A.R.I.S.E. Method
What is holding you back? Keeping you stuck?
The answer is more simple, albeit more complex than you might think.
What we feel influences what we believe and what we do.
What we believe influences what we do and feel.
What we do influences what we feel and believe.
Yes, it is a chicken-and-an-egg situation with a myriad of opinions in the psychology field.
However, what you need to know in order to grow is understand how to respond to your mind, heart, body, and soul as an integrated whole.
Essentially, the impact of trauma (which is more common than realized), as well as the consequence of insecure attachments with primary caregivers, has shaped the way you see this world, others, yourself, and maybe even God. And that is what is influencing your mindset and habits.
Your search for safety, security, and belonging is an equally strong driving force.
So the real question, then, isn't what is holding you back?
Rather, the way forward is to develop a habit of checking in with yourself while exploring your beliefs and emotions in order to identify what steps can you take so that you may o embrace the possibilities of change as you choose to stabilize and thrive.
The A.R.I.S.E. Method will enable you to stabilize and thrive by gaining skills that lead to emotional resilience and relational strength.
A - AWARENESS
How did you get to this moment? Notice what is happening in your body.
Learning how to identify sensations is helpful for regulation and is an excellent life skill as well as essential for being around and on a horse.
R - REFLECT
What are you feeling? Sad, Mad, Glad, or Afraid?
Noticing our emotions is essential because they influence our thoughts and the choices we make.
I - IDENTIFY
What are your beliefs about yourself, others, and this situation?Â
Learning how to identify helpful versus harmful beliefs about your situation, yourself, others is necessary for choosing the next best step.Â
S - STRATEGIZE
What are your options, opportunities, and solutions?
Not every challenge needs to become a debilitating crisis or obstacle to moving forward. Learning how to assess the situation and the options is an essential life skill that leads to resiliency.
E - ENGAGE
What is your next step? Be specific and realistic.
Engaging in the process of growth requires taking action with purpose and intentionality through setting S.M.A.R.T. goals and having the accountability provided through coaching to move forward.
Survival should be a state, not a trait.Â
You can arise, stabilize, and thrive!
The growth process is possible when you seek to function with an integrated brain in a fully present body existing in the context of healthy connected relationships.
These are the principles supported by the developmental neuroscience model as described by experts such as D. Bruce Perry, Dan Siegel, Curt Thompson, Brene Brown, Bessel van der Kolk, and others.
For some, this process starts with therapy and transitions to coaching for cultivating life skills and vision-focused support. For others, coaching is the first step of exploration and can lead to deeper therapeutic work.
Through the support of equine-assisted coaching and therapy, the growth process is accelerated by the feedback offered when interacting with a horse, revealing what is happening in the body as well as exposing the emotions and thoughts that rise up when engaging in relational connection.
Yes, through trauma-informed coaching, utilizing the A.R.I.S.E. Method devised by Lisa Pulliam, the founder of StableMinded.us, you will learn how to stabilize and thrive by growing emotionally resilient and relationally strong so that you can live the life you were made for.