Embodying
Self-Compassion

free your relationship with yourself

Imagine if you had a beautiful, loving relationship with yourself.

This relationship is the only one that you are in, completely, for your whole life.

It is the closest relationship you will ever be in.

You are who you spend every day with.

It’s time to embody self-compassion.

In this course I combine techniques gathered from my training and certification as a Relational Somatic Therapist, an Internal Family Systems practitioner (parts work), as well as years of self study in mindfulness.

What Past Participants are Saying

  • "This course is well designed and provides a step by step process for identifying the parts of yourself that require attention."

    I have been working with Jessie for a number of years and I owe alot of the success in my healing journey to her lessons. This course provides a good framework for healing the emotional body and identifying those parts of yourself. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about themselves and how to love all of those parts.

    RT | Cumberland, BC Canada

  • "I’ve done a lot of talk therapy and hit a bit of a plateau. This course helped me with a new perspective that I found very helpful."

    I also enjoyed discovering that I am not alone in how I’m feeling. The hardest part was realizing this is a practice and not a quick fix, the success is in the practice.

    MO | Beaverton, Oregon USA

  • "If you want to befriend yourself, if you long to meet all of yourself and hold space for yourself the way you would for your dearest friend, this is the course for you!"

    Jessie is a skilled and gifted facilitator whose deep listening and authentic, enthusiastic presence provides the safe container needed to do this work. Jesse has authentically walked her own path and the steps she guides us on are both simple and profound.

    LP | Cumberland, BC Canada

What is Self-Compassion?

Compassion is something we hear about a lot.

But what is it really?

The way I have come to experience it is that we don’t create compassion. We can’t ‘make it happen’. However there are practices that help us access a state where compassion enters.

Compassion is available. Everywhere. The work of Embodying Self-Compassion is the work of opening to that which is already here.

There is a process for this opening, and it is what you will learn in this 6-week Embodying Self-Compassion course.

While this course stands alone as deep and life transforming work, it will also have an optional second component, to be launched at a later date, that is the full Radical Liberation Technique.

Learning this process will give you an opportunity to have a different relationship with difficulty.

When you change your relationship with difficulty, you allow grace to enter.

Turning Inward

Are you having trouble opening to Self-Compassion?

If so, please know that it’s not your fault. This doesn’t say anything about you as a person. Put simply, we weren’t taught how to do this.

Let’s be real. Turning inward can be an uncomfortable experience when it goes against a lifetime of training that has taught us to turn outward.

We live in a culture that says “fulfill and fix yourself externally.” If you are uncomfortable, buy something or eat something or work harder at something. Do something, ANYTHING, to get rid of that feeling.

We are averse to discomfort because the system that this culture is built on says “don’t be uncomfortable,” while simultaneously setting us up to be over worked, under-rested and aiming for a kind of unattainable ‘self improvement.’ It’s a set up.

Here’s the paradox though: when we stop trying to not feel bad, and instead turn inward and just feel what we are feeling, we end up feeling better. The sustainable kind of better that is fed from within rather than grasped for without.

So this is what we are going to practice going forward. There’s no magic pill (magic pills don’t exist). Embodying Self-Compassion is a practice, and you can do it.

“Embodying Self-Compassion offers lifelong building blocks to a sustainable good life.”

Who This Course Is For

You’ve been investing in self-study for a while, and want something a little new, a little juicy.

You struggle with negative self-talk. You want to be kind to yourself but don’t know how or where to start. The concept of self-compassion seems abstract, and you are looking for a more tangible experience.

You have a developed internal practice, and are ready to dig into the nuance of the process.

You are tired of your regular, reactionary routine, and want to free yourself from those cyclical inner behaviours and patterns. You want to free up your energy, vitality and creativity.

You are just starting your journey and are seeking a clear pathway to access self-compassion.

If any of these sound like your situation, this course is designed for you.

Note: If you’re in acute distress and active PTSD recovery, this course may not be the one for you.

What Past Participants are Saying

  • "I cannot speak highly enough of this course."

    Jessie has taken a challenging, abstract concept and broken it down into steps that each of us can practice at our own speed long after completing the course. What I have learned has already been beneficial to my daily life, and the classes were really fun!

    EM | Courtenay, BC Canada

  • "This is mind-blowingly amazing stuff!! I now see this process as a path to loving myself into wholeness"

    I now understand at the deepest level that the loving, supportive kindness that I have always longed for is actually available from me. I really 'get it' that this loving spirit is actually an internal, integral, spiritual, dynamic part of who I am. I just needed this incredibly uncomplicated, yet powerful process to experience it.

    DK | Parksville, BC Canada

  • "I am so grateful to have been able to take this course."

    The tools provided are ones that everyone and anyone can benefit from to help live a more present and compassionate life. Not only are these skills amazing for personal growth and awareness of one's own emotions, they also help frame experiences of others in a more compassionate light.

    KM | Cumberand, BC Canada

Meet Your Guide

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC), folk medicine practitioner, ceremonialist

Hi, I’m Jessie

Your devoted guide for radical liberation.

My intention is simply to share the things that have helped me along my path of living. This process of Embodying Self-Compassion is like rocket fuel for a sustainable, good life and for other therapeutic practices you have. It has brought a softness and grace to my most important relationship - the one with me!

When I started practicing this process, I noticed that I could move through much more in my own counselling sessions. I then brought it into my everyday life, applied it, and found that when I needed to move through something and I could turn towards this practice, it freed me.

Then I brought pieces of this to my clients and we started seeing great results.

Now it’s time to bring it into groups and to share it further!

