EmotionMatters – Karen Gosling
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Karen Gosling here. Want to know how to reduce your stress and achieve emotional wellness? Well, read on, because I want to tell you how it used to be for me, and share with you some of the hard work I have put in over the years to deal with my feelings of anxiety, over-sensitivity, and being fearful of the disapproval of others.
So I hope you’ll like this story… especially if you’re feeling frustrated, annoyed, maybe even angry, at the amount of time it takes up being caught in the constant struggle of negative emotions… just like I was. They used to consume my thoughts, my entire BEING!
People always saw me as confident and capable, but it’s not how I felt on the inside. I was an exchange student for a year when I was 17, qualified as a social worker when I was 21, married at 22 to Mike who had twin daughters from a former marriage making me an instant (but not a wicked) step-mother! I worked as a community and hospital social worker for 20 years in South Australia and Queensland, Australia before moving the family to Singapore when Mike took a lecturing job at one of the Polytechnics there. By this time we had our own two boys, aged 3 and 7, and I had completed my Master in Public Health at the University of Adelaide.
Whilst in Singapore, I started a counselling practice which Mike joined after his lecturing contract ended. He completed his PhD during this time on the subject of Emotional Intelligence. For the next 12 years, I counselled more that 2,634 clients from over 83 nationalities (the majority of people who sought therapy were expatriates living and working in Asia).
Together, Mike and I conducted training and workshops, teaching what we knew about managing emotions and using them to your advantage. I conducted public lectures and seminars at universities, to spread the word about the importance of reducing stress in order to live a life of ease.
You probably hate wasting time, energy and money on programs that don’t work. And they won’t, not unless you know and understand the involvement of the brain and your interpretation on the mental and physical strategies that are taught at these courses.
So, have you reached the point where you’re starting to lose hope of feeling normal anytime soon, or dealing with your anger or your anxiety?
You know what I’m talking about… 5 days of grind, 2 days of “fun” and then back to it again… year after year…
And all the while you’re struggling and feeling insecure, helpless and depressed with things like:
No thanks! I hated that. And I thought it was only natural that other people felt that way too. I figured EVERYONE would be equally motivated to feel worthy, positive and at peace. Boy was I mistaken!
I started to talk with others about my ideal of living a life without stress, a life free of those feelings of being anxious or afraid (even when I wasn’t!).
Like a broken record I was told “Pull your head in!” and “Don’t get too big for your boots!” and even “There’s no chance, so don’t even try!”
I saw other people being positive and content and this inspired me to keep going with my quest… if only one other person could do it, then so could I!
So this time I decided to keep quiet and research as much as possible to find out how to reach my goal. With nothing more than a burning desire!
On the outside, I was the same old me, going to work every day… But behind closed doors I was paddling like crazy!
Devouring books, attending seminars, spending hours and hours researching online and forking out hundreds of dollars for programs and courses.
The best part? … Once you know how… it’s DO-ABLE! (And it only takes as long as you need to read this book!)
And guess what? You know all those people who said, “There’s no chance. Don’t even try!”?
Now they PAY me to show them how – so they too can stop feeling depressed, being angry or lacking in confidence and start feeling better about themselves, facing their fears and growing more positive!
So I eventually started sharing these methods with my counselling clients… and they started getting amazing results too. That’s when I knew this would be HUGE… and help so many people!
And that brings us to today! Right now you’re just a few minutes away from discovering how you can start getting results like these really, really quickly!
So let me show you how… But first read what Peter Lloyd said about what he learned from me… (Peter was an Australian Foreign Correspondent journalist in Asia, who suffered a mental breakdown and subsequently experienced a legal crisis, at the time I was working in private practice in Singapore).
She’s doing a presentation on memory – how we receive information in the brain, and how the brain sorts and stores memory….I feel immediately safe with her; that she’s an Australian in Singapore practising psychology seems too good to be true.
We’ve struck up the comfortable rapport that Australians so easily do in each other’s company. The idiomatic vocabulary, the black in-jokes, the teasing, the irony and the mockery are second nature.
Sitting on the lounge watching Karen at the white board helped me understand my world. It was like grabbing a torch and heading down to the basement, to examine the foundations of the house. Everything… Read more…
