The Bold as Love Podcast
Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational). Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.
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The Cosmic Shift: On our relationship w/planets & stars
05/30/2023
The Cosmic Shift: On our relationship w/planets & stars
Friends, this is the first episode for a new podcast called Tending the Roots, which is adjacent to what lives here. It reflects the conversations and explorations of the Rooted Global Village. We attempt to bridge the personal and collective in our reach towards healing (wholeness) and personal and collective liberation. We also have an exciting summer project we'd like to invite you to join! I grew up looking into the night sky and the heavens above me. Without concepts that defined the movement of planets and stars, or the mathematics to describe them, I would orient my head and neck upwards, captivated by the beauty of this cosmic mystery stretched out above my head. So expansive that it would take my breath away. For those of us who have been sold a narrative that there is only one way we can be in relationship with the heavens, only one way to make sense of it through Western scientific knowledge, we may have a disconnected sense of this vital connection. Much like a muscle that’s atrophied; it’s been neglected and underused for important reasons. Many of us have been force fed what scholar Arturo Escobar calls the “One World Story”; a story that has also attempted to eradicate other stories about who we are and our place in the web of life. This episode reflects one point in a journey that we’ve been on for a while now in Rooted, tracing an arc of exploration as it relates to how we might begin to reimagine relationship and belonging. Here we consider how we might begin to enliven the seen and unseen strands that connect us to a broader web of relationships. This summer in Rooted, we're embarking on a project centered on rekindling a relationship that for many of us has been flattened; reduced to a specific thing that can only be known by experts with advanced degrees. We will reclaim the fullness of an experience of kinship. Let’s infuse this muscle of kinship again through shared practice, storytelling, and art-making. We are bringing our full bodies to play with Venus this summer. Our friend, Bear Ryver, has referred to these celestial bodies as our cosmic ancestors. I am giddy with excitement for the journey and hope you might join us!
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Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part 4: Cycles of Fire: Imagination and our Maps
01/27/2023
Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part 4: Cycles of Fire: Imagination and our Maps
On our own, the desire born from the challenges we’ve faced can be a powerfully transformative force in our lives. Our personal embrace of the Soulful Chainbreaker becomes a cultural force when we gather together, commune, share stories, and support each other to commit to and sustain the journey. We do not disrupt and re/orient within a vacuum, other beings dedicated to this process become our co-conspirators and co-creators of new experiences and new future(s). Rooted in the experience of our non-separation we might find greater access to our creative life energy and imagination to become newly oriented in the world, to create new maps and pathways of belonging.
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Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part. 3: The Spirit and Science of Change Work
01/26/2023
Embodying the Soulful Chainbreaker - Part. 3: The Spirit and Science of Change Work
Many experiences of trauma/oppression reveal where we’ve failed to belong authentically. The ways in which, as we navigate our social worlds, we come up against blocks and barriers to birthright dignity, authenticity, acceptance and belonging. That is, where we disappoint and fail to conform to the expectations of dominant cultural narratives. This rejection dampens our inner spark, disorients our desire, and erects borders and checkpoints in our interior world that prevents the wild rambling and roving that is our birthright and is necessary for wellbeing. This non-belonging is also a portal to a re/imagination of how else we might live. Often unconscious to us, our experiences within culture shape the ways we’re oriented in the world; influencing the neurophysiology of our bodies, our emotions, perceptions, and beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world. On this shared journey the Chainbreaker illuminates the borders and checkpoints - the chains - that limit the free expression of our own unique hearts. The Chainbreaker archetype offers a way to embody fire-based courage so that we may see clearly the impacts of dominant familial and cultural narratives and a path to liberate ourselves and the generations that will come after us. What appears to us as evident in a field of infinite possibility is influenced by our early experiences embedded within family systems and culture. This email explores the spirit and science behind change-making and chain-breaking. And it asks the question: What can we learn from our bodies that the broader culture tries to bury? In this email, we’ll also offer guided reflection practice on what trauma has made way for in your life.
