February 2009
Core Energetics South Newsletter
In This Issue

Out of the Closet!
Psycho-Spiritual Personal & Couples Intensives ™

Passages Into Womanhood

OK - I'm Out of the Closet!
I've been keeping a sort-of secret. 15 years ago I created a unique modality for my work and an exceptional process that I love - and the people I work with report deep profound healing experiences.  

Many years ago I started working with people in Maine while I was on vacation. They just showed up - what can I say? So we worked together using all my Bioenergetic-Core-Energetic-Healing tools in the ancient traditional way of the Native American people using presence and awareness with no clocks to impede or distract us. They loved it! I loved it!  People became more grounded, healthier and more conscious. All this, while enjoying my work even more.  

This process has evolved as I have, to now include presence, no-time (remember time is a human construct and time means different things in different cultures) plus the things listed below.

A bridge between psychology, body psychotherapy, and spirituality.
I am devoted to assisting people in integrating body /emotions/ mind/ will/spirit, becoming truly alive, conscious, and responsible, functioning with creative grace, and to developing the capacity to love and to heal. To this end I utilize over 35 years of experience and training in a variety of modalities: Bioenergetic Analysis, Core Energetics, The Pathwork, Subtle Energy work, Native American and Eastern spiritual practices, philosophy, and new physics, among others.

People Get the "Time" They Need. In a Personal Intensive I take ample "time" to focus on the individual and their process without any rush. In several to many day period, personalized, individual, energetic work assists in evolution toward healing and to opening more deeply to heart and spiritual longings. We plan together a schedule that best suits personal, emotional and spiritual needs.

Working on all five levels of human existence: Intensives include work with: 
 1) body; 2) emotions; 3) mind; 4) will; and 5) spirit. We work to unmask and become the true self; to express painful emotions and the negativity of the shadow - the lower self- the dark side; to explore images, negative beliefs and false conclusions, and to open people to their Core- their heart - their Higher Self- their Spiritual Nature.

Why an Intensive? Intensives are particularly geared for people who need and desire more session time. People create Intensives for various reasons. The following are some examples. They, 1) hit a wall in therapy-feel stuck; 2) are dealing with a life crisis such as divorce, illness or death of a loved one; 3) cannot feel love; 4) want to go deeper into their personal process; 5) are fulfilling school training requirements; 6) are battling their saboteur - their lower self-which is threatening to take over. (Are terrified, depressed, anxious, lost faith, for example); 7) Are in Stage Three Recovery from an addiction; 8) live at a distance where it is difficult to get to weekly sessions; and 9) are dealing with psychosomatic illness; 10) there is no appropriate therapist nearby; 11) are too anxious or afraid, to be alone and too well to be in a hospital.  

Intensives work with each person's flow.
There are no time constraints. The clock does not order the sessions. A person's body-mind-emotions tell us how to proceed and when to rest. This means that much more can be accomplished in a few days. People report expanding and understanding more than in perhaps even a year of Integrated therapy and many years worth of conventional one hour a week therapy that often cuts off a process because the clock says it's time to stop.

I created the Personal Intensive in 1994 to meet the needs of people needing to come from a distance to work with me. In the late 60's and early 70's some of the first training and experience I received was working in a group intensive format. There, clients worked in a residential setting, 12 hours a day for 3 weeks straight. It was very exciting cutting edge work!

Who comes to this work? People come from all walks of life. Lay people and professionals from many disciplines have worked with me. I have worked with professional therapists of many modalities. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists have had personal intensives with me. Also; Healing instructors, massage therapists, lawyers, business men and women, musicians, artists, students of Core Energetics, students of Healing Science, RN's, physicians, ministers, medical students, and healers, are examples of those who have sought out this kind of work. Couple and families also have well utilized the Personal Intensive Format.

Mentoring & Therapy for Psychotherapists
I have been a therapist for, trained and supervised psychotherapists internationally for over 20 years. It is my pleasure and honor to work in this capacity with colleagues.

