The Starting Place Is Presence
  • Course Overview
  • The Life That's Right Here
  • Practice Exercise: Arriving in This Moment
Home: Who We Are
  • Plaster and Gold
  • Trance of Unworthiness
  • Practice Exercise: Coming Home Again
The Two Wings of Awareness
  • Negativity Bias
  • Falling Short
  • False Refuges
  • The Egoic Predicament
  • Recognizing and Allowing
  • Practice Exercise: The "No" and the "Yes"
Wings of Awareness in Action: Q/A & Summary
  • Bringing Full Presence to Our "No" First
  • "Yes" Is To Feelings, Not To Triggering Events
  • Room For Feelings To Come and Go
  • To Recognize Whatever Comes Up In Us, and Allow It, Is Freeing
  • The Sage's Only Question
The R.A.I.N. of Self-Compassion
  • R.A.I.N. Basics
  • Embodied Investigation
  • Nurturing
  • Finding Nurture When We're Most Caught
  • Too Intense To Investigate
R.A.I.N. Practice
  • Practice Exercise
R.A.I.N. In Action: Q/A
  • A False Refuge, and a True One
  • Rewards of Embracing the Rawness
  • Not Letting the Love In
  • Deepening, Healing Spiral
  • More on Accepting the Feelings, Not the Trigger
  • Powerful Imagery
Hurting Our Heart
  • Blame and the Unreal Other
  • Resentment
  • Practice Exercise: Why We Blame
Releasing Ourselves From Resentment's Grip
  • How Forgiveness Works
  • Case Study: Difficulty With In-Laws
  • Sensing the Vulnerability
  • Practice: Mindfully Stretching the Body
Forgiveness Practice
  • Practice Exercise
Forgiveness in Action: Q/A
  • When To Do Which Practice
  • Wise Discernment; Is Verbalizing Necessary; the Persistent "Why?"
Love and Belonging
  • Calling On Our Wisest Self
  • Practice Exercise: "Future Self" Meditation
  • Seeing the Gold, Reflecting It Back
  • Practice Exercise: What Do You Love?
  • Practice Exercise: Our Loving True Nature
  • Living Creatively, Serving Our World
  • The Path of Awakening
Additional Resources
  • Additional Resources