A compassionate immersion for those learning to be kinder to themselves - plus simple integration & self-discovery practices to get you feeling more connected in your life & relationships. Join us Sundays to grow your capacity to meet the moment, be with big feelings, and communicate with love - or join our monthly membership for live coaching we're told is "like finding gold" and "the best therapy I've ever done for myself". Hosted by coach & counsellor Georgianna Lee and spiritual counsell ...
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Overwhelmed, Uncertain & Spinning Out: How to Regain Focus Through Presence | Ep126
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1:03:08In this playful and grounding episode, Georgianna and Steph explore how to stay centered when life is full of unknowns. Whether you're spiraling through decisions about relationships, housing or career, or simply struggling with daily overwhelm, this conversation invites you to reclaim agency over your focus — and your nervous system. Through light…
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Yes, No, Maybe: Learning to Listen to Your Body & Your Boundaries | Ep125
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35:49Do you know what a yes, no, or maybe feels like in your body? In this week’s episode, Georgianna and Steph guide you through a gentle, powerful practice to help you tune into your body's wisdom around boundaries, wants, and needs. Through simple movement and playful examples (including slugs), they explore how clarity lives in sensation — and how g…
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From Annoyed to Easeful: Tiny Tweaks That Change Everything | Ep124
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1:08:34Is your life full of small, recurring annoyances that seem too insignificant to fix—but add up to major frustration? This week, Steph and Georgianna explore the power of micro-resolutions and how noticing predictable problems can shift your entire relationship with ease, flow, and self-worth. From sock bins to bamboo movement, from clean sinks to c…
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Dating & Relationships: Personality, Meaning-Making & Projections | Ep123
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58:01When we’re getting to know people, and even when relating with people we know well, it’s a natural tendency to project our subconscious beliefs onto them and the situation — that is, to make sense of what’s happening by referring to our previous life experience and making assumptions accordingly. It’s only by being in the moment, and noticing the f…
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Judgment & Shame: Housecleaning Edition | Ep122
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57:35It’s easy to judge ourselves against others when it comes to how we keep our homes — why can’t I keep my place as clean as so-and-so, when we’re both equally busy? (Or vice versa.) We’re quick to find ourselves lacking and others superior (and vice versa.) The feelings and stories that comprise these judgments are wealth of information for self-dis…
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Pressure Points for Self-Connection & Body Wisdom | Ep121
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36:57Gentle use of pressure points can provide relief, comfort, and useful information about how you feel. Taking this time with yourself and the sensations in your body also helps you grow the pause — expanding your capacity to meet the moment, and be with the big feelings and overwhelm that happen in life and relationships. In today's episode we wa…
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Hands-On Connection Practice: Be Here Now | Ep120
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36:40We all disconnect and dissociate at various times and to varying degrees, depending on what life brings us and how we’ve learned to cope. Trying out different methods to bring ourselves back to physical reality is a wonderful practice for being in the now moment, and discovering how to create a supportive environment for our systems, inside and out…
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Credit & Blame: Your Internal Attribution Patterns | Ep119
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1:03:55Depending on how you’re wired, you might be inclined to point the finger outward — or inward — when things go wrong, when you’re startled, or when plans don’t turn out as expected. And when things go right? You’ll have different wiring there too — you might credit some planetary alignment, or some choices and actions you took, or something else alt…
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Freeze Response & Returning to Yourself When It's Over | Ep118
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1:06:32When crisis strikes and we’re startled or scared, it’s a very natural human response to forget everything we’ve learned to do in such scenarios, and to freeze instead. Then, in the aftermath, we can be so hard on ourselves — about how we ought to have acted, and how quickly we ought to “return to normal”. In today's episode we propose a compassiona…
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How-To: Love & Care in Hard Moments | Ep117
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47:44Noticing moments of love and care when times are (or were) hard, is a powerful tool for expansion and self-soothing. With that aim, it’s a gift to ourselves to feel the sensations of loving care in the moment or in memory — to feel them in the body and hang out there for a spell. And it’s yet another gift to feel the sensations of simply knowing th…
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Cycle Breaker: Learning to Enjoy the Highs (Over Bracing for the Lows) | Ep116
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57:47If our inner monologues were body builders, most of us would have a super buff heavyweight in the doubt- & fearmongering department — with glistening, throbbing muscles built over a lifetime. But which weight class would you find in your joy & simple contentment department, or your department of celebrating success & accomplishments? Most often, th…
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Feeling Loving Care in Hard Moments (Past or Present) | Ep115
