Nurturing Symptoms Of Chronic Illness With Compassion

Living with daily symptoms of chronic illness can feel exhausting. We can also have a lot of stories and self-blame or criticism around these symptoms if we can't seem to get them to go away.

In this practice, we validate the suffering of our symptoms and bring the practice of R.A.I.N to our experience. R.A.I.N stands for: Recognize, Allow/Accept, Investigate, and Nurture. We bring mindful and kind attention to each symptom and nurture it with compassion.

This practice can bring immediate relief to resistance to symptoms (which is very normal), allowing us to be with and care for our suffering.

Reviews

I'm grateful to find this meditation to support my five year journey with long COVID. I felt held and seen by the words

Thank you for this beautiful practice. I have been resisting my symptoms and getting frustrated at them and allowing myself just to be with them and offer them compassion was so helpful.

Thank you, Theresa, for this compassionate gift for the suffering in our bodies and minds. 🙏

This was a beautiful meditation that soothed me. Thank you for your meditations dedicated to acknowledging chronic illnesses and allowing us battling these to feel seen and heard.

Grateful to be able to reexperience this live! Thank you so much, Theresa - adding to my long COVID playlist. ☺️