Worthy: Mindfulness For Survivors

My vision for this course is to bring the healing benefits of mindfulness practice, nervous system regulation exercises, and inquiry to people who have survived the trauma inflicted through domestic abuse, intimate partner violence, and emotional abuse. The post-traumatic symptoms of this type of abuse can manifest as a range of difficulties from not being able to trust oneself, challenges with self-forgiveness and acceptance, codependency, PTSD, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and hyper or hypo arousal. This class will address those difficulties by incorporating explanations of hyper and hypo arousal, the window of tolerance, and techniques for allowing one to stay within one’s own window of tolerance or zone of resilience. Because this type of abuse challenges one’s sense of worthiness and agency, sending Lovingkindness, Compassion, and Metta to oneself is also introduced and encouraged. The hope is that you will leave the course feeling greater agency, having worked with the tools for emotional regulation and practicing mindfulness and self-compassion. With this greater sense of awareness, you can expect to be more in tune with your own experiences and self-knowing. The practices aim to offer you a larger sense of self-worth and the ability to grow that self-worth from the inside out. The course will help you to be able to recognize thoughts as just thoughts and experience more spaciousness around intrusive and disturbing thoughts from the past or worries about the future. You can expect to leave the course with an established mindfulness practice and the inspiration to continue your journey of growing inner resources, presence, and self-love.