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Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part 2: Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear
01/23/2023
Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part 2: Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear
Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear The Chainbreaker as archetype invites critical questioning and reclaiming. We are invited to consider disappointing our families of origin, and the cultural influences at large by rejecting narratives and dictates that reproduce harms.It’s risky, even, for those most marginalized in these narratives. Yet in this risk we open to a vital rebirth: the opportunity to access desire long hidden or dampened by chains and obstacles. If we imagine our inner and outer worlds as a map; not one shaped by imposed borders but rather a map that authentically reveals the contours we trace in our daily living and loving. What would we see? What is shaped by inheritance? How does desire move in this geography? Where are you located in this story of change that is both personal and collective? Desire as creative impulse roots in the energy and action of fire: warming, illuminating, consuming, and transforming. There is a font of desire - distinguished from forms of desire shaped by culture - rooted in a deeper order of life, residing within each of us, that is the fire that propels deeper-level transformation.
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Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part I: Who is the Soulful Chainbreaker?
01/20/2023
Embodying the Soulful Chain Breaker - Part I: Who is the Soulful Chainbreaker?
Transmuting Intergenerational Trauma Through The Creative Principles of Fire This is a story about what it means to be the one who steps out of line. The one willing to be the weak link in the chain. The one willing to disrupt and disobey; to embrace disruption as a portal and disappoint some of the expectations held for us (and the people associated with them) in the service of another future. And how a shift in imagination turns our deviance into a dedication to life, love, and liberation. This requires courage, fierce love and a fire (in the belly) that sustains our commitment. In this email, we’ll include reflections on becoming the soulful chainbreaker, and what it might mean to and for you.
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Rooted - It takes a village to shape our lives and world anew.
04/28/2020
Rooted - It takes a village to shape our lives and world anew.
Today I have something precious and beautiful to share with you. It’s a shared learning community called Rooted - A Global Village, Healing the Human Family, and Co-Imagining New Ways of Being. In a popular article for the Financial Times, Indian novelist Arundahti Roy, wrote about the time we’re in as a portal, she says: "Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next." What happens at that crossroads of experience for us matter, and I want to contribute intentionally to the world that comes after this. I'm sharing all about this opportunity in the podcast today - I hope you'll listen in, and if you'd love to join us, we'd love to have you. Learn more about our global village, Rooted,
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Coronavirus, Chaos & Radical Change
03/13/2020
Coronavirus, Chaos & Radical Change
There's a lot happening in the world right now, and in this episode I want to explore some interesting and emergent threads related to the spread of a virus we're collectively experiencing as a threat. While this episode is relevant to the spread of this virus and some of the dysfunctions it exposes, it's relevant as well to all our moments of crises, the dysfunction they reveal, the chaos they introduce, and the potent opportunity those moments present to take pause, reorient, and make moves in a new direction. Chaos is often where we birth new perspectives and experiences. After you listen to the episode, be sure you're signed up to receive emails from me, as I'll share some free resources this weekend that I hope can support you during this time. You can be added by heading and registering to receive news and information for the Embodied Trauma Conference!
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The Critical Missing Link in Our Healing and Well-Being
01/02/2020
The Critical Missing Link in Our Healing and Well-Being
Events that can lead to trauma, especially in childhood, can impact upon mental and physical health outcomes across our lifetimes. Trauma is a loaded word often reserved for severe abuse, neglect and violence, but trauma touches all our lives in some way and to varying degrees (it touches us or those we love, or the culture around us) and we need to understand how. Understanding the link between what causes us to suffer today and trauma in our histories is a CRITICAL missing piece to so many of our mental and physical health conditions - like syndromes, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain conditions, anxiety, depression and more - and to our experiences of unnecessary suffering. The critical missing piece is in how some common and some not-so-common experiences we had continue to be held in our bodies, creating pervasive feelings of danger that influence our thoughts, perception and behavior. There are some fascinating links to explore in this episode that I hope you'll get a sense for, but I'm also introducing you to a FREE educational resource around trauma and its healing towards the end of the episode, that will delve a lot deeper into this fascinating link, so stay tuned for that! You can find today's show notes , including the link to the free resource!
