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Upcoming Events
LifeSkills Training
Distress Tolerance
and Clutter Clearing
Monday, June 7
4 to 6 PM for 10 weeks
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Intrapersonal
Effectiveness
Winning at Relationships
Tuesday, June 8
6 to 8 PM for 10 weeks
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Emotional
Regulation
Thursday, March 10
10 AM to Noon
for 10 weeks
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Weight Managment
Body Image and
Depression
Thursday, May 6
3 to 4:30 PM
for 10 weeks
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Call for more info
952 545 6966
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Jody L Friesen Grande PhD
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Affirmation/Visualize
I am taking time
and enjoying the beautiful energy that surrounds me.
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LifeSkills Defined
Mastering a skill
that is essential for a healthy participation in
attending to the challenges and opportunities of daily living -- a connection of mind, body, and spirit.
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Dr Jody L Friesen Grande
HopeAllianz Inc
11900 Wayzata Blvd
Suite 216G
Minnetonka MN 55305
952 545 6966
952 545 6969 fax
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Balanced LifeStyle -- LifeSkills Training Program being developed and will be released in the fall of 2010. Watch for more details. The current LifeSkills Training Programs include:
Mindfulness in Everyday Living
Intrapersonal Effectiveness: Learning to Love Yourself
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Winning at Relationships
Emotional Regulation
Distress Tolerance and Clutter Clearing
Weight Management, Body Image and Depression
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"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise."
~Author Unknown
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Mindfulness for Everyday Living
 Personal growth is defined as a natural development and a process of progressing to maturity. LifeSkills that will help you with this process include: an understanding of self; an awareness of self and others; a healthy attitude; and a belief in yourself, your abilities and your potential.
It begins with the question, "Do you like where you are and what you have become?" It is an acceptance of self (right where you are at, doesn't mean that you like it) while at the same time, developing whom you want to become. Reflect on this question and visualize whom you want to be ... begin jotting down ideas ... turn them into a plan with goals and action steps.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell
you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which
tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a
course of action and flow it to an end requires courage.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take a Risk
Essential for Authentic Wholeness
You have dreams, desires, wants. We all do! I would suspect that you may be unsatisfied and finding yourself in a place we often refer to as "stuck." On one hand, you blame others because you not reached a place you thought you would have been by this age or you are kicking yourself with all that "negative" self-talk that you don't deserve it anyhow.
Think about it ... we take risks everyday ...
- To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
- To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
- To reach out for another is to risk involvement
- To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
- To love is to risk not being loved in return
- To live is to risk dying
- To hope is to risk despair
- To try is to risk failure
- To place your ideas, your dreams before others is to risk loss
We become scared and fear rejection, disapproval, abandonment, and uncertainty. We don't want to put ourselves in a "vulnerable" space. We want to play it safe ... we find comfort where we are and struggle with the idea of doing it any other way. With sadness, we rationalize somehow that losing our dreams, desires and wants is ok for self-preservation.
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Moving Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Action Occurs in the Present
Acknowledge a need that has gone unmet.
Why is this important to you?
Who are you when this need is met?
Opening yourself to change is a risk.
What is one thing that you can do to work towards this unmet need?
Be brave ... this is a substantial change!
In order to grow ... we need to move out of
our comfort zone and take a risk.
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Enjoy your journey and remember to stop along the way to embrace the day's gifts of love, happiness, harmony, surprise, laughter, energy, strength, and peace.
Jody L Friesen Grande PhD LICSW BCD
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