As we navigate rapid change and immense global suffering, many of us are struggling to feel grounded. With instability in both our personal lives and the world around us. it's easy to feel like we are spinning out of control.
I created these practices to support and uplift you during intense times, incorporating techniques that have helped me on my own healing journey. When the world gets overwhelming, I hope you can return to this resource as a touchstone.
When the World is Spinning
5 Mini Practices for Grounding Global Overwhelm
About this Offering
In this offering, I share 5 of my favorite techniques to help with overwhelm. My meditations do not bypass real-world suffering, nor do they guide you to “check out” from global injustices or your own difficult feelings. I believe healing methods that trade reality for “love and light” can be very harmful. Instead, I guide you toward acceptance and compassion for what is true, both in your inner world and the real world. I provide techniques for soothing frayed nerves, anchoring out of the mind and into the body, protecting yourself from taking on the suffering of others, replenishing drained energy, cultivating patient kindness toward ourselves and others, and channeling overwhelm into concrete change.
What’s Included
This offering contains 5 brief guided meditation practices for grounding global overwhelm.
Grounding and Letting Go (TIME)
Patient Kindness for Yourself and Others (TIME)
Greeting the World with a Compassionate Boundary (TIME)
Turning Distress into Focused Action (TIME)
Refilling Your Drained Cup (TIME)
Additionally, you will receive:
A welcoming gratitude meditation (TIME)
A closing gratitude meditation (TIME)
A list of supportive resources and references
The Format
After purchase, you will receive a link to a simple website. On that site, each practice will be clearly labeled. The practices are audio files that you can listen to directly on the site or download. You can listen from your phone, computer, or tablet.
These practices are yours to keep and listen to whenever, forever.
The practices are between 5-10 minutes each.
Your Guide
Hi, I’m Quinn! I am Creator of The Retreat Space.
I created these mini practices to support and uplift you, incorporating techniques that have helped me on my own healing journey. I have always been a magpie who collects gems of wisdom and weaves them with my inner knowing to make a cozy nest. It’s my honor to share what I’ve learned.
My healing philosophies are trauma-informed and grounded in the real world. In my offerings, I integrate my own experience with my self-study of neuroscience and psychology, ancient wisdoms, earth magic, soulwork, personal development, mindfulness, somatic healing, self-empowerment, and social justice.
Please note that I am not a doctor or therapist. Always follow your own body’s wisdom and boundaries and reach out to loved ones and professionals for support.
Trying Something New
The five practices have different styles, so you may not love all of them equally. The audio files are bite-sized for your convenience, but also to encourage you to try different techniques with low commitment.
Listen to how your body reacts to each one. Techniques that resonate might feel expansive, calming, or energizing. Techniques that don’t resonate may feel contracting, tense, or just kinda “meh.” With everything I share, please take it or leave it.
If you are looking for super “traditional” meditations, this might not be for you.
Acknowledging White Supremacy
As a white woman practicing ancient meditative practices, I want to do my part to dismantle the white systems of power that have traditionally oppressed and appropriated other cultures. I open this offering with a gratitude meditation to honor my modern-day and ancestral teachers, ancient wisdom lineages, and the stolen land on which I live. All have informed and supported this work.
FAQs
What are these practices like?
They are similar to guided meditations, but with a bit more variety. The practices have many textures--some are active, some are calming, some feel like pep-talks from a good friend. If you’d like to hear a sample of my style, you can listen to one of my free meditations here.
I’m busy and never meditate. Is this for me?
Absolutely. These practices are designed for real, messy, busy humans, especially ones who don't have a meditation practice and want to integrate more time for themselves. All of them point you back to your own wisdom and offer unconditional acceptance. Listen on-the-go, at your own pace, exactly as you are.
Does 5 minutes really help?
YES! 5 minutes can be a game-changer. Research shows that when you give yourself just 5 quiet minutes during the day, you can:
Align with your inner truth
Ease your tension
Boost your mood
Call back your energy
Relieve pressure
Release your burdens
Invite in joy and calm
Connect to what matters
Purchase
The cost of this offering is $22.
To help make healing accessible to anyone—regardless of their current circumstances—I offer two additional pricing options. I provide the $11 option only for those who would find the full price a sacrifice or hardship. Please consider your position honestly before selecting. For loads of free content, please check out The Retreat Space library, blog, and events.
Full price - $22
Those who can comfortably meet their basic needs.
Half price - $11
Those for whom the full price cost would be a sacrifice or hardship.
Pay-it-forward price - $33
Those who want to cover someone purchasing at half price.