Thriving after trauma, burnout, or overwhelm
At the Trauma Recovery Clinic Anne provides supported online coaching, with real human connection (not AI generated) for people who are learning to thrive after emotional and psychological distress, anxiety, or burnout following prolonged stress.
Anne also offers bespoke one-to-one masterclass packages (three 50 minute Zoom sessions) for when stress becomes overwhelming, and burnout threatens. You can find them here: Three one-to-one sessions. she also offers bespoke one-to-one masterclasses for Developing Good Boundaries, vital for both home and business situations. Please call her if you would like to book either of these packages.
After the initial recovery from overwhelm we are often left thinking “What do I do now? How do I start again, or live a different life, when I’ve lived months or years in response to trauma?”
This is where Anne’s programmes come in. As a fully experienced and skilled trauma therapist, she guides you through the process of getting your life back (or even living life fully for the first time!) and finding out who you really are, so you can feel whole, make decisions that are right for you, and live a life that is satisfying, deep down inside. Her programmes are all based on neuroscience, somatics, and compassion.
Our ability to live a life free from excessive doubt and anxiety, or emotional paralysis, is often almost impossible after traumatic stress or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), or complex PTSD. These conditions can follow events or circumstances in which grave physical, mental or emotional harm occurred or was threatened or witnessed. They include unrelenting stress, violence or abuse of any kind, accidents, disasters, medical intervention, assaults, or involvement in war or conflict.
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Overwhelm and its effects
Overwhelm from events, circumstances or unrelenting stress, even if not traumatic, can leave the brain with anxiety, high alert and survival patterns that are necessary at the time, but not useful any more. This can create generalised anxiety, overwhelm, fear or panic, or the feeling of being stuck, frozen, or cut off and isolated. Symptoms such as not being able to make decisions, or carry them out, and losing our sense of self, are very common.
Whatever you are suffering, you need to know that this is not your fault, and that we can do something about it. The various programmes, including the free ones, address different aspects of overwhelm and its aftermath.
Free programmes
Cheat sheet for the Morning Anxiety programme
Master the five things your brain needs, in order to wake up and start the day happy and confident. Click above and start making discoveries with the free cheat sheet that goes with the programme.
The three most common mistakes in making big decisions
A PDF download. Discover the three most common mistakes in making big decisions: how and why to avoid them, and what to do instead. Click on the blue link above for your download.
We often find it very difficult to say “no” without sounding rude, selfish, or without inviting conflict. It helps to have the words, and to know how to say them. With this PDF download you can discover how to hold your ground, say what you want (and what you don’t want), and how to say “No” without being rude. Discover the rules and use the mix and match words and phrases to be gentle but firm. Click on the blue link above.
Changing how we feel about money
This is a 21 day email challenge to root out your negative or harmful beliefs about money, wealth, and what it feels like to have money. Each day there is a new email with a short exercise, as I guide you through rooting out beliefs and thoughts, deciding which ones you want to keep and which you want to leave behind, and, of course, which new beliefs and thoughts you want to take on. Bit by bit you will find new beliefs to substitute for the old, unwanted ones, and you’ll also discover how to install these beliefs so they stay with you and become automatic. This is not about repeating general mantras about money, it’s about discovering the exact beliefs to suit you, and finding the right wording for them, so you can embed them without inner conflict.
This programme is based on neuroscience and utilises current research into how we automate thoughts and beliefs (and behaviours, too!) so they become unconscious – a little like how we ride a bike or use our phones, without having to consciously think about how to do it. You can use the principles for changing any unwanted beliefs – not just about money.
Anne Cheshire SEP, MNIMH
Anne Cheshire is a trauma therapist and practitioner in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) and other trauma recovery approaches, with over15 years’ experience treating PTSD and complex PTSD (CPTSD). She works with those suffering from anxiety, overwhelm and burnout, often still present after CPTSD, in fully supported online programmes.
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Start resetting your nervous system after overwhelm
When our nervous systems sustain damage after overwhelm, unrelenting stress, or trauma, it means that they cannot return to a healthy ‘normal’ setting. For us, that means that we don’t see things the way we used to, and are either hypervigilant or we can’t make sense of what is going on. We can’t take action, or we take action with effort. We feel trapped, or constantly on the lookout for an exit. We may freeze or shut down, find ourselves placating others, or feel cut off and estranged from ourselves and the real world. That is what this programme is about. It will help you as you begin to repair your nervous system at the deepest level, and it comprises what I teach my one-to-one clients in their first six to eight sessions. Online programme Calm, Confident Brain
