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- Learn your perspective on Life & Recovery
- Determine your wants, needs, and options to make a change plan and/or behavior to Move Forward
- Observe & Reflect reoccurring negative patterns, reframe it with a positive focus forward mindset.
- Identify external & internal barriers to achieve greater clarity around your Purpose/Passion
- Tackle hurdles more effectively to improve goal setting & productivity.
- Improve personal core values/ boundaries, independence and security.
- Enhance personal mental health wellness. Influence Self-discovery & Self-care
- Provide Accountability & Support
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- Every individual’s journey is tailored to be uniquely designed for self. How we choose to design our life determines the destiny of our life.
- We are not able to know everything, but we can make choices.
- What is preventing you from choosing Self-care? Your self-care: physically, mentally, spiritually.
- If you are committed to moving forward and open to new perspectives by positive reinforcement, this is a great place to reclaim wellness and recovery.
- I WILL NOT enforce any techniques. Each coaching session is different.
Your level of transparency and honesty enables the light at the end of tunnel. How do we get there is based upon you, and I will be there every step of the way throughout our sessions.
Moving Forward Foundation Services
Adjustment & Adjustment Disorder | Life Transitions | Grief & Grieving
Adjustment is the process of adapting or becoming used to a new use or situation.
Adjustment disorder is a prolonged response to strong emotional or behavioral reaction to stressful or traumatic life events. Different events may activate different reactions.
Examples of Possible Stressor & Triggering Events:
- Death of a loved one
- Divorce/ problems with relationships.
- General Life Changes => illness / health issues in yourself or loved one.
- Relocating to a new home or city
- Unexpected catastrophes (mass casualties / natural disasters)
- Financial constraints.
The examples above are identified as “Life Transitions”: a major shift in personal & social circumstance.
It can be internal, external, expected, unexpected, forced upon or chosen by you. Life transitions are inevitable and can affect individuals differently, but coping can make changes bearable.
There are two forms of coping: Adaptive & Maladaptive (Health vs unhealthy). Recognizing the distinction helps individuals make conscious choices to cope positively.
- Adaptive coping is positive and supportive. It involves you to be active, accommodative, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive. Ex.) Exercise, Self-care, supportive circle
- Maladaptive coping is harmful, worsening stress, and difficulty handling emotions. Techniques appear helpful, produce more problems, and provide temporary relief. Maladaptive coping engages in denial and self-criticism. Ex.) Substance Use, Self-harm or injury, Binge eating, risk taking, overcompensating.
Through a proven-effective approach, you will learn to overcome the fear of adjustment through life transition. Author Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a renowned expert in Grief & Grieving, focuses on achieving independence, clarity, balance, happiness, and acceptance.
Discover and apply the 5 stages of grief leading to acceptance and the significance of grieving. Grief does not only apply to a death of a loved one, but it is the experience after a significant loss in something or someone. Instead of denying our feelings, we listen to our needs, move, change, grow and evolve.
We cannot live again until we have given grief, it’s time to reach acceptance in your new reality.
Addiction is the condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
Substance Use & Behavioral addictions are two main types of addiction.
Addiction Recovery is the process of change in which people are improving their health & wellbeing. It can be difficult to get back into recovery after relapse.
It is beneficial to practice healthy habits daily to improve your physical and mental health outcomes.
Nurturing internal self-motivation is crucial by assessing the first step of making changes, recognizing your attitude, and accepting responsibility for mindset changes.
The (7) seven facets of wellbeing can promote recovery to sobriety:
- Social: set up supportive relationships and social networks
- Emotional; managing your emotions effectively & accepting your worth to express yourself in health way “coping with life challenges.”
- Environmental: Understanding how your surroundings & community impact your overall wellbeing
- Intellectual: actively engaging in activities to promote continuous learning
- Spiritual: discovering meaningful purpose and connection that guide your life
- Physical: maintain a healthy quality of life through exercise and a nutritional diet.
- Financial: Understanding your current financial situation, develop responsibility, and plan.
Hoarding & Hoarder Disorder / Organization
Being organized creates a sense of mental clarity to process your surroundings and tackle tasks effectively. Living a cluttered lifestyle cause life to become unorganized and unmanageable.
Mental Clutter refers to overwhelming thoughts, worries, or concerns that make it difficult to find peace. This can spill over to your living area accumulating possessions disorganizing your space causing Physical clutter. Left undealt with clutter can lead to isolation from social networks, hoarding & hoarding disorder.
There are (5) Five levels of hoarding:
- Minimal Clutter – Organization and cleanliness are appropriate and well kept.
- Mild Clutter – unnoticeable to friends& family. The home is a little cluttered, but all doors, windows or stairway are accessible. Purchases or collected items are not needed but having trouble getting rid of items.
