Helpful tools to soothe the inner critic and move past negative thought loops that can keep us awake at night

Tools to calm inner critic and overcome negative thoughts to improve sleep.

Quiet Your Mind for Peaceful Sleep

A track that will help you navigate grief or loss told through a personal experience shared by coach Lisa. Grief is an all-consuming shadow that can envelop our lives in the wake of loss. It is a journey through the darkest night of the soul, one that tests the very fibers of our being. Lisa shares her deeply personal experience with grief, offering an honest narrative that resonates with the collective human experience of loss, mourning, and ultimately, the pursuit of healing.

Grief is a consuming shadow after loss, a journey through the darkest night of the soul. Lisa Hopkins shares her personal experience on our podcast.

Light & Healing In The Wake Of Loss

Let's talk about something we all do every day but rarely think about critically - sleep. Specifically, let's dive into why sleeping in total darkness might be one of the most underrated health hacks out there. You know, it's funny how darkness gets such a bad rap. Think about it - from the time we're kids, we're taught to be afraid of the dark. Monster under the bed? Better keep that night light on. Scary movie? The bad stuff always happens when the lights go out. We've been programmed to feel uneasy in the darkness.

Sleeping in total darkness is an underrated health hack that is often overlooked due to societal fears of the dark.

The Sleep Secret Nobody Talks About

What if self-sabotage was self-compassion - a subconscious means of protecting yourself? Self-sabotage comes as a result of conflicting desires. Deeply held beliefs drive your behavior, keeping you stuck between what you want and your ability to make a change. When you dig deeper into the beliefs behind your actions, you can find the grace and forgiveness you need to find lasting change and happiness.

Self-sabotage may be self-compassion, but conflicting desires and beliefs keep you stuck; understanding them leads to lasting change and happiness.

From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion

A special journey to releasing the past and renewing yourself in the present moment.

"Release the past and renew yourself with a special journey to the present moment."

Letting Go of the Past & Being Free

Letting go of the things that no longer serve you, takes self-reflection and compassion.

Releasing what no longer serves you requires self-reflection and compassion.

Time To Let Go Of What Doesn't Serve You

We're often told we shouldn't be angry and that anger is damaging to our system. In this short session, we explore the bad rep anger takes on and how, if we can practice mindfulness amid the anger, we can use it as the transformation necessary at the moment. Through self-awareness, with a sense of peace and ease, the anger can take a new shape of compassion and thoughtful action.

Anger can be transformed into compassion and action through the practice of mindfulness and self-awareness.

Transform Anger into Thoughtful Action

This meditation can help you ease any anxious thoughts and sensations by giving them the compassion and comfort they need. This process is based on the work of Don Hadlock from The Process Therapy Institute and Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems.

Meditation eases anxiety by providing compassion and comfort to troubled thoughts and sensations, based on work from Don Hadlock and Richard Schwartz.

Soothing Anxiety

Self-criticism and putting too much pressure on yourself undermine your physical and mental health. This meditation helps you to build a kinder, more compassionate attitude towards yourself and develop self-acceptance. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, loving kindness, and affirmations. This soothing practice may be particularly helpful for depression, stress, or difficulty with sleeping.

Meditation for self-acceptance and compassion combines mindfulness and affirmations to combat self-criticism, depression, stress, and sleep difficulties.

Being Kind To Yourself

Let's take a moment to bring lovingkindness to ourselves in this short meditation. Compassion for the self will inspire you to be more compassionate with others.

Meditate on lovingkindness for self to inspire compassion towards others.

Loving Kindness

What we tell ourselves creates the life we live. Allow this short affirmations practice to help us foster more love and self-compassion. Practice kindness and self-care by repeating positive statements before our negative self-talk kicks in. During this practice, 10 affirmations are spoken twice and then repeated.

Practice self-love and kindness by repeating positive affirmations before negative self-talk takes over; 10 affirmations are spoken twice and repeated.

10 Affirmations For Self-Growth

Taking a few minutes to stop, soothe and self-care, with mindfulness and self-compassion.

Mindful self-care promotes self-compassion in a few minutes every day.

Self-Care Break

You are a warrior! This Poem was written for the girl, the woman, the feminine energy, the strong, heart-led warrior within us all. One of the most wondrous, challenging, and rewarding adventures a human can have in this life is opening the heart. However broken, wounded, bruised, or battered, to find the strength, softness, self-compassion, and inner-healing to invite love. To love ourselves, to be loved, to love others, to love all as ourselves. This balance between strength and softness, effort and ease, force and surrender is the adventure of this warrior's heart. You are beautiful, you are loved, you are home. You are the mysterious rhythm, the sound, and the silence, the beats of your heart.

A poem for the warrior within, finding strength and self-compassion to invite love and balance strength and softness in the adventure of the heart.

