GLOBAL

GATHERING
workbook

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Dear friend,
Thank you for opening this workbook! There is something you should know first,
before we continue...

In most cases, the triggers of stress and anxiety are not the same as
their real root causes.

This workbook helps you to identity the triggers of stress and anxiety that you
experience in life. The Global Gathering with Brandon will help you uncover
and resolve the true causes of stress and anxiety.

Take a look at and answer the questions below. They are about what triggers stress
and anxiety in you.

Trust your gut instinct and don't think too much - you'll recognise quickly what is
true for you. And remember that you'll have a great opportunity to resolve some of
the issues you recognise at the upcoming Global Gathering with Brandon.

Just take the first step. The rest will follow naturally.

Brandon will guide you through a teaching and process work to

resolve the true causes of stress and anxiety at the
Global Gathering.

In the meantime, please go over the list below, rate all the items low, medium and
high and then choose 3 that are the biggest triggers of stress and anxiety for you
right now. Bring these to the Global Gathering and get ready to discover what's really
at the heart of these issues... and clear them out!

Let's get started!

WHAT TRIGGERS YOUR STRESS?

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Please go over the list below and rank the issues that most trigger stress and anxiety
in your life. Let it be thought-free, go with your first gut instinct and be deeply honest.
Rate each issue as ‘LOW“, ‘MEDIUM“ or ‘HIGH“ in importance.

TRIGGERS

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

Lack of sleep, energy or general tiredness in life
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Insufficient money, income, wealth
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Disagreements or conficts with family or loved ones
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Family or loved ones not following the rules
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Domestic issues with intimate partner
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Sexual issues or insecurities
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Other toxic or disruptive relationships
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Placing too much importance on what others think of me
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Feeling out of control or a victim of life
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Not enough hours in a day, feeling rushed or
overwhelmed by time pressures
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Not expressing your real needs, or being overridden by
others’ demands
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Not having good boundaries, not being able to say ‘no’
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Work goals, demands, deadlines or pressures
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Over committing, attempting to take on too much work
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Regrets or painful old memories rising to the surface
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Old traumas or emotional wounds that are not resolved
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Inability to cope with life’s overall demands

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 LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Needing to correct or ‘fix’ other people
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Not achieving enough, progressing as expected in life
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Self-judgment of your own looks, personality, talents or
abilities
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Blaming yourself for things outside your influence or
control
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Blaming others for your life’s circumstances
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Unresolved or ongoing health or fitness issues
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Ongoing weight and/or eating issues
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Inability to ask for help, overreliance on going it alone or
being independent
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Feeling criticised or easily undermined by others
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Feelings of unworthiness, insignificance or
incompetence
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Procrastination: the inability to start new projects or to
work to full completion in a timely way
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Environmental or social pressures or fears
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Insufficient self-motivation or self-discipline
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Other people’s anger or intense emotions
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Having a job or career that is unsatisfying or distasteful
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Lacking structure or guidelines in life
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Lacking knowledge or expertise to live as you would like
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Having too many goals, plans or unreachable dreams
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Feeling lonely, disconnected or isolated in life
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Trying to be too good, perfect or saintly

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 LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Others’ judgments of your abilities, behaviours or habits
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Not enough connection with people who lift you up
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Self-neglect, inability to make healthy self-supportive
choices and stick to them
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Absorbing or taking responsibility for others’ problems
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Watching negative or upsetting television programmes
or news
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Political events or social disruptions
LOW MEDIUM HIGH
Prejudice or discrimination against you, feeling excluded
or unfairly treated by others or society
List and rank any other triggers you recognise
below:
LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

LOW MEDIUM HIGH

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 MY TOP 3 STRESS SOURCES
Now, choose the 3 areas that are causing you the biggest stress right now. You don't
have to ‘get it right’, just trust the process and simply choose 3 issues that you would
like to focus on resolving first, and write about them more fully below.

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Well done!
You are all ready for taking the next step - resolving the true cause of these issues in
your life!

Please bring your answers to Global Gathering and get ready to heal and move
forward in life.

Anxiety and stress melt away when you become aware of their
real causes and then open to welcome, face and resolve those
underlying issues

A recent study revealed that the single biggest influencer of anxiety and depression
is traumatic life events.

