This is part of Step 3 of the Unapologetic Toolkit — Tote Bag
CURIOUS ENOUGH TO STAY
A 28-Day Guided Practice In Learning To Stay With Yourself
For the person who is capable, self-aware and used to holding everything together — but still finds it difficult to be still, feel what is here or settle in their own company.
A gentle, self-led practice in stillness, sensation and self-enquiry. Each day gives you a short reading, a guided recording and a simple page for noticing what moved. No blank mind. No performance. No pressure to get it right.
28 days · Guided audio · Daily workbook · Sensations Guide · Optional Extra Readings · $99
You may have tried to meditate before.
You sat down, lasted about forty seconds, and your brain produced a shopping list, a difficult conversation from years ago and one excellent idea for a project you will probably never start.
Or perhaps you have never tried, because stillness sounds less like peace and more like being left alone with everything you have been too busy to feel.
If this sounds familiar, you are not doing it wrong.
This practice is for people who are thoughtful, capable and often praised for coping, even when they are quietly exhausted. It is for the person who understands their patterns intellectually but still notices the same bracing, urgency or over-functioning in the body.
You do not need a perfectly quiet mind to begin. You only need a little curiosity and permission to go at your own pace.
FOR THE MIND THAT WON’T SETTLE
WHAT THIS PRACTICE IS
Curious Enough to Stay is not a course in emptying your mind or performing calm.
It is a 28-day invitation to notice what is happening within you and practise meeting it with curiosity rather than force.
Across the four weeks, you will move through a gentle arc:
turning inward;
staying with sensation, urges and emotion;
meeting the patterns and protective responses underneath;
carrying the practice into ordinary life.
The aim is not to become a different person. It is to develop a more familiar relationship with your own inner world — one honest moment at a time.
You can pause, repeat a day, shorten a practice or stop whenever you need to. There is no perfect pace and no requirement to complete every element every day.
HOW THIS WORKS
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A gentle daily rhythm of reading, guided stillness and noticing.
Each day offers a short reading, a guided recording and a simple companion page to help you notice what is happening within you. Your Sensations Guide can help you find words for bodily sensations, while optional Extra Readings offer more depth when you want it.
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WEEK ONE — LEARNING IT IS SAFE TO TURN INWARD
Short, careful practices invite your attention away from the outside world and gently back towards yourself. You will notice sensation, breath, posture and the wandering mind, discovering that there is nothing to get right and nowhere you need to rush.
WEEK TWO — BUILDING THE CAPACITY TO STAY
You begin to notice what happens when an urge, a restless feeling or an emotional wave arrives — and practise remaining with it, one breath at a time. Not forcing, fixing or overriding. Simply learning to stay connected to yourself.
WEEK THREE — MEETING WHAT WAS UNDERNEATH
You turn gently towards the bracing, effort and protective patterns that may have helped you feel safe. You are invited to meet what is here with softness and curiosity, without digging, solving or pushing through.
WEEK FOUR — A DIFFERENT WAY OF BEING
You bring the practice into ordinary life. You explore feeling without overriding it, notice the space before a reaction and consider what may become available as the bracing begins to soften.
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A few things, in case you are still not sure — because my own mind has handed me an extensive list.
“I can’t meditate. My mind never stops.”
Perfect. That is exactly who this is for. You are not here to stop your thoughts, which is impossible. You are here to practise staying with yourself, mind and all. The wandering is not the problem. It is part of the practice. Each time you notice you have drifted and gently return, you are doing the work.
“I don’t have time.”
You do not need an hour, or even a perfectly quiet life. The practices begin at just a few minutes and build gradually across the four weeks. Some days you may stay for the full recording. Some days you may practise for less. Five honest minutes — or even a single conscious breath — can be enough to begin. Little and often is the entire point.
“I’ve tried this before and failed.”
There is no failing here, because there is nothing to get right. No blank mind to achieve, no calm to perform, no gold star for good meditation. You do not have to complete every element every day. You can repeat a day, pause, shorten the practice or come back when you are ready. The daily page is not a test either; a single word, a body sensation or no words at all can be enough.
“What if I don’t know what I’m feeling?”
That is completely okay. You might begin with a simple word such as tight, heavy, warm, numb, restless or soft. Your Sensations Guide is there whenever you want help finding language for what is happening in your body. You do not need to name everything, and you do not need to get the word perfectly right.
“What if something comes up?”
This is gentle, client-led and trauma-educated work, and you are always in charge of your pace. You can open your eyes, move, shorten a practice, pause or come back to the room at any time. If something surfaces that feels too big, frightening or difficult to hold on your own, please stop and reach out to a trusted person, your GP, counsellor or therapist. This course is educational wellbeing support; it is not a replacement for medical or mental-health care.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Everything You Need To Begin.
