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Our world is becoming increasingly connected, and not only because of technology. More and more people are waking up to our energetic and spiritual interconnectedness as well. While this can be a beautiful blessing, if you’re an empath, and especially if you work in a healing profession, all this interconnection can feel more like overconnection - leaving you feeling drained, burned out, and at the mercy of the energies around you.

Soberful offers a practical and straightforward program on how to get sober and stay sober by increasing your self-worth, energy, and participation in life. Valli begins by debunking widespread beliefs about alcohol and sobriety, including the illusion that alcohol itself is the problem.

In How to Break Up with Your Friends, celebrated life mentor Erin Falconer provides a refreshing guide to modern-day friendships—along with deeper principles, assessments, and practices for nurturing them.

In Taking Refuge in the Wild Heart, Starr shows us how to collectively reclaim feminine wisdom from the margins of patriarchy in order to embody this living spirit in our daily lives. This, she teaches, is a revolutionary act - one that is wildly creative and for everyone.

When we seek to connect with the present moment, many of us end up going into our thoughts - and disconnecting from our bodies. Kim Eng teaches a different approach. Her practices all nourish an exquisite sense of inner harmony - through movement and Stillness, doing and allowing, mind and body, all working together to awaken us to the realization of our inherent wholeness. Now, with Sensing into Presence, this renowned teacher presents a compilation of her most effective meditations for bringing your complete self into a state of graceful Presence.

In these sessions, you will explore the 10 core practices of Revolutionary Love - how to reclaim wonder, be brave with your grief, harness your rage, reimagine solutions, embrace joy, and more. Drawing on wisdom learned on the front lines of social justice movements and research in religion, law, ethics, and science, Kaur’s new framework has been called a moral compass for our time.

Enhance your ability to work skillfully with your clients’ trauma in this professional training taught by Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Drawing on the latest research and neuroscientifically grounded treatment approaches in the area of trauma, Bonnie provides both the theory and clinical tools you need to more effectively support your clients. The instruction looks at both theoretical and experiential-based learning approaches.

In these six engaging audio sessions, the celebrated social and cultural visionary, Zen teacher, master trainer, activist, and author takes us on a journey of inward transformation, conscious action for justice, and unapologetic self-acceptance that reconnects us to our power by teaching us how to show up to our lives with greater courage and compassion.

According to Lama Tsultrim, intrusive and unpleasant inner states are not only unavoidable aspects of life but also potential allies. In the Befriending Your Demons audio program, Lama Tsultrim offers a five-part process for turning toward your demons rather than suppressing or running away from them.

The Sanskrit word paramitas means "actions that take us to the other shore". In this inspiring audio program, beloved teacher and author Pema Chödrön shows us how to use the six paramitas to move out of isolation and fear and into the compassion and courage of our awakened Buddha nature.

Guided audio practices to stop fighting your anxiety and start working with it as an untapped source of energy, focus, foresight, and productivity.

A rising number of people today are troubled by a phenomenon for which they don't know there's a name. This condition is called emotional inflammation - a state not unlike post-traumatic stress, but one that stems from simply living in today's tumultuous world. If you've suffered from sleep problems, hyperreactivity, persistent grief, or inescapable worry about the future - especially triggered by the nonstop news cycle - then you're probably dealing with emotional inflammation. The good news is: there's something you can do about it.

We are modern people in a high-tech world. We have first world problems and long to-do lists. And if you grew up in struggle - overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice - you need a different type of meditation...one that doesn't pretend the struggle doesn't exist. Now, Justin introduces Freedom Meditation - an approach that addresses disillusionment, social justice, and shame; strengthens intuition; cuts through self-doubt; and empowers you to make better decisions.

With Transformed by Birth, unabridged and read by the author, Dr. Britta Bushnell has created the transformative, intelligent, and empowering pregnancy and childbirth guide you’ve been waiting for. This audiobook embraces birth as a rite of passage in which you open to the unbidden, embody your own wisdom, and gain freedom from limiting beliefs. Parents giving birth today do so within a society highly influenced by underlying ideals - including a need for control and certainty, vilification of pain, and reverence for intellectual knowledge and technology, among others. Dr. Bushnell brings clarity and awareness to these foundational ideals.

Empaths have so much to offer as healers, creatives, friends, lovers, and innovators at work. Yet highly sensitive and empathic people often give too much at the expense of their own well-being - and end up absorbing the stress of others. "To stay healthy and happy," writes Dr. Judith Orloff, "you must be ready with daily self-care practices that work." With Thriving as an Empath, she provides an invaluable resource to help you protect yourself from the stresses of an overwhelming world and embrace the "gift of being different".

At the intersection of flow states, mystical experiences, peak performance, and psychedelics lies a mysterious space of possibility. In Mapping Cloud Nine, best-selling author and award-winning journalist Steven Kotler takes us on a heady thrill ride through the history of human potential - and how what we’ve learned so far might unlock even greater levels of creativity, performance, and meaning in our lives. In this six-part audio program, Kotler bridges science and spirituality to explore how our understanding of peak experiences has evolved over time.

With The Art of Showing Up, two master teachers apply the Toltec wisdom of The Four Agreements to the topic of creating authentic, healthy, and loving relationships. HeatherAsh Amara and don Miguel Ruiz Jr. share insights on key relationship skills including commitment, trust, healing, communication, and releasing. For each skill, they present guided practices to help you artfully apply these insights in your own relationships - starting with the essential relationship with yourself.

Gain a unique perspective on how our thoughts and emotions influence the healing process. Dr. Joan Borysenko, a nationally renowned cancer cell biologist and psychologist takes us back to the time of Jesus to help cast light on forgiveness, an often overlooked concept that has profound implications in the science of self-healing. Using step-by-step meditations, historical anecdotes, and inspiring bio-spiritual insights, Seventy Times Seven synthesizes Dr. Borysenko's many areas of expertise to help us rediscover the power of forgiveness and its great benefits to our health and emotional wellness.

Writing, according to Thomas Moore, is sacred practice. Though we often don't think of it in these terms, everything we write - whether a love letter or a shopping list - connects us to the classic tradition of logos, or word. Once a revered practice, guarded by monks in the sanctity of the scriptorium, writing continues to offer us all direct passage to the soul's innermost corridors.

Stress, according to traditional Chinese medicine, depletes the vital energy stored in the kidneys and weakens the immune system. In Stress Relief, Michael Reed Gach gives listeners techniques to nourish the kidneys and counteract stress. Learn self-acupressure, deep breathing exercises, and gentle stretches to feel more relaxed and enhance the quality of your life in as little as just five minutes a day.