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What is the #1 Reason Females  Struggle with Identifying STRESS Triggers?

From  “AWARENESS”  to  “EMPOWERMENT” …  making the CHANGE our Father God’s Way!


The Art of Detecting STRESS Triggers through Emotional Intelligence

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QUESTION: If you see the devastating effects of Narcissistic Abuse as a chronic STRESS Trigger that triggers health issues such as, emotional eating disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Heart Attacks, Strokes, etc,; and then you are given an opportunity to change the way you respond to that STRESS Trigger at home, work, school, and/or church … Would you take the responsibility to invest in yourself enough to make that change?

Dr. Rita Thornton, J.D., Ed.S., Ph.D. uses a new transformational health coaching style along with her Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills to help educate young and young-at-heart females, who want to make a change in how they respond to chronic STRESS such as, Narcissistic Abuse.  This is all about acquiring the mindset and EI skills that allow you to “identify” the emotional STRESS Trigger(s) as you prayerfully create a “root-cause” Health & Wellness Action Plan.  Having a client-centered relevant Action Plan that not only uplifts you with new internal strategies and habits, but a specific Action Plan that addresses the “root-cause” of your symptoms. This way, you have a sustainable Plan that promotes a healthier you with a stress-free supportive environment around you so everyone thrives on the kind of productivity that promotes God’s Peace.

The Power of an Uplifting Environment is a WIN WIN! … a catalyst for mutual success

The Dr.Rita Hearts Ablaze Ministries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit education ministry that is filled with female spiritual Hearts ignited with a passion to educate and comfort troubled females and children who are living in stressful human environments (2 Corinthians 1:3 & 4).  The ministry teaches females and children about how to use their God-given Spiritual Tools and EI skills to identify and respond to chronic STRESS such as, Narcissistic Abuse in a way that gives them God’s Peace.  A peaceful heart gives life and health to the body (Proverbs 14:30) 

To spiritually BREAK FREE from chronic STRESS Triggers such as, Narcissistic Abuse will involve a coachable female who understands the following 3-Step Approach to the inner Healing of the Spirit, Soul & Body:

1). You must want to “Learn” the internal strategies about how to “Identify” your chronic STRESS Triggers so you have the spiritual growth, knowledge, wisdom, and confidence to make the necessary change(s) that will protect your own health and wellness. 

2). Once you have been made aware of the stressful environment, you must be ready and willing to “look at the Speed” at which the chronic STRESS Trigger/Abusive Behavior(s)/ and/or Traumatic Event is “addressed” by you.

3). You must be ready and willing to ” Change and Reshape your Culture” or  “Redesign your Human Environment” so it has less STRESS Triggers. This will be done by exposing those factors that are the “root-cause” of the stressful Culture (i.e., workload, events, people).  For example, if you truly want to “Change and Reshape your Culture,” then you must place yourself in a supportive environment that will ensure your voice is HEARD when you identify your stressful experiences, your emotional brokeness is SEEN, and what you SAY does matter to the people who are listening. 

Whenever and wherever chronic STRESS occurs (at work, home, church, school, etc.), there is an immediate need for any female who feels she is subjected to a stressful/hostile/toxic environment to learn how to CHANGE her emotional RESPONSE to STRESS Triggers in a peaceful way that will spiritually support her health and wellness … every day!    

With Dr. Rita’s 20+ years of results-oriented coaching experience and her Emotional Intelligence (EI) expertise as an educator, project manager, CEO, female leader, college professor, and survivor of Narcissistic Abuse, she has created a Spiritual Survival Guidebook and an 8-week virtual Emotional Intelligence (EI) Certification Course. The Survival Guidebook and EI Certification Course are both designed to provide the knowledge and skill-set necessary to be certified in Discernment and EI Assessment skills so that when the knowledge and skills are applied, a person can quickly identify the source of the STRESS Trigger, complete an EI Assessment by using their Discernment skills as they document the Behavior in real time.  This unique client-centered health coaching style helps the client identify and address STRESS Triggers such as, Narcissistic Abuse in the workplace, at home, at church, and/or in school. Also, this style of transformational health coaching Does Not rely on Human Intelligence, which experience and evidence-based data have both shown never works when trying to manage STRESS Triggers/emotional conflict!  This type of “integrity” health coaching involves teaching the client a “skill;” and that “skill” is to quickly identify chronic STRESS Triggers such as, Narcissistic Abuse. Therefore, it allows less time and money to be spent on 3rd party investigations because you identify the STRESS Trigger /abusive behavior(s) in real time with documentation.  As a result of this empowerment, morale and productivity increase while providing a positive “uplifting” climate, a safe space, and healthy work, home, church, and/or school environment for all human beings. 

Something she had to learn how to do for herself, she now coaches other females who experience chronic STRESS at work, home, school. and/or church.  All the females told her that they also got the same amazing results of establishing a healthy human enviornment in record time. So, these females told Dr. Rita that she should not keep this spiritually-driven “root-cause” health coaching style to herself, but she should share it with the world!

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HEARTS ABLAZE - Spiritual Survival Guidebook-Available Now!

