Saturday, August 8 at 3PM EST

The Habit of Being Hard on Ourselves

We can be gentler with a stranger than we are with ourselves.

It's a pain we feel in the privacy of our own minds - the running critique, the impossible standard, the tone we'd never use with anyone we love, turned on the one person we can't walk away from.

The same thoughts. The same second-guessing. The same replay of what we said, what we did, the thing we're sure we got wrong.

Pick. Pick. Pick.

And we sink lower and lower.

We've tried to be kinder to ourselves. We've read the books. We've had real stretches of peace.

And then we catch our reflection, or fall short of the standard, or make one small mistake - and the attack starts up again.

Sometimes we lose sleep over it. Sometimes we even make ourselves sick over it.

And underneath all of it is the one relationship we thought we'd have made peace with by now: the one with ourselves.

If you've ever thought, I should be kinder to myself by now - you are not alone.

The Spiritual Power of This Moment

We're still in the long light of summer - the season before the turn, when something in us finds a yearning to lighten up.

Here's what's true: we weren't created to condemn ourselves. Not once. Not ever.

The self we attack is the very Self God created perfect and whole. Every attack thought is a belief we learned - never a fact, never a verdict, and never the truth of who we are.

When we believe we're not good enough, we feel it everywhere - in our bodies, our relationships, our work, our sense of what's possible for us. And the people around us learn from watching how we treat ourselves.

A Course in Miracles doesn't ask us to try harder to like ourselves. It offers to heal the belief underneath the attack - the belief that there was ever anything to condemn.

Whatever your relationship with yourself is right now - loving, exhausted, at war, somewhere in between - the spiritual timing is the same.

In This Deep Dive Workshop, We'll Be Focused On:

  • The one response A Course in Miracles asks us to make automatic - so the moment an attack thought arises, you can go the other way.

  • Stop projecting your own self-criticism onto others, ruining those relationships.

  • How to heal the root causes of self-attack

  • A spiritual shift rather than a better strategy. When the belief goes, the attack has nothing left to grow from.

  • Days that feel different. Ordinary mornings, ordinary Tuesdays, lived without the war going on inside. You get to relax.

  • How this shift, using these tools brings more loving relationships into your life and improves the quality of every day of the rest of your life

This Workshop is For You If:

  • You're worn out by how hard you are on yourself - the constant critique, the impossible standard - and you're done trying to earn your way out of it.

  • You'd like to feel real gentleness toward yourself - the kind you offer other people without a second thought.

  • You're willing to let the belief underneath the attack be healed, even the parts you can't quite see yet - not because you've earned Peace, but because you're done waiting to feel worthy of it.

This Workshop is NOT For You If:

  • You're hoping for a better way to motivate yourself with fear, pressure, or self-criticism.

  • You're hoping to manage the attack thoughts more efficiently rather than heal them at the root.

  • You're hoping someone will confirm the attack is justified, or that you simply need to try harder to be good enough.

If any of that lands - we understand. Come when you're ready.

I was hard on everyone - and hardest of all on myself.

For years, I motivated myself the only way I knew how: berating myself, threatening myself, chastising myself into doing better. I thought that was how you got yourself to be good. I couldn't have told you I was attacking myself all day long. I'd have called it having high standards.

Underneath it was a belief I didn't even know I was carrying - that I was fundamentally not good enough. Not struggling. Not human. Not good enough. There was a time I didn't believe life could ever really be good for me, and I was sure that whatever worked for other people would never work for me.

I was convinced this stuff was real. For them. Not for me.

And then, with genuine willingness, however small, I let myself wonder whether the attack might not be telling me the truth. I am not a sinner. I never was. There is nothing in me God did not create perfect and whole.

It took real commitment - years of it. But the mind that once ran on self-attack learned, thought by thought, to choose Peace instead. The frustration still comes up, daily, in little ways. Yet I meet it differently now. I never imagined I could feel this kind of gentleness toward myself.

Truly.

I'd like to share that liberation with you.

With so much Love,

Jennifer 💜

Founder of Power of Love Ministry and host of the A Course in Miracles podcast (over 745 episodes), Jennifer has guided over 60,000 people in the practical application of these teachings for more than 25 years.

Saturday, August 8th • 3:00 PM Eastern

  • Includes Lifetime Access to Video + Audio + Full Transcript + Replay Access

  • BONUS: Deep Dive Monthly Subscribers practically get this workshop FREE.

    When you subscribe it’s like getting every 4th workshop free!

IMPORTANT: If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send us an email at [email protected] OR contact us through our live chat support.

Here’s what participants say:

Tedd Swartz


"The tools and insights Jennifer shares in her workshops have helped me to change my mind and go the other way on a daily basis. This has changed my whole life for the better. I love her workshops because I get so much out of them!"

Bo Stewart

"I felt empowered by the sharing and am making changes in my life to heal these feelings of unworthiness and experience more happiness and joy. Working in a group was a powerful experience for me, it allowed me to express myself in a non-judgmental environment and feel connected . Everyone shared the same feelings. In the past I secretly thought I was the only one experiencing thoughts and feelings of unworthiness."

Katie Coll

"Jennifer’s tools, tips, personal sharing and examples are everything that has helped me see, hear, know and live to the fullest expression of my authentic self. It’s changed my life!"

Andy Steinfield

"I’d been suffering from constant anxiety every minute of the day for 3 months. 2 days after completing the workshop, I woke up and my anxiety was gone! A miracle! A year later and I’m still experiencing the results! It was a profound moment for me, and I totally believe it was the workshop that made it happen."

This Is Your Moment of Decision

You've been carrying this long enough.

The same critique, the same impossible standard, the same war with ourselves we've tried to think our way out of, tried to affirm our way out of, tried to out-work.

Come to the workshop. Lay it down. We'll do it together.

You get to decide.

You get to decide.

P.S. A Course in Miracles tells us: "Only the self-accused condemn." That's not a sentence meant to hand us one more thing to feel bad about. It's an invitation into the deepest possible freedom: when we stop accusing ourselves, the need to condemn - ourselves or anyone else - simply falls away. Let's lay it down together. 💜

All boats rise on this tide of Love.

Power of Love Ministry is a 501c3 non-profit supporting people who are actively interested in walking their talk, living the Love, and awakening so they can teach only Love and be truly helpful. We're doing it together!

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