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Smile Again – it can happen – a Mom’s estrangement journey

By D.D. Mann Categories: Estrangement I
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About Course

Smile Again presents a comforting opportunity to SHIFT our mindset from Sorrow to Strength; Helplessness to Hope; Isolation to Identity; Fear to Faith and Turmoil to Trust.

Together we will explore strategies, tools and ideas to begin to overcome the stigma, grief, ambiguous loss and the many strong emotional dynamics associated with the shock and pain of estrangement. 

Estrangement can shatter the vision we have for our family when you are blind-sided by an adult child going “no contact.” 

I wrote the Smile Again learning series for everyone ready to rise above your current reality to look ahead into the possibilities of the future.

Through a step-by-step approach, you may find yourself no longer asking “What else could I have done?”  or “How could this have happened to me?” Believe me when I say, I understand what you are feeling.

The ripple effect of estrangement can rip families apart, especially because of how stigmatized estrangement has become.. 

You may decide estrangement is the best path for now and perhaps for always. Each person chooses their path for their reasons.

As we try to give each other the benefit of the doubt, we may also become able to believe some choices made were all we or others were capable of at the time.

Being willing to trust again is an important indicator of the emotional maturity that we all need to move forward, so we can feel safe and complete again, with or without the person at the center of the estrangement.

Taking personal responsibility for our well-being is crucial as the starting point of Smiling Again.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Describe where you see yourself now and in the future within the phases of estrangement.
  • Identify the most painful aspects of the stigma of estrangement.
  • Evaluate the relationship reboot quandary to decide if or when it is the right time to reconnect with your estranged loved one.
  • Discover numerous strategies, tools and approaches to communication. Progress through the milestones from estrangement to engagement.
  • List the emotional pain points that can hold you back from healing and hope.
  • Transcend the essential aspects of moving through, forward or beyond estrangement.

Course Content

Smile Again

  • Module One
    01:19:40
  • Module Two
    01:19:41
  • Module Three
    01:19:41
  • Module Four

A videographer is working on this project so reach out to Dee Dee if you’d like to speak about her background and learn more her learning and curriculum development experience. The Coach Approach Training Academy has at least 50% original content, written by DeeDee.

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Transition

Psychotherapy (also called talk therapy) is a noble professional where individuals may recommend choices and present information to remediate mental health issues, over a long period of time. Therapy often explores family-of-origin issues in-depth, including root causes of behavior, including self-destructive behavior. Psychiatry follows a medical model to create inner strength to overcome addictions and other self-destructive behaviors. Counseling is often shorter-term, focusing on specific, current challenges or situations. Consulting offers expertise in certain disciplines. Consultants are considered trusted advisors who freely offer advice and solve problems through specialized services. Come and learn how coaching is distinguished from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing, while experiencing each (during mentoring) as a distinct set of skills so you are clear about coaching to never mistake one for the other, as a practicing coach.

Estrangement

Estrangement is currently an epidemic in several countries. The recent research of Dr. Joshua Coleman estimates approximately one-in-four families are facing some kind of familial discord, parental alienation and other painful forms of estrangement. Decades ago, Dr. Pauline Boss researched ambiguous loss, which is a hallmark of the many unresolved elements of estrangement, similar to the emotional torture of times of war, abduction or similar forms of disappearances (when someone is missing from your life and you do not know if a person is dead or alive). If someone is fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the emotions associated with estrangement, they can underestimate the toll this agonizing experience can take on people, at the receiving end of someone they love going “no contact,” (with or without an explanation). Dr. Dee Dee Mann has endured over a decade of several forms of estrangement and has written several original coaching methods that will be taught in this track.

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching is foundational to understanding what distinguishes coaching and coaching skills from other essential interpersonal abilities and professions that are dependent on proficiency in communication. Come as you are to begin explore the basic, intermediary and advanced coaching skills.

Whether you are enjoying a career in coaching or your employer is sponsoring this learning, you will learn all facets of the proprietary Coach Approach mindset and skillset. The Coach Approach describes the importance of a coaching mindset to embody and emulate trust as you actively listen to others. Also, internalizing the best practices of coaching will ensure you always maintain presence to awaken awareness in those you work with to foster growth and development.

The core fundamentals will also explore the theory and precepts that defined coaching as a practice and profession, especially the importance of establishing and maintaining agreements at all phases of your coaching engagements. Core Fundamentals also distinguish coaching from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing. The Core Fundamentals of Coaching will equip you will high-impact knowledge, skills and abilities that are ICF-aligned to set you apart in whatever way you seek to coach. The distinctions this coaching program includes the two coaching tracks: Estrangement and Career Transition as well as the design and delivery of the curriculum.