Winter Resilience: The Neuro-Toolkit for Holiday Stress & Emotional Fatigue

The holiday season and the demands of deep winter often trigger stress, overwhelm, and emotional fatigue. This focused live, online Zoom course provides you with the essential Neuro-Toolkit to meet these unique seasonal demands with calm.

We will focus on immediate, practical skills in Vagal Regulation and nervous system balance, teaching you how to use NeuroMeditation, and other brain-based tools, to quiet your body’s “alarm system” amidst the chaos, or to lift it when it is fatigued or shutting down.

Learn to discharge accumulated tension, build Winter Resilience against overwhelm, and prevent the exhaustion and burnout that often follows seasonal intensity, allowing you to remain grounded and restored throughout the most demanding time of the year.

Winter Resilience: 6-Week Breakdown

This course focuses on providing immediate, practical skills in Vagal Regulation and nervous system balance to quiet your body's “alarm system,” or lift it when it is fatigued or shutting down amidst the holiday chaos, allowing you to remain grounded and restored. In addition to the informational content, we will practice movement meditations and sitting NeuroMeditations each week.

Week 1: Mapping Your System & NeuroMeditation Basics (Dec. 2)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Recognizing the HYPER (Fight/Flight) state—the system that feels too loud and overwhelmed.

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Recognizing the HYPO (Freeze/Shut Down) state—the system characterized by exhaustion and emotional fatigue.

Week 2: Vagal Regulation – The System Switch (Dec. 9)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Utilizing Focus NM to interrupt the activation signal and quiet the mind's rumination.

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Introducing GEMS (small, positive sensory focuses) to gently activate and lift the system out of a shut-down state.

Week 3: Calming the Alarm System (Down-Regulation) (Dec. 16)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Using physical anchors (sound, breath, touch) to reduce intensity and stabilize a hyper-activated nervous system.

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Utilizing Nature and AWE memory/imagery within Focus NM to provide gentle engagement and comfort.

Week 4: Softening Emotional Fatigue (Up-Regulation) (Dec. 23)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Using Open Heart to actively receive compassion and comfort, addressing self-critical stress.

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Using Open Heart to soften deep inner pain and foster self-acceptance, gently lifting the hypo-state.

Week 5: Restoration and Resilience (Dec. 30)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Using sensory details from Nature to bring the body back to a state of safety and peace.

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Focusing on the feeling of being “Woven into Life” to counteract the isolation common with post-seasonal fatigue.

Week 6: Strategic Regulation & Personalized Toolkit (Jan. 6)

• Anxiety & Stress Focus (Calming): Reviewing how to strategically choose Focus to quiet the loud “alarm system” before bringing in Mindfulness and/or Quiet Mind NM to fully calm the system and return to the relaxed ease of the ventral vagal complex

• Depression & Fatigue Focus (Lifting): Reviewing how to choose between Focus or Open Heart based on whether the system is active/overwhelmed or dormant/fatigued.

Meet Your Instructor

Molly McClish

Molly McClish is a NeuroMeditation Level 3 Instructor in Denver, Colorado, who brings a rare depth of understanding to her work. Her path to this calling is deeply personal, shaped by her own experiences with childhood trauma and the profound loss of her 13-year-old daughter to suicide.

This lived experience gives Molly a unique compassion for those navigating the intense challenges of trauma, anxiety, grief, and depression. For over five years, she has guided clients, and students, to gently take back control of their minds and nervous systems, empowering them to transform their daily lives.

Molly’s purpose is to teach you practical and powerful tools to reconstruct your life and reclaim your well-being. Her work is always tailored to your individual journey, focusing on:

• Gaining control of your mind through NeuroMeditation.

• Learning to regulate your nervous system and the Vagus Nerve.

• Building deep self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

• Using modern technology and other tools to support your healing.

• Connecting with and accessing Nature

Molly’s work is highly personalized, recognizing that each person’s path to recovery is unique. If you are looking for a teacher who truly understands, she is here to support you on your path toward peace and integration. Learn more about Molly’s work at mindrein.net.