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?