Being You believes that before a total complete healing and change can happen to oneself, the whole person needs to be addressed. The transformation needs to be natural, integral process and be governed from a place within oneself that naturally knows what is right and appropriate for oneself.

Therapeutic interventions require a balance of consciously undoing and redoing, while developing life affirming disciplines. 
Center-based, Holistic therapeutic training is the bases for the Next Step process.

The Next Step Process is for individuals who have been through the normal social programs, such as, AA, Treatment Programs, Life Skills Programs and, Clinical Counseling disciplines and find that these programs/disciplines are no longer serving them. The 'Next Step' is a continuation from these social programs and brings one from a survival living mode to a  creative living mode.

Self-awareness Stage/Survival Living:

Generally speaking, the normal social programs helps individuals to become aware of their problems and their effects and begins the process of helping to stop the destructive behaviors. One can become aware of some of the issues causing these behaviors and beliefs. Some may go on to become aware of feelings/emotions and expressing them.

Finally, one can begin to mentally understand the dynamics of their problems and the concepts/theories about what to do. The change that does happen is generally mentallized and the surface of inner work, which causes the individual to always be maintaining the stopping process internally. A battling of inner and external forces causes one to further develop coping skills such as suppression, self forcing or neglect, therefore, being in a perpetual survival, living mode. The result is a life of struggle, despair and poor health.

Spiritual disciplines can be a powerful facilitator at this point if one begins to work through issues, release the hurts, pains, negative ways, etc., and then begins the process of inner work.
Therapeutic Inner work and changes is necessary before permanent outer life changes can happen. This stage can be years if not a life time, depending on one’s level of determination, commitment, sincerity and development.

The Next Step Process/Creative Living:

The 'Next Step' is for those who are determined, sincere and willing to do the work and make the necessary changes, but need a safe place/environment and a conscious inner-based approach in which to do the work and develop from. Usually at this stage one has considered or tried personal development processes, but either found them short term, unappealing or unproductive.

The work consists of a unison blend of change, healing and development. A person in this process addresses all aspects of him/herself – mind, emotions, body, and spirit. 
The labor is to consciously undo negative thoughts, behaviors, and actions, to heal the damaged and wounded aspects, and to strengthen and develop weaker energies by working directly from the core. The work also realigns the various aspects so that they work harmoniously with the conscious part. The process includes developing disciplines of the mind and body and identifying emotional and spiritual forces that need to be trained, and then retraining them.

This retraining is a therapeutic training which involves individuals to be conscious of what they are doing, and learn to use this knowledge as a basis for change. When a person becomes conscious he or she can make better decisions and choose to work out or through important issues.

Within us, one part to change, but other aspects are contrary and other parts don’t believe that change is even possible. 
Old emotional patterns, including anger and fear, arise. 
In the retraining process if one can reconnect these various parts then the physical body will be able to hear, and then serious progressive change can happen.

Expected Outcomes:

• Identify key inner and life changes necessary for maintaining a sense of well-being
• Develop abilities to let-go and release old hurts, fears, traumas/shock and their effects
• Increase ability to self-trust and to trust others
• Develop abilities to manage and handle stress
• Identify the causes for past and present conflicts within self and their relationships
• Increase awareness of patterns in repeatedly forming destructive relationships
• Identify and work through inner blocks and fears
• Develop cognitive and behavior strategies to reduce and/or eliminate anxiety, fears, depression, etc.
• Increase acceptability of self-responsibility and accountability while expanding an inner freedom
• Identify feelings and beliefs associated with parental child-rearing patterns and develop abilities to work through and overcome them
• To decrease fear of rejection while increasing sense of self-acceptance
• Increase ability and quality of communication with others
• Identify and verbalize needs in relationships
• Demonstrate the ability to follow through to completion of simple tasks
• Increase ability to say no and set a clear cut set of limits for oneself
• Increase ability to have positive interaction with authority
• Increase knowledge of healthy dependence and healthy independence
• Identify, develop boundaries for self in relationships
• Increase awareness of boundaries and when they are violated
• Increase ability to recognize healthy support
• Increase awareness of holistic family dynamics
• Increase awareness of how avoiding dealing with loss has a negative effect on their life
• Increase ability to resolve loss/grief holistically
• Decrease impulsively in action, self-abuse, gambling, etc.
• Replace concept of higher power as harsh and judgmental with one where higher power is accepting, forgiving and loving
• Develop ability to plan a future for themselves
• Increase self identity and acceptance of traditional/cultural values

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