Demystifying Depression Workshop
Access to the workshop where you will learn:
-Dyadic sharing and connection time.
-Ways to recognize depression.
-What are the first go to behaviors that increase in moments of overwhelm?
-What happy emotions do you lose access to when you are sinking?
-What is the biggest fear you have about actually experiencing what the hard
Feelings?
-Ways to understand and honor the underlying needs that any numbing and depressive strategy is attempting to meet.
-In addition to understanding biggest fears, can you write a love note to whatever
is seemingly keeping you in a window of tolerance?
-Through that love note, what can you underline or define as the biggest need the
numbing is maladaptively compensating for.
-Can you write a list of consequences coming from the engagement in the
numbing strategies.
-Can you think of a more adaptive way to meet the underlying need?
-Ways to create small emotional release sessions that enhance your ability to actually feel and digest pain.
-Anger, Fear, shame, and Grief practices
-How to identify the emotion to begin with as far as emotional release?
-Basic setup for generic emotional release
-Specific Anger Ideas
-Specific Fear Ideas
-Specific Grief Ideas
-Specific Shame Ideas
-A recordable guided meditation that will support moving from numbness to feeling.
-Will lead a 20 minute emotional meditation that can be recorded and used at
home.
-A worksheet that becomes a self care strategy for particularly overwhelming times.
-Support People I can talk to if I need to
-What is the most stress relieving activity I like doing
-What is my favorite way to slow down and connect emotion
-What is my favorite way to inspire me to get out of bed and get going
-What are the simplest and most helpful diet nutrition hacks I need.
-How much water am I drinking daily?
-Am I eating a few meals a day?
-How much sugar and processed foods am I eating?
-What are my weekly emotional release goals?
-How many times should I try to make a window to feel my feelings
-What are the main emotions I need to be dealing with currently?
What are the ways I connect to others of something bigger than myself?
-Favorite place in nature?
-How often can I get to my favorite place in nature
-Am I a part of any groups where there is common interest?
-How do I connect with any faith or a bigger sense of meaning in my life?