Befriending Your Soul with Kim Isaak Podcast

A8 | Tending Our Bent Over Places

We all have bent over places in our lives. Often these are places we have tried to fix or overcome or deny. Sometimes we have sought help to heal them and that is good. Bringing our bent over places into the light where we feel safe can be so restorative. What if our bent over places are waiting for us to show up, listen, and attend to them? What might happen if we extend an inner hospitality to these bent over places, offering compassionate listening and loving presence to what seems so bent out of shape in our lives? I am convinced that as we offer loving, caring, compassionate regard for these aspects of our lives they can share their deeper story and be open to a grace that heals in its own organic timing. More background to this attunement can be found on my journal at https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-tending-our-bent-over-places [https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-opening-a-gift-from-inside-you] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit befriendingyoursoul.substack.com [https://befriendingyoursoul.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Attunement 7 | Opening a Gift from Inside You

We all carry hidden aspects of ourselves, seeds of life, of goodness, that want to be shared and planted in this world. Not because we have to - yet because they are there - wanting to be given, offered for the renewal and flourishing of our lives and others. Might you want to become gently curious about these seeds of life planted deep within you? Let’s go slow and make space to listen to the a gift that is held within us while opening ourselves to the gifts of grace that come. More background to this attunement can be found on my journal at https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-opening-a-gift-from-inside-you [https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-opening-a-gift-from-inside-you] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit befriendingyoursoul.substack.com [https://befriendingyoursoul.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Attunement 6 | Gifts of Rest & Renewal

I find that something in me really struggles to trust the desire to rest and nest come mid-winter. Maybe you notice something similar happening within you too. Both a wanting for more rest to be renewed and something that resists or mistrusts that longing. Or maybe you notice another part of you that seems to be the permission granter, like you can rest after such and such gets done. Let’s go slow and make space to listen to the deeper wisdom of these longings held within us and open ourselves to the gifts of grace that come. More background to this attunement can be found on my journal at https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-gifts-of-rest-and-renewal [https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-gifts-of-rest-and-renewal] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit befriendingyoursoul.substack.com [https://befriendingyoursoul.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Attunement 5 | Making Room for Deferred Hope

I want to suggest that when we go slowly enough, stay close to our body, and not rush to meaning making, we can genuinely be expanded in our waiting. We can make room to be with deferred hope, even if it makes our heart sick. More background to this attunement can be found on my journal at https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-making-room-for-deferred-hope [https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-making-room-for-deferred-hope] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit befriendingyoursoul.substack.com [https://befriendingyoursoul.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Attunement 4 | Making Room for Unforced Gratitude

Let’s practice staying close to our body, as it is felt from the inside, and see if we can be a big enough space to welcome unforced gratitude. More background to this attunement can be found in my journal at https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-making-room-for-unforced-gratitude [https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-making-room-for-unforced-gratitude] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit befriendingyoursoul.substack.com [https://befriendingyoursoul.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]