Story Weaving

The stories we tell ourselves shape the world we live in.

Are ‘YOUR STORY’ workshops for YOU?

‘Your Story’ workshops are for anyone experiencing any of the following:

depression and / or anxiety, grief, divorce, a psychiatric diagnosis, a physical health diagnosis, life transitions, stress related issues, or any other issues affecting your mental health and wellbeing.

The workshops will also benefit anyone wanting to gain increased resilience, a deeper knowledge of themselves or wanting to explore new ways of living and being and learning new skills for coping with life’s challenges and stressors.

About YOUR STORY Workshops

The workshops are designed to help you look at your life (or a chosen area of your life), form new perspectives and guide you to change what is no longer working for you and create a life based on your unique being.

Mindfulness, breathe work, self-compassion and self-care are additional elements of the workshops.

Structure

‘Your Story’ Program is a guided process of workshops that can be taken either as private one on one sessions or as group sessions.

The number of sessions is usually between 6 – 8 sessions.

This can be shortened or lengthened depending on your circumstances.

Each session typically lasts 1 hour for one on one work or longer for groups.

The program can also be adjusted to fit into weekends.

The unexamined life…

Whether we look at our over-arching life story or the various sub-plots which together make up our story, there are always many different ways of interpreting the same set of facts.

Herein lies our ability for creating a new story.

It is often in the simple act of re-narrating our stories that we gain a newfound sense of HOPE, thereby laying the seeds for something new: giving us the strength to continue or the confidence to start a new chapter in our ever unfinished story.

We ALL go through times in our lives when it is helpful to explore where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.

times of uncertainty and / or confusion;

depression; high anxiety; stage of life transitions;

divorce; grief; a physical diagnosis;

a mental health diagnosis; a lack of meaning;

or a desire to deepen one’s knowledge and relationship with oneself.

What I KNOW in my bones

I KNOW we can ALL get to a place of deep inner peace.

I KNOW that it is through our difficulties that we are given opportunities for a deepening of our understanding of what it means to live an authentic life, a life that makes sense to us, regardless of what we have or don’t have, or what is or isn’t in our lives.

Resilience is born out of Befriending our Authentic Self.

Learning to trust this inner guidance becomes a compass to rely on when all around one is falling apart.

The light enters…. where the wound… Rumi

Re-narrating who we THINK we are

frees us up to BE who we TRULY are.

“A fundamental truth of psychology, from which our ego repeatedly flees, is that it is most commonly through suffering that we are stretched enough to grow spiritually.”

James Hollis

“We may not be able to choose our wounds in life, but we do have the power to choose what those wounds are going to mean. Jan Goldstein.”

Jan Goldstein

“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

Carl Jung

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human
freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Victor Frankl

“Questioning is a basic tool for rebellion. It breaks open the stagnant hardened shells of the present, revealing ambiguity and opening up fresh options to be explored… Questioning can change your entire life. It can uncover hidden power and stifled dreams inside of you… things you may have denied for many years.”
Fran Peavey

“While there is life, there is hope.”

What if your symptoms are the only way to show you that something needs to change, that care and attention are necessary.