Having the spiritual awareness, knowledge, and wisdom necessary to know how and when you and/or others are being abused, is an Emotional Intelligence (EI) skill-set necessary when considering one’s own health and wellness as well as the STRESS Triggers in the Human Environment that surronds them.  So, this one-of-a-kind spiritual survival Guidebook+  will …

  • Administer a science-based spiritual approach to quickly recognize/spot the source of emotional conflict and abusive tactics being used in real time
  • Identify and explain the different types of abuse used in today’s workplace
  • Teach, train, and transform the minds of females so they can quickly and skillfully discern/spot the type of Human environment* or “culture” that surrounds them at work, home, church, and/or school (*Toxic) 
  •  Identify and explain how to use the Holy Spirit of God’s Gift of Discernment and the Emotional Intelligence (EI) tools necessary for female Trinity Believers to spiritually see/spot a person who has a Bad* heart (*has personality disorder traits) 

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+Dr. Thornton was inspired to write this Guidebook and create the EI Certification Course based on a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”

Experience FREEDOM & The Agape Love of Our Trinity God - He is the only Way, the Truth, and the Life… John 14:6

This is a Spiritual Weaponsmith-Guidebook for female leaders. This Guidebook is designed to show female leaders the Way to take a stand against workplace narcissistic abuse that is the silent killer, which seeks to steal, kill, and destroy the emotional freedom and mental thoughts of safety within the Soul of any abused employee in today’s work environment:.

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Today’s LOVE & WAR: Activating the POWER of the Holy Spirit of God in any Narcissistic Human Environment: Teaching Biblical Women how to Recognize & … Narcissistic Abuse…Our Father God’s Way

This is a Holy Spirit Guidebook that teaches Believers in the Trinity God, the Christian Way to successfully WIN in the Art of War against Narcissistic Abuse. The Guidebook identifies ten Points of Light that females should know when in a Spiritual War fighting against the chronic stress brought on and maintained by people with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Knowing theses 10 Points of Light will help educate and comfort Christian females who want God’s Peace in their everyday life as they learn how to spiritually grow in God’s Word and Jesus’ teachings.

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8-Week Emotional Intelligence (EI) Certification Course

8-Week Live Virtual Emotional Intelligence (EI) Certification Course for females who are experiencing or have experienced emotional conflict at home, work, school, and/or church

      From Awareness to Empowerment!

It’s all about the SPEED at which you detect the STRESS Trigger(s) and address the Bad Behavior /Abuse. With a rise in violence post COVID, up to 87% of females are subjected to workplace abuse (Springer Link-2021).  At a cost of $125,000 per traumatized employee, the faster female detect the conflict and address the Bad Behavior in the workplace in real time, the more uplifting all of the employees become.  When a female becomes certified to use her EI skills, a single business’ financial costs per traumatized employee would decrease while at the same time uplifting the employees in  that business…a WIN WIN!  So, the power of uplifting others becomes a catalyst for mutual success. Become a certified EI female who prioritizes her own health, well-being, and personal safety as well as her co-workers so everyone has a “safe space” that allows them to be an inclusive workforce thriving on innovation and productivity.

Did you know Bad Behavior/workplace misconduct cost US Businesses $20.2 billion (Forbes & Vault Platform -2021)

One (1) Bully costs a single business up to $125,000 per year per traumatized employee because one (1) Bully …

  • Lowers morale*
  • Lowers productivity – ($2.6 billion in lost productivity) 
  • Increases number of employees traumatized by Bad Behavior 
  • Increases costs due to HR 3rd party Investigations – (up to 9 months to resolve each Bullying case with a cost between $75,000 - $125,00 per traumatized employee) 
  • Increases Turnover Rates* 

*  Poor Workplace Morale = High Turnover Rate costing a business up to 50% of an employee’s yearly salary

Dr. Thornton has created a unique health and wellness coaching style with high-level integrity coaching that really works because it quickly gets and retains results in real time by introducing internal strategies and habits that foster change within the client and within any diverse work environment.

Each week she will teach, train, and coach females to know how to turn God’s spiritual Gift of Discernment into a learned skill which uses Emotional Intelligence Assessments to quickly recognize/detect STRESS Triggers so that the female and all employees feel safe and become an empowered workforce thriving on innovation and productivity.  This meaningful response to STRESS/emtional conflict in real time will decrease the amount of time and money spent on 3rd party investigations while at the same time increase morale and productivity. Having an increase in productivity clearly shows that there is a positive climate and newly Reshaped “Culture” that prioritizes the well-being and personal safety of all of its employees. 

Dr. Rita will use her 20+ years of results-oriented leadership experience and Emotional Intelligence (EI) expertise to personally Coach all attendees through this 8-week EI Certification Course. The EI Course offers weekly fun-filled Workshops and Exercises for the female attendees to practice Discernment and Emotional Intelligence skills so that upon their completion of the Course, the female becomes officially certified to conduct an EI Assessment that addresses her health and wellness as well as those employees around her.

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Hear Dr. Rita on a Recent Podcast

119 | Empowering Women So They Find Answers To their Questions When Exposed to STRESS Triggers as they Uplift Themselves & Others

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Awareness to Empowerment: Using EI Skills to Identify STRESS Triggers So You Can Uplift Yourself & Others

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