Kind Mind: Making Peace with Yourself
Making peace with yourself starts with understanding what's getting in the way. A day retreat exploring the inner critic, self-compassion, and how to be your own best friend, drawing on Buddhist psychology and modern wellbeing research.
Many of us in today's world have a harsh inner voice - we criticise, compare, replay mistakes, and refuse to forgive or be understanding. This can be so ingrained that it becomes a kind of background noise we stop noticing, but which affects everything we do and our relationships with others. Drawing on insights from Buddhist psychology and modern wellbeing research, we explore what's really driving the inner critic: self-cherishing turned against itself, guilt, comparison, perfectionism, and other deeply ingrained patterns that make it so hard to simply be kind to ourselves. We look honestly at the barriers, like why self-compassion can feel wrong, undeserved, or frankly impossible, and how we work with them directly. Buddhism and psychology both point to the same thing: that underneath all of it, there is something in us that is genuinely worthy of love, kindness and care. Learning to see that, and meet ourselves there, can change everything. There is guided meditation, teaching, and time for personal reflection, as we explore this together.