Letting Go of Resistance with Michelle Kinnett

“Some days, doing the ‘best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect – on any front – and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.” ~ Fred Rogers

Guest Introduction: 

You are listening to Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast. I am your host Cindy MacMillan.

Hello, my beautiful friends and welcome back to the show. I am so so excited about today’s interview and before we jump in, I really want to thank you for being here.

Today’s guest is Michelle Kinnett.

She is a life coach, supporting women who are ready to create a life they love in a new season, so they feel aligned with their purpose and are able to live guilt free in becoming the person she wishes to be.

This podcast is for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey who are ready to lead healthier and happier lives and improve their emotional well-being.

I interview coaches, spiritual explorers and thought leaders from all walks of life about beginnings, endings, and the messy bits in-between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of our conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well. 

In this season of the podcast, I’m inviting you to lean into well-being. Well-being takes into account the entire person, body, mind, heart and spirit. It’s feeling good and functioning well; it’s experiencing positive emotions such as contentment and gratitude; it’s developing your potential, having a sense of purpose, and experiencing close relationships.

 Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

2:18 It means to let go of the rigid rules and requirements that life puts on us and being able to fully embrace who we are stepping into something new. Because life is always changing. It's time for us to recognize that it's always a new beginning that is coming our way that we get to embrace.

11:39 We all have time to become the person that God really has intended us to be. It just takes starting now, starting today and stepping into that.

13:41 I think that the starting point of moving through difficult situations is letting go of the resistance and letting go of the idea that it's not supposed to be this way, or it's not supposed to happen to me.

15:08 And when we give ourselves that grace to walk through it, and to really understand how we feel about it, I think that's another thing is give yourself permission to feel everything that you feel about it. That's okay, we're human. And all of those emotions come with it. And we have to be able to be okay with that and embrace that. But it's only when we get to that point that we can choose our next step.

20:04 And once you recognize that it must start with worthiness, you have to explore this idea of worthiness and being enough. And when we do, when we step into the idea that we are worthy, it opens up so many avenues to be able to be able to release the past, were able to restructure our stories that we have of the past.

27:00 Yes, perfection is the thing, I think one of the biggest things that we always want to compare ourselves to someone else that's doing it that maybe has been doing it for a lifetime, or, you know, 20 years, 10 years, and we're just stepping out, we're just starting on our journey. And we you know; we have to remember that our race is not someone else's. And because you're bringing your last 20 years into it, your journey, your path is different.

34:44 We all have a choice. We all have a choice to either play it small, or to step out and be courageous.

36:19 I use Facebook that is my primary platform right now.  And I love for people to come and friend me and to DM me, I love to have conversations, private conversations in the DM’S. That's my best to go to because it's the easiest way that I can interact and get to know people. I also have an email that I do connect with people through it’s [email protected]. And I would just invite anyone who is ready to have a conversation and what might their next step look like to reach out to me.

 You can find Michelle Kinnett at:

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IF YOU LOVED THIS EPISODE WITH MICHELLE KINNETT YOU’LL ALSO LOVE THE CONVERSATIONS I HAD WITH:

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👉 Contact me to get started on your journey. My e-mail is [email protected] or go here to my doTERRA website.