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Cultivating Resilience: A Conversation with Dr. Rick Hanson
12/12/2019
Cultivating Resilience: A Conversation with Dr. Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson PhD is a psychologist and New York Times Best-Selling author who talks about the factors that contribute to our experiences of well-being and resilience, and, importantly, the how part of how that happens. He’s an important name in the mindfulness world, and Rick loves to talk about the neurological underpinnings of the practices we do and the changes to our life experience they can make. His approach is down to earth and practical. And beyond that, there’s a kindness, generosity and wisdom he embodies that can’t help but be felt - even thousands of miles away and via an online platform. During our chat we covered a range of topics related to mothers, parenting, resilience factors, the role of anger, 6 year old Rick's revelation around self-care, the 4 important aspects we can cultivate, and much more. I hope you enjoy listening to our chat as much as I enjoyed having it. Learn how to connect with Rick via the show notes .
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Birth's Hidden Legacy w/Annie Brook: How our earliest experiences shape us & our kids
12/05/2019
Birth's Hidden Legacy w/Annie Brook: How our earliest experiences shape us & our kids
Have you ever wondered about how a child's birth story (or your own birth story) might relate to later experiences in life and behaviors? In today's episode, I talk with the wonderful Annie Brook (author and therapist) on what she calls "Birth's Hidden Legacy". Annie is a therapist who works with families and children (and people of all ages) to repair some of the earliest imprints of trauma they experienced, often at the time of birth. She also touches on some of the important developmental experiences infants need at the beginning of life that shape subsequent experience and behavior. This episode will be interesting for anyone curious about their children's behavior (w/things like power struggles or high sensitivity) and what it might be pointing back to. Annie offers a tremendous wealth of resources and experience and most of all HOPE that repair is always - even at an older age - possible. Take heart and have a listen! Learn more about Annie and access further resources in the for the episode. You'll also find time stamps for our chat together.
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When Small Feels Safe
11/21/2019
When Small Feels Safe
I've been reflecting on the interesting connection between our capacity to have and to allow big experiences in our bodies (like big emotions and sensations) and how it relates to our growth potential and expansion in life. Or do we sabotage even those things we deeply desire to experience? How big can something get for us experientially before we slink away, shut down or turn tail and run or otherwise stay small because it feels safe. Find podcast show notes and further resources .
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Invalidating Experience
11/14/2019
Invalidating Experience
"Stop crying", "there's nothing wrong with you," and "you shouldn't be upset about that" are all examples of things we can say that can invalidate another's experience. Invalidating experience is to question the foundation or reality of a person's feelings and perception. This can happen more subtly and inadvertently than we might think - if we're overwhelmed, exhausted, depressed or otherwise distracted. Invalidation can lead to experiences of disconnection, confusion and challenges later in life ranging from an inability to be in touch with emotions and mature emotionally, to a disconnection from, and an inability to be in touch with, needs and desires. We might need a dose of courage to look honestly at some of the small ways we may unconsciously invalidate our kids (and others), but it's only through a willingness to look that we can start to change things. Want to take part in the free Emotional Triggers Training? You can find it .
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Validating Experience
11/07/2019
Validating Experience
Having our experience validated as children by the important adults in our lives is an important part of self-making and the development of self-worth and self-trust. Our ability as parent's to validate our children's experience is so important that chronic in-validation is thought to be a contributor to mental illness. In today's episode we talk about what it means to validate experience, and how it contributes to our children's developing selfhood. We'll talk about how validation contributes to a child's belief that their feelings and emotions are valid and worth paying attention to. We'll also explore the near-enemy of validation that construes validation with condoning negative (mis)perceptions or destructive behavior - which, beyond being unhelpful, can help to reinforce a victim mentality. Learning this distinction can be powerful. This is one in a two-part series on validation and in-validation, and how these experiences shape our experience of self. You'll find the shownotes .
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Feeling Misunderstood
10/31/2019
Feeling Misunderstood
How much do we suffer when we feel misunderstood by another person? And how does that experience drive our behavior to either make things better with them, bend over backwards to shape their perception of us so that their vision of us aligns with what we want them to see, OR do we make them wrong somehow so that we feel better? We think we're afraid of what other people think and feel about us, but really what we're afraid of is how their perception of us will cause us to FEEL. We can fear the feeling itself,. When we strip away all of the stories we create about ourselves and others, and the mental circus feeling misunderstood sets off, what are we left with? That's what we're exploring in this episode: how feeling misunderstood can drive our behavior, and how we can reframe the experience and learn to relate to it a different way through embodiment. Show notes can be found .
