KRISTINA'S WEEKLY EMAIL OF THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS & VIDEOS TO KEEP YOU CONNECTED TO YOURSELF ON THIS JOURNEY CALLED LIFE |
Greetings!
Happy Holidays! I think this is the first time I'm doing a PGG on Christmas Eve, so Merry Merry to all who Santa may be visiting tonite or tomorrow....
The holiday season can be hard enough, and the dismantling of and/or necessary changes (last minute or otherwise) to our long held traditions can be a difficult one for folks to move through, but there is also much possibility for creativity and expansion if you go with the flow.
No matter what your situation is at the moment, I hope you find the silver linings everywhere and do whatever the little girl or little boy within you needs to feel comfortable and cared for right now. And remember that home is whenever you are most connected with yourself. <3
Today's PGG is a little more personal, as 2021 has been one of the most challenging, (and therefore) productive, healing ones I've had in a while (and I've had some doozy's!) I imagine many of you out there have experienced the same. So many different forces - both benevolent and destructive - are at play pushing humanity to confront some of our deepest shadows in order to transform into something higher and better - evolution is no joke, people!
I recently talked about how loss plays a part in that process and can come in many different forms, many of them positive, but not always easy - like letting go of bad habits, limiting beliefs and outdated personas. This week's PGG essay reflects those themes.
So this in this seemingly not very Christmassy newsletter, I wanted to honor one of the biggest gifts I received this year from my friend Noga, who through her work as an IFS therapist helped me heal a core wound that was life-changing. It was the end of one particular long journey I had been working on forever and the Universe led me back to the same person where I began, and who has helped me in so many ways over the past two decades, like the time in 2013 I mention in the essay. So this missive is filled with gratitude for her and, and a reminder, a gift to myself, of how far I've come since then, and also the past 12 months. Take some time this week to do the same for yourself :)
OH - and I almost forgot! Another gift to myself is that I finally got my PGG book up in a digital format (uhhh it only took me nearly 7 years!) so you should be able to read the PDF of Personal Growth Gab - The BOOK on a variety of digital devices and you can purchase on Amazon here. (Read the IG post about it here).
Since you might have more downtime now, today's PGG Video of the Week is a long form interview with Rick Young about my approach to life, personal growth, communication and more. This week's Instagram post is my silly Holiday Greetings to you and an ode to how sunshine and dancing have been an integral part of my healing. And in today's PGG Vibe of the Week from an artist whose music I used to dance myself through a lot the past two years, Van Morrison's Into the Mystic.
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Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Kristina
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Drop It Like It's Hot
Originally published August 13, 2013
If you’re anything like me, many of my clients, and millions of humans, you are often your own worst enemy and harshest critic. Perhaps you set imaginary limits and keep yourself from experiencing all that life has to offer, holding back for “rational” reasons or because of subconscious thoughts based on irrational fears and silly untruths.
Since I can’t clone myself (yet!?), I, too, sometimes need an outside brain to get a little perspective and see things I can’t quite perceive within myself. And because the majority of my work as a coach is listening, sometimes I, like all humans, just need to talk and be heard.
Therefore, I am ever-grateful for my closest friends and unofficial therapists who support me in various ways and set me straight (whether they know it or not) with additional insights and tools I need to become unblocked, make adjustments and move forward.
Because I spend an extraordinary amount of quality time with myself and practice what I preach/write, one thing I most definitely am is self-aware. So when I get to a point when I gain even more awareness of things I probably should have been aware of in the first place, I can get into a cycle of beating myself up for not being aware enough! As my holistic healer friend Noga Kreiman says, “Ah, the problems of being a conscious person!”
Along with a new awareness I recently gained came feelings of ickiness, shame, stupidity, and all-around disgust for allowing things not to have clicked for me in a certain way up until this point. This did not feel good, but in a twisted way felt right, because I was punishing myself, which seemed appropriate for the transgression against yours truly. Oh, how the ego loves that!
I normally have a few tools in my toolbox to process such a spell, but thanks to Noga, I was introduced to a new one: Pretend the feeling is like holding a pen in your hand, and just drop it. DONE. GONE. ARRIVEDERCI. Since I have developed quite the strong muscle for being in the present and monitoring my thoughts, I simply needed to transfer this skill to eliminating useless, unproductive, and destructive emotions! And guess what? It works.
So for this week’s PGG, I really just wanted to share that. And for all of you out there who could use a little more awareness yourself, need someone to talk to (with x-ray vision and supersonic hearing) who can offer you some insights and tools or simply need a little help developing your own presence muscle, give me a buzz. I will be there to meet you wherever you are at in da funky club of life!
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