The Simple Process That Can Dramatically Reduce Anxiety and Increase Creativity in 30 Days

Since 2020, Maya Frost (a mindfulness trainer and certified creative breakthrough coach with an extensive personal history of overcoming grief) has been using a 30-day process to help individuals (mostly women, ages 35-65) who are facing devastating levels of grief and anxiety.  Due to the severity of these cases, Ms. Frost offered support at no charge to those who were referred to her by contacts working in non-profit organizations.

These women were experiencing deep levels of despair that made it difficult to get out of bed or functionally perform the most basic tasks, including taking a shower, getting dressed, or eating a meal. 

🔶 The Challenge: Our Current Therapy and Coaching Offerings Are Not Designed To Meet The Needs Of Those Experiencing Reality-Based Climate Anxiety, Collapse Grief, or Existential Dread 

Most people are watching our systems fail and our crises collide.

They are experiencing an unprecedented onslaught of news and updates that constantly trigger a combination of emotions, including grief, anger, fear, guilt, shame, helplessness, and hopelessness. 

Not only are they overwhelmed, but they are relying upon traditional models of psychotherapy and coaching to address their rapidly increasing levels of anxiety and despair.

Under these extraordinary circumstances, it is wreckless to expect the traditional schedule of one hour-long session per week to effectively guide distressed individuals in the following areas:

🔸staying steady emotionally despite inadvertent or intentional exposure to negative news 

🔸processing the reality of the ecological, societal, economic, and political shifts with any degree of depth or complexity

🔸creating a practical and meaningful way to live fully daily with this knowledge

🔸taking action to adapt and thrive in ways that require new and relevant skills that are not yet clearly defined or understood

And it's especially misguided when there are tested and proven alternatives that are specific, effective, and work quickly to reduce self-reported levels of grief, anxiety, anger, and hopelessness.  

 

🔶 Maya Frost's Unique 30-Day Process For Dramatically Reducing Self-Reported Levels of Grief and Anxiety Related To Climate and Collapse

Since developing her process while serving those who were struggling with grief and anxiety during the pandemic, Ms. Frost has been helping individuals who have been directly impacted by collapse, both personally and professionally.  

These include systemic failures such as war, school shootings, environmental hazards, political antagonism, and the loss of homes due to increasing storms, floods, and wildfires. 

Using the same 30-day process, she has been able to help her clients transform their grief and anxiety into curiosity, creative energy, and inspired action that healed them as they helped others.

It is not coaching.  Despite her own training as a creative breakthrough coach, Ms. Frost's process does not follow traditional coaching protocols. However, creative breakthrough techniques are useful in guiding clients through creative blocks that often accompany grief and anxiety.

It is not mindfulness.  Though Ms. Frost has extensive training and experience in this area (she created a playful mindfulness course in 2003 that helped thousands of people in over 100 countries reduce stress, increase clarity, and enhance creativity), she did not use traditional mindfulness techniques. Instead, she focused on expanding capacity for curiosity and wonder.

It does not follow the typical once-a-week schedule. Her first clients were facing devastating losses and, in some cases, extended quarantines that prevented them from grieving with others or even saying goodbye to their loved ones before they died. Because of their imposed isolation, these clients required more immediate and frequent support. The once-a-week model would have put them at serious risk of self-harm or suicide.