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43:17We’re mostly wired (aka conditioned or programmed) to retain, rehash and focus on the hard and painful aspects of life events, both past and present. What might happen if we paid some attention to the moments of loving care we encountered during these times? Putting focus here and feeling the sensations in your body can be a huge relief, and can tr…
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One for One: A Simple Tool to Make Positive Change Feel Easier | Ep114
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44:53Rewiring our systems and rewriting our patterns takes conscious, compassionate attention, and this is one easy tool you can use. Whatever pattern you find yourself wanting to shift — painful rumination, being hard on yourself, unhealthy habits, etc. — try matching that time and energy with one simple countermeasure to grow more balance: one for one…
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3 Prompts for Compassionate Self-Assessment | Ep113
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1:28:19Life inventories can be overwhelming and tend to focus on the negatives: things that aren’t feeling good, with the pressure of needing to change them. Instead of asking what’s going wrong, we explore what is and isn’t working for us, and where we’re seeing positive change already — this compassionate reframe moves us away from the shame of shoulds,…
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How to Figure Out What You Like (and Feel It In Your Body) | Ep112
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41:37Coming off of autopilot and stepping into deeper agency in your life & relationships presents many amazing opportunities. Among our favs is the opportunity to enjoy pleasant sensations you might have whizzed by in the past. Taking the time to be with the sensations of what you already know feels good to you, and discovering new and different things…
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Embodying Appreciation in Life & Love (for Small Steps with Big Impacts) | Ep111
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1:27:08There are so many baby steps on a healing journey — and so many lessons we have to learn over and over again. It’s worth looking back and appreciating what we couldn’t appreciate then, and the impact each step has had on our lives. May this also help you look forward, to the unknown value your current steps are manifesting for your future self. Tod…
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Jordan Gray: On Coming Undone & Finding Yourself | Ep110
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1:55:15Today's episode is in conversation with Jordan Gray, a relationship coach who's helped us and millions of others step up in our lives and shine for all the world to see. We talk about the body nudges that led us to connect with each other, and Jordan shares his journey from head-based shoulds kind of thinking, to feeling his way into a life more fu…
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Attuning Your Patterns to Your Values Using Compassionate Self-Inquiry | Ep109
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47:43In the first chunk of life, we learn how to get by based on worldviews and patterns of people around us — and we come to assume their ways are our ways too. But often, they aren’t, and we need to find our own path. By now, you might know what you truly value, and still find that old conditioning is manifesting different values in your patterns of f…
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Grow Your Boundaries & Relationships Through Compassion Immersion | Ep108
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31:57We’re here to grow self-connection and -compassion — deconditioning painful old patterns, overdubbing our inner critics with loving, supportive dialogue. Byproducts include clearer boundaries, easier communication, and so much more. Can you explore where you are now with compassion? In today's episode we talk about how simple, body-based practices …
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Grow Your Relationships Using Sensory Perception - aka When the Boot Doesn't Fit | Ep107
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52:04Trying to force a fit is a natural response to our human need for love and connection — it’s also an integral part of learning what fits. As we hone our self-awareness over time and discover our preferences, it’s worthwhile to feel into what’s fitting well in our lives and relationships, and what could fit better. In today's episode we use Georgian…
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True Desire vs. Wanting to Want: New Year's Resolutions Edition | Ep106
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2:16:37The new year is a common time to resolve to be different, or do different things — hoping it will stick, with much room for disappointment. This year we invite you to ditch the shoulds and the fear-based promises, and instead explore how you can create more of the feelings you want in your life and relationships. In today's episode we go over some …
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Holidays & Family: A Goldmine for Self-Connection | Ep105
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45:43The holidays (and any special occasions dedicated to loved ones) are prime times to gather data — about ourselves, our needs, and our preferences — through sensory experience. Today we talk about exploring your body’s responses before, during, and after the holidays — and how this gives you all the info you need to get closer to how you want to fee…
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One Simple Practice to Make Life Feel Better | Ep104
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21:02It’s easy to get overwhelmed with shoulds, needs, wants and want-to-wants. It’s easy too, to respond with action overdrive, or total shutdown. Learning to be with your body in these times is invaluable — body reminds you how you want to feel in life and love, and provides direction on the next doable step to get there. In today's episode we offer s…
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Longing can be a source of depression or excitement — it can inspire or debilitate, depending on your story (i.e. your past, your present, and how you experience sensations in your body). With practice, you can find tremendous energy your longings, and harness it in helpful ways. In today's episode, we talk about our old feelings about longing — in…
