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  1. The Gift of You

    The Gift of You

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 9/1/2023

    Trainer Tip: Next time someone asks how you're doing, you can check in with yourself and offer an honest answer. It doesn't need to be 15-minute response. You could say, "I’m feeling tired and overwhelmed by this project. I’m sure it'll work out. I’m just worried about it now. How are you?” If you're ready to do that, then you can be honest with yourself. Doing this can help you be present to how you are, and hold your experience as a gift to self and others.

  2. How to Ask for Space

    How to Ask for Space

    Elia Paz

    Practice Exercises · 2-3 minutes · 06/15/2025

    In relationships, the desire for space can conflict with the need for intimacy. This conflict arises from different strategies to meet similar needs. By identifying specific needs behind the request for space and understanding the other person’s needs for closeness, both of you can negotiate and collaborate. Repeated conflicts may indicate the need for personal healing, which you’ll need to address individually.

  3. Iris Bawidamann explains how needs, like appreciation, can easily turn into demands or self-blame when approached from a place of lack or expectation. This practice is based on the work of Living Compassion, shared by Robert Gonzales, focusing on the beauty of needs and the living energy of needs
  4. Mourning Unmet Needs (The Art of Letting Go)

    Mourning Unmet Needs (The Art of Letting Go)

    Eddie Zacapa

    Articles · 4 - 6 minutes · 05/17/2025

    Anger and resentment can signal unmet needs. Through mourning those needs and practicing self-empathy, we may let go of blame, embrace reality, and reclaim responsibility for fulfilling our own needs. This process may lead to emotional transformation through conscious reflection, and a new outlook.

  5. Developing Patience

    Developing Patience

    Jim & Jori Manske

    Audio · 53 minutes · 10/25/2011

    Jim and Jori offer practical tools to help us develop patience through a process they call WAIT: Wake up, Accept, Insight, Take a step.

  6. Ego, Mind, and Culture

    Ego, Mind, and Culture

    Miki Kashtan

    Articles · 10 - 15 minutes · 2/23/2020

    The “mind” or our “ego” are often depicted as a static entity, an unchangable part of human nature, and as obstacles or negative parts of ourselves to overcome. This view creates maligning, a split within us, while remaining invisibly part and parcel of authority-based societies --the dominant culture and institutions into which we are born. Instead, I want to advocate an integration of reason and emotion, mind and heart, plus self and others.

  7. There are healers and therapists who see climate anxiety as a pathology. Instead, we can see it as an understandable reaction to the magnitude of the environmental problems that surround us. And we can see it as a subset of eco-anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease triggered by an awareness of the ecological threats facing the earth due to climate catastrophe. Read on for tips on coping with the anxiety.

  8. Tip: Demystifying Empathy Guesses

    Tip: Demystifying Empathy Guesses

    Dian Killian

    Trainer Tips · 6 minutes · 4/29/2019

    Here's a quick tip to improve your empathy skills with empathy guessing.

  9. Listen to the Universe

    Listen to the Universe

    Christine King, Jean Morrison

    Practice Exercises · N/A · 3/16/2011

    Listen to the Universe is a fun group exercise to explore how we focus our attention and interpret what we experience.

  10. Taking Responsibility for Your Choices

    Taking Responsibility for Your Choices

    Mary Mackenzie

    Trainer Tips · 1 - 2 minutes · 5/10/2014

    Trainer Tip: Giving up on blame and taking responsibilty for our choices is immensely empowering. Mary offers a tip for growing in this direction.

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