Fierce Boundaries - Cynthia Garner

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Résumé :
When you are fierce, you don't compromise or let people push at the edges of what makes you who you are. You keep your feet firmly planted beneath you and you dig deep and find that determination, grit, and resolve that it takes to protect your heart, the way a mama bear guards her cubs, the way a tiger stalks her prey. As parents, educators, and helping professionals, we need our strength now more than ever. Yet a lifetime of people-pleasing and putting others first has left many of us too exhausted and under-resourced to manage the task ahead of us. We have given ourselves away, and we are lost in a sea of unskillful coping, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and unacknowledged grief. The exercises and skills in this book will help you set the fierce boundaries you need to come home to yourself, curate your mental real estate for optimal health, transform traumatic stress, and interrupt cycles of addiction, fear, and abuse. Cynthia Garner is a doctor of body-mind health, a somatic psychotherapist, a single mother who survived an emotionally abusive relationship through mental illness, and a former classroom teacher turned mindfulness instructor. In this book, she shares her life experience and expertise to provide a field-tested pathway for turning poison into medicine and reclaiming a sense of agency in these troubled times. She offers proven therapeutic practices for healing our relationship to ourselves, and a new narrative for those of us willing to try a different approach - believing that healing is possible and that we are worthy of carving out time and space for rest, joy, and wellbeing....

Biographie:
Cynthia Garner holds Doctorate in Bodymind Health (DBH) from the Parkmore Institute and an MFA in writing creative nonfiction from Goucher College. She is also an executive coach, certified meditation teacher, somatic psychotherapist, former classroom teacher, adoptee, and single mom. Her passion is helping leaders find refuge in the present moment and connect with their inner light so they can lead with clarity and love. She also teaches therapeutic courses online and works with educators, nonprofit organizations, and survivors of domestic violence, offering practical coping skills, secular mindfulness, and in-the-moment interventions for managing reactivity and breaking the patterns of generational, systemic, and relational trauma. She studied counseling at Regis University and is trained in group psychoeducation through the UCSD Medical School, the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Inward Bound, Mindful Schools, and the Hakomi Institute. She is also a Fulbright Scholar and the author of the memoir Out of Grace: An Extraordinary Journey through Guatemala's Haunted Highlands. She attended undergrad at Franklin and Marshall College, where she majored in anthropology and worked as the managing editor of The College Reporter. Cynthia lives in Colorado with her daughter and two dogs, and when she isn't writing or teaching, she enjoys traveling, camping, painting, hiking, horseback riding, songwriting, and playing bluegrass music....

Sommaire:
When you are fierce, you don't compromise or let people push at the edges of what makes you who you are. You keep your feet firmly planted beneath you and you dig deep and find that determination, grit, and resolve that it takes to protect your heart, the way a mama bear guards her cubs, the way a tiger stalks her prey. As parents, educators, and helping professionals, we need our strength now more than ever. Yet a lifetime of people-pleasing and putting others first has left many of us too exhausted and under-resourced to manage the task ahead of us. We have given ourselves away, and we are lost in a sea of unskillful coping, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and unacknowledged grief. The exercises and skills in this book will help you set the fierce boundaries you need to come home to yourself, curate your mental real estate for optimal health, transform traumatic stress, and interrupt cycles of addiction, fear, and abuse. Cynthia Garner is a doctor of body-mind health, a somatic psychotherapist, a single mother who survived an emotionally abusive relationship through mental illness, and a former classroom teacher turned mindfulness instructor. In this book, she shares her life experience and expertise to provide a field-tested pathway for turning poison into medicine and reclaiming a sense of agency in these troubled times. She offers proven therapeutic practices for healing our relationship to ourselves, and a new narrative for those of us willing to try a different approach - believing that healing is possible and that we are worthy of carving out time and space for rest, joy, and wellbeing....