We are so excited to share that IOEP was recently featured in an interview with Mekialaya White from CBS4 Denver! It was an incredible opportunity to share about our Healing Our Heroes program, which supports frontline workers with free trauma relief services such as massage, acupuncture, and herbal medicine. Recently, we decided to expand the … Continue reading Check out my interview with CBS4 Denver!
To be a third responder means that you are responding to a crisis long after it has completed and at a time when we can begin to see the underlying, foundational vulnerabilities in the individuals and in the communities that allowed for the trauma to happen in the first place. In Maslow’s hierarchy, we are … Continue reading Third Response Care
To be a second response care provider means that you are responding after a crisis is over and the threat to a person’s life is minimized. At this stage, first responders have mostly completed their work and we can now assess the degree to which someone has experienced trauma after the event. Often there is … Continue reading Second Response Care
To be a first response care provider means that you are giving service during or immediately after a crisis. This is a time when there is often actual urgency, or active threat to a person or group of people. Most will be experiencing a state of hyper- arousal, and on Maslow’s hierarchy, their needs will … Continue reading First Response Care
The past year and a half has brought many unexpected changes to life as we knew it. One of the changes here at Inner Ocean was the implementation and now expansion of our program, “Healing Our Heroes,” which originally launched in October 2020. This program serves those who need it most: the frontline workers who … Continue reading Healing Our Heroes Program Expands to Include Those Impacted By Boulder Shooting
Interview by Emma Sartwell August 1-7, 2019, Mindi Counts, founder of Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, and Katie Asmus, founder of the Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute, will lead an intimate group of non-binary and women-identified seekers on the Wild Women’s Quest: a time of journey and self-reflection in wilderness space outside Boulder, CO. I interviewed Mindi … Continue reading Rites of Passage: IOEP’s Founder on Finding Her Purpose and Starting a Nonprofit
Dear friends of Inner Ocean, Her name is Sparkle, she is a pit bull mix and we rescued her 4 years ago from a kill-shelter in Arkansas. When shearrived, she was a hot mess. She had heart worms, staph infection all over her body, she had parasites, a limp, a half broken tail, 4 broken teeth … Continue reading For the Love of Sparkle: How Yet Another Rescued Pit Bull Stole This Healer’s Heart
A young, short-haired girl from India came walking shyly and alone into our trauma healing clinic at a rehabilitation center for girls who have been sex trafficked in New Delhi, February 2014. She held onto the swinging door of the clinic and only allowed one foot to trickle just past the door. She kept her … Continue reading Healing Trauma
Meet Anshu. Anshu is a young Nepali girl from the village of Gati who I met and fell completely in love with last year. She lost her dad in the 2015 earthquake after their house collapsed. This left her mother with no income and so she went to go find work in Kathmandu two years … Continue reading Our Nepal Health Trek Journey 2017
Hello there! We hope this blog finds you well and enjoying some festive Autumn celebrations! We are here in Nepal hosting Health Clinics in one of the most devastated regions: Sindupalchok. This is a village we have worked extensively in since the earthquake in 2015. As promised, we took a short video clip of a … Continue reading A Sneak Peek of our Health Trek Clinics in Nepal