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Energy Vampires (and moving beyond them)
10/24/2019
Energy Vampires (and moving beyond them)
I hear people talking about energy vampires a lot these days, and it always stirs something up in me. And what better time (than Halloween season) to explore this notion of energy vampires and their "victims". In this podcast, I want to explore the limits of this concept of energy vampires (and “toxic” people) overall, and explore our part in the co-creation of relationship dynamics (so if you identify as an empath, I talk about this) and how we want to start moving beyond these concepts. Because, while they can illuminate patterns for us, our use of these concepts can keep us victimized, cut off from ourselves, our healing, and from our ability to embody our power in such a way that we don’t HAVE to work constantly to manage relationships and constantly work to protect ourselves. Ultimately, when we can embody our power, we can effortlessly communicate healthy boundaries to the world. Want to get started with some simple embodiment practices? Have a look at the resources in the episode's show notes.
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The Wisdom in Boredom
10/17/2019
The Wisdom in Boredom
How ok are you with the experience of boredom - yours or your kids? Or do you have a knee-jerk reaction to get out of it as quickly as possible? We have a rule in our house that it's good to be bored, but I don't know many adults who are ok with boredom. Indeed, boredom can drive us from the present moment fast, and into distractions and addictions to distraction just so we don't have to feel the discomfort that boredom brings. But beyond the discomfort of boredom - when we bring mindful inquiry to it - is often creativity, insight and healing. We have an invitation in boredom to shift our relationship to those moments from boredom as a problem to boredom as a portal. I have a reflection for you to use with this topic the next time you feel boredom, which you'll find here in the .
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The Power of Play
10/11/2019
The Power of Play
Would you associate conflict resolution with play? I asked my little boy last week if he wanted to fight me. We were both ramped up and annoyed, and talking wasn’t helping, so I invited him to rumble. Sometimes we overthink things and we talk too much. Part of living too much from in a disconnected brain and body is that we deny natural human animal instincts we have that are truly resources for us if we let them be. Like healthy aggression and play. Impulses we have to express the sympathetic charge we have (and the energy of it in our bodies) with others within the context of safety. You'll find the show notes !
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Conflict Resilience
10/03/2019
Conflict Resilience
For so many, conflict can be triggering. Notably, if we had poor models for conflict, or if conflict for us comes with a great deal of fear - of loss of relationship or repercussions if we engage with it. This can cause us to fall into defensive stress responses when conflict comes up - so that, instead of engaging with another with confidence, we may shut down, fall into self doubt, or become overly aggressive. We don’t want to rid ourselves or the world of conflict. Conflict is a great teacher. It can promote self and mutual understanding. It tells about what we want and what others want and in what direction in life we want to move. Conflict is part of life, but to allow it to be a creative force, we first need to disentangle our ideas about conflict from our earlier experiences with it, and increase our tolerance for it and resilience in it. To learn more about the "How to Fight Better - Creating the Conflict Container" workshop, visit the show notes .
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Mother Loyal
09/26/2019
Mother Loyal
This is a vulnerable one for me, but I think it's also highly relatable and it could touch someone else's life the way it touched mine, to hear of this idea of the mother loyal voice. Years ago, I was introduced to an idea that completely shifted the way I related to some of my thinking and deeply held beliefs, especially those thoughts that kept me mired in self-aggressive thinking. It's the idea that we can internalize a voice as children that we can carry throughout life, never realizing how this "voice" is shaping how we think and feel and behave. We may have lived with this voice for so long, we simply mistake it for our own. This episode explores how and why certain ideas get internalized by us to become our thoughts and beliefs in the first place, and the important role they played for us as children (i.e. strategies!)...but why we also want to start thinking more critically about them now. Check out the podcast show notes !
