Your Uplift - May 2024

Patricia's Resiliency eNewsletter ❤️🐞

Author

Patricia Morgan
May 14, 2024

Table of Contents

One: On a Personal Note

Hard Stuff

This month a respected and loved Canadian couple therapist, with whom I had taken training, Dr. Sue Johnson died of melanoma. I was particularly taken aback by the fact that Johnson was a year younger than me. Please see my summary of her insightful book, “Hold Me Tight” below.

At the end of February, I had breast cancer surgery and the scars are now well healed. Since then, for prevention of return, although I have decided to skip chemotherapy, will eventually receive radiation therapy, and have started a hormone drug. Some days, I’m a tad tire but feel content to have no serious side effects.

Please keep up with your medical check ups. Ok?

Uplifting Stuff

Family and friends gathered for a “I Decided” (re cancer prevention treatment) and book award party featuring baked potatoes. Les and I provided the baked potatoes and guests brought delicious toppings. It was a lovely gathering.

Earlier this month, I heard from the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (just under 15,000 members) that “Return to Center; Simple Strategies to Navigate Distress, Depression and Disconnection”, was chosen to receive the 2024 counselling book award. YEAH!!! At the end of the month I will be in Prince Edward Island to accept the prize.

Please help: This past week a supportive friend purchased “Return to Center”, wrote an Amazon review, and emailed me this message, “Be bold young lady!!! Tap into your large community and ask!!” So I am asking:

  • If you purchased “Return to Center” on Amazon, please return and write a review.

  • If you purchased “Return to Center” directly from me and have an Amazon account, please write a review.

  • If you are interested in purchasing a copy of “Return to Center” (less than $10 for the ebook) on Amazon, please write a review.

  • . . . and consider inviting your family and friends to do likewise.

Click here on Amazon.ca to learn more. I send appreciation for your consideration and wish you the ability to return to center.

Here’s to your continued resilience!
Patricia ❤️🐞

Two: Patricia’s Blogs/Articles

1. Book Summary: Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

The headline of the full-page obituary of Canada’s Globe and Mail on Saturday, May 04, 2024 read, Psychologist Started Global Movement with Emotionally Focused Therapy. As a counselling therapist, like hundreds, if not thousands of therapists around the globe, I took courses from Dr. Sue Johnson. I also read a couple of her books including the 2008 bestselling. . . CLICK HERE

It is a delight to see a leader, a manager, a co-worker, a parent or simply a friend, acknowledge  another’s strengths. Whether you are in one of these roles or simply want to help others, these nine ideas encouraging others’ personal strengths, are. . CLICK HERE

Three: Video SPOT!

1. Unveiling the Power of Secure Attachment with Dr. Sue Johnson - posted 2 months ago (1.28min).

Warning: Friend, Kimberly Lyall shared this Britain Has Talent clip and I ended up with a big run of tears. 

3. Stress is the #1 Cause of DISEASE with researcher, Dr. Ellen Langer (1hr 26min).

Patricia’s Videos

Four: Opportunities with Patricia

11am – Noon MT, Monday, May 28, 2024 (online)

“You are not lazy, unmotivated, or stuck. After years of living your life in survival mode, you are exhausted. There is a difference.” Nakeia Homer, self-love author

 If, in our childhood we did not get our physical and emotional needs met, we developed effective coping strategies for back then. Those patterns helped us survive!

However, in our adult years they may no longer service us. We may be inappropriately triggered into an emotionally dysregulated state, which then pulls us into angry outbursts, anxiety, defending, fleeing out the door, becoming silent or invisible, collapsing, or shutting down. Years of being dysregulated can lead to mental, emotional, relational, and physical health problems.

This session is for you if you suspect you have challenges rooted in unresolved childhood trauma or you are concerned about a loved one. Leave the session with:
1. An understanding of childhood trauma.
2. A sense of events, conditions, and situations than can infuse childhood trauma.
3. Signs that you are, or a loved one is, living with childhood trauma.
4. First steps to healing.

Sponsored by Maskwacis Cultural College, Micro-learning series
11am – Noon MT, Monday, May 28, 2024
Register HERE.

12 - 1.30pm ET Thursday, June 27, 2024 (online)

Sponsored by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

12 - 1.30pm ET Thursday, June 27th, 2024
Online via Zoom: This event will NOT be recorded. 
Continuing Education Credits: 1.5
Level:  Introductory/Intermediate

This session is based on Return to Center, the winner of CCPA’s counselling book award!

Join this online workshop to enhance your clinical insight into the nuances of client responses, emotional discomfort and safety, and trauma and resilience. You will not only be given a simplified and practical framework to utilize the Polyvagal Theory but will also have tools to better co-regulate with clients and create emotional safety.

  • Gain a basic understanding of the Polyvagal Theory and the autonomic nervous system.

  • Sharpen your ability to recognize signals of emotional discomfort and safety for yourself and clients.

  • Be able to identify your own and others' nervous system states: Charged, Give Up, and Centered.

  • Receive a Return to Center workbook to help promote calm, focus, and connection.

  • Explore effective strategies for guiding clients to Return to Center.

  • Develop increased self-awareness and resilience as a clinical counselor.

  • Leave empowered with practical skills to create a supportive and healing therapeutic environment.

Registration fees:
CCPA Members: $40
Non-Member: $55
Students: $30

Five: More Opportunities for Resilience

Presentations — In-Person or Online
Keynotes/Workshops: CLICK HERE.

Presentation Skills: For those who want one-on-one time to develop a speaking business or simply a specific message and how to effectively deliver it. CLICK HERE.

Therapeutic Counselling: Can be delivered online globally and in person in Canada. CLICK HERE.

Publications: Reduced prices are available for quantity orders. To learn more about Patricia’s books CLICK HERE.

Please let me know how I might be of service at 403-830-6919 or [email protected] 

Your Spunky Seniorpreneur, Patricia ❤️🐞