Staying Grounded in Difficult Times:
An introduction to
mindfulness, self-compassion, and embodiment practices For Busy Moms
Is overwhelm taking over your life?
Do you find yourself yelling at your kids more than you would like?
Do you long for deeper connection with yourself? Your kids? Your family?
Do you feel alone and isolated, like no one is struggling quite as much as you?
Is life just too busy? Unmanageable? Do you feel exhausted all the time, like you just can’t catch up?
Do you feel like you know what you need to do, but you just can’t seem to get it done?
Staying Grounded in Difficult Times
is a self-paced internet-based course
that will help you to connect with your own inner knowing and awareness.
We all face struggles.
This is something we don't have a choice about and cannot control.
What we can control is how we choose to respond.
In this course, I share simple, easy-to-use (and learn!)
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Embodiment Practices
that will help you to feel
👉🏻 more settled
👉🏻 more connected
👉🏻 more aware
of what you can control when life gets challenging.
This course is designed for those new to mindfulness and self-compassion practices AND for those hoping to refresh their practice or add a little more heart and warmth.
🔆 $99 🔆
I am Kristin Brenner, a social worker, yoga teacher, and a mindfulness and self-compassion educator.
Most importantly, though, I am a mom to four kids. I have worked hard to create strong, healthy relationships with all of my children, and I can help you do the same.
The practices of mindfulness, embodiment, and self-compassion can help develop a sense of being grounded and settled, even when the storm of life is blowing all around you.
There is a thread that I can follow from the humble beginnings of my meditation and yoga practices to my relationships with my kids, each one deeply informing the other.
I could not be in a healthy place with my children had it not been for my practices because these practices create the container for a healthy relationship with ourselves, and that is what forges strong bonds with others.
In this course, you will Learn skills that you can immediately apply to regulate your nervous system in times of stress.
We explore the true meaning of self-care:
🔆 Recognizing what you are feeling in the moment
🔆 Identifying what you need
🔆 Meeting your own needs
Staying Grounded in Difficult Times is a self-paced video course with 5 distinct mindfulness, self-compassion, and embodiment practices that you can immediately use to meet yourself where you are in times of stress. This will help you learn to regulate your nervous system, connecting with yourself on a deep level.
The course includes
🔆 Video instruction of all practices
🔆 a workbook to print up and use again and again
🔆 audio that you can put on your phone so you can practice anywhere, anytime
🔆Lifetime Access
These skills are taught through simple, attainable awareness practices:
Acknowledge
You will learn to turn toward yourself in times of struggle rather then pushing your feelings way. Acknowledging our true feelings allows us to recognize what we CAN control and to feel all the feelings about what we can’t control.
Anchor
Anxiety and overwhelm takes us out of the present moment into either ruminating about the past or projecting into the future. Anxiety cannot live in the present moment. This practice allows you to come back to the present moment using sense experience.
Embody
Often when we are feeling stress or anxiety, we get stuck in our head and lose connection to being grounded in the body, the sense of being embodied - our mind and body truly connected. Learn to reconnect to the body to ground and settle.
Breathe
Learn about the autonomic nervous system and how you can manage the nervous system with something you always have available: The breath. The vagus nerve is key to helping us handle the stressful moments. The breath is the way in.
Love
Embodied Self-Compassion is a somatic practice using the sense door to experience feelings of compassion, love, and kindness toward oneself. This helps us to ground into moment-to-moment experience.
🔆 $99 🔆
You are ready to care for yourself with awareness and kindness!
With this course, you will learn to
👉🏻 Be in the present moment with yourself
You can be with your present moment experience, both with yourself, and with those around you to create a loving environment and feel connected. You will learn to turn toward yourself rather than abandoning yourself in a moment of struggle.
👉🏻 Strengthen compassion for yourself (and others!)
create a compassionate presence for yourself, which naturally changes and often improves relationships with others.
👉🏻 Be An Embodied presence for yourself
Learn to regulate your nervous system through interoceptive awareness (awareness of your physical and emotional internal state) and build your relationships through co-regulation.
👉🏻 Learn to work with your nervous system to more easily and readily move From an activated to a calm state.
stress is counteracted by the ability of the vagus nerve to move from an activated state to a settled state, which is really just a fancy way of saying “nervous system flexibility.”
👉🏻 teach your brain to be more open to your own self-care simply by practicing it!
regularly practicing self-care is a compassionate way to engage the nervous system. It warms us to a compassionate response and creates new neural pathways as we begin to form new habits, helping to counteract our natural negativity bias.
We find our strength and ground by turning inward first to find internal clarity . . .
And it’s more simple and attainable than you think!
We don’t practice self-care so we can take care of others;
We practice self-care because we are human.
Self-care is important, period, end of sentence.
Really, it is imperative.
It’s non-negotiable for humans, so if you are reading this, that means you.
Self-care makes you a whole, authentic person, and allows you to see yourself as someone worthy of care and love.
And here is a hint for all you moms out there reading this - this is the most important thing you can do as a parent.
By knowing and acting on the fact that you are worthy of love and care, you teach your kids an invaluable lesson - they too are worthy of love and care.
It is a wonderful side benefit that when we are whole people, we can be in satisfying and healthy relationships with others.
Strengthening our relationship with our self strengthens our relationship with others, so self-care does allow us to care for others, but that’s not why we do it.
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