This work is sneaky powerful…

I joined the JOY program with the hope of continuing to deeply integrate all the healing work I had previously done.  While so many things I have done in the past have been helpful to me, and on the surface, I was functioning “well,” I still felt stuck. I was struggling with lingering patterns with food, relationship stress, and a lack of consistent joy and aliveness.

 

I think I wasn’t fully “aware” that shame was a primary struggle for me until this course. But coming to understand the connection between freeze and shame has been a game changer. I now have a much clearer idea of how growth actually happens and what supports it.

 

I now have more realistic expectations for myself, have learned to recognize and celebrate smaller positive steps I was already taking, and realized that I don’t have to work “hard” to grow. To be honest, I really had some struggle initially around class time being spent practicing what was simple, easy, and nice or rehearsing pleasant things…but I couldn’t believe how much that helped. I would describe this work as “sneaky powerful.”

 

I’ve found myself feeling stable and even happy in situations that used to send me spiraling or regressing into previous behaviors. My capacity has expanded to hold so much more goodness, even in hard seasons.

 

Truthfully, I was really unsure about being a part of a group. But I was really relieved to find out that the other participants were all amazing people. I felt so much resonance with them being in similar phases. We all seemed to be quite high-functioning on the surface, but still had deep shame struggles.

 

If you feel stuck in any way personally or professionally or want to experience more of your own aliveness, pleasure and joy in your life… Rena K. is highly skilled at helping you locate WHERE you are and HOW to find the doable steps forward (and understand why the micro steps are THE game-changing ingredient). Rena K. is a masterful teacher and so skillfully able to articulate complex concepts into usable and practical examples. You will leave feeling empowered and changed by this education and be deeply, deeply held in the process.