Everything looked good from the outside, which made Justin’s anxiety reactions all the more illogical. And frustrating. Justin could feel the waste of his time and energy on dealing with these reactions. Over the course of a year he engaged in my core programmes, plus standalone sessions, resulting in feeling peace, joy, gratitude, lightness, energy and greater awareness.
Here’s what Justin said….
Before working with Helen, I was experiencing more of what I would call “unconscious” anxiety, and even though things were going well, once in a while I was running into some triggered responses that did not make much sense if you were watching me from an outside perspective.
As a coach and entrepreneur, I’ve learned over the years that my capacity in the moment to function and create is really important, so losing my energy due to unexpected reactions to circumstances, people or events could be frustrating and disheartening. All this mean that my experience before working with Helen was a lot more variable.
After experiencing a number of the Mace Method modules with Helen, over a period of about a year, I noticed a much more “conscious” understanding of my experience. The work with Helen meant my experience immediately after each session was beautiful.
Each time, I experienced a profound shift in my nervous system, and sense of peace, joy, gratitude and lightness as I let go of some key stories, beliefs and self-judgments that were draining a lot of my energy and awareness.
Somehow, the process helped me zoom out and gain perspective on the difference between who I am, and really see that there’s a consistent peaceful awareness that’s been with me my whole life, and the contrast of when that awareness is temporarily clouded by my behavior or emotions.
Although I still get anxious, I have a different experience of it, and I can either be ok with it, knowing it’s a temporary experience and will shift naturally, or I will dig in and ask for support if there’s a pattern that starts to appear that is bothering me quite a bit and no longer serving me. Usually, this shows up as a relationship drama, and so I know there’s an opportunity for me to take a look at how a patterned belief about my identity is reacting to this relationship.
Getting to here was a combination of understanding other somatic processes around experiencing emotions instead of pushing them away, plus Helen’s guidance of the imagery technique from the Mace Method.
Trusting Helen’s process took awhile to understand, but once I got a feel for what was happening, I was able to shift through a laundry list of issues that had been bogging me down in my life.
Often, Helen and I would laugh when we would reconvene, sometimes even just a week later, and I couldn’t remember what the actual problem was.
Over time, I could see that the content of issues are actually irrelevant and that ultimately the ability to attune with what’s really going on, get present, and fall back into your true self – or essentially what Buddhists might call “witness consciousness,” helped me to drop the issues. Many of the issues I can’t remember, now, or if I look back at them, they are less charged or completely neutral without the strong, emotional personal attachment I had before working with Helen.
Working with Helen is a very enjoyable experience. She is equal parts patient and persistent, and brings a calm, loving, trustworthy dynamic to the work. I have the advantage of knowing Helen before she discovered the Mace Method and, like me, she explored a number of different modalities to feel better. So for me, her excitement and confidence in the method was really compelling because I know how much experimentation she had done in the past.
Couple that with just observing her consistent kindness and integrity over the years, I felt very comfortable in trusting her to guide me into some very intimate and sensitive and vulnerable topics.
I appreciated that she also didn’t let me hang out in my own drama or blind spots, and she lovingly and firmly moved me along in the process, all while maintaining calm and objective empathy. She also gracefully handled my skepticism and questions, kept it light, and was generous and gracious through the whole process.
Helen is a dedicated healer who persistently demands the best for anyone willing to play with her. While simultaneously coming from a place of unconditional love, she also has a knack for demanding progress and getting things done in a practical way – to bring it down into the world for you to enjoy less suffering and be free to express yourself fully.
~ Justin
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