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Bonus Episode: The Guide to Embrace Change and Learning for Ourselves and Our Kids · The Spiritual Parent: Mindful Tools for Raising Spiritual and Conscious Kids

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  Carrie: learning, that love of exploring, growing and developing.
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  Carrie: That's what being a conscious person is about.
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  Carrie: That's what conscious living is and that's what having a conscious family is is growing together, getting out there and trying a hike when you don't feel like it that's me sometimes on a Saturday morning after I've had my pancakes and I just want to sit and watch a home renovation show, even though my husband said we're done renovating.
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  Carrie: That's challenging myself, right?
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  Carrie: So also developing our best versions of ourselves.
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  Carrie: So that includes learning and growing and trying new things.
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  Carrie: And when we model that for our kids, it's like I've told you guys many times, so sorry if you've already heard it, but living and breathing it and being the example ourselves is really going to encourage our kids to want to do it themselves.
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  Carrie: Hi, conscious Parents it's Keri.
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  Carrie: We're talking all tips and tricks for raising our kids so they remain conscious into their adulthood.
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  Carrie: So today I wanted to talk about learning when we are showing our kids how we love to explore and learn all different things, and how life is not about stopping learning when we're adults, stopping learning when we graduate from college even.
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  Carrie: It's about continuously learning and challenging ourselves as we live a conscious life.
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  Carrie: How boring would life be if we were done learning Like?
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  Carrie: That's it.
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  Carrie: I've learned it all and I'm over.
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  Carrie: I'm just going to live my life joyfully, but not consciously.
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  Carrie: So that's a piece that I would love for us to introduce to our kids and support and challenge you to try with your kids this week.
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  Carrie: So one thing that we can think about is modeling and teaching our kids to be open to new messages with meaning.
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  Carrie: So that can mean learning new things, challenging ourselves to try new things and maybe try things that may have been hard for us, maybe spiritual growth of things like developing and supporting our kids and teaching them new mindsets and pieces of it.
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  Carrie: So we want our kids to learn that there is a joy of learning, that we don't need to force things on each other.
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  Carrie: We don't need to force things on each other.
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  Carrie: We don't need to force things on our kids.
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  Carrie: We don't like it when things are forced on us.
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  Carrie: We often turn away when things are forced on us.
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  Carrie: I know so many people that have told me I don't want to think about spirituality, I don't want to think about religion.
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  Carrie: It was forced on me when I was a kid and I do not want to do that to my kids.
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  Carrie: I'm sure you guys don't want to do that on your kids.
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  Carrie: It often can breed, bring to us becoming into our monkey minds, right?
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  Carrie: If we are having things forced on us, that can often make us more nervous or fearful and not want to connect heart to heart.
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  Carrie: So learning that love of exploring, growing and developing, that's what being a conscious person is about, that's what conscious living is and that's what having a conscious family is is growing together, getting out there and trying a hike when you don't feel like it that's me sometimes on a Saturday morning after I've had my pancakes and I just want to sit and watch a home renovation show, even though my husband said we're done renovating.
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  Carrie: That's challenging myself, right.
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  Carrie: So also developing our best versions of ourselves.
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  Carrie: So that includes learning and growing and trying new things.
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  Carrie: And when we model that for our kids, it's like I've told you guys many times, so sorry if you've already heard it, but living and breathing it and being the example ourselves is really going to encourage our kids to want to do it themselves.
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  Carrie: If we are saying go out there and learn, learn everything, enjoy school, but you really need to learn.
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  Carrie: And and we're not living that ourselves, what are we doing?
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  Carrie: What are we showing our kids?
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  Carrie: We're not sharing our passions with our kids.
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  Carrie: We're not sharing what it's like to be a human, and part of the human experience is learning and growing and appreciating these moments for adventures.
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  Carrie: Because One psychologist I was listening to the Mel Robbins podcast and she had a psychologist on there talking about adventure spicing up our lives and how there is a lull in our age group midlife where we don't have as many adventures.
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  Carrie: We are in our stable job set and we are not necessarily making changes or trying new things.
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  Carrie: Right, you're not moving off to college anymore, you're not home for the summer and going back, you're not graduating from high school, you're not having babies, getting married, having all these different changes.
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  Carrie: You're kind of in this position of knowing what's coming.
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  Carrie: There's no uncertainty, there's no sense of adventure.
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  Carrie: So why not teach our kids that, yep, I'm in my midlife phase?
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  Carrie: That's me right now, my husband and I.
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  Carrie: We are in our midlife phase and we still love adventure.
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  Carrie: We still took our kids on a seven-hour plane ride to Kauai and had the best time.
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  Carrie: Now we can't even figure out where we're going to go next year because we can't top this.
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  Carrie: Our kids love Kauai.
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  Carrie: They said it was better than Disneyland, legoland, san Diego.
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  Carrie: They are so excited about Kauai.
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  Carrie: I don't know what we're going to do next year, but we are excited to learn and we are excited to research it and find the next phase.
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  Carrie: So let's work this week.
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  Carrie: You don't have to travel to Kauai this week, don't worry, I'm not making you do that.
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  Carrie: But let's show our kids the excitement of learning.
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  Carrie: Let's show them mom and dad are reading this nonfiction book about how the brain works.
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  Carrie: That's me, that's on my shelf.
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  Carrie: Let's show them that when we love to learn, we also are challenging our brains.
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  Carrie: We're trying new things.
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  Carrie: It doesn't have to just be reading a book.
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  Carrie: It can be learning a new skill.
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  Carrie: It can be trying out something that maybe you've resisted trying and also trying something new for your kids with them.
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  Carrie: One of the things I love to do with my kids is we do with my son we do Cub Scouts, and it's really cool because he feels really empowered.
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  Carrie: He gets to try different things, he gets to help the community, he gets to be in a parade, which is like a really cool thing for him.
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  Carrie: He loves that, but also just each year it progresses into something new, right?
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  Carrie: If you have something like that that you can try with your kids, it's really powerful for them and it can really help to build their confidence.
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  Carrie: So this year, this week, not this year, I mean it's throughout the year, but let's try to break it down to the week.
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  Carrie: Try to share your love of learning with your kids not just having them learn, but also learning yourselves and challenging yourselves.
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  Carrie: Thanks, happy lives.
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  Carrie: Happy week, conscious moms and dads.
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  Carrie: Well, that's a wrap.
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  Carrie: Thanks so much for tuning in.
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  Carrie: Changemakers.
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  Carrie: Thanks so much for tuning in and happy life, happy times.
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  Carrie: Changemaker families.
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  Carrie: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast is educational in nature and does not constitute licensed mental health advice.
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  Carrie: If you need such advice, you should speak with a licensed professional about your unique situation.
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  Carrie: Thanks so much.
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  Carrie: Happy listeners.