No more sad casigys webinar

© 2013 Sharon M. Barnes

No More SAD CASIGYs™How to Cope with Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression

Presented bySharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW

The ScrapLady: I Help CASIGYs™ ─and others ─ Create Beauty From Life’s Scraps

Phone: 303-987-0346

www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.comemail to: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


ScrapLady Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW

» Creative Transformation Specialist˃ MSSW, (San Diego State) ˃ LCSW- CO

» AKA the Scrap Lady: I help You Create Beauty & Benefit from Life’s Scraps

˃ Creative Healing Presentations, PlayShops & Retreats

˃ Creative Healing & Creative Transformation counseling & psychotherapy

» Wilderness Guide˃ I’ll Guide You through the Wilderness of CASIGY

Inner Territory to Destinations of Delight!

» www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com/About


Why Do CASIGYs Seem So Susceptible to Being SAD from Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression?


CASIGY = » Creativity, Curiosity,

Complexity» Acute Awareness» Super-Sensitivity» Intensity, Introversion,

Intelligence» Giftedness

»You?


Different By Design!

Who Am I?

• 2• 3

• 1• 4Creativ

e Contri-bution

Creative Coping

Creative

Healing

Creative

Transfor-mation

How to Overcome CASIGY SADness


Bonus Tip» What is the most powerful, yet hidden

tool that parents and teachers have to help CASIGY kids and teens deal with their discouragement?˃ Monkey-See, Monkey-Do (modeling)

+ It’s the most natural way we all learn+ It takes one to know one+ You can't lead someone

– where you are not willing – or able to go

+ The most powerful influence on the child is the unlived life of the parent/teacher (Jung)

˃ Implication/Application+ Use these tools for yourself first, then pass them

along


Top Ten Tips & Tools to Overcome CASIGY SADness

1.Breathea. Belly Breathing

1. Put your hands on your stomach below your waist.2. Breathe from your belly, so that your hands move

up and down as you breathe in and out3. Slow down your breathing, focus especially on

taking longer to exhale4. Continue to do this for several minutes. If you get

light-headed or dizzy, make sure you breathe in more.

5. Fill and empty your lungs as completely as possible with each breath.

http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/relaxation-breathing-exercises


»2. Don’t Fight it. Feel it. Experience it.


»3. Identify what other emotions you are feeling.


»4. Recognize what’s happening in your life that’s getting you down.


»5. DO what you CAN DO.


» 6. Let go of what can’t be done.


7.Don’t wait until you feel good to treat yourself well.


»8. Express your emotions creatively.

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain” Carl Jung


»9. Turn your emotion into motion


»10. Balance your brain


»11. No more Ugly Duckling. You’re a Swan!


»12. Give Thanks for what’s going well.


»13.Get Help» http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/

counseling-sensitive-gifted


Three step process that helps to identify and outsmart SADness before it take over

1.Create2.Contemplate3.Crystallize

Let’s Do It!


Create

1. Tune In: Your CASIGY SADness2. Get some paper – any paper3. Pick up a Writing instrument4. Put it in You Non-dominant

hand5. Draw something to represent

your CASIGY SADness6. Do not direct this with your

frontal lobes7. Let your hand do/go whatever

it wants


Contemplate

» Stop, look, listen˃ What do you see?

+ Shapes+ Colors+ Textures

˃ Give it a voice: + What does it say to you?

˃ Activate Your Imagination+ Have an imaginary conversation

with your creation+ Focus this conversation on the topic

at hand: CASIGY SADness+ Follow the conversation (in your

imagination) wherever it leads you


Crystallize

» What does this illuminate about˃ Your CASIGY SADness?

» Make a record: ˃ write, ˃ draw, ˃ make an audio or video recording ˃ Use some other medium to record˃ what you have received and learned.


No More SAD CASIGYs™How to Cope with Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression

Presented bySharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW

The ScrapLady: I Help CASIGYs™ ─and others ─ Create Beauty From Life’s Scraps

Phone: 303-987-0346

www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.comemail to: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


» Next Week: October 16, 2014

» Movement, Health and Happiness:

» How to MOVE to ˃ Lower your stress˃ Feel better˃ Increase your self-worth

» Guest Speaker: Matthew C. Barnes, D.C.

» http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/movement-health-happiness/

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