May 11 -14 2023

Comparison is all about conformity and competition. It’s easy to see how difficult it is to make time for the important things such as creativity, gratitude, joy, and authenticity when spending enormous amounts of energy conforming and competing. Creativity, the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. - Brené Brown

May 2 -5 2024

Comparison is all about conformity and competition. It’s easy to see how difficult it is to make time for the important things such as creativity, gratitude, joy, and authenticity when spending enormous amounts of energy conforming and competing. Creativity, the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. - Brené Brown

Beauty for Ashes Counseling is turning ten! Come celebrate with us! We will be having an open house September 13th, 2024 from 5-9.

Friday May 17, 2023, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Are you ready for an audit?

Based on the research of Cheryl Lynn Childers this workshop will discuss how to best set your practice up to pass an insurance billing and documentation audit based on Commercial insurance, Medicaid Guidelines for best practices, past commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid audits. You will leave this workshop armed with a vast collection of information to help prepare your practice to pass a billing/documentation audit. - Spaces are limited

This interactive Q & A is designed to equip LPCs, LISWs, and LMFTs with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of Medicare enrollment, make informed decisions about opting in or out, and stay updated on compliance requirements.

COMING 2024

December 8, 2023 12:30pm - 3:30pm

Being creative is not about what we do or produce—it's about who we are and how we got here. It's a sharing of our soul. If that isn't frightening or messy, I don't know what is—Except for trauma work-Now that's frightening and messy. Both take a great deal of vulnerability and a whole lot of courage.

Join art therapist Cheryl Childers in this interactive, experiential workshop exploring the relationship between Cultivating Creativity and healing from complex trauma.

Gather your fear and your courage, and together we will get messy learning ways of cultivating Creativity through an art experience that will promote internal and external self-expression, self-awareness, and self-compassion.

Art supplies are to be provided, but feel free to bring your own!

Location to be announced soon. Spaces are limited!

Sept 29-30, 2023

Are you ready to rumble?

This experiential weekend workshop based on Brené Brown’s research will give you the tools and strategies you need to embrace vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. Join Certified Daring Way Facilitator Cheryl Childers, LISW-CP, CDWF for this intensive Rising Strong Weekend Intensive beginning Friday Sept 29, 2023 - Saturday Sept 30, 2023 - Spaces are limited

What sets your soul on fire?

Put action to your passions - Set your intentions for 2023

Creating a vision board is probably one of the most valuable visualization tools available to you. This powerful tool serves as your image of the future - a tangible representation of where you are going. It represents your dreams, your goals, and your ideal life.

December 29, 2022

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Supplies provided.

This Pregnancy, Infant & Child Loss Support Group hopes to provide you with camaraderie, understanding and grief education from others who have experienced a similar loss, and are experiencing the similar challenges that living with the loss of a Pregnancy, Infant & Child brings.

Do you have a chronic illness you are having trouble managing? Do others not understand when you say you are not feeling well – “but you look fine!”? Do you have trouble balancing the “I’m fines” with the truth that you are not fine? Does it make you depressed? Anxious?

Want to learn a different way to cope?

Join Cheryl Childers, MSW, LISW-CPS, ATR-BC, Mondays from 10am-12pm.

Grief support groups also can provide you with camaraderie, understanding and grief education from others who have experienced a similar loss, and are experiencing the similar challenges that living with the loss of a loved one brings.

You may think of your period as an annoyance but can you imagine not having pads/tampons every month? Did you know that feminine hygiene products are the least donated products to homeless shelters? Did you know that many girls in our schools do not have access to these necessities? For many the implications of living without these necessary supplies are serious… it’s the difference between attending school or work, between peace of mind and humiliation or between infection and health.

ABOUT RISING STRONG™

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.

If we are courageous, if we put ourselves out there to live a wholehearted life, it is inevitable that we will fall. The Rising Strong™ process is about learning how to rise back up after those falls.

This is a private and confidential group that can help women cope with their emotions surrounding their childhood sexual abuse trauma. These emotions may include, but are not limited to anxiety, sadness, anger, shame and guilt.

Some objectives are to:

• Help participants share their experience

• Help participants recognize that they are not alone & understand the current impact of this experience on their lives

• Help participants begin to process feelings and beliefs associated with the trauma.

• Increased grounding and coping strategies

• Increased feelings of safety

• Education, discussions and normalization of common symptoms experienced by CSA survivors

• Decreased avoidance of emotions and memories related to the abuse

• Increased feelings of hope.

What sets your soul on fire?

Put action to your passions - Set your intentions for 2021

Creating a vision board is probably one of the most valuable visualization tools available to you. This powerful tool serves as your image of the future - a tangible representation of where you are going. It represents your dreams, your goals, and your ideal life.

Supplies provided.

Friday June 17, 2022, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Are you ready for an audit?

Based on the research of Cheryl Lynn Childers and Christie Rogers-Larke, this workshop will discuss how to best set your practice up to pass an insurance billing and documentation audit based on Commercial insurance, Medicaid Guidelines for best practices, past commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid audits. You will leave this workshop armed with a vast collection of information to help prepare your practice to pass a billing/documentation audit. - Spaces are limited

September 30-October 1, 2022

Are you ready to rumble?

This experiential weekend workshop based on Brené Brown’s research will give you the tools and strategies you need to embrace vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. Join Certified Daring Way Facilitator Cheryl Childers, LISW-CP, CDWF for this intensive Rising Strong Weekend Intensive beginning Friday September 30, 2022 - Saturday October 1, 2022 - Spaces are limited

July 26-29, 2021, 4:00-5:30

Teams of three compete with one another to complete a common building challenge using LEGO® bricks. Each member of the team must work together contributing, communicating, and listening to each other. This helps them to develop communication skills, problem solving skills, in addition to sharing both the toy bricks and the responsibility of completing the project.

Through communication this type of therapy serves to develop vocabulary, and understanding of how to effectively communicate.

September 8 - September 11 2022

Comparison is all about conformity and competition. It’s easy to see how difficult it is to make time for the important things such as creativity, gratitude, joy, and authenticity when we’re spending enormous amounts of energy conforming and competing. Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. - Brené Brown

Join BFAC for Sexual Healing Educational Group Tuesdays beginning April 27, 2021 - June 29th, 2021
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Join BFAC for Intro to the Enneagram with Art Group Thursdays beginning April 29, 2021 - June 24th, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm

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Join BFAC for Co-parenting 101 group Mondays beginning April 26, 2021 - May 24th, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm

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Join BFAC for this couples reconnection group called Hold Me Tight Tuesdays beginning April 29, 2021 - June 24th, 2021
4:15pm - 5:15pm

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Join BFAC for this educational group on Women’s Sexuality, Mondays beginning April 26, 2021 - June 14, 2021
4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Are you ready to rumble?

This experiential weekend workshop based on Brené Brown’s research will give you the tools and strategies you need to embrace vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. Join Certified Daring Way Facilitator Cheryl Childers, LISW-CP, CDWF for this intensive Rising Strong Weekend Intensive beginning Thursday March 4, 2021 - Saturday March 6, 2021
Spaces are limited