This track explores how we can be our own worst critic and how we talk to ourselves through criticism can impact our outcomes in life. Listening to our self-talk and being kind to ourselves is an essential step on the road to creating the right mental environment to flourish.

Self-talk and self-criticism can greatly influence our outcomes, emphasizing the importance of being kind to ourselves for personal growth and success.

Be Kind To Yourself

This track discusses how we can use kindness in our lives to set the right intentions, to help ourselves and others to help the world be a better place for the future.

The text advocates using kindness to foster positive intentions, benefiting both individuals and the world for a better future.

Kindness Is Magic

When we hurt it is because we have allowed someone to affect us negatively; to cause us harm, to feel doubt, fear, insecurity, or discouragement, when really each time that we experience someone's negativity, they are simply showing us their reaction, and their feelings and thoughts in that particular moment. How often do we allow others to hurt us? Your decision must be to step back, to step away from taking on whatever hurts may be directly or indirectly pointed at you. You wouldn't choose to be hurt. You would choose to be love and to feel loved. So begin with this. Become great at this. This is the ability to love yourself and to trust wholeheartedly in your goodness, your infinite power, your truth. with love Namaste!

Don't allow others to hurt you; step back and focus on loving and trusting yourself instead.

No One Can Hurt You Unless You Allow It

How you show love and care towards yourself is everything. It makes you autonomous; free to rely on who and what you are for your happiness. Your love - your inspiration into the world and into who and what you are. Your love overshadows fear and self-doubt. The more that you appreciate and value your goodness and all of the many blessings of your life the more empowered you feel to strive for greatness. Join me here for the three actions of self-honor that guide you into self-love. Namaste!

Love and care for oneself leads to autonomy, inspires greatness, overshadows fear, and empowers individuals to rely on themselves for happiness.

Honor Who You Are

This is a practice of sitting with uncomfortable emotions, feelings, and sensations with an anchor in the present moment. A practice of showing up for yourself in ALL the emotions, feelings, and sensations, a practice of showing yourself compassion and kindness even in the midst of the muck. A practice of sitting with yourself.

Mindfulness practice involves sitting with uncomfortable emotions and sensations, showing oneself kindness and compassion even in trying circumstances.

Sit With Yourself

An inspiring talk that teaches one of the most helpful relationship skills you can build. You will learn how how to navigate emotional turbulence with your partner by being present and listening without judgment.

Learn to navigate emotional turbulence in relationships through present and non-judgmental listening, in this inspiring talk on building relationship skills.

A Helpful Relationship Skill To Build

Sometimes it is the smallest things that make the biggest impact. Focus today on what small things can fuel you, nourish you, and fill you back up. Then, add it into your life and one small thing at a time create the life of your dreams.

Focus on small things that can fuel, nourish, and fill you up, adding them into your life to create the life of your dreams, one step at a time.

One Small Thing

This brief session offers a glimpse into the profound gift of forgiveness. My hope is that it serves as a gentle reminder that forgiveness is not only an act of strength but also an act of self-kindness and a doorway to freedom, allowing you to live more authentically and fully.

Forgiveness is a powerful act of self-kindness and freedom that allows one to live authentically and fully.

Practicing Forgiveness (It's For You)

As we move along the Path of Freedom, we inevitably fall short of our expectations as to who we "should" be, what we "should" know, and what we "should" be able to do. Each and every time, we are offered the opportunity to, rather than beat ourselves up, get up and love ourselves up. In other words, we get to practice self-love and self-compassion in a beautiful way. I invite you to join me as we explore why it does not serve us to judge ourselves and how we can love ourselves unconditionally.

We should practice self-love and self-compassion instead of judging ourselves when we fall short of our expectations on the Path of Freedom.

When We Fall - We Love Ourselves Up

As we move along the Path to Freedom, we eventually come to realize that every single moment offers a new beginning, the opportunity for us to make new choices, higher choices. With this freedom of choice comes a responsibility - that is we have to make our own choices. Whatever good we desire to see manifested, we need to make the choice to begin to move in that direction. And if we don't do it, that choice will not be made. I invite you to join me as we explore the implications of this.