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When to Say No & When to Lean In | Ep102
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1:01:18At some point in our lives, most of us learn to say yes when we mean no, and vice versa. In learning not to over- or under-give, we discover how to honour our needs, and how to show up for what moves us even when it seems like a good day to stay in bed. Clarity comes from being with the sensations in your body. In today's episode we talk about our …
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Finding Power & Agency in Your Meaning-Making (in Life and Relationships) | Ep101
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51:32Growing up, we learn “how things are”; getting older, we learn there a million ways other than the ones we know. This holds true for most of our unexamined beliefs about the world — and when we feel overwhelmed, lost, or restricted in our lives and relationships, that can be a sign it’s time to turn on the curiosity and open up to new possibilities…
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Unlimiting Your Beliefs Through Self-Connection | Ep100
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1:32:13These days we all know about limiting beliefs: those stories we carry that hold us back, keep us from speaking or acting our purpose, and block our potential and our deepest desires. But which are true, and which are just stories or old family lore? Exploring this is key when it comes to unlimiting yourself in life and love. In today's episode, we …
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As with most of life, that which we believe to be a waste of time is learned and conditioned in us from a young age. What feels good or bad when it comes to being productive, to resting, to maximizing efficiency (or not) is totally subjective, with endless options. Examining your current beliefs in these areas is useful if you want to feel more eas…
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Changing Plans: How Your Body Responds | Ep98
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44:49We all have pre-conditioned — and optional — reactions when things go wrong, or when plans get changed. The reactions we’ve grown into, either learned from our families of origin or our past experiences, can easily be shifted when we learn to listen to our bodies and make slight, simple adjustments. Discovering and embracing our current reactions i…
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Being With Overstimulation & Sensory Overload | Ep97
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22:49It might feel normal, or like second nature, to shut down, dissociate, and otherwise leave the building when circumstances find us in a place of sensory overload. Those tools can certainly be of service, but when we want to be more present and embodied in our lives and relationships, we must call ourselves into the service of our bodies and grow ou…
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Making Decisions Aligned with Your Whole Self | Ep96
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46:55An integrated, whole-self approach to decision-making requires us to notice how our bodies respond to (or generate) a false sense of pressure or urgency — and to grow our capacity to be with those feelings instead of acting on them. We clear a path forward by acknowledging all the what-ifs and validating all the fears, thereby creating space for ex…
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Self-Imposed Burdens: Finding More Ease & Freedom | Ep95
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1:08:32There are times in life where we must bear burdens that feel heavy — even too heavy — to hold. In the meantime, let us not take on extra pressure that’s optional and unnecessary! This is your invitation to notice where you’re feeling weighed down or put upon, and to make some gentle shifts to help you drop the shoulds and the pressure, or carry any…
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Hard Conversations: Support for Before, During & After | Ep94
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1:17:04We all project our past experiences onto the present, and into the future. If no one seemed to listen to you when you were growing up, why would they listen now? So we prepare ourselves to have the same experiences, and we defend against the pain that causes us. BUT — we are not our past, and every moment is new. Taking stock of our starting assump…
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Burdens & Hard Feelings: How & When to Share Them | Ep93
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1:17:47The feeling of being burdened or weighed down is a very subjective thing. What feels like a gift to you might be a burden to someone else, and vice versa. In life and love, we bestow gifts/burdens on each other all the time — learning how to express it when you’re feeling weighed down or put out is a liberating part of bringing your whole self to r…
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Gratitude & Resentment, Gifts & Burdens | Ep92
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36:33Most of us are prone to bypassing big feelings, including relishing gifts and facing burdens. Sometimes, what’s intended as a gift can be received as a burden — and vice versa. To be fully with ourselves, and to be represented fully in relationships, it’s important to appreciate what we’ve been given, and acknowledge what’s been heavy or challengin…
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Changing the Dance of Relationship: Personal Growth Challenges | Ep91
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20:19It can be hard to grow and change when people around us want things to stay the same. Personal growth challenges us to hold space for grief and possibility — releasing who and what no longer serves us, and trusting a more aligned future to unfold, with relationships that nourish us at a soul level. This is a call to celebrate those who are ready an…
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We’ve all been conditioned to express ourselves in ways that protect us from the fear of losing love and connection — this can disconnect us from our own feelings and needs, and makes it hard to know or share our boundaries. It today's episode, we practice discovering boundaries by playing with concepts that have no emotional charge, helping you fi…
