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Bonus: Self-Compassion for Busy Parents · The Spiritual Parent: Mindful Tools for Raising Spiritual and Conscious Kids

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  Carrie Lingenfelter: give yourself compassion, as a mom or dad, when you're going through these busy periods, because it can be feel so hard to focus on ourselves and to have the energy for our own projects, our own self-growth, our own self-journey, our own healing, our own journey.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: All of these pieces that add up into things that we do for ourselves can all be thrown by the wayside as we are focusing on our kids and maybe our partners or our work or our house or those types of things.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So I would like to think about a little meditation that I would love to walk you guys through, and I'm going to do it with you guys as well.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So today, we're going to put our hand on our heart.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to put our other hand.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can choose, and I'm going to do it with you guys as well.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So today, we're going to put our hand on our heart.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to put our other hand.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can choose if you feel drawn to put it on your tummy or on your head.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sorry, tummy, former teacher here I'm going to put it on my tummy today so I can feel myself breathing in and out.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi Conscious Parents.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Keri here and I am here with a little info about raising our mindful kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I've got some tips and tricks about breaking free of the box and becoming who you are and teaching your kids how to do that.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Along the way, Join us.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi there, happy listeners.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Keri here and I'm so excited I have a new project called Conscious Family Travels on YouTube.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's all about mindfully traveling with our highly sensitive kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We love to give tips and tools about how you can pack, how you can prepare and traveling with dietary restrictions.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We love to share in-depth guides of certain areas that we are traveling to, as well as some of the actual items that we use along our journey.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So join us on this conscious family travels journey.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi there, conscious parents, and welcome back.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Carrie, your friendly mama, here, and I am here with another bonus little Friday episode, and I wanted to share with you guys something that's near and dear to my heart this week.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's something that I have been working on.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's something that I've been going through.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We've had a week of illnesses and preparation for travel and just a lot of things going on in our house oh, my goodness, I forgot like conferences are coming up with my kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: They're having poetry readings and wax museum live wax museum sessions.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's been really cool at our school as well, so it's just been a little bit chaotic.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's not been our normal time, and one thing is I wanted to share to give yourself compassion as a mom or dad when you're going through these busy periods, because it can feel so hard to focus on ourselves and to have the energy for our own projects, our own self-growth, our own self-journey, our own healing, our own journey All of these pieces that add up into things that we do for ourselves can all be thrown by the wayside as we are focusing on our kids and maybe our partners, or our work or our house or those types of things.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So I would like to think about a little meditation that I would love to walk you guys through, and I'm going to do it with you guys as well.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So today we're going to put our hand on our heart.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to put our other hand you can choose if you feel drawn to put it on your tummy or on your head.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sorry, tummy, former teacher, here I'm going to put it on your tummy or on your head.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sorry, tummy, former teacher, here I'm going to put it on my tummy today so I can feel myself breathing in and out.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to take a deep breath in and a deep breath out.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel Our eyelids softly closing.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel the weight of our hand and the beating of our heart underneath it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel our shoulders loosen up and calmly fall down and back where they are resting.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If you're like me, maybe you feel energy and you start to sway.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's a sign of connection and it's sometimes embarrassing out in public, but that's me.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel our feet calmly resting on the floor and we're going to picture ourselves walking along a path.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: The path is meandering and windy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe your path is headed onto a beach windy, maybe your path is headed onto a beach.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe your path is headed in through the woods.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe your path is climbing a hill to the top of a mountain.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: As you turn the last corner, you look out into a scene either a large tree in front of you, you see a beach, you see a view looking out over the mountains, a view looking out over a mountain lake, whatever feels comfortable to you right now.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: As you look at that serene setting, you can feel the peace and calmness washing over you.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can then feel in your heart what you are drawn to.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward learning for yourself right now?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward sitting on the sofa and binge watching some cheesy TV or a science movie?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward connecting with your partner.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward journaling?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward continuing a project that maybe feels stale?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you drawn toward starting a new project?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Feel it in your heart, breathe in and release it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: When you breathe in, picture all the energy of the universe guiding you toward this project, this next step, this thing that you are feeling you need to do.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Next, when you breathe out, picture yourself sending to the universe saying I'm ready.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm ready for my next step upon this journey.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now we're going to start to slowly move our toes, our fingers, our shoulders, slowing our breathing, and you can open your eyes when you feel ready for it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: There's a prayer or mantra that I like to say that I'm thinking in my mind right now and I wrote it down so I can remember it for you guys.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's God's mind.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can use God source spirit.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: God's mind and wisdom direct me every day and every way to show me compassion for myself and strength to follow my own dreams.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I'd like to follow up with where this is coming from in my heart.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I've been thinking about how much, as a parent of highly sensitive kids, how much of myself is given toward raising those kids, and it's a lot, and sometimes we need to think about the future, the future and what that looks like.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What are we building for ourselves as we get older?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: There's going to be a day when our kids are in high school Maybe they're still at home a lot in high school.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: There's going to be a day when our kids are in college.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: There's going to be a day when you retire.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What are you going to have left for yourself?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Is it something that you are creating as a project?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Is it something that you're hoping to learn and grow in?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I just want you to remind yourself that you are a human too.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You're living this valuable, amazing human experience, and it's not selfish to create something for yourself to heal, grow and learn this year, in 2025, in what you want as a parent.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I hope you step into this week and this weekend on a journey with a little bit of extra compassion, extra strength, to take a step toward following what is meant to be for yourself.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Parents Happy day.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, that's a wrap.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in Changemakers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is Keri, and if you haven't done a review for us five stars and a little few words about what you've enjoyed in our podcast episodes we would really appreciate it If you guys would like to ever message me.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in and happy life, happy times, changemaker families.