Individual Growth and Change

Are you needing to make some changes so you can live the life you want to live and be more of the person you want to be? 

Are you needing a supportive and like-minded professional to help you process the current social-political situation, skills to manage fear, anxiety, or hopelessness, and ideas on how to increase your sense of empowerment and resiliency? [Political Trauma Stress Coaching]

Are you dealing with stress, shame, perfectionism, impostor syndrome, burnout, and overwhelm?

Are you needing to make some changes so you can live the life you want to live and be more of the person you want to be? 

Do you struggle with boundaries, codependency, caretaking, and people-pleasing?

Do you want to develop insight and skills to help you heal from past hurts or traumas?

Do you want objective and nonjudgmental help to sort out some painful situations or family-of-origin issues?

Are you dealing with some transitions that could use more goal-setting, clarity, and intention?

Are you seeking guidance on attending to your whole self so you can reconnect with your body, heart, and mind? 

Do you want to do your personal growth work in a trauma-informed setting that is inclusive of all types of sexual and gender identities and expressions, is sensitive to racial and class bias, and understands oppression?

Welcome! This is your time.

This is your time to focus on yourself, a time for personal insight-building, slowing down, letting go, positive growth, and lasting change.

Successful individual growth is a process of self-examination, self-discovery, self-reflection, and self-actualization. It is about taking yourself seriously, dedicating time to better know your inner self, identifying which of your internal beliefs and choices are nourishing, healing and self-loving, and which ones you want to or need to change.

Healthy and sustainable change entails prioritizing your self-care and wellness, reflecting, letting go, taking action, and allowing patience through the (often bumbling) process of your personal growth.

This work is a balance between you, your willingness and effort to venture into self-examination, and to take the risks to make the necessary changes, AND the steadfast assurance of myself, as your guide, to compassionately listen, witness, support, and foster your journeying.

Envision the possibilities

• Increase your sense of empowerment and resiliency
• Understand yourself better and gain insight as to why you make the choices you make
• Identify the choices, people, places, and things in your life that are supporting and interfering with your emotional, mental, and physical health and well-being
• Identify what may interfere with the changes you need to make
• Let yourself dream outside the boxes of boxes
• Problem-solve and envision from a different perspective
• Understand your default defensive strategies of “fight, flee, freeze, and fawn,” and learn concrete skills to help you feel the power and freedom that comes with self-regulation and self-soothing. 
• Engage your values as your guide in decision-making
• Learn concrete strategies to help you build the skills and bravery to make the desired changes
• Transform perfectionism, overwhelm, regret, and procrastination into acceptance of your humanness

Increase your life-work-family balance

Shift your exhaustion, resentment, and powerlessness into asserting and maintaining healthier boundaries

Accept that you cannot control other people’s feelings, actions, or words; or the past or the future

Discern what you can control, i.e., managing your feelings, your thoughts, choices, actions, changes, and words

Learn positive coping strategies to maximize the strengths and resiliency you already have, and learn more to add to your skill-set

• Acquire fresh ways to think and feel about yourself
• Come to terms with your past, decrease anxiety about the future, and live mindfully in your present
• Learn how to care less about what other people think about you (or what you project they think about you)
• Learn to identify, share, and manage your feelings
• Fortify your trust in yourself so you “have your own back”
• Take risks to be vulnerable, apologize, and accept that you aren’t perfect
• Build and access an equitable and reliable support system
• Increase your capacity for emotional, sexual, and physical intimacy and connection
• Unlearn the beliefs you have that contribute to perfectionism, anxiety, self-doubt, and self-loathing
• Name and establish your needs and boundaries
• Increase your active commitment to self-care and self-compassion
• Gain confidence and strengthen your sense of self-empowerment
• Quit blaming yourself, and name the systems and structures that contribute to your exhaustion, self-doubt, limits, fear, stress, illness, and pain
• Humbly acknowledge yourself as one member of a multicultural, multi-faceted community and world
• Contribute and connect
• Celebrate your progress, learn from your missteps, re-fortify, and carry on in this expansive existence 

If you are interested in scheduling an intake appointment and want more information about the process, you may find it helpful to first read this page: Getting Started

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To learn about the individual and relationship, group, and training services offered by Irene, or to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation, contact irene@irenegreene.com