Relational Release
A collection of sacred meditations called The Soft Unbinding, each one offering a brief insight into the emotional healing it supports, from grief and fear to self-belief and ancestral release.
How to Choose and How Often to Listen
There is no set order to The Soft Unbinding meditations, choose intuitively, listen consistently, and let your practice become a sacred return to the parts of you most in need of care:
Place a hand on your heart or belly, take a few breaths, and ask, āWhat part of me needs love today?ā
Trust the meditation that feels tender, persistent, or even slightly uncomfortable
Read the descriptions and choose what resonates in the moment
Repeat meditations for several days to build safety and deepen connection
Regular listening supports emotional regulation and nervous system healing
A gentle rhythm may include:
One meditation weekly
One meditation daily, repeated for a few days
Returning to key meditations during times of stress or change
There is no rush and no right way.
Let presence guide you. Let the practice unfold.
What Changes When You Keep Listening
When you listen to The Soft Unbinding regularly, you are not just meditating, you are gently rewiring your nervous system, deepening inner trust, and returning to the Self that has always known how to heal:
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You feel calmer and more settled in your body
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Anxiety, inner criticism, and reactivity begin to soften
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You make clearer decisions with more self-trust
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You feel greater compassion for the parts of you shaped by pain
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A deeper sense of inner safety and belonging emerges
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You reconnect with your intuition, your soul, and your sacred centre
This is not just listening.
This is the soft unbinding.
And it begins with presence.
Welcome to the Relational Release Guidebook
This sacred guide has been created to gently support and deepen your journey through each of the six medicinal practices. Inside, you will find IFS-informed reflections, somatic rituals, and integration prompts to help you connect with your inner system and embody the healing with care.
Let this guidebook be a quiet place to return to, a companion for your parts, a space to reflect, and a tool to help you honour what is unfolding. There is no right way to use it. Follow what feels true for you.
You are not just listening. You are remembering.
And you are not alone in this.
You can download it here.
Guidebook
Healing The Mother Wound
This practice guides you to connect with the unmet longings and protective parts shaped by your relationship with your mother. It offers a space to grieve what was missing while receiving energetic mothering that nourishes and soothes the heart.
ReleasingĀ TheĀ Father Wound
This meditation helps you tenderly meet and release the pain held in your system from an absent, unavailable, or harmful father figure. It creates space for repair, internal re-fathering, and reclaiming your inner authority.
Letting Go of Parents
A practice to release unmet expectations, inherited pain, and emotional entanglements, not with resentment, but with compassion. This meditation invites you to honour what was, grieve what was not, and create space for the love that now lives within you.
The Ancestral Altar
This practice supports the release of ancestral burdens that your body and nervous system may still be carrying. Through breath, presence, and spiritual connection, it helps you return what is not yours to hold and receive support from those who came before you.
The Threads That Remain
This meditation honours the complex grief of estrangement. Whether the relationship faded, fractured, or was never safe, it helps you acknowledge what was lost while gently reclaiming your energy and belonging.
Becoming The Parent
This practice meets the sacred ache of grief with tenderness. It gently reveals the love, hope, and life still pulsing beneath the pain, allowing you to feel held in your sorrow while reconnecting with your own light.
BONUS
Forgiveness For Friends
A gentle, heart-opening practice to help you release lingering pain, unspoken resentments, and unresolved memories from past friendships. With compassion and clarity, this meditation supports you in honouring what was, grieving what has changed, and freeing your system from what no longer needs to be carried.
Download Your Relational Release Integration Toolkit
This bonus toolkit serves as your daily companion for integrating the medicine of each practice into your everyday life. Inside, you will find IFS-based prompts, somatic micro-practices, nervous system anchors, and sacred rituals to support ongoing healing and embodiment.
Use this guide to pause, reflect, and tend to your parts with presence. Whether you have five minutes or a spacious morning, this toolkit meets you where you are, helping you stay connected to Self, one breath and one choice at a time.
You can access your tool kit here
Tool KitGo Deeper in Sacred Space
If you feel a particular part has stirred, or a pattern has surfaced that is asking for deeper attention, you are warmly invited to book a one-to-one session. These 90-minute sessions offer sacred space to gently explore what is arising within you, with the support of presence, compassion, and therapeutic skill. Together, we will listen deeply to the parts that carry pain, protection, or longing, and begin the tender work of unbinding what no longer serves. This is your time, to be seen, supported, and gently guided back to your Self.
Book Your SessionsA Final Whisper from My Heart to Yours
No matter where you are on your healing path, please remember this:
You are not broken, you are becoming. Your healing is sacred, and you are worthy of meeting it with love, rest, and gentleness.
With tenderness,
Angela M. Carter
IFS Therapist
