Fundamentals of Life Service
15232 18th Avenue, Surrey, BC
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15232 18th Avenue, Surrey, BC
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Angelika Bendrich is passionate about helping you claim and maintain your optimal health and live the life of your dreams. Combining energy work with holistic nutrition and counselling address the whole being. Angelika Bendrich is the Founder of Fundamentals of Life™, a service company dedicated to providing effective pathways to maximum health and wellness for its clients.
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2 customer reviews
Katie Rae Wong
Therapist
My first session was great! I got much more then I expected from it as she offered me tools to destress and reasoning behind a lot of my problems. I really appreciated the detail you went into with me and the time you took to explain. Thank you!l looking forward to our next session More...
Peter
Hello my name is Peter and I'm happy to advise you on the treatments that I have enjoyed with Angelika.
She has a very professional approach and l felt heard and safe to share and explore more about what might be behind my specific complaints.
Her patient and gentle approach and use of Reiki treatments helped me feel supported in gradually making changes in my self talk, self care and communication. l improved my diet, to the point that today l am living in a more pain free manner with less anxiety, anger and frustration. I so appreciate Angelikas caring, easy going, knowledgeable counseling skills and the results achieved.
Today I am feeling younger more balanced and ready to take on the world.
Many thanks to Angelika for her assistance to me over these last four years.
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What do you love most about your job?
Being able to restore a sense of peace, joy and wellbeing in my clients life as they feel empowered to deal with life's challenges.
What inspired you to start your own business?
After working as grief counsellor for 2 years I found the limitations to only address the grief and loss of a human loved one required me to work in private practise and help deal with the manifold losses my clients deal with. These include the loss of a pet, job, relationship, confidence, identity, and sense of purpose and direction.
Why should our clients choose you?
My personal experience gives me a unique understanding and compassion for my clients and what it takes to overcome the challenges with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss.
There is hope, you are not alone and life can get better.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
I can provide my services on line, via phone or zoom easily.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
I have started to offer long distance and online services since Covid-19. I have made Hand sanitizers are available and my space is cleaned between each client.
Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR)
What is Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)?
TIR is a rapid (compared to traditional therapy) method of effectively reducing traumatic stress from emotionally and/or physically painful events in the past. It involves re-experiencing past traumas in a completely safe environment, free of distractions, judgments, or interpretations.
When something happens that is physically or emotionally painful, one has the option of (1) either confronting it fully and feeling the pain, or (2) trying in some way to block one’s awareness of it. In the first case, the action of experiencing (perceiving and understanding) what has occurred is allowed to go to completion and the incident becomes a past incident. However, in the second case, the action of experiencing that incident is blocked. That is, one represses the incident, and the incident (together with the intention not to experience it, and any other intentions and activities present in the incident), continues to exist as ongoing unfinished business. Such traumatic incidents may continue to exert negative effects. We say such incidents carry charge defined as “repressed, unfulfilled intention”.
This blocking activity is a self-protective impulse. It “works” to a certain extent, but it can cause us to have attention and awareness tied up in incidents from the past. This has a dulling effect on our ability to perceive, to respond intelligently in the present, and to enjoy our current environment. Unexamined, unresolved past events tie up our energy and intention. Traumatic Incident Reduction provides a safe space and the means to fully examine that which had been blocked. A past incident loses its ability to hurt us at the point where we have looked it through and through. In the process, we release our resistance as well as the painful emotion and negative thought patterns contained in that past trauma. At the point where the incident has been fully viewed, we feel our attention become un-stuck from it and often have some realization. This is called an end point.
The idea that present difficulties may be caused by past traumatic incidents is not a new one. It was with the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a major difficulty for many returning Vietnam Vets, that it was given a higher profile. Once the phenomenon was clearly recognized, PTSD was easily identifiable among other populations, such as rape survivors and victims of natural disasters. People with PTSD are severely incapacitated by ongoing, uncontrolled remembrance of their traumas. In effect, they are continually reliving these incidents. Although survivors of trauma who have PTSD and flashbacks offer perhaps the most dramatic example of living in the past, the phenomenon of having attention fixated on past incidents is quite common to people in general. In normal life, most people can be triggered into momentary or prolonged reliving of past traumas of varying degrees of severity, with attendant negative feelings and behavior. TIR is a technique designed to examine the cognitive, emotional, perceptual, or other content of past incidents, to reduce or eliminate the emotional charge contained in them, and thus to relieve a person of their negative consequences, whether or not a diagnosis of PTSD applies to the person.
In the great majority of cases, TIR correctly applied results in the complete and permanent elimination of PTSD symptomatology. It also provides valuable insights, which the viewer (or client) arrives at quite spontaneously, without any prompting from the facilitator (practitioner), and hence can “own” entirely as his/her own. By providing a means for completely confronting a painful incident, TIR can and does deliver relief from the negative effects, enabling the person to move on. The resolution of past traumatic incidents can bring about a greatly improved quality of life. Because of this, Traumatic Incident Reduction is often included in a Life Stress Reduction Program.
REIKI The healing touch
• Reiki is an ancient hands on- or above the body- healing modality. Very gentle and relaxing. Allowing the body to switch form a fight or flight into a rest and repair Nerves system mode.
