As the calendar inches toward November and December, are you dreading the approaching holidays?
The pain of the losses of family, traditions and connections are overwhelming through the Holidays.
Learn to navigate this difficult time of the year with eight guided lessons on Self-care, boundaries and coping skills to help your navigate the grief that the holidays can bring.
Healing Through the Holidays
Finding your Self Again After Betrayal and Divorce
Eight Small Group Weekly Gatherings
Wednesday Zoom Meetings at 6:30-7:30 PM EST
November 2, 9, 16, 30
December 7, 14, 21 and 28
Recordings shared with you if can’t make it
Are you tired of the roller coaster of emotions?
Hi, I’m LaDonna and I’ve been on the roller coaster.
Grief straps us in and takes us for a ride through the debris of betrayal and divorce.
We loop around and upside down through shock, denial, obsession, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
The ride often starts over again just when you think you've hit solid ground. You may get the message that others expect you just to step off and move on.
If only it were that easy, right?
Holidays can start the roller coaster again.
I created Healing Through the Holidays specifically to guide you through the holidays with the strategies you need to care for your Self and to move into 2023 with a vision for the new year.
These are the steps that I used and have shared with women through my 33 years as a psychotherapist.
Healing Through the Holidays includes:
Eight Live Lessons (with replays)
Weekly Worksheets for Each Lesson
Weekly Journal Prompts
Monthly Q&A Sessions
Healing Through the Holidays
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Gathering Our Hearts
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Healing Through the Holidays 〰️ Gathering Our Hearts 〰️
Your Eight Steps To Navigate Through the Holidays
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1. Understanding the Ongoing Losses after Divorce
-Assess the changes and transitions that your divorce has brought to your world. How is life different? All losses aren’t bad!
-Complete a Loss Inventory and Impact Statement
-Learn your needs in caring for your Self based on your personality style
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2. Why am I feeling this way? Name Your Grief
-Understanding the many faces of grief
-Recognize the Self-care cues that your emotions are sending and how to respond
-Create Self-care strategies that meet the strength of the emotion
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3. Who Am I Now? Rediscovery of your Self
-Uncover parts of your Self that are hidden under the pain, maybe even years after the divorce
-Discover what is NOT lost
-Evaluate your Worth and Confidence
-How to find and voice your needs with confidence
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4. Grief Fog, Betrayal Brain and Trauma Impact
-Learn how betrayal, grief and trauma impact how your brain functions, short-term and long-term and how to cope with these changes
-Develop your steps to create satisfying Holidays
-Management tools: Mind Over Mood
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5. Boundaries: Not Everyone or Everything Is Welcome
-What are healthy boundaries
-The fear of losses when we set healthy boundaries
-How our personality impacts our boundary setting
-Create and hold boundaries with your Self and Others
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6. Nurturing Your New Life
-Create your VIsion for your Future Self
-How Change Theory can help in transitions
-Make your plan for reaching your goals
-Assess what is limiting your growth
-Kick off your Personal Challenge to create your next chapter.
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7. Gifts to My Self
-What gifts do you bring to the world?
-What gifts do you want to give your self?
-Start getting to know your Authentic Self
-Bypass limiting beliefs and emotions that hinder your steps into the future
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8. Creating Your Pathway to 2023
-Putting the Pieces together to create your pathway to 2023
-New healing experiences over the Holidays to help you face future challenges
-Greet 2023 with new Life Strategies
-Celebrate You!
