People suffering from negative feelings look to Expert Emotional Self-Care when:

• They’re seeking to replace anxiety and depression with confidence and optimism. 
• They’re frustrated that traditional methods of therapy have failed or even left them more distressed.
• They’re facing growing fears for the quality of their lives. They suspect there are approaches to calm happiness that they don’t know about.
• They want to easily turn on authentic happiness. 
• They want the keys to stop negativity without suppressing or numbing out.
• They realize the people around them are bringing them down.
• They want to work with Brenda and Kris, facilitators trained by Dr Joan Ifland. 

We provide a comprehensive science-based four-week training. To enable individuals to free themselves from the pain of negative feelings.

How We Are Different:

• The Expert Emotional Self-Care course is based on years of experience watching people overcome negative feelings gracefully and easily.
• We work directly from deep experience in the ARC (online recovery community), watching what works and what doesn’t.  We’re not relying on theory but actual peer support experience.
• We’re aware of the broad range of sources of negative thinking and have developed approaches to neutralize each one.
• We combine compassion to resolve trauma with specific techniques to ease the stress of loneliness.
• Our staff is trained in a unique blend of motivational interviewing with compassion and science.  Finding out the ‘why’ often opens the door to recovery.
• The course is affordable at $50.  This course does not leave you alone with a pile of videos.  You are live in the weekly class with facilitators trained by Dr Ifland. Trained peer support is also available at the Expert Emotional Care FB Group.

What you can expect during the 4-week course:

Week 1: Find out how to head off feelings at the source

• People
• Toxic culture
• Trauma
• Food
• Sleep
• Workplace   

Week 2: Learn how to turn on your feel-good brain chemicals

• Learn 5 easy techniques for turning on your dopamine
• Find out how to protect against advertisers assaulting your brain
• Find out how to enhance your own control over pleasure neurotransmitters, including opioids and serotonin. 
• Walk confidently for the rest of your life in your ability to determine your own emotions.   

Week 3: Make emotions your friends

• Learn a practical, easy exercise to use emotions to heal pain
• Use emotions to heal rather than retraumatize
• Find out how to turn off fear of negative emotions
• Slow down emotions long enough to calm them
• Use emotions to trace their origins and heal them

Week 4: How to stop people from hurting you

• Learn a 7-Step process to gain immediate relief from others’ hurtful behaviors 
• Learn effective alternatives to ‘forgiving.’
• Escape lifelong anger and grief.
• Walk free from others’ control over you.

How the LIVE Course works:

√ When you register, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom room.

√ Classes are held at 7p Eastern US on Tuesdays. 

√ You will receive links to the videos being presented before each class by email. 

√ You will also receive activities to grow your skills between classes.

√ To further the skills you’ll be developing, we will create a FB Group where you can interact anytime.  Brenda and Kris, trained peer support advocates will check into the group twice daily for four weeks of the course.

Questions? Email [email protected]

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