28 guided stillness recordings, in Nic’s voice, building gradually from a few minutes to approximately fifteen minutes.
28 daily readings that introduce the theme and prepare you for the practice.
A companion workbook with a word for the day, gentle noticing and a question to sit with.
The Sensations Guide, with body-based language, a glossary, feeling possibilities and printable body maps.
Five optional Extra Readings: one after Days 5, 8, 18 and 23, plus a closing reading after Day 28.
A self-led structure that allows you to pause, repeat, shorten or return whenever needed.
A single word counts. Some days you may write a page. Some days you may notice one sensation. Some days the practice may land in silence. All of those experiences belong here.
THIS IS THE ONE PLACE YOU GET TO PUT SOME OF IT DOWN
Somewhere along the way, running on empty became your normal.
You have been useful. Capable. On time. Well put together. You have held it all together, for everyone, for a very long time.
For these few minutes, you do not have to hold everything quite so tightly.
Twenty-eight days. A few honest minutes each day. A voice walking alongside you, a page to return to and space to notice what is here. Perhaps, over time, you may begin to discover that you were never broken — and that you do not have to think your way out of everything.
You do not have to feel perfectly settled to begin. You only have to take one small step, with permission to pause or stop whenever you need to.
Every emotion, every sensation and every part of you is welcome here.
A GENTLE NOTE BEFORE YOU BEGIN
This is an educational wellbeing practice, not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, psychotherapy, counselling or crisis support.
If something surfaces that feels too big or difficult to hold on your own, please stop and reach out to a trusted person, your GP, counsellor or therapist.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO THIS PERFECTLY
You do not have to clear your mind.
You do not have to complete every page.
You do not have to feel calm before you begin.
You only need a few minutes, a place to sit and enough curiosity to notice what is here.
Curious Enough to Stay gives you a gentle structure, a voice to walk alongside you and a set of resources to return to whenever you need a little more space to be with yourself.
28 days · $99 · Yours to keep returning to
Curious, credentialed, and unapologetic, I don’t just teach this work—I live it. My path hasn’t been learned on a cushion in a perfect life. It’s been forged in boardrooms, deadlines, and the quiet unravel that comes from performing calm while everything inside is gripping for dear life.
I bring 800+ hours of registered meditation teacher training (The School of Modern Meditation, Meditation Alliance International, Meditation Association of Australia) and blend ancient wisdom with current neuroscience and nervous-system regulation.
I’m also a certified Compassionate Inquiry–informed coach (trained in Dr Gabor Maté’s approach), a Clinical EFT Tapping Practitioner, and hold a Diploma in Body-Oriented (Somatic) Coaching from The Somatic School, London. My approach is trauma-educated, client-led, and rooted in evidence-based practice.
Before any of this, I spent 25+ years in corporate strategy and advertising—reading rooms, hitting targets, and running on red to produce the appearance of having it all together. It took my body forcing a stop, and a late ADHD diagnosis that reframed my entire history, to teach me what I now share with you.
So I know this from the inside. I know what it is to be high-functioning and quietly coming apart. I know the exhaustion of performing calm while your jaw aches at night from holding on. And I know the way home, because I had to find it myself.
This is gentle, client-led work. You set the pace, always. If something is ever too much, you stop. That isn’t failing. That’s wisdom.
Nic Robertson · Unapologetically Robertson
WHY NIC ROBERTSON?
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MEDITATION.
Let’s start with the thing that puts most people off.
If someone once told you meditation meant achieving a blank, peaceful, empty mind, it makes sense that you might have decided you were not good at it. Minds wander. They plan, remember, react and make lists. That is not a failure. It is where the practice begins.
Stillness is not about stopping your thoughts. It is about noticing what is here — a thought, a sensation, an urge, a feeling — and gently returning to yourself.
For many of us, that can feel unfamiliar. If staying busy, useful or productive once helped you feel safe, being still may bring restlessness or discomfort. That does not mean you are doing it wrong. You can meet what arises with curiosity, without forcing it to change.
Over these 28 days, you will be invited to go slowly and at your own pace. You can open your eyes, move, shorten a practice, pause, repeat a day or stop whenever you need to.
There is nothing to perform here. Just a place to begin.
CLIENT SUCCESS STORY
“Nicole is a compassionate and highly relatable coach and meditation teacher.
Going to a meditation session is hugely out of my comfort zone, but Nicole made me feel at ease from the outset. She started the session by telling her story of corporate burnout with such strength, vulnerability and authenticity. This enabled other participants to open up, in a safe and respectful environment. She was an incredible speaker and I was mesmerised from beginning to end. We laughed, we reflected and we learnt from one another, all thanks to her confident facilitation.
I left the session with actionable tools that I could easily apply to my own situation. Couldn’t recommend more!”
— Blair