Author: Stay Quiet and Listen Within

About me

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Since 1999, I’ve had the honour to serve as a consultant and advocate for families within the public school system, to increase their knowledge of the effects of post-institutionalization, trauma, and loss in adopted children. I was also honored to help establish The Canadian Clinic for Adopted Children at the Trillium Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, and served on the Hospital’s Board of Directors for several years afterward.

Motivated to help adoptive families, I realized that besides the issues surrounding adoption, there were also a myriad of other challenges that parents were dealing within in their personal lives: workplace stress, profound feelings of life dissatisfaction, isolation and loneliness, feelings of being stuck, the inability to control triggers and bad habits, and the quest to make sense or find meaning in their lives.

I discovered Life Process Transformation™ (LPT) when Viola Fodor spoke as the keynote at a Suicide Prevention Centre where I was training. Her simple yet profound approach to self-care and self-discovery captivated me, making her a guiding light for both myself and the clients she supported.

When I suffered my first significant loss and was burdened by profound grief and anxiety, I turned to Viola and worked through her Life Process Transformation program. Through her work, I began to understand that the mechanics I was using were limiting my solutions and options. Viola helped develop my resources, strengthened my resolve, and opened up options I was not aware of before entering the program.

I saw how LPT™ could benefit other individuals like myself and became certified as an LPT™ practitioner in 2015. Since then, it has been a privilege to assist others in gaining the knowledge and skills they need to heal themselves through this natural and gentle process. Many families turn to LPT™ when their children suffer from anxiety and depression.  It works alongside their existing therapeutic modalities, it’s gentle, natural, there’s no hokus-pokus, and it does not rely on pharmaceuticals.

Life Process Transformation™ amplifies your inner wisdom, fosters kindness, and restores clarity to your life.

Discover how to reduce stress, gain clarity, rediscover your passion, and uncover and nurture your true self. I offer personalized Life Process Transformation™ sessions in the Greater Toronto area as well as worldwide via Zoom. Contact me to start your journey toward greater serenity and authenticity. Email me at StayQuietAndListen@gmail.com

Workshops, Resources and Links

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Is Solitude a Key Element of Creativity?

This Video Explains How Stress Breaks Down Your Brain

 

Clear Your Mind and Get Some Exercise With Walking Meditation

You Don’t Need to Close Your Eyes to Meditate  | Christopher Lee May |

How To Meditate: Posture  | Christopher Lee May |

Psychotherapist and philosopher Piero Ferrucci


Meditation, mindfulness and mental health, from the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicin

The Most Direct Spiritual Practice

 
A Stroke of Insight  |Jill Bolte Taylor |

Mindfulness and Depression  | Zindel Segal at TEDxUTSC |

How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains  | Sara Lazar |


Circle of Trust approach  | Parker J Palmer |

The Innovation of Loneliness  | by Shimi Cohen – An award winning illustration |

The Scientific Power of Meditation?   | A cartoon explaining meditation |

The Benefits of Meditation   | Jon Kabat-Zinn |

A Scientist Explains How Meditation And Prayer Rewire Your Brain

Life Process Transformation™

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Life Process Transformation™ (LPT) has narrowed that gap for many who have learned how to live authentic and rewarding lives. To put it simply, LPT relies on the practice of inner silence, value clarification, healing and personal growth, and not on goal setting or willpower.  The work is deeply ingrained in transpersonal therapy, humanistic therapy, as well as mindfulness therapy.

“Life Process Transformation™ teaches you how to act on your own
behalf so that you can change your life for the better. It is a simple
approach, accessible to all and focused on helping you develop your
higher potential as you take deep responsibility for  your life.”
                                                                                           Viola Fodor

The Process: 

When I met Viola many years ago, she taught me that our issues are often our best teachers.  Many of us go through life avoiding or denying our problems mainly because they’re associated with discomfort or pain. The good news is that we can learn to access our innate wisdom to guide us through those troubled times.

Wisdom is always there.  Problems arise when we access only a small part of it, and miss the insights and reflections that come our way.  When we pause, quiet our minds, and listen within, that is when we have the opportunity to develop greater potential and a deeper understanding of life events.

Wisdom lies below the surface patiently waiting until we are ready to listen… 

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Whether you have broad underlying issues, are dealing with overwhelming and colliding life events, or simply want to fine-tune an itchy spirit, LPT can help you build insight and awareness through a natural and guided process. No hocus pocus.

Would it surprise you to learn that the voice you are seeking in your life is actually your own? By practicing Quiet Time, you will learn how to get in touch with the wisdom that you’ve always had, and hear your own voice clear as a bell and as wise as an elder, perhaps for the first time in your life.

