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Anxiety & Burnout Therapies

It’s time to address your anxiety and long- term stress when you are in a state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. This can occur with burnout (recognised by the World Health Organisation) when you experience long-term stress and feel under constant pressure whatever the cause. Whilst burnout can be caused by stress it isn’t the same as stress. With burnout, you feel so detached and demotivated that it impacts on your ability to function and you feel hopeless that your situation can change.

Burnout can occur when you have repeated and prolonged demands that exceed resources. Our bodies are designed for resilience and wired for healing but can’t help you when you are constantly in the flight and fight mode. Your brain needs help to rewire from this deregulated state of your nervous system. Firstly you need to switch of your fight or flight gears in your body which are instructing your brain to work for a different purpose, and neutralise any damaging effects before switching on the correct brain to repair and heal your body. This is where you feel back home in your body ready to embrace all the things you enjoy in your life. This healing process takes time to reduce the impact of your anxiety or burnout on all areas of your life sapping your energy and motivation.

Burnout is a gradual process over time and the symptoms can be recognised physically, emotionally and behaviourally. Most people will experience a combination of the symptoms below that includes severe exhaustion, feeling cut off from others, and feeling they have no hope, energy or reason to change.

Physical symptoms include: Feeling tired or exhausted most of the time. Reoccurring insomnia and sleep. Frequent headaches. Muscle or joint pain. Gastrointestinal problems, such as feeling sick or loss of appetite. frequent illness due to lowered immunity. High Blood Pressure. Issues breathing.

Emotional Symptoms include: Feeling helpless, trapped, and/or defeated. Self-doubt, feeling a failure or worthless. Feeling detached and alone in the world. Feeling overwhelmed. Feeling demotivated, having a cynical/negative outlook. Lacking a sense of satisfaction and achievement. Loss of interest and enjoyment. Persistent feelings of dread, worry and anxiety.

Behavioural Symptoms include: Procrastinating and taking longer to complete things. Difficulty concentrating. Decreased output and productivity. Becoming isolated and withdrawing from people, responsibilities etc. Reliant on food, drugs or alcohol to cope. irritable and short-tempered, likely to have outbursts and take frustrations out on others. Increased tardiness, being late for work and/or higher absenteeism.

Burnout isn’t something which goes away on it’s own. If ignored or left untreated it could worsen and lead to chronic physical and mental health conditions such as heart disease or depression. Depending on the factors causing a person to become burnt out, the solutions and treatments will differ. I have designed a couple of options to help you with anxiety and burnout with my own holistic therapy style. These treatments are not a substitute for medication and contact your GP if you feel that your anxiety is chronic.

My Mindfulness Motivation course allows you to simply start exploring how you move through your life, through learning science backed proven tools to start unpacking your life in a safe and controlled way. This is for when you are ready to make lasting change. (Mindfulness page).

My Burnout & Rebalance Rescue Workshop  (explained below) will help you start your self care to address tension held with your physical body and learn how to quiet a busy mind. Massage is incorporated into this workshop to allow your body to neutralise and reset any negative burnout effects. This is an ideal start to gently introduce yourself to holistic mind body therapies.

There are lots of science based tools to help you, and you can also come for a lesson in any aspect of Mindfulness, Emotional freedom Technique and my holistic therapies. One thing is for sure is that you have to start somewhere. From experience I know that it is actually quite straight forward to regain control by using simple researched tools to get you back on track again living life how you want to and feel is right for you. You need to stop the anxiety loop in motion and as each of us is different I recommend finding the right tools and techniques for you. I offer taster sessions in various techniques so that you can adapt them to what fits right for you. It’s all about trial and error and each lesson let’s you experience different techniques and give you the tools to build on what fit’s you best at home. It’s better to show, don’t tell with your body and allow it to let you know what works. No room for ego or assumptions here as your body through mindfulness says the yeah or neah here! Remember when you are stressed your wrong brain is on!!

Before your appointment I will send you a consultation form and information to ensure I have you booked in for the best therapy for you.

Example of a lesson below.

