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Healing The Habit Of Self-Abandonment
With Kiran Patel
In this course, we explore how we may have learned in our early years to abandon ourselves to create connection and safety with others. How habits of people pleasing and over-giving can carry over into adulthood, and how we can neglect our own needs because we have not learned how to tend to them. Here we turn inward and return our attention to ourselves.
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4 Days
418 students
5.0 stars
13 min / day
Healing
English
5.0 (46)
Recent Reviews
leslie
February 6, 2026
What an amazing course thank you. It was concise and direct easy to follow wonderfully put together. Thank you so much. This is what I’ve been looking for. Exactly what I needed.
Michelle
January 22, 2026
Thank you for this course. I’ve been on this journey of reorienting myself to mySelf for many years. It has been a slow journey for me because I have to live it into existence. As I continue, I am reacquainted with how dearly I love my solitude AND that in my solitude I’m not alone. Thank you for your support 💕
kelani
January 8, 2026
thank you for helping me grow, heal and protect myself ❤️k
Mardy
October 25, 2025
I really liked this talk by Kiran Patel. Very straight forward and organized. I resonated with the topic and felt comfortable and reassured about taking care of myself. Thank you
Martha
October 22, 2025
Wonderful , serendipitous course. Very healing for me to hear
Pennlighten
August 29, 2025
Thank you, I really enjoyed this course ❤️🙏
Teryn
August 18, 2025
I came across this course at just the right time to be able to sit with myself (previously not really possible) and actually understand what has been happening to me. I found myself the first time I listened to this practice. I couldn’t stop on day 1 and completed the course in one sitting. I’ve been saying/feeling for years that I feel dead inside, I don’t know who I am, I feel so trapped. I have had a burning desire to “escape” or “hide” or even not exist but no idea why I felt this way. I had almost no boundaries and my true self lived in a state of almost constant violation. Everything the opposite of what a free spirit needs. A lot has culminated to get me here, but today I found my home. I am finally tearing down the prison walls I built for my own self and finding that I have never felt so safe before, because I wasn’t allowing myself to truly live.
Mary
August 18, 2025
Great addition to my self help program.
Helen
August 18, 2025
Great short course. I found it helped to shift my thinking patterns.
Steve
August 14, 2025
Opened up things I had tried to forget about myself - I feel ready to look deeper - thank you
Michele
August 12, 2025
Loved this course. The teacher articulates the challenges, insights and opportunities very well and I got so much out of her journal prompts and suggestions. I realized many dynamics from my childhood that still need healing and awareness. 5 star for sure!!
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