Free to be Me: A Path to Self-Acceptance

Do you know that the feeling of unworthiness is the number one reason for people’s stress, anxiety, and turmoils? After practising psychotherapy for years, I know this to be 100% true. 

Everything from relationship break-ups to financial instability, to deep depression and adult ADHD relates in some way with this sense of unworthiness. 

When I trained as a clinical hypnotherapist and started to practise under Marisa Peer, I realized how true this actually is. When I went to the root cause of people’s hurt or problems, …

Unable to sleep, stop smoking, focus, chronic health concerns, etc., it always trickled down to self-worth. Let me give you some examples:

An estranged mother and daughter relationship. The mother is trying to reconnect to the daughter, who seemingly wants nothing to do with her. The mother is constantly reaching out or sending some form of financial support, and the daughter either takes advantage of her lack of boundaries or disassociates from her completely. The mother becomes depressed and miserable. 

What is happening here is that the mom feels an incredible amount of guilt and shame in the sense that she feels unworthy because of her daughter’s resistance to building the relationship. Why? We don’t know. However, she doesn’t need to know. 

But as humans, we don’t like uncertainty, so we need to know. This is the absolute truth. This is ‘fortunately’ or, unfortunately, the brain’s machinery. Our brain loves logic and certainty. It is our emotions that ‘f-ups’ the circuitry. 

Why?

Because with so many situations in our life, we want…but we ‘can’t. We desire…but we can’t. 

But what we don’t know is that…

We can’t because we are programmed to believe we can’t. Why? Mainly because our parents wanted to keep us safe. 

It all comes down to belief. You become what you believe. Your beliefs act as the neurocircuitry. Your beliefs is how the machine is manufactured. 

You know this is true. 

Because…

Why do some people seem to have ‘all the luck’? Why, for some people, wealth comes easy. Communication comes easy. Life just seems ‘easy’!!!

Life seems easy because they are choosing to believe it is easy. However, most people think this way because they were programmed to think this way. 

Only the brave are the ones that were NOT programmed to think this way but instead CHOSE to think this way. 

You need a lot of courage to change your beliefs. However, it is the key to happiness. 

Early-bird price | $555.00 USD $666.00 USD

Thanks to Luella it has become abundantly clear how negative thought patterns can be so detrimental to ones health. With her gentle and empowering guidance I finally feel better, feel mentally and emotionally stronger and more in-tune with my body and my sense of self. I can finally begin to see the authentic me rising from the ashes of constant self-destruction, that no longer defines me. All aspects and dimensions of my health have improved thanks to her wonderful techniques to help me begin my journey to healing. She’s so personable and approachable, very professional and great follow up, I would highly recommend her to anyone in need of someone to talk to or just listen. Thank you for everything.

Female, 29 yrs

What’s included

Module 1: Listening in silence – what do you hear?
Do you always feel out of place? Like you should act differently than how you normally act?

Module 2: Replacing Thinking with Contemplation.
Thinking is what ‘busy’ minds do. We are going to go from thinking to reflection, awareness, and intentional thoughts.

Module 3: Who am I now?
Good question. Can’t wait to find out.

Module 4: Calling in Spirit, you Source energy.
If you are not spiritual in the traditional sense, don’t worry. This is where we tap into your soul, and I know you have one!

Module 5: Incorporating the silence between the trigger and the response.
Just because you are more aware doesn’t mean it is easy to not react when triggered, I will teach you how to practice this skill.

Module 6: Embodying the heart-led way of living and what this looks like unique to you.
Simple practices/changes you can make today that will gradually bring your towards a more fullfilled life.

Before Tying The Knot – Full Disclosure

Before Tying the Knot!

Full disclosure…

I sat down to write content for this course and felt overwhelmed! Why? Because how can I even describe the importance of this decision? It could be THE MOST important decision of your life. 

And who am I to be part of your decision?

I am confident AF about being the person to provide you with value because I have counselled couples for decades in my private practice. I have helped them through their worries, doubts and fears, and at the time I wrote this copy, I have been in a committed relationship for nearly 26 years. 

NOTE…

I would not consider my relationship one of great ease. We have had our full share of ups and downs where we both wanted to run away (and did) but came back. I have reflected A LOT on what makes a relationship work and have dedicated my life to studying relationships. I have seen the celebrations and the deep sadness in relationships. I have guided partners on when to separate and when to stay. 