Your Warrior Heart: Poem For Empowerment

This very special meditation will transport you into a state of infinite peace - enlightened awareness. You will soften into a deeply relaxed state of being, and you may even find it helpful for sleep. As you listen, your subconscious mind will align with higher states of consciousness, and your entire life will be uplifted and blessed. Listen regularly and experience healing of anxiety and spiritual renewal.

Experience infinite peace and spiritual renewal with this meditation that aligns your subconscious mind with higher states of consciousness.

Infinite Peace Meditation

Access deep healing that benefits your mind, body, and emotional regulation. Allow more acceptance, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and self-compassion to enter into your life. This type of body scan is inspired by Davidji and the study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, which has shown that practicing this body scan for 56 days changes the physical structure of your brain. Practice this body scan every day with me to heal your mind and body deeply.

Heal your mind and body with a daily body scan practice inspired by Davidji and Massachusetts General Hospital, proven to change brain structure.

Deep Healing & Relaxation Before Sleep

This meditation will guide you into deep space within yourself; a place of unconditional love. As you allow all negativity to melt away in the fire of Divine Love, of Unlimited Compassion, you will find that all fear dissolves, and only Love remains. This meditation is a journey into the pure bliss of your being. It is a doorway into the Pure Light of God’s Love. Music by Life Illumined.

Meditation to access inner unconditional love and dissolve fear through Divine Love and Unlimited Compassion, guided by Life Illumined music.

Unconditional Love

Offering yourself self-compassion to let go and be good to yourself.

Releasing Worries Through Compassion

The Heart is one of the most powerful tools we have in this life. The energy contained within the heart is the subject of spiritual & scientific studies alike. Our Electromagnetic fields begin & end from our heart center, the source of eternal compassion & unconditional love is stored here too. This simple meditation is intended to help you to drift off to sleep in the glow of your heart, to ignite the warmth, wisdom, and beauty of this special place in the body, then give space for this warm light to travel to the extremities of the body, invigorating the organs and limbs to surround you, prepared for a peaceful sleep. You can repeat the visualization as many times as you like as you drift off into the sweetest dreams.

Meditation to ignite the warmth, wisdom, and beauty of the heart center, allowing warm light to travel to extremities for peaceful sleep.

Light Of The Heart: Breathe To Relax

There are external resources and there internal resources that can help us navigate life on this earth. With the trust and curiosity that mindfulness brings we can access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion and healing. Through the power of the present breathing body and the energy flowing within our deepest sense of self we can connect to our inner power.

Mindfulness can help us access our innate resources for wisdom, compassion, and healing and connect to our inner power through the present breathing body and energy flow.

Connect to Your Inner Power

It's not always easy to believe in yourself and your infinite potential when obstacles and fear arise. Our narratives matter. Mindfully engage in self-compassion practices and try working with these affirmations - to free energy your journey and radiate strength and confidence.

Believe in yourself and overcome obstacles with self-compassion practices and affirmations to radiate strength and confidence on your journey.

Affirmations Encompassing Beauty

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful practices there is for setting ourselves free to be in love, joy, peace, wholeness, abundance, prosperity, and harmony, regardless of external circumstances or conditions. However, the practice of forgiveness is largely misunderstood. And so, I invite you to join me in this first out of three sessions dealing with forgiveness. In this particular session, we will cover the theoretical aspects of forgiveness, what it is, and its purpose. Welcome.

Forgiveness is a powerful practice for inner peace and harmony, but is often misunderstood. Join a session to learn what it is and its purpose.

The Power Of Forgiveness Pt 1

With compassion and love, embrace your suffering, discomfort, or tension and open yourself up to your connection to the world around you. Photo by Todd Trapani from Pexels

Embrace and connect with discomfort: open yourself to the world with love and compassion.

Loving-Compassion for You

Healthy self-regulation is the ability to be attentive to what you need at any given moment. It includes identifying what you want-how you want to feel-and your decision for optimizing this within the context of what is the best possible choice. In this episode of Life Coaching WISDOM, discover the importance of self-regulation, what constitutes 'healthy' vs 'unhealthy' self-regulation, and take inventory of whether your 'habits' are bringing you balance - or moving you further 'out of' balance. Join me for the 'spoken word' guided meditation at the end for deeper self-reflection and the experience of self-regulation for relieving anxiety and experiencing calm and inner peace. Namaste!! xo dorothy

Learn the importance of healthy self-regulation, identifying your needs and optimizing choices for balance in this Life Coaching WISDOM episode.

Defining Healthy Self-Regulation

A reminder that you are worth loving. Go deeper into the heart space to be reminded of feeling love, compassion, forgiveness and learn to get familiar with your capability of truly embodying warmth.

Remind yourself that you are worthy of love and learn to embrace feelings of love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Tap into the Heart

A deeply soothing mindfulness meditation for self-care using the breath to help release all tension and stress and promoting an attitude of self-acceptance and self-compassion. It combines mindfulness, grounding, breath awareness, and self-compassion. This practice may be especially helpful if you are anxious or have difficulty sleeping.

A soothing mindfulness meditation using breath to release tension and promote self-acceptance; helpful for anxiety and sleep difficulties.

