Mindful Rehab™
The Mindful Rehab™ Method is our comprehensive approach to mental health therapy that supports your wellness and success.
Focused on moving you from Default to Deliberate, we work with you to understand your current Default, shift unhelpful patterns, and achieve growth.
Key Concepts:
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Default to Deliberate
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Intentional Growth
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Distress Cycles
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Resilience
The Mindful Rehab™ therapeutic method helps you achieve Intentional Growth, which we know is enabled by becoming more deliberate in our approach, navigating dysfunction, and enabling resilience.
Why Mindful Rehab?
Default to Deliberate
Most people regularly function in their Default Mode. It's not inherently bad or wrong, often looking like autopilot, preoccupation, or defensive behaviours. While the Default Mode is adapted to help us, it takes us out of our higher values and can interfere with our big picture goals. The Default Mode makes it hard to "see the forest for the trees".
Moving to Deliberate is about recognizing when & where Default is no longer serving us, and making intentional choices. Mindfulness practices develop the skills and abilities to shift from Default to Deliberate.
> See the brain science behind the shift.
Intentional Growth
How we approach ourselves, others, and situations
When something comes easily, we tend to take it for granted. Just as all skills develop with time and effort, intentional growth happens as we deliberately approach discomfort and challenge. Not too fast, and in tune with personal needs. This entails knowing how to navigate our inner thoughts and feelings alongside external situations, responsibilities, relationships, and pursuits.
Growth stalls when situations or feelings are overwhelming, unyielding, or persistent. High stress and hardship may slow, stall, or stop progress; exerting more effort can even get us more stuck. Slowing down to be deliberate and responsive is essential.
Staying present and in-tune enables us to flexibly move between preparation and progression, preventing us from getting stuck or off course. As we face difficult situations, experiences, and feelings, it's essential we prepare for a successful approach that enables progress.
Distress Cycles
When mental health, the nervous system, and regular activity are compromised, we can all get caught up in a downward spiral. As our abilities to be present, hold inner balance, and stay active are compromised, we risk getting stuck in an unhealthy Default mode.
Distress Cycles are negative interaction patterns of biopsychosocial factors, referred to as disconnection, dysregulation, and dysfunction. These patterns exacerbate wellness issues and impair how people participate in their lives.
The trick with Distress Cycles is to understand them. From there, we can shift unhelpful patterns and strengthen the more sustainable, more supportive Resilience Cycles.
