LISA M. GUNSHORE
Where spiritual insight becomes embodied practice.
Books, courses, and contemplative experiences for exploring the stories that shape you, deepening self-understanding, and bringing awareness into everyday life.
Find the book that meets you where you are.
Begin with the question you’re living. Explore your story, recognize your patterns, or bring what you’re learning into daily practice.
Cherry Pie
Understand your story.
A personal journey through love, loss, and compassion that invites you to reflect on the experiences that shaped you.
In "Cherry Pie: Chasing Love and Finding Compassion," the author invites readers into an intimate exploration of their personal journey-a voyage marked by love, loss, and profound spiritual awakening. From the bustling streets of Berkeley to the tranquil shores of Long Beach, the narrative unfolds with raw honesty and deep insight, revealing the author's encounters with love, heartbreak, and the enduring wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Through poignant anecdotes and reflections, the author delves into the complexities of human relationships, navigating the turbulent waters of romance and self-discovery. As they traverse the landscape of their own heart, readers are drawn into a rich tapestry of emotions, from the exhilarating highs of newfound love to the depths of despair and longing. At its core, "Cherry Pie" is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the boundless potential for growth and transformation that lies within each of us. Through the author's journey, readers are reminded of the profound interconnectedness of all beings and the transformative power of love to heal and transcend. With the grace of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a guiding light, "Cherry Pie" offers readers a touching and inspiring exploration of forgiveness, empowerment, and the enduring quest for inner peace. Through the author's courageous vulnerability and unwavering authenticity, readers are invited to embark on their own journey of self-discovery and embrace the transformative power of love in all its myriad forms.
The Digital Mirror
Recognize your patterns.
Explore artificial intelligence as a reflective tool for self-inquiry, revealing recurring themes in your relationships, choices, and inner life.
What if the patterns shaping your life are not random?
What if the same emotional dynamics—repeating across relationships, work, and identity—are part of a deeper structure waiting to be seen?
The Digital Mirror introduces a powerful approach to self-inquiry—one that uses artificial intelligence as a reflective tool to reveal the unconscious patterns influencing your life.
This is not a book about technology.
It is a book about consciousness—and the mirrors through which we come to know ourselves.
Blending depth psychology, contemplative philosophy, and lived experience, Lisa Gunshore explores how awareness becomes transformation.
Through personal reflection, psychological insight, and guided inquiry, you will learn how to:
Recognize the patterns that repeat across your life
Understand the emotional and unconscious forces behind them
Reclaim responsibility for your inner experience
Shift from reaction to conscious choice
Align your life with values rather than conditioning
Drawing on the work of Carl Jung, attachment theory, and contemplative traditions, this book introduces the Digital Mirror Method—a framework for using reflection, dialogue, and awareness to uncover the deeper architecture of the self.
Artificial intelligence is not presented as a source of answers, but as a mirror—one that helps organize language and reveal patterns we often cannot see from within our own perspective.
This book is for those who:
Feel stuck in repeating relationship or emotional patterns
Have insight into their behavior but struggle to change
Are drawn to both psychology and spirituality
Want a deeper, more structured approach to self-inquiry
Are curious about using modern tools for inner work
The mirror does not tell you who you are.
It shows you what has been shaping your life—so you can begin to see clearly, choose differently, and live with greater awareness.
Because transformation does not begin with force.
It begins the moment you are willing to look.
Cutting Into It
Put awareness into practice.
Explore the relational patterns that leave you overextended and learn to bring greater honesty, boundaries, and self-leadership into everyday life.
What if the patterns exhausting your relationships are not proof that you are broken — but signs that you have learned to abandon yourself in order to maintain connection?
Cutting Into It is a transformative guide to recognizing the unconscious relational patterns that keep many people trapped in cycles of over-functioning, emotional burnout, anxious attachment, avoidance, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment.
Blending personal reflection, nervous system awareness, contemplative practice, and practical self-leadership tools, Lisa M. Gunshore (Sundara Rishika Devi) offers a compassionate framework for learning how to remain anchored within yourself while navigating relationships, conflict, intimacy, family dynamics, work, and everyday life.
Inside, you will explore:
Attachment patterns and relational survival strategies
Emotional labor and over-functioning
Boundaries, nervous system regulation, and self-trust
How to interrupt reactive patterns in real time
A grounded path toward embodied self-leadership
At the heart of this work is one guiding principle:
I stay anchored. I don’t manage others.
This is not simply a healing journey.
It is a return to yourself.
FROM READING INTO PRACTICE
Bring what you’re learning into everyday life.
Insight opens the door. Practice helps you carry it into your relationships, choices, and daily rhythms.
The Living Practice: A Year of Cutting Into It
Explore a different relational pattern each month—from rescuing and people-pleasing to control and perfectionism—with guided reflection and practical tools for greater awareness, boundaries, and self-leadership.
Your immersion includes:
The Cutting Into It book
A 12-month guided course
Monthly practice pages and weekly planners
Daily embodiment prompts and integration worksheets
One year of portal access
$297 · Payment plan available
MEET LISA
I followed the questions. They became a body of work.
For more than twenty years, I’ve explored the stories that shape us, the practices that support healing, and the awareness that helps us live with greater compassion and intention.
Those questions became nine books and the foundation of Rocky Mauna School, where I bring together contemplative wisdom, self-inquiry, and practical tools for everyday life.
Whether you begin with a book or a course, my invitation is the same: become curious about your experience, and bring what you discover into the way you live.
Lisa M. Gunshore
Author, teacher, and founder of Rocky Mauna School
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