Release Stress And Re-Balance

Do you have a hard time accepting yourself just as you are? Acceptance refers to the ability to stay present. We can take a step back from resisting things as they are. In the twinkling of an eye, we may observe the compassion in one another. The tone of life is altered when we approach concerns with unconditional love and acceptance. When sitting in quietude and contemplation there is an unfolding, an opening that occurs towards greater acceptance.

Acceptance is about staying present and approaching concerns with unconditional love, leading to a shift in tone when sitting in quiet contemplation.

Acceptance

"I`ll be happy when..." is the ego's way to ensure that you`ll never be happy. How you are feeling right now in this moment is what the Universe is responding to and that`s what you`ll get more of in the future.

Don't wait for happiness in the future, the universe responds to your current emotions. "I'll be happy when" mindset is self-sabotaging.

Stop Delaying Your Happiness

Relax on every level of your being with this body scan as you release all stress and negative energy. A body scan is a wonderful way of de-stressing physically and mentally. It can be especially useful at bedtime if you are having difficulty sleeping. This deeply soothing practice combines mindfulness, grounding, breath-awareness, relaxation techniques and self-compassion.

Experience ultimate relaxation and stress relief with a body scan that combines mindfulness, grounding, breath-awareness, and self-compassion. Perfect for bedtime.

Relaxing Body Scan Meditation

Want to understand how or why self-compassion actually works? In this session we look at the science of self-compassion and how self-compassion affects our brain. Learn all about the power of oxytocin and how to actually make yourself feel better.

This session explores the science of self-compassion, its impact on the brain, and the power of oxytocin to help individuals feel better.

Science of Self-Compassion

In this recording Inspire you to practice being more intentional and aware about how we are all connected to each other and how important it is for us to know how powerful the ripple effect is that we have on one another. To learn more about Tina Stinson, head over to https://www.tinastinson.com

Inspiring reflection on our interconnectedness and the impact we have on each other, urging intentional awareness. Learn more at tinastinson.com.

Be Intentional About Connection

As we are walking along the Path to Freedom, there comes a point where we need to allow for the space of self-healing to happen. I invite you to join me as we explore a very simple and powerful tool to call that healing forth. A tool that we can lean into whenever we have a moment in between. Namaste.

Explore a powerful self-healing tool on the Path to Freedom, to lean into in-between moments.

A Healing Conversation With Self

This gentle practice will invite you to bring more self-compassion into your day, particularly when you are experiencing a difficult emotion. Photo by Rowan Chestnut on Unsplash

Practice self-compassion during difficult emotions with gentle exercises.

Gentle Release

We have all had some tough experiences and they can hold us back and stop us from living our lives fully. This meditation helps you come back to a place of total forgiveness, where you are completely free from guilt, shame, regret, and all negative feelings. Coming back home to higher states of being.

Meditation for total forgiveness and freedom from negative emotions, allowing higher states of being and full living.

Beyond Guilt, Shame, Mistakes Into Peace

Find soothing self-love, compassion, and calm within yourself. Sometimes, we forget about the ocean of love that resides within us. We can be our own worst critics. Heal the part of yourself that needs attention & care and expand your infinite love into the world. This meditation includes affirmations and visualization. Keep shining your light, dear soul! Come back to this practice whenever you need a boost of self-love and self-compassion.

Tap into your inner well of love with a self-love meditation that includes affirmations and visualization to heal and spread compassion.

Self Love Practice

Are you hard on yourself? Do you beat yourself up when things go as planned or expected? Self-compassion meditation can help reduce the pain and suffering we inflict on ourselves and become less judgmental and loving and caring instead. Kindness starts with oneself.

Self-compassion meditation reduces self-inflicted pain, judgment, and encourages a kinder, more caring approach towards oneself.

Being Nice to Yourself

Equanimity is the quality of awareness that fosters wisdom and creates inner balance. It teaches you to have a deep understanding of the nature of change and allows you to be with lifes change with insight and compassion. Equanimity arises from intentional observation and the ability to be aware of without being caught by what we see. When well-developed this gives rise to a great sense of peace. This practice may be profoundly helpful during this time of uncertainty.

Equanimity cultivates inner balance and wisdom through intentional observation, allowing for insight and compassion towards life's changes, resulting in peace.

Equanimity Meditation ~ for Dealing with Uncertainity

I invite you to join me in this beautiful self-love meditation that will help you drift into a peaceful sleep while being filled with a deep and profound sense of self-love. You are a beautiful and unique soul, and you deserve to feel loved and cherished. Let this meditation guide you as you embrace your true self and all the wonderful qualities that make you who you are. Sleep well, and wake up feeling renewed and loved.

A self-love meditation to help you sleep and embrace your true self, feeling renewed and loved.

Self-Love Meditation For Peaceful Sleep

Story about loving Kindness and Compassion. It can not only transform you but also others around you.

Love and compassion can transform both oneself and those around them, as shown in this story.