Calming
Soothing
Understanding
Integrating
Shifting
Lightening
Relieving
If anything at all has your mind or body feeling revved up and on a hamster wheel, this workshop could be such a sweet release into fresh air.
Our workshop for help and lightening of anxiety and stuckness is this coming Saturday, September 9, 10 am – 1pm. I hope you’ll come and settle into, sink into, a softer space with whatever is happening in your life.
Here’s a little bit about our format next Saturday, so you have a sense of it.
I’ll talk a short bit about what may be a new understanding for you about what anxiety is – which in itself is so pressure relieving. If we think there is a snake (anxiety), we spend so much time and effort looking for strategies to cope with, get around, avoid the snake. But when we suddenly see that it is a rope, we don’t need any strategies. After that brief orientation, I’ll take questions – both about the material and more importantly, any specific circumstances and challenges in your life that you’d like some insight around. It’s an opportunity for some personal coaching, and it is also an enormous benefit and gift to share in a group. It’s so easy to think we are the only ones going through something, the only ones that have anxiety or scary thoughts. It’s easy to feel alone and bonkers. But when we sit down with others and share our humanness – and share that our experiences are normal and natural because that is how the brain protects us! – the sharing itself is a relief.
You’ll learn from others’ experiences, including my own, and this is part of how we learn to not be afraid of the anxiety itself. Which, frankly, is the very worst part about feeling the energy we call anxiety. It’s just an energy, until we label it as “anxiety,” and then we whip up stories about how terrible it is to have anxiety! We add anxiety on top of anxiety! We freak out, then freak out about freaking out! That second layer is where so much of the suffering comes from! This is a cognitive, educational, “top down” approach for your mind so it understands how and why human brains create “anxiety” and why it might get stuck in protective modes of hyper vigilance or numbing out.
We’ll also go through an in-depth exercise for calming your nervous system, which will help your brain and body move out of stuck spaces of fight, flight or freeze. It involves a timeline, and teaching your neural networks to know that the things you may be chronically guarding against are over – in the past. The exercise then is about helping the body experience that understanding in a “bottom up,” sensory level way.
I’ll talk a bit about other resources for continuing to support your new understanding and integration. New modalities, books, podcasts, practitioners and that can all help ground your new insights.
More information about the workshop, how to register via payment and receive La Mesa workshop address are below. Please email me if you have any questions!
Looking forward to YOU, seeing yourself and the world with new eyes, with a more relaxed body and more trust.
All is well.
Hugs,
Christina
PS, These are a couple more views from the Montana trip. So peaceful and expansive – just like your own essence!