The way you deal with traumas and painful emotions determines to a large extent
your likelihood of falling into anxiety, stress or depression, and if you do, how well
you’ll cope with those experiences.

You have the power to effectively resolve anxiety, stress and even depression.

Many of us have been taught to suppress our seemingly negative emotions, like
anger, fear, sadness, hopelessness, unworthiness... but suppressing your emotions
can cause natural emotions to turn into longer-lasting moods or states that stick with
us and seem unshakeable.

In the upcoming Global Gathering, you can find help with what you need the most:
acknowledging your suppressed emotions and doing some release work.

And before that, read how other people before you have faced great deal of stress
and anxiety and have been able to turn their lives around completely by using the
same tools you're about to learn at Global Gathering.

YOU, TOO, CAN HEAL

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TURNING MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND
Jean was living with breast cancer, high blood pressure,
severe migraines, tumours and backpain, a diagnosis of
depression, disassociative disorder, post traumatic stress
disorder and more. She now has her health back, has more
energy than she has had in a very long time and no needs to
use prescription medication.

My name is Jean Callaway and I am a 15-
year breast cancer survivor. I am a survivor
of both brain and spinal cord tumors.
I am also a survivor of violent physical,
emotional, and sexual childhood abuse
that left me filled with fear, shame, anger,
self-hatred, guilt, and an endless number
of limiting beliefs about who I was in the
world.
My life as I knew it started crumbling
around me on March 11, 2000 when my
eldest sister died unexpectedly.
My strength to go on with my life came
from a daily dose of anti-depressants.
Eleven months later, a routine
somewhere deep inside where I would not
have to face or feel them.
Motivational tapes in hand, I engaged in
daily physical exercise and healthier eating
habits, I ran for the cause, offered advise to
others and was cited by the medical
community as a model example of how to
deal with cancer positively.
But the battle became more difficult.
Bloated, bald, weary to the bone, alone,
afraid and seriously depressed
I could feel myself slipping deeper into the
black hole of depression and despair.
After receiving news about spinal cord and

mammogram revealed that I had breast brain tumour, my future appeared as a

cycle of serious illness, more drugs to
cancer.
offset the side affects of my current drugs
I numbly and mindlessly turned my body
and thoughts of paralysis and death.
over to the medical community.
It was on this day I got very angry and
Because I believed I had no control over
‘made a declaration’:
cancer. As usual I parked my emotions
ENOUGH ALREADY! NO MORE!

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All that had happened, opened me to
explore different alternative and
I am independent now, after having spent
complementary healing modalities and a
my whole life dependent on others.
completely new and empowering
The worry which consumed my every
perspective on the ‘root cause of illness’.
thought in the past is gone and replaced
Every cell in my being knew that truth was
with a great faith and knowing that all
being spoken when I first heard the
things will unfold exactly as they should…
scientifically based teachings that the root
and it’s all good!
of all disease, be it physical, emotional or
spiritual, is repressed emotional trauma at My health is great and I have more energy
than I have had in a very long time. The
the cellular level. I definitely life-long
repressed emotions. use of all prescription medication including
those intended to minimize the recurrence
Since my initial introduction to the work of
of cancer fell away quite naturally at the
The Journey, it has become an integral part
onset of my personal journey into this
of my own personal healing. It provided me
complementary and alternative field.
with the love, safety, support and tools I
For the most part, life has become easy,
needed to look inwards and reclaim myself.
effortless and so much more fun.
Over the course of the next year and a half
What a blast! It is time for us to get still, go
while undergoing The Journey work I bore
inside and start listening to what our
witness to the most incredible
bodies are trying so desperately to tell us.
metamorphosis taking place inside of me
as I learned to shed the pain, grief, FACING EMOTIONS IS THE BEGINNING TO
sadness, guilt, fear and anger that was TRUE HEALING!
ravishing my body, mind and spirit. And I
healed.

At the same time there is so much more of

me, more love, more joy, more
compassion, more inner peace, more
gratitude.

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LIFTING 5 YEARS OF DEPRESSION
When Joanie McMahon’s husband of 19 years died she fell into
a deep depression and seemingly never-ending suicidal
thoughts. After healing herself she gave up her medications and
lifted 5 years of depression.

