The classes are open to anyone that is interested in growing, learning, and improving themselves and their relationships.

• $100 per person, per class

• Keys to Understanding Your Codependency
• Monday, April 1, 6-9 PM
• Thursday, April 4, 9-Noon

• Discover Your True Essence
• Monday, April 15, 6-9 PM
• Thursday, April 18, 9-Noon

• The Gift of Shame
• Monday, April 29, 6-9 PM
• Thursday, May 2, 9-Noon

Workshop:

• $150 per person, per workshop

• Relationship and Spirituality: A Brain System Approach
• Saturday, April 27, 9 AM – 1 PM

The workshops are for professionals in the fields of counseling/psychology, education, business, and the clergy who are interested in the impact of brain systems on themselves and the work they do.

  One of the things we know from current brain research is that unconditional love and acceptance turns off the fear mechanism of the brain.  This means that you do not need to feel love toward someone or something, you just have to feel loving and the brain will shift.  Learning to shift our brain intentionally gives us more options to live by as it opens pathways in the brain that help us see possibilities and hope in our circumstances.   Try sitting and think of a situation that usually sends you into an anxiety or fear mode.  After you are “feeling it” work to refocus on something or someone that gives you a sense of love, peace, or compassion.  If you don’t feel it at first keep at it.  You will feel your brain shift.  Amazing!

Debrah Williams, Copyright@2009

In order to have healthy relationships we need to be able to establish 4 different
fundamentals in the relationship and practice them on a regular basis

• Emotional Clarification
• Know your Value System and Moral Code
• Be able to Self Reflect and Self Observe during difficult moments
• Be compassionate and self forgiving

The discipline of these 4 fundamentals is not easy, but they have the potential to
transform relationships and life. These 4 fundamentals are based on the premise that how you see yourself determines how you relate to others

I tell people that if you think the issue is the issue, and you have been
working on it for years, and nothing has changed, it probably isn’t the
issue or you would have fixed it by now.

Personal Improvement strategies:

• Clarify true emotions and thoughts, not what you have told your -self they are, but what they really are.
• Learn how to be responsible for your true emotions and thoughts, which includes, but not limited to, communication skills, learning how to stand for your-self without blaming others, living a values based life without judgment, assessing what you want and don’t want for your life, standing powerfully for what you want without controlling others, etc.
• Discover how to live life with intention and where to be intentional.
• Create balance in your life between living your life intentionally and remaining open and caring to those you love.

Personal Improvement is a key component to being successful in our relationships and professional life. This is often the area most often ignored and yet can reap the greatest benefits to our lives.

Spiritual growth is one of those areas that is often difficult to get to. Let’s talk first about the difference between spirituality and religion. Religion is the expression of our spirituality. Spirituality is the internal awareness that the core of who we are is connected to a greater purpose in life, and that everything that happens in life, our experiences, our personality, our opportunities, and our pain, are all a part of guiding and shaping us into that purpose.

To grow spiritually is often facing the things we cannot change to find the things we can change, and then choosing to be transformed and moved by the experience. This happens through creating awareness of how the soul speaks and gives information regarding the internal journey. In this noisy world we are not taught how to spiritually listen, but the human spirit is always expressing itself, but we shut it down and eventually the voice of our spirit grows so dim, we no longer hear it.

Reawakening your ability to listen and hear the inner you is a
process of recognizing:

• The faulty thinking, the fears, and insecurities that set you up to
  disconnect from your spirit
• How to use your 8 senses to become aware of yourself and the world.
• Thinking skills and types of attention that promote spiritual understanding.
• True emotions and human feelings are not the same thing.

You can begin to reawaken the natural skills of spiritual listening. Spiritual listening is a type of internal listening that is a skill. You can discover a deeper spiritual life that is satisfying and contented regardless of what is going on in the rest of your life and world.

• The economy
• Changes in the culture
• The stress of life
• Family needs
• Etc.

I have found having a career you love starts by learning what it is you don’t want and what doesn’t work for you, so you can discover what you do want. We no longer live in a time when people work for 30 years at the same job. Today people may change careers several times in their life time.

There are several things to take into account when changing a career:

• The stage of life you and your family are in
• Your economic concerns
• Your natural talents
• All the skills you have learned through all your other jobs
• Your relationships
• Your goals and dreams
• Your beliefs about yourself

Receiving help to sort this all out can be highly beneficial in discovering your next step and creating movement toward a positive future.

The Steps Toward Movement Are:

The greatest “success” in life comes when all of these things line up. Balancing reality, while remaining positive and proactive, is the difference between those who accomplish their dreams and goals, and those who do not.

If you need help getting out of your own way to move beyond your road blocks in changing your career or business mindset please call for an appointment, 360-314-2885.