Self-Compassion

Whether it’s the start of your journey, or you’re refreshing, learn the basics of how to meditate & how to explore your inner world.

Maybe its the beginning of your spiritual adventure or it may be that you’re searching to learn more embodied meditation. This course will guide you gradually, step by step, to learn the basics of how to meditate and how to deeply connect to the body.

A series of very easy, short practices to guide you gently into your meditation journey.

You are standing at a crossroads. The worry will not quiet, the doubt keeps growing, and you cannot tell which way to go. Crow has been waiting for you. This is the Crow chapter of the Animal Spirit pathway, one guide and three ways in, so you can begin wherever you need.

Start with the talk to understand: what Crow's visit means, how her medicine steadies you through change, the folklore from Japan's sacred Yatagarasu to the Lenape story of Rainbow Crow, and two remarkable facts about crow intelligence.

Continue with the guided journey to experience a sacred circle of Eagle, Fox, Owl, and Wolf, and a quiet forest clearing where Crow offers perspective rather than pressure.

Close with the blessing to carry with you, a short spoken reminder to trust yourself a little more. Press play on one, or follow the pathway through all three.

After surgery, the body begins its work of recovery—but the mind and nervous system need care, too. This journey offers gentle support for the hours and days following a procedure, with calming guidance and spacious sound to help you rest, release worry, quiet the watchful mind, and give yourself permission to simply be cared for. You are here--and you are held!

This course is a deep journey guiding you to connect to your deeper layers of being, cultivate a healthy relationship with your feelings and emotions and to self heal.

The course is a progressive, step-by-step journey of deep self discovery & self-realisation, empowering you transform your relationship with life and to be able to to cope with whatever life may throw at you.

Life can be unpredictable and often we need to dig deep to find that place within us that will be our compass during challenging times. This is when we need to align with our inner power and tap into our inherent knowing that we can get through this as our soul has been here before, navigating the ups and downs of life, and somehow we always seem to find our way home.

This journey starts with a reminder that it is ok to rest and renew, followed by an acknowledgement of tender and brave heart that feel deeply, and culminating in encouragement to not lose hope and celebrate the soft and kind hearts out there in the world. We need you!

MUSIC: Chris Collins, Indie Music Box

Discover how to switch your consciousness from head to your heart and gut minds and how that leads you into a blissful and magical life. Imagine too if this transformation could take less than two weeks.

Stop the Spin: Overthinking, Indecision & Procrastination

If you keep circling the same decision, gathering more information, replaying the options, or waiting to feel completely certain before you move, this Journey is for you.

This journey brings together short coaching talks and meditations that explore what can happen when thinking starts to replace deciding. You’ll look at why overthinking can sometimes feel safer than moving forward, how second-guessing keeps decisions open, and how scrolling, researching, and comparing can quietly become another way to delay the next step.

You’ll also have space to settle some of the mental noise and reconnect with what you already know about yourself.

The goal isn’t to force a fast answer or convince yourself that there is one perfect choice. It’s to recognize the loop, reduce some of the pressure around the decision, and make it easier to choose the next reasonable step.

Use the Journey from beginning to end when you’re working through a decision, or return to an individual track when you notice yourself slipping back into the spin.

Need a good cry?

Sometimes a broken heart doesn't need fixing. It just needs to be felt.

Whether you're grieving a love that's gone, missing someone you once held close, or simply feeling the ache of loneliness, this journey is for you.

Through heartfelt poetry, melancholy piano music, and a gentle meditation, you're invited to let the tears fall, sit with your memories, and make room for whatever your heart is holding.

The intent here isn't to be strong or to move on. Just feel. ❤️

That critical voice can show up so quickly that you may not even notice it at first. It sounds like “I should have…,” “Why can’t I…,” “I’m not enough,” or the running commentary that turns one difficult moment into a judgment about yourself.

Quiet the Inner Critic journey helps you notice that voice before automatically believing it. Through short talks, everyday examples, and a simple forgiveness practice, you’ll explore where some of those judgments show up, how the language of “should” adds pressure, and what it can look like to respond to yourself differently.

This isn’t about pretending every thought is positive or trying to silence part of yourself. It’s about separating useful information from criticism, questioning the stories that keep repeating, and practicing a more supportive way of talking to yourself.

You can move through the Journey in order or return to the pieces you need when that familiar critic gets especially loud.

Taking care of everyone else is costing you something, and nobody is talking about it.

This course, Taking Care of Everyone Else: What We Feel But Never Say, is for the person who found themselves taking care of everyone else without fully choosing it, and has been quietly carrying more than anyone around them realizes. The thoughts you are afraid to admit, the feelings you have been told you shouldn't have, the situations nobody prepares you for, and the quiet question underneath all of it — when did I become last on my own list?

For me, this arrived in the middle of an already full life — sandwiched between ageing parents who need more from me with each passing season, a teenager who needs me in completely different ways, and my own goals and dreams that I am working very hard not to lose. If that sounds familiar, you are exactly who I wrote this for.

You love them, it is costing you, and nobody prepared you for this.

Here is what to expect. As we move through these 25 sessions together, my intention is for you to feel heard, your experience acknowledged, and that feeling of doing this alone to start to ease. I will share the things most people are thinking, but nobody says out loud, and I have placed three Guided Journeys at key turning points in the course to help you release what the teaching sessions bring up.

This is a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is space, and I am right there in it with you.

Special note: This course is not therapy or clinical mental health support. If anything we cover brings up something that feels bigger than you can sit with alone, please reach out to a licensed professional. You deserve that support.

I'll meet you in Session 1!

