Cultivating Kindness with Karen

Cultivating Kindness With Karen Everyone has said these words "I Am Healing". Whether it is for an illness, or surgery, or heartbreak, or trauma. Life gives us many opportunities to heal in some way. If feels very positive to say "I am healing". It gives comfort to the person saying this and to the person hearing it. Everyone loves to feel comfortable. Could it be that saying "I am healing" could possibly create a space of being stuck or on autopilot? Does that sound like a crazy question? Could it be possible that these three words could be slowing your healing down? This week on Cultivating Kindness with Karen, Karen Leslie, Stress Recovery Expert and Educator will be exploring a topic that could be seen as controversial or enlightening. You will have to tune in and see which one it is for you. Either way, you will have the opportunity to expand your awareness around these three very common words "I am healing". Light From The Shadows: Enriching The Lives Of Others Inspired Choices Network Hosts Author Karen Leslie Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738249417 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1738249417 ~ More About Cultivating Kindness With Karen ~ Karen Leslie is an Educator and an Expert Healer who has been facilitating energy with others for over 25 years. Her life of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts has led her on an interesting, and at times, turbulent path to where she is today. Kindness was definitely missing in Karen’s life. Karen was always kind and compassionate to others, however she was not showing kindness to herself. Today Karen knows that kindness towards others was actually a way of avoiding her own wounds and sadness. These choices created a life of ‘people pleasing’, keeping the peace and avoiding conflict; especially if it involved having to say “No” to someone else. Karen knows now that everything we do to help ourselves from the neck up will help everything from the neck down. Karen now lives each day with enthusiasm, excitement, an openness to new adventures and a great deal of kindness towards everyone, most especially herself. www.karenleslie.ca To get more of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/cultivating-kindness-with-karen/

Cultivating Kindness With Karen What is an unconscious jailer? Great question! Could you be one? Could you be unaware, or unconscious, of something that is holding you stuck, or withing walls that you are not able to see? And, how can anyone have an unconscious jailer? Definitely not words many people use to describe a situation or period of time. Yet, this is a situation that most people find themselves in. Many are here for years, if not decades. The key is to be open to asking if you are your own unconscious jailer. Then working to step out of this role and throwing the keys to the jail away! Join Karen Leslie Energetic Transformational Healer and Educator this week on Cultivating Kindness With Karen to identify what constitutes an "unconscious jailer". Then learn how to change this behaviour so you never create this for yourself again. Light From The Shadows: Enriching The Lives Of Others Inspired Choices Network Hosts Author Karen Leslie Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738249417 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1738249417 ~ More About Cultivating Kindness With Karen ~ Karen Leslie is an Educator and an Expert Healer who has been facilitating energy with others for over 25 years. Her life of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts has led her on an interesting, and at times, turbulent path to where she is today. Kindness was definitely missing in Karen’s life. Karen was always kind and compassionate to others, however she was not showing kindness to herself. Today Karen knows that kindness towards others was actually a way of avoiding her own wounds and sadness. These choices created a life of ‘people pleasing’, keeping the peace and avoiding conflict; especially if it involved having to say “No” to someone else. Karen knows now that everything we do to help ourselves from the neck up will help everything from the neck down. Karen now lives each day with enthusiasm, excitement, an openness to new adventures and a great deal of kindness towards everyone, most especially herself. www.karenleslie.ca To get more of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/cultivating-kindness-with-karen/

Cultivating Kindness With Karen Being strong at defending your decisions or choices is seen as a great strength of character. It may secure you a seat on the Debating Team at school, or a position as a negotiator for employment. The difficulties can arise when defending your choices becomes a common practice in your life. Doors get opened that can lead to regret, disappointment and even feelings of failure. Feeling the need to defend yourself leads you down a path that often ends in the opposite direction to where you desire to be. Being in the energy of feeling you need to defend yourself often results in you stepping out of your power and strength; not stepping into it. Join Karen Leslie, Stress Recovery Expert and Speaker, to gain a clearer understanding as to how you have been working with the energy of "defending". Learn how and when to bring this energy in so it helps you in being grounded and empowered. Light From The Shadows: Enriching The Lives Of Others Inspired Choices Network Hosts Author Karen Leslie Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738249417 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1738249417 ~ More About Cultivating Kindness With Karen ~ Karen Leslie is an Educator and an Expert Healer who has been facilitating energy with others for over 25 years. Her life of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts has led her on an interesting, and at times, turbulent path to where she is today. Kindness was definitely missing in Karen’s life. Karen was always kind and compassionate to others, however she was not showing kindness to herself. Today Karen knows that kindness towards others was actually a way of avoiding her own wounds and sadness. These choices created a life of ‘people pleasing’, keeping the peace and avoiding conflict; especially if it involved having to say “No” to someone else. Karen knows now that everything we do to help ourselves from the neck up will help everything from the neck down. Karen now lives each day with enthusiasm, excitement, an openness to new adventures and a great deal of kindness towards everyone, most especially herself. www.karenleslie.ca To get more of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/cultivating-kindness-with-karen/

