Contact Creative Wellness
TF: 1-866-619-9542 (within North America)
P: 250-653-2085
Creative Wellness is proudly located on Salt Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada and serves clients locally, nationally and internationally.
About Creative Wellness
Creative Wellness exists to inspire and support personal growth, healing, renewal, and well-being for helpers, healers, change agents, and others who make a difference.
Creative Wellness serves awakened + reflective living with Life Source Writing™.
Life Source Writing™ helps you tap into your inner wisdom, reduce stress, and fill your emotional cup so that you can joyfully live and serve with the gifts you have been given.
Meet Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC
Founder, Creative Wellness
I started keeping a journal when I was a young girl. I can still remember my first diary; it was pink with a small lock and key to ensure privacy.
Later, during my years working as a social worker, often within high stress and high trauma situations, I recognized that when I was regularly journal writing, I felt calmer, less stressed, healthier and more fulfilled in all areas of my life. When I would drift away from journaling, at times when I felt too busy juggling school, career and marriage, I noticed that I would feel more stressed and less engaged with what I was doing. This created an “a-ha moment” for me. I realized journaling was in fact helping me to manage high levels of caregiver stress, stay energized and remain passionate within my many roles.
With a passion for the healing power of writing combined with a devotion to supporting the well-being of helping professionals, Creative Wellness was founded in 2000. I started Creative Wellness to educate helpers, healers, social workers, as well as other health and human service professionals - with the art of self-care, burnout prevention, and holistic stress management.
I bring clients over twenty years experience in the health, wellness and personal growth fields. This includes ten years of diversified clinical and crisis intervention work as a child welfare, children’s mental health and medical social worker, combined with ten years in business providing coaching, consulting and training services in the health and wellness field – including a long standing associate role with Fisher & Associates.
I followed my passions for personal growth, learning and discovery to school where I completed three university degrees: a Bachelor of Arts, an Honours Bachelor of Social Work, and a Masters of Social Work. I am a Certified Co-Active Life Coach through the Coaches Training Institute. I also have extensive training in the healing arts including certification in Reiki, Healing Touch, and Esalen Massage®. I love learning!
I also love teaching and inspiring wellness. I have created and/or co-authored more than twenty training programs and manuals, some of which include:
- Care for the Caregiver: Reflections and Actions
- When a Client Dies: Healing and Recovery in the Workplace
- Coping with Change in the Workplace
- Suicide Prevention, Intervention, & Postvention
- When You Walk In the Water You Get Wet: Understanding Vicarious Trauma
- Burnout Prevention for Helping Professionals
- Life Source Writing™: A Reflective Wellness Practice for Helping Professionals
Life Source Writing™ forms the heart of Creative Wellness integrating mindfulness, intention setting, mind/body relaxation, writing, inquiry and gratitude into a holistic practice that can enhance your overall feelings of well-being and fulfillment in life and work.
Where to start? Access your free Life Source Writing™ Getting Started Guide (see the sign-up box on the top right hand side of this page). Download this free ebook now.
Affiliations
I am a Registered Social Worker through the Board of Registration for Social Workers (BRSW) in British Columbia, Canada; as well as member of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers (BCASW), the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW), and the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Some of my other affiliations and memberships include the following…
Find me online:
Featured Expert Blogger on bizymoms.com
Self-Care Expert -with Expert360
Guest contributor to the Health & Wellness newsletter through the MFRC – Military Family Resource Center
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Here is what my clients have to say:
“It is always a joy to collaborate with Lynda Monk on any project. Whether training, curriculum development or a myriad of wellness activities, Lynda is flawless in her facilitation and will custom design a training session that meets your needs in a timely, flexible and sensitive manner. Lynda’s sessions consistently result in glowing feedback and always leave the participants stronger and wiser for having spent the time with her.”
—Kim Dooling
Regional Child Welfare Consultant
Field Education Coordinator
“Lynda’s gift is her energy, her clarity, her generosity, her wisdom, her Presence. Willing to sit and open; to truly hear what is, and to guide you gently back to the loving Presence you are. I feel connected and renewed with a sense of energy and contentment, ready to step forward toward my highest possible Self.”
—Patricia Galaczy, Educator,
Consultant and Founder of
The Art of Dialogue
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