I want to give you as much clarity and confidence as possible in choosing a partner because we want this partnership for life. 

Nothing is more devastating than breaking up a family and, more importantly, a dream. I know you have a dream you are following as part of this decision. You are dreaming about the wedding celebration, the romantic getaways you will share, the family, the career advancements, the home, the milestones, and the conversations on the porch when you are old and gray. Your partner is by your side in the last moments of life. 

Feeling the pressure?

That is why I am creating this course because I want you to feel LESS pressure by making the choice to take this course. It is PENNIES compared to the cost of a divorce, and let’s not even think of the mental and emotional fatigue you would endure when ending a marriage.

Your investment | $333.00 USD

Luella has been instrumental in resolving years of miscommunication between my partner and I. Without her guidance and support our relationship would not have endured one of the most traumatic incidents any marriage can suffer: infidelity. Luella was patient, and caring in our meetings. She taught us communication and coping techniques, which helped each of us understand what had long been missing in our relationship. We practice these lessons daily, and in doing so we have been able to re-establish a foundation of love and trust. I know we will continue to seek her support and guidance in the future.

Happy Couple

Topics Covered

  1. Why are we together anyway?
  2. I use a questionnaire I created to review your standards and values and how this measures up to your partners’ standards and values—a review of the non-negotiables in a relationship.
  3. What types of conversations must you have daily (connection, curiosity, and conflict)?
  4. What does balance in a partnership mean to you?
  5. How okay are you with conflict?
  6. What does independence mean to?
  7. What does intimacy mean to you?
  8. What does commitment mean to you?
  9. Finance!! Oh boy, let us talk about money honies…
  10. Drop the expectations, period. Be crystal clear that your partner is not changing for you.

What I like so much about this group program is that you will likely make friends! Other folks that have the same worries, questions and concerns! Win-win…

We will have a Q&A as a final wrap-up to the course. You can make notes and gather your questions as the course progresses. Then, you will submit your questions for me to answer on the final call.

Number of modules? No clue, sorry. I will only tell you that I will teach on each of the ten topics listed until I feel I am complete and then move on to the next, with an additional Q&A at the end.

I Decide

If you are someone who struggles to make a decision, the first thing you need to know is that you are not alone. In fact, you are normal.

So, if you are normal, then why is this a bad thing, that is, not being able to make a decision? To be indecisive is a display of the normal psyche. This is because as children, when we felt emotion, our parents would often distract us from that emotion or tell us not to pay attention to that emotion and just do it anyway.

Examples

Child: I don’t want to say sorry.
Parent: You took her toy, say sorry.
Child: But I don’t want to. She hit me.
Parent: Say sorry. You have to say sorry.

Parent: Eat the broccoli.
Child: I don’t want to eat the broccoli.
Parent: It is good for you, eat the broccoli.

After years of this sort of impressional patterning of thought, it is natural to start questioning ourselves. Naturally, over the years our brains created neural pathways towards going AGAINST what our emotions, our truth, our beliefs truly are. We have been programmed to go against what we truly desire and believe what is good for us.

Welcome to the Matrix

You have been programmed by your family and society to do and be someone you are not. Which causes you to make decisions that are safe. But the only reason they feel right and safe is because it feels normal. Anything that feels normal means that it has been programmed, it is stored in the subconscious and therefore it is easy. It happens without you even knowing it. It is the path of least resistance.

But just because it feels normal does not mean it is necessarily right for you.

This! Herein lies the work!

We go deep and discover who we are in our best decisions. We look back at the decisions that did not serve us and take inventory of our energy/frequency/situations at that time that likely directed us in the wrong direction.

Bottom line is that we need to truly know ourselves well enough to make better decisions, trust those decisions, and get comfortable being uncomfortable. We need to know that we will be okay, even if we make the wrong decision, and practice more of this.

Practice being uncomfortable is the key to change, and making a decision is the catalyst to change.

Your investment | $666.00 USD

Luella is amazing. I have seen plenty of counselors and therapists in my life. Luella has assisted me in making the most progress in my life, marriage, and general well-being.

