Befriending Your Soul with Kim Isaak Podcast

We all have feelings, sensations, and experiences which we consciously or unconsciously send out of our awareness. Bringing these into the light where we be a pathway to restoration and wholeness.

I wonder if you might become curious with me about those things – thoughts, emotions, physical sensations – that we habitually and often unconsciously send away from our awareness? In order to bring our attention to something in us being sent away we likely first need to acknowledge and honor the something in us that is sending something away.

What we are habitually and unconsciously sending away is one way our body is trying to protect us from danger, either real or assumed. Our body is wired for self-protection. Forcing ourselves to be with something which another something resists or objects to, will only reinforce the pattern of process-skipping or bypassing.

We honor our body’s messages of “No, don’t go there.”

This is why it is so important to listen first to the place in us which is sending something away. It may take a long time before our body is ready to keep company with something we typically send away.

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-welcoming-what-we-send-away

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The habit of pausing and saying “hello” to reality as felt in your body can allow you to experience being seen, known, and loved just as you are.

For more backstory on why I created this attunement, you might read my journal found here https://www.keepingcompany.org/journal/blog-saying-hello-this-summer

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This is a very special beginning for me. I created this attunement just days before I traveled to be at my father’s bedside. My dad was able to hear my voice as we listened to this recording together. It was my papa who introduced me to recording my voice on a mini tape recorder almost 50 years ago. I’ve been shocked by the sound of my voice since then. And I’ve come to so far. I dedicate this beginning to my dad.

Always, we begin again.

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