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Posts by Kristy Arbon

Podcast Episode 9: Favorite Things on my Morning Walk

Podcast Episode 9: Favorite …

January 27, 2021 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Podcast Episode 8: Slow News Days and Companioning the Neutral

Podcast Episode 8: Slow News …

January 22, 2021 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 7: Self-Care as the Shit Hits the Fan

Podcast Episode 7: Self-Care …

January 6, 2021 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Podcast Episode 6: Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Anxiety, Isolation, and Quarantine

Podcast Episode 6: Highly …

January 5, 2021 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Self-Compassion Week 1 Practice Cycle: What is Somatic Self-Compassion?

Somatic Self-Compassion Week 1 …

January 4, 2021 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Self-Compassion New Year Practice Cycle

Somatic Self-Compassion New …

December 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 5: Tending to Isolation and Loneliness During the Pandemic

Podcast Episode 5: Tending to …

December 26, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 4: Empty airports and neurochemicals for all your quarantine needs

Podcast Episode 4: Empty …

December 23, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 3: On Bodyfulness

Podcast Episode 3: On Bodyfulness

December 16, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Self-Compassion Solstice Practice Cycle

Somatic Self-Compassion …

December 14, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

The Self Delights in Being Understood (12 minutes)

The Self Delights in Being …

December 11, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 2: The 7 Fs of survival response, bonk ban, and legend in my own lunchbox

Podcast Episode 2: The 7 Fs of …

December 6, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Podcast Episode 1: Burnout, Inner Critic, Inner Champion, and God’s packages as the back of the post office

Podcast Episode 1: Burnout, …

November 30, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

The Benevolence of Sensory Experience (27 minutes)

The Benevolence of Sensory …

October 5, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Choose Move and Soothe Tension (20 minutes)

Choose Move and Soothe Tension …

September 29, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Guilt, shame and blame: Why one of these is healthy

Guilt, shame and blame: Why …

September 29, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 8 Comments

Immersed in a slow-moving river of humanity:  Shame and vulnerability as embracer

Immersed in a slow-moving …

September 29, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Aligning Yourself with Your Values through Setting Goals

Aligning Yourself with Your …

September 19, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Attention Restoration Meditations

Attention Restoration Meditations

September 13, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Exploration, Experimentation and Dancing in Response to Shame!

Exploration, Experimentation …

August 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

A Scaffolded Approach to Walking a Teaching Path

A Scaffolded Approach to …

August 26, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

SSC Self-Inquiry of Rest and Challenge (22 minutes)

SSC Self-Inquiry of Rest and …

August 20, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

The Feminine and the Masculine in Contemplative Practice

The Feminine and the Masculine …

August 10, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Striving, Self Kindness, and Allowing the Mystery

Striving, Self Kindness, and …

August 6, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Being with Challenging Internal Experiences with Kindness and Curiosity (21 minutes)

Being with Challenging …

August 6, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Supporting Your Practice: Some tips for sustainable and rewarding contemplative work

Supporting Your Practice: Some …

August 1, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Being with the Messages and the Mystery of the Body (17 minutes)

Being with the Messages and …

July 30, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Sensing Boundaries in our Environment (19 minutes)

Sensing Boundaries in our …

July 23, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

10 things I Didn’t Know About Online Self-Compassion Training

10 things I Didn’t Know About …

July 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Sensory Modulation through Touch, Balance, Proprioception and Movement (20 minutes)

Sensory Modulation through …

July 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Body-Centered Sensory Modulation (20 minutes)

Body-Centered Sensory …

July 16, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Noticing Sensory Resources (17 minutes)

Noticing Sensory Resources (17 …

July 11, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Relying on the Wisdom of our Body (18 minutes)

Relying on the Wisdom of our …

July 9, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

What is the connection between shame and trauma?

What is the connection between …

June 30, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Why We’re Not Self-Compassionate and … There’s a Course for That

Why We’re Not …

June 27, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Savoring, staying, and self-compassioning (18 minutes)

Savoring, staying, and …

June 20, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Being with pleasant, neutral and unpleasant sensations (18 minutes)

Being with pleasant, neutral …

June 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Self-Compassion Behavior, Imagery, Thoughts, Emotions and Sensation (16 minutes)

Self-Compassion Behavior, …

June 6, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Validating and Honoring Self-Care Motivation (17 minutes)

Validating and Honoring …

June 4, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Self-Compassion Neurochemicals Practice (19 minutes)

Self-Compassion Neurochemicals …

May 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Sleep is your #1 Self-Compassion Practice

Sleep is your #1 …

May 24, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 1 Comment

Awareness of environment-expanding and body-centered sensations (22 minutes)

Awareness of …

May 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Releasing Yourself Into Your Own Care (16 minutes)

Releasing Yourself Into Your …

May 2, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Self-Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

Self-Care During COVID-19 and …

April 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Three SSC Touchstones with Body Signal Reflections (19 minutes)

Three SSC Touchstones with …

April 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

What do I feel? What do I need? What can I do?

