
Mindfulness for Big Emotions
Big emotions don’t need to overwhelm you. This four-part mindfulness series is a trusted resource you can return to anytime life feels heavy, chaotic, or emotionally intense.
You’ll begin with two foundational meditations (10–15 minutes each), where you'll learn the basics of mindfulness—how to anchor your attention in the breath and how to stay present with openness and curiosity. From there, you’ll deepen your practice with a 45-minute guided meditation designed to help you directly encounter and care for big emotions like anger, anxiety, sadness, and grief.
We’ll explore the RAINN framework (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Not Personal, Nurture) to gently guide you through emotional waves without judgment or reactivity. The goal is not to get rid of emotions—but to relate to them in a new way.
This is not a course to go through once and forget. It’s a practice to return to, again and again, as you grow in your capacity to hold space for what you feel. You’ll learn that you are not the storm—you are the big blue sky. And no matter how strong the storm clouds seem, they cannot overcome the sky.
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Introduction
Learn what mindfulness is and how it helps us meet big emotions with steadiness and compassion. Explore the storm-and-sky metaphor and the somatic nature of emotions.
Learn what mindfulness is and how it helps us meet big emotions with steadiness and compassion. Explore the storm-and-sky metaphor and the somatic nature of emotions.
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Mindfulness of Breath
Start here. A 10–15 min breath meditation to build focus, non-reactivity, and gentle returning when the mind wanders.
Start here. A 10–15 min breath meditation to build focus, non-reactivity, and gentle returning when the mind wanders.
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Investigative Awareness
Widen your lens. Practice open awareness, noticing thoughts, sensations, and emotions as they arise and pass.
Widen your lens. Practice open awareness, noticing thoughts, sensations, and emotions as they arise and pass.
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RAINN
Apply what you’ve learned in a 45-min guided meditation using the RAINN method to meet intense emotions with care.
Apply what you’ve learned in a 45-min guided meditation using the RAINN method to meet intense emotions with care.
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