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Get outside-the-box help, support, and actionable approaches for enhanced mental health, emotional well-being, and interpersonal relationships.

With well over fifty years of combined experience providing welcoming, nervous-system-friendly, heart-centered, and extremely practical support for sustainable mental and emotional well-being, Raun K. Kaufman and Kate C. Wilde have enabled people from all walks of life, just like you, to…

  • Get much better at understanding and regulating your own brain
  • Gain accessible calmness and ease
  • Become much better at coping
  • Experience sharply boosted levels of clarity
  • Maintain elevated resilience and resourcefulness
  • Deepen compassion
  • Strengthen communication skills
  • Improve relationships with the people that matter most to you – significant others, children, family members, friends, and colleagues

We have a comprehensive approach built upon:

  • Detecting hidden Signals of Stress (S.O.S.) by strengthening interoception (the brain’s ability to decipher signals from the body/the mind’s ability to decipher signals from the nervous system)
  • Figuring out what changes in your environment will have the biggest “bang for your buck” in shifting your mental-emotional state
  • Learning – and then consistently doing – the self-regulation processes that are necessary to regain homeostasis
  • Changing your understanding of control so that you feel much more in control
  • Setting Boundaries (which almost no one really understands)
  • Shifting your thinking style to free yourself from the four types of repetitive thinking that cause mental, emotional, and physical dysregulation
  • Truly tuning into emotions that you might be used to suppressing or ignoring
  • Rise Above: A unique set of questions, perspectives, paradigms, frames, and attention focus points designed to promote resilience and positive mental and emotional health.
We can’t be strong when we use our brains wrong.

WHAT IS A NEURO-CRASH?

It’s what happens when your brain and nervous system get overwhelmed to the point where you are no longer able to regulate yourself.

Neuro-Crashes are much more common in people now than they were just a few short years ago. How do you know if you’re having them?

Do you ever...

  • Experience sudden-onset stress, panic, overwhelm, or exhaustion?
  • Burst into tears (maybe when you’re alone, maybe in front of others)?
  • Snap at people “for no reason”?
  • Have big reactions to small inconveniences?
  • Promise yourself you won’t over-react again… and then do it, anyway?
  • Notice that you’re holding your breath, tightening your shoulders, chewing your lip, breathing fast, or clenching your jaw
  • Get headaches and/or stomachaches?
  • Feel like it’s all just too much?

The important thing to understand
is that Neuro-Crashes

are preventable.

Learning to understand and prevent Neuro-Crashes leads to you becoming a person who is…

  • Mentally stronger
  • More self-regulated and at ease
  • Less anxious
  • More even-tempered
  • Better able to sleep
  • More able to focus and concentrate
  • Not easily agitated nor prone to Neuro-Crashes – and thus able to be the spouse, parent, friend, boss, and colleague you want to be
Two Free Gifts for You

Would you like…

  1. A free S.O.S. checklist of hidden Signals of Stress that may be telling you that you’re becoming dysregulated and overloaded – and moving closer to a Neuro-Crash?
  2. A free audio download of our signature guided Innernet Login – a simple interoception-strengthening method to check into the state of your brain, body, and nervous system? (The more you listen to what’s going on inside you, the more you can course correct and start to move toward equilibrium and homeostasis, and, thus, the more you can sidestep Neuro-Crashes.)
You can have both!

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LIVE ZOOM COURSES

Mastering Your Own Neuro-Crashes

We Can't Be Strong When We Use Our Brains Wrong

Live Interactive Course

Saturday, October 19th, 2024 & Sunday, October 20th, 2024
(Both days are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM with two one-hour breaks.)
Price: $495

This thing called life isn't always easy. But it's often much harder than it has to be because we haven't been taught how to use our brains and regulate our nervous systems. In this mini-course, we'll show you how to martial a host of super-accessible strategies to detect your hidden S.O.S. (Signals of Stress), maintain equilibrium so that you don't feel on edge, cease reacting in ways you don't want or can't understand, gain a life-changing new understanding of boundaries (and how to set them), get off the constant "have-to" treadmill, make peace with (rather than suppressing or ignoring) unpleasant emotions, free yourself from the four types of repetitive thinking that cause mental, emotional, and physiological dysregulation, and make friends with your nervous system...instead of feeling that it's working against you.

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Rise Above:

An Advanced Course for Maximum Resilience

Starts on Saturday, October 26th, 2024

This exclusive, small-class-size course will take you on a deep dive into your own mind, your own inner wisdom, and how to build true resilience within yourself.

Want real help not just facing difficult bumps in the road... but also facing difficult emotions inside?

You will embark on a journey with a small, intimate group that you can trust to lean on, confide in, and work with, as you break new ground and learn how to: direct what you repeatedly focus your attention on, choose your narrative (instead of defaulting to a demoralizing one), embrace (rather than reject) your emotions, overcome boundary-setting challenges and take control, escape binary thinking so you can really view all the choices you have in a situation, see the big picture, know that you are bigger than your problems, learn from things you previously found frustrating, enjoy what is, and tap into your caring and compassion toward others.

And guess what? The course includes four individualized one-on-one sessions with the instructors, Raun K. Kaufman and Kate C. Wilde, to help you integrate what you’re learning into your life, troubleshoot, and address deeper emotional challenges.

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OUR CONSULTATION PACKAGES

THE RISE ABOVE
Package


Over the course of six consultations (50 minutes each) with either Kate or Raun, you will have the chance to get deep, personalized help with the issues most affecting your life and your mental and emotional well-being (stress, Neuro-Crashes, relationship difficulties, chronic tightness, work conflicts, reacting in ways you don't like and can't understand, feeling disconnected, low self-esteem, purposelessness, anxiety about the state of your life or the world, etc.) together with tools and strategies to take you in a new direction.

You will be asked insightful and thought-provoking questions and given suggested actions to take and perspective shifts to digest and try out - all in a very supportive and open-hearted way.

If you want individual attention, a 100% customized approach, and a powerful focus on putting the Rise Above concepts into action in your life and your brain (so you can rise above), this is the package for you.

THE COUPLES-IN-CRISIS
Package


Every couple – every single one – goes through a crisis at one time or another. But not every couple gets help when they need it most. If you and your loved one are going through a difficult time, this is the package for you.

Raun has been working with couples in crisis for decades. He knows what he’s doing. Use his experience and insight for your own benefit.

Raun will spend 4 weekly sessions (90 minutes each) with you and your partner, working to help you overcome whatever challenge you’re facing right now.

THE GOOD RELATIONSHIP
Package

 
If you are in a couple, you know that relationships are complicated affairs that involve our deepest emotions and touch upon the most core aspects of our self-image. This kind of intimate connection does not sustain itself by magic. Nor by sincerely wishing for it.

It takes a combination of actual attention and focused help. If you provide the attention, Raun will provide the help – in a way that is non-judgmental, fun, practical, and uniquely insightful.

This is a great package for those couples who are not in any kind of severe crisis but feel that it’s important and useful to periodically attend to the relationship by talking things through, dealing with issues that come up, and enhancing the love, caring, and communication that already exists.

This package consists of a 30-minute pre-session debrief the week before the main session (where Raun asks you both a series of questions to get a clear breakdown of where you two are as a couple and then collaborate with you to discern what would make the most sense to focus on) and a 90-minute in-depth couples session. More sessions (for instance, one per month) can be added onto this package.

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