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Hi there! I'm Doug and I offer 1 on 1 Holistic Lifestyle and Mental Health Coaching sessions. Navtigating life with mental health issues of any sevarity is a hard road. Your path to vibrant health in all aspects is soley your own. It can be extrordinarily overwhelming to take on this journey on your own. I understand this because of my own first hand experience with severe anxiety and panic disorder. I spent 15 years of my life plauged with intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, and a general feeling of dread most days.
In order to heal ourselves from trauma of any kind, we must bring balance to ourselves in all aspects (body, mind, and spirit). The body is a complex cascade of systems upon systems. When one of those systems falls out of balance, it has effects on different (sometimes seemingly unrelated) parts of the self. I will help you develop your own personal practices to restore balance in yourself.
Tarot is a wonderful intuitive coaching tool to help you find clarity and guidance around your current life circumstances and choices. Tarot brings to the surface information that may be helpful for you to consider and reflect on, about your feelings, needs, hopes, obstacles, and ways to move forward and overcome those obstacles. Tarot helps to validate your own inner wisdom and make more empowered decisions.
The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) provides a training in mindfulness meditation and awareness practices which have been shown to reduce stress, and increase well-being for people with a wide range of concerns, from stress and anxiety, to chronic pain and insomnia and many more conditions. It was developed by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn in 1979 in the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
In the last 30 years MBSR has been rigorously researched and has been found to be effective with many forms of stress; from relationships, parenting, work, as well as chronic pain, and dealing with illnesses such as cancer. The MBSR curriculum allows participants to find their own inner resources for living life with more ease and resilience. It is the most highly researched mindfulness based intervention and spans many populations and disciplines. The MBSR programme has served over 24,000 participants over the last three decades.
The course is interactive, supportive, and structured. It runs for 8 weeks, and each class is 1.5 hours. The MBSR will provide you with:
Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices, ie: body scan, mindful movement, breath awareness and more
An inquiry process to deepen individual and group understanding to support aligning ourselves to being more present in our lives
Opportunities to discuss how to work with obstacles to mindfulness, and how we can best integrate mindfulness into daily life in a variety of ways.
Less reactivity, and more awareness – building a greater ability to respond to life’s demands and difficulties with skill, openness, and self kindness
The programme is both rewarding and challenging and requires a high level of ongoing commitment to yourself and the home practice. Home practice is a major part of the course and will involve guided mindfulness practices of about 30 minutes a day. All materials needed will be provided including mp3s of guided practices, and a pdf handbook.
I hold a MSc in Mindfulness-Based Interventions from the School of Psychology at University College Dublin and I am a member of, and adhere to, the standards set down by the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland.
I spend thirty minutes with you giving a general reading of whatever you like. It can be over the phone, over video call, over text. Whatever you’re comfortable with, all I ask is you remain interactive during it to get the most out of your reading.