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- 0:00Carrie Lingenfelter: When we embrace the spiritual side of us, we are tuning in to connect with the true version of ourselves.
- 0:06Carrie Lingenfelter: Isn't that a powerful piece?
- 0:07Carrie Lingenfelter: Don't we want our kids to connect with the true version of themselves?
- 0:12Carrie Lingenfelter: Don't we want to see our kids in the best light, see the best versions of them?
- 0:16Carrie Lingenfelter: So let's start number one with embracing the spirituality in our own lives, and that can look like taking our challenges of the day and looking at them as tools for what we need to grow, learn or heal in ourselves.
- 0:33Carrie Lingenfelter: It's such a process and, oh my dear, it doesn't happen overnight.
- 0:37Carrie Lingenfelter: Wouldn't it be nice if we could just like flip a switch, bewitched style flip a switch and just have it all done, right, no, no, no, no.
- 0:44Carrie Lingenfelter: It is actually in the journey, right?
- 0:47Carrie Lingenfelter: The journey that opens and continues to open doors along this path.
- 0:51Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi, conscious Parents, it's Keri here and I am here with a little info about raising our mindful kids.
- 0:57Carrie 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 along the way.
- 1:05Carrie Lingenfelter: Join us, hi Conscious Parents.
- 1:07Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you ready to really embrace the woo?
- 1:10Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you ready to become a spiritual parent?
- 1:13Carrie Lingenfelter: That's where I'm at right now.
- 1:14Carrie Lingenfelter: I have looked at many different conscious parenting ideas and pieces and shared those with you, but really embracing the spirituality as a parent is what has set me free the most.
- 1:27Carrie Lingenfelter: For example, as an entrepreneur, I've had people that have mentioned use the terms conscious, use the terms mindful, use those more than spiritual.
- 1:36Carrie Lingenfelter: But I really had my whole body lock up when I did not embrace spirituality in my entrepreneurial journey.
- 1:44Carrie Lingenfelter: So I am sharing with you guys today these pieces of how we can embrace spirituality into our parenting, how we can teach our kids some spiritual tools and how we live that in our lives.
- 1:57Carrie Lingenfelter: When we embrace the spiritual side of us, we are tuning in to connect with the true version of ourselves.
- 2:03Carrie Lingenfelter: Isn't that a powerful piece?
- 2:04Carrie Lingenfelter: Don't we want our kids to connect with the true version of ourselves?
- 2:05Carrie Lingenfelter: Isn't that a powerful piece?
- 2:05Carrie Lingenfelter: Don't we want our kids to connect with the true version of themselves?
- 2:09Carrie Lingenfelter: Don't we want to see our kids in the best light, see the best versions of them?
- 2:14Carrie Lingenfelter: So let's start number one with embracing the spirituality in our own lives, and that can look like taking our challenges of the day and looking at them as tools for what we need to grow, learn or heal in ourselves.
- 2:31Carrie Lingenfelter: It's such a process and, oh my dear, it doesn't happen overnight.
- 2:34Carrie Lingenfelter: Wouldn't it be nice if we could just like flip a switch, bewitch style, flip a switch and just have it all done, right?
- 2:41Carrie Lingenfelter: No, no, no, no.
- 2:42Carrie Lingenfelter: It is actually in the journey, right?
- 2:45Carrie Lingenfelter: The journey that opens and continues to open doors along this path, because, even though I'm a spiritual mom and a spiritual parent, I still have things that come up every day For me.
- 2:58Carrie Lingenfelter: It looks like getting in the car after picking up my kids and one of my kiddos starts to have a moment, just a meltdown.
- 3:04Carrie Lingenfelter: And it's not just a little meltdown, it's like whoa, an eruptive meltdown.
- 3:08Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm like what is going on?
- 3:10Carrie Lingenfelter: I don't even understand.
- 3:11Carrie Lingenfelter: When I dropped you off at school this morning, you were in such a good mood and we're just on our way to our ninja gymnastics group and I don't know if we're going to make it.
- 3:26Carrie Lingenfelter: Guys, looking at that moment of maybe, I'm feeling this eruption inside of me as well.
- 3:28Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, it's a full moon, you guys, there's this energetically, there's this energetic mass that's going on between us.
- 3:34Carrie Lingenfelter: So how do I help that?
- 3:36Carrie Lingenfelter: I pull the car over because, number one, safety first.
- 3:40Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, we're a parent, safety.
- 3:41Carrie Lingenfelter: First, we pull the car over and we look at what is going on right now.
- 3:45Carrie Lingenfelter: What is it that you are feeling?
- 3:47Carrie Lingenfelter: You're not feeling heard.
- 3:48Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, my kid is not feeling heard.
- 3:51Carrie Lingenfelter: So I connect with them.
- 3:52Carrie Lingenfelter: I connect with them and, wow, you're really expressing that.
- 3:57Carrie Lingenfelter: You're frustrated, you don't want to go to ninjas today, and that's where this is coming from.
