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3 Main Components of the Inner Renovations Project

Your Personal Inner Renovations Project consists of 3 areas to be explored in any order. On your journey to being able to navigate life’s challenges in healthier ways and to tend to the WHOLE YOU, these 3 areas of your project are designed to help you address the different aspects of the inner you and your life experiences along the way.  

They include:

  1. Do It Yourself Coping Skills so you have your own toolbox of skills that keeps you happy, healthy, and whole.
  2. Blueprint for Wellbeing so that you can tend to major areas of your life that require your attention. Includes meditations, journaling activities and articles that help you identify values and live in alignment with them.
  3. Kingdom of Heaven Within involves mindfulness practices and yoga to connect with the peace, love, and balance that already exists within you. Focus on nourishment of Mind, Body, and Spirit.

DIY Coping Skills

Get a toolbox of skills to regulate emotions, respond better to stress, live mindfully, with less social anxiety. Learn to cope safely with challenges. DBT Skills Training and other resources included.

Blueprint for Wellbeing

You are multidimensional with different areas of your life to keep balanced. Learn to get your needs met, and give attention to your Whole Self.

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Kingdom of Heaven Within

Yoga is the union of mind, body, and spirit. See yourself from a divine perspective to connect with the peace, love, and balance already within you.

If you have questions about the Inner Renovations Project and would like to be contacted with more information about how to start your own journey, contact Chanel at 980-888-8284 or request info via the contact form.

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DBT Skills Training

DBT Skills Training is but one component of the extensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy process and is not considered DBT itself.  It is the very useful Skills Training that is a part of it which consists of Four Main Modules: Core Mindfulness Emotion Regulation Distress Tolerance Interpersonal Effectiveness The full scale evidence-based approach was pioneered by Dr.… Continue reading DBT Skills Training

Getting to Be New

Embrace the energy of transformation and allow the shifting tides to inspire you to greater levels of confidence, self-awareness and ability for positive mental health. We’re not getting back to normal. We’re getting to be New.

Regain Control of Your Attention

You’d be surprised how much more effectively and efficiently you are able to navigate larger issues by controlling more subtle aspects of your personal experience such as your attention and your breathing.

Unique and Not Alone

The nights get long and the days take more strength to get through than it sometimes feels like you have. You wonder how things got to this point and if they will ever get better again. No one knows what is on your mind. If they did, they might worry. And the last thing you… Continue reading Unique and Not Alone

Connect with a Peaceful Moment in Time

Think about a time in your life where everything was okay. Engage all of your senses to remember the way it looked, smelled, felt and sounded. Say to yourself “I am okay in this moment. Peace and joy are within me.”

S.T.O.P. for a Moment of Mindfulness

It doesn’t always happen easily – having a moment of peace. There are often so many things to take care of at once that it’s difficult to consider where on the calendar to schedule self-care, let alone a sacred moment to really rejuvenate, regroup and reconnect. This is why it may be necessary to intentionally S.T.O.P. so that you can create mindfulness moments within the day. You can use this skill to bring heart, mind, and spirit together and to interrupt overwhelming mental processes.

You Are Forgiven

You can forgive yourself. You can forgive someone else. You can forgive the situation as a whole.

Skill-Building Worksheets

Use these worksheets to support the work that you are doing in session. By practicing your skills and completing exercises between sessions, you increase the likelihood of healthier thinking and behaviors coming more naturally. Goals of Exercise: Identify negative, distorted cognitions that mediate intense negative emotions. Learn new ways to think that are more adaptive.… Continue reading Skill-Building Worksheets

Free From the Blame Game

BLAME is an interesting tool that works two ways. On one end it can be pointed towards others to shift responsibility away from yourself. The other end can be turned on yourself to take responsibility for things that aren’t your fault.

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