October 22 - December 17, 2025
All Sessions Online
Wednesdays 5:30-6:15pm PT
What is the cost to your health when you hold onto resentment or anger—and how much more energy, clarity, and peace might you gain if you let it go?
This 8-week series is designed to guide you into a deeper relationship with forgiveness through experiential practice, reflection, and community dialogue. Forgiveness is not about condoning harm or bypassing difficult emotions—it is a courageous practice of releasing what no longer serves us and cultivating freedom of heart.
Each session focuses on one of four core emotions that arises as the normal process of forgiveness—fear, anger, sadness, and/or numbness—paired with a heart practice that transforms these states into resilience and compassion. Gratitude and compassion are intentionally integrated throughout the series, as research has shown they are essential supports to the forgiveness process.
“I came to Carley carrying years of resentment—towards my workplace, my body, and even myself. Carley’s coaching gave me the tools to work with my health and emotions simultaneously. Through forgiveness practices, nutrition shifts, and lifestyle changes, I was able to let go of the heaviness that had been holding me back.”
What to Expect Each Week
Week 1 – Oct 22 – Opening to Forgiveness: Setting Intention
We begin by creating a safe, supportive container for the group. You’ll clarify what forgiveness means personally, set intentions, understand the process of self to other forgiveness, and learn how gratitude and compassion lay the foundation for healing.
Gain: clarity of purpose and a sense of grounded belonging in the group.
Week 2 – Oct 29 – Cultivating Self Forgiveness
Explore how self-judgment and shame block healing. Through guided reflection and forgiveness meditation, you’ll practice meeting yourself with compassion and acceptance.
Gain: the ability to soften inner criticism and begin releasing old burdens.
Week 3 – Nov 5 – Meeting Fear with Lovingkindness
Examine how fear fosters contraction and limits openness to others. Using lovingkindness meditation, you’ll learn to relate to fear with gentleness and safety.
Gain: greater courage, openness, and self-trust.
NOTE: We will skip the week of November 12.
Week 4 – Nov 19 – Meeting Anger with Forgiveness
Understand anger as both a signal and a teacher. Through embodied practice and forgiveness meditation, you’ll learn to honor anger’s message while releasing its hold.
Gain: emotional insight and tools for transforming anger into clarity and release.
Week 5 – Nov 26 – Meeting Sadness with Compassion
Honor grief and loss as part of the forgiveness path. Compassionate boundary practices and guided imagery will help you hold sadness without being consumed by it.
Gain: resilience, deeper self-respect, and space for healing.
Week 6 – Dec 3 – Meeting Numbness with Equanimity
Recognize numbness and disconnection as protective mechanisms. Through equanimity meditation and body-based awareness, you’ll gently reconnect to yourself.
Gain: balance, steadiness, and presence.
Week 7 – Dec 10 – Integration and Compassionate Boundaries
Review the four emotions—fear, anger, sadness, and numbness—and the practices that support them. Deepen into compassionate boundaries and embodied yes/no practices.
Gain: confidence in expressing truth, honoring limits, and sustaining forgiveness in relationships.
Week 8 – Dec 17 – Celebration and Commitment to Ongoing Forgiveness
Celebrate the journey with gratitude, paired sharing, and ritual. You’ll set intentions for sustaining forgiveness practices beyond the series.
Gain: closure, renewal, and an ongoing commitment to living with an open heart.
“She guided me through nutrition and movement protocols tailored to my body, but more importantly, she invited me into a forgiveness practice that changed everything. Through starting a meditation practice, I was able to release the resentment and grief I had been carrying for decades. I feel lighter, more energized, and more connected to myself than I have in years.”
Your Teacher
Carley Hauck is an integrative women’s health practitioner, a well being designer, leadership expert, and executive coach. She is passionate about supporting women through the difficult challenges of perimenopause and menopause to thrive in their vitality, purpose, and leadership.
With over 25 years of meditation practice and as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s 4th Dedicated Practitioners Program, Carley brings a grounded and integrative approach to healing and transformation. She holds a Master’s in Medical/Health Psychology and has served as lead consultant on three NIH-funded clinical trials exploring neurobiological markers of health and longevity.
What it Costs
$299 for the entire 8-week series, or drop in for $45/session
WITHIN Meditation Members get $50 off the cost of enrollment! Contact sit@withinmeditation.com for the promo code or for more information about becoming a member.
Early Bird Special
Register by October 13th to receive:
An unlimited membership at WITHIN Meditation to support your practice during the Series. Includes access to all live meditation classes held via Zoom Oct 22-Dec 17!
We want you to feel great about jumping in. If you register for the series and decide after your first session that it isn’t for you, we’ll give you a full refund.
Because this class builds from week to week, you must request the refund by 11:59pm PDT on the day prior to the second session for us to honor it (Oct 29, 2025). If you register with the Early Bird Special, upon issuing your refund we will end your unlimited access to online meditation classes held at WITHIN and remove your access to the Q&A with Dr. Luskin.
“When I began working with Carley, I was exhausted and burned out in a corporate leadership role that no longer fit who I was becoming. Carley’s guidance was the bridge from depletion to renewal, from survival to true leadership.”
Questions? Just email us at sit@withinmeditation.com.
FAQs for The Forgiveness Series
How much does it cost?
For $299, you’ll be enrolled in all eight online sessions of The Forgiveness Series. Or, drop in for $45. Scholarships are available - please email us at sit@withinmeditation.com if cost is a barrier for you.
How do the online sessions work?
All sessions are held via Zoom, so they’re super easy to join with your laptop, your tablet or your phone. You’ll receive a link to join once you complete your registration.
Are the online sessions recorded?
Yes, you will learn important techniques in each session that we want you to be able to practice on your own time. Recordings will remain available through December 24, 2025.
When will the group meet?
The group meets once a week for 45 minutes (5:30-6:15pm PT) for eight weeks on Wednesdays from October 22nd through December 17th, 2025. You can sign up for the whole series, or just drop in to the sessions that work best for you.
What happens in session?
In each 45-minute session, you can expect Carley to offer insight, information and practices - check out the schedule above for more details.
Is there any guided meditation in the sessions?
There is a brief guided meditation in each session. If you’re looking for more substantial guided meditation, check out our online classes instead.
Who leads the sessions?
Carley Hauck will lead the sessions.
Do I need any special clothes or equipment?
None! One of our favorite things about meditation is that you don't need anything special to practice it. To join the online classes you’ll just need access to the internet, and a phone, laptop or tablet.
Can I start and stop during the schedule?
You’re welcome to just drop in for a session. However, if you sign up for the whole series, you’ll learn the most - and do the most to build your forgiveness practice - if you attend all sessions of your series. That means either coming live at 5:30pm PT, or watching the recording later to catch up on the practices Carley introduced.
What happens if I sign up, and then realize it's not right for me? Do you give refunds?
We want you to feel great about jumping in. If you enroll in the whole series and decide after your first session that it isn’t for you, we’ll give you a full refund. Because we also want you to take your participation in the series seriously, you must request the refund by 11:59pm PDT on the day before the second session for us to honor it (Oct 29). If you register with the Early Bird Special, upon issuing your refund we will end your month of unlimited access to online meditation classes held at WITHIN.
I have other questions!
Great! Just email us at sit@withinmeditation.com and we'll answer right away.
“I wasn’t sure I needed another seminar, but I’m glad I signed up. I’ve experienced more ease and space in everyday living. It’s helpful in all areas of life.”