Self-Care and Uncertainty: A 10-day Audio Course
What you will learn:
To navigate uncertainty, great awareness, a deep sense of acceptance, accountability, and a heart of gratitude are required. Though we cannot control our external world of chaos, we must practice controlling our inner worlds. In this course, we will examine ourselves and our response to uncertainty and become clear on the practices that we need in order to embrace the unknown.
Lesson Descriptions
Lesson 1
Cultivating Awareness
We begin with awareness. Awareness is the transformational point of all change. Awareness brings insight and can provide us with a foundation from which we can create more sustainable self-care practices in the face of uncertainty. In this lesson, we identify how we define uncertainty and where and how we feel when uncertainty arises using meditation and mindfulness.
Lesson 2
Awareness In Practice
In this lesson, we continue on with the discussion of awareness, but shift our focus to our current self-care practices. What do we do in the face of uncertainty? How do we tend to ourselves? Using meditation, we cultivate loving awareness, so that we can create a baseline and understanding of where we are starting from. With this insight, we can become aware of what has been holding us back and how we can use this to propel us forward.
Lesson 3
Accepting Uncertainty
Acceptance encourages us to embrace the fullness of our realities. As we navigate uncertainty, we must be willing to accept our realities as they are, so we can be empowered and active in the roles that we play in befriending the unknown. Acceptance of who we are, where we are, and what we are facing equips us to create more intentional and practical self-care practices.
Lesson 4
Practicing Acceptance
Acceptance and awareness are the foundational building blocks to create sustainable, practical, and nourishing self-care practices. What does it look like to practice acceptance in the midst of uncertainty? We unpack this self-care practice with affirmations and a compassion-based practice that provides us with the space to honour and accept the totality of our experiences.
Lesson 5
Accountability
Our responsibility is our respond-ability. How we choose to respond or react in the face of uncertainty is our personal responsibility that only we can be held accountable for. In this lesson, we are invited to move from away from powerlessness and into a more empowered state of being.
Lesson 6
Creating An Accountability & Action Plan
Grab a pen and paper for this lesson! We will be creating an accountability and action roadmap that we can refer to when we are ready to transform our habits for lasting change and sustainable practices.
Lesson 7
Re-thinking Resistance
Resistance arises when it's time to do the work. It's the internal struggle we face when we know and sense that success is around the corner. What stops us from moving forward? Self-sabotage? Doubt? Rationalization? Procrastination? Being able to identify where and how resistance shows up in our life can allow us to meet it with compassion and continue on our path. In this lesson, we explore resistance and its origins, with hopes of dispelling its power when learning to embrace uncertainty.
Lesson 8
Our Ability To Adapt
Our ability to shape-shift, transform, and maneuver skillfully in the face of uncertainty and in the face of change is required now more than ever. In this lesson, we explore the importance of adaptability when it's time for change, we unpack the characteristics of an adaptable individual and are invited to envision what it would look like to be adaptable, utilizing meditation.
Lesson 9
Holding Space For Vulnerability
One of our greatest strengths as individuals is our ability to be vulnerable. Our ability to take risks when we have no control over the outcome. So what stops us from being seen? What prevents us from making mistakes and asking for help? This lesson provides us with the chance to practice vulnerability in the face of uncertainty. Being vulnerable is a self-care practice that requires great courage but can give birth to new experiences, as long as we are willing to take that first step.
Lesson 10
Practicing Gratitude
Gratitude connects us to the fullness of life as it is. When faced with uncertainties and unexpected outcomes, we tend to catastrophize our fears. But what would it look like if we were to, instead, magnify our blessings? In this last lesson, I invite you to appreciate what is, what we have, and all that we are. A consistent practice of gratitude aligns us with the abundance of life, which is readily available, as long as we are receptive.
