Sublime

During the process of your inner work, you will need to develop the inner witness, learn how to attend to raw sensory experience, practice the basic energy skills, and disidentify from the inner critic.

The Self pivot takes the healthy energy of yearning to belong and swings it in the direction of reconnecting with our transcendent I/here/now sense of awareness, allowing that awareness alone to be at the core of what we take ourselves to be.

Sidarta, de Hermann Hesse.

2. A Caring Exercise

Schwartz makes two assertions that extend the concept of mindfulness into the realm of active leadership. The first is that this Self does not need to be cultivated or developed. Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and calm, a Self that has been shelte