A moment of FEELING BROKEN is lined by FEELING BLESSED
Silver Lining Moments with Kerry
Release Date: 05/01/2021
Silver Lining Moments with Kerry
A SLM conversation with Renee King-Sonnen (Her vegan transformation from cattle rancher to cattle sanctuary) Renee King-Sonnen is on a mission to restore harmony and balance between us, animals, and our planet. This mission started with Rowdy Girl, an abandoned calf on her husband’s Texan cattle ranch. Her husband asked her to help nurture and mother Rowdy Girl. And, this changed everything; it was the start of a new way of seeing animals, a new diet, and a new life mission. Renee went on to become a vegan, to co-found Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, and work with the Rancher Advocacy...
info_outline A moment of SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS is lined by TRUSTING IN SELFSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
A SLM conversation with Jennifer Brown (finding joy again) If you experienced times where you just didn’t feel joy in your life? You’re not alone. In the past few years, our guest Jennifer Brown has experienced cancer, losing her job, and, like all of us, the pandemic. Somewhere along the way, she lost joy. She couldn’t feel it. And, she did not know how to have fun anymore. She found herself searching for answers to questions like – What am I doing with my life? Being middle aged, gave a little sense of urgency in her thinking - I need to figure this out...
info_outline SLM Short 10: A Silver Lining Moment in a change in PERSPECTIVESilver Lining Moments with Kerry
SILVER LINING MOMENTS everywhere, in each moment - including in the MOMENT when you change your perspective and your world gets brighter because you can see the light in yourself, in others, in a situation, in the world. WHAT'S YOUR SILVER LINING MOMENT? Share in the comments or at SUPPORT SILVER LINING MOMENTS Help us expand love and light in the world at: Thank you! Music: Stock Media provided by AudioSphere / Pond5 Noise of the Earth provided by wavebrigade / Pond5
info_outline SLM Short-ish 9: A SILVER LINING MOMENT in PROCESS & FRIENDSHIPSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
A moment of PSORIASIS & FRUSTRATION is lined by PROCESS & FRIENDSHIP. Silver Lining Moments are every where, in each moment, even in a moment of psoriasis (chronic condition) & frustration! In this SLM short, I talk about how a psoriasis flare-up has me feeling frustrated and angry filled with resentment and fear! These feelings may start with the psoriasis, but once I feel them, they spread to other areas of my life. Once the frustration feelings take hold, they create a filter through which I see everything that casts a shadow over all aspects of my life. The more I focus on my frustration,...
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A moment of MOTHERHOOD is lined by Dreams A SLM conversation with Bonnie Silvestri Bonnie taught women in law classes that discussed legal issues around motherhood and families including topics like pregnancy and families in the workplace. When she became pregnant herself, these were no longer abstract issues in case books. They were personal. She realized that the whole "work life balance thing” was not so easily managed. She began to look at family leave policies around the world – in particular, she looked at countries that provided paid family leave like England...
info_outline SLM Short 8: A SILVER LINING MOMENT in your inbox and messagesSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
Silver Lining Moments are every where, in each moment, even in your inbox and messages. Last week, I received a few "just messages". The messages that have "just" somewhere in them, such as "I am writing just because I am thinking of you" or "I just wanted to let you know that you are important to me/that you are doing a good job/that I appreciate your friendship." Often, these messages are short in words but big in their positive impact. These just messages are a ray of sunshine in my inbox that brighten my day and shine a light through the years in my heart. They are...
info_outline SLM Short 7: A Silver Lining Moment in a SILVER-LINED bath tubSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
Are you looking for a sign that you are on the right track? When I asked for a sign that Silver Lining Moments is a worthwhile focus of good in the world, I saw this "sign"; it's in the form of a SILVER-LINED bath tub in a storefront showcase. Just like the light behind the cloud, a SILVER LINING MOMENT is always there - reminding us of the light in ourselves, in our conversations, in each other, and in each MOMENT. And, a SLM takes many forms - sometimes it's that little bit of encouragement or that "sign" you are looking for. This SILVER-LINED bath tub was the...