How Reiki Works
A full Reiki treatment re balances the mind, body and spirit.
Compare the energy system with that of a car.
When the battery is charged, full energy is available to where it is needed- be it to operate the radio, windshield wipers, lights or all three at once. You will not need to know where the energy is needed or where it should go first as it is self directed. As long as plenty of supply is in store the system will use it in priority sequence.
However a person with manifested imbalance would need extra charging as the battery has been taxed and depleted more than usual.
Such person will normally need four full treatments in as close to possible consecutive days to boost the flow of REIKI
this will bring the following benefits:
Reiki works on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, and can help you enhance every aspect of your life. For example:
• Reiki calms. It reduces stress, and provides deep relaxation, comfort & peace.
• Reiki relieves pain.
• Reiki can improve good blood circulation and stop small bleeding’s.
• Reiki can cleanse organs (liver, kidneys, arteries, spleen, gall bladder, lungs & heart).
• Reiki is safe to treat symptoms of imbalance: chronic and acute conditions, stress related disorders, conditions related to sinus, menopause, migraine, cystitis, asthma, chronic fatigue, arthritis, back, sciatica, insomnia and depression - to name a few.
• Reiki speeds up recovery from surgery or long-term illness. As it tends to reduce side-effects, it helps in adjusting to medicine/treatment. For example, Chemo-therapy patients who received Reiki noticed a marked decrease in side effects from treatment. Reiki can also be put directly in medicine (as well as food and water).
• Reiki purifies environments, and can facilitate the removal of bad energy or pestering spirits from an office, house, garden, room, etc.
• Reiki helps athletes to heal faster from injury and be able and to perform faster.
• Reiki is for everyone: it helps heal adults, elderly, babies (on mother's stomach), toddlers, children and pets.
• Reiki may bring spiritual clarity.
• Reiki offers relief during emotional distress and sorrow. Reiki helps in the grieving process. It cleans and clears the emotions from being so draining and offers perspective.
• Reiki for pets? Yes, pets may be helped in their recovery from stress, separation anxiety, trauma, and illness. Treat your pet with a dose of Distance Healing following doctor's treatment.
* Stimulates the body immune system and * removes toxins
• As Reiki boosts it's natural healing abilities normally the body will begin to cleanse itself by releasing toxins.
• As the poisons are released the body becomes re balanced and the healing process begins.
Reiki is positive energy. It never causes harm to any living thing!
What is a Reiki session like?
Each session typically lasts between one hour and one-and-a-half hours. During a session the patient lies on a massage table fully clothed, and is then guided into slow and deep breathing. This allows for a more effective transfer of energy, and creates a calm, relaxed atmosphere that is conducive to the healing process. The practitioner puts their hands in specific positions on the patient's body in problem areas and channels Reiki, usually starting at the head and going down to the feet, holding each position for about 2 to 5 minutes.
Reiki therapy is applied in order to reduce tension and stress while promoting the expansion of self-awareness and activating the inner healing system. The energy flows to where it is most needed and continues to benefit the client for the next 72 hours. Reiki can be used to treat any condition affecting a person's mental, emotional, spiritual or physical well being, and it works well as a complementary therapy with other modalities including counselling, massage, chiropractic or physiotherapy.
Holistic Nutritional Counselling
Mind, Body and Emotions effect one another.
When we are dealing with stress the impact reaches every aspect of our being. Holistic Nutritional Counselling takes the persons diet and lifestyle as well as the stress factors in consideration and builds an individualized program to restore optimal digestion, health and well being
Angelika has been practising as Holistic |nutritionist since 2005. She took the training at the Institute for Holistic Nutrition after being diagnosed with food allergies, arthritis, chronic fatigue and cancer.
Now radiantly health she helping others regain their optimum health and wellbeing and is part of the faculty at IHN Vancouver t where she teaches on the Psychology of Disease and Ayurveda the science of life since 2014 in
Transpersonal Counselling
I am a registered transpersonal counsellor with a degree in Counselling Psychology from Clearmind International, a certified holistic nutritionist, and Reiki Master.
Unlike most forms of psychotherapy that concentrate on improving mental health alone, transpersonal therapy addresses mental, physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual needs, with an emphasis on the role of a healthy spirit in healing.
With my guidance you will find, build and expand on your inner strength and resources to create a more balanced life and healthier state of mind
Transpersonal therapy integrates spiritual traditions and rituals into modern psychology. It emphasizes positive influences and role models rather than concentrating on negative experiences. The holistic treatment is based on the idea that humans are more than just their mind and body, but are also composed of intangible, or transcendent, factors that make up the whole person.
I am bound by Ethical Practice Standards. In my work I combine Family Systems Theory, Cognitive, Gestalt and Psycho/spiritual orientations, Trauma release work as well as energy medicine and chakra work.
This means that we will likely be exploring your family history and looking at how it may relate to your current situation. We will examine in detail patterns in your life that you feel are not working and look at the beliefs that drive them, inviting new options, nutritionally, mentally, emotionally and psychologically.
I can also support you in exploring your personal spiritual base as it relates to how you operate in life. While much of the work is experiential and can bring up strong feelings it is important to be aware that ultimately, you are responsible for both the content and the pace of the work we do together.
