50 years on this planet! I can hardly believe I turn 50 next week, but here I am about to do it. Join me as I list 50 things I have learned in my lifetime. I am extremely grateful that 2020 gave me the time I needed to reflect on these lessons. I have taken my life on this planet for granted for far too long and now I realize just how quickly it goes by. I want to savor it all, the good, the bad, the joy and sorrow and keep on learning and loving until my last breath.

Thanksgiving isn't the same for any of us this year. I think everyone is experiencing loss on a grand scale and noticing it in the small details of our lives. Most of the ways I used to cope with stress I no longer have in my life and it's been a struggle lately. Now more than ever I am trying to be grateful for the people and animals I love and the comfort of home and the things I have filled it with. I hope each of you can find a happy place inside yourself and radiate that love out into our world. Let's take the lessons this year has gifted us into 2021 and be better humans to our planet and each other.

Life is strange right now and I know people are under a lot of stress from the year that is 2020. I am so very grateful for everyone who listens to my podcast and wanted to offer up something to help you let go of all that stuff that clouds your mind and help you lift your heart. This is my first go at recording a meditation and I plan on doing many more. Each night before bed when I take my dogs out one last time I find myself gazing up at the night sky. The twinkling stars and moon feel like home and I exhale the day that was. I hope you can find some stillness and add a meditation to your daily routine. Thanks for listening friends.

How many of you have ever felt like your body was broken? How many of you keep your discomfort to yourself? I wanted to share with you some of my struggles because suffering in silence SUCKS! I have not always treated my body like a temple, especially in my twenties. Today that has all changed! When I look at the things my body has gone through I start to appreciate it more for allowing me to keep on living my life. I have started telling it thank you and I love you way more now than I ever have before.

When you lose your job because of a pandemic I think people are afraid to ask, what are you going to do with your life now? Are you looking for another job? I think if they did ask me they might be surprised by my response. I want to be held accountable for my dreams and desires and I want to share them with you! Maybe if we were all doing what we truly felt called to do we would be happier, healthier and our world would reflect that. I don't have anymore time to waste and neither do you. Let's support each other to think the unthinkable into existence.

How many of us know how to be present in the moment? I struggle with this all the time. The past can pull us back into nostalgia, longing for that better time, or it can drag us back into some traumatic event making us feel awful all over again. What about the future, how often do you find yourself lingering there? The future can make us worry about events yet to come or maybe they won't come but we worry none the less. Being present takes practice but its worth our time because it truly is the only moment we have. 

So much of our time is spent in our heads thinking the same thoughts over and over again. It's where we develop our fears, our guilt and all our regrets. Eventually these negative thoughts become the master of our life and dictate our emotions about the world and the people we interact with. In this second episode I will share a story with you about what those voices in my head have done to me and how I work every moment of everyday to change that inner dialog. We really can be our own best friend or we can become our worst enemy. 

2020 has been a difficult year for all of us. Many of us wanted a break from our lives but never anticipated it would come to us in the form of a pandemic. In my first episode I share with you the things I lost in 2020, and there have been many, but what is more proFOUND is what I have gained. I hope you can find value and hope in my stories and maybe even apply some part of it into your own life to make it better. The journey is what we have and the present moment keeps us connected to the core of who we are. Come, sit and quiet your mind my friend, and remember Auntie Krista loves you!