Group Coaching Q&A Schedule

The DOC Journey Coaching Topics

October to December 2026

"Why do humans suffer—and what allows us to thrive?"

“Let’s Wake Up”

Primary Book Resource:
Calm Your Body by Dr. David Hanscom
Primary Online Hub:
www.backincontrol.com

Suggested Reading

The “C”quence of Healing - “Let’s Wake Up”

Two Words of Healing – Awareness and Connection

Deep and lasting healing requires only two words: Awareness and Connection.

At the core of chronic physical and mental suffering lies profound disconnection. When trapped in pain, anxiety, and burnout, our natural impulse is to disconnect: we numb out from our bodies, suppress our raw emotions, isolate ourselves from others, and withdraw from life’s vitality. Disconnection is the body’s instinctive attempt to shield itself from distress, yet this very isolation locks the autonomic nervous system into chronic threat physiology, sustaining the inflammatory cascades and hypersensitized nerve pathways that drive chronic illness.

Healing begins by turning toward the dark survival reactions humans spend a lifetime resisting and avoiding. Reactions such as unbridled anger, toxic envy, schadenfreude, visceral shame, perfectionism, chronic guilt, and the primitive scarcity reflexes, historically labeled the “Seven Deadly Sins,” are universally shunned as moral defects.

In our framework, we remove moral condemnation: these dark impulses are not character flaws; they are automated survival programs evolution engineered to protect an organism under threat. When we resist, conceal, or judge these impulses, we sensitize our nervous systems to them, trapping ourselves with our "hand pinned to a hot stove." The path to peace is not eradication but stepping into the neutral realization that you are not your software.

To dismantle this threat trap, Quarter 4 methodically presents the nature of the "seven deadly sins" and Schadenfreude. Taking survival impulses personally drives RUTs and bad behaviors in order to cope.

You can separate from them with awareness. There are four different types. Awareness is our non-negotiable starting point because you cannot unhook from an internal state you do not consciously observe. We progress through:

Environmental Awareness: Anchoring attention into immediate sensory input through active meditation to halt internal threat loops.
Physical / Somatic Awareness: Tracking bodily bracing and releasing muscle armoring in real time.
Emotional Awareness: Cultivating the stamina to "feel to heal," allowing raw biochemical surges to peak and wash through without rationalizing or fighting them.
Judgmental & Ingrained Awareness: Unmasking the inner critic robot, catching projections, and exposing unconscious autopilot patterns by becoming "aware of being unaware".

“Be a professional at living life.”

This quarter, our sessions will first focus on survival reactions and how we tend to suppress them. Connection with others serves as our biological medicine, stimulating the parasympathetic ventral vagal complex, flooding the body with oxytocin, and suppressing pain-related neurochemistry. However, you must first connect to yourself, every aspect of it, in order to experience meaningful relationships with others.

Awareness allows deep connection and allows you to move forward and heal. By alternating between waking up to internal reality (Awareness) and anchoring in relational safety, mirror neuron co-regulation, compassion (CFT), and sympathetic joy (Confelicity/Mudita), we establish an unshakable physiological sanctuary. By living in the rhythm of these two words, we move from chronic reactivity to vibrant, lasting creativity.

Let's Wake Up

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