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Sweet Relief! and How to Be With It Longer | Ep89
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20:03It can be so easy to bypass the joy of relief — we’re all busy, with a lot to do and think about. We seek the feeling of relief, and yet, when it comes, we tend to miss it — in favour of whatever comes next, or some other thing we have to worry over. But with a bit of practice, you can catch that feeling of relief as it happens, and savour the mome…
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The Art of Difficult Conversations | Ep88
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1:11:15Most of us tend to feel a charge when someone tells us “we need to talk”, and we tend to bring that charge — along with all the assumptions, emotions, and defenses that ensue — into the conversation with us. Getting curious (and compassionate) about our patterns here is a great way to start clearing the space between us, for deeper, more honest con…
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We all have different experiences being present in our bodies, and varying degrees to which being in the body is comfortable or even possible, depending on the circumstances. Learning to shift and balance focus between noticing external sensations and noticing internal ones is helpful in growing your capacity to be with a range of feelings and expe…
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Questions for When You're Feeling Meh in Life & Relationships | Ep86
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56:25When we’re not feeling well, physically, mentally, or emotionally, knowing what to do and taking any steps can feel challenging. In today's episode, we give you simple questions you can ask yourself in those moments, to bring yourself where you want to be in baby steps, with self-compassion. *********************************************************…
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Attuning to Celebration Energy to Make Life Feel Better | Ep85
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53:32Celebrating small things (wins or otherwise) has a cumulative effect that helps us see the world in a positive light, and gives us perspective that helps when life gets rough. Being able to identify — and share! — your wins, or things you find delightful, or moments you want to celebrate, is a great way to feel better in life and relationships. In …
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We all have so much conditioning around attraction — to who and what attracts (and is attracted to) us; to who and what we think we should be attracted to. This manifests in so many ways! Bringing conscious attention and compassion here is a necessary step for building lives and relationships that light us up. In today's episode we talk about some …
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Anger: Being With vs. Shutting Down | Ep83
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30:24We all have learned responses to anger — our own anger, and other people’s. We also have patterns for how we manage anger when we’re regulated, and when we’re not. Growing our capacities to be with feelings of anger (and what’s underneath them) is a key for compassionate parenting and conscious relationships. In today's episode we talk about the di…
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Being with Your Worries & Tools That Can Help | Ep82
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43:43Worry is natural — and we’re not here to stop you from worrying, or thinking, or hoping for the future. We would love to show you how you can hold your own hand through the journey, though — how you can be along with yourself for the ride. Adding small instances of body awareness to your current patterns of worry and stress is an entry point for br…
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Permission for Your Energy & Interests to Change | Ep81
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35:59It’s easy to get overly rigid when we set ourselves a personal goal. Gym, journaling, meditation, healthy eating — whatever it is, we tend to make such extensive and far-reaching demands of ourselves that we’re sure to fall short of our own expectations. This is your invitation to be flexible on your path, moving toward what supports you with trust…
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ACIM Relational Practice from A Course in Miracles | Ep80
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40:17Our minds are designed to make meaning out of everything we experience. That's helpful for practical matters, but when it comes to beliefs about ourselves and the world, old conditioning and past experiences can bog us down in shame, shoulds and not-enoughness. Practicing noticing your thoughts and discovering the beliefs underneath them is a great…
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Because others see us through the lens of their own experiences, they won’t always see all of our aspects, especially the ones we’ve learned to hide — but it’s only by being ourselves, expressing ourselves, and sharing of ourselves that we can be known for who we really are. Tell someone — or ask someone — about the hidden, misunderstood parts, and…
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Ep78 | Finding Inspiration Through Your Eyes and Ears
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49:14When it comes to creating your reality, your power lies in the choices you make each moment — what you hear, see, and think about becomes your sphere of experience, and what you experience is your reality. Taking stock of what you’ve been consuming with your eyes, ears, heart and mind is a great way to notice what feels good and what could inspire …
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Those of us who are interested in personal growth and relationship development all face a similar challenge: it’s too easy to get swept away with insights, and bogged down in self-awareness. Integration and healing happen when we bring our discoveries down into our bodies, and out into our lives. The path there is a practical one, to be taken with …
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