Empowerment & Inner Parts Work (IFS) for Highly Sensitive Women

Sunday, March 16th - Sunday, April 13th - Sunday, May 4th, 1:00-3:30pm

There is a lovely sub-set of people I work with that fall in the category of highly sensitive, intuitive, or empathic women.

If this is you, you know what I'm talking about. You might:

• feel like the canary in the coal mine; you pick up on subtle energies and dynamics between people

• enjoy going to the grocery store during "off hours"

• appreciate peaceful environments in Nature or being around loving and grounding people

• have a creative bent as an artist, dancer, therapist, or healer

• have an interest in physical, spiritual, and emotional/psychological health

• have an active mind, rich inner life, and might have a tendency to over-think, ruminate, or get overwhelmed

• test as a "xNFx" on the Meyer-Briggs test, if you're into personality typing

• even feel a little like an "alien visitor" on this planet from time to time

• get what seems like "irrational" feelings about things (intuition)

And depending on your upbringing, you may have learned to squash down or judge your intuition or sensitive nature, experienced a weakened sense of personal power, or learned to conform or perform for others to fit in. The belief "something is wrong with me" becomes a familiar emotional undercurrent, whether conscious or not, and can contribute to second-guessing yourself in a number of ways. Consequently, you may have experienced a loss of self-trust and deferred your authority to other people or groups. You may have experienced shame and learned to unconsciously manage this through trying to control your body (its weight, symptoms, health), your eating, and your emotions.

RECLAIMING POWER

One powerful journey for sensitive, empathic, and intuitive women is to re-connect to their sense of personal power, relinquish the burdened belief that "something is wrong with me," and reclaim their individuality.

Over the years, some HSPs have created a disempowering sense of identity, as if being sensitive is handicap one must live with and suffer from. (For a long-while, especially in my 20s, I felt this strongly, and still get waves of self-consciousness). This need not be the case. As women grow, especially as they move into and through mid-life, women can learn to be more discerning, more energetically protective, more firmly boundaried, and less burdened by painful emotions and beliefs from our younger years.

Thriving as a sensitive, feeling person means you must take personal responsibility for caring for your energy, your inner life, your body, your relationships, and your growth and development.

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Empowerment & Inner Parts Work for Highly Sensitive Women

This early Spring (March) I'll be leading a group in my Eastown office in Grand Rapids, MI: Empowerment & Inner Parts Work for Highly Sensitive Women. Space is limited. We begin on Sunday, March 16th, from 1pm-3:30pm. We'll be working with deep themes relevant to sensitive types around: health, the body, and boundaries with oneself and in relationship through our inner work with the lenses of IFS therapy and Jungian Psychology and 16 years of experience supporting women. Join me! I know it's a great gift for sensitive, intuitive women to gather together and feel their commonality with others!

THE SERIES

Sunday, March 16th 1pm-3:30pm: Sensitive Gifts & Common Constellations of Inner Personality Parts

Understand the archetype of the medial woman, the traits and gifts of sensitive, empathic types, and common personality clusterings that show up in this demographic. We'll begin mapping our parts and sharing with one another and sensing into any injuries growing up as a sensitive human being. Journaling experiential included. Optional reading material suggested.

Zoom Gathering: Tuesday, March 25th, 7:00pm-8:00pm - Short IFS lesson/case study, check-ins, Q & A

Sunday, April 13th: 1pm-3:30pm: Sensitivity, Health, Mortality, & The Body

We'll examine challenges with caring for the body, disordered/unwanted eating patterns, specific bodily needs of the highly sensitive and common challenges around health/body anxieties including unique considerations for an HSP's "window of tolerance." We'll touch on deeper existential dimensions as we work to cultivate a healthy, grounded body to call "home." Again, we'll identify and work with parts that arise in your own system. Parts meditation included. Optional reading material suggested.

Zoom Gathering: Tuesday April 22nd, 7:00-8:00pm - Short IFS lesson/case study, check-ins, Q & A

Sunday, May 4th: 1pm-3:30pm: HSPs & Inner and Outer Boundaries

In this gathering, we'll be working specifically with boundaries: energetic boundaries, boundaries we set with our own inner parts, and boundaries around other people. As empathic, deeply feeling people, similar fears and concerns often arise when working with boundaries. We'll be taking the time to work directly with parts to liberate energy and develop more Self-trust. Group share around common clusterings of parts related to boundary setting. Optional reading material suggested.

Benefits:

• Deconstruction of self-limiting beliefs

• More clarity & skill in identifying parts active in relationships (family/primary relationships)

• More clarity & skill identifying and working with parts active in relationship to health and eating

• More self-acceptance

• A sense of self-responsibility and confidence to honor your wiring

• An intimate understanding of the parts of your personality system that get activated around boundaries and crux healing moves to enact courage

• A sense of in-person community with others with similar values and wiring

• Feeling understood and seen as you are

  
  

Save the dates! Sign up for this 3-month program: $375 early bird rate through February 15th/$425 thereafter

Complete Enrollment and save your seat: ENROLLMENT OPEN on JANUARY 15th, 2025

Payment Options:

Venmo - send $375 to @lauraburkettgutierrez

PayPal - send $375 to lauraKburkett@gmail.com

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Laura Burkett Gutierrez, MA, has been in private practice for the past 16 years. She holds a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, is a certified practitioner of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, and holds multiple certifications in the fields of integrative nutrition, eating psychology, and psychoshamanism. You can read more at lauraburkett.com and realfoodwellness.com