"EMOTION DETOX" Workshops

Consciously Creating Emotional Health and Balance

First and foremost, we all need emotional health and balance in our lives in these chaotic and volatile times in which we are now living.

I have designed an experiential workshop for each of the five main negative emotions and the healthy boundaries we need to create as well:

Fear (stress, anxiety, worry, self-doubt, insecurities) -- See the Healing with Fear workshop --
Anger (frustration, impatience, irritation, judgment, resentment, hate, rage)
Sadness & Grief (longing, melancholy, regrets, attachment, loss...)
Guilt & Shame (embarrassment, self-conscious, apologetic, taking the blame, taking everything personally...)
Aloneness (loneliness, emptiness, disorientation, lost...) --NEW UPCOMING WORKSHOP -- See Below
Boundaries (the guardian of our well-being, the gate of our integrity)

These experiential workshops that are presented below are all based on personal exercises to help us understand, process and release the blocks and negative patterns that we have learned and developed in our childhood to protect ourselves. These complex intricate patterns operate on the physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, therefore we need to address them on these five different levels. This is all done in an environment that is supportive, non-judgmental and compassionate to allow safe personal healing, growth and development.

"UNRESOLVED ANGER" Workshop

How to Deal with Repressed or Overwhelming Anger

Most of us wouldn’t qualify for an “Anger Management course”, yet we all harbor unresolved, undigested, unexpressed anger within.

Are you often experiencing frustration, impatience, irritation, resentment, envy? Are you in a “bad mood” more often than you’d like to be? Are you catching yourself being too judgmental, critical, or controlling? Are you too harsh on yourself and/or others? These are all signs of undigested anger.

Do you know how “healthy anger” looks like? Can you express anger without being aggressive, or fear of losing control and feel good afterwards, being proud of yourself, respecting yourself and others?

This workshop is about understanding our own relationship with anger, and how it affects us and all of our relationships, how it undermines our power and peace of mind. ?
Most of us are either afraid of our anger, or stuck in it, or indulging it. We will explore the many personal ways we deal with anger in non-healthy ways, reacting to the feeling of anger or defending against it, distorting the meaning or our perception, and thus creating self-defeating behaviors.

Anger (in its healthy form) is the guardian of our power and boundaries. We will learn how to accept anger, and express it in a healthy way when appropriate.

This workshop will explore our anger issues in a supportive and non-judgmental way. We will go through personal and group exercises to help us experience our blocks and work on releasing them. It is especially recommended for those who have difficulties feeling, accepting, expressing anger positively or getting stuck in it.

Content and Highlights:

Exploring our own anger patterns in a safe way
Deconstructing our subconscious and learned automatic reactions
Why we can’t express anger in a healthy way
Why we repress or indulge in it, and get stuck in it
Where repressed anger is frozen in our body and nervous system
Our resistance to unacceptable feelings
Healthy anger as the guardian of our power and boundaries
Unhealthy anger keeps us stuck in victim consciousness
What anger hides underneath
How to clear and release past undigested anger
How to start accepting, feeling, allowing and expressing anger
Connecting anger with unmet important emotional needs
Discovering a new healthier and better sense of self.

"UNRESOLVED SADNESS & GRIEF" Workshop

How to to Let Go of Your Emotional Weight

Life is full of joy and pain. Emotional pain. When we can’t process this pain and move through these difficult feelings of loss in an healthy way, we get stuck in sadness. Most of us hold unresolved sadness and grief within.

Are you often feeling sad, low or melancholic, with or without any obvious reason? Do you have difficulty letting go and moving on after a loss? Are you afraid of being disappointed, therefore stifling hope and faith in your desires? Are you fighting depressed feelings ? Are you contemplating the past a lot, full of regrets or longings? These are all signs of unfinished grief and sadness.

Or you might not think you are sad, yet you are exuding sadness as friends or strangers tell you. Instead you might avoid or fight your sadness by working or doing too much, distracting yourself from these feelings.

Sadness (in its healthy form) is the way we process and digest the loss of our emotional attachment; to a person or to a thing that we hold dear.

This workshop is about understanding our own issues with sadness, and how we have processed and digested losses in our lives, or haven’t. We will explore our grief and identify where we got stuck, creating a pattern of being unable to let go. We will learn how to accept sadness, and express it in a healthy way and let it do its job. And we will learn how to release old sadness from our body and subconscious, lifting the weight of our past.

In a supportive and non-judgmental way, we will go through personal and group exercises to help us experience our blocks and work on releasing them. It is especially recommended for those who have difficulties letting go, or who are stuck in sadness.

Content and Highlights:

The healthy purpose of sadness
Understanding our unfinished sadness - the different types of issues
Why we couldn’t and can’t accept sadness in a healthy way
Why we repress or indulge in it, and get stuck in it
Where unfinished sadness is frozen in our body and energy field
Our resistance to unacceptable feelings
The myth and difficulties of the grieving process
Unresolved sadness prevents us to let go and move on
Learning how to fully and completely grieve our losses
The challenge of opening and healing the wounds of the heart
How to clear and release old stuck grief and sadness
How to accept and let go of sadness, despair and hopelessness
How to let go and move on appropriately
Discovering a new healthier and better sense of self.

"FEELING ALONE?" Workshop

Healing Our Disconnection From Others & Ourselves

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at my Office, Toronto,Canada

More often than you like, are you feeling alone, lonely, disconnected, empty, lost, numb or disoriented?

These feelings can be strong or very subtle, chronic or intermittent, nagging us in the background.

We don’t have to be alone to feel alone. We can feel alone in a relationship, or surrounded by family and friends. Or, we might be alone, lacking real nurturing relationships and being estranged from our family. What matters is how we feel deep down or how comfortable or uncomfortable we are with being alone.

