Reset Your Wellbeing
Move from anxiety and overwhelm to a more aware and peaceful you who consciously chooses to engage in life from a space of positivity, calm, and centeredness and who successfully responds to life’s adversities in a mindful and higher self way.
Stress can become our constant, disruptive companion…
Sometimes stress is good. It makes life interesting, keeps us engaged, safe and on our feet. But sometimes stress hits us out of the blue. Life can take an unexpected turn and our steadiness gets upended.
Stress also has the tendency to accumulate in our lives, especially if we don’t pay attention to its subtle warning signs. Some annoyance here, a little irritability there, not enough sleep one night, then another one and then some more.
In modern culture, stress has become our constant and baseline companion. It just won’t go away. We are always running and seldom if ever slowing down to live each moment.
We feel like we have lost our ability for joy, true connection, and calm.
When we find ourselves in that situation, it’s important to know that:
- you can’t ignore stress – because once you’ve passed that threshold of healthy stress, it can damage your physical, emotional, and mental health
- you can’t white-knuckle your way through chronic stress – because our minds just don’t work that way
- you can’t outrun chronic stress – because your body just can’t create enough endorphins to sustain a runner’s high long enough
But here is the good news: stress can successfully be addressed with science-based techniques learned through awareness, education, and practice.
And this is exactly what we are going to do in our signature program, gently, slowly, intentionally, with guidance, and loads of support.
Program at a glance: Classes are now closed! Stay tuned for more offerings or visit our custom class page to set up private courses for your group.
- Fall 2023 classes coming stay tuned! (8-session course with weekly 60-minute zoom calls)
- Weekly group Zoom class: Tuesdays 7-8:15 PM ET
Location: Online - Instructor: Aimee Lamendola & Brienne Sembrat
- Price: Three monthly payments of $147 each
Please contact us for reduced cost options. We want you to be able to take this course regardless of financial circumstances. You can choose 75, 50 or 25% off. Please pay per your financial ability!
Contact us with any questions:)
What else is included
- Introduction to PART (Positivity and Relaxation Training), based on evidence-based research by Herbert Benson, MD (Harvard Medical School).
- Daily text reminders, support and inspiration.
- Weekly e-mails to prepare for class and to review after, with action items for the week.
- Educational Manual/Workbook prepared by Harvard Medical School.
- Mutual support from a community of other participants who stay together for the length of the course.
The Experience
The program is grounded in the science-based Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) curriculum, developed by Benson Henry Institute/Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and introduces you to MindBody techniques that promote health, happiness, deep relaxation, self-care and general wellbeing. Blending MindBody practices with humor, creativity and adaptive thinking, PART is recognized worldwide as one of the most effective stress management, anxiety relief and resilience building tools available.
For the duration of the course we will explore meditation techniques, mindfulness practices, physical activity and the teachings of positive psychology, experience their impact on deep relaxation, and practice together so that what we learn in the course can stick and be available to us whenever we need it.
Program Highlights
- Learn meditation techniques that help you relax without “checking out”.
- Practice cutting out automatic negative thoughts and catastrophizing
- Improve your ability to stay in the moment, calm, fully present and aware of the joy that every moment presents to us.
- Recognize and change or stop individual thought patterns and emotional responses that add to your stress
- Cultivate creativity, humor, gratefulness, and positivity to strengthen your resilience and prevent stress building up inside.
- Renew your commitment to making healthy food choices so that food becomes nourishing fuel for your body, mind and spirit.
- Tips and practices that promote restorative sleep
Your Take Aways
- Guidance for daily practices that can easily be integrated into busy lives and effectively enhance overall wellbeing.
- Improved ability to relax at any given time by applying breathing exercises and mantras that calm your nervous system and make it almost impossible not to relax.
- Better focus and ability to concentrate for longer times through improved physiological balance
- Build your confidence through daily integration of practices that provide a reliable/predictable positive impact on your wellbeing, resilience and centeredness.
- Know that you can weather a good storm because of your inner strengths and enhanced resilience.
More Details
We are with you every step of the way with Session “Prep and Preview” and Session “Review and To Do” documents and daily text reminders, inspiration and review.
Our pillars for wellness education that brings true transformation:
- Live and supported instruction
- Practice techniques outside of class
- Intention to learn
- Developing self-awareness
Read more about Reset Your Wellbeing here
- Introduction to Mind Body Medicine, the Relaxation Response (RR) and the pillars of selfcare
- Set selfcare goals for the program!
- Experience a relaxation meditation to elicit the RR
- Learn it to control it! Overview of the body’s response to Stress and the Relaxation Response
- Awareness of stress inducing and resiliency building experiences in your life
- The amazing benefits and scaffolding for a gratitude practice
- Experience a single pointed focus meditation to relax
- Explore a myriad of ways to bring about the Relaxation Response
- Learn what the big wellness deal is with diaphragmatic breathing and practice it!
- Take a sleep assessment and delve into some great ways to improve your sleep
- Learn some mini RRs for when time is short!
- Begin to explore ways to decrease stress reactivity
- Introduction to Mindfulness and how it can change your daily experience of life
- Research on and personal awareness of your personal social support
- Experience a body scan relaxation to relax
- Introduction to yoga as a method to elicit the Relaxation Response
- Explore negative automatic thoughts and thought distortions
- Bring awareness to pleasant and enjoyable activities to increase your resilience
- Learn about mindful movement and how this helps to relax and focus – moving meditation!
- Continue to raise awareness of negative thoughts and introduce methods to move toward adaptive responses and positivity!
- Discussion on physical movement and integration into your life!
- Learn when to problem solve and when to accept as an adaptive response to a stressful situation
- Expand your positivity vocabulary!
- Experience guided imagery to evoke a sense of wellbeing and encourage insight
- Experience mediation that emphasizes the cultivation of adaptive, positive emotions and qualities
- Learn howe you can become aware of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors when you are relaxed
- Expanded discussion on how expressing ourselves in pessimistic or optimistic can influence resiliency
- Deep dive into the importance of creativity as an adaptive response to develop insight, focus, and possibly develop “flow”
- Experience a visualization meditation to bring into consciousness your idealized self
- Write a letter to yourself in class to describe what you have learned, how you have been transformed and where you want to go from here!
- Learn how humor, lightness in life, and imagination can enhance adaptive coping and day to day wellbeing
- Revisit the energy battery and the lerend techniques of the past 8 weeks can greatly impact daily energy, relationships, focus, connections and calm.
- Review all the tools learned and reset goals for going forward!
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