Softening Our Barriers To Love - Insight Timer Live

Rumi said, "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and embrace them." In this talk and guided shadow work practice, Catherine shares how we love what we feel is unlovable within us, overcoming self-judgment and building the foundation for thriving relationships. Trauma-informed & anti-oppressive. Meditation music by Jamiel Conlon.

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I resist people gazing at me.. including my closest relationships. But I was awake at 5am this morning and found your recording. I fell asleep while listening :) and woke up when you asked to imagine someone gazing at you with deep love. I saw my Dad and his beautiful sky blue eyes looking at me with deep love the day before he died. I was 45, separated and grieving the loss of my marriage. He grieved with me with acts of love, and visits and gifts. I will treasure that moment in time now. Thank you for your gentle guidance that held me to really embrace this gaze of love. Something good has shifted in me to believe and receive 🩷

Wow!!
Thank you SO SO SO much for this powerful talk/meditation. So much shift and healing.

Sweet🥰in appreciation and www.gratefulness.org, ahimsa of www.compassioncourse.org

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Dearest Catherine🙏Would it be possible to request a topic for a talk: about how to lovingly invite yourself back into your body when you dissociate? I have been listening to so many of your talks and they have been so helpful, but I have noticed (with as much kindness as possible now, thanks to your teachings) that during the exercises that you guide us through, that put us in touch with our shadow, that I tend to immediately dissociate, jump out of my body and into my wandering thoughts and distractions, and it feels like I’m “missing out” on the benefits of the shadow work. You say that we should be gentle with ourselves and kind to ourselves when this happens, and not try to force anything or have an agenda of changing ourselves or fixing ourselves, but I can’t help but feel like I want to participate in these exercises, and some part of me just jumps out of my own skin. Perhaps you’ve already done a talk like this, and I have just overlooked it or haven’t found it yet. I want to be gentle with myself, but my self seems to want to turn away. Thank you in advance for your understanding and your help. 🙏🙏🙏

I didn't expect to feel so validated and understood. So much of this resonated and the meditation was powerful for me. Thank you for this talk 🙏