Self-Inquiry is about looking at yourself in relation to the world and other people…
It is about the art of mindful reflection.
I advise working through these sessions in order, but where your gut speaks, do listen to it, for your intuition is a better guide than you may have yet realised. Every digital workshop is available to download in two formats, PDF or Power Point.
001 – A Healthy Life 101
This is no ordinary dialogue about what health means or looks like in practice. It is a reflective starting point, one that leads you inwards, through your stories and into an awareness of your own patterns and programming. The modern world makes it hard for a person to find their own version of healthy, start here with the first workshop of this self-inquiry series.
002 – Make Yourself Safe
Safety is not a concrete concept, for each of you it will look and feel different and require specific environmental decoration. Some find safety in nature, others in human connection, or perhaps in isolation. For me, it is a thing only accessible on my insides, a state of being accessed via visual exercises, breathwork, meditation and creative expression.
003 – Setting Boundaries
Human connection is a mine field of loss, pain, shame and betrayal, but it doesn’t have to be. Romantic love, friendship, even working relationships are all made healthier by contemplating boundaries and how to set them. Here, with yourself, is where that starts, where you go from here is determined by how much time, focus and energy you place toward change.
004 – Self Care
Is self-care the same as self-love? Or is self-love (or radical and compassionate self-acceptance) the prerequisite to true self care, which only ever begins with an acknowledgement of where you are with yourself in every present moment. Is self care wrapped up in self worth, in childhood programming, or cultural settings? Decoding what it means to you takes time and commitment.
005 – Self Care Continued…
Self care is a practice, one of fluidity depending on what life has dealt you in the present moment. Surviving times of grief, depression and despair can lead to less energy, and thus, less capacity to commit to self caring practices. When one searches for their own definition of self care and struggles to find constancies in a world of change, it can be important to sift through the stories shaping your world and physical form.
006 – What Am I?
It used to be easy, figuring out what you were. You’d look around the world around you and simply know – I am nature, I am life. Now we have new mirrors to contend with, new stories influencing our felt sense of being and the shape of our lives, as well as our bodies, faces now too. What you are is life being lived, only you can be the one to choose to live it wisely, well, and in acceptance of what you were born as, uniquely you.