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This engaging, humorous, and inspiring five-part series equips you with skills to transform your relationships and strengthen your inner life. Attend one talk or all five—whatever fits your schedule.

Philosophy, Poets, Mystics: Essential Skills for Thriving in Life and Love. Theories come and go, but a few truths endure—what’s often called Perennial Wisdom. Some are familiar, some surprising, and all can be learned by anyone willing to practice.

Learning to Surf: The Healing Power of Accepting the Things We Cannot Change and Changing the Things We Can. Blending Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, and “Let Them Theory,” this session shows how to find freedom from the impossible cycle of trying to manage or change others.

The Hero’s Journey in Life and Love. Using the Love Cycles model from her acclaimed books, Linda maps relationship stages onto the universal story of transformation—from merging to wholeness.

Five Life-Changing Communication Tools, Including the 60 Seconds that Make or Break a Conversation. Communication shapes our relationships, especially under stress. Using the PAUSE framework, teaches how to turn defensiveness into curiosity and reveals the key to managing conflict effectively.

Chasing Wonder: Cultivating True Presence and Three Magic Words. How do we cultivate awe, and why does it matter? What does it mean to be truly wholehearted? In this class, Linda demonstrates how to deepen the gift of presence and shares three magic words that help others feel truly seen—and help you become all you are meant to be.

Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist since 1981, specializes in couples and communication, offering in-person and virtual sessions across the USA. The author of three books on personal growth and healing, she is a frequent presenter at the Ranch, sharing insights on love, relationships, and inner fitness. Visit her at lindaacarroll.com

This engaging, humorous, and inspiring five-part series equips you with skills to transform your relationships and strengthen your inner life. Attend one talk or all five—whatever fits your schedule.

Philosophy, Poets, Mystics: Essential Skills for Thriving in Life and Love. Theories come and go, but a few truths endure—what’s often called Perennial Wisdom. Some are familiar, some surprising, and all can be learned by anyone willing to practice.

Learning to Surf: The Healing Power of Accepting the Things We Cannot Change and Changing the Things We Can. Blending Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, and “Let Them Theory,” this session shows how to find freedom from the impossible cycle of trying to manage or change others.

The Hero’s Journey in Life and Love. Using the Love Cycles model from her acclaimed books, Linda maps relationship stages onto the universal story of transformation—from merging to wholeness.

Five Life-Changing Communication Tools, Including the 60 Seconds that Make or Break a Conversation. Communication shapes our relationships, especially under stress. Using the PAUSE framework, teaches how to turn defensiveness into curiosity and reveals the key to managing conflict effectively.

Chasing Wonder: Cultivating True Presence and Three Magic Words. How do we cultivate awe, and why does it matter? What does it mean to be truly wholehearted? In this class, Linda demonstrates how to deepen the gift of presence and shares three magic words that help others feel truly seen—and help you become all you are meant to be.

Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist since 1981, specializes in couples and communication, offering in-person and virtual sessions across the USA. The author of three books on personal growth and healing, she is a frequent presenter at the Ranch, sharing insights on love, relationships, and inner fitness. Visit her at lindaacarroll.com

This engaging, humorous, and inspiring five-part series equips you with skills to transform your relationships and strengthen your inner life. Attend one talk or all five—whatever fits your schedule.

Philosophy, Poets, Mystics: Essential Skills for Thriving in Life and Love. Theories come and go, but a few truths endure—what’s often called Perennial Wisdom. Some are familiar, some surprising, and all can be learned by anyone willing to practice.

Learning to Surf: The Healing Power of Accepting the Things We Cannot Change and Changing the Things We Can. Blending Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, and “Let Them Theory,” this session shows how to find freedom from the impossible cycle of trying to manage or change others.

The Hero’s Journey in Life and Love. Using the Love Cycles model from her acclaimed books, Linda maps relationship stages onto the universal story of transformation—from merging to wholeness.

Five Life-Changing Communication Tools, Including the 60 Seconds that Make or Break a Conversation. Communication shapes our relationships, especially under stress. Using the PAUSE framework, teaches how to turn defensiveness into curiosity and reveals the key to managing conflict effectively.

Chasing Wonder: Cultivating True Presence and Three Magic Words. How do we cultivate awe, and why does it matter? What does it mean to be truly wholehearted? In this class, Linda demonstrates how to deepen the gift of presence and shares three magic words that help others feel truly seen—and help you become all you are meant to be.

Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist since 1981, specializes in couples and communication, offering in-person and virtual sessions across the USA. The author of three books on personal growth and healing, she is a frequent presenter at the Ranch, sharing insights on love, relationships, and inner fitness. Visit her at lindaacarroll.com

This engaging, humorous, and inspiring five-part series equips you with skills to transform your relationships and strengthen your inner life. Attend one talk or all five—whatever fits your schedule.

Philosophy, Poets, Mystics: Essential Skills for Thriving in Life and Love. Theories come and go, but a few truths endure—what’s often called Perennial Wisdom. Some are familiar, some surprising, and all can be learned by anyone willing to practice.

Learning to Surf: The Healing Power of Accepting the Things We Cannot Change and Changing the Things We Can. Blending Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, and “Let Them Theory,” this session shows how to find freedom from the impossible cycle of trying to manage or change others.

The Hero’s Journey in Life and Love. Using the Love Cycles model from her acclaimed books, Linda maps relationship stages onto the universal story of transformation—from merging to wholeness.

Five Life-Changing Communication Tools, Including the 60 Seconds that Make or Break a Conversation. Communication shapes our relationships, especially under stress. Using the PAUSE framework, teaches how to turn defensiveness into curiosity and reveals the key to managing conflict effectively.

Chasing Wonder: Cultivating True Presence and Three Magic Words. How do we cultivate awe, and why does it matter? What does it mean to be truly wholehearted? In this class, Linda demonstrates how to deepen the gift of presence and shares three magic words that help others feel truly seen—and help you become all you are meant to be.

Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist since 1981, specializes in couples and communication, offering in-person and virtual sessions across the USA. The author of three books on personal growth and healing, she is a frequent presenter at the Ranch, sharing insights on love, relationships, and inner fitness. Visit her at lindaacarroll.com

This engaging, humorous, and inspiring five-part series equips you with skills to transform your relationships and strengthen your inner life. Attend one talk or all five—whatever fits your schedule.

Philosophy, Poets, Mystics: Essential Skills for Thriving in Life and Love. Theories come and go, but a few truths endure—what’s often called Perennial Wisdom. Some are familiar, some surprising, and all can be learned by anyone willing to practice.

Learning to Surf: The Healing Power of Accepting the Things We Cannot Change and Changing the Things We Can. Blending Zen Buddhism, Stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, and “Let Them Theory,” this session shows how to find freedom from the impossible cycle of trying to manage or change others.

The Hero’s Journey in Life and Love. Using the Love Cycles model from her acclaimed books, Linda maps relationship stages onto the universal story of transformation—from merging to wholeness.

Five Life-Changing Communication Tools, Including the 60 Seconds that Make or Break a Conversation. Communication shapes our relationships, especially under stress. Using the PAUSE framework, teaches how to turn defensiveness into curiosity and reveals the key to managing conflict effectively.

Chasing Wonder: Cultivating True Presence and Three Magic Words. How do we cultivate awe, and why does it matter? What does it mean to be truly wholehearted? In this class, Linda demonstrates how to deepen the gift of presence and shares three magic words that help others feel truly seen—and help you become all you are meant to be.

Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist since 1981, specializes in couples and communication, offering in-person and virtual sessions across the USA. The author of three books on personal growth and healing, she is a frequent presenter at the Ranch, sharing insights on love, relationships, and inner fitness. Visit her at lindaacarroll.com

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Everyone wants to feel great about themselves and their life. We want to feel free, happy, satisfied in our relationships, confident in ourselves, and capable of meeting life’s demands with grace and ease. Imagine waking up each day feeling this way!

Sometimes we face difficult challenges, and we are not always as well equipped emotionally or psychologically to gracefully attend to what arises. We can become overwhelmed, stressed, and experience feelings of being lost, out of control, and uncertain about how to proceed. Cue old predictable patterns!

We need an advanced set of tools to navigate the world around us as well as our inner world of complex thoughts and feelings. The Inner Fitness program is a comprehensive practical guide for living, feeling, and creating your best life, as well as how to handle the everyday challenges, and the really hard stuff.

