SMILE APPROACH
SELF-DISCOVERY AND
GRIEF RECOVERY
A Holistic Approach To Listening Within Your Heart and Connecting With the Hearts of Others
SMILE™ is a multidisciplinary educational approach to improve emotional intelligence by increasing self-awareness. The purpose of SMILE™ training to teachers and service providers to enhance knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors about themselves and those they serve.
SMILE Mission
To educate individuals on the importance of self-discovery and grief recovery for well-being, through action steps that strengthen neural pathways for developing and sustaining meaningful relationships.
SMILE Vision
To empower self-aware individuals with the tools to develop and sustain meaningful relationships to and from a heart filled with compassion, hope, happiness, gratitude, and love.
Open Up Your Soul’s SMILE (2022) is my authentic story implementing the holistic
SMILE™ (Story, Mindfulness, Ignite, Let go, Embrace) approach to self-discovery and
grief recovery. It's a shift from a mind-centered view of the world to a balanced heart-centered one. A path to an aware life filled with happiness, gratitude, hope, and love.
Richard K.
I highly recommend you read this book. It is not just Kim’s story of overcoming a tremendous amount of hurdles and heartbreaking events, it also makes you think of your own life and how you have handled and/or are handling your own losses and difficulties.
It also reminded me that just because someone is laughing and smiling, it does not mean they are completely at peace and ok. We are all questioning ourselves and our emotions at any given moment. Some of us, especially us men, keep it all inside and adhere to how we were brought up …. show no weakness. Kim’s book provides a gateway to a different approach.
Dr. Thomas Armstrong
Neurodiversity
You do an amazing job of combining inspiration, memoir, and practical advice to parents and others based on your experience with your kids (and in such a clear, simple, and humble way).
Barry G.
The book, Open Up Your Soul’s SMILE, has caused me to deeply reflect on the past 7 decades. I am a male “Boomer” who has experienced significant life challenges from growing up poor on a dairy farm to wrestling with a self critic that has haunted me most of my life. Being a workaholic was my way of demonstrating personal value to my family, friends and coworkers. Loved to hear “boy Barry sure works hard.” I have also struggled with depression which in my case was a traveling companion to my poor self concept. Another constant that remained a challenge was expressing emotion. Emotions were to be contained because if seen or heard, then one ran the risk of harsh judgment. My generation of men were brought up in a culture that emotions were not part of the male experience. They were often perceived as weakness.
Join Kim on her SMILE™ journey because happiness and success takes much more than shifting one’s mindset. It requires a balance between the heart and mind.
SMILE
Self and Social-Awareness
Training Program
Who Am I?
Have you asked yourself this question? Join me in taking a journey within your heart to self discovery. The SMILE™ approach will be your guide while teaching you the tools you need to develop and sustain the key to your happiness and well-being; MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS!
Through cultivating curiosity and courage YOU will explore the SMILE™ tools YOU need to go within your heart, while also strengthening your brain's neural pathways for compassion, happiness, gratitude, hope and love.
99%
Participants "Agreed" to "Strongly Agreed"
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SMILE™ training would benefit their personal and professional well-being.
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The materials and exercises were practical, intuitive, and helpful.
SMILE Training Testimony
CAROLINE
Participating in SMILE™ offers you a chance to pause and reflect on your overall well-being. Life is stressful and SMILE™ provides ways to check in with yourself and learn strategies to find calm and peace in a demanding world.
Becky
The SMILE™ program not only helped guide me as a school counselor but also helped foster my personal growth and healing as well. After completing the SMILE™ sessions, I felt energized to get to know my students, their stories, and how I could help advocate for their academic, social, and emotional needs. While also discovering my own need to heal from my unresolved grief, and the impact it had on preventing me from being the most healthy socially, emotionally, and physically that I could be.
Everyone could benefit from Kim's SMILE™ program and knowing her. She is a beautiful soul, a heart with ears, and a brilliant keeper of knowledge. I can't thank her enough for the courage and health she has given my life!
Kim
SMILE™ was a great experience for me! The activities Kim shared and facilitated during our time together allowed me to look more closely at myself, my personal habits and my professional practices. During my three hours of 1:1 coaching, Kim helped me refine my interactions with staff and students at my school in ways that facilitate connection rather than control.
