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Compassionate Conversations #1 – Intentions

Join Kate James, Coach and Mindfulness Teacher and Clinical Psychologist, Catherine Morey-Nase in this online 90-minute workshop where we’ll discuss how to live with greater intention.

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Compassionate Conversations #2 – Sensitivity

Join Kate James, Coach and Mindfulness Teacher and Clinical Psychologist, Catherine Morey-Nase in this 90-minute workshop where we’ll discuss how to live with sensitivity.

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Compassionate Conversations #3 – Self-Kindness

Join Kate James, Coach and Mindfulness Teacher and Clinical Psychologist, Catherine Morey-Nase in this 90-minute workshop where we’ll discuss how to live with greater self-kindness.

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Weekly Insight Timer Live [free event]

Join Kate and around 200 global meditators every Monday morning at 9.30am (Melbourne time) for a brief talk and guided meditation on how to find greater peace and confidence. We meet for around 30 minutes. FREE

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The Confidence Course – small group coaching course

The Confidence Course is a six-week group coaching program that includes the most effective exercises and strategies Kate has used with clients to build self-belief over the past 20 years. Next course commences March 2025.

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Build Self-Belief Course

Build Self-Belief Through Mindful Action Course

Join Kate’s ten-lesson online course on Insight Timer. This course includes practical tips to help you transform your thinking and your behaviour.

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Recently, my daughter Meg shared a teaching from trauma-informed therapy that I've found hugely helpful when we want to judge ourselves and others more gently. When someone is going through a period of difficulty or displaying behaviours you find a bit tricky, instead of asking, "what's wrong with them?", instead ask, "what has happened in their life to make situations like these difficult for them?" All of us have had experiences that have caused us distress in some way and we carry those stresses in our bodies. These unconscious influences can lead to habitual ways of responding to the world that are sometimes framed as deficiency. And when we behave like this ourselves, we also judge ourselves as deficient in some way. When Meg shared this research, I found it a wonderful pathway to self-compassion and it can also be the beginning of true healing. If we tune into our bodies and learn about what’s happening during times of difficulty, we can also learn how to better regulate our nervous systems. It's a transformative approach and one that is enormously helpful when we want to find a more peaceful way of interacting in all of our relationships – including the one with ourselves. If you want to learn more about a trauma-informed approach to healing (I think it’s great even if you haven’t experienced trauma) have a listen to Meg's brilliant course on @insighttimer - Journey to Self-Healing. ✨
I hope you’ve had a beautiful start to the year. I’m still taking it pretty slowly. My intention this year is to see if I can continue to keep the pace a little more gentle. To live in the present as much as possible and savour the small precious moments. Have you found time to reflect on what will make your year truly meaningful? ✨
5 questions to reflect on as the year comes to a close. You might like to grab your journal and make a note of your answers there. 1. What have you done this year that you can allow yourself to feel proud of? Put aside your humility for a moment and include even the smallest things. 2. What can you forgive yourself for? Turn your attention to self-kindness as you ask yourself this question and accept your imperfect moments (all of us have had them). Remind yourself that we build inner strength and resilience when we embrace opportunities for growth and avoid getting caught in a shame spiral. 3. What are the places, people and activities that have filled you with energy? For me it's anywhere that connects me with the natural world, the friends who love deep conversations and anything to do with creativity. I'd love to hear yours in the comments. 🙏 4. And what are the things that have most depleted you? Intuitively, you know what they are but sometimes they can be hard to admit, even to yourself. Can you move away from any of these next year? 5. What are you looking forward to and who do you most want to be? This is really two questions, but when we put them together, the focus becomes hopeful and positive and filled with possibility. I won't be posting for the next couple of weeks but next Monday 30 Jan at 9.30am Melbourne time, you'll catch me doing a ‘Finding Inner Peace' meditation on Insight Timer. I would love you to join me if you're free. I hope you have a beautiful few weeks and for those who find this time of year a little more difficult, my love and thoughts are with you. 🥰✨
It’s not often in life that you meet a truly kindred spirit but that’s how it felt when I first met my dear friend and colleague, Catherine Morey-Nase over 12 years ago now. As time has gone on, we have continued to discover many shared interests and passions and maybe more importantly, we view the world in much the same way. We both value the virtue of kindness, we see sensitivity as a strength and we know the transformative effect of self-compassion. After hosting five retreats together, Catherine (who is a Melbourne based Clinical Psychologist) and I have decided to collaborate more often. Next year, we’ll be hosting a series of online workshops which we’ve called Compassionate Conversations. Our focus will be on helping you to: ✨ listen more closely to your heart ✨ live in alignment with your true values ✨ learn to be kinder to yourself ✨ pursue the life you really want, and ✨ to do all of these things gently. Our first workshop will be held on Saturday 18 January at 9am and we’ll be talking about approaching the new year with intention, rather than making New Year’s resolutions or goal setting. We’ll share teachings, our own insights and some wonderful resources. We would love to see you there. You’ll find a link to book in my bio.✨
This week, see if you can let go of the pressure you’ve been putting yourself under. The sense that you need to be striving. The desire to change something about yourself. Set your intention to be at peace with where you are right now so that you can really live in this moment. ✨
The theme last week with clients was a general feeling of overwhelm. Amidst the usual pressures that seem to come at this time of year there've been unexpected bills, sick children, leaky ceilings, workplace tensions and understandably, feelings of stress and anxiety. The best antidote to overwhelm is cultivating your capacity for equanimity, but that's not always easy when you're in the thick of it. The following few tips might help though. ✨ Step away from the chaos for ten minutes and breathe your way back to a sense of stillness. ✨ Choose just one thing to tackle first and put your efforts into that. ✨ Acknowledge that you’re at your capacity and say no to anything extra this week. ✨ Even if you feel you don’t have time, switch off your phone and sit down with a quiet cup of tea. ✨ Be brave enough to ask for support and be open about what you need. If you know someone who is overwhelmed right now, offer some practical help. Instead of saying, “let me know what I can do”, be specific about how you can assist. Offer to drop a meal in, collect children from school or lend a hand in the garden. Most overwhelmed people don’t know what they need so it is helpful to be proactive. And if you're in need of some immediate peace, join our beautiful, supportive community, live this morning on Insight Timer where we chat and meditate for around 30 minutes, starting at 9.30am. Everyone is welcome, beginners included. You'll find the link in my bio. 🙏
I have a handwritten copy of this quote on my desk with the added words: "This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination." A reminder that so often think we’ll be happy once things are different in some way. The invitation this week is to pause every now and then and let yourself soak in the beauty and complexity of any given moment. Even if it isn’t perfect, see if you can be at peace with it anyway. ✨
What an absolute privilege. 14 years of this place and as always, the most beautiful group of women. #byronbayretreat 🙏
“You are not the person you were five years ago. You evolve as your self-image does, so make sure that it’s an accurate one. Give yourself credit for everything you’ve overcome that you never thought you would, and everything you’ve built that you never thought you could. You’ve come so much farther than you think, and you’re so much closer than you realize.” Brianna Wiest These beautiful words from @briannawiest might inspire you to take your journal out this week. Write about all of the ways you've changed and grown over the past five (or so) years. Resist the temptation to think about what you still want to change and instead, simply acknowledge yourself for what you’ve achieved already. ✨
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