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Pocket-sized coach & therapist! Place of rest, calm, celebration, impact, redefining values, transformation and equanimity!

Key Learning Outcomes of the ‘Awesome’:

This course offers a comprehensive approach to emotional well-being and personal growth. By the end of this course, you will develop a deeper understanding of your emotions, enhance your emotional regulation skills, and cultivate a greater sense of inner peace and resilience.

Course Overview:

Over eight weeks, you will embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and emotional healing. Focusing on creating a safe inner space, the course delves into various techniques such as Focusing, journaling, EFT, and the exploration of opposites to balance emotions. Participants will learn about attachment styles, object relations, affect regulation, and the management of unhelpful thoughts and inner critics. The course also addresses existential questions, incorporates elements of EMDR for trauma, and culminates in clearing emotional blockages and celebrating life.

Week-by-Week Breakdown:

Week 1: Establishing a safe inner and outer space through Focusing, journaling, and EFT. Introducing the concept of balancing opposite emotions.

Week 2: Exploring attachment styles and object relations. Balancing fear with gratitude through the ‘tree of life’ technique.

Week 3: Deep dive into affect regulation using EFT and the opposites technique.

Week 4: Addressing unhelpful thoughts and inner critic with EFT.

Week 5: Working with depression. Exploring existential questions and balancing suffering with breathing and joy.

Week 6: Introduction to EMDR for trauma-related experiences.

Week 7: Clearing emotional blockages and celebrating life.

Week 8: Consolidating learning and fostering a sense of joy.

By the end of this course, you will have developed a robust toolkit for emotional well-being and personal growth, enabling you to navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience and fulfilment.

Ready to transform your well-being in just 7-15 minutes a day? Balance Psych isn’t your average program. Here’s what sets it apart:

Quick & Easy Wind-Downs: No hour-long sessions! Fit in self-care with bite-sized session designed for bedtime listening or morning meditations.

Beyond CBT & Psychodynamic: Balance Psych is more holistic than traditional approaches. It addresses thought patterns and beliefs, but it’s not just CBT. We explore your past experiences, but it’s not just psychodynamic therapy.

Self-Compassion at the Core: We believe in self-acceptance and gentle guidance, not a rigid, clinical approach.

No Lectures, Just Transformation: Forget dry lessons.

Get ready for practical wind-downs designed to inspire and heal.

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Balancing Affect

Imagine your emotions as waves crashing on a shore. Sometimes, they're gentle ripples, other times, towering tsunamis. This session is about learning to surf those waves, instead of being swept away.

We'll explore a powerful technique to balance your emotional seas. By understanding and responding effectively to your emotions, you can create a sense of inner peace and harmony.

Think of it as training your inner weatherman. You'll learn to predict emotional storms, find your equilibrium, and ride out life's challenges with grace and resilience.

Ready to become the captain of your emotional ship? Let's set sail!

The session introduces a framework for managing emotions or "affect." The core idea is that while external factors can influence our emotional state, our primary focus should be on how we respond to these internal experiences.

The session emphasizes the importance of balance in emotional management. You are encouraged to identify strong emotions and then counterbalance them with opposing, bodily felt sensations. This technique aims to create a more centred emotional state.

1. Recognizing the emotion: Identifying the dominant emotion and its physical manifestations.
2. Finding the opposite: Identifying a contrasting emotional or bodily sensation.
3. Balancing: Holding both emotions simultaneously to find a middle ground.

By practicing this approach, individuals can develop greater emotional resilience and respond more effectively to life's challenges.

Ultimately, the goal is to shift the focus from being overwhelmed by emotions to proactively managing them through a process of balancing and integration.

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Unpacking Your Emotional Landscape

Have you ever felt like there's a fog between you and your true self?

This session invites you to clear the air. We'll explore the subtle yet powerful difference between emotions and affect.

Imagine affect as a vast, swirling sky filled with clouds. Some are fluffy and passing, while others are dark and stormy. These aren't necessarily your emotions, but rather the emotional climate you're immersed in. They can shape who you are, but they don't define you.

Emotions, on the other hand, are like weather patterns within you. They're personal responses to what's happening inside and outside. Understanding this distinction is key to unlocking your inner world.

We'll delve into how these two intertwine and influence each other, and how to navigate this emotional landscape.

By recognizing the parts of you that are deeply rooted and those that might be borrowed, you'll be better equipped to cultivate inner peace and balance.

Let's embark on this journey together and uncover the richness of your emotional world.

By differentiating between what originates from within and what's been absorbed from the outside, you'll gain valuable insights into your true self. This session is about more than just understanding; it's about empowerment.

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The Nature of Affect

The session introduces the concept of "affect" as a powerful, often external force that shapes our emotions and behaviours. Unlike simply bodily emotions, affect originates from various sources such as relationships, social groups, and even broader societal structures. It's 'a lively vibration', a dynamic energy that precedes our thoughts and actions, influencing how we perceive and respond to the world.

Kasia emphasizes the importance of bodily awareness in understanding affect. By tuning into physical sensations, we can gain insights into our emotional landscape. Practices like mindfulness and guided visualization are introduced as tools to connect with these internal signals.

Using a vivid fish tank analogy, Kasia illustrates how external circumstances profoundly shape our internal world. A deprived or hostile environment can foster feelings of inadequacy, fear, and mistrust, while a nurturing environment can cultivate a sense of security and well-being. This metaphor extends to family structures, social groups, and workplaces, highlighting the pervasive influence of external factors on our emotional states.

The session concludes with a practical exercise aimed at cultivating emotional balance. You are guided to identify a primary emotion, its physical manifestation, and then to find its opposite or a counterbalancing emotion like compassion. By holding both emotions simultaneously, individuals can develop greater emotional resilience and self-awareness.

Overall, the session provides a framework for understanding how external forces shape our internal world and offers practical tools to navigate and manage our emotional experiences.

• Affect is a powerful, external force influencing our emotions and behaviours.
• Bodily awareness is crucial for understanding affect.
• Our environment significantly shapes our emotional landscape.
• Balancing opposing emotions can foster emotional resilience.

Welcome to a Universe Within: A Spark of Wisdom for Your Inner Journey Imagine a vibrant cosmos within you, a reflection of the vast universe above.

This inner world, just like the one astronomers study, holds immense richness and complexity. Think of your true self – your core being – as the sun at the centre, radiating warmth and light. But you're not alone in this internal solar system! Every thought, emotion, and feeling acts like a planet, each with its own unique vibration. It's up to you, the conscious observer, to choose how you respond to these internal forces. The Power of Internalization: Just like planets, these inner aspects are shaped by experiences throughout your life. Positive experiences become like friendly moons, while negative ones might feel like destructive asteroids.

The key takeaway? You can't control what lands in your inner cosmos, but you hold immense power over your response. Finding Your True North: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: In this story, a little prince explores different planets, each representing a human experience. It's a metaphor for our internal journeys – facing loneliness, forging friendships, and navigating the complexities of life. The Secret of the Heart: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Like the Little Prince, cultivate compassion for all the planets within you, but remember, your true self, the sun, is always there to guide you. This session invites you to explore a powerful metaphor – your inner world as a cosmos. It's a journey of self-discovery, where you learn to navigate your emotions, find balance, and ultimately, connect with your true self.

Warmly, Kasia