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Feel more grounded, present, and connected as you navigate the natural changes and big feelings that come with getting older.

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Support in the Moment

Health Anxiety SOS

Meditation • 1-6 min

Give your mind permission to relax amid health anxiety.

Identity Shift SOS

Meditation • 2-7 min

Find your footing as you move into a new phase of life.

Feeling Like a Burden SOS

Meditation • 1-5 min

Get a fresh perspective on asking for help.

Fear of Dying SOS

Meditation • 1-5 min

Take a moment to turn towards your fear, not away.

Learning to Ask for Help

Meditation • 7 min

Some burdens can’t be carried alone. That’s okay.

A Deeper Understanding

Navigating Everyday Grief

Meditation • 5 min

Give yourself permission to grieve loss of any kind.

Pep Talks

Welcoming a New Chapter

Meditation • 2 min

You don’t have to know what’s ahead to feel in control.

You Are Not a Burden

Meditation • 3 min

Can you give yourself the care you’d offer a loved one?

Looking Back With Kindness

Meditation • 2 min

Learn to give yourself grace in moments of reflection.

Look Back With Compassion

Meditation • 6 min

Journey back in time to reflect on your many chapters.

Take Action, Feel Better

Finding Purpose as You Age

Expert Guidance • 2 min

Embrace new goals as your priorities change.

Practicing Positive Self-Talk

Expert Guidance • 1 min

Treat yourself like your own friend.

Calming Worry

Expert Guidance • 2 min

Address worries with less urgency and more calm.

Break Free from Negative Thoughts

Expert Guidance • 2 min

Get some distance from thoughts that feel unhelpful.

Courses

Mindfulness in Everyday Moments

Course • 10 min

Practice bringing mindfulness to ordinary moments.

Accepting Our Impermanence

Course • 10 min

Learn to let go by making change more familiar.

Step Out the Spiral

Moving Past Regret

Meditation • 1-5 min

Let go of the past and keep moving forward.

Quick Confidence Boost

Meditation • 1-5 min

Separate yourself from your inner critic.

Calming a Spiraling Mind

Meditation • 1-5 min

Gently interrupt the cycle of anxious thoughts.

Losing Your Temper SOS

Meditation • 3 min

Let go of whatever is causing you to feel frustrated.

Life in Transition

Fear of Change

Meditation • 1-5 min

Find stillness when things are changing around you.

Feeling Alone

Meditation • 1-5 min

Take a moment to remind yourself you’re not alone.

Fear of the Future

Course • 10-20 min

Find ways to stay grounded in an uncertain world.

Navigating Endings

Meditation • 1-5 min

Find ease as you let go of something that’s ending.

Connection & Belonging

Transitioning Between Life Roles

Meditation • 3 min

Navigate the different responsibilities in your life.

Managing Guilt

Meditation • 2 min

Remind yourself that it’s okay to accept help.

Community Care

Podcast • 5 min

Embrace healing in community.

Showing Yourself Care

Meditation • 2 min

Show yourself the same compassion you give others.

Living with Pain

Building Pain Awareness

Meditation • 6 min

Visualize ongoing pain as a dial you can adjust.

Pain Management

Course • 10-20 min

Change your relationship with pain.

Pain

Advice • 6 min

Learn to understand pain and be present with it.

Pain at Night SOS

Nighttime SOS • 10-11 min

Reframe physical pain for an easier bedtime.

In Pain SOS

Meditation • 3 min

Change your relationship to physical pain.

Grief and Loss

Naming Grief

Expert Guidance • 6 min

We can’t heal from the things we don’t name.

Handling Sadness

Course • 10-20 min

Learn how to keep sadness from weighing you down.

Grieving

Course • 10-20 min

Create room to heal while letting a connection live on.

Sitting with Grief and Shock

Video • 3 min

Let emotions move through you instead of getting stuck.

Ambiguous Grief

Meditation • 1-5 min

Notice what you’re feeling when a relationship changes.

When Grief Comes at Night

Expert Guidance • 4 min

Cope with feelings of loss and restlessness at bedtime.

Move Through Your Grief

Meditation • 13 min

Allow yourself space to feel grief.

Grief Before Goodbye

Meditation • 2 min

Make space for grief that might come up as a caregiver.

Grieving During the Holidays

Advice • 3 min

Give yourself grace when you’re feeling overwhelmed.

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