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Breakup Meditation: Calm Your Mind & Come Back to Yourself


Meditation can help you through a breakup by calming rumination, making space for difficult emotions, and helping you reconnect with yourself. Try simple practices for focus, self-compassion, and emotional regulation, plus a journaling prompt to help you identify what you need today.

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Breakup Meditation: Calm Your Mind & Come Back to Yourself
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Mindful Awareness Break for Grief: How to Step Out of Rumination and Come Back to Now


Take a moment to switch off your autopilot switch and pay attention to the precious life before you! In this brief guided meditation, you will use your breath, sight, sound, and awareness of feelings to press your reset button and “begin again.”

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Mindful Awareness Break for Grief: How to Step Out of Rumination and Come Back to Now

Self-Compassion Mantra for Grief: Meditation & Journaling Practice


A replay of the Living With Grief workshop on self-compassion and grief. In this session, Heather Stang shares a simple meditation and journaling practice that helps you discover the words you most need to hear when grief appears, and how those words can become a self-compassion mantra you return to in difficult moments.

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Self-Compassion Mantra for Grief: Meditation & Journaling Practice

Presence, Mindfulness, & Understanding Loss | Living With Grief Workshop Replay


Grief is not something we solve or move past.It is something we learn to live with.Whether your loss is recent or happened years ago, whether you are navigating your first loss or carrying many, grief can touch every part of life in ways that feel confusing and overwhelming.This Living With Grief workshop replay offers a

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Presence, Mindfulness, & Understanding Loss | Living With Grief Workshop Replay

Guided Body Scan Meditation for Beginners


Free guided body scan meditation audio download plus written instructions to help cultivate awareness and appreciate your own precious life force.

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Guided Body Scan Meditation for Beginners

Mindfulness & Relaxation: How To Find Your Bliss


In my decade plus years of teaching mindfulness, I have never picked up the phone and had anyone say “I want to learn how to practice mindfulness because I want to cultivate a calm and open attitude to the present moment when I am feeling at my wit’s end.” No – most people call because

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Mindfulness & Relaxation: How To Find Your Bliss
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Important: This page and the practices shared here are for educational and supportive purposes only. They are not a substitute for mental health care, medical care, or crisis support.

If you are concerned about your safety, struggling to function, or experiencing thoughts of harming yourself or someone else, please contact a licensed mental health professional, call 911, or go to the nearest emergency room right away.

If you are in the U.S. or Canada, you can also call or text 988 for immediate crisis support.

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