Dr Rachel’s Speeches

Superhero Lessons: From Ho-hum to Heroic

Most adults no longer wear bath towels as capes and jump off dining room chairs pretending to fly. (Maybe that’s a good thing?)

Somewhere along the path to a mediocre, monotonous adulthood, motivation, drive and dreams went by the wayside. That needs to change.

Dr. Elahee, a renowned therapist with keen insights into what makes people tick, believes that the creeping malaise of adulthood is evidence that we aren’t challenging, growing, creating and dreaming enough.

This inspiring program infuses audiences to get up and get going again – now.

No one makes it to adulthood without baggage.  Some of us have carry-ons, while others need a semi track to lug around our “stuff”.

How is any logical person supposed to believe that things can get better?

How is anyone going to accept that – after what’s happened to them – the future can be brighter?

How many working people can honestly look at the place they are in professionally and say, “Wow! I’m living my wildest dreams!”

Dr. Elahee’s bright, bold presentation leads audiences to seek and find the answers to those questions. 

Here’s a secret: We all think other people are happier and better off than we are.  We look at old acquaintances on Facebook and beat ourselves up. “How come she’s so thin and has such a lovely life?” “I can’t believe John runs such a successful company!” and more.  “I can’t believe she got the promotion and I didn’t!” We bump into an old chum at the store and they bedazzle us with how great things are going for them.

Our shoulders slump. “What happened to me? How did I get here?”

When we are comparing ourselves harshly, motivation will slow down. When our problems pile on top of each other, this collision can cause energy to halt completely. The result? Many people secretly feel like they are “just going through the motions”.  Everything has become bland and boring. Work stops being interesting. Life stops being interesting too.

Solution: Pop Peppy, Perky, Positive Dr. Rachel into Your Program!

In her compelling, funny and realistic presentation, Dr. Elahee shares the truth while she’s infusing the audience with hope.  Her specialty is the “3 Key Components to Contentment” that everyone can apply to overcome personal and professional obstacles, re-connect to inner motivation and summon uncommon drive. Happy people perform better at work and at home. They can transform from burned-out to hopeful; from hopeless to heroic; and from exhausted to energized.

Here’s what you get when you book the effervescent Dr. Rachel:

• What radical actions we can take now to identify and transform our problems – and our nagging thoughts about them – into “mental energy pills.”
• How to “trick” your body and your mind into feeling better right now, until it becomes a habit that helps you daily, in everything you do at work and at home.
• The #1 Best Method to forgive yourself for your past and plot a future that energizes you for life
• Becoming your own “Passion Project” – simple, highly effective ways to yank yourself out of the rut of your life and get things moving again.
• Four Steps to the Future: Falling in love with your work, your life and your ability to create change for yourself, starting here and now

Depression has reached epidemic proportions among adults, and those are just the ones who are being reported.  This general pallor has thrown a wet blanket over most businesses and their bottom lines. Common sense – and endless studies – prove that energetic, happier employees are more productive, more committed, more innovative and get along better with their colleagues. They’re also a lot easier to manage.

Summary: Positive people perform optimally.

In her exclusive private therapeutic practice, Dr. Elahee has been honing these dynamic techniques for more than 20 years. As employees apply these strategies, they naturally become more efficient and invested, committed and content. They will waste less time navigating interpersonal conflicts and creating problems. They transform into far better team players who show up eager and ready to contribute each day.

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The Plain Truth About Veteran’s Affairs: How to Grab Your Inner Super Hero and Fly

The last thing people who have literally been in the trenches need is a pile of platitudes, pleasantries and pop-psych drama.  No soldier needs some goody two shoes coming in to tell them “how to be happy”.  These warriors don’t need patting on their heads or some pills to manage their emotions, their PTSD or their personal problems.

Dr. Rachel Elahee has worked with thousands of veterans, one-on-one and in groups, as a leading therapist in Atlanta, GA. The single greatest thing she sees missing is this:  Confidence.

Confidence is a combination of hope and courage.  Veterans, many of whom had less than ideal lives before their service began, often come back to civilian life feeling like aliens, outcasts, and ill-equpped for life.  Add to that injuries – internal, emotional and physical – and a population is created that has to face huge challenges, often on their own.

In this funny, compassionate, authentic program, Dr. Elahee uses the best of what she’s learned working with so many veterans and their families to share:

• Why some vets get stuck after service: The reality of military life is regimentation, structure, and order.  On the outside, those boundaries are removed and people who may have resented the lack of freedom now resent having too much of it.  Here are three easy ways to consciously choose practices that will move veterans forward in an organized, beneficial way. 
• Mind Management: Our thoughts control our actions.  But when those thoughts are troubled, cloudy, jumbled, tumbled by what one might have seen in service, PTSD is just one of many results possible.  As big of a burden as it seems, it is critical that veterans learn principles for harnessing the power of their minds for their own benefit and the good of their families, employers and society as a whole.  Dr. Elahee explains how to focus on the now in a gentle, understanding way that provides immediately useful techniques.
• Superhero Steps: Little kids have dreams. They have outsized beliefs in their abilities and they draw fantastic images of who and what they will become when they grow up. When the harsh realities of adult life – or military service – rip off their cape, it’s critical to find a way to deal with the disappointment…just as much as it is critical to find new dreams based on the What Is Now.

Dr. Elahee uses an imaginative method to guide audience members to picture a new “super hero” future by deftly determining who they want to be, how they want to be, and plotting a logical strategy to obtain it.  Based on studies that endlessly support the “Be > Do > Have” method of achievement, participants in this program will be empowered to take control of what they have now in their lives and use it to fashion a meaningful, rewarding life.

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