SPECIALTIES
The Healing Project is designed to be an affordable Coaching Program. The Healing Project believes that everyone deserves access to this form of help. Sessions starting at $55/hr.
Demographic:
Teens/Young Adults 16+
Men and Women 18-39
Types of Therapy/Treatment:
Mindfulness
Art Therapy
Spiritual
Positive coaching
Person focussed
RELATIONSHIPS
Romantic Relationships can be one of the most wonderful things we experience in our lifetime. We have someone to share important moments with, we find someone who supports us, enjoy activities together and build a foundation with - within time relationships have it’s conflicts
All couples get into arguments but sometimes but when insults, criticism, intimidation, threats, humiliation, shame, name calling, belittling, gas lighting and blackmail come into play the relationship enters a cycle of emotional abuse Signs of emotional or psychological abuse are often more subtle and harder to recognize than those of physical abuse - although the psychological impact of emotional abuse is likely to be as severe as or worse than physical abuse.
SELF ESTEEM & CODEPENDENCY
Self-Esteem is the way we feel and view ourselves; our state of mind, the way we feel about our bodies, embracing our strengths and weaknesses, how we carry ourselves and present ourselves to others, how we view our current life and vision for our future – it often sets the tone for other areas in our life. The Healing Project educates individuals on understanding who we are to the core and being in touch with our values, morals and what we hold close to our heart. Sometimes finding our voice isn’t easy but nourishing and learning to be the most authentic version of ourselves can be a gift.
Codependency:
Codependency is an important topic because we need to have an understanding of how it can be developed and how it can potentially effect areas of our life. Sometimes we may not even recognize we’re codependent and inevitably run into repeated patterns and cycles with other relationships and with ourselves.
Codependency is a one sided relationship where one person seeks the other to fulfil their emotional and self esteem needs (to make them feel “whole”)
Growing up it was hard to decipher the difference between codependency and love as we were taught to put others needs before us if we love them but if we put others needs first at the expense of our own health and well being then we may be codependent.
Codependency is a learned behaviour. It can be developed if someone has grown up in an abusive or dysfunctional household. Emotional abuse, growing up in settings where you felt your needs where rejected can make someone feel small and having the void filled can be seen as compensating for the abuse.
Children who grew up with emotionally unavailable parents can also be at risk for being codependent and may find themselves in relationships where their partner is emotionally unavailable. Codependents may feel the need to be the rescuer, the healer, or the one responsible for “fixing” people.
Signs you make be a Codependent
Feel it is your responsibility to fix other peoples problems
May have trouble saying no
May do anything to hold onto a relationship at the expense of your health or well being
You may have trouble trusting yourself and making decisions
Inability to establish boundaries and feels guilty if doing so
Have the need to feel needed and place value in that
Having difficulty identifying your own feelings
Valuing the approval of others more than you valuing yourself
DEPRESSION
Depression may include symptoms such as:
- Restlessness, irritability or anxiety
- Difficulty focussing
- Less interest or participation in activities normally
enjoyed
- Feelings of guilt, disappointment or worthlessness
- Repeated thoughts of death or suicide
- Increased use of drugs or alcohol
- Self destructive behavior, loss of control, or uncontrolled rage
- Low energy/feeling tired all the time
- Changes in appetite
Depression may potentially interfere with areas such as our self-care, relationships, over all health and professional life.
NARCISSISTIC ABUSE
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PARENTIFICATION
Narcissistic abuse may be emotional, financial, spiritual and even physical abuse.
Abuse may include:
Verbal abuse, shaming, belittling, name-calling, gaslighting, sarcasm, threatening, ordering, manipulation, emotional blackmail, warnings, intimidation, anger, silent treatment, gaslighting which makes you lack trust in your perceptions of reality or ways to make you feel mentally incompetent. Consider the context, nature, and frequency of the behavior before identifying it as narcissistic abuse.
Parental narcissistic abuse is when the parents set expectations for the child to give up their own emotional needs to serve their needs as parent. This may result in alienation, parents lack of providing unconditional love, competition between child, low self esteem in child, goals and desires unfulfilled, and conflicting identity as an individual into adulthood.
Narcissistic abuse also occurs in other relationships (romantic partnerships, coworkers, relatives) where the narcissists seeks out an empathetic individual to fulfil their needs in order to gain power and control (this is also known as the narcissistic supply).
Parentification: is a role reversal where a child is expected to act as a parent to their own parent. Did you ever feel you were left with the responsibility to emotionally care for one or both parents?
There are two types of Parentification:
1. Instrumental parenting: Where a child is left with taking care of responsibilities such as handling finances, providing food, looking after siblings, paying bills etc.
2. Emotional parentification: is when the child is expected to be the confidant or mediator for their parents or other family members