I have been able to cut out toxic relationships, lose 15 pounds, better my marriage, communicate better with others, and been able to put myself first when needed all with her help.

I highly, highly recommend her. Thank you Luella for giving me the support to make the changes I needed to and take back my life.

Sydney

What’s included

Module One

We take inventory of the decisions you have made in your life that were filled with regret and recall the emotional states at the time those decisions were made. Could your insecurities, lack of connection to Self, your truth, contributed to your indecisions?

Module Two 

What it looks like to live in integrity and honesty with yourself. Indecision is a form of anxiety. It is your nervous system being dysregulated. We will practice a form of psychotherapy called exposure therapy. We will take begin taking small decisions and moving up to more difficult decisions.  We go to ‘the edge’ of dysregulation, but not quite ‘over the cliff’.

Module Three

To really test your ability to ‘regulate’ your emotions, you will be asked to expose yourself to situations that trigger you WITHOUT becoming defensive. It is becoming an observer of life rather than someone needing to react. You start to see your truth and have less interest in what others say about you.

Module Four

It is time to look inside your soul. This is all about reclaiming your self-identity. Reclaiming who you really are – your truth, source frequency, sense of self. Then we go into willpower – being willing to see and do things differently and personal power.

Module Five

How do we communicate to those we love so that they FEEL us, not simply HEAR us? They actually respect our requests and understand our needs. You honour yourself, him/her, and your partnership. How we relate to others is truly a reflection of how we relate to ourselves.

Module Six

We move towards integration of who you really are and what claiming it looks like in real time. More challenges, further exposure therapy and seeing what becoming the fullest expression of yourself looks like. Gathering the responses of your friends and family and being okay with not matter what comes at you. Claiming it without shame, guilt and of course, indecision!!

Free to be Me: A Path to Self-Acceptance (Old)

Free to be Me

A Path to Self-Acceptance

  • 6 Module Group Program
  • Q & A opportunities
  • Homework provided between modules

You choose love over fear, and when you do this, everything about you relaxes.  I teach how to trust in the process, your decisions and your leadership. This is your container if you choose to become a heart-led, self-led person. This space is for those who: need to control others, suffer from abandonment issues, and just need to love themselves more as they are. After the completion of our time together, your heart will speak louder than your logical mind, so you don’t need to hold on so tightly. You will learn to trust more and have compassion for others.

Module 1: Listening in silence – what do you hear?
Do you always feel out of place? Like you should act differently than how you normally act?

Module 2: Replacing Thinking with Contemplation.
Thinking is what ‘busy’ minds do. We are going to go from thinking to reflection, awareness, and intentional thoughts.

Module 3: Who am I now?
Good question. Can’t wait to find out.

Module 4: Calling in Spirit, you Source energy.
If you are not spiritual in the traditional sense, don’t worry. This is where we tap into your soul, and I know you have one!

Module 5: Incorporating the silence between the trigger and the response.
Just because you are more aware doesn’t mean it is easy to not react when triggered, I will teach you how to practice this skill.

Module 6: Embodying the heart-led way of living and what this looks like unique to you.
Simple practices/changes you can make today that will gradually bring your towards a more fullfilled life.

Early-bird price | $555.00 USD $666.00 USD

I Decide Old

I Decide

  • 6 Module Group Program
  • Q & A opportunities
  • Homework provided between modules

You will learn and notice:

Module One: Your insecurities and lack of connection to yourself, your truth, make indecision part of your existence.

Module Two: What it looks like to live in integrity and honesty with yourself. It is becoming an observer of life rather than someone needing to react. You start to see your truth and have less interest in what others say about you. 

Module Three: It is time to look inside your soul. This is all about claiming your self-identity back. Reclaiming who you really are – your truth, source frequency, sense of self. Then we go into willpower – being willing to see and do things differently and personal power. 

Module Four: How do we communicate to those we love so that they FEEL us, not simply HEAR us? They actually respect our requests and understand our needs. You honour yourself, him/her, and your partnership.

Module Five: Becoming the fullest expression of yourself and your unique skills and talents. It is time to own and claim it! Time to claim the fullest expression of yourself without shame.

Module Six: We move towards integration of who you really are and what claiming it looks like in real time.

Your investment | $666 USD