Please note: This course is intended to be taken in combination with Professional Mental Health Therapy. Please visit our website @MindfulMountain.Org for a list of Mental Health Therapists.

When you struggle with an emotional barrier, how do you respond? Are you able to respond with wisdom and awareness to experience each feeling, thought, and emotion with compassion, in order to acknowledge your personal strength in character and resilience?

Please note: This course is intended to be taken in combination with Professional Mental Health Therapy. Please visit our website @MindfulMountain.Org for a list of Mental Health Therapists.

Stress is an inevitable part of life. How one handles stress is an important factor in resilience and health. Stress arrives to us through thoughts, feelings, and emotions in reaction to life’s pressures; perceived. For some, the natural way to deal with stress is to pretend like it does not exist, however this is impossible. It will show up physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually eventually. The best way to deal with stress is to acknowledge that it is there and stay in the present moment by tuning into your body, listening to your breath, and noticing where you feel stress in the body; physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Then asking yourself what you need by listening to your internal wisdom. By staying present we can learn to become aware of our needs in each moment.

Please note: This course is intended to be taken in combination with Professional Mental Health Therapy. Please visit our website @MindfulMountain.Org for a list of Mental Health Therapists.

From a very young age we develop patterns of protection. Some people become very reclusive and closed off to the world, creating a barrier of safety. Some people become very competitive and aggressive, seeing everything and everyone as a source of criticism and a reason for challenge. Some people use a façade of humor and comedy to occupy feelings of complete irrelevancy. Some people use substances, food, or excessive exercise to create a sense of protection between themselves and reality. Some people are a little bit of two or a mixture of all.

How do you notice habits of self-protection? Do you know how to recognize destructive resistance when it faces you? What are you resisting? Are these habits serving you well? Is it preventing healthy growth full of connecting to a life well lived? Ask yourself these simple questions and notice what thoughts, feelings, and emotions become present.