![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Body – Setting Goals And Making Progress](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0814-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of setting body goals, building gratitude for the body and guiding the definition of small, achievable nutrition, exercise and wellbeing goals, then visualizing their compound effect for motivation.
A spiritual teaching essay on the law of reciprocity — that whatever we put into the world returns to us like ripples on water — culminating in the idea that ‘being,’ quiet presence in the moment, is where the divine is found.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Forgiving And Accepting Others As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0591-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting others, practicing the recognition that another’s choices say nothing about you, and extending that acceptance to societal norms and groups previously rejected.
An examination of how money becomes a tool of control in intimate relationships — how one partner erodes the other’s financial confidence and seizes sole access — and why financial visibility is inseparable from equality and freedom.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Others – Seeing Yourself In Others](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of seeing yourself in others, practicing viewing people’s defining traits as reflections of your own past, present or future self, as a way to connect more easily and read inner messages.
A relationship teaching offering playful practices — eye gazing, sustained touch, flirting, and consciously sending love — that deepen connection and compassion between partners, several of which one person can initiate alone.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Heart – Breaking The Trance Of Unworthiness](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0721-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of breaking the trance of unworthiness, guiding the practitioner to distinguish the true self from the self built for others and to feel the divine love that has always been present in the heart.
A money essay describing three forms of financial manipulation in relationships — demanding payment for connection, turning cold once paid, and outright extortion — and tracing them to a lack of empathy and a broken capacity for real trust.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Forgiving And Accepting Yourself As Human](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0733-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of forgiving and accepting yourself as human, guiding you to revisit a past mistake, offer compassion to your former self, and release the regret so you can move forward wiser.
A relationship teaching redefining compassion not as shared suffering but as seeing another’s humanity as an aspect of yourself, and explaining why compassion for a partner must begin with genuine compassion for oneself.
An essay responding to Tim Ferriss’s remark that meditation had diminishing returns, arguing that a meditation practice, like a workout, must evolve through progressively challenging forms — mindfulness, objects, sound, mantra, somatic, energy and consciousness.
A money essay using homicide and domestic-conflict statistics to show how money, as a surrogate for survival, drives anger and violence in relationships, and offering three keys to keep money from sparking conflict with a partner.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Yourself – Taking Responsibility For Your Life](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Six task of taking responsibility for your life, guiding you to stop blaming others, accept your current reality, and recognize the authority you hold to improve your situation one small step each day.
A relationship teaching on celebrating a partner’s individuality, quirks and independent interests through joy, awe and gratitude, and on listening without judgement to encourage their strength of self and honest, reciprocal expression of personal truth.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Five task of seeing others’ humanity through their ideology, guiding the listener to imagine how a disliked person’s past and circumstances shaped their beliefs, softening defensiveness into compassion.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Money – Solidifying Your Savings Engine](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0724-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of solidifying a savings engine, leading the listener through vividly imagining an ideal life so that a compelling vision motivates consistent, automatic saving.
A relationship teaching on supporting a partner’s independent will and interests, distinguishing love from attachment, examining the fears behind a desire to control, and freeing a partner to pursue their own passions as an act of love.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Ideology – Define Your Ideology And Put It Into Practice](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/69B351F5-0D60-4F68-B368-DB7B8ECB3E40-1080x675.jpeg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of defining one’s ideology, leading the listener to trace chosen beliefs back to their root principles by repeatedly asking why, and to notice where beliefs and principles register in the body.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Four task of recognizing and removing negative patterns, guiding the listener to sit with themselves in self-forgiveness, dig for a pattern’s root cause, and replace it with a chosen self-care habit.
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.
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.