad school BFFs and your supervisors.  From the staff break room to the classroom to the supervision room, you find yourself steeped in situations where someone is nearby offering, “Hey, you don’t have to do this alone. Let’s make it light as a feather.”

 

Then 💥SMACK💥 you hit the real world - especially if you venture into private practice. 

 

At first there’s so much to focus on ✍️…setting up an LLC, securing insurance, crafting a website, making a PsychToday profile, getting business cards printed (people still do this, right?), etc. etc. etc. Then once most of the initial setup is done, you get to settle into a groove…AHH. Finally. (right?!)

 

However, while a groove is stable it can easily become stagnant. You find yourself a year, five years, ten years, heck maybe even thirty years into practice realizing, “I’ve been doing this all alone.”

 

Okay, pop quiz: What happens when we work alone? (I’ll give you a moment to peek back at your notes. 📓) Ding, ding, ding! You’re correct ✅: THINGS GET AWFULLY HEAVY. 😓

 

Then what happens when you do awfully heavy work - day after day after day? Yep, you got it again! You burn out. 🥵

 

Here’s the good news! It doesn’t have to be this way!

 

The solution is in the REAL MAGIC - not of making things float but of making things light.

 

Community is the antidote, and that's why I built The Harbor.

 

So in The Harbor Collective, what exactly are we making light?

 

HEAVY on your own: not having a way to proactively, regularly staff cases ➡️ LIGHT together: monthly group case consultation

 

HEAVY on your own: administrative bog down ➡️ LIGHT together: weekly virtual co-working sessions (Can we say helllllloooo to being on top of session notes?!)

 

HEAVY on your own: leaving CEUs to the last minute ➡️ LIGHT together: monthly CEU offering (that’ll be fresh, engaging, and relevant!)

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Right now, we're running the Founding Members Launch for a limited number of participants. It will be the true inner circle.

 

As a Founding Member:

 

• you'll lock in a rate of $49/month for the life of your membership. For what is likely *less than half* of a single client session, you'll receive all of the benefits of The Collective.

• you'll have lots of opportunity to provide feedback which will shape The Harbor and The Collective as it grows. Your voice will matter here, big time.

• you'll experience the most personal Elizabeth:Member ratio that there will ever be! Easy, regular, direct access!

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We're all waiting for you, just on the other side of that button.