Rising Strong through loss and grief.

Rising Strong™

Embrace Life after Adversity
Build Resiliency

WHAT IS RISING STRONG™?

The Rising Strong process describes a 3-phase process of bouncing back - The Reckoning, Rumbling and Revolution.

If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. The process of rising after failure, disappointment, and screwing up is where our courage is tested and our values are forged.

Our stories of struggle can be big ones or smaller ones. It is about recognizing the stories that you tell yourself about your life, particularly about the moments when you stumble.

These stories shape our thoughts, emotions and actions, and reckoning with them empowers you to take a fresh look at your emotions and internal narrative.

It is about how to get up after you stumble and have the courage to go forward wholeheartedly as you write brave new endings to your stories.

Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same:

We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; We rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and, We revolutionize the way we live, love, and lead by working this process every day until it becomes a practice.

Are your ready for a change?

Now is the time to break free of the emotional cycle and face challenges with increased courage, creativity, and connection.

Now is the time to be better equipped to make the next chapter in your life a brave new one.

Now is the time to experience more joy, gratitude, and contentment.

Now is the time to embody your soul and live fully.

Be ready to get back up, choose and practice strategies for resilience in cultivating the life you want.

DURING THIS PROCESS, YOU’LL LEARN:

How understanding your value will help you light your way forward in the dark. What behaviors do you have which support and protect your values and what behaviors serve as red flags that you’ve walked away from your own light.
How to own our own stories we make up around our struggle, challenge our assumptions of what is true and re-write our endings.
How to cultivate curiosity around our emotions, where they stem from and what gets us emotionally hooked. The unproductive ways we “manage” or discharge emotion when we are trying to avoid feeling it, also known as “offloading hurt”.
Understanding vulnerability — the myths you believe about it and where you picked them up.
Rumbling with shame – the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that what we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.
Working through feelings of loss and longing.
Understanding how you manage anxiety – whether you are over-functioning or under-functioning.

Here’s what Brené Brown says:

“If we’re going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we’re going to experience heartbreak. If we’re going to try new, innovative things, we’re going to fail. If we’re going to risk caring and engaging, we’re going to experience disappointment. It doesn’t matter if our hurt is caused by a painful breakup or we’re struggling with something smaller, like an offhand comment by a colleague or an argument with an in-law. If we can learn how to feel our way through these experiences and own our stories of struggle, we can write our own brave endings. When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.”

If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong is about what it takes to get back up.

We will explore topics that tackle the scary gremlins that tell us “it’s not time yet” or “wait till you’re smarter, more fun, prettier, in shape, educated, confident, etc. We will explore how to show up in a way that is more present, connected, and authentic to who you want to be. You will become more self-aware, increase your self-compassion, and develop strong, healthy connections. You will move this work into your bones and actively rewrite the narrative that you no longer need or want. We will do this through teaching, sharing, empathy, self-care, practical tools, education, creativity, multimedia, and practice assignments. You will explore an arena of your choosing and apply the concepts to live wholeheartedly.

I invite you to gift yourself an immersion into YOU.

When we can pause, feel held and unconditionally seen and accepted for who we are, with our imperfections and messiness, it allows us to give ourselves permission to explore the parts of our soul that hasn’t yet been expressed (or fully embrace those parts that we showed once or twice, and felt persecuted for it, so we hide them away again!).

Embody yourself with energy healing, relaxation, fun, laughter, support, and a safe and loving community.

Heal your soul. Begin anew - transformed in the Lord.

‘‘When you deny the story, it owns you.
When you own the story, you get to write the ending."
Brene' Brown

Rise Strong™ - Courage and Strength to Begin a New Chapter in Your Life

Book a Clarity Call

4 weeks - 3 hr sessions

Dates and Times: TBA

Place: Zoom or Franciscan Renewal Center

WHO IS THIS FOR:
This is limited to 15 members interested in wanting to further explore how to rise up and bounce back from setbacks in life. To participate in this workshop, you will need: To have read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong, a quiet place to do the work, art supplies, photographs (these will be specific to each lesson), and your workbook (which will be provided prior to the start of the workshop)

Investment: $333

Bonnie McCulley, LPC, BCC, CDWF
Chaplain, Counselor,
Transformational Inner Healer,
Spiritual Care Director, Certified Daring Way Facilitator

As Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'”

Let me show you how to transform your life!

Portions of this program will draw from The Rising Strong™ method based on the research of Brené Brown, Ph.D. LMSW. Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past twelve years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Her groundbreaking research has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday.

Rising Strong™Embrace Life after Adversity Build Resiliency

WHAT IS RISING STRONG™?

Rising Strong™

Embrace Life after Adversity
Build Resiliency