Where do people come from? People come from many areas. People  travel from all around Georgia, and have come from - states such as: Florida , Texas , Louisiana , Tennessee, North and South Carolina , Mississippi , Alabama , Ohio, Washington DC, Virginia , Connecticut, California, and from Maine, and as far away as Mexico , Canada, Switzerland , England, Germany, Turkey and Brazil .

How Much Time Does Someone Need? We create an intensive according to personal needs. Most people need 3 to 5 days. Occasionally people will schedule 2 days and up to 2 weeks has been scheduled. The time you actually spend in session with me also has to do with your personal need.  5 hours a day is scheduled and can vary as issues emerge. The remainder of the day is spent integrating, resting, and journaling, walking, and perhaps doing some short reading or writing assignment.

Personal Intensives Available Maine PropertyFirst Time in Maine
Summer 2009

This summer - for the first time ever - I will offer just two personal Intensive slots in beautiful pristine Downeast Maine. Clean cool Maine in July and August. Think about it! Perhaps that is a good time for you to be with me and do some of your deep and profound work.

Only 1 personal intensive slot in Maine for summer 2009 remains! 
Book now before its gone!    

Client Endorsements:
 
"Pam Chubbuck is simply the best. She has an unerring feel for the body and for the truth, and works from her deep grounded wisdom and compassion. My work with her actually feels like a miracle to me. I did work with Pam that had wanted to surface for years and years that had never surfaced in any of the many other therapeutic environments I have been in (for over 20 years).
 
Doing my Intensive work with Pam was the biggest gift I have ever given myself. Something opened in me that I did not know how to do myself or anywhere else. I will always be profoundly grateful." 

 ~ Paula Hanson, California, Artist, Educator, Graduate Core Energetics Institute West 
  
"I have done a lot of work on myself, over years, in various settings and countries, but my Intensive with Pam offered something unique. Working with Pam, in a setting where she was solely available for me over 4 days, enabled a level of intensity that allowed me to get into my "flow" that I hadn't come across before".
~ Andreas Gertler, Head Group Human Resources, Frankfort, Germany June 2008
 
"I have taken hundreds of hours of training and spend hundreds of hours helping others work through their own personal issues. After experiencing Pam's Spiritual Intensive, I feel like I have been re-born! She is truly a master in her craft and a woman of profound integrity. I have spent years working on symptoms; she got right to the core. Pam is a world treasure!"
~ Jim Worby, Columbus, OH


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Say Yes To Life!

Now on DVD!

Say Yes To Life!

  Grounding and Loving Your Body and
Expressing Your Emotions and Opening To Your Core     

 

Pleasure: 
The Ultimate Tonic for Healing All That Ails Us

Pamela L. Chubbuck Ph.D.
Copyright 2001
 
Do you want to know the number one curative agent without which you cannot heal?  Of course you do!  You may find this hard to believe because it seems too easy - and we all really want it.  The best immune-boosting, stress-busting, intimacy-building and ultimate spiritually-connecting strategy all rolled into one -- is pleasure.  Yep, pleasure.  There are many studies that tell us that being able to experience pleasure keeps us younger, healthier, and happier.  It even adds years to our lives.
 
The ability to give and receive love is what gives us the greatest pleasure.  Love and pleasure are the same life current.  A pleasurable state is what we long for and is a healthy spiritual and practical goal.  To love intimately and completely with your body, soul, and spirit advances you on your road to health and healing.  But - many of us have difficulty experiencing true pleasure.
 
True pleasure is not the stuff advertised on TV or in newspapers.  Buy-one-get-one-free type materialistic stuff.  It's not the addictions we indulge in that temporarily give us the illusion of pleasure - smoking, working too hard - too long, watching too much TV, drugs, alcohol, food, or computer addiction for example.  True pleasure is not about pastimes of the mind.  Nor hedonistic pleasure and definitely not sex disconnected from our hearts - from love.   Pam Chubbuck


Real connected pleasure fills our body's minds and souls with the vibrations of life.  Real pleasure flows through us like a clear bubbling brook and is a state of physical and spiritual bliss that is experienced in every particle of our bodymind.  It is the Life Force moving through us and moving us along our own creative path toward enlightenment.
 
