On today…
Big day for someone like me. By that I mean someone who never considered websites, SEO, marketing etc. Sometimes life though, just thrusts you into places you never wanted, and pray to get out of quickly.
Or sometimes you just pivot.
So here I am. With the fruition of the things I never considered. And happy to share.
HAS Wellness Consultants was borne as only the name of a foundation. Actually, it was ‘HAS Foundation’ at first. Since my Dad passed away, I imagined starting a foundation in his name, and that it would fund college educations for people who needed help. This is not where it ended up though. Foundations need big money so I had left that dream aside.
About eight weeks ago on a dreary Sunday afternoon, I was feeling pretty low. Suddenly the name came back to me out of nowhere. I wrote the name, and a business plan, staffing, job titles, salaries, all on the notes app on my phone. I couldn’t even get out of bed to write it down.
This was before my life changed dramatically, without my consent. HAS was back, and in a very real way. I spent a lot of time considering how HAS would translate into this business I had created, since I couldn’t use my Dad’s name, Henry Andrew Schones, Jr., what sense would that make? Many iterations later, the synonym bank broken from me trying every word that captured what I needed, but beginning with an H, A, or an S. And then there was the pesky problem of which letter was going to stand for what. Time was running out as I was scheduled to speak at a Zero Suicide Learning Community meeting on behalf of the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, and I needed cards ASAP.
HAS
healing/assurance/suicide prevention
And we made our formal entrance into the private practice, consulting, and public speaking world.
I know I will want to edit this website, these blogs, my bio, everything, a million times. Always the perfectionist, who needs so badly to get the message across the right way, a way people will respond to and gravitate to. This is how meaningful change and revolutions occur.
But today I will use my own self-talk and discipline, hit save, and get my butt off this chair and go for a walk. After all, I am a therapist who knows too well about self-care, and no one loves a hypocrite.
Welcome to our new beginning. I hope my Dad is here beside me writing this, no AI used in the creation of, only my deepest gratitude for all who have supported me on this journey, and widely insane hope and faith that God will introduce me to those who I can help the most.
Big smiles,
Elisha