Mind-Body Health for Today’s Lifestyles: Protect and buffer your mental and physical health from the effects of stress.

Stress Awareness for Today’s Lifestyles: The ABC’s of how and why our personalities and bodies react uniquely to stress.

Understanding Anger: The five types of anger and their uniquely different effects on our body, mind, and spirit. 

Healing and Rebuilding after Loss: How to take care of yourself when you’re experiencing loss such as divorce, job loss, death of a loved one. 

Getting Ready for Retirement: How to prepare yourself mentally, physically, healthwise, and socially for this great time of life! 

Taking Charge from the Inside Out^sm

Are you aware of the physical reactions in your body that are at the heart of painful stress and emotions?  These stressful physical patterns create wear and tear on both your mind and body.  Have you ever though that it is possible to release the physical effects of painful stress and emotions by thinking them away?  And then what happens?  Those of you who have experienced the helplessness caused by these feelings in your body know otherwise.  In this workshop we’ll explore a new step-by-step process based on new findings from the field of neuroscience to help you relieve the stuck physical effects of emotions.

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. How neuroscience discoveries show that the brain and its neurons can be retrained to release damaging physical stress, as well as painful conditioned physical patterns.
2. How to create new physical pathways to release the tension and produce physical ease and energy in old, stressful conditioned patterns in your body.
3. What types of stress are most toxic for your mind and body?
4. How to transform long-standing difficult emotions.
5. How to release your thoughts that activate conditioned physical patterns.

What you’ll take away with you
You’ll learn new ways to release stress from your body – as it’s happening.  Besides the helpful, practical information listed above, participants also receive The Taking Charge from the Inside Out Tool Box.  Dr. Barry has developed these tools for you to use at home or work to relieve problematic stress and emotional reactions.  You’ll also receive a list of follow-up resources.

Mind-Body Health for Today’s Lifestyles

Why is mind-body health important?
Physicians in all medical specialties report they are seeing younger and younger people with life-threatening physical illnesses. Even less-serious illnesses can have a major impact on quality of life and life choices. This workshop shows you how to protect and buffer your mental and physical health from the effects of stress.

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. What is mind-body health and what does it mean to your current and future well-being? 
2. Understanding the interactions of mind-body health.
3. The effect on your health of inherited body characteristics.
4. The effect on your health of life stages and significant life events.
5. How imbalances in the mind, body, or spirit create real physical changes in your body that undermine health.

What you’ll take away with you
Besides the helpful, practical information listed above, participants also receive The Mind-Body Health Tool Box.  Dr. Barry has developed these tools for you to use at home or work to relieve the mental and physical effects of stress. You’ll also receive a list of follow-up resources.

 
Stress Awareness for Today’s Lifestyles

Why is it important to be aware of stress?
Today’s lifestyles are more stressful than ever for individuals and families. Learn to recognize your own (and your family’s) stress vulnerability. Find out how these stressors AND their effects are changeable—for the rest of your life. 

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. What stress is and how it affects the body and mind.
2. Research findings about the most demanding stressors.
3. Fight, flight, flow, and freeze: why stress affects us the way it does.
4. The importance of assessing your stress level, stress triggers, and stress patterns.
5. The ABC’s of how and why your personality and body react uniquely to stress.
6. How to develop control over your primary stress factors at home and work.
7. How to handle the stress of significant life events.  
8. The most powerful filter that affects the stress response.

What you’ll take away with you
Besides the helpful, practical information listed above, participants also receive The Stress-Relief Tool Box.  Dr. Barry has developed these tools for you to use at home or work to create your own stress relief and enhance your stress resilience. You’ll also receive a list of follow-up resources.

Understanding Anger

Is anger ever a good thing?
Anger is the most misunderstood emotion. Surprisingly, a certain type of anger can be good for your health, and other types are bad. In this workshop, we’ll explore what sparks anger and why some of us are more vulnerable to it. 

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. The five types of anger and their unique effects on your body, mind, and spirit. 
2. Important research about the association of the anger-prone personality and cardiovascular disease. 
3. What causes anger?
4. How to relieve anger.
5. The differences between men and women’s reactions to anger.
6. How anger activates the sympathetic nervous system and what you can do to relieve it.

Healing and Rebuilding After Loss

Loss is one of the most painful human conditions we ever experience. In this program, we’ll explore how to take care of yourself when you’re going through loss—whether it’s the loss of someone you love through death or divorce, or the death of a pet, or the loss of a job, or some other powerful life event. We’ll focus on the wide range of “normal” reactions to loss and how to cope.

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. The range of normal mind, body, and spirit reactions to loss, grief, and bereavement.
2. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s stages of loss and how they relate to previous losses or life changes you may have experienced.
3. How Kubler-Ross’s stages relate to your current loss.  
4. What factors shape our reactions to loss.
5. Timelines of healing and recovery: mind, body, spirit, and social.
6. Steps you can take to help yourself and others during the stages of loss.

What you’ll take away with you

Besides the helpful, practical information listed above, participants also receive The Loss-Relief Tool Box.  Dr. Barry has developed these tools for you to use at home or work to handle the stress related to life’s losses and enhance your stress resilience. You’ll also receive a list of follow-up resources.

Getting Ready for Retirement

Most people jump up and down with delight at the thought of retirement! But hold on a minute—are you really ready? 
This workshop focuses on the normal reactions to this important life crossroad. You will learn how to prepare yourself mentally, physically, healthwise, and socially for this great time of life.  Baby boomers are on the verge of retiring, and we all know they want to do it well! Learn about different facets of retirement you may not have thought of!

What you’ll learn in this workshop

1. Why something that should be joyful—like retiring after a lifetime of hard work—can also be stressful.
2. How people react to retirement in their own unique way, including unique stress reactions!
3. The differences between men and women’s reactions to retirement.
4. The effects of retirement on a couple.
5. How to prepare for retirement: mentally, physically, spiritually, socially, fiscally.
6. Normal bumps in the road on the retirement path and what to do about them.
7. The hallmarks of “healthy” retirement.

What you’ll take away with you
Besides the helpful, practical information listed above, participants also receive The Retirement Stress-Relief Tool Box. Dr. Barry has developed these tools for you to use at home or work to ease your retirement stress and enhance your stress resilience. You’ll also receive a list of follow-up resources.

Interested in a workshop for your group
or your employees? 
Dr. Pat Barry is available for on-site and
on-line workshops on these topics
for corporations and professional organizations.
Programs can be customized to meet the needs of your organization or company. 
Contact Dr. Pat Barry to discuss.