The 5 Pillars (lessons) of the Inner Fitness Program offers a holistic approach to “inner work” that focuses on the well-being of your whole self: mind, body, and spirit. Each Pillar represents an important focus of attention and intention.  When you nourish each of these components, by practicing shifting your perspective from survival mode to an authentically empowered and present mode, you strengthen new wiring in your brain.  This is the basis of neuroplasticity and how you can rewire your brain for a better mind.

5 Pillars of The Inner Fitness Program:

1. Wake Up! – understand your life from a greater consciousness
2. Heal Your Past – with compassion and skill
3. Live in the Present – with curiosity and wisdom
4. Build Healthy Relationships – with authenticity and care
5. Design Your Future Self – with joy and determination 

Full descriptions of each lesson at www.coachemily.com

 
Life Coach, CPCC, LLMC
Founder, The Inner Fitness Program
Emily Boorstein is a passionate and nurturing guide in the field of personal growth, self-discovery, and emotional resilience. Her mission is to help people live more intentionally, heal deeply, and create lives filled with authenticity, joy, and meaning.

Emily has been working in the transformational coaching field for over two decades, and created the Inner Fitness Program—a practical, soul-centered approach to lasting personal change. This program helps individuals heal old wounds, manage inner critics, face life’s challenges with grace,  build healthy, aligned relationships, and manifest the uniquely satisfying and fulfilling life that we all want for ourselves.

In 2012, Emily brought her Inner Fitness Program to Rancho La Puerta, a world-renowned health and wellness resort in Tecate, Mexico. She now curates and manages a year-round Inner Fitness program there, bringing in skilled coaches and therapists to lead weekly workshops.

When she’s not at “The Ranch,” Emily works privately with clients who want move beyond obstacles and limitations to live with more intention, freedom, and love.

Everyone and everything is an ally on our personal journey, and how we meet each circumstance, what we think, feel, and choose, shapes the life we live now and the future we create.

For more information about Emily, the Inner Fitness Program, an expanded description of the program with handouts, and her upcoming schedule at Rancho La Puerta, visit her website at: www.coachemily.com.

Day 1: Attitude Awareness Tune-Up
Ever feel like life is happening to you instead of with you? Our brains love auto-pilot — and when we’re not paying attention, we miss what’s right in front of us. In this playful evening kick-off, you’ll test your own perception, challenge a few mental habits, and learn a simple way to move from reactivity to choice. A lively reminder that awareness really does change everything.

Day 2: Slay Your Inner Critic – Meet Your Negative Ego
That inner voice that second-guesses, compares, and criticizes? We’re calling it out. In this witty, eye-opening session, you’ll learn how to spot your “Negative Ego,” understand its tricks, and practice shifting to a calmer, more confident state of mind. Real tools, real laughter — and a whole lot more self-kindness.

Day 3: Stuck Inside the Box? Getting Out of Your Own Way
We all build invisible boxes made of assumptions, fears, and habits that limit what’s possible. Through lighthearted exercises and candid reflection, learn how to notice when you’re boxed in — and how to climb out. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective and a few laughs about how gloriously human we all are.

Day 4: Rewiring for Joy – Training Your Brain for Emotional Fitness
Joy isn’t a mood — it’s a muscle. In this uplifting, science-based session, discover how to train your brain to focus on what’s good, calm, and energizing. Learn easy, evidence-backed practices that build emotional fitness and make joy a habit you can take home with you, even when your social media news suggests differently.

Day 5: (Re)Claim Your Authentic Self
We operate in a rapid-fire world; skimming, sprinting, and stuffing as much as we can into each day – then we wonder why our gas tank is empty at the end. As a meaningful close to your week at the Ranch, we will focus on a values exercise, reflect on what truly fuels you – and what drains you. Through humor and insight, you’ll reconnect with what matters most and leave inspired to live with more purpose, balance and joy.

Julie Fotos, PCC, CPCC
As a leadership coach, Julie helps individuals and teams expand their range to access their full potential and reap the resulting benefits. Like a trainer at a gym, Julie helps clients both discover and strengthen underdeveloped muscles, while relieving over-developed ones. Julie has extensive experience working with clients in identifying and “unlearning” their own self-imposed beliefs, allowing them to create healthier work environments, improve their communication effectiveness, develop as leaders and manage through change. As Rancho La Puerta’s Inner Fitness coach for several years, Julie has brought her unique blend of humor and pragmatism to help guests on their own journeys. Julie lives primarily in New York City, with frequent escapes to her serene Catskills lake house.

