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Coming Home Together Online Gathering—You Were Never Broken
February 12, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Coming Home Together Online Gathering:
You Were Never Broken
Wednesday, February 12, 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific
Noon Eastern, 5pm BST
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 will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self, unexplored trauma patterns, and everyday living of the deepest teachings of nondual reality.
Our focus for this meeting is on the mistaken identity that we are broken and beyond repair. We develop this common belief about ourselves when we believe what our minds tell us and the messages we received when we were young.
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.
We live with this belief defining who we are, which sets in motion attempts to fix ourselves. We just can’t seem to find the inner peace and well-being we long for.
So if peace is possible (it is), where do we find it?
Hoping to feel better at some future point in time will keep us searching forever. Instead, our suffering calls us to turn inward in any moment to explore this essential question: “Who am I?” If you are not the broken one your thoughts tell you that you are, who are you?
Instead of answering this question directly, we’re invited first to meet the fullness of our experience in the present moment with unconditional love and care. We get curious about the thoughts and feelings that we find at the core of our personal identity…rather than assuming they’re true. As we open to all that is, including and beyond that identity, we discover spaciousness, tenderness, and the capacity to be present with what’s here right now…our original innocence prior to all our human experiences.
And this changes everything, including how we feel inside, our choices, and our relationships. Over time, the habit of these limiting identities relaxes, giving way to moments of uncaused peace and simple happiness. We find space for new ways of being and relating far beyond the sense of being broken.
And our hearts expand into quiet, effortless intimacy with all.
With guided meditation, teachings, and conversation, we’ll explore the question, “Who am I really?” and make the miraculous discovery that we’ve never been broken. Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand beyond the known into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of Life. I look forward to being with you!
Questions? Please contact Gail here.
Details
Wednesday, February 12, 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:
“What you’re pointing to is so difficult to talk about in words, but you describe it so brilliantly and give such practical, actionable steps to follow that I truly, deeply get it. I just cannot express to you how transformative your approach has been for me. I am inhabiting my life with so much more peace and openness, flow and freedom.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters
“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.
“I felt bathed in presence on the retreat. Your clarity and presentation style was lovely. I found the guided meditations to be very helpful. I appreciate how relatable you are in the group, how you don’t set yourself apart.” ~Denis N.
“Thank you so much for your teachings and for all the compassion and love you transmit to me, and so many others. Your teachings are a gift of grace and love.” ~Pat Brown
“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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