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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Birmingham: Openforwards

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From Feet Up

How to stop fear and shame from controlling your life before it’s too late

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Anxiety, stress and loneliness can stop you in your tracks

You know you want more or something better, but you don’t know how to get there.

  • You would love to get more active, but you lack the motivation.
  • You would love to have more fun, but work always gets in the way.
  • You wish you were more productive, but you put off stuff that’s scary or challenging.

It’s not easy keeping commitments.  You can quickly lose focus or get distracted. When you go around in circles, you can start to lose hope that you’ll ever change.

I know, because I’ve been there too! For years I let my fears and shame control me. I played it safe to protect myself, but it didn’t work. It only made me more lonely.

Anxious & Lonely

You’re playing a game you can’t win

Many people believe that they need to change the way they think before they can be happy. Your mind hooks you with endless groundless assumptions:

• If I learn to stop my negative thoughts, then I’ll be less anxious.

• I can’t change jobs because I don’t have confidence.

• I’d like more from my relationships, but I don’t know how I feel.

Your mind traps you into playing a game you can’t win.

From The Feet Up

From the Feet Up invites you to walk a different path.

Instead of trying to think yourself forward, how about beginning to build the life you want today?

What if you could:

  • Overcome your tiredness, get moving and build your fitness.
  • Learn to spend less time over-working so you can have more fun.
  • Create a better routine and accomplish your important goals.
  • Side-step self-doubt and imposter syndrome so you can excel at work.
  • Put an end to arguments and loneliness by improving communication.
  • Build healthier self-care habits, so you can stabilise your anxieties, lift your mood and feel better for longer.

My life significantly improved when I stepped outside my comfort zone to discover new experiences. Outside those walls of so-called safety is where the magic happens!

I say so-called safety because your comfort zone isn’t a secure place. It’s a sad and lonely space. Sure, your anxiety may fade away temporarily, but you don’t learn anything new.


A New Hope

From the Feet Up teaches you how to get moving despite the fear, shame, hurt and anger you feel about how life has treated you so far.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re affected by intense anxiety, feelings of loneliness and despair, or anger and irritation. This course can help you build healthier habits to approach life with more courage, compassion and confidence.

Build Better Habits

What is From the Feet Up?

From the Feet Up is an eight-week online course that teaches you how to stop fear and shame from controlling your life before it’s too late.

Unlike the half-baked approaches you’ll find in most self-help books, this course teaches you how to build the skills you need to soak up the best of what life has to offer.

It’s a real-world package designed to end your struggle with long-standing issues in your work, relationships, health and well-being.

Here is what you’ll learn

Week 1

Define your Biggest Challenge and Clarify why it matters

Week 2

How to Quieten Down your Mind

Week 3

How to get rid of pain when nothing else works

Week 4

How to stop negative thoughts

Week 5

How to improve your Self-Esteem

Week 6

How to figure out what you want from life

Week 7

How to break bad habits and make new ones stick

Week 8

How to deal with setbacks and stay on-track

How does it work?

Every week, you’ll get access to a new video. With practical exercises, worksheets and personal examples, I’ll show you precisely what to do.

Each new skill builds on the last, so we gently and consistently move you forwards. Just like when you learn anything, we’ll start with the basics and gradually up through the more advanced levels.

You can take it at your pace, and there is no time limit to put you under pressure. You’ll have ongoing access to weekly emails to encourage you and support your efforts. And if you ever want to revisit what you’ve learned, there is nothing to stop you.

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How much does it cost ?

You get lifetime access to all the videos, worksheets and exercises for just £95.00.

Let’s Get Started

Who runs the course?

I’m Jim Lucas, a Behavioural Psychotherapist and Wellbeing Specialist.

For over fifteen years, I’ve helped people set themselves free.

I’ve explored science far and wide with the hope of discovering the most effective methods for letting go of your past and building a new and better life. After supporting thousands of individuals who were downtrodden by the effects of anxiety, depression and self-esteem, I’ve mastered an approach that can meet most human struggles head-on.

Jim Lucas

Up until now, this powerful approach has only been available to those who complete a course of individual psychotherapy. While I feel privileged to have worked alongside so many courageous people who’ve chosen this path, I’m aware of the countless others who’ve not had the time, money or freedom to make that commitment.

2021 is the year that can change your life.

For those of you who desperately want liberation from the distress that limits your life and prevents you from finding a more profound sense of fulfilment, please hear these words – 2021 is the year that can change your life!

What’s your biggest challenge right now?

People are struggling worldwide, and this course teaches you how to make the changes that your heart longs for.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re affected by intense anxiety, feelings of loneliness and despair, or anger and irritation. This course helps you build healthier habits to approach life with more courage, compassion and confidence.

From the Feet Up is for anyone who wants to stop their emotions from controlling their life—feelings like fear, guilt, shame, anger, and sadness show up every day. Sure, you might prefer to feel relaxed, happy or excited all the time.

The reality is that you can’t; just like the weather, your emotions change all the time, and you have very little control.

Some days, you might not feel much at all. It’s just numb, and you’ve lost interest in the activities that once upon a time gave you pleasure. You hope for brighter days, but you’re not convinced that they’ll arrive any time soon.

Transformation lies right ahead

Whether you seem to feel too much or nothing at all, we can help you re-connect with the life you want to build.

Your emotions are neither good nor bad, positive nor negative. They exist not to be controlled but to be heard. We help you listen to your experience and to learn from it. In doing so, with curiosity and persistence, you can begin to walk in a larger, more exciting world.

Our biggest challenges show up inside the things we care about the most. Usually, that means your work, relationships, health and well-being.

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We’ll have you covered if you’re struggling in any of these vital areas of life:

• Are you fed-up with your work but not sure what to do about it?

• Do you feel frightened to change careers just in case you’re not any good?

• Have you felt unhappy in a relationship because you argue all the time?

• Do you struggle to connect more openly and honestly?

• Are you drinking too much or wasting time away?

For many years I struggled with a fear of rejection. I sought refuge in isolation, but it only made me feel worse. I got to the stage where I felt like I was failing at everything, and it prevented me from going on new adventures. I desperately wanted to take more risks, but I didn’t know how to get moving.

When I learned how to stand up for myself and accept that it’s OK not to be perfect, I learned to free myself from the limitations of my mind.

I didn’t do this on my own. Friends have helped me in ways I cannot measure, and their support kept me going, being brave in the face of failure, and being gentle with myself when it didn’t work out.

How to Build Healthier Habits

My deep commitment to behavioural science taught me how to build healthier habits. Now, after many years of acquiring specialist knowledge and refining my skills, I am ready to offer you the chance to be part of a new course that will help you transform your life in ways that matter to you.

There are thousands of ways to live a life. Purpose, meaning and fulfilment come out of three practices:

1. CHOOSE what matters.

2. ENGAGE in daily activity that has a positive impact.

3. OPEN your heart to the pain of failure and the joy of accomplishment and connection.

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Are you ready to stop fear and shame from controlling your life before it’s too late?

Get this powerful 8 week online course for just £95.00

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