FREE 10-MINUTE AUDIO PRACTICE

You Don’t Have to Be Okay Here

A guided reflection and grounding practice for the times when you’re struggling

You don’t need to figure it all out before you can receive support. This audio gives you somewhere you don’t have to pretend, explain or immediately feel better.

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You’re allowed to admit that this is hard.

There is so much pressure to be okay. To keep going, hold it together and reassure everyone around you that you’re fine.

But sometimes you’re not okay.

Maybe something painful has happened. Maybe you’ve been carrying too much for too long. Or maybe you can’t fully explain why you feel the way you do.

You don’t have to minimize it, make sense of it or pull yourself together before you press play.

A place to pause without being asked to fix it

In this free 10-minute audio, I’ll sit with you in the hard moment and help you:

Notice what you’re carrying without judging or minimizing it
Feel a little more supported in your body
Consider what might help, even if you don’t know exactly what you need
Remember that you don’t have to carry everything alone

You may not finish feeling magically okay. That isn’t the point. The point is to give you somewhere you don’t have to pretend.

I’m Ruth Hirshberg, MSW, RSW. I’ve been a registered social worker for more than 15 years, and I’m trained in meditation and breathwork.

I work with women who go and go until it’s done and then realize it’s never actually done. I know that one well. I keep trying to finish my own list.

I’ve lived through some hard, dark times myself. So I made this for the moments when you’re in a hard place and don’t need anyone to fix it. Just somewhere to stop pretending for a few minutes.

If you ever want that with a real person, I also see women 1:1. We start and end every session with grounding, so there’s some settling before you go back into your day.

You don’t have to be okay with me.