Episode notes
The loving kindness (metta) practice beginning with yourself, then extending warmth to those you love, those you're neutral toward, and even those who are difficult. The hardest part is always the first — turning that warmth toward yourself. This practice doesn't rush it.
📚 Healing Education Library → Series 5: Rebuild It — Session 30: "Reparenting Yourself as an Adult" is the education companion — it explores what it means to become the caring presence for yourself that you may not have had.
📁 Resource Vault → RV-32: From Shame to Self-Compassion — Not as a Platitude gives you practical self-compassion tools for the woman who finds the concept insufferable. The antidote to the version of this practice that feels hollow.
🏃 Movement Library → Self-Compassion Exercises: The Self-Compassion Exercises series is the physical companion to this meditation — extending what you generated internally into how you inhabit your body.