Handout 2 Inner Critic

Handout 3 Stuck Inside The Box

Handout 5 Values

Handout 5s Circle

Reclaim Your Joyful, Purposeful Self
You’ve been tending to everyone else for years. Now it’s your turn. In this opening session, you’ll step back into your own radiance, rediscover the dreams you tucked away, and reconnect with what truly lights you up.
We’ll use gentle reflection and Human Design insights to help you see yourself in a new light. You’ll walk away feeling inspired, lighter, and ready to create a life that feels like yours again.

Intuition as Your True North
How often have you overthought, second-guessed, or pushed yourself in the wrong direction? Your intuition is wiser than any pro/con list.
In this playful yet powerful session, you’ll learn how to listen to the whispers of your body and spirit. Using practices drawn from Quantum Human Design, you’ll uncover your unique decision-making style — so you can trust yourself and move forward with ease and confidence.

The Art of Receiving Abundance
Abundance isn’t about striving harder — it’s about softening into flow. Yet so often, we block the very things we long for: joy, love, creativity, support and prosperity.
Together, we’ll explore how your design shows both your gifts and your “hidden shadows” that keep you from fully receiving. Then we’ll practice a gentle energy clearing to release what’s in the way. You’ll leave feeling spacious, open, and more able to welcome life’s gifts.

Script Your Next Beautiful Chapter
What if you could imagine your next stage of life with freedom, play and purpose? In this session, you’ll get to dream again.
Through guided journaling and the Magic Scripting Method, you’ll weave imagination and Quantum Human Design wisdom into a fresh story for your life — one that feels aligned, supported, and joyful. This is about rewriting the script from obligation to possibility.

Expand into Gratitude & Love
We’ll close the week with a heart-opening ritual of gratitude and reflection.
Heading back into life with joy-expanding practices, you’ll anchor into the frequency of joy, appreciation, and love — while also seeing how your Human Design reveals the unique way you’re meant to shine. You’ll carry home not just inspiration, but a deep sense of renewal and purpose.

Laura West knows that when you are aligned with your joy and purpose, you naturally become more creative, confident, and impactful. As an Intuitive Success Coach, Business Alchemist, and Quantum Human Design™ Specialist, she has helped thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals unlock their Soul Work, personal power, intuition and authentic presence.
Laura is the CEO of the Joyful Business, Inc., host of Joyful Business TV and podcast, and author of The Daily Magic Scripting Journal. She guides Highly Attuned leaders and changemakers to create purposeful, joyful lives and businesses by blending intuition, creativity, and practical strategy. Her work empowers people to discover their true design, embrace abundance, and express their unique brilliance with confidence and joy. More info: JoyfulBusiness.com

Empower Yourself to Live a life of Purpose, Value and Vision
So often we give our power away to other people, places and things thinking that they will make our lives meaningful and fulfilling. The truth is you are the only one who can empower yourself to live a life that you find personally purposeful, valuable and full of vision for your optimal future by following the inner guidance of your truest deepest highest self.   

Get Clear About Your Life Purpose
Your Life Purpose is what deeply fulfills you 24/7 no matter where you are, who you are with and what you are going through. When you are clear about your Life Purpose and you let it guide you, every day can be positive, purposeful and fulfilling for you.

Living in Alignment with Your Core Values
Your Core Values are your guiding principles, personal golden rules and sacred laws. No one can tell you what they are. They come from within you and have been guiding you your entire life. When you live in alignment with your Core Values you will always feel like you are on the right path and will cultivate love and appreciation for yourself.

Your Message is Your Magic
All day long we send ourselves messages, but it is usually happening on a subconscious level and is oftentimes flowing from limiting beliefs. When you get clear about the message you know is aligned with your higher potential and consciously cultivate it everyday, you will not only tap into daily personal inspiration, but you will uplift and support others as well.

Your Big Vision is Calling You
How can you create a life that you love if you do not have a clear vision of what you actually want? Even if you have clarity about what you actually want, if it is not aligned with who you truly are, then it will not be healthy for you and sustainable amidst life’s many changes. Gaining clarity about and knowing what you truly want in all areas of your life is the foundation for actually creating a life of true fulfillment.

