In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I interview Kristen Kalp, a poet, business coach, and podcaster. Kristen is also a longtime friend of Love Always, Jo and one of our most popular guests to date. She offers practical-yet-soulful business direction in her books, helps clear emotional residue and blocks through breathwork, and make space to usher in whole-life transformation through coaching. Listen to this episode to hear more about tenderness, receiving and intuition.
Today we have Kristen Kalp joining us. Kristen is a longtime friend of Love Always, Jo and one of our most popular guests to date. Kristen offers practical-yet-soulful business direction in her books, helps clear emotional residue and blocks through breathwork, and make space to usher in whole-life transformation through coaching. (And action. Lots and lots of action.)
In this episode Kristen and I discuss…
- What Kristen has learned about joy and bravery since she was last on the show – listen to her first episode on Joy and Bravery here
- How to find the balance between being informed but not getting caught up in drama
- What tenderness means, why we might resist it and how to not resist it
- Kristen’s theory on receiving, why it’s so important and why we aren’t doing it
- Making decisions that don’t make sense on paper but that feel good to your soul
- How to practice and know when it’s your intuition
- What is breathwork and how it can help with tenderness, receiving and intuition
- When to do breathwork (especially at what point during your menstrual cycle) and how long
Follow Kristen:
Recommended Books:
Quotes:
- Joy is something you fight for – Kristen
- Being joyful is a brave thing – Joanna
- Treat yourself internally as you would someone you adore and treat externally – Kristen
- Monitor your interior thoughts as well as you do with the ones you have with others – Kristen
- Just because your brain says it’s true doesn’t mean it is – Kristen
- When you stop judging yourself internally you stop judging people externally and vice versa – Kristen
- The less you judge yourself the more you can express yourself – Kristen
- You don’t get to choose the gifts you’re given but you get the choice to express them or not – Kristen
- Recognize that your gifts are gifts – Joanna
- Receiving is a spectrum – Kristen
- You can’t selectively numb emotions – Brene Brown
- The act of receiving will change the way you perceive things – Kristen
- Follow your sparkle
Journal Prompts:
- What are you going to do with the knowledge you have about things going on in the world
- What gifts do you have that you need to start expressing?
- What do you have a hard time receiving in your life?
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