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Welcome to the HeartWorks blog

We're glad you dropped in. This is a space for seekers looking for that missing piece: The piece that bridges head and heart, where we remember to stop and ask the question, “What do I need right now?” and then, “So which tool do I use to do that?” Don't be surprised if you find yourself realizing, “Oh, you feel that too?”
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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

The Feminine and the Masculine in Contemplative Practice

The Feminine and the Masculine …

August 10, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

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

Supporting Your Practice: Some …

August 1, 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

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

Sleep is your #1 Self-Compassion Practice

Sleep is your #1 …

May 24, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 1 Comment

Self-Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

Self-Care During COVID-19 and …

April 28, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

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

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

Notes from an introverted …

April 10, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

A love letter during COVID-19

A love letter during COVID-19

April 3, 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

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

Scarcity And Shame: A Personal Journey

Scarcity And Shame: A Personal …

March 20, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

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

I Love My Inner, Sad, Old, …

February 18, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 7 Comments

Radical self-compassion during intense training

Radical self-compassion during …

February 11, 2020 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

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

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

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

Unpeeling Layers of Internalized Abandonment

Unpeeling Layers of …

June 27, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 12 Comments

What If I Knew I Would Always Feel This Way?

What If I Knew I Would Always …

May 28, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 16 Comments

Sick and Self-Compassionate

Sick and Self-Compassionate

May 7, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 24 Comments

Becoming Empowered Through Somatic Self-Compassion

Becoming Empowered Through …

March 19, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Self-Inquiry As Self-Compassion Practice

Self-Inquiry As …

February 16, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Meet my Inner Little Nervous Projectionist

Meet my Inner Little Nervous …

February 3, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Crying Meditation

Crying Meditation

January 29, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Absolutist Thinking and Waking Up

Absolutist Thinking and Waking Up

January 29, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Feeling Emotions in the Body, Connecting Values, and Self-Soothing

Feeling Emotions in the Body, …

January 20, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 6 Comments

Finding Our Compassionate Meditation Posture

Finding Our Compassionate …

January 6, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Birth of a Sensory Lounge (aka Rosemary’s Kitchen)

Birth of a Sensory Lounge (aka …

January 6, 2019 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

Self-Compassionate Gadgets to Soothe Senses

Self-Compassionate Gadgets to …

January 6, 2019 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Self-Care During a Long Journey and Beyond

Self-Care During a Long …

December 22, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Practicing Self-Compassion: You already do it!

Practicing Self-Compassion: …

December 22, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Self-Compassion First Aid

Somatic Self-Compassion First Aid

December 22, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 1 Comment

Ritual and Self-Compassion Practice

Ritual and Self-Compassion Practice

December 22, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Ritual As Self-Compassion Practice

Ritual As Self-Compassion Practice

December 22, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Anchoring Our Awareness: Alternatives to the breath

Anchoring Our Awareness: …

December 16, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 3 Comments

Stress, Core Values, and the Holidays

Stress, Core Values, and the …

December 9, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

My belly is yelling at me in the night…

My belly is yelling at me in …

December 6, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Adverse Meditation Effects, the Dalai Lama, and the Noble Eightfold Path

Adverse Meditation Effects, …

November 10, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 6 Comments

We live in tricky times

We live in tricky times

October 15, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Am I Motivated from Love or Fear?

Am I Motivated from Love or Fear?

September 23, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 8 Comments

Addressing Anxiety with Somatic Self-Compassion practices

Addressing Anxiety with …

September 17, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

The Young Frog and the Trauma Process

The Young Frog and the Trauma …

September 5, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

A love note for the weary heart-centered business woman…

A love note for the weary …

August 25, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Reframing our Critical Internal Messages

Reframing our Critical …

August 4, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Tending to the Outer Critics

Tending to the Outer Critics

August 4, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Balancing Power in Our Stress and Trauma Work

Balancing Power in Our Stress …

July 18, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Social Justice Begins with Self-Compassion for Our Body

Social Justice Begins with …

July 12, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Tuning in to Body Wisdom (and why we don’t)

Tuning in to Body Wisdom (and …

June 21, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Mindfulness is the Mother of Equanimity; Self-Compassion is the Midwife.

Mindfulness is the Mother of …

June 6, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

To My Body in Pain…

To My Body in Pain…

May 23, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

The Only Friend We Can Ever Rely On

The Only Friend We Can Ever Rely On

May 3, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

Emergent Stretch as a Self-Compassion Practice

Emergent Stretch as a …

April 11, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

The Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse of the Self: Shame, Self-Criticism, Perfectionism and Unclear Boundaries

The Four Horsewomen of the …

March 14, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Two Approaches to Working with Shame

Two Approaches to Working with …

February 21, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Should you teach mindfulness and self-compassion courses online?

Should you teach mindfulness …

January 30, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Leave Body Image Self-Criticism Behind Through Self-Compassion

Leave Body Image …

January 25, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Finding Your Self-Compassion Practice Path online

Finding Your Self-Compassion …

January 24, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Choose Your Own Self-Compassion Practice Adventure

Choose Your Own …

January 16, 2018 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

A love letter to my 2018 body

A love letter to my 2018 body

January 3, 2018 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Body, Meet You; You, Meet Your Body

Body, Meet You; You, Meet Your Body

December 13, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Finding the Hard Emotions to Protect the Soft Ones

Finding the Hard Emotions to …

November 29, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Open Awareness Meditation and Self-Compassion

Open Awareness Meditation and …

November 16, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

The Gift of Fearlessness through Stillness and Somatic Self-Compassion

The Gift of Fearlessness …

November 8, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Call and Response: Move it and you can soothe it

Somatic Call and Response: …

November 2, 2017 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Tending to the Inner Rebel (aka Feisty Little Sweetheart)

Tending to the Inner Rebel …

October 4, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Working with Perfectionism

Working with Perfectionism

September 13, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

HeartWorks Practice Circle

HeartWorks Practice Circle

September 7, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Fierce Self-Compassion: “Stop being a whiney bitch and pull on your big girl pants”

Fierce Self-Compassion: …

September 6, 2017 By Kristy Arbon 4 Comments

Thriving Woman Toolkit

Thriving Woman Toolkit

August 7, 2017 By Kristy Arbon 3 Comments

Flirting with the Inner Critic

Flirting with the Inner Critic

August 2, 2017 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Pulling on the Shirt of Arrows Every Morning: Tools for Preventing Caregiver Burnout

Pulling on the Shirt of Arrows …

July 19, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

Somatic Awareness Journaling: A simple daily practice to reconnect with your body

Somatic Awareness Journaling: …

July 5, 2017 By Kristy Arbon 2 Comments

Skillfully Releasing Pent-Up Energy Through Emergent Somatic Expression

Skillfully Releasing Pent-Up …

June 28, 2017 By Kristy Arbon Leave a Comment

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