- 4:01Carrie Lingenfelter: Ooh, you had a hard afternoon.
- 4:03Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's get some air conditioning going on you.
- 4:05Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's get some water and some snacks in you.
- 4:08Carrie Lingenfelter: Luckily, I'm a spiritual but prepared mama and I bring all of the stuff with me, including grounding crystals that are also there.
- 4:15Carrie Lingenfelter: So, when everything is calm, I let them choose a crystal.
- 4:19Carrie Lingenfelter: But I'm reflecting back on how did I feel in that moment too.
- 4:24Carrie Lingenfelter: Mom was starting to erupt and I've been really, really doing all these spiritual pieces that Carrie has taught me.
- 4:31Carrie Lingenfelter: I don't understand why I'm still erupting right now, because I'm human and daily struggles can come up sometimes and those are opportunities to look at.
- 4:41Carrie Lingenfelter: Okay, there's a really big moon right now.
- 4:45Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm feeling really, really intense and, ooh, as I kind of tune into my mind-body-spirit connection, I'm noticing that my skin feels raw.
- 4:56Carrie Lingenfelter: Today I went about all of my duties of the day doing my work cleaning house, cooking amazing meals for my family and I didn't realize that my skin feels raw today.
- 5:09Carrie Lingenfelter: What is going on?
- 5:10Carrie Lingenfelter: Something's not settled.
- 5:12Carrie Lingenfelter: So I'm going to look at journaling.
- 5:13Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to look at things that bubble up while I'm doing my normal housework or work work.
- 5:21Carrie Lingenfelter: Things that bubble up.
- 5:23Carrie Lingenfelter: Ooh, carrie, you're feeling frustrated because some things have been funky at work that you might need to work on.
- 5:30Carrie Lingenfelter: Ooh, yes, that's right.
- 5:31Carrie Lingenfelter: I need an energetic shift there.
- 5:33Carrie Lingenfelter: I need to make some changes.
- 5:35Carrie Lingenfelter: I need to do this podcast to share about spiritual parenting with parents, because it's coming up, it's bubbling up and when things are not settled for me energetically, when my kid's having a meltdown, I'm going to feel like going head to head.
- 5:49Carrie Lingenfelter: No, mom doesn't want to.
- 5:51Carrie Lingenfelter: Mom doesn't want to tune in.
- 5:52Carrie Lingenfelter: I need to tune into myself before I can tune into what's going on with you.
- 5:57Carrie Lingenfelter: If I'm not in this state of conscious spiritual parenting, if I'm not in my zen, how can I help you find your zen?
- 6:04Carrie Lingenfelter: Because you are a mirror of how I'm feeling.
- 6:09Carrie Lingenfelter: Guess what, as soon as I start to sit down and work on these pieces, the kid as soon as I started to hear them.
- 6:15Carrie Lingenfelter: Okay, you don't have to go to ninjas today.
- 6:17Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's go home, let's have a today.
- 6:18Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's go home, let's have a snack, let's cool down, let's see where our body is at.
- 6:21Carrie Lingenfelter: Sister is ready to go.
- 6:23Carrie Lingenfelter: Brother, he turns around and he says I want to go to ninjas.
- 6:28Carrie Lingenfelter: Wow, that's interesting, because I stayed grounded, I stay connected.
- 6:34Carrie Lingenfelter: I realized there are some things I need to work on myself.
- 6:37Carrie Lingenfelter: When I have a minute, now I'm able to stay grounded with my kiddo, we go to ninjas and as we're sitting in ninjas, I do some self-reflections.
- 6:45Carrie Lingenfelter: What's going on in my body?
- 6:47Carrie Lingenfelter: Yes, it was that work thing that was feeling funky and as I can kind of maybe think about I'm just going to leave it out there that something doesn't feel right and I need to brainstorm on this later, when I have more time.
- 7:07Carrie Lingenfelter: As a parent, I need to meditate, intuitive right.
- 7:08Carrie Lingenfelter: I need to grab my crystals, do a little chakra alignment meditation, all of these tools that I have up my sleeve as a spiritual mom.
- 7:12Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to turn to them later.
- 7:13Carrie Lingenfelter: So I'm sitting there in ninjas and I'm calming myself down again because I know that things don't have to stay in this funk.
- 7:22Carrie Lingenfelter: The lights are flickering.
- 7:23Carrie Lingenfelter: I guess the universe is really happy with this experience that I am going through and sharing with you guys right now.
- 7:29Carrie Lingenfelter: So, yes, I'm starting to feel more aligned in my energy.
- 7:33Carrie Lingenfelter: As I realized, this bubble up for me was a reflection or my son's bubble up was a reflection of the bubble up that I am going through as well, because when I started to acknowledge it, look how fast he calmed down.
- 7:44Carrie Lingenfelter: Woo, that was a quick transition Half an hour.
- 7:47Carrie Lingenfelter: He's in the ninja class right now.
- 7:49Carrie Lingenfelter: So I'm thinking I'm using this time to tune in.
