![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Experiences](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of connecting to and releasing past experiences — extracting their lessons, viewing them in the third person, naming and releasing their emotions, and carrying only the changed self forward.
A reflection on the experience of becoming debt free — the surreal first month without payments, the initial splurge, and the shift into purposeful saving toward dreams and eventual financial independence.
![[Guided Meditation] Trusting Your River](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage One task of trusting the river of your life, or the divine — distinguishing what you can influence from what you cannot, and learning to let go and flow when the current is swift.
A short teaching essay arguing that choice is the one thing we truly make — that every action begins with a choice of mindset, perception and feeling — and that we come to understand ourselves through the outcomes of our choices.
An artwork depicting the interplay of human consciousness, the subconscious and the divine — shown as overlapping rectangles with the one consciousness radiating out to experience itself within each level.
A teaching on how partners ground each other — meeting a spun-up partner with calm presence, listening without interrupting, offering compassion when a situation cannot be fixed, and asking what they need.
A teaching on how spending patterns mirror self-image — tracing how debt reflects unworthiness and gambling reflects powerlessness, how we model money behavior on our parents, and why getting out of debt is part of learning to love yourself.
![[Guided Meditation] Trusting Yourself](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Meditation.png)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of trusting yourself, using breathwork and a body scan to distinguish true heart and gut intuition from the impulses of the ‘monkey mind’ so choices come from intuition rather than fear.
A leadership piece on connecting with employees as individuals by reading which developmental stage each person is in from how they speak, then meeting them there and guiding them forward without prying into their personal lives.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of uncovering the true emotional roots of past major decisions, using detachment, self-compassion and repeated questioning to reach honest, non-judgmental understanding and release.
An essay on money as an extension of the self, contrasting spending that builds a better life with self-sabotaging retail therapy driven by unworthiness, and noting that spending on others yields more lasting wellbeing.
A participatory word-art project inviting readers to capture real moments from their lives in stories of exactly ten words, inspired by Hemingway’s famous six-word story, with example entries and simple rules for joining in.
A relationship teaching on building physical and emotional safety with a partner after trust, covering protection from outside threats, bodily autonomy, and honest conversation about each person’s touch preferences and boundaries.
![[Guided Meditation] Grounding Yourself – Connecting To Your Time, Attention And Spaces](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0639-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of honoring your own time and purpose, using a heart-centered practice to internalize that finding and sharing your gift is sacred and worth protecting each day.
A teaching essay on how the sentiments we speak ripple out to those around us and mirror back, affecting ourselves most of all, and why choosing loving, positive speech shapes what returns to us.
A motivational essay describing how progress toward a big goal often feels stalled before breaking through exponentially, encouraging persistence by focusing effort on the small cracks in whatever seems to be blocking you.
An exploration of three levels from which we make choices and manifest, contrasting conscious neocortex effort, subconscious beliefs that amplify or block our desires, and choices made from the connected One Consciousness.
An artist’s reflective project mapping the phases of her life to representative colors, with a white overlay for self-growth and the emergence of the true self, inviting readers to imagine their own life in color.
A guide to finding good mentors, teachers and coaches for personal growth, including how to spot self-serving charlatans by their developmental stage and how to match a guide’s style and specialty to your own needs.
![Purna Asatti: A Roadmap To A Better Life Through Complete Connection [AUDIO]](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E70AD80B-E8DF-4C42-A63E-EFABFCCEF0C7-1024x675.jpeg)
A brief announcement that the audiobook edition of Purna Asatti: A Roadmap To A Better Life Through Complete Connection is out on YouTube and coming to Audible and other platforms, offering over six hours of personal-development listening.
A personal account of Reiki energy work as a fast accelerator of self-development, explaining what Reiki is, how a practitioner channels balancing life-force energy, what it can and cannot do, and how to choose a credentialed practitioner.
A speculative essay plotting human history on the cycle of developmental stages, arguing progress is accelerating and predicting two coming eras, a Knowledge Age and a Wisdom Age, marked by innovation, purpose and the study of consciousness.
A management guide to conducting firings and layoffs more humanely by recognizing that job loss throws people into a fear-driven stage, and using group settings, severance and support to ease the transition and reduce backlash.
A simple test for recognizing real, unconditional love by whether joy, awe and gratitude are present, applied both to your own feelings and to a partner’s, with guidance on conditional love and when to stay or leave.
A management guide to recognizing and handling problem employees by the developmental stage they are stuck in, explaining how too long in Stages Three, Five or Seven creates specific workplace problems and how to help people move forward.