Braiding Sweetgrass: Exploration and Application

August 15, 2023 Kacey Kingry

Robin Wall Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass is a beautiful intersection between science and nature, and shows us what is possible for us when we move in relationship to nature rather than an executor of it. This book touched Kacey deeply, and in this episode she explores some of the tangibles that might be useful in our healing as a culture, as well as some reasons why we can't let it in.

Episode Highlights:

GIFT ECONOMY: Indigenous practices like Gift Economy, Honorable Harvest, and Thanksgiving Address, and what they have to teach us all
LIMITATIONS: How our application of language and religion prevents us from operating relationally
VOICE: The Yogic concept of Vak Siddhi; why our voice means everything and also how language can't adequately capture anything
KEEP MOVING: What our brains do to prevent us from moving forward in a new way

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The Doom + Bloom podcast explores how to take the inevitable challenges of life and learn to participate with them in a way that supports you to grow, flourish, and BLOOM.

Podcast Host: Kacey Kingry

Disclaimer: Kacey Kingry is not a therapist or doctor. Any major life changes or habit changes should be consulted with your doctor or medical professional. Kacey’s experience in yoga and healing is meant to be as a guide, however, without working with you 1:1 she can’t know your full experience of what’s best for you.

Change Your Emotions, Change Your Story

August 15, 2023 Kacey Kingry

When you alter the way you habitually experience your inner world, you have the power to change the trajectory of your entire life.

Why is Letting Go so Difficult and Important?

March 27, 2023 Kacey Kingry

Why is Letting Go so difficult and so important?

When it comes to transformation and changing your life, you must let go of the old ways of being to create space for you to create and usher-in the new ways of being that you desire.

It’s physics. Two ways of being can’t exist in the same place at the same time.

· You cannot drink daily and also experience the peace and health of a non-drinker.

· It is difficult when you constantly find fault with your partner in your mind, to also experience the nurturing container of unconditional love.

· When you cling to your pain and identify as a victim, it is challenging to create a consistent experience of pleasure and power.

Using Negative Emotion to Fuel a Positive Result

March 9, 2023 Kacey Kingry

One of the strategies I re-route the most often in working with pattern change is people’s tendency to use NEGATIVE emotion to fuel a POSITIVE result.

Examples of this might include:

* Using the shame of being dependent upon alcohol to motivate yourself to stop

* Disliking your body so much that you use that disgust or discontent to motivate weight loss

* Being so fearful of being abandoned that you have to be perfect in your relationships

What if growing, evolving, transforming, and changing didn’t have to be this way?

What if you didn’t have to think the worst possible thoughts about yourself in order to inspire the best results?

Not only can you grow, but it can feel GOOD getting there. At the very least, you don’t have to feel so bad.

When we think awful things about ourselves, it always shows up in the results. So bludgeoning yourself into your desires can’t be fully working for you.

Step into growth that feels powerful and aligned and inspiring!!! Step into my six-month Transformational Coaching Experience where we BREAK THROUGH old ways of being that keep you stuck so you can be FREE to create the life of your dreams.

I Want THIS for YOU in 2023!!! ✨

January 19, 2023 Kacey Kingry

My life today is far from perfect, but it is so much different than it used to be. Better. More expansive. More possibilities. True and authentic to who I am as a person. I’m proud of myself and who I am and how I am living.

Before, years ago when I used to drink alcohol (it feels so good to be able to say it like that!!!), I was in a CYCLE of COLLAPSE. What I mean by that, is that I drank alcohol on most nights, so whatever growth or goodness I managed create by day, seemed to be swept away by the actions of the night. I was essentially running in place. I would wake up feeling terrible physically, mentally, and emotionally. Then I would spend all my energy that day trying to get back to regular, to come home that night only to set myself back by drinking again. Rinse and repeat. For years.

Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes

December 15, 2022 Kacey Kingry

Heading into the New Year brings a lot of excitement and hopes for change, but I can guarantee one thing and that is this — NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES.

So many people expect that simply *hoping* or *longing* or *wishing* for things to be different will somehow be enough for things to change. The deep yearning that we do feels angsty and powerful enough internally that we think it will be enough to move us.

See it to Achieve it

December 7, 2022 Kacey Kingry

The Reticular Activating System inside of the mind is a filtering and processing tool that the brain uses to categorize what is important to us, and then filter what happens to us according to those categories.

The Yogic Kleshas: Minimize Suffering With Mindfulness

December 7, 2022 Kacey Kingry

Everyone’s got that thing. The one area of your life that consistently trips you up. The thing that holds you back, that prevents you from being completely full. That thing that you keep telling yourself that once it’s *fixed* or *solved* or *healed* or *sorted* in some way, THEN my life will be good/complete/perfect.

