When you enter therapy, your recovery from anxiety and depression will involve learning what steps to take towards a happier, more fulfilled life.  In a nutshell, you will be guided to increase your happiness by implementing the following 8 fundamentals of happiness in your life²:

1. Connection to others
2. Autonomy (independence)
3. Self-esteem
4. Competence (how well you function in your work and relationships)
5. Purpose
6. Connection to your body
7. Connection to nature
8. Spirituality / sense of a higher purpose and being

   Therapy involves these seven steps for a depression-free life and creating your own environment: 

• Identify and counteract negative thinking patterns and recognise how your habitual self-defeating patterns show up day to day.  Learn make choices that counter the inner critic or saboteur (See chapter 4 on: “How to Change Negative Thinking Patterns”).
• Reconnect to your body
• Create healing relationships
• Elevate your self-esteem
• Uncover your competence
• Access the power of shared purpose
• Deepen your relationship to Divinity or Spirit.

References 

   1.  Bourne, E. (1995).  The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook.  NY:  New Harbinger Publications

   2.  Murray, R. & Fortinberry, A.  (2004).  Creating Optimism.  NY:  McGraw-Hill.

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