Every moment offers new opportunities and choices on the Path to Freedom, requiring us to take responsibility and make our own decisions towards manifesting our desires.

If We Don't Choose It - Who Will?

We often harbor feelings of self-doubt, questioning whether we have done enough in our relationships, in our work, or by this time in our lives. It can leave us feeling that underneath it all we are never quite enough. If you have been struggling with feelings of self-doubt, unworthiness or not-enoughness, this short meditation is an invitation to connect with a deeper sense of worthiness. Knowing that at the heart of it, you are enough, gives you the strength and steadiness within to navigate the highs and lows of life.

Struggling with self-doubt? Meditate to find a deeper sense of worthiness and know that at the heart of it, you are enough to navigate life's ups and downs.

Knowing You Are Always Enough

Do you constantly feel like you're not good enough? Does your inner critic remind you of this all the time? This track will take you through an exercise to help you shift from not enough to being enough. Just as you are.

This track helps shift the mindset from feeling not enough to being enough as you are.

Not Good Enough?

In this recording Inspire you to practice being more intentional and aware about how we are all connected to each other and how important it is for us to know how powerful the ripple effect is that we have on one another. To learn more about Tina Stinson, head over to https://www.tinastinson.com

Inspiring reflection on our interconnectedness and the impact we have on each other, urging intentional awareness. Learn more at tinastinson.com.

Be Intentional About Connection

In this talk, Lou helps you rethink the common spiritual advice to "let go" and instead invites you to focus on the practice of understanding. Using examples of anger, pain, and judgment, Lou explains how these feelings have a positive intention, even when their coping mechanisms are no longer helpful.

Lou challenges conventional spiritual advice to "let go" and encourages understanding emotions like anger and pain as having positive intentions despite outdated coping mechanisms.

Why Letting Go Doesn't Work

When you are experiencing burnout it’s important to allow yourself to rest and receive just a moment of comfort amidst the chaos.

It's crucial to rest and seek comfort during burnout.

Rest and Receive Comfort

As we are walking along the Path to Freedom, there comes a point where we need to allow for the space of self-healing to happen. I invite you to join me as we explore a very simple and powerful tool to call that healing forth. A tool that we can lean into whenever we have a moment in between. Namaste.

Explore a powerful self-healing tool on the Path to Freedom, to lean into in-between moments.

A Healing Conversation With Self

We're often told we shouldn't be angry and that anger is damaging to our system. In this short session, we explore the bad rep anger takes on and how, if we can practice mindfulness amid the anger, we can use it as the transformation necessary at the moment. Through self-awareness, with a sense of peace and ease, the anger can take a new shape of compassion and thoughtful action.

Anger can be transformed into compassion and action through the practice of mindfulness and self-awareness.

Transform Anger into Thoughtful Action

The four seasons of the natural world can teach us so much about our internal worlds. Listen and reflect on how you can gain insights into your internal landscapes by honoring and noticing Mother Nature.

"Exploring the relationship between the four seasons and our internal landscapes can provide valuable insights into our lives and well-being."

What Mother Nature Teaches Us

As we move along the Path to Freedom, while we sometimes feel as though we are alone and that so much rests upon our shoulders to deal with... we are wise to always remember that while we may be alone in the human dimension of life, we are never alone from a spiritual perspective. As God is all there is, which means that we eternally are standing in absolute oneness with Spirit - no matter what we are facing, we can always lean into God to carry us. I invite you to join me as we explore this.

We are never alone from a spiritual perspective on the Path to Freedom, as we stand in absolute oneness with Spirit and can always lean into God for support.

We Are Never Alone

This profound wisdom from AA Milne's beloved characters Piglet & Pooh is an elixir for difficult times and an invitation for us all to cultivate more understanding, compassion, and empathy.

AA Milne's Piglet & Pooh offer profound wisdom as an elixir for tough times, encouraging understanding, compassion, and empathy in all of us.

If You Need A Friend In Difficult Times

The peace we wish to see in the world begins within our own hearts and minds.

