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Learning how our mind works and changing the relationship with our thoughts – Research-based Mindfulness & Positive Psychology
Awaken Wellness will provide a holistic approach to multidimensional health and wellbeing. My passion is helping others find balance in mind and body. I have practiced Mindfulness and Yoga for more than two decades. Having studied research-based Mindfulness and Positive Psychology with the Irish Mindfulness Academy, I am thrilled to offer psycho-educational classes beginning this summer. These programs feature neuroscience-backed interventions drawn from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy by Mark Williams and John Teasdale of Oxford University, Zindel Segal of the University of Toronto, and the emerging field of Positive Psychology.
Learning how the mind works and changing the relationship with your thoughts, you will experience that that is how you determine how you feel. Rediscovering breathing room leads to clarity of mind and that is the pathway to a joyful, happy life.
Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching
Studying Health Coaching at the world’s leading coaching school, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I will not diagnose or treat, yet I will be well versed in multidimensional health.
Looking through a wide lens of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, I will empower the people I serve to shine a light in all directions like a lighthouse, helping them bring into awareness what deep down they already know about themselves, what nourishes them on the plate and off the plate, in their environment, in their relationships, and what their body and mind need to regain balance to feel their best possible self.
Proactive Self-Care
From experience, I know there is no ‘one size fits all’ as life changes our needs and wants for health and well-being over time. So, I will encourage you to explore what is not aligned with your best self at this time, or unbeknownst to you, may be opposed to your bio-individuality.
Chronic conditions and diseases such as diabetes, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease, dementia, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and others have been on the rise in most parts of the world for decades – many of these in response to chronic low-grade stress and a way of living for which our ‘bio-software’ has not yet evolved.
Healthcare is reactive, it is ‘sick care’ as Dr. Andrew Weil and other integrative and functional medicine experts say. Spending in the United States alone was at $4.5 trillion in 2022 and continues to rise every year, and yet…we are not healthier in body and mind, or happier.
There is nothing wrong with you, you are not alone
All day and night, life’s complex processes in our bodies happen all on their own. Why does our mind not trust that the body has got this? It’s been said the mind is a terrible master but can be a good servant. Did you know that we get lost in thoughts, mostly unhelpful ones because the mind wants to protect us? Many of us feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. Often without noticing, we sink deeper into the exhaustion funnel that makes life narrower. It makes the horizon and blue sky further and further out of sight and for what brought you joy in the past there is no time or energy left.
Believe me, when I say there is nothing wrong with you, you are not alone. Today’s world easily gets the interconnectedness and relationships within, with others, and with nature, out of balance. As Health Coach, I will listen, without judgment. I will be unconditionally present with you as you explore a more balanced, healthier, and happier way of being. And as a Mindfulness teacher, I invite you to join me in the wonderful learning journey that is life.
