This is a recorded retreat that you can experience at your own pace.

There are 4 fundamental components that can give you a life free from triggers, reactivity, hopelessness and isolation. They help rewire circuits in your brain so you can access your own wisdom to grow, develop & flourish.  

It's what I learned using meditation skills for over 30 years to heal myself-- then becoming a psychotherapist, and a best selling book author to help thousands of others.

Of those, there's one that allows us to cultivate solid inner ground. That one is self-compassion.

This is what I realized when my own trauma history came up while living for years in a yoga ashram. 

I learned this path the hard way -- dealing with my own trauma history while also being a long term meditator whose trauma history would erupt during my practices.  

It was hard. How was I able to be in my body before (training for triatholons, practicing yoga and meditation multiple hours a day) to then not wanting to get out of bed, lost and confused?

I wanted to know how to put it all together.

If all the great wisdom traditions said there was a path out of suffering... well then I wanted that path! 

I wanted the way. Not just when I was feeling good. I wanted to know how to apply those great traditions when I wasn't feeling good.

As I grappled with the complications I had to break down the great teachings, as well as modern neuroscience and psychtherapeutic approaches, adapting them to my situation. 

I wanted back into my body. I wanted to live inside myself without overwhelming trauma symptoms. 

I wanted the peace, calm, and contentment that all the wisdom traditions say are possible -- and that I had before my trauma complicated my practices.

Along the way I discovered the four components that meditation and good psychotherapy have in common. 

And I realized, at the heart of the matter, is self-compassion. 

Self-compassion is the ground out of which all other elements arise.

Taking what I know from my own healing I explored finding ways to take these important meditation components, breaking them down into simple, easy to use, evidence-based skills that helped calm my body, ease my mind, and open my heart. 

This is what I want to empower you with in this recorded retreat: self-compassion.

Step by step, the more your body takes in and absorbs self-compassion the more you'll have a solid inner ground.

As a foundational skill it can help you in every aspect of your life. These skills are the platform for the Becoming Safely Embodied Skills which have helped thousands of clients over the past twenty years. In fact, Janina Fisher (the internationally renowned trauma expert) referred her clients to the group because "they get better faster." 

That's what I want for you, as well, to get better faster. 

I want for all of us to have a life of ease, contentment, where it's safe to explore the world, where we feel seen, know that we belong, where we can love and be loved. 

Step by step. Building blocks take you to a self-compassionate life.