Self-Awareness: Returing to Your Authenticity

You will receive a PDF file to download with all of the instructions to access the course.

How often do you wonder why the same old patterns keep showing up?

Are you caught off guard with a health crisis you didn’t see coming?

Do you end up in the same kind of relationships over and over?

Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms?

What if these symptoms and patterns are you telling you something is off and needs to be addressed or corrected?

This course is a beginning of the tools I share with my clients to assess their readiness for addressing issues they come to therapy for. It is designed to assist you in rediscovering, remembering, returning to, who you are authentically.

When we are little, we are authentically ourselves. As we go through life, we take on conditioning from our families, culture, socio-economic circumstances, media, education, and so on. We can lose track of who we really are.

When we are living from our Authenticity, our Core Stability, dealing with daily life become easier.

This core stability makes it so much less overwhelming.

This is an Experiential Course.

You will learn by doing the activities, not by understanding and thinking about it. When you experience the activities, you develop a felt sense of the information which involves all of the areas of the brain, conscious and other than conscious.

• The course is divided over 4 weeks. You have to complete the week before to move to the next week.
• Do not skip any of the sections. Make sure to do them in order. There is a method to my madness.
• Each section builds on the last one.
• Each week builds on the last one. You are welcome to repeat a week if you feel you would like more depth of experience.
• By going through the experience of each section and week you will have the repetition needed to:
  • Begin to have more awareness.
  • Begin to discover your own innate language.
  • Begin to trust your innate signals.

You will have access to the course for 180 days if you wish to go deeper and repeat it.

Self-Awareness allow you to:

• Learn how somatic and emotional signals and quality of thoughts (not content) communicate with you.
• Helps you learn your own innate language and trust it.
• Learn what is true for you.
• Allows you to make choices from what is true for you instead of conditioning.
• Let's you know what is going on with other people.
• Helps you identify what is Truth vs a Lie or Limitation.
• Become more aware of the kind of choices you make when you are aware and when you are not.
• Do you know what is true for you? Do you choose based on what is true for you, or from external expectations that may be detrimental to you?

Some things to be aware of before starting this course.

1. If you have a significant trauma history, you may have developed dissociation as a way of managing the overwhelm. This can look and feel different to different people.
2. If you have chronic ongoing pain, you may have developed a pattern of dissociation to protect yourself from the pain and be able to still do things.

Self-Awareness helps you to be aware of all your signals. Good news and bad news. Good news you are more aware. Bad news you are more aware.

In some cases, people do not recall their trauma history because of the overwhelm so when they start reconnecting memories can come forward.

If this could be an issue for you it is best if you are already in psychotherapy, so you have help from your therapist to negotiate becoming more aware without being overwhelmed. There are a number of skills you can develop in psychotherapy to handle difficult things coming up.

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Debra Littrell has been a licensed mental health counselor since 1977. She is a EMDR Facilitator with the EMDR Institute and EMDR HAP and an EMDR Approved Consultant. She facilitates workshops and writes as well. She teaches a series of courses for mental health professions called Somatic & Energetic Resourcing.

She has been on Faculty with the EMDR Institute as a Facilitator since 1996 and is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She has provided critical incident services and crisis intervention for emergency service personnel and businesses. She has written a number of training programs for mental health practitioners, teachers, emergency service personnel, and the general public. She has been a facilitator for a number of organizations. Her book for Mental Health Practitioners, "Somatic & Energetic Resourcing - Facilitating Clients Living Authentically" was published in 2015.

Her focus with clients has been to do experiential activities that help them discover the difference between who they are authentically and who they have been conditioned to be. Giving them tools to undo the conditioning so their authenticity can emerge. And resolving traumatic experiences that block them from coming fully into themselves.