We help you help yourself with anxiety, OCD and depression. The work is education, self-responsibility and practical retraining — so you can have more calmness, self-respect and direction.
We take you through a process of self-discovery. You learn how your mind and body actually operate, where the old beliefs came from, and how to stop the behaviours that keep the system going. The aim is not a nicer story about the problem. It is a different way of living.
That includes personality, emotional awareness, and a practical, non-religious spirituality for those who want that layer. We look at the limits you absorbed from family, school, work and culture, then install strategies that change how you think, act and feel.
We listen to parents, teachers, scientists, doctors and the wider culture. We do not swallow any of it whole. Useful knowledge is kept. Everything else is tested in real life. That habit of testing is the core of both the course and the therapy we offer.
You are an energetic, biological creature in a changing environment. Thoughts, food, company, work, self-respect and a hundred other conditions shape how you feel. Some of those you can influence. Some you cannot. We teach you to change what you can, accept what you cannot, and step away from what you will not accept.
A central piece is this: make your inner reality as clean and decent as you can, and calm the body, even though the outer world is only partly under your control. Then decide who you want to become and what you want to do. Those actions become the basis of your iStory ERP. You expose yourself to the life that would improve things, and you stop the old thoughts and feelings from vetoing the next step.
We offer tools for people who are willing to use them.
If this way of working does not fit you, that is fine. We will not argue you into it. We wish you calmness, courage and a life that feels more like your own.
John and Jen Glanvill