Emotions: the gift of feeling

Women have the unique gift of responding to human emotions and seeing the needs of others.  However, this is possible if women have the capacity to channel and respond to their own emotions.

Our guest speaker, Linda Raleigh, will discuss emotions as they affect women today.  An interesting feature about women and emotions is that many women who struggle with depression or anxiety have a lower sense of mastery over strong emotions. She will discuss how to manage moods more effectively in the face of challenging situations.  She will examine the core beliefs which are deeply held assumptions about ourselves or the world which can derail rational thought and put us in frustrating endless loops.  She will also examine different types of parenting that we have grown up with and correlate this to our present way of existing in adult relationships.  Emotions in prayer and in the interior life will be explored.

Meet Our Speaker

Linda Raleigh, MFT (Marriage and Family Therapist)

Linda has been working as a therapist with individuals and families at a community clinic in Burbank since the pandemic began. She has taught parenting classes for ten years and has led groups both for mothers and teenagers. Her background is in science--earning a degree in Chemistry and working in the field for several years before marrying her husband, Peter, and living around the world including Argentina, New Zealand, Portugal, England, Qatar, and Canada.  They have seven children, whom they have helped to integrate into many different international school systems.  She is happy to be in LA where she completed her MFT degree.  Her goal is to join a private practice.

Schedule

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Confessions

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Class and Q&A