Welcome to
The Connection Check-In

Before you begin, give yourself a little space to actually be with this experience.

This does not need to take long, but it will be most useful if you move through it truthfully instead of rushing to "get it done."

As you go, notice what feels true, what feels uncomfortable, what feels familiar, and what part of you may want to skip over certain questions or realizations.

The purpose of this experience is not to judge yourself harshly or force yourself into connection before you feel ready.

It is to begin seeing more clearly where you are, what you need, and what kind of connection you may be ready to move towards.

In this short clip from an exclusive Teal Premium workshop, Teal speaks about one of the most important truths about human life: we are a relationally dependent species.

We need relationships in order to thrive. And we need those relationships to be supportive, safe enough, nourishing, and genuinely aligned with our needs.

Teal also brings attention to the difference between wanting to be loved and wanting to be valued, and explains love as the conscious choice to include another person as a part of yourself.

Every so often, it is important to re-evaluate your life. And one of the most important parts of life is relationships.

This meditation guides you to objectively observe yourself within your current relationships, so you can gain clarity about the reality of the relationship sector of your life and what you may want to change moving forward.

As you listen, let yourself observe without immediately defending, explaining, fixing, or minimizing what you see.

Now that you've heard Teal's teaching and completed the Relationship Inventory meditation, take a few minutes to answer the reflection questions below.

If you'd like to practice connection while you're here, we highly recommend sharing your reflections in the comments at the bottom of this page, so others moving through this experience can see and connect with you.

Want to go deeper into what gets in the way of connection and how to actually begin creating it?

This free experience is a starting point. It helps you pause, take inventory, and begin seeing what connection is asking of you.

If you want to continue this work, The Art of Connection was created as a guided path for understanding what gets in the way of connection and beginning to practice it in real life. You're among the first to see it, as we have just released it.

Relationships are always a dance between you and other people. You cannot do the other person's part for them, but you can become more empowered on your side of the relationship by understanding what is happening within you, resolving the resistance or opposition you may have to connection, and learning practical skills for how to connect more consciously.

Inside, you'll move through Teal's teachings on resistance, intimacy, loneliness, disowned relationship needs, energy exchange, compatibility, and practical connection skills, with integration assignments to help you apply what you learn directly to your own life and relationships.