Break Free and Trust with Jacqueline and Chris: A Redesign for Living

Break Free and Trust with Jacqueline and Chris: A Redesign for Living

By Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch & Chris KalbfleischSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthEducationSelf-ImprovementRelationships
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Break Free and Trust with Jacqueline and Chris: A Redesign for Living episodes

  • Can You Sit With It?
    On this episode, Jacqueline and I are going to explore the action of “Just sitting with, or being with, your feelings”. This idea of just being with your feelings or fully feeling your feelings is something many of us have heard from therapists, coaches or spiritual mentors. “Just sitting with” is a concept that is also preached by all the sages over the ages.
    What does “just sitting with your feelings even mean”? How is this not just avoidance? Why is this paradoxically considered an act of courage in spiritual teachings? What is the benefit and what are the costs of sitting with our feelings? All of this and much more in the next hour.
     
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  • The Cost of Unforgiveness
    Chris and Jacqueline explore the spiritual implications of forgiveness in this episode.Buddhist Proverb: A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her cross to the other side.The two monks glanced at one another because they had taken vows not to touch a woman.Then, without a word, the older monk picked up the woman, carried her across the river, placed her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey.The younger monk couldn’t believe what had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was speechless, and an hour passed without a word between them. Two more hours passed, then three, finally the younger monk could contain himself any longer, and blurted out “As monks, we are not permitted a woman, how could you then carry that woman on your shoulders?”The older monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you still carrying her?”
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  • Conventional Wisdom and Transpersonal Evil
    I was recently listening to a lecture series by Richard Rohr, who both Jacqueline and I regard as an impactful spiritual teacher, and I was struck by one of his statements: “Jesus wasn’t killed by evil people.  Jesus was killed by conventional wisdom” This statement stuck a cord with both of us, for a variety of reasons, and we thought we would explore it more deeply on the show today. What is the literal and metaphorical meaning of Rohr’s statement? How has this been repeated throughout history. And, most importantly, how might this be playing out today and what is our individual and collective roles in it? All this and more in the next hour!
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  • Dying to be Alive
    “There is a peculiar suffering that comes with awareness. A kind of exile that happens not when you leave the world, but when you truly see it. You sit down to watch a movie everyone loves and within minutes you are analysing the manipulation tactics, the propaganda, the tired formulas. You’re at a party and instead of enjoying the moment you are observing the social performance, the masks, the desperate need for validation in ever conversation. You used to enjoy these things. But something changed. You woke up and you can’t go back to sleep. “  - Alan Watts
    Today we are exploring one of the most painful consequences of an expanded consciousness. The simple loss of pleasure. Jacqueline and I share our own experiences and understanding on the topic of coming into higher consciousness, also known as, dying to be alive.
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  • Optimism for a New World
    Over the past several months we have had numerous conversations with clients, friends and family that have had a common theme; an expression of the horrid state of the world we live in, and in many cases, a loss of hope for a better future.
    Everywhere they look, and in everything they read, they see anger, hate, fear, division, and apathy. I understand their outlook, but we don’t share it. In fact, we think we are on the verge of entering the New World.
    How does this relate to a shift in consciousness and spiritual teachings? What do we mean by the Old World and the New World?  What has changed and why do we think this shift is accelerating? And where do we individually hold power in this dynamic? All of this and more in the next hour!
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  • How to Unconsciously Sabotage Your Relationship
    This show is going to be fun and unpredictable! I promise. I have asked Jacqueline to come up with a list of the top five things that a woman can do to unconsciously sabotage a relationship and I am going to come up with a list for men. We will unveil them for the first time on the show.
    We are drawing from both our own years of lived experience of being deeply flawed romantic partners as well as the extensive work we do with our clients in our private practice. What subtle and unhealthy patterns of behaviour can we fall into? If we identify these behaviours, can we take responsibility for them and thus acquire the agency for change? What does it mean to be a creator and in service to our relationship?  This and so much more over the next hour.
    56 min
  • Why is the Word “God” so Provocative?
    It seems that somewhere in the recent past, using the word “God” has become provocative, and perhaps even triggering in modern discourse.  Jacqueline and I have amusingly noticed our own verbal gymnastics at times, as we have done our own clunky linguistic dance by substituting Universe, The Divine, The Beloved, Source, Spirit, Creator, etc. in a conditioned avoidance to saying the word “God” to our students, clients and listeners.
     What’s up with that and why does language seem to matter so much in this case? Are all these different terms not just ineffable concepts too?  Can Jacqueline and I be fearless in our language? What does the experience of God mean to us? All of this and more in the next hour so buckle up.
     
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  • The Predictable Move Inwards
    In today’s show, Jacqueline and I explore the almost predictable inward shift that occurs on the journey from the material to the spiritual. Based on our own journeys as well as our experience with hundreds of clients we examine What does it mean to move inwards? What are the range of catalysts for this shift or spiritual experience?  How being in service to others is both completely consistent with this shift as well as completely at odds with it and why context matters. This and so much more over the next hour.
    57 min
  • A Six-Year Miracle
    In this episode, Jacqueline and Chris celebrate Chris's six year milestone of continuous clean time in recovery by diving deep into the topic of recovery an how it is relevant to transformation in general. How has the recovery process impacted Chris and Jacqueline's life in a short amount of time? How are the lessons and tools from recovery relevant to your transformation? How does the alchemy of this process turn pain into unconditional love? This and so much more in this heart felt episode.
    55 min
  • The 1+1=3 Dynamic
    In this episode Jacqueline and I, motivated by our own personal trips abroad, explore the benefits of taking personal time in the context of a healthy relationship. There is you, and there is me and there is the relationship. This is the 1+1=3 dynamic. Each part needs respect, boundaries, love and energy.  How to we ensure our own energy tanks are full so we can show up for the relationship? Are there ways to support our partners in keeping their energy tanks full? What does it mean to bring that personal energy to the relationship and how do we do it. This and so much more over the next hour.


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