The Carriage Ride
or Quite Possibly the Journey of Your Life
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Your emotions are the Horse pulling your Carriage. Like the Horse that provides the energy for the Carriage to move, your emotions provide the energy you need to move along in life. When you are happy, you have an abundance of energy. When you are sad, simply getting out of bed in the morning may become very difficult. When you are depressed or upset, going anywhere or doing anything may become just plain hard work. Your emotions are innately primitive and natural. When something frightens you - you jump. When you feel threatened - you run away, prepare to fight, or freeze in your tracks. This is how you and the rest of the animal world are programmed. Flight, fight or freeze, are natural instinctive emotional reactions. In the same way that draught Workhorses are known to be a calm easygoing animal and Thoroughbred Racehorses are acknowledged to be extremely alert, highly athletic creatures, each human being has an emotional disposition. Your disposition is an acquired habitual nature, composed of a combination of your emotions and behaviours. Some people are very emotional, easily excited, and highly responsive. Others can be angry, aggressive, fierce and or irritable, seeming more like a grizzly bear. I have also met people who are shy, fearful, extremely anxious, who resemble a frightened rabbit. Emotions can set you in motion or stop you in your tracks. Is it any wonder that learning how to control your Horse (your emotions) instead of them running away with you is a life long challenge?
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About the Book
Everyone needs a little help sometimes in running their life.
The Carriage Ride is based on an old, Oriental model that compares learning how to manage life to learning how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. While its insights can help anyone, it has proved especially useful for adults and children with physical and mental disabilities. It is an excellent self-discovery recovery workbook
In the workbook, Jacquie Robinson draws upon her decades of experience as a mental health professional in Canada and Australia to help you:
• use a holistic approach in conducting mental health assessments;
• identify whether you’re letting emotions run your life;
• eliminate negative thoughts that are holding you back;
• discover how to control your emotions to get to where you want to go.
Filled with interactive activities, the workbook can be used on a personal journey or as a tool to for small groups.
Whether you’re a family member seeking to help a loved one overcome autism, a phobia, or some other problem or an individual who wants to take a proactive approach to taking ownership of your life, this workbook is filled with tools to help you accomplish your goals.
About the Author
Jacquie Robinson has been a mental health professional, a clinical supervisor, and a university lecturer for forty years. She wrote The Carriage Ride after clients and students asked her to put her mental health model into a workbook. She lives on a fifty-foot sailboat in Manly, Queensland, Australia. She enjoys sailing, reading, crochet, and searching for gold and copper with her husband.