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Introducing our Self-Care Week ‘How to Feel Better’ webinar

Life’s too short to struggle. The key to feeling better is improving your emotional and health literacy and strengthening your mind-body connection. Join us in this free 1.5 hour webinar on Sunday 24 November from 5:30-7:pm UK time (GMT) and learn how to feel better.

Who is our ‘How to feel better’ webinar for? 

Our ‘How to Feel Better’ webinar will be helpful to anyone who struggles with: 

  • Physical, mental or emotional stress
  • Feeling overwhelmed
  • Physical or emotional pain
  • Tiredness or fatigue
  • Anxiety or panic attacks
  • Guilt or shame
  • Frustration or irritation
  • Regret or remorse
  • Grief or sorrow

Why is our ‘How to Feel Better’ webinar helpful for people who are struggling?

When you struggle with any of the feelings listed above and don’t know how to read or respond to them: 

  • Your symptoms can get worse
  • Your feelings and behaviours can get worse
  • You can fall out with family, friends and colleagues
  • Money can become an issue

Improving your emotional literacy and health literacy is the way forward

Research shows that many of us aren’t as skilled at dealing with our emotions and physical sensations like pain and fatigue as we think we are or we’d like to be. 

When we understand that all feelings are information, including difficult feelings, it helps us to know what we want less of and what we want more of.

Learning how to interpret or read all your feelings is a vital skill because when you can figure out the purpose of any feeling, it’s easier to respond to it in a way that moves you forward. 

What are emotional literacy and health literacy?

Knowing how to read and respond to your emotional and physical feelings is known as emotional literacy and health literacy. To develop emotional and health literacy, you must understand how your body and mind work together. This is known as the mind-body connection. 

Let’s celebrate National Self-Care Week by strengthening our mind-body connection

To celebrate National Self-Care Week and to support you and your self-care, we’re hosting a First Aid for Feelings webinar to help you know how to strengthen your mind-body connection and feel better. When you know your First Aid for Feelings, you’ll know how to read and respond to feelings. In other words, you’ll have emotional literacy and health literacy and will know what to do to help yourself feel better.  

What will you learn in our ‘How to Feel Better’ webinar?

In this 90-minute webinar you’ll learn: 

  • The purpose of feelings and why they show up in the first place
  • How to understand what feelings mean so that you can either ‘contain’ them or ‘complete’ them
  • The Awareness – Breath & body – Choice technique, which is a way to respond to any feeling as it occurs and make helpful choices 
  • How to start your own ‘First Aid Kit for Feelings’ and what to put in it
  • How to develop personal agency and be in the driving seat of your feelings and your life

There will be a Q&A session at the end to help with tips and troubleshooting. 

This webinar will draw on content from ‘First Aid for Feelings: The essential manual for self-care skills and good health’ (AKA The First Aid for Feelings Manual). 

What are people saying about our approach to feeling better?

Heather 

“The First Aid for Feelings Manual is life-changing.  Everyone should have one. It’s so well written, one of the best books I’ve ever read. I will re-read and re-read it and carry it around with me like my little security blanket, knowing that when I’m struggling, there is something within it that will help.” 

Bev

“Many, many people could, with the resources, come through and out the other side. The problem is the health-care system doesn’t do that. They take the pain away from the awful crisis someone is going through. They numb it. Then you keep taking the pills. You keep taking the pills and numbing it. They don’t give you tools like these, which really do work.”

Suzanne

“Thanks to my First Aid for Feelings knowledge, I can understand what’s happening and step in. It’s such a gift to be able to do that.” 

The stats on First Aid for Feelings

All in all, more than 6,500 people have benefitted from learning First Aid for Feelings to date.

More than 500 people have attended First Aid for Feelings in-person workshops.

More than 8000 one-to-one sessions have been delivered.

More than 4000 people have signed up for the First Aid for Feelings 10-Day Meditation Course on the Insight Timer app, and the free recordings have been played more than 30,000 times. This content is consistently rated 4.7+ out of 5 stars.

 

Learn how to improve your emotional and health literacy to feel better and make self-care a life-long habit.

Register here to join us

 

The social mission behind The Helpful Clinic | First Aid for Feelings is to improve health and well-being through increased health and emotional literacy. That applies to mental health as well as physical and social health. 

 

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Go gently, hold steady, stay the course.
All the best, Thor

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