Stress Management for Real Life
A six-week online course.
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In this six-week online course, you’ll get six lessons (around 20 minutes each) with an attending guided meditation for each week’s learning that you can do at your own pace through audio or video. This course is full of practical tools, information, and suggestions for dealing with the difficult realities of everyday life while encouraging more joy, more connection, and more self-love.
Learn about mindfulness, how the nervous system works (and how to work with it), practices for working with your thoughts, connecting to and befriending difficult emotions like anger, how your relationship with food may reflect the way you are in relationships in general, and how to bring more pleasure into your life as a practice. Take control of the stresses of your life and arm yourself with the tools to let the anxiety go and enjoy your world a heck of a lot more.
This course is for you if…
You find yourself getting overwhelmed by stress from time to time
You have anxiety around things like time, deadlines, conflict, or getting overwhelmed with too much to do
You have physical issues like aches and pains, digestive issues, insomnia, or chronic imbalances in which stress may play a role
You want to learn practical tools for managing the stress of real life without trying to ignore them or “just think positively”
You use food from time to time to help you deal with stress and you’d like to stop
You resonate with a perspective that includes the wisdom of the body and intuition alongside scientific research and evidence-based practices
Course Curriculum
Week 1: Mindfulness
In this lesson, we learn mindfulness not solely as a meditation practice, but as a way of life–and it does not require you to be “calm and chill” all the time!
Week 2: The Nervous System
This week we learn about how the nervous system works and practices we can use to calm and balance the nervous system whenever we need to.
Week 3: Core Beliefs
Core beliefs are a concept from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that refers to the deeply held automatic beliefs about yourself that can arise under stress. Learn how to uncover them and work with them so that they are not in control of your self-perception.
Week 4: Befriending Darkness
This week, we take a clear-eyed look at difficult emotions like anger, fear, and sadness. Rather than trying to focus on gratitude or “good vibes only,” we learn how these emotions are important for our overall health and wellbeing and that befriending them is an incredibly powerful practice.
Week 5: Food as Relationship
Food is an incredibly common place for us to work out our everyday stresses. This lesson explores the concept of food as a manifestation of relationships, including our relationship with ourselves.
Week 6: Moments of Sweetness
In the last week of our course, we learn about the practice of pleasure and how important it is to build pleasure and enjoyment into our daily habits.
About Julie
Julie (MA, E-RYT 500, YACEP) has been teaching yoga and meditation for over a decade. She provides one-on-one body-based counseling to help her clients reconnect the mind and the nervous system so they can reach their goals through her Pathfinding program. She has written three books, Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses: Meditations on Desire, Relationships, and the Art of Being Broken, the Canada Book Award-winning Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault, and the forthcoming Full Moon Yearbook: A Year of Ritual and Healing Under the Light of the Full Moon After working through an anxiety disorder, an eating disorder, and an experience of sexual assault through the tools of yoga, mindfulness, therapy, and more, Julie has learned some things about managing stress in a difficult world, and she is thrilled to share some of these tools with you.