Shifting mindsets and conquering life changes.

The benefits of the program (the 3 pillars of Awesomeness):

Mental self care consisting of Cognitive Restructuring, Mindfulness and Meditation will help you:

• Discover, challenge and modify negative and irrational thoughts that are holding you back.
• Reduce stress, anxiety, depression, blood pressure.
• Improve sleep, self-awareness, attention span, memory and emotional regulation.

Practical problem solving will help you:

• Identify the actual (not perceived) challenge(s).
• Identify possible solutions.
• Choose best solution(s) based on personal values and viability.
• Reduce large challenge(s) to small manageable tasks.
• Prioritize effectively.
• Crush challenges and create accomplishment

Regular physical exertion creates consistency and good habits. It also releases 5 brain boosting chemicals: Serotonin, Norepinephrine, BDNF, Dopamine, Endorphins. Together they:

• Reduce depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, pain, fear.
• Improve self-esteem, motivation, confidence, memory function, focus, sleep, low blood pressure, low blood sugar.
• Helps with ADHD, OCD, PTSD

Medical references for all the above are here.

How it works:

When facing a life transitions it’s important to use all tools at our disposal in order to increase our chances of success. This is a 3 prong holistic program encompassing both the mental and physical aspects of our health and adding the problem solving component required to effectively tackle your specific challenges.

• Problem solving
  • We’ll talk about, and if needed, define your direction and goals.
  • We’re going to discuss your challenge(s) and identify potential solutions.
  • We’ll focus in on the optimal solution(s).
  • We’ll break the solution(s) down into small actionable tasks.
  • We’ll create a roadmap and follow it to completion.
  • I will hold you accountable. But you will be expected to hold yourself accountable as well.
• Habits
  • Mental Health – Again, we start slow and easy. Changing our thinking patterns doesn’t happen overnight.
  • We’ll define and understand how our self-critical inner voice works and why. He/she is constantly against us!
  • We focus on your successes and how you can use them to reframe your view of yourself.
  • Later we’ll use the same strategy to reframe specific negative thoughts or views of yourself.
  • We’ll bring in meditation and mindfulness. Hint: they’re super easy and useful.
  • Physical Health – We start slow and easy. The goal is not to spend 3 hours a day at the gym; people generally quit when doing that.
  • The goal is to start creating good habits. Once you get used to doing something and start seeing the benefits, it becomes easy to ramp up.
  • When we do ramp up, you won’t be doing marathons or body building. Unless you want to. Instead, you’ll settle on a program that gets you all the benefits without having to turn your entire life upside-down.