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What is the Emotional Fitness Program?

The Emotional Fitness Program is a multi award winning program designed to act as a gateway to peer support and clinical support for clients with trauma and addiction issues. The EF Program provides a range of innovative, non-confrontational self study workshops and discussion groups for males and females aged 14 and upward facing these challenges.

From Hell with Love

The group is a topic meeting about the emotional reality of recovery. Subjects such as shame, grief, anger, guilt, intimacy, jealousy and at least another 50 topics are discussed. This group helps individuals process their emotions in a supportive peer support environment, in order to help them build quality of life and understand more about their history of addictive and self sabotaging patterns.

The format is voluntary sharing so those who don't want to speak will not be asked to, they can just come and observe if they prefer. However if they choose to share they are welcome to. Other attendees are from all walks of life, the corporate professional sector, entertainment industry, mums and dads, street kids, sex workers and everyone in between. The age group ranges from age 14 to 70.

Scars into Stars

Transforming the Scars of abuse into Stars of recovery is exactly what takes place internally for those choosing to heal emotional wounding. This gentle hour topic group deals specifically with issues surrounding abusive trauma.

This group is designed for those who are seeking to improve their ability to cope with doubt, trust, self loyalty, privacy, jealousy, sexual feelings and many other challenging feelings that arise as they heal from abuse in their lives. Each week a new topic is explored and participants are encouraged to observe and or participate at their own pace. Weekly readings are provided for each person to take home with them after the group.

20 Week Self Study Workshop

The Emotional Fitness Foundation Workshops run for twenty weeks and offer individuals a five stage structured approach to overcoming their history of abuse and/or addiction. Each workshop runs for two hours and gives individuals the opportunity to self study, and learn more about their emotional patterns and behaviours.

Each attendee is provided with their own workbook as a personal journal for their recovery work. The workshops also provide handouts, fun role plays and interactive exercises to help participants loosen up and stop being so hard on themselves and learn how to create more constructive behaviours.

What is Your Emotional Fitness Level?

If you are looking for some clarity regarding the state of emotional health and wellbeing for yourself or someone else here are four key questions to reflect upon that may help you decide whether you think The Emotional Fitness Program will be able to help.

Question 1.

Is addictive behaviour an issue?

Within the Emotional Fitness Program we define addiction as any obsessive compulsive behaviour that dominates the life of an individual, the main benefit of the addictive behaviour for the individual being that it becomes an effective form of emotional escapism.

Active addictions efficiently deprive the individual of the ability to sit with feelings, understand them and resolve the relevant issue � this is the uncover, discover, recover principle that the Emotional Fitness Program aligns itself with.

Addictions manifest in some "sociably acceptable" and "sociably unacceptable" ways and may involve one or several of the following external distractions from reality:

Drugs	Alcohol	Food	Sex
Work	Exercise	Gambling	Spending
Cleaning	Computers	Violence	Stealing
Drama	Pain	Academia

So in revisiting that question again, is addiction an issue? Yes/No

Question 2.

Is abusive behaviour an issue?

Within the Emotional Fitness Program we define abusive behaviour as any form of consistent aggressive or submissive behaviour toward self or others. Abusive behaviour is about consistently shaming self or another.

Abusive behaviours can manifest in the following forms:

Isolation	Starvation	Overeating	Self harm
Violence	Bullying	Powerlessness	Predatory
Obsessive	Possessive	Deprivation	Abandonment
Negligence	Denial	Invasive

So can you identify abusive behaviour being an issue? Yes/No

Question 3.

Is self sabotage an issue?

Many people struggle with the belief that they are worthy of an abundant life on every level, as a result they live with their focus on emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual and financial debt not prosperity, on there not being enough:

Love	Time	Money	Attention
Reward	Health	Sex	Peace
Intimacy	Hope	Joy	Compassion

Wealth is a mindset, and not feeling worthy on an emotional level will always manifest in a form of self sabotage until that habitual belief is addressed. The Emotional Fitness Program promotes the belief that life is meant to be abundant in all areas � Inner peace, inner joy, inner abundance however, must come first.

So if an individual is living from the belief that they are inadequate they will attract a life to match their belief and sabotage anything that contradicts that. As Henry Ford said "If you believe you can or you believe you cant, either way, you are right"

Is self sabotage an issue? Yes/No

Question 4.

Is balance an issue?

The Emotional Fitness Program is designed to help improve life balance even if addiction or abuse is not an issue. When we are in balance at home, work and play we feel more than okay, we feel either good, great or a feeling of total satisfaction and excellence, as we excel in our lives.

Here is a chance to do a quick spot check on emotional balance. Over the past week how would you rate yourself or the individual/s you are concerned about with feeling in balance.

Choose from the following list that best describes the level of emotional balance felt, then enter the relative number next to day of the week:

Numb	1
Chaotic	2
Coping	3
Okay	4
Good	5
Great	6
Excellent	10

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

total

20 and under	Professional therapeutic support is recommended in conjunction with the Emotional Fitness Program
30 and under	The Emotional Fitness Program would be beneficial in helping improve emotional balance
40 and under	The Emotional Fitness Program would be beneficial as an emotional balance refresher course
50 and under	Congratulations, continue the positive living habits you have in place, you have a healthy level of emotionally fitness and balance
60 and under	You are an inspiration and mentor to others
70 and under	You are following your bliss and as a result mastering your life

So after completing this exercise is emotional balance an issue? Yes/No

If you have answered yes to any one of the four questions then the Emotional Fitness Program will be able to offer support and increase Emotional Fitness for yourself, another or your organisation.

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