Why The Worksheets???
If you follow me, you may have noticed more worksheets popping up on the website for purchase. Here’s the breakdown about each worksheet, how you can get them, and how you can access some that I haven’t put up for sale. Get the why behind each worksheet.
Noticing Your Body : Whenever a worksheet starts out with the word - Noticing - it is meant for the first stage of growing your emotional awareness. Just as a reminder, the four stages are in the acronym, N.A.M.E. Noticing is key to truly figuring out what needs to change with your mental and physical health. If you never notice, you will never get past the stuck parts of your life. This worksheet helps you to sit with yourself and notice the sensations you feel in your body that are attached to a specific emotion. For example, when I feel stress, I have higher gut activation, which normally means that I have more stomach pains and my IBS starts to go into high gear causing me significant pain. While my meds help to control the pain, I know that if I can bring my stress level down, I can work on controlling my guy inflammation episodes. This worksheet helps you to really evaluate what you feel in your body when certain emotions arise. This worksheet helps to ask you necessary questions that you probably don’t think about on a day to day basis. It truly helps you to raise your emotional awareness about your bodily sensations.
Reclaim Your Emotions: I remember when I knew that I needed to go to therapy. It was because I started feeling like I couldn’t control my emotions anymore. My previous go-to was suppression, but the reality it that suppression is only going to last but for so long. Your body won’t let you continue to suppress emotions, because physical symptoms will begin to pop up. This worksheet was created out of the need to stop suppressing emotions. At some point, it is important to face emotions and deal with them, verses suppressing them. This worksheet is meant to allow you time to determine the specific emotion that you need to face, and then asks you necessary questions to help you sit with that emotion. I personally like to think of this worksheet as the “pull the thread” worksheet. The cool thing about this worksheet is that you can restart with another emotion and do it all over again as many times as you need to to help reclaim emotions that you feel like you don’t have control over in your life. Disclaimer: This worksheet may help you recognize that this is not a process you want to do on your own, but with a trusted professional.
Mental Health Decline: When people think of the word, mental health they often automatically think about a diagnosis. That is a problem. We all need to consider the status of our mental health as such as we consider the status of our physical health. This worksheet helps to allow you to think through the possibilities of how your mental health could be in decline. There is a list of 16 symptoms with their definition and a rating scale. The scale gives you an idea of where you are from a decline standpoint. The interesting part of this worksheet is that if you discover decline(s) from this list of symptoms I have a list of ways to help with each. While the help list doesn’t come with this worksheet, schedule a coaching session to get the matching idea to help with your specific symptom decline.
Lies & Truth: Transforming Shame: This worksheet is grounded in trauma recovery work. You don’t have to have a past trauma in your life to do this worksheet though. There are often many things that we say to ourselves about ourselves. Not all the things that we think are growth mindset thoughts. If you have ever thought that you were not good enough, or that your body shape wasn’t attractive, or that you can’t do something, this worksheet is for you. This worksheet is meant to challenge those inner critic thoughts that often takeover in your mind and stop you from being your best YOU. Often those negative critic thoughts are not even your voice. Oftentimes, there are the voice of someone else in your life: your mother or father, sister, bully from school, husband, wife, brother, etc. It could be anyone who has ever given you a reason to feel SHAME. You don’t have to keep shame thoughts in your life. You can transform those thoughts into thoughts that serve you.
5 Elements of Trauma Transformation: I created this worksheet to help people recognize all of the elements that they need to consider when they are working through or “doing the work” to manage their shame. This worksheet is essentially a rating scale for each element in your life that can help you to see where you need to “do the work.” Oftentimes “doing the work” is all about asking yourself the “right'“ questions and then not being afraid of the answers. This worksheet will help you to rate each element and discover how satisfied you are with each element in your life. It can be a gauge for you to see how far you need to go, or how far you have come in your trauma transformation journey. Remember, healing is not a destination that you are trying to reach, but a journey that you will walk for the rest of your life.
Each one of these worksheets are meant to help you SEE yourself in a deeper and more meaningful light. Within these worksheets are elements of life design work. Being able to understand your purpose, your values, what you want to do in this life, and ultimately your healing from mental health challenges all work in tandem with one another. These worksheets help to shine a light on the weak areas and help you grow. And this is not the end of the worksheets. There are many others that can be of assistance to you in your journey. There are worksheets to help you define your mission, your personal superpowers, your coping strategies, the types of inner critic thoughts that you have, and many, many more. Choose You Today and Everyday. Start with a worksheet, and start to discover the authentic YOU.
