Elaine Birchall, an internationally recognized expert in hoarding therapy and clutter coaching, supports people to ‘TAKE BACK THEIR LIVES WHEN THEIR THINGS ARE TAKING OVER”. She connects with them through her writing, coaching and podcasts.
Recently, she developed a unique opportunity for her audience. She figured out a way to demonstrate for them how to use the skills she teaches to overcome the hurdles that stand between them and their goals. She is about to embark on a solo journey to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda to face down the challenges that present themselves in an extremely unfamiliar environment. Here, she can coach and show her audience how to face life’s challenges with raw, unscripted honesty. Many years ago Elaine developed a respect for gorillas and their synchronicity with humans. She never intended to have a personal experience with them, especially in her 70’s when she has asthma, a fusion at the base of her spine, and a neck injury. She also broke her ankle twice in the last 10 years. She definitely is not the poster girl for trekking through the jungle on foot, looking for gorillas.
So what made her do it? She was hosting one of her weekly Conquer the Clutter podcasts and was struggling with reaching her audience about how to overcome challenges. She was trying to think of a way to help beyond her regular “talk” coaching. It was then that it occurred to her that she could demonstrate how to overcome challenges in real life. To be honest with her viewers, she realized it would have to involve attempting to achieve a meaningful goal in a very different environment, doing something she had absolutely no previous experience with. At that moment her cell phone lit up with a Facebook picture of a gorilla.
After a little research about feasibility the plan for the “CONQUER THE CHALLENGES PROJECT” was hatched. Elaine will travel alone to mountainous Uganda and trek through the jungle, facing whatever the CTC project involves, to sit with these magnificent primates. She will achieve much more than her goal: she will find a deep and meaningful connection with a community of people she would never have known, and an opportunity to contribute to their well-being, as they contribute to hers. Join Elaine Birchall on this once in a lifetime journey
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BIRCHALL CONSULTING
“Helping you take back your life when your things are taking over”
www.hoarding.ca
Elaine Birchall MSW RSW
Hoarding Specialist, Counselling, Training, Intervention
elaine.birchall@hoarding.ca
+1 613-492-0700
Visit our BLOG at Hoarding: Overcoming Overwhelmed
Radio Talk Show Host
www.voiceamerica.com on the Variety Channel
CO-AUTHOR
CONQUER THE CHALLENGES: Strategies To Identify, Manage and Overcome Hoarding
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Available at amazon.com or amazon.ca
Audiobook available at audible.ca or audible.com