Embodying Self-Compassion has changed my relationship with myself, for the better, and I want everyone to have that.

When we practice self-compassion, we have more inner peace. And when we have more inner peace, we can create community peace. When we create community peace, we create more global peace. At this time in our lives—in humanity—peace is essential. This is why I’m teaching this course.

How The Course Works

An intimate group of
up to 19 people spending
2 hours online together each week for
6 weeks.

Classes will be held on

All classes are recorded, so if you need to miss one you can watch the material on your own time. I request that any missed classes are watched before the next class resumes as they are sequential.

The recordings will be available to view for 3 months after the course concludes.

Week 1 will be an opportunity for introductions: to each other, to the course material.

Weeks 2-5 will focus on each progressing step of the Embodying Self-Compassion process: you will add one building block at a time, and can practice over the course of the week, allowing for more easeful and effective nervous system integration. There will also be an opportunity for Live Coaching during these sessions. If you are feeling stuck, or if you notice you are speaking unkindly to yourself, you will have the opportunity to engage in the process with Jessie’s guidance. Live Coaching offers the opportunity for everyone to learn, both participant and observers!

Week 6 will be an opportunity for reflections: at this point you will have devoted nearly two months of your precious energy to embodying self-compassion. There will be much to share!

While this course stands alone as deep and life transforming work, it will also have an optional second component, to be launched at a later date, that is the full Radical Liberation Technique.

The financial reciprocity is: $425 plus GST

There are 2 spots with a scholarship discount of $100 for folks needing community support. To access these spots please email me at hello@jessiephoenix.com.

The Results

  • clarity

    You will leave this course with a clear, self-led, step-by-step process to practice getting into a state where compassion can enter.

  • skill

    When you feel activated, instead of bypassing you will be able to engage in this real process of meeting yourself in the truth of what is present. You will re-regulate and navigate that difficult situation with a sh*t load more grace. ;)

  • momentum

    As you continue to practice, the process will become easier and more efficient. You will find yourself moving through blocks and barriers with more quickly, emerging on the other side not only embodied and connected, but feeling stronger than before.

  • peace

    As the process becomes more deeply embodied, you will experience fewer uncomfortable symptoms associated with our externally-focused culture like anxiety and depression. It will be easier to access care, warmth and tenderness towards yourself and others.

  • self-compassion

    You will be able to tend, with intimacy, the longest, closest relationship of your life. You will embody self-compassion.

What Clients Are Saying

  • "Working with Jessie is a revelation."

    I met Jessie, and finally, I have someone who can provide the kind of wisdom, practices and encouragement necessary for a process of learning and growth that is truly transformative.

    DG | Vancouver, BC Canada

  • "Simply put... Jessie changed my life."

    After 25 years of numerous psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists I was fortunate enough to find her.

    EL | BC Canada

  • "No matter how tough the issues or how big the emotions that are stirred up, Jessie's presence provides a safe, warm, supportive and compassionate space within which to work."

    DK | Parksville, BC Canada

Questions You Might Have

  • I get it. I was also in years of therapy. And this is one of the things I figured out and started doing for myself that really started changing things for me.

    I would love for you to try something new and see if it can create changes for you as well.

  • The thing about investing time specifically in your wellness is that it supports the rest of life coming into alignment too.

    This process has been like rocket fuel for me. It has helped me come into more intimate relationship with myself, which in turned has helped me to be more discerning about where I spend my time. I have more time now than I did in the past, because I am spending it in ways that are in alignment for me.

    It takes an up front investment, for sure. But embodying self-compassion only leads to more freedom, not less.

  • I have created a sliding scale with the hope of making this course more financially accessible. In addition, I am offering it at a discounted, introductory rate for the March 2024 intake.

  • In an effort to make this work accessible to all people, regardless of their financial means, I offer a Community Support cost option, which covers the difference between the cost of the course and the discounted rate.

    I am in deep gratitude for the generous community we are building and living in.

  • Yes! However, I really recommended attending live to be able to ask questions, participate in Live Coaching and get to know your coursemates.

  • The September course will be the last offering of Embodying Self-Compassion in 2024.

  • Embodying Self-Compassion is part 1 of a 2-part process called the Radical Liberation Technique.

    The Radical Liberation Technique (RLT)  is a therapeutic process into embodying the courage and willingness to look at and meet our own unique internal edges. RLT is a practical, step by step process that guides us into deeper presence. It gives us an easy-to-follow set of tools to use when things feel tricky. Because, let’s face it, being human is tricky. And we can take these opportunities to push farther away from self and others OR we can take these opportunities to come into connection with self and others. 

    RLT guides us through peeling back the possible layers of internalized shame and hurt, and for meeting the most challenging, pained and precious parts of ourselves with loving compassion. This frees our energy, our attention, and our ability to love. 

    Ultimately, it means loving our whole selves and each other so hard that we are inspired to enliven our imaginations, celebrate the beauty around us, and create new ways of living with each other.

    Practicing this technique will not  instantly, radically liberate us. But it will support us in expanding our ability to experience freedom and belonging.

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What Clients Are Saying

  • "Jessie is an alchemist in service of repairing this world."

    I am so humbled by her skill and ability to hold space for so many people with such beauty and compassion.

    LD

  • “I greatly appreciate Jessie's trauma-informed and embodied approach, as well as her knowledge of various healing modalities."

    Her trust in our innate capacity to heal is grounding.

    AC

  • "Jessie has an infinitely loving, strong, yet gentle, humble presence."

    Add to that the extensive training and wisdom that pours into every session and she is definitely the person I want beside me for this journey.

    Anonymous