Compassionate Inquiry

Helping you access and deal with hidden or suppressed emotions

What is Compassionate Inquiry?

Compassionate Inquiry is a therapeutic method helping you to access emotions that are often hidden or suppressed but are subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, playing out in your life in detrimental or limiting ways.

It could be the addictions you're dealing with, compulsive behaviours or the ways you seem to sabotage your very best efforts to make positive changes in your life, like creating healthier habits, or reducing stress in your life.

For many of Eddie’s patients, it’s a cancer diagnosis, chronic illness or a debilitating, repetitive or addictive behaviours that have them walking into the clinic looking for answers.

Common Signs & Symptoms

Some of the common signs and symptoms of trauma or past experiences affecting you now include:

Addictive behaviours like overeating, drinking, smoking, sex, drugs, etc.
Reduced ability to deal with stress
Brain fog or feeling spaced-out a lot of the time
Inability to love, nurture or bond with other individuals
Nightmares and night terrors
Chronic Fatigue or very low physical energy
Immune system problems or auto-immune conditions
Psychosomatic illnesses - eg. headaches, migraines, neck and back problems, chronic pain, asthma, skin disorders, digestive problems
Difficulty sleeping
Feelings of helplessness, immobility and freezing
Abrupt mood swings, extreme rage or temper flaring and/or regular crying
Shutting down or lack of emotional response to situations
Panic attacks, anxiety and phobias
Depression, fear of dying or of impending doom

Eddie's Approach

Eddie takes time to get to know his patients, not just their symptoms or disease, and in these conversations it often becomes apparent it's not about the disease or the external circumstances, but what's happening on the inside.

Pain, sadness, fears that were felt in childhood but had no safe way to be expressed, are often carried into our adult lives in the forms of personality traits, adaptations and behaviours - and sometimes they become manifested as physical symptoms and disease.

Compassionate Inquiry gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion, that are at the root of illness and addiction. As a CI therapist, Eddie helps you to gently uncover the thinking, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and emotional states that are contributing to the challenges you may be experiencing.

This process helps you to feel seen, heard and safe to connect to yourself and others, expressing your authentic self and what is true for you. This expression is what heals.

Your C I Therapist

Eddie Enever

Adv.Dip.(Nat)

About Eddie

After himself defeating cancer three times, Eddie uses his skills and experience to guide patients through their journey with cancer. From prevention, diagnosis, to remission, cure, or end of life transition, Eddie is uniquely experienced to help make your journey with cancer as smooth and as effective as possible using his skills and experience in nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, counselling, life coaching and meditation to enhance health outcomes and complement traditional oncology care.

Eddie specialises in the following

Compassionate Inquiry
Cancer coaching and mentoring
Bi-weekly cancer support groups
Chronic disease - autoimmune conditions, mental health conditions (anxiety and depression), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome.
Stress reduction clinic - the PNMC stress reduction program
Neurofeedback for children's ADHD and anxiety (the Mindful Monkeez program)
Breathwork, mindfulness and meditation training