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 Angela Hryniuk knows that like diamonds, people are extremely precious and filled with light. Helping people on their journeys of self-discovery through both the spiritual and material world is her forte. From spiritual advisor to addictions counselor from meditation teacher to celebrant and author – Angela is an agent of change who supports, celebrates and exalts conscious transformation in any arena of life. Exceptionally gifted in helping people tune into and attain both their spiritual and material goals, she is also well grounded and pragmatic, and brings an infectious sense of humour and creativity to her work.
 Angela Hryniuk’s clear, gentle, yet direct style of guiding a person through often difficult emotional and spiritual territory combines active listening, with keen perceptive/intuitive skills developed over nearly thirty years of working with people.
Using the Twelve Step Recovery model, Angela assists clients in identifying and understanding their personal beliefs and life patterns, habits and addictions. She offers a fresh perspective and a reframing of circumstances so people can see how their lives have made sense to them and how to shift out of old patterns.
She can help you with issues of:
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abuse (verbal, emotional, physical, sexual)
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anger & resentments
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anxiety
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codependency
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compulsive thinking
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depression
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identifying negative beliefs, life patterns
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lack of forgiveness
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malaise & emotional numbness
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obsessive behaviours
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overeating
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relapse prevention
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repressed or blocked creativity
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self esteem & low self image
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sexuality confusion
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staying abstinent from alcohol & drugs
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suicidal thought patterns
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trauma
Qualifications
Angela holds an Interdisciplinary Masters Degree (2001) in Philosophy, Religion & Literature and has been counseling and spiritually advising people for the past 28 years in various capacities. From people in recovery from addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, to working with Canada’s First Nations street youth, from being a Suicide and Rape Crisis Counsellor, a Group Home parent to adolescent prostitutes and Ex-Psychiatric patients to ministering to people in prison she brings a wealth of experience about alleviating suffering and understanding the human condition.
For nearly 20 years Angela has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and for the last 13 years a teacher of meditation and Buddhism philosophy. She has studied with the highest Masters of her lineage, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She has sat many individual and group retreats ranging from a single day to a month, and she continues her daily practice. She received Higher Buddhist Vows, 2000, took initial Bodhisattva vows, 1990. She organized and hosted the Dalai Lama’s Vancouver visit in 2004 and hosted a United Nations sponsored Spirituality Round Table in 2006.
Angela recently chose Brisbane as her new home arriving from Vancouver, Canada. She is in her thirteenth year in personal recovery from alcoholism. Other than that, life has been her greatest teacher.
Point of Interest:
Angela has created and produced two CDs and published four books since 1989.
CDs:
Sitting in the Light, Guided Meditations for Relaxation & Self-Balancing (2008)
Melisma: Buddhist Pilgrimage in India, (2003) a spoken word CD.
Publications:
pearls & forbidden fruit (2008), poetry & illustrations
Sarasvati Scapes (2001), poetry
no visual scars (1993), poetry
walking inside circles (1989) auto-fiction
All products are available at the Sowelu Clinic. CDs also available through iTunes. Books through Amazon.
Appointments with Angela can be made for Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings.
Cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance, otherwise full session fee will be charged.
All New Clients Receive a Free Meditation CD or book.
Live in the solution, book an appointment today with Angela. Call Sowelu reception.
Check out www.diamondthought.com
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