Meditations

I’ve recorded some free meditations to help you get started meditating or support your ongoing practice:

• self-compassion break - 4 mins

• RAIN meditation (being with difficult emotions) - 15 mins

• self-compassion break - 1 min

• grounding meditation - 5 mins

• mindfully working with anger - 10 mins

• breathing meditation - 15 mins

• body scan meditation - 15 mins

• loving kindness meditation - 10 mins

• parenting break - 5 mins

Courses

• 30 Days of Self-Compassion - Spend ten minutes a day for a month to build a self-compassion practice. My course, now free!

Resources

Podcasts:

• Is Self-Compassion the Antidote for Healing Chronic Pain—An interview with Jessica Dixon

Apps:

• Curable App: Evidence-based chronic pain lessons in your pocket. See some of my meditations and classes in the app

Books:

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High - how to have hard conversations

• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman - great advice for entrepreneurs

• Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn - structured program for learning to meditate

• Radical Compassion by Tara Brach - introduction to the meditation practice of RAIN to awaken self-compassion

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz - primer on IFS (internal family systems)