BREATHE
COURSE INFORMATION
This is a four-week course via Zoom, the framework is designed to give you practical information and support if experiencing anxiety or helping others who experience anxiety.
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With the view of building confidence to carry out self-help through; identifying traits, self-talk and exposure therapy. Interactive question and answer times within this safe space will be included in every session.
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COURSE TOPICS
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Week One: The Road to Recovery - Part One
"The process of recovery is a marathon, not a sprint."​
Week Two: The Road to Recovery - Part Two
"Changing perspectives and self-talk takes time and persistence."
Stop worry in its tracks before it turns into anxiety.
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Week Three: Exposure Therapy
Avoidance behaviour is a natural protection mechanism.
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Week Four: Recovery Maintenance and Practical Self-Care
If you focus on reframing anxious thoughts, you will worry less about relapse.
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​*Danielle Dixon is not a medical consultant, but she has many years of lived experience and recovery. She has helped hundreds of people to better manage anxiety.
MY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNEY
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I have experienced and was diagnosed with Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety, OCD, Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia.
My struggle with mental health begins like most people as a child. I had experienced a few very traumatic situations during childhood, which would later come to the surface.
However, at the time, being young and invincible, I carried on and was able to suppress those feelings and emotions for many years. Yet, at the age of twenty- six, there was no more hiding and my anxiety was becoming more prominent in my life. After a restless night overthinking a personal relationship, I had my first intense panic attack the following day. Still, I was unaware of what was happening to my body and mind. Hyperventilating, heart palpitations, tight throat and disorientation are only a few of the symptoms that occurred during that panic attack, so I was confident I needed to go to the hospital; something unexplainable happened to me. At the hospital, they told me that I have a mental health disorder, and they quickly booked me to see a psychiatrist. I was in disbelief and bewildered by the news. Was I crazy?
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I had always been an independent, strong and driven woman, but the news of my ‘newfound’ condition quickly made me housebound with agoraphobia. Within a few weeks, I had resigned from my middle management position and stayed indoors for almost two years, unable to shop, drive a car, answer the door or phone, get the mail, hang out the clothes etc. At, this time I was experiencing panic attacks more frequently. It felt like I had entered a horror movie, and there was no way to escape. I permanently lived in a state of panic.
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It was a long road and took me many years to break my old thinking patterns and routines as resources and help were limited back then. Connecting back to my faith was also a significant factor in me finding inner peace.
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This course intends to give you practical ways of managing your anxiety. I have devoted the last twenty years of my life to helping others who suffered mental and emotional trauma because if I can do it, anyone can do it!