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On Presence
09/19/2019
On Presence
A mama on a course of mine once expressed her utter heartbreak at the realization she had that, even in moments she'd reserved for her kids, she struggled to truly be present with and enjoy them. Her overwhelm and her busy body and mind kept her from being fully there with them; even as they wanted to connect. And there's a genuine sadness that comes with that experience. What we also miss in our disconnection from the present is the ability to "rejoice" in our kids. How present or not we are will influence how our kids experience "being parented" by us. Feeling unsafe in our bodies, contributes to this experience of being locked in the world of thoughts (so much so that we don't realize it's a product of this feeling - and a contributor to it!). Our lack of presence can feel like "life passing us by", or as if we're living life from behind a veil, unable to make contact with our lives right here. The roots of so much dis-ease and discontent lies in all the ways we can't be here. Right now. Podcast show notes can be found .
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Why We Struggle to Receive
09/12/2019
Why We Struggle to Receive
Why do we struggle so much sometimes to receive? To receive compliments, to receive kindness, to receive love, or to receive help when we need it? The topic of reception is an important one, because our inability to receive contributes to an imbalance that cuts us off from the constant flow and exchange of energy that takes place when there's a true balance between giving and receiving. But women and mothers I know can be so challenged in their ability to receive - and they've developed ways to block it, sabotage it or even distrust it. What is your relationship like to receiving and how can we learn to embrace the act of receiving? Let's explore this together in today's episode! As always, you can connect with me on the EP's page!
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The Alchemy We Perform
09/05/2019
The Alchemy We Perform
In today’s episode, I’m sharing a childbirth story with you. I had a lot of fun last week exploring our personal journey through the lens of the (archetypal) story of Harry Potter. But this week I wanted to share a story about what it looks like to meet (with mindfulness and with intention) the momentum of the stories we tell ourselves about how an experience should or could be. And how this confrontation opens up new paths. Coming back to the body, and experiencing a moment from there, we come out of the concepts (labels, judgments & beliefs) we hold and that shape our perception of an experience, and this has the power to open us up to NEW experiences we didn’t know were possible. The story of my daughter’s birth epitomizes this well - and it was the story I shared on a Tedx stage almost a year ago. Show notes and further resources are !
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Our Harry Potter Story
08/29/2019
Our Harry Potter Story
You are magic - did you know that? You have the power of influence by way of "mysterious" forces (i.e. things that aren't easily measured). But what I really mean to say is that you're a creator. And you have powers - superpowers, even - that can shape your experience of your life and this world if you only knew that about yourself. Not unlike one of literature's favorite protagonists, Harry Potter, whose own essence - like yours - was hidden from him. But here's what's important to note - the ignorance and fear that keeps us locked underneath the stairs? It also had an important part to play in our story. Find out more in the podcast this week as I relate our journey to the story of Harry Potter. Come check out the show note .
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Healing through the Body (Part II)
08/22/2019
Healing through the Body (Part II)
We talk more about the KEY to our healing through the body, and how and why we can struggle to do this. Our disconnection from the body is often experienced like a foreign land that's host to a lot of experiences we've learned to fear. Because if they felt "too big" then, they often feel "too big" now. Like the sensations that come with strong emotions or unpleasant feelings. We can come to fear these parts of ourselves that have become disconnected from the whole of who we are, and in their separation they exist in the shadows; and from there they can feel like monsters. But they're not; they're a part of us, and the important work we need to do is to start to integrate these experiences again back into our present moment experience. Until we find true refuge in the body, we'll struggle to control our lives and the people in them to feel better. And in that mode, we'll always struggle. Our disconnection from the body is individual, but it's also cultural. I also explore this notion in the episode. You can skip the embodiment practice at the beginning of the episode by going to 05:15 in the episode. (I move more quickly through this exercise in the episode than I would normally do. If you'd like to work with it separately, you can find it by visiting the podcast notes). Visit the podcast show notes !