These difficult feelings reflect a lack of connection. We are suffering from a disconnection, which is probably not new. We might have been busy to avoid, hide, or deny these feelings, learning to put on a mask and cover them up by trying not to be alone or distract ourselves in any way we found possible (work, positive or negative addictions). This disconnection is like a hole, an emptiness inside of us, like experiencing an empty heart, a hollow self, making it impossible to feel whole, aligned with our soul, essence or true self. How we feel alone inside and around others is what matters.

We feel alone when we disconnect from ourselves, therefore making it impossible to really connect with others.

This experiential workshop will help us understand how we got so disconnected from ourselves and how we can reconnect and learn to fill ourselves up from the inside. It is especially recommended for those who are sensitive, shy or introverted and for those who are feeling disconnected from themselves and others.

Content and Highlights:

Understanding the symptoms of our disconnection from ourselves and others
The hollow self; alone, empty, dry
The hardest feeling to bear is aloneness and despair
The different ways we use to fill up this hole and emptiness
The courage to NOT protect ourselves from these feelings and hole
What our disconnection means
All problems in relationships and family stem from internal disconnection
The deprived and abandoned inner child
The neglected wants, needs, and feelings
The unloving parent/adult: the punishing parent/superego
Our attempt to protect ourselves from rejection and abandonment
The absent and missing mature adult: the inner loving parent
The internal deprivation of love,care, and nurturing (our desert or exile)
The fears, blocks and beliefs that keep us disconnected
The fear of being needy
The willingness or unwillingness to face our pain and fears
The choice between defensive pain (misery) or healing pain (temporary crisis)
Our negative adult role models: controlling, resistant or compliant
How to reconnect with our abandoned inner child
The inner child holds our passion and our heart
How to activate our inner loving parent
How to reconnect with our whole self (relating the different parts)
Connection is the inner feeling of wholeness
How to fill our empty hole on different levels and create fullness
Focusing on and committing to our Joy and inner fulfillment
The daily practice of connection, inner and outer

"GUILT & SHAME DETOX" Workshop

How to to Let Go of Your Toxic Emotional Weight

Guilt and shame are toxic, self-destructive emotions when they are a constant in our life. They often indicate a diminished sense of self and a negative self-identity learned unconsciously from our childhood experience.

Are you often feeling guilty, apologetic, embarrassed or ashamed, with or without any obvious reason? Do you have difficulty expressing yourself spontaneously and freely? Are you often feeling resentful, bitter but can’t express anger directly? Do you experience self-doubt, self-deprecation, and hide your true self a lot? These are all signs of excess guilt and/or shame.

Or you might unconsciously do everything to avoid triggering these feelings, therefore stifling your own self-expression.

Guilt and shame (in their healthy form) have the purpose to alert us when we have done some harm to others but excess guilt/shame constantly keep us on the defensive and in self-doubt.

This workshop is about understanding our own issues with guilt and shame, and how we have caught this sticky program/identity in our early childhood. We will explore our guilt/shame pattern and identify what it does in our life. We will learn how to release guilt and shame from our body and subconscious, lifting the toxic weight of our past. And we will learn how to discover a new healthier sense of self, transmuting guilt into innocence, and shame into goodness.

In a supportive and non-judgmental way, we will go through fun personal and group exercises to help us experience our blocks and work on releasing them. It is especially recommended for those who are shy or focused on helping others.

Content and Highlights:

The healthy purpose of guilt and shame
Understanding our toxic guilt & shame pattern and program
How we learned this program/sense of self in childhood
How it shrunk our self-worth, and inhibited our self-development
Self-depreciation, self-deprecation, self-sacrifice
Our subtle yet powerful focus on others instead of ourselves
Over-responsible and over-caring
The victim/martyr and 2nd-class citizen identity
“I learned to …… my own needs”
The resulting unavoidable self-punishment
Where excess guilt and shame is stuck in our body
How to release those toxic energies & let go of the emotional weight
Transmuting guilt into innocence, and shame into goodness
Discovering a new healthier and better sense of self.

"HEALTHY BOUNDARIES" Workshop

For Healthy Fulfilling Relationships

This workshop is about understanding our personal and psychological boundaries issues; how they affect our relationships, our peace and happiness, how they undermine our power and integrity. ?

We all need clear, healthy personal boundaries if we want to have happy fulfilling relationships.

Our emotions and feelings will show us our boundaries issues. If, in our relationships, we tend to feel drained, overwhelmed, or confused, our boundaries are likely to be too open, permeable, and we loose ourselves in our relationships. On the other hand, if we feel alone, isolated, disconnected, our boundaries are like walls that separate us from others and from our true self.

This workshop will explore our boundaries in a fun and supportive way, and how we can start to re-define healthier boundaries. It is especially recommended for those who are natural helpers and givers (sensitive empaths) and for those who are feeling disconnected and struggling to have fulfilling relationships.

Content and Highlights:

Identifying our boundaries issues and patterns
The different energy patterns: leaks, holes or walls
Our subconscious defensive and survival patterns in boundaries
Boundaries and the body’s nervous system
Emotional shield/armor versus emotional invasion
Feeling our lack of center or heart feelings
Our traumatized emotional body disconnected from our heart
Enmeshed, entangled, co-dependent tendencies
Separated, disconnected, empty tendencies
Persistent subconscious victim consciousness
Out of fear, obligation or out of pure positive desire
Over-responsible and over-care
How to deal with energy vampires
Clearing our energy field & unresolved feelings
Feelings, needs and communication
Saying NO without guilt, fear or concern
Saying YES without obligation or feeling like NO
Releasing blocked energy and wounded feelings from the body
Discovering a new healthier and better sense of self.