So many of us have learned to treat trying hard, pushing, and striving as the only way forward ... even in our healing journeys. This guided meditation to try softer is a gentle exploration to discover what trying softer actually means for you, in your own body and your own life.

Self-kindness is one of the most powerful inner qualities we can cultivate on our healing journey, and it's something so many of us never learned how to do. This meditation to soften into self-kindness offers a soothing, gentle way to explore what true self-kindness feels like in your body and will help you cultivate more of it in your life.

This episode is a slow, extended version of one of our most loved practices, the guided body scan meditation, with more space between each cue so you have real time to feel into every part of your body. As we gently bring our attention inward in this way, our nervous systems can settle, and we can come back to a feeling of relaxation and safety.

Our nervous systems weren't designed for the volume of sensory and emotional input we live with every day, and that takes a huge toll, leaving us feeling overstimulated and dysregulated much of the time. This short somatic practice to settle your nervous system is a gentle technique you can turn to anytime you want to ground, relax, and feel more like yourself again.