for “Honor Your Spark”/Shine Bright LLC
This is an important legal document; if you do not understand these statements or any that follow, do not purchase our programs and discontinue use of this website.
Mental Health Policy
Coach Valerie Martin is a licensed mental health professional in the state of Tennessee. However, Mrs. Martin only provides coaching services to clients of Honor Your Spark / Shine Bright LLC. Coaching is not a substitute or alternative for mental health counseling, psychoanalysis or examination, or other mental health services. Do not delay diagnosis or treatment. Do not postpone appointments, go without or adjust medications, or otherwise rely on coaching as a substitute or alternative for mental health care.
In the event the coach deems, in the coach’s sole discretion, that coaching is not appropriate for you, coach will notify you of the termination of the coaching relationship. Coach is unable to provide therapy services to you.
As a licensed mental health professional, coach will provide certain therapy-style documents to you at the start of the coaching relationship, although therapy will not be provided. These documents are intended to explain how certain aspects of a mental health setting may carry over to the coaching relationship.
For example, while coaching is not subject to any privilege, coach does strive to keep communications confidential. However, there are certain instances, usually pertaining to self-harm or harm to others, that coach will abide by mandatory reporting rules typical of mental health settings.
Coach does not provide letters for ongoing court cases or other purposes.
Coaching Disclaimer
The advice, and interactions presented on this website and in our products and services are solely for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes, in the area of improving health, wellness, lifestyle, and business.
The information supplied is meant to serve as tools for self-help for personal use at your own discretion in conjunction with medical professionals, accountants, lawyers, tax professionals, or business coaches.
Honor Your Spark / Shine Bright LLC and Valerie Martin are not licensed to provide health advice, medical diagnoses, legal, financial, tax, or business strategy guidance.
The author assumes no responsibility for any circumstances arising out of the use, abuse, interpretation, or application of any information supplied on this website or in our programs. You understand and acknowledge that you are in the best position to evaluate how our information will impact your personal set of circumstances, including known and unknown risks. If you use or rely upon our information, you acknowledge that you do so voluntarily.
Our role is to support and assist you in reaching the goals you’ve established for coaching, but your success depends on your own effort, motivation, commitment, follow-through, and time spent working toward these efforts.
You alone are solely and personally responsible for your results, and your dedication, desire, and motivation, individual capacity, life experience, unique health and genetic profile, starting point, and pre-existing expertise will impact your results.
Application of the principles outlined here may vary from person to person and you accept the risk that your results may be different. We cannot and do not guarantee that you will attain a particular result.
Do not disregard professional advice or delay seeking professional advice because of information you have read on this website or received from us.
Though I am a licensed mental health clinician in a separate business, I am not a medical provider and do not engage in patient diagnosis in my coaching work, or more broadly in the practice of medicine/health care. The information I supply is not a substitute for proper medical care by a physician, who can provide appropriate exams, treatment, diagnoses, and care recommendations.
Do not self-diagnose. Do not stop taking any medications without speaking to your physician or health care professional. If you have or suspect that you have a medical problem, contact your health care provider promptly.
Additionally, I am not a licensed financial professional. I do not provide investment recommendations or advice.
I advise you to speak with your own licensed financial planner before establishing a budget, making or changing investment strategies, making purchases, taking loans, changing or leaving employment, starting a business or changing business strategies, or making tax related decisions.
I do not perform accounting services, tax advising, or investment counseling, and recommend that you consult licensed professionals regarding these topics.
When addressing financial matters on our website and in any of our marketing, including but not limited to our newsletters, program pages, videos, and other content, every effort has been made to ensure that we accurately represent our programs and their ability to improve your life.
However, Honor Your Spark / Shine Bright LLC does not guarantee that you will get any results or earn any money whatsoever using our tools, programs, strategies, or recommendations. Nothing on our sites is a promise or guarantee of future earnings. Many factors influence your ability to earn money,including effort, motivation, commitment and follow-through, background, dedication, desire, motivation, individual capacity, life experience, starting point, and expertise, in addition to current wider economic circumstances. By using this website or purchasing from any of our order forms, you agree that you are fully responsible for your progress from your participation and implementation, and that we offer no representations or guarantees verbally or in writing regarding your earnings potential.
Your use, or non-use, of this information is at your own risk, and you absolve us of any liability or loss that you or any other person may incur from your or their use or non-use of the information provided.
In no event will we be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, equitable or consequential damages for any use of or reliance on this website, programs, services, and/or products, including, without limitation, any lost profits, personal or business interruptions, personal injuries, accidents, misapplication of information or any other loss, malady, disease or difficulty, or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages or difficulties.
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Updated 2/18/24
