Daring Way™ Therapy and Retreats
What would you do if you had the courage to really get vulnerable and take risks in your personal and professional life?
If contemplating that question makes you feel like curling up with takeout and a bottle of rosé for a good old-fashioned Netflix binge, you’re not alone. Most of us are terrified of (or repulsed by) the idea of getting intimate with uncertainty, vulnerability, and the guarantee that sometimes, even when we try our best, we fail.
We end up choosing safety over courage, perfectionism over growth, and numbing out over leaning in. But it’s a bad bargain. In chasing an illusion of safety, we lose out of some of the best life has to offer.
“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to wake up in the morning and think, ‘No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.’ It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
Based on the pioneering research of Dr. Brené Brown
The Daring Way™ methodology, based on the work of leading researcher and viral TED speaker Dr. Brené Brown, supports individuals to live their most wholehearted, courageous, and connected lives.
If you struggle with feeling like you don’t truly belong anywhere,
If you’re constantly hustling to maintain your sense of self-worth and self-esteem,
If being vulnerable with people you care about terrifies you,
If you struggle with shame and guilt over not being enough or doing enough,
If you wear your perfectionism like a badge of honor – but sometimes it comes back to bite you –
Then the Daring Way™ program might be just what you need to break out of old stories and start writing a new one.
The Daring Way™ at Stella Nova
The Daring Way™ is made up of two separate but interconnected programs:
- The Daring Way™, which supports our clients to show up with courage in their personal and professional lives, and
- Rising Strong™, which focuses on building resilience to challenges, failures, and setbacks. We all fall – Rising Strong™is about how we learn to get back up again.
Both programs are offered in individual therapy or in small group retreats.
Individual therapy
Working on The Daring Way™ in individual therapy sessions is a great option for digging into the material in a setting where you can dig deep and get personalized support. This option provides the most privacy, therapist attention, and ability to delve into connections between past and present. This would also be a more appropriate option for clients who want to use The Daring Way™ to work on particularly painful parts of their story.
Some of the feedback that we’ve received is that weekly sessions really give our clients time to internalize what they’re learning, and practice it in their real lives before moving on to new material.
Completing a Daring Way™ program in individual therapy generally takes about 3-4 months of weekly sessions, or could be done twice a week over half that span.
Retreats
Daring Way™ retreats are intimate, experiential events that are jam-packed with rich learning opportunities over a 2-3 day period. Participants who attend retreats often cite giving and receiving peer support as one of the most powerful learning tools. Some events may be paired with yoga or other supportive activities to get the most out of the weekend.
Compared to individual therapy, retreats may be a more economical option for budget conscious women.