But aside from sending positive thoughts and prayers, what can you do?

How do you get through the sadness, anger, fear, and more that come up with each new headline?

Even when you’re feeling helpless, unable to control what’s happening outside of you, you have the power to take care of yourself and your well-being.

When you watch, you’ll learn how to self-regulate, so you can be with difficult world events without spiraling into defense mechanisms (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn) and get clear on what you can actually do as these challenging events continue to arise.

Here’s a glimpse of the valuable insights you’ll gain when you attend:

• Differentiate between when you are regulated versus dysregulated, so can you determine when and how to guide yourself back to center
• Equip yourself with self-regulation strategies, strengthening your ability to balance your nervous system to feel safe and relaxed
• Use somatic exercises for calming anxiety, grounding yourself, and nurturing self-regulation now and in the future

In an era when distressing events seem to stretch limitlessly into the future, we warmly invite you to take this opportunity to learn why prioritizing your emotional well-being is a critical first step in meeting the tragedies of the world.

Even if you can't attend as scheduled, register now because you'll be able to listen to the recording afterwards.

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Shame is a self-conscious emotion that arises from the sense that something is fundamentally wrong with oneself. If you are suffering from shame, you may feel inadequate and full of self-doubt.

Unsurprisingly, shame has been linked to depression, inferiority, helplessness, self-consciousness and interpersonal anxiety.

The good news is that there is a healthy way to process shame and get it out of our bodies so that we can alleviate these negative emotions and find peace.

Why Attend “How Trauma, Anger, and Shame Impact Us”

During this free online trauma healing event with expert Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein and founder of Sounds True, Tami Simon, you'll learn about different ways to navigate these challenging feelings, release trauma and restore your body’s own innate wisdom.

Here's just a little bit of what they'll cover:

• Get answers to common questions like “What are the symptoms of unhealed trauma?” and “How can I overcome shame?”
• Discover how to transform shame into a source of strength
• Learn how to befriend your nervous system to release anger
• Gain tips for self-regulation to prevent yourself from feeling “emotionally hijacked”

About Your Teacher – Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein

Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein is a clinical psychologist, an expert in the treatment of trauma, a certified Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic psychotherapist, and a meditation teacher who has been in private practice for over 35 years.

He has practiced meditation for over 50 years.

He has devoted his professional life to helping people reduce their suffering and struggle while empowering them to claim their strengths, their talents, and their unique abilities to live a more fulfilling and rich life.

🌟 Even if you can’t attend live… 🌟

Register now because you'll be able to get a copy of the recording afterwards.

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Who The Engendering Love Summit Is For

This summit is for everyone who has had challenges with how they relate their gender with others… whether you are a:

• Woman struggling with gender roles and being told you are too aggressive
• Man who is feeling hesitant or shame following the #Metoo movement
• Trans or non-binary individual navigating gender out in the world
• Or exploring your gender in any way

This summit will have something supportive and healing for you.

Featured Panels At the Engendering Love Summit

Gender is experienced differently for everybody. Even though there are common experiences, there really is no “one size fits all” way to look at gender.

To help get the conversations started, the Engendering Love Summit will feature the following expert panels:

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Do you find yourself acting day after day as if you need to prove yourself worthy?

Or perhaps you have a hard time just being authentic with others, but you’re not sure why.

Different pressures can operate under the surface in your relationships, and can be frustrating, exhausting, or even demoralizing.

Most of us don’t realize that these pressures can (and do) develop quite naturally in the wake of being in a relationship that did you some harm—whether you were neglected or hurt by a parent, or abused by a person you trusted (emotionally or physically).

What if you could find a way to heal from the trauma that caused you to feel and act this way?

What if you could disentangle the effects of the past, so you could make more fulfilling relationship choices in the present and in the future?

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What You'll Learn During “Healing Trauma Bonds” with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein

Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein, who has been working as a trauma therapist for more than 35 years, is joining Sounds True founder Tami Simon to shed some much-needed light on this phenomena, which is known as trauma bonding.