Cultivating Kindness With Karen Do you carry with you a low level of anger all the time? Is feeling angry the norm for you? Does your anger scare you or is it comfortable? Anger can arrive in many different ways. Anger can have different jobs and messages for us. How can you tell when being angry is actually helpful in the moment or when it is harmful to your or others? Is it wrong to be angry? Is it wrong to show that you are angry? Stress Recover Expert Karen Leslie, will explore these questions about anger and many others in this episode of Cultivating Kindness With Karen. Karen has personally asked these questions, experienced the more positive aspects of anger and the not so kind explosive side of anger and all of the additional emotions and judgments that follow. Tune in and join the conversation if you would like some clarity, tips or greater understanding about how anger is showing up in your life. *Listen now on the Inspired Choices Network app! https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/links/ ~ More About Cultivating Kindness With Karen ~ Karen Leslie is an Educator and an Expert Healer who has been facilitating energy with others for over 25 years. Her life of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts has led her on an interesting, and at times, turbulent path to where she is today. Kindness was definitely missing in Karen’s life. Karen was always kind and compassionate to others, however she was not showing kindness to herself. Today Karen knows that kindness towards others was actually a way of avoiding her own wounds and sadness. These choices created a life of ‘people pleasing’, keeping the peace and avoiding conflict; especially if it involved having to say “No” to someone else. Karen knows now that everything we do to help ourselves from the neck up will help everything from the neck down. Karen now lives each day with enthusiasm, excitement, an openness to new adventures and a great deal of kindness towards everyone, most especially herself. www.karenleslie.ca To get more of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/cultivating-kindness-with-karen/

Cultivating Kindness With Karen At some point in time each person will experience a loss of some kind that will bring them to experiencing grief. When we are grieving it can be difficult to find kindness towards yourself. There are many social norms around grieving and not all of them include the energy of kindness. Each person will have their own opinion on how to handle grief. So how do you maintain the energy of kindness for yourself and/or others during periods of grief? In this episode of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, Karen Leslie Stress Recovery Expert, welcomes Tammy Adams to the show to share her expertise on grief and how she helps people through this very emotional, and often painful, time in their life. Grief is not something that you "just get over" or is healed with time. We are all unique in our experiences as Tammy knows so well. If you are currently experiencing grief, have in the past, or feel you are still struggling years later be sure to join in live in the chatroom to ask questions and be a part of this important conversation. Tammy Adams loves to problem solve, inspire and motivate others who are ready and committed to change. She has spent over 30 years in the field of education (infant to post-secondary) and as a Certified Coach Tammy teaches individuals to challenge and conquer their limiting beliefs and insecurities to create the life of their choosing. As an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist Tammy understands unresolved grief can limit an individual’s capacity for happiness and is gifted at supporting individuals through the pain and isolation cause by an emotional loss, of any kind, to a place of happiness they believed no longer existed. https://intuitiveunderstanding.com/ *Listen now on the Inspired Choices Network app! https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/links/ ~ More About Cultivating Kindness With Karen ~ Karen Leslie is an Educator and an Expert Healer who has been facilitating energy with others for over 25 years. Her life of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts has led her on an interesting, and at times, turbulent path to where she is today. Kindness was definitely missing in Karen’s life. Karen was always kind and compassionate to others, however she was not showing kindness to herself. Today Karen knows that kindness towards others was actually a way of avoiding her own wounds and sadness. These choices created a life of ‘people pleasing’, keeping the peace and avoiding conflict; especially if it involved having to say “No” to someone else. Karen knows now that everything we do to help ourselves from the neck up will help everything from the neck down. Karen now lives each day with enthusiasm, excitement, an openness to new adventures and a great deal of kindness towards everyone, most especially herself. www.karenleslie.ca To get more of Cultivating Kindness With Karen, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/cultivating-kindness-with-karen/