Anne Van de Water is an Associate Certified Life Coach (ACC) by the International Coaches Federation, a Health and Wellness Teacher and a Spiritual Guide. She is the founder and creator of True Self Mastery Coaching and Wellness. She supports huge hearted change makers clear subconscious limiting patterns, heal your connection with your truest deepest highest Self and raise the vibration of your beliefs, thoughts, emotions, words, actions and relationships so you match the energy of the life you vision for yourself and magnetically manifest it. This transformation will help you to authentically, healthfully and sustainably live fully, love deeply, lead powerfully and thrive in all ways.
Visit Anne at annevandewater.com

Letting Your Light Shine is a five-day journey to reconnect with your intuition, uncover your purpose, and move beyond self-doubt. Each session blends reflection with practical tools, guiding you to trust your inner wisdom, embrace your unique gifts, and step confidently into your calling. You’ll learn to transform limiting beliefs, design a life aligned with your values, and bring more joy into your daily experience. This program isn’t about fixing yourself, it’s about remembering who you already are and letting your authentic light shine.

Day 1: Unveiling Your Inner Wisdom: A Guide to Intuitive Living
Find the confidence you’ve always wanted by tapping into your most valuable guide: your intuition. This session is an invitation to move past the noise and reconnect with that quiet, powerful inner voice. You’ll learn a simple technique to help you navigate life’s choices with newfound clarity and leave with a practical tool you can use every day to find your way forward.

Day 2: Discover Your Soul’s Purpose: Illuminating Your Unique Gifts
This session is about remembering what truly lights you up. After years of focusing outwards, it’s a beautiful opportunity to turn inward and uncover the passions that have always been a part of you. By reflecting on the moments that have brought you the most joy, you’ll begin to see the personal pattern of your purpose. You’ll then have a chance to apply this insight to your own life, sparking a renewed sense of meaning and vibrancy.

Day 3: The Art of Confident Creation: Transforming Doubt into Desired Reality
Imagine moving through life with effortless confidence, unburdened by old patterns of doubt. This session is your chance to step into that reality. You’ll discover how to identify and release those limiting beliefs that have held you back. We’ll walk through a powerful, yet simple, exercise that you can use on your own to replace doubt with confidence, empowering you to create the life you’ve always desired.

Day 4: Embrace Your Grand Calling: Unearthing What You Were Meant to Do
Do you feel a gentle pull towards something more—a desire to make a deeper impact? This session explores the idea of a personal calling not as an obligation, but as a joyful alignment with your authentic self. You’ll engage in a reflective exercise to connect with the passions that truly resonate with you, and then be given a clear way to start weaving these meaningful inclinations into your life.

Day 5: Design Your Dream Day: Crafting a Life of Exquisite Joy
What if you could consciously shape your days to be filled with more joy, rather than simply reacting to life’s demands? This is an inspiring, hands-on session where you’ll get to design your own perfect day. By imagining a day without limitations, you’ll uncover the key themes and values most important to you, and leave with a simple blueprint to start incorporating more of these moments of exquisite joy into your life right away.

Dr. Kirsten Cameron is a psychologist, a researcher, a certified life and executive coach, and hypnotherapist who has spent over a decade helping people create lives filled with clarity, purpose, and balance. She has designed and led courses and retreats on mindfulness, goal setting, intuition, energy management, and thought-work, blending psychological expertise with powerful mind–body approaches.

In addition to her clinical and coaching practice, Kirsten draws on her MBA and years of executive and entrepreneurial coaching to support clients in both their personal and professional growth. Whether working one-on-one or guiding groups, she is known for making complex ideas simple, engaging, and deeply transformative.

When she isn’t teaching or coaching, you’ll often find her meditating in her Zen Den, or out hiking and kayaking near her home in San Rafael, CA.

Learn more at www.kirsten-cameron.com or reach her at info@kirsten-cameron.com

Whether single or in a romantic relationship, we each want satisfying relationships. Yet, we often find ourselves wedged inside patterns that stymie us. Research suggests that the quality of our closest relationships is predictive of our longevity. We know relationships take work, but few of us know what that work entails. Thereal work of relationships isn’t occasional, it’s continuous.

Certified and trained by Terry Real, founder of Relational Life Therapy, I will teach you the essential skills to build and maintain intimacy in five sessions. 

