I’m cross-posting from my other Substack, Full Circles: Field Notes from the Inner and Outer Life because you might find this useful for you and your clients.
In the next six podcast episodes, I will give you six of the ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ complete lessons from HomeKit, the first audio kit to help you get unstuck in sticky situations.
Here are the six topics:
Anxiety
Assertiveness
Discipline
Expressing Love
Procrastination
Stress
Each of the lessons consists of
An introduction
Three strategies
Three rationales
Today, we will start with Anxiety.
Anxiety
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is experiencing failure... in advance.
Here’s How:
To recompose... go back into your body (listen to the experiential exercise in the audio).
Convert Anxiety into Fear.
Convert your worrying into planning.
Here’s Why:
To Worry = To ‘Strangulate’.
Travelling at the speed of light causes anxiety. Learn to travel at the speed of life.Dealing with anxiety can sometimes feel too vague and nebulous, like catching clouds. By converting it into fear, you name it and have a better chance of healing it.
Worries goes in circles; planning goes in an intentional direction.
What is HomeKit
HomeKit is your first aid kit for the moments when you feel stuck, just when you need it.
This series is densely packed with more than 50 areas covered in this audio-series. The wide-ranging topics ranges from Anxiety to Discipline, Procrastination to Motivation, and Guilt to Grief.
HomeKit is your just-in-time human companion to help you immediately shift-state and get unstuck, as quickly as possible.
The Benefits
Quickly help you shift-state, as and when needed to get out of the rut before things escalate.
The collection of these specific principles and strategies are life-skills that are generalisable and a huge payoff to your emotional and relational health, as well as your productivity.
The deep lessons in each segments target specific roots, not abstract labels.
HomeKit is organised into three areas that constitute a good life.
And here is the Menu of HomeKit that brewing in the kitchen.
Why Choose HomeKit
It’s easy to bullshit on a macro level, and much harder to B.S. your way through on a micro level. The chief aim of HomeKit is to target the specifics in a deep way.
When you can zoom in on a higher resolution of issues to address, you will invariably increase your send of agency and control.
When your challenges are more abstract and less well-defined like diagnostic labels (e.g., depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma), you less likely to get a head-start in improving the situation in your life, simply because the general label, though helpful in some instances, is too general and vague. HomeKit will help you to get unstuck as quickly as possible, and address other related concerns that comes with the territory.
Why I Made HomeKit
My job is to render myself out of a job.
I really mean this. This is one of the reasons I’m drawn to writing, teaching, and making things like HomeKit, so that you can make it your own.
So that you can help your clients be fully alive in this life.
I’ve been a psychologist in clinical practice for more than two decades, in Singapore and Australia, spanning from working in schools, private hospital, psychiatric institution, outreach, and private practice. I’ve also been training other clinicians in the last decade.
HomeKit is my distillation, boiling down to the core based on fundamental principles and what others have found useful (and surprising).
Note: it’s a monthly payment of $26/month for 12 months. Payment stops after, and you’d continue to have a life-time access. The reason for this is so that I can take some time off from clinical practice and record the complete series (> 50 topics) within a year.
