Are you in the Pasadena/Los Angeles area? Why not treat yourself to a weekend of life-giving learning and exercises as part of intentional self-care?
Culture Honey is excited to let our readers know about an innovative new Self-Care Workshop coming up in Pasadena, California on October 18th & 19th, 2024! The workshop will be led by psychotherapist Heidi Pidcoke and physical therapist Chantal Donnelly. Both women have been interviewed by Culture Honey, so you can read more about them and their work here!
Do you feel stuck & overwhelmed? Would you like to increase your capacity to respond to stress and feel more at ease in your day-to-day life?
This Self-Care Workshop entitled, “Settled” after the book of the same name penned by Chantal Donnelly will take place at All Saints Church at 132 N Euclid Ave, 91101. The workshop will run from 10am to 5:30pm both days and will offer tools and techniques to create new neural pathways and to develop a deeper sense of wellbeing and happiness.
This workshop is for you if you are/have:
- Going through a transition (marriage, divorce, parenthood, career change etc…)
- Struggling with lack of confidence
- Chronic pain/illness
- Relationship problems or loneliness
- Parent who wants to be more regulated and grounded with their children
- Constant mental chatter, rumination, or anxiety.
- Indecision around both important and trivial choices
- Feeling unmotivated
- Easily overwhelmed
- Lack of energy
- Insomnia (waking at 2 or 3 am and unable to return to sleep)
- Digestion problems
- Addictive behaviors
- Excessive worrying
- Focus or memory problems
- Unwanted flooding of sensations and emotions
- Feeling disconnected or shut down
- A pervasive sense of lack of safety
Lowering your stress and staying more frequently in a regulated state can lead to:
- More clarity during transitions in life
- More confidence
- Less pain
- Better sleep
- Less relationship conflicts
- A sense of healthy connection with others
- A quiet mind
- Better focus and memory
- Good digestion
- Behaviors that enhance wellbeing instead of being excessive
- Feeling regulated and grounded with self and others
- Able to tolerate challenges
- Motivated to seek novel experiences and to engage in life activities
- Present moment thinking instead of living in the future or past
This interactive, experiential, and soul-filling, 2-day retreat will highlight Pidcoke’s international work in healing and trauma, as well as gems from Donnelly’s book, SETTLED: How to Find Calm in a Stress Inducting World.
The cost for this two day workshop is $335 per person and registration can be found here.
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