Meet Deeya, Personal Development Coach who started her journey with social work a few years back and felt so connected to helping people struggling with depression that she chose coaching as her career, as a way to help people find their empowered selves.
Deeya shared with us how her journey began and a few easy yet powerful tips to help with anxiety during this current lockdown and pandemic outbreak. Thank you Deeya, for your article and for offering your help to those experiencing a difficult time during this painful moment. Stay blessed, strong and safe and keep up the good job.
As I started my journey with social work, I realised that so many people struggling with mental health felt deprived of an understanding and accepting community. This led me to collaborate with a counsellor and a journey therapist to start a support group for dealing with depression, from 2017 to 2019. It was during those times that I found that coaching was the path for me.
Through coaching, I support people to create more self-awareness, embrace their own truths, and become the most empowered version of themselves. My work sheds light on the individuals’ personal values, help them create rituals that act as landmarks when navigating rough waters, and work through their blocks towards self-growth.
It is palpable how many people are going through episodes of anxiety, anguish and panic during this lockdown. What I would suggest, to maintain stability, is to develop rituals throughout the day.
Daily rituals can be as simple as doing things in a certain order at a specific time of the day, with the INTENT of starting or finishing something. For instance, upon opening your eyes in the morning, recite a mantra, take 3 deep breaths, or visualise how you would like your day to unfold before getting out of the bed as an intent to start the day, or drink a glass of water, listen to some soothing music and read one page of a book before closing off the day and going to sleep.
The idea is to regroup a set of micro actions and assign a specific value to it to create a sense of safety for us. These can be very useful when feeling overwhelmed and to prevent anxiety and panic to take over. A useful ritual for anxiety or panic attacks is to identify the flow of thoughts, and the psychosomatic response like knotted stomach, clenched teeth and short breath, then start an intentional breathing pattern, breathe in for 4 seconds, breathe out for 4 seconds, and start describing 3 things you hear, see, taste, and feel in that moment, until one can start feeling grounded again.
To help those going through a difficult time with the lockdown and the panic caused by the pandemic, I am offering free coaching sessions (group and individual). To benefit from it, contact me on:
Facebook: Aware.Empowered
Email: be.aware.empowered@gmail.com
To be aware is to be empowered.
Deeya Seechurn
Personal development coach