Session 1: Self Esteem and Boundaries: We often lose sight of our inherent worth. We need to rediscover compassion for our humanness and hold ourselves with warm regard regardless of what we do. In this session, you will uncover the external ways we look for validation and learn what healthy emotional boundaries look like and how to sustain them.

Session 2: Five Losing Strategies: Five losing strategies imperil relationships. I will assist you in identifying yours and in understanding how they prevent intimacy and connection. It boils down to treating yourself kindly and not with shame. You will do better when you know better and have needs met in a winning way.

Session 3: The Neurobiology of the Relational Brain: I will introduce you to the “adaptive child” and “wise adult” parts of the brain and free you to see where you go when you get triggered and why.

Session 4: Five Winning Strategies: Five winning strategies enhance intimacy and connection. Here we will explore how to get needs met by empowering your partner (whether mother, adult, child, co-worker, friend) to give you what you need.

Session 5: Listener/Speaker Roles and the Feedback Wheel: Learn how to be a good listener and good speaker and how to use the “feedback wheel” as essential skills for better communication and connection.

Nancy Pickard is a Certified Master Integrative Coach, author, speaker and mentor. She is the author of the international best seller, Bigger Better Braver: Conquer your fears, Embrace your Courage and Transform your Life. Some of her certifications include Shadow Coach, Reinvention, Healing your Heart, Boundary, Parenting, and Relational Life Therapy. 

She knows what it takes to help people achieve big goals. She holds multiple personal training certifications and has focused on health and wellness for almost 30 years. She lives by example. In 2017, she undertook her biggest challenge, climbing Kilimanjaro at the age of sixty-one. Coaching others to step out of fear and into bigger versions of themselves is her passion.

http://nancypickardlifecoach.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nancypickardlifecoach/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-pickard-771993a6/

“You already have the wisdom inside you. Let’s unlock it together.”

Hey wellness seekers! Join me to learn how to become your own Coach and overcome feeling “stuck” in any life area. This week you will build a mental model for self-coaching out of difficult situations.

By the end of the week, you will have a personalized self-coaching framework and practical tools to continue your personal transformation journey. Once you learn how to coach yourself, you will have the skills to coach others in your organization or in your personal life.

Awareness – Where am I stuck?
What does it mean to be stuck? Today we will identify where you feel stuck and begin crafting your personal vision for change.

Reframing – Quieting the Inner Critic
How do you challenge limiting beliefs and cultivate a supportive inner Coach voice? Today we will learn to quiet your inner critic and shift limiting beliefs through self-compassion and mindset work.

Clarity – Use a Self-Coaching Framework
What is a solid model to coach yourself by? Learn a step-by-step coaching model to move from stuck to action that will include SPIRE (Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Relational, Emotional) and the Coaching Conversation model.

Action – Building Habits and Momentum
How do we build Habits and Momentum? Bridge the gap between plan and action with tools for habit creation and resilience. Take small, meaningful steps toward your goals.

Integration – Leaving the Ranch with Your Self-Coaching Blueprint
How do we solidify our learnings into a sustainable personal action plan. Your personalized coaching plan will sustain momentum beyond the week.

Leadership Advisor / Executive Coach / Inner Fitness® Coach / Facilitator

Barbara Healy is a trusted executive coach, Inner Fitness® coach and Leadership Advisor with over 25 years of cross-industry experience helping leaders grow with purpose. She brings deep expertise from executive roles in corporate and non-profit leadership, including VP of Corporate Learning at People’s United Bank and Executive Director of Communities In Schools.

Barbara’s clients span industries – Boeing, GE, Goldman Sachs, LEGO, and Yale University, for example,  and she has coached healthcare professionals at the New Haven Health Care System for more than a decade.

She is a certified master facilitator of The Coaching Clinic and holds credentials in Positive Psychology, Team Emotional Intelligence, and Communication Styles. A graduate of Harvard Kennedy School’s Art and Practice of Leadership Development, Barbara brings insight, intuition, and a values driven approach to every engagement.

Barbara’s workshops at Rancho La Puerta are a highlight of her practice, offering participants the tools to reflect, reset, and take inspired action. She believes that leadership starts from within, and that learning to coach yourself is one of the most powerful skills you can develop.