Dr. Rutstein will discuss how you can identify the effects of trauma bonding on you, and what you can do to begin to heal the patterning that relational trauma imprinted in your nervous system—even if it was decades ago.

Here's just a little bit of what they will share:

• What a trauma bond is and how it forms in response to abuse or other interpersonal wounding
• How trauma bonding gets stuck in our nervous systems and spreads into the ways we act in relationships and even how we choose our partners
• Why trauma bonds create pressure inside us to prove our own goodness, rather than seek healthy, respectful relationships
• How to overcome the shame caused by trauma, so we can create relationships that foster our safety, well-being, happiness, and a sense of our own true worth
• How to make sense of why you feel attached to someone even if they’ve treated you badly (even to the point of abuse)
• What you can do to break the cycle of toxic romantic partnerships and toxic patterns with bosses or coworkers
• Ways you can protect yourself from those who contributed to your trauma
• Methods to identify cyclical patterns of abuse in our extended families and communities

After you register, you'll be emailed the Zoom link to attend live. If you can't make it for any reason, register now so you can get access to the recording afterwards.

Exploring Childhood Roots for Adult Trauma Bonding

A child’s life depends on their parents’ or caregivers’ acceptance and love.

But what happens if a child has to rely on someone who is easily upset, erratic, neglectful, or even abusive? The child interprets this situation to mean that they (and not the adult) need to somehow “make things right?”

This painful belief can mushroom into:

• Frustrating relationship tendencies
• Hypervigilance
• People-pleasing
• Over-explaining
• Defending oneself unnecessarily

Some may even pick romantic partners who activate their childhood wounds, because their unconscious mind still wants to make things right.

If this was you – know you weren’t ”wrong” in the first place.

Developing these patterns, otherwise known as trauma bonding, is a natural way of protecting yourself when you’re young.

If you think trauma bonds are still in play behind the scenes in your relationships – whether with your partner, colleagues, or children – we invite you to join us for a free webinar with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein, a trauma therapist with more than 35 years of experience.

They will be discussing what you can do to begin to heal the patterns it sets into motion, so you can become freer and more at ease in your relationships. You'll also better understand the attachment patterns created by repeated physical or emotional trauma that is followed by positive reinforcement.

Trauma bonds can be hard to spot (and even harder to break free from), so we hope you can join Jeffrey and Tami live for this insightful discussion.

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Once you have greater awareness, anytime you’re faced with a challenge at work or in your business, you have the opportunity to create more freedom, more choice, and more fulfilling results.

One of the keys to developing greater awareness is to learn how to manage your body’s command center: your nervous system.

“Managing Your Nervous System at Work: How to Enhance the Quality of Your Inner State to Create More Satisfying Choices, Actions, and Results” will help you do that:

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What You'll Learn During “Managing Your Nervous System At Work”

Better workdays from the inside out. There’s a lot of focus on achieving work-life balance, but what about work-work balance? How can you manage stress and challenges to be a better you at work every day?

During this live experience with Tami Simon (founder of Sounds True) and Dr. Jeremy Hunter (founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute), you will discover:

• Why mastering yourself begins with managing your nervous system, the fundamental infrastructure we use to take in information, make sense of what’s going on around us, and take action in the world
• 3 principles for managing your inner game—the emotional reactions, the stories you tell yourself, and even the physical sensations in your body that all influence your choices, actions, and results
• How to deal with what’s uncomfortable (something very few of us are ever taught) so that you decrease struggle, redirect your attention to what nourishes you, and make more intentional choices that can change the future

“Practicing mindfulness in daily life is not about being calm, it’s about being aware—aware of your emotional reactions, the stories you tell yourself, even the physical sensations in your body that all influence how you perceive what’s going on. From there, you can construct a more fulfilling experience.” – Jeremy Hunter, PhD

Managing your nervous system is a learned skill that can directly improve your ability to handle challenges and stress at work.

