DEEP DIVE

This month we are stepping slightly away from food itself and looking at what quietly influences everything: how we think about, respond to and move through life. So often, the way we eat, cope, care for ourselves and show up in our health is shaped by what is happening in the rest of life. Stress, relationships, work, family, disappointment, uncertainty, self-criticism, overwhelm and old patterns can all influence the choices we make, often without us realising. This month is about learning to understand your own mind more clearly, coach yourself with more compassion, and respond to life in a way that feels more steady, intentional and aligned with the woman you want to be.
I would love this month to feel as real-life, interactive and useful as possible. You are warmly invited to bring your own life situations, thought downloads, mindset models, questions and patterns into the sessions or into the Facebook group. That might be something specific you are dealing with right now, a situation where you feel stuck, a familiar pattern you keep repeating, or simply a set of facts where you would like help untangling the thoughts, feelings and next steps. The aim is to help you use these tools in your actual life, with whatever is happening for you at the moment.

Fri 8 May at 2 pm
Seeing Your Mind More Clearly: Thought Downloads and the Mindset Model

We will begin the month by looking at how to see your own mind more clearly. So often, we are walking around with a stream of thoughts, assumptions, worries, judgements and interpretations running in the background, and we do not realise how much they are shaping the way we feel and behave. In this class, we will revisit thought downloads as a simple but powerful way of getting those thoughts out of your head and onto paper, where you can look at them with more curiosity and less judgement. We will also work with the mindset model to explore the link between circumstances, thoughts, feelings, actions and results.

Mon 11 May at 7 pm
Asking Better Questions: Upgrading Your Thinking Without Forcing Positivity

In the second class, we will move from awareness into self-coaching. Once you see the thoughts you are having, you can begin to ask more useful questions about them.

• Is this thought true?
• Is it helpful?
• Is it the whole story?
• What does this thought create for me?
• What else might be possible here?

This is not about forcing yourself to think positively or pretending everything is fine when it is not. It is about learning how to guide your mind with more compassion, wisdom and intention. We will explore how the questions you ask yourself can either keep you stuck in familiar loops or open up a little more space, choice and possibility. This is a very practical class for those moments when you notice yourself spiralling, criticising yourself, overthinking, feeling trapped or repeating old patterns.

Fri 22 May at 2 pm
Meeting Life Without Losing Yourself: The Neutrality of Circumstance and Finding Your Power

This class is about applying self-coaching to the messiness of real life. Not the calm, organised, everything-is-going-to-plan version of life, but the version where things feel stressful, disappointing, overwhelming, uncertain or emotionally loaded. We will explore the idea of separating the facts of a situation from the story we are telling about it, and how that can help us create just enough space to choose our response more intentionally. This is not about denying that life can be hard, minimising your emotions or pretending difficult things do not matter. It is about helping you find your power within the situation, even when you cannot control everything around you. We will look at how to meet life’s challenges without automatically abandoning yourself, collapsing into old patterns, or making the situation mean something painful about who you are.

 

Wed 27 May at 7 pm
From Old Evidence to New Possibility: Rewriting What You Believe About Yourself

We will end the month by looking at the evidence you have collected about yourself over time and how that may be shaping what you currently believe is possible. Many of us carry old evidence that says things like, “I am inconsistent,” “I do not follow through,” “I always get overwhelmed,” “I am not good at boundaries,” “I cannot change,” or “This is just how I am.” In this class, we will explore how to accept where you are without resigning yourself to staying there. Acceptance says, “This is where I am right now.” Resignation says, “This is just who I am.” New evidence says, “I can begin to show myself something different.” We will look at how small, deliberate choices can help you build a new relationship with yourself and create evidence for the woman you are becoming.