Meditation for beginners lesson – Meditation is awareness and can be anything where your mind is in ‘aware’ mode and free from distractions, such as watching the breath or listening to birds sing. If you are completely new to meditation practices this lesson teaches you the different ways you can meditate for example: out walking or movement meditation, through guided meditations, mantra meditations or simply the traditional way. You will be able to go home and work with what method suits you best to help you calm your body for restorative healing. Once you have introduced a meditation practice to your daily routine I will start on teaching you Mindfulness breathing meditations to help you with focused non judgemental awareness to allow you to navigate your day with more resilience and calm.

Mindfulness Breathing Techniques lesson – Breath is one of the most used tools in meditation practices – and for a good reason. It’s always with you, but it’s not fixed in place, it flows on. And it follows the rhythms of life: it’s born, and it dies, and it’s born again.

Grounding Relaxation Techniques lesson – It’s all about feeling grounded restoring your body and mind to neutral before you proceed in life. You will sample different techniques and go home knowing how to work on restoring your body to neutral to switch on your rest and digest instruction to your brain. You are a human machine after all needing maintenance.

Mindfulness Visualisation lesson – Imagination – It is human nature to think negatively. We can naturally fall into a state or cycle of negative thinking much more easily than into a positive thought cycle. To think positively, we seem to need to put effort and intention into it. Whereas, to think negatively can seem almost comfortable to slip into at times. Just as we have a brain or mind to develop strategies and plan, we also have the power to imagine. It is how the mind conceives and creates, and this in itself forms an energy that can be motivating and positive or negative and draining. Therefore, using the imagination for positivity is key when practicing Mindfulness. Using it for negative imagining or worry is counterproductive.

‘The imagination is more important than knowledge ‘ (Albert Einstein)

So the imagination can have a positive or negative impact on our psyche and general wellbeing. So it is very important to think positively in daily life. Your thoughts are tools that can support or wound you: use your thoughts, imaginings and words wisely.

Emotional Freedom Technique lesson – This shows you how to manage chronic stress with a cutting-edge energy medicine tool that is so easy to learn. EFT is virtually limitless and there is no area in your life where it can’t be used, and often works where other interventions have failed. (information on Mindfulness page)

Chi Gung lesson – is a holistic system of co ordinated body posture and movement, breathing and meditation. This Mind Body holistic therapy works on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels in the body. (information on Body page)

Burnout & Anxiety Rebalance Rescue Workshop 

This workshop has been designed for times when you feel completely off balance and don’t feel yourself.
From experience, I know what combination of treatment techniques work to help you switch off your mind, and turn off your stress response within your body when life experiences are too much. You will leave feeling like that mini-break, relaxed feeling with the help of an infrared sauna blanket treatment. Which helps to calm your mind with its soothing pain & tension-relieving benefits. Infrared therapy has been shown to lower cortisol stress hormones within the body.

This rescue workshop is for times when you need to zone out, release tight sore muscles, quiet your mind, reduce head & jaw tension, and relax a weary body. It’s a follow-me style of workshop so that you can relax but also pick up some movement postures to help at home. This workshop includes a seated Energy Skill practice to release neck, head, shoulder, and body tension. An Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) Meditation & guided Imagery on the couch will calm the mind. An Infrared sauna blanket will ease those weary muscles with a soothing deep sleep essential oil blend on acupressure trigger points.

Other many documented benefits of Infrared include – Muscle and Joint Pain. Using infrared for joint and muscle soreness has been popular long before the beauty industry stumbled upon the effectiveness of weight loss and cellulite reduction. Localized infrared treatments have been used for years in natural health alternatives for many years. Infrared has been said to help those suffering pain due to arthritis or any form of muscle fatigue and soreness. Other benefits may be increased heart rate, improved immune system, relaxed muscle, decreased joint stiffness, relieved pain associated with soft tissue injuries, burn calories and results in water weight loss, balanced endocrine system and hormones, increased circulation and blood flow, increased extensibility of collagen tissue, helps resolve inflammatory conditions and produces endorphin – induced relaxation.

Information will be provided for you to further ease your tension at home using Chi Gung style
postures.

Please allow 2hrs 30 for this Workshop, £110.

This Workshop is also available on selected

weekend dates.
Payment is required at booking and is non-refundable if less than 72 hours ‘ notice to cancel is given.

No amendments to this workshop.