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Depression, anxiety, and unworthiness can be reduced.

Neuroscience includes Psychoeducation and Practices.

• Neuroplasticity – your brain’s ability to organize and learn
• The triune brain
• Primary emotional motivators
• Negativity bias of your brain
• Savoring the good and affiliation system of the brain
• Social brain: causes and conditions
• Default mode network, salience network and central executive network of the brain
• Neuroscience exercises for clinical use
• Use of art expression to personalize learning
• Use of small group sharing (not therapy) for learning
• Exploration of emotional motivators, social brain and savoring the good to personalize learning and small group sharing

Feelings of Overwhelm, Dissociation and Shame can be reduced.

They should lead clients to emotional stabilization.

• Emotional stabilization skills
• Body scan and sensory input for stabilization
• Mindful breathing practices
• Impact of yoga on nervous system
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Mindful walking
• Clinical examples of emotional stabilization skills
• Practice emotional stabilization skills

Clients should be taught to observe and choose their thoughts.

The impact of thoughts can be experienced.

• Nonjudgmental observing of thoughts
• Naming – write thoughts down
• Recognize, distance and dis-identify from narrative of self-identity
• Relate to the voice of the inner critic
• Address negative thoughts regarding chronic pain
• Store consciousness/mind consciousness and therapeutic implications
• Use of chants, mantras, songs for healing
• Nourishing wholesome thoughts – use of repetition and concentration
• Habit tendencies and neuronal pathways
• Accessing beneficial memories
• Clinical examples of relating to thoughts therapeutically
• Exploration of observing and choosing thoughts to personalize learning and small group sharing

Help clients deal with emotional distress.

Distress can be treated with mercy.

• Be there for grief
• Comfort pose and self-love mantra
• Emotional Freedom Technique for client self-care
• Yoga for emotional trauma/anxiety
• Yoga for depression
• Clinical examples of treating distress with mercy
• Activity to personalize the client’s experience
• Exploration of approaching and alleviating emotions to personalize learning and small group sharing

Increasing emotional resilience and self-acceptance in clients is promoted.

Distress is caused by kindness to self at times.

• Who has seen your goodness? – restoring trust
• Teachers of compassion
• The voice of the inner friend
• Three-part self-compassion note
• Offering loving kindness to any inner aspect that feels not deserving
• Compassion for the inner critic
• Tonglen practice – receiving suffering and sending compassion
• Clinical examples of utilizing self-compassion
• Exploration of compassion practices to personalize learning and small group sharing

There are resources to regulate the nervous system.

There are causes of shame and unworthiness.

• Impact of shame on brain – default network and pain system
• The physiology of shame
• Differentiate among shame, defiance, and noble posture
• Simple yoga for healing the physiology of shame
• Narrative of unworthiness
• Create a new narrative of self
• Life review/eulogy to discover true values
• Clinical examples of treating unworthiness and shame
• Write eulogy to discover true values and small group sharing

Specific clinical use applications of meditation.

Conflict resolution and emotional bonding can be done with the help of a communications process.

• Mindful eating practice and research on mindfulness for overeating
• Learn and practice leading mindful exercises and yoga for emotional trauma/anxiety and depression

Faculty

Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500

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Mary NurrieStearns is a C-IAYT. Clinics are taught how to use brain based protocols for treating shame and office-based yoga back to their clients. Evidence based interventions move therapy forward by improving emotional regulation, restoring healthy nervous system functioning and cultivating healthier thought patterns. Mary has brought healing and calm to her clients and students with yoga practices.

Mary pulls together the work of experts in the mental health field who are proponents of both practices. She has been a mental health professional counselor for 37 years and a meditation and yoga teacher for 27 years. She is a yoga teacher and a member of the Order of Interbeing.

Mary is an author. Brain-changing practices for healing anxiety, depression and unworthiness. (PESI, 2018). It is possible to practice yoga for anxiety. They were with Rick NurrieStearns. There is yoga for emotional trauma. Rick NurrieStearns is the author of New Harbinger. Yoga Mind is Peaceful Mind. Rick NurrieStearns is the author of New Harbinger. , And. There are daily meditations for healing and happiness. PESI, 2016 . It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Mary is the editor. Living is soulful. He was the former editor. Personal transformation. There is a magazine. She makes yoga DVDs for emotional trauma and depression. Mary is a teacher in the United States.

Speaker disclosures.

Mary NurrieStearns has a private practice. She is an author for New Harbinger’s Publishing. Ms. NurrieStearns is a speaker for PESI, Inc.

Mary NurrieStearns does not have a relevant nonfinancial relationship.