Harmonies Within the Current grew from Awakening Currents, the daily reflections I share on Substack and here on NRJ. I created these songs to give those quiet invitations to pause, breathe, and return to ourselves another way to reach you. Sometimes a melody allows us to feel something that words alone can only point toward.

These songs are companions for different moments: when you need peace, when the way ahead feels uncertain, or when you need a little kindness toward yourself. They might become a small morning ritual, or a quiet place to return to when the day feels a little too full.

Begin with whichever song meets you where you are today. There is nothing to complete. Simply listen, notice what stirs within you, and carry what speaks to you into your day.

Reflections and lyrics by Richard.

Music created by Carrie Hart using Suno.

A quiet collection of heartfelt spoken-word meditations—gentle words meant to meet you exactly where you are.

Think of it as an audio hug: soft reminders that it’s going to be okay, that you’ve got this, and that the light is still with you.

These short, soothing spoken-word pieces are here for the moments when you need a little comfort on hard days, steadiness when things feel uncertain, and a little courage for whatever comes next.

Press play when you need to feel held.

Take a breath. Listen slowly. Let the words find you where you are.

You are not alone.

Positive Intentions is a soothing spoken‑word meditation series created to gently realign your mindset at the start of each day. It offers calm, grounding reminders that help you reconnect with gratitude, inner strength, and quiet optimism.

Each meditation centres around simple truths that support emotional steadiness and daily wellbeing — beginning the day with appreciation, recognising that you’re doing your best, trusting that good things are unfolding, remembering your ability to get through difficult moments, and opening your heart to the possibility of a beautiful day.

Positive Intentions invites you to pause, breathe into your own presence, and step forward with a sense of hope, clarity, and gentle self‑belief.

Finding a little more space in the everyday

Mindfulness for Real Life is a space to share meditations designed to navigate the thoughts, feelings and experiences that come with being human.

Rather than asking us to empty our minds, escape our worries or achieve a particular state of calm, these meditations offer a practical and compassionate way to meet ourselves where we are. They explore the challenges we recognise in everyday life — overthinking, feeling overwhelmed, getting caught up in difficult emotions, struggling with uncertainty or simply finding it hard to slow down.

The approach is conversational, accessible and grounded in real experience. There is no expectation to get it right, and no need to become someone who never worries, thinks too much or feels unsettled.

Instead, the intention is to develop a little more awareness, acceptance and space in the way we experience life — helping us respond with greater clarity, kindness and perspective.

All of us have lived through those occasions on which someone has asked us about our pursuit of, and interest in, Wisdom. Instead of giving a comprehensive and articulate explanation of Wisdom and our involvement in it, we struggled with how to convey our experience. Why, we have wondered, is this so hard to explain…?

Wisdom is like nothing else we have ever studied or encountered. From our first exposure, we all intuited its life-changing possibilities. And rather than a learning of some completely new field or discipline, our exposure to Wisdom’s teachings has mostly been a recognition of something we had already deeply known, but which we couldn’t ourselves bring forth or quite articulate.

There is no Wisdom curriculum that can learned and then parroted. Wisdom’s way of knowing must necessarily be experientially taken into the whole of our being and lived as our own. But in this process, it is the articulation of this truth and the sharing of this experience that actually feeds and furthers the integration itself.

We must remember that in order for Wisdom to have its full weight and heft, it must be worked through the integrity and authenticity of our complete personhood—including our bodies, our blood, and our being. In this sense, then, it must be fully ingested and metabolized, in order to be meaningfully shared. Regardless of this challenge or maybe because of it, I do think it is important that this dynamic and other related processes be shared within our Wisdom community. And that is precisely why I am offering this program.

Ultimately the purpose of having a teacher is not for us to stay forever a student ourselves. The purpose of having a teacher is for us to find and encourage our own inner teacher. That doesn’t mean that we will cease being students or, perish the thought, stop learning; but it does mean that there is a time for listening and learning, and there is a time for us to step forward, to find our Wisdom voice, and to express this truth through the words and actions of our lives. That is what this virtual program seeks to assist us to do.

Using the teaching points of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran as a launching point, we will cover the topics and issues raised there from a Wisdom perspective. Written in 1923 and since translated into more than one hundred different languages, “The Prophet” is a book that many of us grew up with.

This program was recorded in the fall of 2020, when we were very much in the uncertainty of the pandemic. At the time, I myself was going through some important transitions that are alluded to in this material. Although some of the topics discussed in this program touch on events, both global and personal, that were currently happening, my hope is that the reflections will not be limited or constrained by this lens.

There are 21 sequential recordings in this journey. I am grateful to be traveling it with you!

The holidays can stir up far more than joy. Memories, comparison, old family roles and a whole mix of feelings tend to show up right alongside the lights and the music, and these days they show up earlier than ever. If the season has you feeling tense, a little off, or just not ready yet, you’re in good company.

This three-part journey is a reminder that you’re not doing the season wrong. Across three short episodes, you’ll learn why holiday emotions surface the way they do and sort through the expectations you picked up without ever choosing them. You’ll also leave with simple, doable ways to protect your peace, so the season fits your life instead of someone else’s highlight reel.

In this journey, you’ll explore:

why holiday feelings show up earlier and stay longer each year how your brain pulls the hard memories forward first, even when there were plenty of good ones why the season can feel like boxes tumbling off the top shelf of a closet you didn’t even open where the hidden “shoulds” come from: childhood patterns, family roles, old traditions and comparison how the Expectation Gap adds weight to the emotional backpack you bring into the season ten real-life ways to protect your peace, from planning ahead for triggers to choosing what actually matters one simple question to start with: “What do I need this year?”