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About Your Teachers – Tami Simon & Jeremy Hunter, PhD

About Tami Simon

At age 22, Tami Simon started Sounds True, now a multimedia publisher, with a dream and a tape recorder. Though she had no business experience and only a vague idea of what she wanted the company to be, Tami had her guiding principle strongly in place: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Over its 37-year history, Sounds True has produced over 3,000 titles, been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings.

About Jeremy Hunter PhD

Dr. Jeremy Hunter is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute, which is dedicated to helping leaders thrive by enhancing their capacity for effective action. Jeremy has designed and led leadership development programs for a wide variety of organizations, including Fortune 200 aerospace, Fortune 50 banking and finance, accounting, law, pharmaceutical, the arts, and civic nonprofits. Program impacts have led to positive professional, personal, and financial outcomes for participants.

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What You'll Learn During the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit

Learn to open your heart and experience fearless compassion for yourself and others.

Each day of the summit includes talks, teachings, and practical guidance, including contemplative training to transform difficulty and awaken the heart.

• Explore how to turn uncertainty, loss, and difficulty into strength and compassion.
• Learn how to let go of habitual reactions and struggles, and experience more joy.
• Awaken your innate compassion and wisdom—your basic goodness.
• Ease burnout with strategies to nourish and care for yourself.
• Receive in-depth instruction in tonglen meditation and lojong (heart-mind training).

About Pema Chodron's Teachings At This Summit

Pema Chödrön has been a guiding light for millions of people around the world. She has shown us how to appreciate life, embrace uncertainty, and find courage and compassion when things fall apart. Her wisdom is supportive, grounding, and truly transformational.

We all know how it feels to be overwhelmed by uncertainty and change. It is our deeply ingrained habit to seek solid ground, and we often find ourselves grasping for it. Pema’s teachings illuminate how we often go looking for peace in all the wrong places, and that the key to working with life’s difficulties is in learning how to let go and to trust our innate goodness.

We are delighted to invite you to a one-of-a-kind opportunity to hear from 11 Buddhist teachers and heart friends inspired by Pema Chödrön to celebrate her example and explore powerful teachings to transform difficulty and live fearlessly with an open and compassionate heart.

We hope you will join us for this one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore Pema Chödrön’s cherished wisdom, and to learn new tools for navigating uncertainty, cultivating compassion, and finding joy.

Each day of the summit includes inspiring talks, spiritual teachings, and practice instruction from presenters, plus:

• Session introduction from Krista Tippett, award-winning creator and host of On Being
• Daily workshops on tonglen and lojong practice with Judy Lief
• Video teaching from Pema selected from the Shambhala Publications archive

Who The Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit Is For

This free online summit is for you if you’ve found yourself asking:

• How can I shake feelings of restlessness and learn to be ok with uncertainty?
• How can I embrace life’s ups and downs and use challenges to awaken my heart?
• How can I learn to practice loving-kindness when I feel hurt or betrayed?
• How can I move more gracefully through undeniable change?
• How can I bring more joy into my life, and into the lives of others?

As Pema says, “From great suffering can come hatred, resentment and despair… or from great suffering can come great openness of heart and a great sense of kinship with others.”

Essential Qualities The Summit Will Help You Cultivate

• Openness
• Kinship
• Joy
• Resilience

Inspired by one of the greatest Buddhist teachers of our time, Pema Chödrön.

How the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit Can Help You

When faced with uncertainty, we experience the painful familiarity of groundlessness and fear.

When these difficult emotions arise, we long for support. We search for new ways to navigate our inner world and work with the suffering that surrounds us.

If there’s one person whose wisdom we can count on to provide this support, it’s Pema Chödrön. Pema teaches us to let go of our habitual avoidance of suffering.

She shows us how to embrace the vulnerable and open space of the present moment. If we can tap into this space, we find an endless resource of innate wisdom and strength—and ultimately a path to greater freedom and joy.

