COURSE

Hold Yourself With Radical Love

In quiet moments alone with ourselves, many of us feel anxious, insecure, and afraid of the feelings that lie just below the surface of our awareness. Running from ourselves, we numb away the pain and keep busy, propelled by a ruthless inner judge. But this disconnection comes at a great cost. We lose touch with our souls and feel estranged from the very things we most deeply desire, such as true connection, innate belonging, and unconditional love. This course is a portal into a deeper relationship with yourself and an invitation into a visceral, felt sense of love. A love that you can access at any time to hold yourself steady even in the midst of great struggle. A love that is radical, because it illuminates and nurtures precisely the places within you that you most want to avoid, to fix, to deny, and to numb away. Over 10 sessions, you’ll gently investigate your relationship with yourself and practice invaluable skills to transform your inner judge into a loving inner guide. You’ll learn the F.A.C.E. method, Catherine’s powerful four-step process that teaches you exactly how to meet every edge within yourself with radical love, leaving you with tools to last a lifetime. F.A.C.E. (Feel, Amplify, Connect, Embrace) begins with body awareness and concludes with deeply compassionate self-witnessing. The four steps are as follows: With Feel, we become still and identify body sensations and emotions associated with the difficult feeling. Next, Amplify invites us to expand those sensations according to what feels safe enough, in order to release habitual bracing against the feelings. Connect then asks our innermost wisdom to reveal an early time in our lives when we felt something similar and visualize ourselves at that age (it need not be a memory). Finally, with Embrace, we imagine ourselves as a deeply loving empathic witness and we meet the needs of our young self on their terms. Like all Catherine’s work, this course is gentle, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive, viewing our personal healing as an aspect of collective liberation. Most of the 10 sessions include both shared wisdom and a brief but potent guided journey, with the intention of completing one lesson per day. Two full-length guided F.A.C.E. practices are also included in the lessons. Catherine looks forward to connecting with you as you grow into radical love for yourself--exactly as you are. Meditation music by Jamiel Conlon (lessons 1-6, 8, 10) and Christopher Lloyd Clarke (lessons 7 and 9). ***Disclaimer: This course contains invitations to gently intensify uncomfortable emotions and body sensations. If you have a history of anxiety, panic, PTSD, or other conditions, please have trusted professional support available.

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Meet your Teacher

Catherine Liggett

Seattle, WA, USA

Catherine Liggett is a holistic mental health coach and a passionate teacher of radical love, helping people face their darkest inner landscapes with transformational care. Her work combines her own intimate lived experience with inner child healing, trauma repair, ancient wisdom, and social justice. Catherine hosts the Tender Revolution podcast and teaches online courses. She lives with her family on Duwamish and Coast Salish land, also known as Seattle.

10 Days

11.3k students

4.9 stars

22 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Uncovering The Love That We Are

In this lesson, we learn how to gently discern our armor from our essence. Our armor is the collection of traits that we developed as a young child in order to receive what we considered love and approval in our family and culture of origin. As we mature, we form an inner judge to keep our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors within this socially acceptable box. The cost of identifying with our armor is great, for it obscures the full spectrum of our aliveness, prevents us from receiving love from others, and disconnects us from the love that is our own essence.

Lesson 2

From Control to Care

Now that we have identified our inner judge and the armor that has kept us safe, we open to what is possible beyond this lens of controlling ourselves. In this lesson, you'll learn how to cultivate a new and deeply loving attitude toward your inner experience. In a guided journey, you'll practice making the powerful shift from control to care of the things you most wish to change about yourself.

Lesson 3

The Anchor of Safety

In this lesson, we learn how to identify and attune to an anchor of safety within our embodied felt senses. By creating this lifeline of deep care for ourselves, we can approach our inner explorations with a powerful gentleness that restores the nervous system. Because the work of FACE can bring difficult emotions or memories to the surface, it is essential to first create a refuge to which we can return at any point in the process.

Lesson 4

Introduction to FACE

This lesson describes the FACE process, which is how we bring the conscious and subconscious minds into agreement using the power of radical love. Through FACE (Feel, Amplify, Connect, and Embrace), we identify the wounded subconscious parts of ourselves that drive our control strategies, and show these parts the radical love that they need. At the end of the lesson is an invitation to respond to two journal prompts.

Lesson 5

The First Part of FACE: Feel and Amplify

In this lesson, we demystify and practice the first two steps of FACE: Feel and Amplify. These steps invite us into an embodied memory of a present-day situation that we wish to explore through FACE, feeling and opening into the body sensations and emotions that are present in that specific moment. Because we live in a culture driven by the avoidance of uncomfortable emotions and body sensations, this initial part of FACE can be quite challenging, and also holds profound rewards.

Lesson 6

The Second Part of FACE: Connect and Embrace

This lesson is a deep dive into the second two steps of FACE: Connect and Embrace. This part of FACE opens a portal to our embodied intuition where we encounter and heal an early experience in our lives that lies at the root of a present-day struggle. In becoming the radically loving Empathic Witness to the neglected pain of our young self, we unfreeze and repair old defensive strategies that have become roadblocks in our adult lives.