Peace Begins Within

In this talk, we'll explore how self-care is vital for our well-being. Resilient people know how to take breaks and nourish themselves. If we’re continually striving to put others first, we’re likely to burn out. We'll explore two easy ways to produce oxytocin, a hormone that helps us feel loved, safe, and supported.

Learn the importance of self-care for wellbeing and how to produce oxytocin in two simple ways to feel loved, safe, and supported.

Connect With Your Compassionate Self

Deep down, we all want to feel connected. To feel connected with each other, with our community, and with all beings. We all want the same thing; To be happy, to be loved, and to feel connected.

We all desire connection and happiness through love and a sense of belonging with others and all beings.

Daily Practice For Love & Happiness

Practicing self-compassion can feel like cushioning. Offering the unloved parts of yourself love and acceptance. Become your cheerleader.

Embrace self-compassion as a form of self-love by being your own cheerleader and offering acceptance to your unloved parts.

Self Compassion As Food For The Soul

What if self-sabotage was actually self-compassion - a subconscious means of protecting yourself? Self-sabotage comes as a result of conflicting desires. Deeply held beliefs drive your behavior, keeping you stuck between what you want and your ability to make a change. When you dig deeper into the beliefs behind your actions, you can find the grace and forgiveness you need to find lasting change and happiness.

Self-sabotage may be self-compassion, but conflicting desires and beliefs keep you stuck; understanding them leads to lasting change and happiness.

From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion

Today's lesson was inspired by a documentary I'm watching in which a guy reacts very instinctively to someone he thinks is rude or inconsiderate. If you're honest with yourself, we've all encountered situations or people like this in our lives, then the question becomes, who is the real enemy?

Lesson: In a documentary, a man reacts instinctively to someone he perceives as rude. Who is the real enemy in such situations?

The Real Enemy

The art and practice of Embracing and allowing that which is to be as it is, is one of the most fundamental practices we can engage in to allow for the peace, the harmony, and wholeness to emerge from within us, as well as vibrationally align ourselves with the good that we desire. Learning to embrace and allow means to release and let go of attachments, opinions, and stories about what should and should not be. I invite you to join me as we move deep into exploring this beautiful practice.

Embrace and allow things to be as they are, let go of attachments and opinions, to find peace and harmony and align with desired outcomes.

The Art and Practice of Embrace & Allow

Featuring a classic Theodore Roosevelt quote, hopefully, this inspires you to find new ways to give back! Follow for more insights that help you develop stronger self-awareness and strengthen the mindsets of your best self.

Inspiring Theodore Roosevelt quote encourages giving back and developing a stronger mindset. Follow for more self-awareness insights.

Do What You Can With What You've Got

What can you do when you have a rainy day or an old memory that you would like to resolve. Learn how self-compassion and the RAIN exercise can help you to loosen the grip of negative emotions.

Learn how self-compassion and the RAIN exercise can help you let go of negative emotions on a rainy day or when resolving old memories.

We All Have Rainy Days!

We're socialized to be nice. However, nice is not about connection, it's self serving. Nice is generally superficial. Instead, let's be kind. Kindness is connection. Kindness is in service. What's the difference? Listen to this brief recording to find out.

Being nice is superficial; being kind is how we truly connect. Learn the difference by listening.

Stop being nice!

Heaven and Hell are not places we are either promised or eternally condemned to. But they are both states of consciousness, states of being. The beautiful thing with this is that we thus get to choose, in every single moment, if we wish to live in Heaven or Hell. I invite you to join me as we explore what Heaven and Hell are and how we can begin to give ourselves permission to live more and more in a heavenly state of consciousness. Now.

Heaven Or Hell - We Get To Choose, Now

To open the heart chakra, try repeating affirmations related to love and healing such as “I am open to love”, “I forgive myself and others”, “I love myself and all human beings”, or “I have an open heart”. Over time, repeating these affirmations will invite more love and compassion into your life! Cheers!

Repeating affirmations related to love and healing can help open the heart chakra, inviting more love and compassion into one's life.