We long for this, but many of us have a hard time feeling the depth of pleasure that creates bliss, peace, and pulsates in all our cells.  Why can't we feel as much and as deeply as we want to?  And how can we bring the pleasure of spontaneous life enhancing energy to us?  How can something pleasurable do so much good?  Didn't our parents, teachers, etc. tell us that the important things in life were about doing well in school, looking good, and keeping our room and ourselves clean?  They taught to act like they wanted us to.  Mostly they did not encourage us to be ourselves in our own Core Essence - the truth of our own being.  Then, "the church" iced and the cake, teaching that doing and thinking "good", not feeling good was godly (As opposed to the God who encourages loving pleasure).  And we all have been hurt in love.  It is no wonder we tense up, contract, and resist letting to the pleasure of life.
 
I knew James Prescott, Ph.D., psychologist, formerly, with NIMH, in the early 70's, when he researched 40 different cultures around the world.  He discovered that to the degree cultures touched, held and breastfed their children they not only had more pleasure, which is no surprise to us, more surprisingly perhaps is that they had less violence.
 
More pleasure = less aggression.  Research shows that while experiencing pleasure, the brain produces endorphins, our pleasure hormones, and interleukins, which are chemical messengers that coordinate immune activity.  (If we feel happy, we don't get sick as often or stay sick as long).  And the presence of those elements creates pleasurable, safe, enjoyable feelings in us.
 
To find and experience our aliveness, our ability to love and the pleasure we all seek, we must give up our pretenses, our ego control, our role-playing, our defenses and our pseudo-satisfactions.  Oh is that all?  Not so easy, but well worth the effort.  In order to become conscious of how we avoid and even fear pleasure, love, vibrant aliveness, we must look on all levels of human existence:  body, emotions, mind and spirit.
 
You may want to start by answering the following questions to help you become more conscious.  Look as deeply and honestly as possible.  Find what keeps you stuck.  Fill in the blanks.
 
· How do I prevent myself from giving and receiving love? ................  (Answers may be something like:  I stop breathing, I blame others, I'm scared of................ I have to be right, etc.).
· If I open my heart and really love then................ (What will happen?)
· Answers may be something like:  I'll get hurt (again), I'll die, my father will - my mother will... etc).
· If I give up control then................ (What will happen?)
· If I allow myself true pleasure then................ (What will happen?)
· If I really feel my body then................ (What will happen?)
 
Next week, go back and ask again.
 
Also:
1.  Move your body - Dance, sing, yoga, run jump.
2.  Play with kids.
3.  Do what gives you pleasure.
4.  Seek to be with people who truly enjoy life.
5.  Laugh more.
6.  Tell the ultimate truth to yourself.
7.  Spend more time with people who love and support your essence/your true real self.
 
Know that little by little you are getting closer to your essential self, the core of being, and your spiritual truth.  Every step of your journey can be joyful even when difficult.  The more conscious you are the more you will have pleasure.
 
For further exploration I suggest:  Deepak Chopra's Ageless Body Timeless Mind, Core Energetics by John C. Pierrakos,  Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life and Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to the Life, both by Alexander Lowen, The Pathwork of Self Transformation and a Pathwork lecture, Pleasure the Full Pulsation of Life both by Eva Pierrakos'- Read the lecture on www.pathwork.org)  and from the new science of psychoneuroimmunology, Molecules of Emotion, by Candace Pert, Ph.D.

 
May you create more pleasure and love in your life.  



Pamela L. Chubbuck, Ph.D., a psychologist who has specialized in the connection of body/ emotions/ mind/ spirit for 30 years, is a grandmother and the director of Core Energetics South.  She teaches internationally and has a private practice in the Atlanta area.  Phone:  770-388-0086
www.core-energetics-south.com 

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