Cultivating True Love Day Retreat
Four Swans, Saturday 10 October 2026
1) Handout: The four ingredients of True Love
2) Guided practice: Offering healing to the inner critic
(Recorded on the day)
This is ‘strong medicine’ so please do this when you have space to feel safe and explore it gently. If anything feels very sharp or looming, breathe yourself back home (you can open your eyes and identify three colours, wiggle your toes etc.).
You can pause the recording along the way if you need more time.
You can also use this with a space for drawing or journalling (writing by hand is more useful than typing). And you can also deliberately bring out an aspect of the Critic (like a belief it has), write it out, mourn the pain that the belief has caused and then burn it. Similarly you can bring out an aspect of the Healer (like their wish for us to be free of suffering) and keep it where you might notice it during the day.
May you sense the action of the Healer in you, supporting every aspect of your being.