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Healing through the Body (Part I)
08/15/2019
Healing through the Body (Part I)
What do we deeply want in our relationship with our kids? (And in our relationship to life, really). And what do we want to experience? We live in very disconnected and disembodied ways, in a very disconnected and disembodied world. It's this disconnection from the body that contributes to so much of our suffering and keeps us from fully inhabiting the present moment. And it keeps us from experiencing the fullness of our human life; our freedom, our vitality, our fierceness and joy. Coming home to the body is the path home. And in this episode we begin to explore what this means and what it looks like. This week, I have something for you! A practice to use to experience what awareness of and in the body feels like as opposed to relating to the body from the mind. Come download the practice .
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Parenting before the Parenting
08/08/2019
Parenting before the Parenting
In the early days of my motherhood journey, I stood on the bank of a river one day, and I fell into crisis. How am I going to do this? I wondered. How am I not going to screw this royally up? How was I going to parent my children in a different way to how I was parented, when I didn't know how? I didn't know the way. How was I going to break a cycle of trauma I was barely even aware existed? It was a true crisis that brought me to a threshold of initiation - a threshold of initiation that was leading me back to myself as the source and the starting point for how I was going to do what felt like the impossible to do. It's the internal work that becomes all the alchemy we need to do what we fear we can't. And doesn't this feel like the essence of truth? That when we heal ourselves, that well-being ripples out into our relationships, and the parenting that comes from well-being knows what the way. It know what to do. I have some exciting opportunities to work together that you can learn more about at my website: www.karinebell.com/services Come view the podcast show notes .
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What are you coming home to?
07/18/2019
What are you coming home to?
This episode is all about the way we relate to ourselves as the first relationship that matters most and the first relationship to determine how we relate to others. The question is: how "at home" do you feel in your own skin, and how much trust do you find in relationship to yourself? The truth is, due to the traumatic stress we continue to live with and all that is left unmetabolized in us - many of us have come to embody an attitude of harshness, criticism and judgment towards the things we don't like about ourselves. But we stand little hope of positive change when - through our acts of self-aggression and self-betrayal - we continue to embody feelings of "not safe". We can change this, and our self-awareness & embodiment practices are one powerful way to do this. I'm taking a summer break until the 8th of August! Come learn more about my work & opportunities to work together !
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Guilt: The Good and The Bad
07/10/2019
Guilt: The Good and The Bad
Guilt can feel like a plague, especially for those of us who've learned to take on more responsibility for others' well-being than we can (or should) be responsible for. Like other human experiences we can have, guilt contains both light and shadow, and both are worth exploring. Because, while excessive and unhelpful guilt can keep us imprisoned by the expectations of others, helpful guilt can be a sign post for us, showing us where our speech and behavior is out of alignment with what our hearts most want. Until we can disentangle the experience of guilt from the unhelpful form it can take, however, we'll struggle to make use of helpful guilt as a powerful guide. Come learn more about the 8-week foundations program I refer to in this episode . Podcast show notes can be found .
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Motherhood: A Journey of Fear & Courage (Heart-Based Action)
07/04/2019
Motherhood: A Journey of Fear & Courage (Heart-Based Action)
The entire journey of motherhood is often a dance of fear and courage. Especially for those of us who deeply desire to parent differently than we were parented. Fear can keep us feeling stuck, while courage has forward momentum to it towards self-transformation. How do we face what it is we fear to face on the path to self-transformation? And what are the desires we hold in our hearts that can mobilize us powerfully with the courage (the action of the heart) towards a different future? And are we even in touch with that desire? (Are we even allowed to be)?! When we fear our own fear, we can become immobilized and unable to take steps forward - we can get stuck in an experience of "no way out". In this episode, we explore what it means to connect with our innermost desires as the basis for the courage we need to unshackle ourselves from the prisons we often experience. Show notes can be found !
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What are you tuned into?
06/27/2019
What are you tuned into?
Our attention is always on something, whether that thing is something nourishing and uplifting for us, or if its depleting for us. We've each been shaped by our experiences and our social environments to pay attention to specific information from our environment - often information that just confirms beliefs we already hold - but when we begin to get curious (i.e. mindful) of where our attention goes we can begin making more conscious choices about what we consume from the world around us. Without realizing it, this is a path to liberation, because liberating our perception is to inhabit our power to shape our experiences. And that matters to me, personally, and as a mom. Podcast shownotes are !
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