In 1997, my husband of 19 years, Russell, I was a trained counselor and psychologist

died of cancer after 4 long years of living
with it. It had taken a tremendous toll of
time and energy to keep him in physical
form that long.
We have two beautiful children and the
two of us were happy. Russell so wanted
to stay around longer in physical form and
yet his body was riddled with cancer. He
was so weak.
He died September 9th, it was a Sunday
and a beautiful fall day …his favorite
season and favorite day of the week.
After his death, I was exhausted, worn out
from all of the effort and worrying that I
had engaged in.
I was vulnerable and completely
disoriented. It actually had never occurred
to me that he would die.
Within a very short period of time I was
catapulted into a deep depression that I
could not shake.
at the time and was drawn to another
counselor for help. I saw this counselor
weekly for over 4 years.
She like I had no idea why the depression
would not lift. I looked for help
everywhere.
I knew something was wrong but didn’t
know what was keeping the depression
hanging on.
One time, when I was constantly in bed,
trying to drown out the never-ending
suicidal thoughts, I began to pray for help
or relief in the form of death from the way
I was thinking and feeling.
It felt like “a time from hell”…and as it
often happens, in the asking for help we
are led to healing… someone
recommended Brandon Bays book, The
Journey to me…as soon as I read it, I knew
that this would help me.

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I immediately found someone in my home
town who was accredited in this work. She
had time to see me immediately, and in
this first session, I felt the depression lift.
And three sessions later I was able to let
go of my medication.
After the first session, I looked at the
practitioner and I said, “this is amazing”.
I felt the trauma of this time leave my
body. I thought and said out loud “If I can
clear a memory that is in the womb then
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there is so much hope for the healing of
the entire planet.”
I was working with troubled teens at that
time and I began to do Journey work with
each one who came into my office with
the similar amazing results.
Since this time, I have stayed faithful to
this work on a regular basis for myself
and I keep clearing more and more as
things come up.
It is the most empowering set of skills I
know and I share it whenever I can.
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DEPRESSION CAUSED BY FEAR OF DEATH
Alva L Gilmour had to face her deepest fear of dying
while living with an HIV positive partner and losing her
best friend to leukemia. This lead to depression and
back pains that she healed with The Journey, by
connecting to the root cause of her health issues.

I’m a spiritual advisor and detox To top it off my best friend died in my
consultant, so when things started to go arms from leukemia. There was nothing I
wrong with me I could not understand could do to save her even though I had
why. done everything I could.

I was falling into depression, and unable to My relationship with my partner was also
run away from my fears of abandonment breaking down due to his alcoholism.
and worthlessness.
I found myself in a deep crisis.
All this started to affect my physical
My self-belief was worn down to nothing
health.
and I had lost all sense of purpose and
I had severe debilitating backache and direction in life.
panic attacks about my deteriorating
I was looking into all options to help
health. I understood that it was due to
myself and heard about The Journey.
past issues, but still was unable to control
I met with a Journey Presenter and
them. I did not know what to do or who to
immediately felt safe and at ease. We did
turn to.
Journey sessions together and I
Having had a partner for 4 years with HIV I
discovered the root cause of my fear and
had lived in fear of contracting it.
abandonment, which I had carried for 30
I was getting tested on a regular basis and years.
knew I didn’t have it, but…. Suddenly I had
Worthlessness, due to criticism and
massive fear that I could be infected and
projected pain from my father following
the wait for the repeat tests was
my mother’s death. Another Journey
unbearable.
session and I felt I was back on track.

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Not only did I get my self-worth back, I
was able to understand my fathers pain
and able to forgive both him and myself
for our misunderstandings.
As soon as I had connected with the source
of my problem not only did my depression
lift, my back pain vanished and has never
returned.
I was able to uncover a pattern in my
thoughts, that was constantly affecting my
life and creating my health problems.
Now after two years I have a wonderful
home life, no financial worries and all the
health issues I was battling are gone.
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I have a successful business using my own
abilities, gifts and talents and clients from
all over the world, many who travel across
the globe just to see me.
I have found my spirituality and purpose
and I know I will never look back.
But the best of all there have been no
drugs, no psychiatry, no physio – just
extremely well applied alternative
therapies designed to get to the root
cause of the issue.
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