What do I feel? What do I …

April 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 6 Comments

Choose Move Soothe (9 minutes)

Choose Move Soothe (9 minutes)

April 10, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Notes from an introverted hermit: Self-care during coronavirus social distancing

Notes from an introverted …

April 10, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Somatic Mindfulness Bridge (16 minutes)

Somatic Mindfulness Bridge (16 …

April 7, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

A love letter during COVID-19

A love letter during COVID-19

April 3, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Meeting Challenge with Strengths and Values (20 minutes)

Meeting Challenge with …

March 29, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Validating COVID-19 Landmarks of Emotion

Validating COVID-19 Landmarks …

March 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Expanding and Centering Awareness, Settling and Adjusting (19 minutes)

Expanding and Centering …

March 26, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Awareness of Five Kinds of Sensations (20 minutes)

Awareness of Five Kinds of …

March 25, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Connecting with Joint Venture Partners to promote your work

Connecting with Joint Venture …

March 23, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Crafting an inviting course title

Crafting an inviting course title

March 23, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Components of an effective training program

Components of an effective …

March 22, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Crafting Your Course Description for Marketing

Crafting Your Course …

March 22, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Teaching

Synchronous and Asynchronous …

March 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Starting up Your Online Presence

Starting up Your Online Presence

March 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Video meeting checklist

Video meeting checklist

March 21, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Kindly and Skillfully Relating to Stress from Another Hill (20 minutes)

Kindly and Skillfully Relating …

March 20, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Scarcity And Shame: A Personal Journey

Scarcity And Shame: A Personal …

March 20, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Inviting My Body to Release Tension (18 minutes)

Inviting My Body to Release …

March 19, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Skillful Resistance as a Valid Option (19 minutes)

Skillful Resistance as a Valid …

March 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Resourcing Through Pendulation (19 minutes)

Resourcing Through Pendulation …

March 17, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Finding a Little Peace Just for Now (18 minutes)

Finding a Little Peace Just …

March 16, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

I Love My Inner, Sad, Old, Critical Hag: Understanding procrastination

I Love My Inner, Sad, Old, …

February 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 7 Comments

Invitation to Release (17 minutes)

Invitation to Release (17 minutes)

February 13, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Radical self-compassion during intense training

Radical self-compassion during …

February 11, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Belly, Heart, Head Wisdom for Future Practice (18 minutes)

Belly, Heart, Head Wisdom for …

January 30, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Body Scan Inviting Muscles to Release (17 minutes)

Body Scan Inviting Muscles to …

January 17, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Inviting Your Body to Settle, Release and Ground (18 minutes)

Inviting Your Body to Settle, …

January 16, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Settling and Grounding Awareness in Sound (13 minutes)

Settling and Grounding …

January 11, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Hedonic and Eudaemonic Feelings Meditation (18 minutes)

Hedonic and Eudaemonic …

January 9, 2020 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Three Somatic Self-Compassion Touchstone Questions Practice (17 minutes)

Three Somatic Self-Compassion …

December 20, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Body Scan with Three Somatic Self-Compassion Touchstone Questions (20 minutes)

Body Scan with Three Somatic …

December 20, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Cultivating Compassionate Online Teaching Practices

Cultivating Compassionate …

December 9, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

How to not shame people online

How to not shame people online

December 8, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Tips for hosting online video meetings

Tips for hosting online video …

December 8, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Three SSC Elements Practice (18 minutes)

Three SSC Elements Practice …

December 5, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Trauma-Informed Contemplative Teaching

Trauma-Informed Contemplative …

December 1, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 17 Comments

Navigating the Window of Tolerance: Titration During Emotional Adventures

Navigating the Window of …

November 24, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Settling and Adjusting (12 minutes)

Settling and Adjusting (12 minutes)

November 22, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Sitting in our Window of Tolerance

Sitting in our Window of Tolerance

November 14, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

What is Radical Emergent Self-Wisdom?

What is Radical Emergent …

November 9, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

12 things I’m doing to grow a compassionate business

12 things I’m doing to grow a …

November 2, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Midwifing Our Emotions: Thawing a Freeze Response with Somatic Self-Compassion

Midwifing Our Emotions: …

October 30, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Connection and growth are the parents of teaching: Why I teach

Connection and growth are the …

October 26, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

What is a trauma-informed approach?

What is a trauma-informed approach?

October 9, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

On loneliness and neurochemicals

On loneliness and neurochemicals

September 25, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

Mindfulness at the Gym

Mindfulness at the Gym

September 21, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Why am I entering into the Gift Economy?

Why am I entering into the …

September 13, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

Starting a New Chapter with Backdraft

Starting a New Chapter with …

September 11, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 21 Comments

Remembering to Snarl

Remembering to Snarl

September 6, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

On Flight

On Flight

August 17, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 10 Comments

Finding community, grieving disconnection, taking care of my body, and teaching MSC with chronic fatigue

Finding community, grieving …

August 10, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 8 Comments

Holding Resistance with Patience and Kindness (19 minutes)

Holding Resistance with …

July 1, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Unpeeling Layers of Internalized Abandonment

Unpeeling Layers of …

June 27, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 12 Comments

Interoception, the Inner Critic, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Wisdom of the Body in the Moment

Interoception, the Inner …

May 29, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

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