Opening Your Heart Chakra!

Here we discuss how to shift your dialogue from judgment to compassion by asking yourself powerful questions. This, in turn, can improve your self-love, and body acceptance, and allow you to begin experiencing more self-kindness.

Shift from judgment to compassion by asking powerful questions to improve self-love, body acceptance, and experience more self-kindness.

Questions to Improve Your Self Esteem

Do you judge and criticize yourself when you make mistakes? Let's discuss forgiveness and the value behind a more compassionate and loving approach when we make mistakes.

Discusses the importance of forgiveness and self-compassion when making mistakes to avoid self-judgment and criticism.

How Do You Approach Mistakes You Make?

Giving yourself permission to pause is the ultimate act of self-love and self-compassion. Self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary. Here are some gentle ways to find clarity and calm.

Self-care is necessary, so give yourself permission to pause for clarity and calm.

Permission To Pause

We reflect on the layers of identity we construct—shaped by our physical appearance, attitudes, and the roles we choose to play. These identities often define how we present ourselves to the world, but what lies beyond them? What exists behind the masks we wear, beneath the surface of who we think we are? Today, we will explore the essence beyond the identities we cling to, inviting you to release the need for definition. In the stillness, you may begin to sense the presence of the true self—an identity untouched by labels, roles, or expectations. Allow yourself to experience the freedom that comes with uncovering the deeper "you."

Exploring the essence beyond constructed identities, uncovering the true self untouched by labels or expectations, finding freedom in release.

The Essence Behind Identity

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful practices there is for setting ourselves free to be in love, joy, peace, wholeness, abundance, prosperity, and harmony, regardless of external circumstances or conditions. However, the practice of forgiveness is largely misunderstood. And so, I invite you to join me in this first out of three sessions dealing with forgiveness. In this particular session, we will cover the theoretical aspects of forgiveness, what it is, and its purpose. Welcome.

Forgiveness is a powerful practice for inner peace and harmony, but is often misunderstood. Join a session to learn what it is and its purpose.

The Power Of Forgiveness Pt 1

There are many examples of why we need more peace in the world; peace between countries and across nations, peace within our homeland; in our communities, and amongst the people that we see and interact with daily; and of course peace with our loved ones. What is needed for all of this to exist in peace in and of your heart; is to be the greatest expression of what you are. You find peace in your heart so that you can walk in peace regardless of what others may say or do. You find peace first within you. Then, you may walk the planet in ways that illuminate peaceful measures, kind action, words of care, and the presence of this moment for what this moment may offer and for what you demonstrate. Join me! Namaste!

To foster peace in the world, one must first find peace within themselves and walk in peaceful ways that demonstrate kindness and care towards others.

The Miracle of Peace (Sample)

Helpful tools to soothe the inner critic and move past negative thought loops that can keep us awake at night

Tools to calm inner critic and overcome negative thoughts to improve sleep.

Quiet Your Mind for Peaceful Sleep

Patterns of thinking, beliefs, assumptions, and the daily habits of the mind and body that keep us far removed from the precious experiences of our life and the way in which life reveals how perfect each moment truly is and how we can witness this purity with an open heart. In this episode of ‘ask dorothy’, we examine how life can be sacred, how it can feel special and hopeful ~ and how you can live your daily habits and routines as the most beautiful moments ~ enjoyed purely. If you enjoyed this look at living sacred, please check out the full episode here. Next, join me for the full series on the Niyamas (Saucha is the first of five episodes) and a deep dive into how you can nurture the relationship you have with yourself)! Namaste!

Learn how to break patterns of thinking and daily habits that keep us from experiencing life's precious moments, and witness the purity of each moment.

The Discipline Of Purity - Saucha (3min)

It doesn’t make a difference how extreme your pain is, or whether anyone else can recognize that it hurts as much as it does. Your pain still matters. And it is important to feel and acknowledge it fully. Listen to find out why this is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and the world.

Acknowledge your pain fully as it matters, regardless of its intensity or recognition, as it is essential for yourself and the world.

