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With Charlotte Cooper
Trigger Note - This course explores emotional pain and identity through reflective guidance and symbolic imagery, including the ocean, in a safe and supportive way. Please listen gently, pause if needed, and seek support if anything feels overwhelming. Here, healing is not a destination; it is a relationship with yourself that unfolds when you are no longer abandoned in your pain. This course is an invitation to slow down. An invitation to pause the effort of becoming, fixing, improving, and holding yourself together and to sit gently, with what is already here. If you’ve been carrying more than anyone ever noticed, if you learned how to survive quietly, if you’ve felt yourself disappear beneath responsibility, expectation, or endurance this space was made with you in mind. You are not asked to arrive healed, you are not asked to understand everything you feel, and you are not asked to change who you are. You are asked only to arrive. This course does not teach you how to heal, it stays with you long enough for healing to feel possible. It stays with you through collapse and numbness, through grief and softness, through the unfamiliar quiet that comes when old ways of surviving fall away. You are not here to be fixed, you are not here to be convinced of anything, you are not here to be inspired on command. You are here to be accompanied. This work moves slowly and intentionally. It does not rush pain, bypass discomfort, or demand positivity. It meets you where you are and remains there. Nothing about you needs to be edited out for you to be worthy of your own life. All of you gets to stay. This work is written from my own lived experience, not theory. It comes from years spent in the darkest places of the mind, from surviving periods where simply staying alive took everything, from living inside fear and despair so deep it reshaped my entire world. I know what it is to lose yourself quietly, to function on the outside while breaking inside, and to believe you may never find your way back. This course was created from that place, and from the slow, honest return that followed. It’s not a polished recovery, not a perfected version of healing, but a real one. One built by staying, listening, and learning how to exist again without abandoning myself. I am simply a witness who learned how to speak. A note for those who are unsure or afraid this might be too much. If you’re wondering whether this work might feel too deep, too emotional, or too confronting that concern is welcome here. But let me clarify to you that you will never be forced to relive your past, you will never be pushed beyond your capacity and you will always be invited, never required. This course is designed to be paced, grounded, and choice-led. You decide how far you go, you choose when to pause and you control your depth at all times. The language I use is honest, but the environment is safe, the themes are real, but you are never alone inside them. Many people are surprised to find that this work doesn’t overwhelm them, it relieves them, because so much of what hurts is not the feeling itself, but having to carry it feeling alone. If you are looking for quick fixes, constant positivity, or high-energy motivation, this course may not be the right fit for you. But if you are longing for steadiness, truth, and a place where nothing about you needs to be hidden, you are welcome here. You do not need to be brave, you do not need to be ready, you only need to be willing to stay.
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9 Days
44 students
5.0 stars
23 min / day
Depression
English
5.0 (1)
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