If you are ready to work from the inside out, to learn what lies beneath the surface, and are ready to welcome this gentle yet profound process that can transform your life, I look forward to hearing from you.

The Process: 

In 2015, I completed Viola Fodor’s certification training for the Life Process Transformation™ and use the LPT™ Workbook to guide my clients with the same ideas and program that Viola created many years ago. This program embraces self-exploration through awareness exercises and psycho-educational learning.

Viola Fodor

Viola Fodor
February 5, 1949 – March 9, 2020

Voila Fodor died on March 9, 2020 in Brantford, after an illness of many years that had no definitive diagnosis. She died the way she lived—with full awareness, being loved by so many and loving all. Her life and death exemplified perhaps the most important lesson of all: that there is a life force in each and every one of us; that it is good and supports our growth if we allow it; and that it carries us forward, toward the fulfillment of our unique self and right through to our death, which is never an ending, merely another transformation.

Viola’s career evolved as she created and founded Life Process Transformation™. A gifted psychotherapist registered with the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (formerly OACCPP), she led workshops for lay and professional groups using a humanistic/transpersonal perspective. She was a frequent speaker on stress, depression, eating disorders, personal transformation, and spirituality. Also an insightful writer, she authored “Desperately Seeking Self”, “Where Have I Been All My Life?” and much more. To learn more about Viola’s work and Life Process Transformation™. Please visit Viola Fodor. Her teachings live on through the thousands of people she helped and those she trained to continue her work.

Viola shared with her clients a reverence for the healing power of a quiet mind! With transformative, gentle grace, she met people where they were at in their lives and guided them with genuine compassion and empathy, like a spiritual force of nature that brought people to their best selves. To learn more about Viola’s work and Life Process Transformation™, please visit Viola Fodor. Her teachings live on through the thousands of people she helped and those who are certified in guiding others through LPT.

Life Process Transformation

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“Life Process Transformation teaches you how to act
on your own behalf so that you can change your life for
the better. It is a simple approach, accessible to all and
focused on helping you develop your higher potential
as you take deep responsibility for  your life.”
                                                                      Viola Fodor
When I met Viola many years ago, I realized that our issues are actually our teachers and that we can learn from them. I began to understand that our innate wisdom is always there but we access only a small part of it. It lies below the surface patiently waiting until we are ready to listen…

 

Whether you have broad underlying issues, or you’re dealing with teeming and colliding life events, or simply want to fine-tune your itchy spirit, LPT can help you build insight and awareness through a natural and guided process. No hocus-pocus.

Would it surprise you to learn that the voice you are seeking in your life is actually your own?  By practising Quiet Time, you will learn how to access the wisdom that you’ve always had, and hear your own voice clear as a bell, and as wise as an elder, perhaps for the first time in your life.

If you are ready to work from the inside out, to learn what lies beneath the surface, and are ready to welcome this gentle yet profound process that can transform your life, I look forward to hearing from you.

By the way, regarding the question I asked earlier, “Where is your Lighthouse?”, the answer is “within”…

 

The Process: 
I completed Viola Fodor’s certification training for the Life Process Transformation™ in 2015. I use the LPT™ Workbook to guide my clients with the same ideas and program that Viola created many years ago. This program embraces self-exploration through awareness exercises and psycho-educational learning. Viola has had remarkable success with LPT and has helped hundreds of people improve their lives. I hope to humbly follow in her path.

What may bring you to this process…

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Where is your lighthouse?

How many of us are searching for meaning in our lives and look for those lighthouses to guide our way?  Sometimes those lighthouses disguise themselves as people, work, hobbies, or accumulating wealth, but oftentimes they hide themselves in bad habits. If the result of your efforts leaves you with an “Is that all there is?” feeling, then your seeking probably falls somewhere in between hope and reality. 

Life Process Transformation™

 is for anyone who is: 

  • feeling stuck and frustrated

  • at crossroads in their lives

  • feeling overwhelmed with responsibilities and obligations

  • suffering from burnout

  • feeling they’ve run out of options

  • operating on automatic

  • lacking an authentic Self

  • running away from commitment

  • often repeating the same mistakes

  • not happy with their decisions, or not able to make any in the first place

  • worrying a lot, or preoccupied with thoughts

  • not able to let go or move past their grief

  • overly sensitive to criticism

  • accessing emotions that are either over indulgent or overly practiced

  • suffering from depression or anxiety, or panic attacks

  • engaging in self destructive behaviours or relationships

  • taking unnecessary risks

  • struggling with mental or physical health issues

  • reminded regularly of the gulf that exists between your present state of life and where you want to be? 

 

If you’re exhausted of running after the next best-thing-that-will-improve-your-life-and-shed-light-on-what-you-need-to-purchase/change/connect with, then Life Process Transformation™ is something you really need to investigate.