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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
May 21, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
Who Are You? The Essential Question for Trauma Healing and Awakening
Wednesday, May 21, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
on Zoom
Recording will be available and sent to all who register.
The Coming Home Together online gathering offers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. Your everyday human life is the laboratory as we open to the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and the right now experience of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the essential spiritual question, “Who am I?” and why it matters to explore it. At the root of personal suffering lies the belief that who we are is a person with a history, story, needs, preferences, fears, and a sense of lack. As long as we identify as this core belief, we will view ourselves, others, and situations through the lens of these distorted filters.
Please register here. Once you register, you will be directed to the zoom link—and you will receive it by email one hour prior to our meeting. A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
What does this mean for you and your life? Say that you’ve learned to define yourself as unworthy or inadequate. This belief will lead you to override your authentic dreams and desires, as you focus on seeking approval from others in an attempt to feel whole. You’ll believe that happiness and fulfillment are not meant for you.
This is how it works for any fear- or lack-based belief we think defines us. Attachment to any story, emotion, idea of freedom or enlightenment, or ideas about the past or future will cause us to contract into a false sense of self and affect everything about our human experience in life.
The release from suffering occurs when our attachment to the mind completely disintegrates. We no longer look to any habitual beliefs to define us. We stop feeding stories and going to the mind’s content to know who we are or how to act. We no longer give any weight to hopes, expectations, should’s—or any thought that takes us away from Presence here and now.
This is a radical shift into freedom, expansion, and not knowing—and into the boundless peace beyond all mental ideas that has always been here and available. It is knowing and living from pure aliveness.
A quote from poet William Blake describes this possibility: “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” By perception, he means any ideas we believe to be true and real that veil our view. And what remains without them is infinite knowing…pure, clear seeing.
Are you interested in suffering less? We come together in the sacred space of loving community to explore the nature of identity and the freedom that’s possible when you know who you are—and who you’re not. Bring all of you—your fears, doubt, shame, questions—and joy. All is welcome!
Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life.
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Starts at noon Eastern, 5pm BST, 6pm CET
Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
A sliding scale is offered for those with financial challenges.
Friends are saying:
“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“I liked the sense of trust, profound acceptance, safety, unconditional love and support that Gail brought to us. The course made me realize the importance of being involved in a community of people dedicated to the most important thing to me, Healing and Awakening. I just cannot do it alone!” ~Aline B.
“Your work is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.” ~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. Your light helps us to shine our own.” ~Julie Desmarais
“At any moment, within the field of your own experience, there is an inner sanctuary of presence and stillness. You access this space by shifting your attention away from the jumble of thoughts, feelings, stories, fears, and external input such as others’ opinions. You simply turn inward—beyond all mind movement—and be.
In no time at all, you find the ground of being, the light of living vibration that’s here in every moment. It’s timeless, which means it’s eternally present, and all-embracing as the unity of all. Don’t be afraid of this vast love. Fall into its arms…”
~Gail
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is 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 safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
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