Founder of Barbara Healy Associates/  linkedin.com/in/bbhealy/ www.barbarahealyassociates.com

Fall in love with your life
Move out of survival mode to step boldly into your very best life.
Transformation happens when we realize that there is more to this life than just getting by, one check-list at a time. In this session, you’ll explore how to move out of survival mode to step boldly into the spotlight of your life with more awareness, more possibility, and more joy.

Get Rooted
What if there was more to life than logic or certainty? Inhabiting your joy, even on the hard days, invites us to get out of our heads and find a deeper source of wisdom and truth as our anchor. In this session, you’ll learn 3 ways to be more grounded, present, and focused on what matters most so that you can create a strong inner foundation of peace and ease.

Prioritize THIS. Not That
Focus on what matters. Set strong boundaries. You hear this all the time. But, how do you know what to prioritize? The secret is that you need to know what actually matters to you. In this session, you’ll explore how to align to and embody your core values – the traits that make you uniquely YOU.

Fix Less. Love More.
When was the last time you weren’t trying to change or FIX something about yourself?
What if you could move out of fixing mode, not-enoughness, and past or future thinking and be guided by curiosity and self-compassion? In this session, you’ll explore the practice of identifying, naming, and investigating the stories you tell yourself. You’ll make room for a new way of being, grounded in your own inner wisdom and love.

Say YES to Your Aliveness
What version of you wants to be awakened? Wants to be embodied? Inhabiting your joy invites us to release the past and future to create space for our ideal life – in the now. In this session, you’ll embrace your inner storyteller to visualize and manifest what feels most delicious in your heart. You’ll leave with your own personal roadmap, guided by your inner strength and wisdom, to write the next chapter in your life.

Elena Sonnino is a life coach, yin yoga teacher, and author. But what most people say about Elena is that she brings delightful sparks of energy to everything she does.

Elena is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into delight, one day at a time.

At home, Elena enjoys watching the sunrise, tending to her many plants, riding her Peloton bike, and impromptu kitchen dance parties.

Learn more about Elena at www.elenasonnino.com or by reading her new book, Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges.

Life has pain. Despite your best intentions, things go wrong. How do you usually react when things fall apart? Often, people feel ashamed and self-critical, thinking “What’s wrong with me?” No matter how hard you try to avoid emotional pain, it’s everywhere. Can you make a change and learn to respond to pain differently? Instead of thinking that you are broken and need to be fixed, these sessions teach how to relate to emotional pain in a more compassionate and loving way. This series will explore a radical, scientifically supported way to respond to pain: through self-compassion.

Defining Self-Compassion.
Simply put, self-compassion is taking care of yourself, just as you would care for someone you love dearly. In this session, we will explore the three parts of self-compassion: mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness. We will apply this lesson through compassionate emotion surfing.

Session 1: Defining Self-Compassion. Simply put, self-compassion is taking care of yourself, just as you would care for someone you love dearly. In this session, we will explore the three parts of self-compassion: mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness. We will apply this lesson through compassionate emotion surfing.

Session 2: Experiencing Self-Love. In this session, you will enjoy experiential practices of affectionate breathing, compassionate self-touch, and gratitude for yourself. We will explore the reality of the negativity brain bias and over-ride that tendency with self-appreciation.

Session 3: The Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion. Is self-compassion always just a fluffy, touchy-feeling practice? Not at all! There is a fearsome side! This session focuses on the two sides of self-compassion, emphasizing the yin (comforting, soothing, validating) and yang (protecting, providing, motivating).

Session 4: Nonjudgmental Acceptance. “What you resist persists. What you feel can heal.” When you hate, resist, and judge yourself, you get stuck. This session explores how to befriend yourself, just as you are. We examine the inner critic and replace it with a compassionate coach.

Session 5: Embracing your Body with Self-Compassion. Your sense of self is often closely identified with your body, and it can be painful when your body doesn’t look, behave, or feel the way you want. In this final session, we will apply our core strategies of non-judgmental mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness – specifically toward your body.

Julie Kangas, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified yoga teacher, and a certified compassion meditation teacher. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego and a clinic coordinator at the San Diego VA. She treats Veterans with PTSD and participates in research applying yoga, self-compassion, and meditation as treatments for mental and physical illness. She serves as the Director of the Advanced Fellowship for Women’s Health and teaches doctoral and post-doctoral candidates in clinical psychology. She also maintains a small private practice (find her at drjuliekangas.com).