For more than 15 years the Quest for Life Foundation has provided a variety of services to inspire and support people living with the challenges of cancer, chronic illness, loss, grief, trauma, anxiety and depression. We hope you will find something here to assist in your healing journey. We look forward to our path crossing with yours!
There are many new ways in which information is now shared and the Quest for Life Foundation is at the forefront of providing our services through mediums such as webinars (online seminars), podcasts, video and easily accessible article library. Many people find that this is an easy way to experience our services before joining us on a day or residential program. We look forward to supporting your learning and healing journey in your own home, at your own leisure.
In this series:
- The Mansion of Emotion 42.52min
- Volcano of Emotion
- The Four C’s
- Patterns of the Past
Video 1 – 42:52 Video 2 – 28.37 min Video 3 – 29:23 min Video 4 – 9:00 min
The Four C’s
Duration 42:52 min
Create Peace of Mind with The Four C’s - Control, Commitment, Challenge and Connection
Peace is not a passive wishy washy state of acceptance. It is a dynamic state in which we feel fully alive and able to embrace each new moment, with a clear mind, open heart and a commitment to living a connected life.
You Will Learn:
- How to choose your response to life’s challenges
- The difference between reacting and responding
- How to get emotionally up to date with your life
- Making meaning out of your suffering
- How your pain and suffering can perpetuate you forward
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Mansions of Emotions
Duration 28:37 min
“You are not your feelings, You have feelings” Petrea King
We frequently identify closely with our feelings, perhaps even more closely than with our thoughts. Yet we’re often afraid to explore our feelings because we believe it may entail the re-opening of old old wounds that we would rather keep in the background of our life.
You Will Learn:
- You are not your feelings
- The process of witnessing your feelings
- How to live in the present with peace of mind
- How to play games with your children so they learn to express their emotions
We value mental abilities highly in our society and often fear the emotional realm because it can be messy or make us feel vulnerable or out of control. However, emotional healing is essential if we’re to live in the present and have peace of mind.
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Vulcano of Emotions
Duration 29:23 min
Petrea King talks about the Volcano of Emotion and feelings we all hold either consciously or subconsciously and how they can rule our life with out our awareness.
You Will Learn
- How old feelings determine your present actions
- How insecurity, fear and anxiety is caused by memories
- How to change your reaction into action
- How to stay present in the now so you can choose the outcome
Some people get stuck in one emotion and constantly react from that place. Fear and anger are two such feelings that people can give their whole life over to, constantly reacting from those old emotional patterns.
Have you ever reacted in a way that is out of all proportion to the stimulus of emotion?
Anger is not a ‘bad’ emotion’. Healthily expressed anger discharges disharmony from within ourselves. An unhealthy or inappropriate expression of anger is when we use it as a means to wound other people or ourselves. Where ever there is anger – in ourselves, in others, in our community, in our nation – we can choose to see it as a call for help or healing rather than an attack.
An understanding of anger can help us become less fearful of it and more able to cope in its presence. Anger is also healthy when it is the enabling force that helps us set clear boundaries, to speak our truth or to reclaim our power when we have habitually given it away to other people or situations. Any strong feeling is an energy that needs to be discharged or expressed.
It is helpful, to realise that we’re rarely upset for the reasons we think. Below the surface of our anger may well fester a range of beliefs, unmet needs or feelings that we haven’t yet made conscious.
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Patterns Of The Past
Duration 9:00 min
It is very helpful to become aware of our language and the way we express ourselves. There are words we often use to keep us habitually bound to the past. Becoming conscious of what these are and when we use them, and changing them, even in mid sentence, can become our practice until such diligence is no longer required.
Are you feeling something and you don’t know what the feeling is?
Do you have language patterns like;
If only … I’ll be happy when … I can’t … I should … It’s impossible … or the very popular ……… I don’t have time?
If you would prefer to respond to the events and encounters in your life rather than react to them and move from being a victim to being a proactive participant in your life then spend some time with Petrea King.
You Will Learn:
- To be aware of your habitual language and the way you express yourself
- About words you use that keep you bound to the past
- Language statements that denote being a victim or an active participant
- How to communicate powerfully and effectively
In order to have this choice, we need to be present and aware of what we habitually say when we feel we’re the victim of our circumstance, the words we say when we limit our potential.
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For more information about Quest for Life and Petrea King go to www.questforlife.com.au
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About Petrea King
Petrea King N.D., D.R.M., D.B.M., Dip.Cl.Hyp., I.Y.T.A. is Founding Director and CEO of the Quest for Life Foundation, which she established in 1989. She is a well-known author, inspirational keynote speaker, teacher and facilitator. She is also qualified as a naturopath, herbalist, clinical hypnotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher.
In 1983 Petrea was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and was not expected to live. Meditation and the integration of past traumatic experiences, including the recent suicide of her brother Brenden, became paramount in her recovery, much of which was spent in a monastery near Assisi in Italy. She has been meditating since the age of 17.
Petrea has counselled individually or through residential programs tens of thousands of people living with cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, grief, loss, trauma and tragedy. She is at the forefront of wellness education and is a frequent lecturer at medical and other conferences. Petrea sees crisis as a catalyst for growth and understanding and as an opportunity for healing and peace.
More than 80,000 people have attended residential programs or counselling with Petrea and her team since 1985. She also lectures and conducts workshops around Australia and internationally.
Petrea has written eight best-selling books: Quest for Life ~ A handbook for people with life-threatening illness, Spirited Women ~ Journeys with Breast Cancer, Sometimes Hearts Have to Break ~ 25 inspirational stories of healing and peace, Your Life Matters ~ The Power of Living Now; three children’s books, You, Me & the Rainbow, Rainbow Kids and The Rainbow Garden; and a recipe book, Food for Life. The Your Life Matters book is also available on a double CD with Petrea narrating and she has produced a dozen relaxation and meditation practices on CD, including a CD for children, Rainbow Connection. Her CDs are available through this website or through iTunes.
Frequently featured in the media, Petrea is a regular guest on Richard Glover’s Mid-Week Conference and Tony Delroy’s Nightlife on ABC radio. In 2003 she was celebrated on Channel 9’s This Is Your Life and has been featured on Australian Story, Compass and many other television productions. An acclaimed documentary was jointly commissioned by Channel 4 (UK) and the ABC called Quest for Life – A Year in the Life of Petrea King in 1990.
Petrea has received the Advance Australia Award, Citizen of the Year and the Centenary Medal for her contribution to the community and has been nominated for Australian of the year each year since 2003.
Petrea lives with her partner Wendie Batho in Bundanoon, NSW.