Every person within the SMILE™ family has different goals, concerns and areas in their lives or profession that lend themselves to serious growth potential. No matter where your journey to self-discovery and growth take you, Kim will walk the path side by side with you!
Laura
I was a doubting Thomas when I first heard about SMILE. I thought no way would I talk about my personal life/feeling to anyone. I am a private person, that is my business, but I was wrong. Going through the sessions I found it was helping me handle situations/moments in my life, understanding there are ways to heal through activities, breathing techniques, and listening to others. I started to feel less intrusive to open up and share some of what I was feeling. Thank You
SMILE™
Self and Social-Awareness Coaching
I provide support, encouragement, and connection from the heart.
I'm your guide on the side eager to walk compassionately as a heart with ears (no judgment, criticism, comparison, or solution) alongside those willing to courageously take action steps inward to
self-discovery and grief recovery.
Laura
One of the most enjoyable training/coaching I’ve ever had. The amount of tips, tricks, and insights she gave me was amazing.
Cindy
This was the best training I have had in my 37 years of teaching. I’m thankful to have attended this SMILE™ training/coaching with Kim.
100% of participants either "strongly agreed" or "agreed" that the follow-up coaching sessions improved their personal and professional well-being.
Anonymous
I encourage others to take the SMILE™ training/coaching.It is so worth the time! Everyone needs this.
Additional Services
Inspirational Public Speaking
We don't know, what we don't know. SMILE™ sheds light on the unknown heart wounds held captive, while shedding light on various action steps and exercises in self-discovery and grief recovery to healing them.
SMILE™ presentations topics range from Grief, The Flip Side of the Trauma Informed Cared Coin, Neurobehavioral Approach To Learning, We Are All Alike; Differently, and SMILE.
Throughout my presentations, I share my own truthful story of self-discovery and grief recovery, while guiding the audience into reflecting on their own lives, while understanding we all have the ability to rewire our brains. All it takes is practice and awareness.
Grief Recovery Method®
Online
Individual or Group Support Sessions
Your feelings are normal and natural.
The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that feelings are abnormal and unnatural, especially grief.
Whether Your Loss Is From:
Death | Divorce | End of a Relationship Loss of Safety | Loss of a Career | Loss of Health | COVID-19 Losses | Loss of Trust
Financial | Pet Loss | Infertility |Miscarriage Moving | Loss of Faith Empty Nest | Many Other Losses
The evidence-based, action step Grief Recovery Method® can help.
With weekly homework from the THE GRIEF RECOVERY HANDBOOK, John W. James and Russel Friedman, you will complete the incomplete emotional pain you have been unknowingly lugging along within your heavy, grief-stricken heart.
Presentation Reviews
100%
● Participants were “Satisfied” to
“Very Satisfied” with the quality of
the event.
● Participants “Agreed” to “Strongly
Agreed” the event would benefit
them or their community.
"Grief Does Not Just Disappear," Hoard's Dairyman Magazine article which mentions information received from presentation: Grief; The Flip-Side of the Trauma Informed Care Coin,
https://hoards.com/article-33735-grief-does-not-just-disappear.html
Authentic, genuine presenter. If the speaker is able to interact with the audience more, it's likely more of their personality will be able to come through in the virtual
environment. The speaker was highly recommended by the project manager, and from a skill and knowledge perspective, it's easy to see why.
Excellent presentation, very enjoyable! We look forward to featuring this speaker more in the future through the Technical Center’s activities!
Georgiana, GRM Online
Kim was an amazing facilitator. She handled difficult information with care, kindness, and compassion. Her skill in redirecting me when I completed the homework in an alternate way brought me back on track in a sensitive manner. She was the perfect "heart with ears" that allowed me to cry, laugh, breathe deeply, and release what I didn't even realize I had been carrying for so long. I highly recommend Kim, and have already recommended her to colleagues and friends.
Francine, GRM Online
Thank you Kim for the assistance on getting this up and going but most of all, thank you for encouraging me and giving me the confidence and desire to set it as a goal again. I had given up before talking to you.
You’ve really helped me in so many ways that I’ll always be grateful for and it wasn’t just through GRM it was YOU!
Thank you for your priceless friendship too!
With gratitude always.
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