During the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit, 11 remarkable Buddhist teachers and heart friends of Pema Chödrön will celebrate her legacy and offer powerful teachings and practices to help you awaken your heart and live with greater openness and courage.

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Daily Schedule for the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit

Day 1: Making Peace With Things As They Are

As human beings, we want to cling to what is safe and familiar, even though we know change is inevitable. Sadly, this clinging causes us a lot of pain.

Learn how we can let go of expectations and soften into a more accepting attitude towards uncertainty and change. Discover how this can help us adjust to life’s difficulties with greater joy, lightness, and ease.

Day 2: Befriending Ourselves

Despite our society’s growing awareness of the importance of self-care, many of us find loving ourselves to be the hardest task of all.

Discover how making friends with yourself is the vital first step towards loving the world. Explore ways to express tenderness and care for yourself, and discover how that is the secret to weathering difficult times with greater equanimity and grace.

Day 3: Awakening Our Hearts

Once we experience that first spark of spiritual awareness in our hearts, we need to find a way to nurture it and help it to grow into a powerful fire of compassion.

Explore how to fan the flames of bodhicitta, the awakened heart of compassion and wisdom, and consider practical ways to develop this quality within your own life.

Day 4: Working With Obstacles

When we encounter difficult emotions — fear, anger, sadness — it’s easy to shut down, numb out, or just run for the hills.

Discover how the very things that challenge us most are also golden opportunities to wake up to the truth of impermanence and connect with the life-changing power of compassion.

Day 5: Trusting Your True Nature

We often find ourselves caught up in our surface level experience — letting our thoughts and emotions define who we are.

Learn how to nurture your innate goodness — your natural compassion, wisdom, and love. When we trust our capacity for these qualities, and bring awareness to them in our day-to-day lives, we move through the world with lightness, joy, and freedom.

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Speaker List for the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit

Judy Lief, Mingyur Rinpoche, Margaret Wheatley, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Tami Simon, Father Greg Boyle, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Anam Thubten, Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Arawana Hayashi, Gaylon Ferguson

About Your Summit Sponsor – Lions Roar

Mission-driven, non-profit, and community-supported, Lion’s Roar provides Buddhist teachings, news, and perspectives so that the understanding and practice of Buddhism flourishes in today’s world and its timeless wisdom is accessible to all.

We do this by providing as many entry points as we can: through our print and digital publications, our website, video, social media, online courses, practice retreats, and more.

We try to bring dharma to people right where they are, knowing what a difference it can make in their lives.

Free Gift for Summit Attendees

When you register for the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit, you’ll also be able to immediately download a free e-book, “5 Teachings of Pema Chödrön.”

This concise yet powerful eBook is 17 pages long and covers the following topics:

• How to Tap Into the Natural Warmth of Your Heart
• Why Meditation Is Vital
• How to Make the Most of Your Day—and Your Life
•  How to Develop Unconditional Compassion
• Signs of Spiritual Progress
• How To Enjoy Life

Replay Period For the Wisdom of Pema Chodron Summit

Even if you can’t attend live, register now because each day's talks will be available for 48 hours.

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You're far from alone. At this moment, we wouldn't be surprised if you're also feeling between. Between political moments; between opinions on public health; perhaps even between jobs. So many of us feel stuck in an unpredictable and sometimes frightening era.

It's natural to be afraid during uncertain times—but according to beloved Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön, this sense of chaotic restlessness isn't actually some unprecedented phenomenon. In Buddhist thought, all times are uncertain ones. 

If you've been feeling anxious about the state of the world, we invite you to join Ani Pema for a FREE teaching session to discuss how we can live well even in groundless times. 

Pema will help you in understanding that the moments between moments contain the most potential for positive change…

No matter how “normal” a period may feel, that normal is already changing and dissolving by the time you cling to it. And for Ani Pema, there is immense value in recognizing this inherent groundlessness of life.

This is your opportunity to hear Pema and Tami Simon in conversation about dealing with uncertainty and fear.

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