​Apapacharnos: Befriending What Hurts

​A 2-hour virtual workshop

​There are moments in life when we instinctively try to push away what hurts. We distract ourselves, analyze it, judge it, or hope it will simply disappear. Yet the parts of us that ache are often asking for something much simpler: our attention.

​In Spanish, we have the word apapachar, often translated as "to embrace with the soul." Apapacharnos is the practice of offering that same tenderness to ourselves. It is choosing to meet our own fears, grief, anger, shame, disappointments, and longings with compassion rather than criticism.

​In this workshop, we'll explore what it means to befriend what hurts.

​Drawing from Mexica wisdom, compassionate inquiry, embodied awareness, and the understanding that our experiences live within the interconnected rivers of spirit, mind, emotion, and body, we'll learn to listen differently to ourselves. Together, we'll discover how our emotional patterns become invitations to deepen our relationship with ourselves rather than obstacles to overcome.

​Through reflection, guided practices, and gentle embodiment, you'll be invited to notice what is asking for your care and how tenderness can become a pathway toward greater wholeness.

​This workshop is for anyone who longs to cultivate a more compassionate relationship with themselves, especially during seasons of uncertainty, transition, grief, or change.

​Together we will explore:

• ​The practice and philosophy of apapacharnos

• ​The Four Rivers of experience: spirit, mind, emotion, and body

• ​How emotional patterns become embodied and what they are asking of us

• ​The wisdom of Mexica archetypes as guides for self-relationship

• ​Compassionate inquiry as a practice of listening

• ​Gentle somatic and reflective practices for tending what hurts

• ​A guided integration practice you can return to whenever you need to reconnect with yourself

​You don't need to have the right words or all the answers before arriving.

​Simply come as you are.

​Sometimes the most profound transformation begins the moment we stop asking, "How do I get rid of this?" and begin asking, "How can I be with this differently?"

​Join me for two hours of reflection, embodiment, and compassionate practice as we learn to apapacharnos: to embrace ourselves with tenderness and befriend what hurts.

​If you cannot attend live, the replay is available for two weeks.