Lifting the Shadow off Nourishment: A Year of Healing Mother

On a deep, radical level, how do you do self-care? How do you pretend you are taking care of yourself when you really aren’t? What and how do you make food for yourself? When do you rest or relax, and what do you need to do first, before you allow yourself the luxury? Do you feel rested and rejuvenated after your downtime? Do you get to discover and pursue what you most deeply enjoy, and what nourishes you, physically, spiritually, and emotionally?

Do you long to be flexible with yourself and others instead of rigid, kind instead of harsh, calm instead of anxious, gracious instead of awkward, energized instead of paralyzed, successful instead of struggling, or aware instead of unconscious? Did you ever make a promise to yourself to be nothing like your mother (or other primary caregiver), while finding yourself reproducing her survival strategies at a core level? Have you found a way to be gentle with the mother that is in every cell of your being, shaping your digestion, your sense of safety in the world, the way you breathe, and the way you care for yourself? Would you love to transform your relationship with receiving nourishment, from food, from water, from the air, from friendships, from work, and from partnerships?

Our relationship with self is revealed in the ways that we nourish ourselves. Being awake to the shadow qualities in our self-care, though, is a complicated request of ourselves, and it becomes both more complex and simpler when we begin to take into account the ways we were nourished and the ways that our mothers were nourished.

We can ask ourselves complex questions like, how am both I caring and not caring for myself in:

• What I eat?
• How much and when I sleep?
• What I drink, when and why?
• When I rest and whether I feel better afterwards?
• My social media habits?
• My use of substances, shopping and gambling?
• The kinds of friendships I pursue?
• My activism activities?

As we look at these questions in the context of relational neuroscience and the development of our nervous systems, we can bring compassion, understanding, support and a radical self-love to our self-care strategies. When we begin to understand that deep nourishment is radical and essential, we start to invite warm curiosity into our lives, our lives and hearts soften, we create connections across differences, we become more aware of how much we love the people in our lives, and all the ecosystems and their elements, and we begin to enjoy the moment.

In this 29-week beyond-the-book course, focused around Sarah Peyton’s Your Resonant Self Workbook, we will look at the different kinds of unconscious contracts involved in our self-nourishment, in our attempts to keep ourselves safe and self-regulated, keep our sense of belonging, and save those we love the most. Join Sarah Peyton for a year of radical, life-changing, self-love and love of others.

Participants will have opportunities to work as a group and in smaller breakout groups to begin to name, disentangle and release the unknown agreements we have with ourselves which keep us from truly nourishing ourselves and others.

When you sign up for this year-long course, you also receive access to Sarah’s monthly neuroscience and resonance webinars, optional practice groups & resonance partner practice, and a bonus Q&A session!

Each of the 13 chapters of this book is covered in two classes (three classes for chapter 8), in a series of twenty-nine 85-minute classes including a bonus session. Each class will include lectures, Q&A, discussion of exercises, demos, and personal explorations of the abilities and growth that make our brains good and comfortable places to be. This journey will take us from December of 2025 through to November of 2026, and support participants to remove the blocks to self-nourishment. The full series package also includes the monthly Neuroscience and Resonance webinars during the period of the course plus opportunities for community practice.

As a participant you will:

• Become acquainted with the interplay of your mother’s ability to nourish with your own ability to receive
• Explore the depths of your denial of nourishment and its unconscious effect on you
• Welcome the parts of yourself you’ve never known how to love
• Invite yourself into a deeper sense of self-mothering
• Release the contracts that separate you from self
• Know yourself more fully and compassionately
• Allow for new levels of complexity and paradox in this experience of being human
• Infuse self-care into your everyday life
• Delight in new freedom and access to joy
• Learn in-depth in community
• Find your way toward an invitation to experiencing more freedom from hidden patterns while exploring the fundamental concepts of resonance through the YRS Workbook
• Transform your brain into a more comfortable and kinder place to live

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Assistant support is available during classes. There are three ways this happens:

• In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
• In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
• Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.

Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.

Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.