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Gail Brenner, Ph.D ~ Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living ~ 3-Part Online Retreat

3-Part Online Retreat

Nov. 3, 4 & 5, 2022

9:00 am Ð 12:00 noon, Pacific Time, each day

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Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.

You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions.

Please note daylight saving time in Europe has ended in time for this event, while it hasn’t yet in the US.

For this reason, we will be starting at 9:00 am Pacific time / 5:00 pm CET (Europe) / 4:00 pm UK.

Addressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self. Join this powerful 3-session retreat as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do this deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening.

Unexamined trauma is at the root of conditioned patterns and keeps you feeling stuck, limited, and unable to be free. You long for freedom and maybe have had a taste of your true nature, but somehow these patterns keep getting played out automatically in your mind, emotions, relationships, and choices in life. You feel caught in the painful sense of separationÉfrom yourself and the sacredness of all of Life.

You are welcome just as you are with your fears, doubts, shame, and questions. Through practices, inquiries, and experiments during and between our sessions, weÕll learn to untangle these patterns and find our way home to the ever present, relaxed, open space of inner aliveness. There will be plenty of time for Q&A with Gail.

  • Session 1: WeÕll cultivate a sense of safety for those hidden, cut off parts of ourselves to come out into the light of loving awareness. This is what heals shame and separation.
  • Session 2: WeÕll bring skillful means to how we experience conditioned patternsÑin our bodies, nervous systems, emotions, and beliefs.
  • Session 3: WeÕll explore devotion, surrender, and the practicalities of awakened living.

And weÕll discover, over and over, the ground of being, your spacious true home that has never been touched by these experiences.

Stress and worryÉpeople pleasingÉpersistent relationship strugglesÉproving yourself through accomplishmentsÉthe inner criticÉthese longstanding patterns are profound invitations into liberation from the sense of separation. Together, we discover being fully alive in our humanness as we expand into overflowing gratitude, vibrant joy, and deep connection with all of Life.

Gail is offering a free information session on Tuesday, November 1 from 9-10am Pacific. YouÕll learn more about the course, and there will be time for Q&A. Please click here for details and to join the session: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvd-CqqjItHtYEl60yYWV22isVjMsv7Ec0Ê)

If you have any questions or would like to know more about this course, please email Gail directly atÊgail@gailbrenner.com.

ÒI am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy.ÊNo longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter.ÊLoving life the way it is.Ó ~Susan R.

“YourÊwork is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.Ó ~Henrique N.

“You radiate such warmth, kindness, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice, am finally starting to see and feel the light.ÊThank you for being a beacon in tumultuous times. Your light helps us to shine our own.Ó ~Julie Desmarais

For more testimonials, please click here.Êhttps://gailbrenner.com/people-are-saying/

Gail Brenner, Ph.D.Êis your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. She is the author of three books, including the award-winning,ÊThe End of Self-Help

www.gailbrenner.com

Sliding Scale: $80 to $140

Some Partial Scholarships Available

Please Register Early if you can.

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