info_outline SLM Short 6: A Silver LIning Moment in a movieSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
SLMs are everywhere, in each moment. This one is in the movie 13 Lives, which is about the real-life cave rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach. They were trapped in the cave for 17 days. Some 10,000 people—including 2,000 soldiers, 200 divers and volunteers from around the world helped in their rescue. After watching this movie, I was in awe of how amazing people can be! Director Ron Howard said it best: “It’s a very contemporary theme that we need to remind ourselves of, and that is how powerful we can all be internationally or on a community level when we pull...
info_outline SLM Short 5: A Silver Lining Moment in a sign in a window and a post on social mediaSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
Silver Lining Moments are everywhere. This one is in a sign in a window and a post on social media. Sometimes the right message for us comes to us at the right time. WHAT'S YOUR SILVER LINING MOMENT today? Check out more Silver Lining Moments at www.SilverLiningMoments.com.
info_outline SLM Short 4: A Silver Lining Moment in Serendipitous Timing & A Dog's Warm WelcomeSilver Lining Moments with Kerry
Silver Lining Moments are everywhere. This one is in some serendipitous timing and a dog's warm welcome. WHAT'S YOUR SILVER LINING MOMENT today? Check out more Silver Lining Moments at www.SilverLiningMoments.com.
info_outlineHave you ever felt broken?
A SLM conversation with KAREN MEYER
The guest of this SLM episode, Karen Myer, and I go back several years. We worked in the same law firm and we have an inside joke about Thursdays. During this one 6-month or so period in 2009, we were absolutely inundated with work. I would have a stress meltdown at her desk every Thursday. One week, I was so stressed and we had so many deadlines that I couldn’t even articulate anything other than “But Karen, It’s Thursday!”
Since then, and over 10 years later, “But, Karen, it’s Thursday” has become a code phrase for us, one with dual connotations:
- One: I feel like I am about to break
- The Other: I feel like laughing with relief and gratitude that our friendship survived and strengthened from those Thursdays.
Whenever it is said and however it is said, we are in it together – either supporting the other one or laughing with each other. We know that we were not alone when we felt like we were breaking. And, knowing that made all the difference. As hard as that time was, we could see the source of our stress - work. On those Thursdays, I felt like work was breaking me. At least, I could separate myself from that breaking feeling by separating myself from work.
What about those times when it is not something else that is breaking you; rather, when you feel like you are broken? The first comes with a sense of hope because that “brokenness” is outside of you and you can overcome it or with time it may change. However, when you feel you are broken you feel like whatever you do and wherever you go, the brokenness will go with you because it is you. This second broken feeling is called despair.
This is where Karen found herself in 2015: feeling like she was broken. When the despair was trying to take hold, she started having suicidal thoughts. Before this despair and its accompanying suicidal thoughts could get their full grip on her, she visited her family for the holidays. Their love steadied her enough for her to start reclaiming her worth.
In our conversation, we discuss:
- How the abandonment from her biological father and bullying at school made Karen believe that she was broken
- How feeling broken became a subconscious belief that directed her decisions and relationships
- How love and support from her family came right when she needed them most
- How she started a journey toward self-love during which she got to know her true (whole and completely unbroken) self; she reconnected with her faith; she found love and became a mom after 40;
- How Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project has helped her reclaim happiness
- How she and her husband are living with purpose and with integrity to their values, which includes spreading kindness and eliminating single use plastic from their lives
- How the word “___________” has the most overreaching guidance over her life (Listen in to discover her word. If you’re feeling a connection, email me your word at [email protected])
- How growth after her despair is one of her Silver Lining Moments
Listen to this episode and join Karen on her journey to self-love and discover how:
a moment of FEELING BROKEN is lined by FEELING BLESSED.
Thank you for listening to Silver Lining Moments.
By Karen sharing and by you listening, together we are:
expanding love and light,
one person at a time,
one story at a time,
one Silver Lining Moment at a time.