Free Tools from Dr. Sawyer's *Applied* Liberation Psychology Approach
Train Your Mind.... Reclaim Your Energy.... Jumpstart Your Liberation.
Liberation Is a Skill—and Skills Can Be Trained
In *Applied* Liberation Psychology, transformation isn’t something abstract.
It’s something you do, repeatedly, with care and intention—until your body, brain, and energy learn to live in freedom.
Whether you’re waiting to begin therapy, exploring my content, or currently working with me 1-on-1, these tools will help you begin building the two core capacities of *Applied* liberation: Focused Attention and Self-Compassion.
Tool #1: The Energy Audit (Starter Practice)
Learn how your environment is shaping your energy—and take it back.
Before you can shift your inner world, you need to understand how your outer world is impacting you.
The Energy Audit is a foundational self-inquiry tool that helps you develop energy literacy: the ability to feel, track, and evaluate how your daily behaviors and surroundings impact your internal state.
You’ll reflect on:
*What habits, people, media, and environments nourish your system
*What consistently drains or dysregulates you
*The context in which certain things become helpful or harmful
This simple reflection helps you:
*Build awareness of how your behavior is either helping or hurting you
*Begin making small, empowered adjustments that lead to greater well-being
Why It Matters
According to liberation psychology theory, our mental and emotional states don’t arise in a vacuum—they are direct responses to the systems, structures, and environments we live in.
The Energy Audit puts that principle into practice by helping you directly examine your immediate environment (technology, relationships, work, sleep habits, etc.) and how it shapes your lived experience.
Once you see your patterns, you can begin designing a lifestyle that energetically supports liberation and wellbeing—not mere survival.
This is the first and most practical step in Applied Liberation Psychology:
Learn how your energy moves—and start protecting it.
👉 Download the Energy Audit Worksheet →
Tool #2: Attention-Based Practice (Meditation)
Rewiring the brain, one moment at a time.
Attention is more than focus—it’s the gateway to your nervous system.
By consistently training attention, you begin to shift your relationship with emotion, trauma, thought patterns, and even identity.
In *Applied* Liberation Psychology, I treat attention as a liberation tool. With regular practice, attention training helps:
*Reduce reactivity and overthinking
*Create space between stimulus and response
*Strengthen emotional regulation
*Build inner stillness and clarity
🔊 How to Start
Begin by using my personally recorded meditation album:
👉Listen to the Meditation Album →
*Choose one guided recording that resonates with you
*Practice it once per day at the same time (morning recommended)
*Outside of formal practice, experiment with being present 24/7—not perfectly, but curiously—meeting each moment as it comes
Over time, this simple act becomes a structural shift in how your mind and energy operate.
Tool #3: Behavioral Self-Compassion (following completion of the Energy Audit)
Acceptance unlocks flow, and action manifests it.
If attention is your hardware upgrade, behavioral self-compassion is your energy redirection.
Most people carry emotional patterns that leak energy: shame, self-criticism, over-efforting, fear of failure. Behavioral self-compassion, when tied to your energy audit practice, reverses energy leakage.
Instructions
Simply put, first USE your energy audit, then ACT on what you find. Here are examples of things you may find in your energy audit, and ways you might redirect behavior:
*Reduce contact with people who make you feel unworthy
*Increase contact with people who make you feel worthy
*Don’t watch that TV program that brings you down
*Filter your social media feed to increase uplifting content
When combined with the energy audit practice to increase energetic awareness of how your environment is impacting you, behavioral self-compassion transforms you into your own personal liberator. By taking actions that reflect self-compassion, you begin to experience the benefits of self-compassion.. this is not lip service or affirmations, this is new behavior that communicates liberated energy directly into your life situation.
How to Integrate These Tools
*Start with the Energy Audit to build energetic awareness
*Use one meditation per day from the album to further train attention
*Practice behavioral self-compassion to alter what you found on your energy audit
*Use these tools as a warm-up if you’re on my therapy waitlist
This is what *Applied* Liberation Psychology looks like in action:
Show up.
Breathe.
Pay attention.
Accept what you find.
Redirect your behavior with intention.
Over time, the results speak for themselves.
👉Download the Energy Audit Worksheet
👉Listen to the Meditation Album
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