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Season 2 Ep 5: If You Don't Listen Nothing Else: 4 Practices That Made Life Feel Better

Ease, joy, pleasure, self-trust, and four practices that have genuinely made my life feel better. If you don’t listen to nothing else I say… Listen to this one. In this episode of Seen with Serena Kumara, I’m sharing my Big Four. The four practices I stand behind for any woman who wants her life to feel better. I don’t mean more impressive or more acceptable. I mean better. More joyful, more authentic, more healed. We’ll chat about: • My real life decision making filter that cuts unnecessary obligation, burnout, and resentment • The gift of examination… looking at where our beliefs and perceptions actually came from, for real • Sankofa… looking back in order to move forward • Using ancient tools as actual cheat codes for making life easier This is a conversation about desire, lineage, ancestral wisdom, and the kind of self-trust that changes how you live. Season 2 Episode 5 of Seen with Serena Kumara. Grab Unapologetic Affirmations: tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SerenaKumara Work with Serena: serenakumara.com Seen with Serena Kumara is a podcast for women exploring self-concept, inner liberation, identity, deconditioning, spirituality, pleasure, rest, and reclaiming a life that feels like theirs.

Season 2 Ep 4: Receiving is a Superpower

In this episode of Seen with Serena Kumara, we’re talking about the energy of receiving and why receptivity matters for creating more ease. Receptivity affects what we allow life to bring us and how we respond when support, opportunity, or abundance shows up. This conversation explores the subtle ways blocked receptivity can show up, why more of us struggle with receiving than we realize, and what it can look like to open our channel and expand our capacity to receive. This week’s affirmation comes from Unapologetic Affirmations. Get your copy of Unapologetic Affirmations here: tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations [http://tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations] To explore my work or book a clarity session, visit: SerenaKumara.com [http://SerenaKumara.com]

Season 2 Ep. 3: The Pleasure Principle

Hey babes, are you enjoying yourself? In this episode of Seen with Serena Kumara, Serena explores pleasure, play, and the missing middle between work and rest. So many of us know how to produce. We know how to push. We know how to recover when we’re exhausted. But pleasure and play ask something different from us. They ask us to reconnect with enjoyment, curiosity, softness, beauty, and aliveness. This conversation is about why pleasure matters, why play ain’t optional, and how to begin making ordinary life feel better without turning pleasure into another assignment. Season 2, Episode 3: The Pleasure Principle: Why Play Ain’t Optional To explore Serena’s work or book a session, visit https://serenakumara.com [https://serenakumara.com]. Get Unapologetic Affirmations here: https://tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations [https://tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations] For carousels that expand the message of this episode, follow Serena on Instagram: https://instagram.com/seenwithserena [https://instagram.com/seenwithserena]

Season 2, Ep 2: Mama Taught Me

A Mother’s Day episode about the lessons I inherited before I knew I was learning. In this episode of Seen with Serena Kumara, I’m talking about my mother, my grandmother, and the ways they shaped how I understand spirituality, self-concept, ease, joy, beauty, discernment, and becoming. I’m sharing the stories and the lessons inside them: how to be more intentional about the energy around you, how to care for your spirit without bypassing real life, how to know what is and is not yours to carry, and how to stay open to joy, beauty, and becoming at every age. It’s personal and lighthearted, but some real gems are dropped. This week’s affirmation comes from my book, Unapologetic Affirmations. Get your copy here: https://tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations To explore my work or book a clarity session, visit SerenaKumara.com. Intro & Outro Music Includes “Just a Taste” by Beat Mekanik, found on Free Music Archives

Season 2 Ep.1: I Am No Longer Useful

Season 2 of Seen with Serena Kumara starts here! In this episode, I’m sharing a very personal realization I have been processing for the past several months: I've been leading with usefulness. And it has not done me any favors. This episode is about the difference between being valued for what we can offer and being honored in our wholeness. I talk about what it means to realize that some relationships may value your insight, support, care, and capacity without fully considering the whole person carrying those gifts. I also explore how usefulness can become familiar, how it can shape the way we connect, and why being valued is not always the same as being nourished. If you’ve ever been the insightful one, the helpful one, the emotionally available one, or the person people call because you make things easier, clearer, or more manageable, you may see yourself in this episode. Hopefully, it gives language to something you’ve felt but couldn’t name before. This episode also includes the affirmation of the week from Unapologetic Affirmations, my book of bold, self-concept-centered affirmations. Get Unapologetic Affirmations here: https://tinyurl.com/unapologetic-affirmations To learn more about Serena or book a Mirror Session, visit https://serenakumara.com