30 Days

of self-compassion

engaging the archetypal energy
of Quan Yin

Dear friend, I’m delighted to offer you this 30 day course with Quan Yin, Goddess of compassion and mercy. 

I’m a psychotherapist, poet, author, journal writer, and mentor.  In my years of writing, and guiding others, I’ve become passionate about the power of the Sacred Feminine archetypes to awaken our aliveness and the qualities we need to live sustainable lives and to heal ourselves and the planet. Quan Yin is one of my personal favourites amongst the Sacred Feminine archetypes. 

In my decades of experience helping people to recover from trauma and develop lives of wellbeing, integrity, passion, authenticity and meaning, I’ve discovered that the qualities of the Sacred Feminine are essential to this recovery.

We need to comfort, tend, nurture support and protect ourselves, and others, wisely if we are to survive our modern world and live creatively and authentically. 

In my own life journey, and in my years of therapy with my clients, I’ve found awakening self-compassion is the essential quality for living a life of meaning and wellbeing. Healing the planet, and caring for others starts with ourselves. One of the greatest hindrances to our wellbeing is the cultural belief that self-compassion is selfish and indulgent. I’m here to support you to discover self-nurturance is not selfish, it’s necessary, and that we can care deeply about the suffering of others without denying or destroying ourselves in the process. 

An archetype is a universal pattern of energy and experience that repeats throughout time and across all cultures. Archetypes contain qualities available to all genders as part of a balanced psyche. Quan Yin offers us knowledge of the pattern of compassion, which awakens and constellates this quality within us.

Are you seeking relief from constant stress, worry, anxiety, fatigue or burnout?

Are you constantly taking care of others and feeling depleted?

Are you running out of empathy or compassion?

Do you feel helpless, hopeless or overwhelmed by the enormity of troubles in the world?

Have you become indifferent, resentful, or physically symptomatic to the demands on your care?

Do you feel compelled to help others and feel resentful later?

Do you ever wonder when it will be ‘your turn for care’ or when you will feel the peace and relief you thought helping others would offer you?

I’m offering you an opportunity to find a way through the overwhelm that those who care find themselves in. 

Are you looking for guidance to rediscover a path towards living your dreams?

Are you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, lost and without direction?

Are you judging yourself for not being enough for all the demands of modern life and the needs of other people?

Are you in a caring profession and feeling burned out by the stress of your work?

Are you fatigued, anxious, and worried that this is how life is?

This course is here to help!

If you’re stressed, anxious, fatigued, overwhelmed, hopeless, lacking creativity, losing sight of wellbeing and inspiration, lacking meaning or purpose in life, you need to restore the balance of the Sacred Feminine through self-compassion. Without tending to the sacred wellspring of vital energy we run dry. Yet our modern world keeps asking us to attend to more things outside of us. 

What you’ll receive:

Each day you’ll receive an email with three parts.

First, a poem from the 100 Chinese quatrains attributed for centuries to Quan Yin, and still used to day as a devotional, inspirational and divinatory oracle in Chinese temples and shrines. I’ve reproduced these from an English translation by Jay Ramsay that captures their poetic essence and that I’ve reconfigured for ease of engagement in this course. I’ve loosened the original structure and retained the poetic images.

Second, you’ll receive my guiding commentary, designed to assist you to unfold the archetypal images for the opening of your own qualities of compassion and applying it to your life.

Third, you’ll be offered a daily writing or drawing prompt to fully engage your archetypal imagination and the inspiration and compassion of Quan Yin. This practice is the magic that awakens these archetypal qualities within you.

Journalling is a proven transformational practice. In writing based on the prompts you’ll be directly awakening your inner guidance system and intuition. You already have the innate capacity for compassion, and journalling is a powerful yet gentle way of invoking this guidance system. In this course, we’re priming our inner system to resonate with the metaphysical energies of Quan Yin.

Drawing is also a powerful way to awaken metaphysical resonances and unleash their power within you. In this course you have the opportunity to focus on whichever method speaks to you – writing or drawing. Or you may choose to do both. It is recommended for the best results to write by hand in a notebook or journal chosen for the course. Writing a computer journal will work but will be less powerful as our intuition and resonance systems are embodied and flow from idea to hand in mysterious ways which aren’t accessed so easily on a keyboard.

Benefits of awakening self-compassion:

• wellbeing, vitality, ease, relaxation, flow
• open attitude to life
• deeper intuition and wise relating to others
• feelings of ‘enough’ and ‘being enough’
• gratitude and joy 
• genuine generosity without underlying resentment
• enhanced capacity to stay open to life and care for others
• healthy kind boundaries that nurture your being
• deepened sense of caring
• awakened creativity
• meaning and purpose
• peaceful not resentful
• recover your innate self worth that is not based on earning your worth through acts of service. 
• capacity to soothe and reset your nervous system when under stress
• acceptance of vulnerability and human limitations
• activating your inner guidance system for insight and direction in life.

Through journalling/drawing practice you will also receive the benefits of:

• a daily reflective and transformative practice that sustains you
• insight into patterns and limiting self beliefs
• strengthening neural pathways to transform old patterns and create new ones
• developing capacity to be with yourself and to go inward
• awaken the archetypal imagination for healing on a metaphorical level 
• awaken to your highest potential through regularity and focus
• develop openness, curiosity, perseverance, dedication, commitment to you in your greatest capacity. 

This course may be for you if:

• you understand intellectually that you need self-compassion but you’re not quite ready to practice it yet
• you can hold the intention of being ready to engage with self-compassion even though you’re not fully ready. 
• you’re willing to do the practices even though a part of you is resistant. 
• you’re willing to remain open to whatever might unfold.

If you choose to participate in this short course you’ll be activating the archetypal qualities of Quan Yin within you, focusing on developing self-compassion. This is a timeless path walked by many people seeking to find peace and vitality and contentment in troubled times without losing connection with, and empathy for, the challenges we all face.