Reminder: Upgrade Your Filters →

June 10, 2022 Kacey Kingry

The subconscious mind is a powerful force. Most of the foundational thoughts and beliefs and paradigms through which we view the world today are formed in early adolescence, by the age of seven. SEVEN!!! That means that so many of the rules by which you are living your life are based on information you received when you were too young to fully comprehend it. As adults, we are still driven by these lessons we learned and decisions we unconsciously made at the very beginning of our lives. Perhaps it might be helpful to revisit some of these messages now that we are grown?

We’re constantly filtering through our filters, and we use that filtered information to make decisions based on those filters, and then take the results and re-cycle them through our existing filters. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Are You Available for Joy? ✨ →

May 5, 2022 Kacey Kingry

I’ve been contemplating this a lot lately. We all say that we want to be happy, but who really embodies happiness and joy on a regular basis? With all the challenges of modern-day living, I find that we are good at pursuing happiness, but not so good at actually reaching out and CLAIMING it for ourselves.

If you would have asked *Kacey five years ago* what she needed in order to be happy and successful, she would have listed things like: become sober from alcohol, plant a firm foundation financially, heal old wounds that have held me back in the past, create a loving and committed partnership, land in a healthy body that I can sustain easily and consistently, and create a career out of my life’s purpose.

HOLY COW!!! Mission accomplished!!! Wow. It blows my mind that I have every single thing on that list in the life I’m living right now. I am so freaking grateful for the work that I’ve done and for everyone who has supported me along the way.

So, if I really do currently have everything that I need to be happy and experience joy, why isn’t it…easier?

How Coaching Changed My Life: The Power of Opening Yourself Up →

November 27, 2020 Kacey Kingry

I think I’ve always had a great life. I mean, at least a pretty good one. However, if you asked me to use one word and one word only to describe my adult life in its majority, I would inarguably have to use the word STRUGGLE. Prior to my introduction to coaching, my life was filled with all sorts of great things, but the way that I chose to get there, the energy surrounding each move, the climate of it all, felt like a huge burden, struggle, one problem and issue and mess after the next. I read countless self-help books, went to therapy, tried so many different ways to quit drinking, took up yoga, started teaching yoga…the list goes on and on. Nothing truly shifted me out of that struggle scenario until I began to work with an outside perspective in a new way.

Coaching Encourages Transformation

My life has transformed into something truly exceptional in the past four years since I have incorporated coaching into my life. Working with a handful of various coaches with different specialties and skill sets has cracked open my life in the most beautiful and glorious ways. This has given me the power and the curriculum and the inspiration to create a new life for myself, even though I didn’t have a specific blueprint to model it after.

Why the Modern World is Completely Disconnected from the Root Chakra

September 15, 2020 Kacey Kingry

All of nature moves in cycles. There is a time to rest, a time to invest, a time to harvest, and a time to enjoy. Each season uses what is available at the moment in nature, to accomplish a specific set of tasks that can only be completed during a unique period of time, under a certain set of conditions.

We never get angry or disappointed with the peony bush when it does not give us gorgeous flowers during the winter months, filled with icy freeze. We do not blame the sapling, in its years of infancy, for failing to provide us with tasty fruit in the harvest months, still growing and unable to support the weight of growing produce. Rarely do we long for crispy leaves to roll around in, while we are enjoying the shade they provide overhead, instead.

Why are humans any different?

We allow everything in nature to follow its rhythmic cycles, why do we not allow ourselves the same freedom in structure?

Truth in Tough Times: The Power of Facing What Is

April 19, 2020 Kacey Kingry

Somewhere along the line, we learned to believe that life was only worth living if it feels good, and we have to avoid feeling bad at all costs. In yoga, we call this aversion (dvesa) and attraction (raga), and while it is good to know the things in life that we prefer as well as the things that we do not enjoy so much, these aversions and attractions can largely be used by the ego to keep us separate and stuck.

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Personal Application

01 : How do you tend to comfort yourself? Does this practice pull you closer or farther away from reality? Closer or farther away from your Self?

02 : What does silence and stillness feel like to you? What would life be like if you simply turned everything off and sat quietly for five minutes? Just five.

03: Where in your life can you stop fighting/resisting and start accepting?

Source: https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/mf-gn-truth-...

Why Forgiveness Is An Inside Job

February 19, 2020 Kacey Kingry

Almost two years ago, I had a falling out with a dear friend who held a very important role in my life. It was my fault, and we haven’t had any interaction since. While it was very heartbreaking at the time, I can see it now for what it was, with the clarity and peace that only time, hindsight, and new awareness can provide. I can see now that the situation was exactly what I needed in order to gain entrance to the next phase of healing, growth, and purpose for myself in my life.

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Personal Application

01 : Where can this prayer heal your life right now?

02 : How might you be pushing love away? On the inside, and on the outside?

03 : How much bandwidth do you spend judging (harming) yourself? Those around you? What else could you do with this time and energy instead?

Source: https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/forgiveness-...