Emotional Resilience Workshop: Managing Stress with Chronic Illness & Pain

A masterclass with simple and practical tools to manage stress, reduce anxiety, and build resilience while living with long-term health conditions.

Is stress making your illness symptoms & chronic pain worse?

Are you tired of being told to just “stay positive”?

Do you want practical tools to help you navigate overwhelming emotions?

A 75 mins self-paced masterclass: Handle stress, fear & overwhelm with confidence.

Workshop Overview

This in-depth 75-minute masterclass is designed for women living with chronic illness, pain, and invisible disabilities who are tired of being dismissed, gaslit, or told to “just stay positive.”

Living with chronic illness or pain can feel overwhelming, but with the right tools, you can manage stress and build emotional resilience (Please note: This is not a live workshop).

We’ll explore practical mind-body and somatic techniques that you can use to manage daily stress and reduce the emotional burden of pain and being chronically unwell.

Who Is This For?

*Women with chronic health conditions or chronic pain seeking better ways to manage stress.

*Anyone feeling overwhelmed by emotions and looking for safe, actionable practices.

*Those who want to move away from suppressing feelings and instead learn how to make space for them.

What You’ll Learn:

Understand the Link Between Stress and Chronic Illness: Learn how stress worsens symptoms, causes flares and discover effective ways to reduce its impact.

Emotional Surfing – Not Suppressing: We’ll bust the myth that emotions need to be suppressed and show you how to "surf" through difficult feelings with more ease.

Somatic and mind-body Tools:

1. *Diaphragmatic Breathing:

   How it helps: A breathing technique that engages the diaphragm, promoting deeper breaths and helping to calm the nervous system.

   Focus Areas:

   Do's and Don'ts of diaphragmatic breathing.

   Situations to use it effectively and when it might not be beneficial.

2. *Grounding Through the Senses:

   How It Helps: Grounding techniques can help you stay anchored in the present moment, especially when facing overwhelming emotions.

   Focus Areas:

   Learn to respond to feelings rather than react impulsively.

   Explore how to use your senses to shift your focus away from distressing thoughts and feelings, allowing you to "surf" painful emotions with greater ease.

3. *Physicalizing Stress and Painful Emotions:

   How it helps: Locating emotions in your body enhances emotional intelligence and expression.

   Focus Areas:

   Techniques to soften around anger and other painful emotions.

   Discover how to locate emotions within your body, helping you ease the sense of overwhelm.

What’s Included:

✅ 75-min recorded workshop with lifetime, unlimited access.

✅ Two powerful worksheets to deepen integration:

       • Valued Activity Mindful Log

       • Unpleasant Experience Awareness Log

This is not just about stress relief—it’s about learning to love yourself in a world that often neglects those with invisible illnesses. Whether you’ve been sick for years or are newly navigating chronic pain and illness, this workshop offers emotional tools that are both gentle and grounded in science.

You deserve real support, not shame. This is emotional resilience designed for your reality.