Your Pain Matters, Too

Learn how to cultivate self-love, confidence and courage. We'll explore self-compassion and reflect on our strengths with the story of 'The Eagle and the Wren'.

Discover self-love, confidence, and courage through self-compassion and reflection with 'The Eagle and the Wren' story.

Self-Compassion And Courage

To hold conflict with compassion is a sign we are growing on our journey. This talk will offer guidance on how to hold life's complexity so you can live with less reactivity and more ease.

Holding conflict with compassion is a sign of growth, learn to hold life's complexity for less reactivity and more ease in this talk.

Welcoming Conflict

Whenever another individual acts in a hurtful and harmful way, rather than seeking to retaliate and strike back, we are wise to bless them and wish them well. Whatever they did or did not do, while we may have been victimized by it, it had nothing to do with us, but they were under the aegis of ignorance, under the influence of not understanding that there were higher choices available to them. I invite you to join me as we explore why we are wise to bless those who hurt us. Namaste

Bless those who hurt you, as their harmful actions stem from their ignorance and lack of understanding of higher choices available to them.

Whatever They Did - Bless Them

In this episode of ‘ask Dorothy, I share a real-life client story that speaks to the beautiful nature of the human spirit when we can offer kindness and care to others in the words we speak, in sharing our possessions and our desire to help others in challenging situations ~ all of which convey our 'oneness'. In this episode, we see how my client Olivia* chose to face the negativity and criticism among some of her colleagues by the teaching impermanence and connection, and by practicing the presence of 'oneness'. Join me for the practical wisdom of living aparigraha ~ non-attachment ~ in your life. *If you enjoyed these 'clips' please look out for the full-length version here on Aura! Much love to you! Namaste!

Dorothy shares a client's story of kindness and care, promoting the power of 'oneness' and non-attachment in facing negativity in the workplace.

The Teaching Of Impermanence (3/7 min)

The wisdom of the waves returns for some insights into this quality of compassion. These gentle words can be used as meditative listening. Today, Reuben guides us to simplify acceptance. This simplification goes against the grain of how we are conditioned to think about it.

Reuben simplifies acceptance, offering compassionate insights through meditative listening in the wisdom of the waves.

The Wisdom Of The Waves: Acceptance

Wisdom for right now... and for the week before you. Each week, let my Wisdom Notes guide and support you in the best possible way. The moments that you live of grace are the moments that define life in the certainty of what you are. When you consciously choose in each moment to live of grace ~ to be kind to all others ~ to rejoice in the choices that you make to be remarkable ~ to surround yourself with the most loving people and live a life of the highest integrity, in an instant, you will shed all unhappiness and fear. For the Week ahead... and for the life that you continue to manifest, practice opening your heart in meditation, in mindfulness, and in the presence of each moment. Sending you great love..... namaste.

Receive guidance and support with weekly Wisdom Notes; choose to live with grace, kindness, integrity, and surround yourself with love to shed fear.

Grace is Love ~ Wisdom Notes w/Dorothy

When we cannot forgive, we live with a wall around our hearts. Here the invitation is to consider forgiveness as a means of reopening to the fullness of life.

Forgiving opens our hearts to life; living without forgiveness builds walls around our hearts.

Forgiving Another

Self-compassion can be simplified and broken down into a tool that we can use. The 3 Ns is a simple yet effective strategy for self-compassion, giving us a tool to put this into practice when times are tough.

The 3 Ns is a simple yet effective tool for practicing self-compassion during tough times, simplifying and breaking down the concept.

The 3 Ns: Self-Compassion Made Simple

Along the path of freedom and awakening, we inevitably move through periods when we are not feeling too good. Periods of confusion and inner turmoil. Although these may seem as though there is something wrong, they sometimes are signs of good progress. And so, as we move through these, we are very wise to be kind and compassionate toward ourselves that we may move through them as smoothly as possible and emerge on the other side, more expanded, and more luminous than ever before.

Periods of confusion and inner turmoil along the path of awakening may actually be signs of progress; be kind to yourself to emerge brighter.

Compassion: Life Coaching