- 7:52Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to write down a couple of things this bubbled up for me and then later, after the kids go to bed, I sit down, I meditate, I calm myself.
- 8:01Carrie Lingenfelter: I do something that helped me to feel grounded.
- 8:04Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe I'm I'm going through some spiritual courses right now, so I do a little bit of the spiritual work.
- 8:10Carrie Lingenfelter: I sit and I meditate and I see what is going on in my world, what is causing this, this shift, and as I think about that, I can start to lay out some ideas.
- 8:23Carrie Lingenfelter: You don't have to make those choices right in that moment.
- 8:26Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, we're going to see what's going to feel good over the next few days.
- 8:30Carrie Lingenfelter: What are we drawn to?
- 8:32Carrie Lingenfelter: Because, as we open that door to that shifting, things are going to start to bubble up that tell us.
- 8:38Carrie Lingenfelter: This is the cause of what's feeling wrong with you energetically.
- 8:42Carrie Lingenfelter: Here are some solutions.
- 8:44Carrie Lingenfelter: When you can name it to tame it.
- 8:46Carrie Lingenfelter: Love that from Dr Dan Siegel.
- 8:48Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm going to keep using that, even for parents, not just kids, when I can name it and I can start saying here's the problem, now let's find some solutions.
- 8:57Carrie Lingenfelter: Right that already that little nighttime shift that I did for myself is going to reflect in my kids.
- 9:04Carrie Lingenfelter: My son gets up the next morning, which is this morning as I'm telling you this story, and he is so happy.
- 9:11Carrie Lingenfelter: I love you, mom.
- 9:12Carrie Lingenfelter: You're the best mom in the world.
- 9:14Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm so excited to go to school today.
- 9:16Carrie Lingenfelter: I love that you've changed me to this new school.
- 9:19Carrie Lingenfelter: I love it so much.
- 9:20Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm like that is a night and day from what we had yesterday afternoon.
- 9:26Carrie Lingenfelter: So you guys, you can do these spiritual parenting pieces.
- 9:30Carrie Lingenfelter: You can start to see where the root of these problems that your kids may bubble up are from.
- 9:37Carrie Lingenfelter: Where is that root from?
- 9:38Carrie Lingenfelter: Oftentimes it's ourselves.
- 9:40Carrie Lingenfelter: Oftentimes it's us putting it out there without realizing energetically we're putting it out there and our kids, who are born so connected to us, to the universe, to those around them.
- 9:53Carrie Lingenfelter: They are reflecting back on us what we need to work on ourselves.
- 9:58Carrie Lingenfelter: Woo, I didn't even know that I was going through this, you guys, I didn't even know that I was needing this shift in my life.
- 10:05Carrie Lingenfelter: This, you guys, I didn't even know that I was needing this shift in my life, but it started this huge, massive energy tumbleweed.
- 10:11Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm gonna call it the energetic tumbleweed of what I need to work on myself, and it's not just in our working world.
- 10:19Carrie Lingenfelter: It can be in something that a connection I might be having that is challenging for me with my parents.
- 10:25Carrie Lingenfelter: It could be a connection that I'm having with my partner, maybe my partner's connection, maybe my partner is going through something and it's reflecting in the kids and when I start to help them tune in for are you feeling all right?
- 10:37Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you feeling a little funky?
- 10:39Carrie Lingenfelter: You know this full moon has me a little bit off.
- 10:41Carrie Lingenfelter: Where are you feeling energetically?
- 10:43Carrie Lingenfelter: Where are you?
- 10:44Carrie Lingenfelter: I'm noticing the kids are getting a little frustrated.
- 10:51Carrie Lingenfelter: How have you been feeling lately?
- 10:52Carrie Lingenfelter: Are you picking up some of my intensity?
- 10:53Carrie Lingenfelter: Because, yes, our spouses, our partners, can reflect our intensity as well.
- 10:54Carrie Lingenfelter: Think about this, spiritual parents, and if these changes help you along your journey, then I would love to hear about it, because that's where we're at the little seeds that I help of wisdom I love to share with you guys and I love to hear about it because that's where we're at the little seeds that I help of wisdom I love to share with you guys and I love to hear if they help back.
- 11:09Carrie Lingenfelter: So try that this week.
- 11:11Carrie Lingenfelter: Any challenges that come up in your life, remember they're opportunities to heal, grow and learn from in this amazing and reflective parenting journey.
- 11:21Carrie Lingenfelter: Happy days, spiritual parents.
- 11:22Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, that's a wrap.
- 11:25Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in.
- 11:26Carrie Lingenfelter: Changemakers.
- 11:27Carrie 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.
- 11:37Carrie Lingenfelter: If you guys would like to ever message me, I would love any questions you have or any feedback at info at hearttoheartlifecom.
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- 11:53Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in and happy life, happy times.
- 11:56Carrie Lingenfelter: Changemaker families.
- 11:58Carrie Lingenfelter: Bye.