Lesson 7

FACE Practice 1: Healing the Roots

This lesson is our first full-length FACE practice. In this gentle and powerful meditation, we begin by invoking a recent trigger, compulsion, or behavior that we wish to heal at the roots. Moving through the four steps of FACE (Feel, Amplify, Connect, and Embrace), we uncover the hidden origins of this behavior and hold the younger version of ourselves with radical love.

Lesson 8

Discerning Inner Guide From Wounded Child

Now that you've experienced the FACE practice and its components, you may have noticed some roadblocks in the process. In this lesson, Catherine describes two common places where we may become stuck, both arising out of an over-identification with the wounded child, as opposed to the Inner Guide. As a way to get unstuck, Catherine guides you in a short and highly effective practice, "The Couch Exercise," which gently and powerfully places us back in the seat of the radically loving, resourced adult.

Lesson 9

FACE Practice 2: Softening Barriers to Love

In this second full-length FACE practice, we embody the Rumi quote, "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." We begin with a recent memory of bracing against love, and move through the four steps of FACE to soften towards the wounded part of ourselves that is the root of our armor.

Lesson 10

Radical Love Embodied

In our final lesson, we review what we've learned thus far and expand the impact of radical love into our embodied lived experience, which includes far more than our individual selves. By opening our eyes to the vast interconnectedness of life, we realize that by holding ourselves with radical love, we cannot help but create a more compassionate world. As we rest in the truth of interdependence, we release the heavy burdens of individualism and discover true belonging.

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This course includes 219 community questions and 139 audio replies from Catherine Liggett. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Sara

January 21, 2026

Such an incredible course that offered a new pathway into inner healing.

Shari

January 5, 2026

Very deep guidance and very supported instructions/suggestions for how to listen to our bodies wisdom as we do this essential wow. She's very knowledgeable, skillful and clearly has done and continues to do this work which is a true spiritual path

Sandy

December 27, 2025

This is an amazing look at how important it it to be gentle with ourselves ✌🏻Thanks Catherine 💕

Caroline

December 8, 2025

An excellent course, well paced, beautifully and compassionately apresented. I found I couldn’t do it very quickly and probably something was lost in the time between each one. I think it was progress for me that I didn’t rush. I’m going to listen to some of the stand alone ones and come back to it. It does feel very safe and I guess that on most I found myself crying and feeling ok afterwards. Definitely an excellent teacher that I found through live practices. Thank you 🙏

LaBonte

October 24, 2025

Bedrock of self help ❤️

Sam

August 17, 2025

This course has been a beautiful part of my healing journey…forever grateful 🙏🏻

Line

August 16, 2025

Very interesting but a lot og info så I think I will do it again👍😃❤️

Lori

August 6, 2025

This course was profound and incredibly powerful. It has helped me to process emotions that were buried deep, hold myself with love & compassion, and truly understand the oneness of the collective. The course was brimming with thoughtful information and your guidance/delivery was gentle & effective. I'm so very grateful for the opportunity to have taken this course. Thank you very much! 🙏🏻

Cynthia

July 24, 2025

Amazing and transformative. Do it and pass it on. 💛💛💛💛💛

Steve

June 25, 2025

I recommend that everyone works through this course at the pace that feels right for them. It's important work that can make a real difference in our own life and those around us. Thank you for this soul freeing course, hit all the right spots 🙏

Heidi

June 24, 2025

What an amazing course, I wish everyone could have access to some form of this. Thank you for approaching this important topic with such care, gentleness and respect. That means so much in a context where I am not able to give direct feedback during the session. I was brought to tears several times…in a good way. The approach reminds me a bit of Internal Family Systems, which I have benefited from in therapy in the past. I am so grateful for that and for this course, giving access to us who would not otherwise meet and practice such a caring, deep and generous approach to oneself. ❤️

jessica

June 13, 2025

Such powerful work! I will return to these teachings again over and over.

Christine

May 26, 2025

This was a great course! Catherine’s gentle approach helped me get in touch with the parts of me I didn’t realize needed my attention. I feel empowered to access and tend to them more going forward.

Claire

May 25, 2025

Phenomenal! Thank you for this treasure course. It is so very healing AND EMPOWERING. Great delivery. Your tenderness is appreciated and your way of inviting us into the edgy uncomfortable feelings that are actually longing to be felt. For glimpses of unconsciousness with caring. Now there is hope. Sincerely, Claire Gaillard

Chris

April 2, 2025

Thank you. Much love and light from Germany 🌞🙏🌼

Esther

March 27, 2025

I will definitely repeat this course. Much thanks.

Curtis

March 18, 2025

So incredible, thank you Catherine.

Jennifer

March 4, 2025

Truly remarkable. My favorite course on Insight Timer yet! Crafted with care, patience and infinite compassion.

Rebecca

January 29, 2025

I am so grateful I discovered Catherine Liggot. Her depth of wisdom, knowledge, spiritual, and psychological intelligence, and her ability to craft into such meaningful teachings has truly been cathartic for me. Her work and her method of delivery and her loving personality shines through in all of her teachings. I really can’t say enough about how highly I recommend her and what a difference she has made in my life. Thank you, Catherine!

Jennifer

January 26, 2025

Valuable approach to growth and healing thru love.

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