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Meditate Your Face Off

by Cara Lai
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  • You’ll Sleep When You’re Dead

    October 19, 2026 · 16 min

    The above meditation is meant to be listened to when you’re having a hard time sleeping. I initially recorded it for 10% with Dan Harris. If you don’t know about that app, I highly recommend it. Below is me reading the essay that…

  • Everything I Own, More or Less

    October 1, 2026 · 12 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit caralai.substack.com The very end of this post has a dharma talk for paid subscribers that gets much deeper into this subject, from a retreat I taught recently (note that the…

  • Money!

    September 24, 2026 · 14 min

    Here’s a guided meditation on generosity. It’s not a bribe. Meditate Your Face Off is not a cult that’s trying to brainwash you into giving me money, calling it Dharma. But I know it looks bad given the essay that follows. (TLDR: price for…

  • Put Down Your Gratitude Journal and Quit Your Job

    September 10, 2026 · 16 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit caralai.substack.com Above is a meditation to help you shrug off an older version of yourself and to begin anew. Scroll to the end for a videoclip and an upcoming mini-retreat…

  • Are you eating your feelings?

    August 27, 2026 · 17 min

    Above is a guided meditation to find emotional freedom through eating. Below is me reading the essay that follows: Most of us have a rather complicated relationship with food. We want it, it soothes us deeply, but it also makes us feel out…

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  • You've really let yourself go

    August 14, 2026 · 11 min

    Ironically (or perhaps just on point), I wrote a lot of this post while eating chocolate cake. Scroll to the end for a bonus recording of a Meditate Your Face Off class on this same subject. Above is a guided meditation to help you…

  • Stop trying to keep your s**t together

    July 30, 2026 · 16 min

    If you want a pithy, artistic version of this essay, scroll to the end for the poem. Above is a guided meditation that supports being with the unresolved. Below is me reading the essay that follows: We don’t like things to be unresolved…

  • The Ecstasy of Awakening

    July 15, 2026 · 13 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit caralai.substack.com The paid version of this post has an extended guided meditation. Paid subscribers can also scroll to the bottom of the essay for an additional recording of…

  • The Inheritance

    July 2, 2026 · 10 min

    This post is based on a dharma talk that I gave at a teen meditation retreat last week. Above is a guided meditation, below is a recording of said dharma talk: Everyone feels somehow dissatisfied with how they were raised, even people who…

  • Meditate the s**t out of that MF

    June 16, 2026 · 16 min

    Above is a guided meditation to help you find the gumption to be mindful all day long. Below is me reading the essay that follows: Back when I was in school to become a psychotherapist, I was in the thick of high achieving young adulthood…

  • The healing power of generosity

    June 2, 2026 · 11 min

    Above is a guided meditation to help you find your authentic generosity. Below is me reading the essay that follows: A few days ago, I picked my son Huck up from nursery school. When we arrived at home, he had a complete meltdown. Nearby…

  • Determination without self-flagellation

    May 19, 2026 · 26 min

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit caralai.substack.com Meditations and talks from this Substack are now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, as a Podcast called Meditate Your Face Off. Scroll to the end of…

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Guided meditations, talks, and the occasional naked surprise; from a contemporary (and iconoclastic) buddhist perspective. caralai.substack.com