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Guided Meditations

Feeling Worthy of Love Meditation

If you change your feeling, it can change your life . . . What’s the purpose of this “Feeling Worthy of Love” meditation? Many of us struggle with the feeling we don’t deserve love. We may feel as if we’re Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 6 yearsFebruary 15, 2019 ago
Compassion

Reflections from Sri Lanka: Sitting with rain

So the key was stuck in my door today and I couldn’t leave my room. I’d wanted to go upstairs, on the terrace of the small hotel’s dining room, where I could sit and meditate while gazing at a luminous Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 1 year ago
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Facts, not fear. Clean hands. And Open Hearts.

And what about our fear?             Do what you can to dial it down. Seriously, you can fuel fear or starve it of fuel. The choice is yours. You’ll feel less emotional if you decide to read the news online Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 5 yearsMarch 14, 2020 ago
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7-day challenge

7-day Worthy of Love Challenge

Imagine. . . feeling worthy of love in 7 days. NOTE: There is no Worthy of Love Challenge happening right now. If you subscribe on my website, you’ll be notified of the next 7-day Challenge. Join the 7-day Challenge  . Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 6 yearsJune 28, 2019 ago
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What brought a tough, grizzled old man to tears

What brought a tough, grizzled old man to tears: the need for forgiveness By Christine Longaker  Mark, a hospice volunteer, was reading Chapter 3: The Needs of the Dying to the grizzled old man as they sat in the hospice Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsJuly 5, 2018 ago
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Compassion

What’s self-compassion good for? When life brings you to your knees

What’s self-compassion good for? It wasn’t the first time life had brought me to my knees. But it was the worst. After almost forty years of practicing meditation and compassion, I thought I should have been able to handle it, Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsJune 21, 2018 ago
Compassion

Learn how to heal your heart, your patterns and your life

Learn how to heal your heart, your patterns and your life I invite you to come home to yourself, to see and understand your struggles, with kindness, self-forgiveness and grace. In 2021, there are upcoming online and in-person retreats on Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsJune 1, 2018 ago
Compassion

Self-Compassion as a Heroic Journey

“Exceptional.” It was startling, and moving, and completely unexpected. On the very first evening of a 3-day seminar on Self-compassion in Ireland, participants were exceptionally honest and vulnerable as they shared their insights into how their lives would be different Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsMay 17, 2018 ago
Making Friends with Your Difficult Aspects
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Making Friends with Your Difficult Aspects

Do we need to show kindness to ourselves? When it finally rains in the desert, all the plants soak up the water that’s so rare in coming. Though we can’t see it, the cacti are soaking up and retaining the Read more…

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsMarch 8, 2018 ago
Compassion

Is self-compassion for you?

Join the dialogue on self-compassion, and enter the journey with a like-minded community!

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By Christine Longaker, 7 yearsFebruary 12, 2018 ago

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