A Proactive way to work with Stress, Anxiety, Depression & Trauma.

Human dis-ease (stress, anxiety, depression and trauma), calls for a Human Centred Holistic Approach, working with the whole person – Mind, Body, Energy System and Environment.  This is a very different approach to our Western Healthcare Medical Model whereby, the human system has been split into two parts Mind (Mental Health) and Body (Physical Health) treating each part separately when they are interrelated parts of the whole human system.  Thankfully, this is very slowly beginning to change.

Stress, anxiety, depression & trauma are symptoms, NOT innate deficiencies, defects or weaknesses, brought about by our reaction to a situation or event.  These symptoms result in what we call stress, anxiety, depression or trauma resulting in our mind becoming scattered, distracted and lost.  A scattered mind activates thoughts of worry and repetitive thinking often resulting in loss of energy, fatigue, apathy, hyper alertness, disruptive sleep, automatic habitual negative thinking patterns, reactive behaviours, low mood and unhelpful copying strategies.  Overtime, these presentations become acute leading to our human system to break down or burnout.  Breaking down or burning out is our human mind-body-energy system stopping us in our tracks and now we have to pay attention and do things differently!

All thoughts trigger feelings that activate our bodies emotional energy system producing a behavioural response that give us the results we experience, either positive or negative.  So it is vital that we become aware of our thoughts and learn how to bring the scatter mind into balance when life, inevitably, throws or curve ball or demands on us start to increase the pressure. A scattered mind is a distracted, reactive mind a mind in balance is a focussed, flexible and responsive mind.  Developing stability of mind is your key to mental and emotional resilience.

Mindflow’s Human Centred Approach give you the tools and a clear pathway to navigate life, to develop stability of mind to manage the symptoms (mind-states) of stress, anxiety, depression or trauma experience. To become more responsive, less reactive, balanced, mentally and emotionally resilient to move forward in the direction of positive growth rather than been blown about by our thoughts and emotions, feeling distracted, overwhelmed, burnout and lost.

Stress is normal and necessary however…..

Normal functioning of the human stress response enables us to deal with challenge and survive a threat.  When a challenge or threat has been registered the sympathetic nervous system becomes activated resulting in the stress response taking over to remove us from that challenge or threat.  Threats can be imagined threats, in our thoughts, or real threats, actually happening to us.  Our mind-body-energy system cannot differentiate between an imagined threat or a real threat it just registers threat.

The threat response is our inbuilt fight, flight, freeze response which aims to get us out of danger and survive.  Once the challenge or threat has passed the parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation – self regulation response) takes over to bring the mind-body-emotions back into a calm, balanced and relaxed state.  This is normal and proper functioning of the human mind-body survival mechanism and we need it to survive.

However, research from over the past 40 years is showing that when repeated activation of the sympathetic nervous becomes chronic it remains stuck on “overdrive” resulting in toxic stress.  Toxic stress gives rise to high levels or anxiety (not being able to stop or control worrying), burnout (physical or mental collapse), depression (persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest), and trauma activation (emotional shock following a stressful event or physical injury).

It is important to understand that not all stress is bad.  Eustress or positive stress is a state of feeling capable of handling whatever life throws at you, without having panic, overreacting, or planning your exit strategy.  Research is beginning to show that cultivating Eustress, positive stress, may provide a long-lasting solution to the pervasive toxic stress that is creating distress and harm in our lives and the lives of others.

The Geraldine Thomas Approach to Stress, Anxiety, Depression and Trauma.

• This is an online 1-2-1 programme through Team’s platform.  We meet each week for 1 hour.

 

• Initial 1-hour discovery session to find out what are your goals and formulate a plan for achieving them.  We will explore current blocks that are impeding progress and keeping you stuck.  There may be a number of current challenges in your life impacting on your day to day functioning, draining your energy system, reducing mental capacity and creating turbulence.  We will work through everything to gain clarity and set our direction.

 

• 8 – 1-hour weekly structured sessions whereby you will gain a thorough understanding of your mind-body-energy system, both theoretically and experientially.  You will be taught a variety of mind training exercises to develop stability of mind, sharping the attention networks, cultivating latent mental faculties, and develop greater awareness of the mind-body-energy system.

 

•  You will be given all the tools and support needed to develop stability of mind and bring the mind-body-energy system into balance.  The skills you will learn will become your tools for life enabling you to navigate through the inevitable challenges and opportunities life brings enabling you to thrive, life your purpose, feel balanced and whole.

 

• Access to Audio, Video and PDF resources.

 

• WhatsApp support in-between weekly sessions.

 

• One month after you complete these sessions you will have a 1-hour check-in session we me to see how you are sustaining your learning.

 

• 10 – hours in total.