If I asked you to name your favourite things—the things you love—how long would it take for you to name yourself?
If you’re anything like me, you have tried to serve God and love others without thinking too much about yourself. I doubted and even hated myself for years—until the words of Mark 12:31 stopped me in my tracks, “Love your neighbour as yourself.”
Welcome to an intimate and transformative seminar experience based on my award-winning book, You Are Enough: Learning to Love Yourself the Way God Loves You. Over 5 sessions I use the latest neuroscience combined with Biblical teaching, emotional awareness and trauma-informed psychology, to teach people how to feel God’s presence in their bodies & emotions, know God’s abundant love, and practice moving towards themselves in compassion and kindness. You can become a new creation in Christ, and experience faith, hope and love in every area of your life.
Topics Covered
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Provides an overview of the seminar content and a framework for seeing ourselves as valuable, good creations of a good God. I share my story of how and why I came to learn to love myself better.
Includes guided prayer & meditation for feeling safe in our bodies and sensing God’s presence.
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Unpacks the concept of “the window of tolerance” to explain how our nervous system keeps us safe from harm, and what happens when we get overwhelmed. Details how traumatic events and unmet needs affect the brain and body, leaving lasting scars that influence the way we live. Provides a fresh theological framework for understanding sin not as a curse on human nature but as a response to an original traumatic wound.
Includes guided prayer & meditation for creating a safe and life-giving connection with Jesus.
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Explains how our psychological world becomes fragmented in response to trauma, restricting our freedom and creativity. Introduces concepts from Internal Family Systems and HeartSync to help us identify parts of ourselves that are hurting or have unmet needs, and move towards them in compassion and kindness.
Includes guided prayer & meditation for approaching the core parts of our personality with thankfulness, dignity and respect.
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Explores the concept of your true and original self, the part of you that is made in God’s image and which already loves you unconditionally. Unpacks the concept of attachment and how both God and the True Self can be sources of regulation for us during times of hardship.
Includes guided prayer & meditation for un-blending from fractured parts and helping us identify the voice of love and grace within ourselves.
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Focuses on practical, day-to-day ways to be more gentle to ourselves. Also discusses how to embrace the person we really are inside, and die to the False Self we have created in response to the expectations of families and culture. Q & A is offered where time permits.
Includes guided prayer & meditation focused on experiencing God’s presence in the Eucharist. Communion is shared during this session.
Upcoming In-Person Seminars
No events currently planned. Check back again soon.
E-Course (Coming Soon)
An online seminar course, with 5+ hours of video content, printable notes and worksheets and more will be available later in 2023. To find out when it releases, join my email list.
How can I know this is for me?
Ask yourself the following questions:
Do I struggle to feel safe with God?
Is my spiritual life blocked, boring or stagnant?
Am I disconnected from my emotions, or do I feel controlled by them?
Do I have past trauma or struggle with self-doubt or self-hatred?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then I know how you feel. The fact is, there are valid reasons for us to feel this way: we have experienced pain and hardship that our brains and bodies had to try and make sense of. We’ve only ever been doing the best we could, but with childish simplicity, we tend to blame ourselves for everything that’s gone wrong around us. We believe we are uniquely broken and unworthy of love or kindness. At best, loving ourselves seems an audacious, even foolish thing to consider—and at worst, it reeks of vanity and self-centeredness.
But what if the very beliefs and practices that got you here are now holding you back?
And what if God doesn’t hold anything you had to do to survive, against you?
What if peace and hope and joy were available to you, right now?
If that sounds like good news, then I’d like to extend an invitation: give yourself permission to try a new way. Download a sample reading of my book You Are Enough: Learning to Love Yourself the Way God Loves You, and take it for a spin. If my gentle approach resonates with you, then register for a seminar or online course and let’s find out just how deep love goes.
Testimonials
“I found Jonathan’s guided meditations when searching for a way to help my Christian clients get over some of their religious baggage. His gentle videos have meant so much to many of my clients!”
“Jonathan Puddle is a guide to the deep places of the heart and mind that still remember we were created for great and wonderful things.”
“Because of trauma deep in my life I became very fragmented. The gentle meditative process in You Are Enough, and the time I spent at the retreat with Jonathan and my community was the process God used to tie together years of recovery work, bringing all my scattered pieces home. I now have the tools and resources for whatever God calls me to each day. This has given me the validation and courage to move forward in the hard things.”
