BIO
Dr. Sherie Hawkins is the founder of Hope Springs Mind, Body, Spirit, and she has been a Counselor in Georgia for 25 years. Sherie has a Ph.D. In Counselor Education and Supervision, she is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia, she is a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, a Certified EMDR Practitioner, a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, and a Nationally Certified Counselor. Hope Springs has locations in Monroe and Athens, Ga. Sherie specializes in trauma work and is passionate about working with clients using EMDR (www.emdria.org). Sherie had a vision and passion for serving clients using varied healing modalities that treat the mind, the body, and the spirit, and therefore has built a team of professionals who are licensed counselors, hypnotherapists, life coaches, massage therapists, naturopathic practitioners, and wellness professionals. They conduct therapy in office and in nature. Sherie is also a professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Adams State University in Colorado where she has served for 13 years, and she is an Associate Professor at Liberty university in Virginia. Sherie is a mom to two amazing young men and she enjoys spending her personal time with friends and family. She can often be found with them embracing nature and sharing love through laughter, food, and deep spontaneous conversation around a fire.
MY JOURNEY
I remember my first journal like it was yesterday. It was a little brown leather-like journal with a little silver lock and key. I was around 10 years old. I wrote about my days riding around my home property on my little blue go-cart driving to my play house where I pretended to be a successful, confident woman managing all the pieces of life with ease with my little Yorkie, Skippy, by my side every step of the way. I have journaled ever since that time period. I’ve journaled all about my loves, my losses, my fears, my dreams….and here I am today. That woman that I envisioned. Well….minus moments of managing life with “ease.” Life has many twists and turns, right? How we lean into those versus fight against them determines our ability to make meaning from our experiences. I am leaning in. Leaning in to my love of writing and expressing my emotions and “meaning-making” through words. Leaning into this next phase of life where I know that all of the experiences and energy that have been a part of my life prior to this time have converged to create space for magic.