- Moderate Clutter – items spilled outside the home (porches/ decks/ backyards) Sanitation and hygiene conditions become an issue increasing unsafe environment.
- Server Clutter – structural damage within the home and infestation causing a mental health crisis.
- Extreme Clutter – Condition is unlivable due to no utilities and potential fire hazards. It is common to face legal proceedings about the condition of the residence.
Recognizing the (5) five levels of hoarding can help you understand the spilled over clutter in your life. It is important to keep an organized living environment for both mental and physical well-being.
Advance care directive & planning involves discussing and preparing for future decisions about your medical care. Conversations with your loved ones are the most important part of advance care planning. Common medical conditions requiring care at the critical life stages include:
- Cancer
- Dementia
- Alzheimer’s
- Advanced lung, heart, kidney, and liver disease
- Stroke and other neurological disease (MS – Multiple Sclerosis)
- Huntington’s diseases
- HIV/ AIDS
- Other degenerative or deteriorating conditions relating to age.
Having a plan in place can help you get the proper care you want and reduce the burdens on your loved ones when decisions are made during a stressful time.
Everyone approaches advance care planning differently, but deciding what works best for you and take one step at a time.
The purpose of advance care planning is to empower individuals to have control over their medical decisions and provide clarity during challenging times.
Teen/ Young Adult Mediation & Coaching | Marriage & Family
As a teenager, growing to become a young adult one day presents many challenges to handling (4) aspects of their life: Personal, Family, School, and Social. Self-esteem issues, bullying, academic pressure, peer pressure, mood swings, mental health, and constructing an independent life from their parents is to name a few.
Some signs your teen or young adult could be struggling through their life:
- Low energy levels
- Lack of interest in personal / social activities
- Lack of motivation
- Misuse of drugs/ alcohol / vaping
- Poor school performance
- Anxiety (&/or) Depression
- Low interaction with family & friends / Isolation
- Lack of concentration and unable to complete tasks.
- Change of appetite
Challenges are unique to the teen, as a parent you want to create a supportive environment to address their inner challenges and empower self-confidence. Parents contribute to the well-being and development of their teenagers, transforming into young adults.
As a family, we often develop family roles:
- Scapegoat
- Enabler
- Lost child
- Hero
- Addict
- Mascot
- Adult children of alcoholics (ACOA).
Assuming a role reflects the family dynamics and conflict within the family tree. Family hangovers are unpleasant signs of behaviors that develop and lead to generations of dysfunction. Breaking unhealthy habits and creating a positive family environment for the future generations.
A family is formed from two individuals with a shared vision, potentially resulting in marriage creating unity. As life transitions, time can cause individuals to divert from the foundation and purpose.
NOT reassessing the relationship can lead to unhealthy ways of dealing with your stress and emotional outbursts. Less communication, little to no intimacy, irritability, and different values develops a wedge within the Family.
Regrouping and completing a Body Mind Heat (BMH) scan to understand what is happening. How you react influences the reactions of the family. Understanding the primal needs of the marriage can guide the relationship between the family dynamics and environment.
Personal Development | Time Management |Procrastination
Personal development enhances both personal and professional growth. Creating a personal vision (1month/ 6 month/ 1 year), implementing SMART goals & milestones, influences motivational purpose to become the best version of yourself.
ADHD (Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) Anxiety
ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders beginning from childhood and can transition into adulthood. Lack of awareness and transitional care from childhood to adulthood leads into having difficulty paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors, acting without thinking lead to unstable relationships, low productivity, low performance, and low self-esteem. The quality of life is improved by fostering a supportive environment promoting understanding and awareness.
Anger Management | Conflict Resolution
It is natural to become defensive when you are criticized, however, we are in control of how we respond. There are (3) three approaches when dealing with anger (Expressing, Suppressing, and Calming):
- Expressing anger aggressively is the instinctive way to respond to conflict or criticism. It can provide a sense of release and may lead to negative consequences or escalate conflict.
- Suppressing anger prevents the outward expression of anger. It can be rerouted into constructive behavior or bottling the emotions and cause internal destruction. (anxiety, hypertension/high blood pressure, depression).
- Calming anger allows you to control irrational expressions behavior and subsiding negative internal responses.
Mental Health First Aid & Crisis Intervention
Youth / Adult mental health first aid offers help to a person experiencing a mental health challenge or mental health crisis. Using the action plan “ALGEE” helps me to decide if you are experiencing a crisis or non-crisis event. MHFA is given until appropriate help is received or until the crisis resolves. It is a vital link to intervention: seeing the changes in behavior, offering a nonjudgmental listening ear, and respecting the privacy of the youth & family. This is aimed to help minimize the feeling of distress and use effective steps to seek support. If you have specific questions or are interested in becoming a certified mental health first aid, please tell me!
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