Episode 84

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5th Sep 2025

The Embrace of Your Inner Parent

Stevens new course: Finding Peace in Everyday Life (you choose how much to pay)

Meditation Description

Have you ever wished for a voice of unconditional love and support, especially during difficult times? This guided meditation is your invitation to connect with that voice within.

As a companion to the Stillness in the Storms episode, "The Parent You Never Knew You Had," this practice will help you create a safe inner space to meet and embrace the wise, compassionate, and reassuring parent that resides within you. Allow yourself to move from self-criticism to deep self-acceptance and feel the profound comfort of coming home to yourself.

Who is This Meditation For?

This meditation is for you if you:

  • Struggle with a loud or persistent inner critic.
  • Are seeking clarity, direction, or gentle guidance in your life.
  • Wish to build self-compassion and improve your sense of self-worth.
  • Feel overwhelmed and are in need of comfort, safety, and reassurance.
  • Want to cultivate a more loving and supportive relationship with yourself.

Benefits of This Meditation

By practicing this meditation, you can:

  • Reduce Self-Judgment and Anxiety: Quiet the harsh voice of your inner critic and feel a greater sense of calm.
  • Cultivate Deep Self-Compassion: Learn to treat yourself with the kindness and understanding you would offer a dear friend.
  • Increase Feelings of Safety and Security: Create an inner sanctuary where you feel unconditionally loved and accepted.
  • Access Your Inner Wisdom: Connect with your intuition to make decisions that are more aligned with your well-being.
  • Support Emotional Healing: Gently nurture parts of yourself that may have felt neglected or criticized in the past.
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About the Podcast

Inner Peace Meditations
Short guided meditations for people who cannot meditate. No jargon, no complicated breathing, no promises. Around fourteen minutes. Always free.
Short guided meditations for people who cannot meditate.

That is not a joke, it is the actual brief. If you have ever tried one of these and spent the whole time thinking about whether you were doing it right, then went back to scrolling, these are for you.

I am Steven Webb. I have ADHD and dyslexia, and my mind has never once gone quiet. I stopped trying to make it. That turned out to be the whole thing.

You do not have to empty your head. You never did. The thoughts are not the problem, your relationship with them is.

Most of these run around fourteen minutes. Morning ones to start the day a bit lighter. Evening ones to let the day settle. Some for anxiety, some for anger, some for the nights when sleep is not happening.

No complicated breathing. No visualisations you cannot hold. No promises about who you will be in thirty days.

Free, and staying free.

Steven Webb has been paralysed from the chest down since 1991. He teaches from the mess, not from the mountaintop.
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