Limited seats available for pair of free workshops
(Seguin) – Individuals this weekend will be gifted with some much need emotional support. On Saturday, there will be two opportunities for folks to learn more about balancing their emotions through an Understanding Emotional Triggers Small Group Workshop. The free community workshops will be held from 10 a.m. to noon or from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Seguin Public Library.
Helping to facilitate the workshops is Paula King Harper. Harper, who is originally from Seguin, brings with her a host of experience. Not only is she a licensed and ordained pastor for a church in San Antonio but she also serves as a chaplain at University Hospital plus is a certified sanctuary mental health coach and life coach.
Harper says she felt the call to offer up these workshop opportunities not only in Seguin but also in San Antonio, Boerne and Universal City.
Unfortunately, she says people continue to operate not knowing the real truths behind their emotional issues.
“For instance, you might run into somebody who is just angry all the time and we say ‘oh, well they have anger issues.” Okay, but why? Why, do they have anger issues? Or what has happened to this person? And so, a lot of people don’t like to dig into the things of why I behave the way I behave. But there is a root for everything. This is my firm belief and there is statistical background that there is a root for everything from our behavior,” said King-Harper.
King-Harper says her desire is to be available in the community so that folks can have a place to start and have a place in which they no longer feel alone.
“The Triggers Workshop is actually geared to just maybe introduce people to what emotional triggers are or remind them and discuss ways of managing triggers – even explaining or exploring childhood trauma and discussing the mental versus the spiritual because some people want to say that everything is demonic or some people might not even understand what that is or everything is mental and psychiatric and we need medication for everything and that might not be the case but if it is the case that somebody needs medication, by all means get the medication but also do the therapy, do the work. I’m just here to try to help communities be healed and be whole and be healthy emotionally,” said King-Harper.
King-Harper says identifying these triggers that often debilitate a person’s daily lives is the first step toward healing. More importantly, she says it’s never too late.
“I’m just going to come from the chaplain’s perspective now. I am at the bedside of many people who are in their last moments of life, and they are holding regrets that they didn’t talk about this or share that with someone or get help or they died with painful secrets, or they’ve been caring burdens for years and decades and just never found emotional freedom. So, the workshops are small groups. There is a maximum number per group and that is intentional because I don’t want people to feel overwhelmed. Exposure will only come from them, but resources will be shared,” said King-Harper.
Although the workshops are free. Individuals are required to register. There is limited seating, and no walk-ins will be accepted. Again, individuals or family members dealing with someone needing help are encouraged to select one of the two scheduled workshops this Saturday. A parent or guardian must accompany anyone 17 years or younger. To sign up visit www.harperministries.org or call 210-538-4232.