On The Path with Kissiah Young

It isn't always easy to receive feedback, yet it is the key ingredient needed to change. What do we do when we receive feedback, and if we truly feel sorry, are we willing to change? If so, are we taking that willingness and actually practicing change? 

Join me in this episode as I share a moment in my own practice of self reflection, and how I navigated feedback given to me by my partner. It is all a practice, and I'm grateful!

May your time with me serve you in some way. I appreciate that you choose to be here with me.

Deep bow,

~Kissiah

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When the rubber meets the road, who do you become? Are you someone who practices openly and fully expressing what is true for you, or are you someone who tends to shut down?

I've been thinking about communication and how shutting down is a kind of shortchange; we lose out on the full experience of our lives and inadvertently abandon ourselves. Is this what we ultimately desire, and how does this serve our highest way of being? It doesn't, yet opening ourselves is a practice. Let's begin.

Thank you for your presence. Always.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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Feedback is essential to our growth and expansion. It's a key ingredient in change, yet it's one of the hardest things for people to practice being with. We are often concerned with not wanting to upset someone or fear their response, so rather than communicate our experience of another, we keep quiet and carry on. What we don't realize is the damage that does both to ourselves and the other. Not only do we stifle what arises within, preventing us from being seen and getting our needs met, we keep the other from learning more about themselves and how they may behave. Then there is the flip side, the people who do not welcome feedback for whatever reason. Perhaps they're not interested in knowing your truth as it pertains to them. Instead, they react by shutting down, deflecting, blaming, behaving volatile, or in some way that sends the message of not welcoming an open conversation that may be difficult to hear. 

We all have a responsibility when it comes to feedback. When we are relating to another, our experience is important, and there are times when things need to be said in order for change to happen. How do you respond to this responsibility? What's your practice when it comes to giving and receiving feedback? Let's talk about it. 

As always, I appreciate your presence.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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As actor, Uzo Aduba releases her memoir, The Road Is Good, I am brought to reflect upon the grief that rests within me, a grief rooted in what does not exist between my mother and me: a connection.

What do we daughters do with this kind of grief? Where do we place the tender spots that went missing as a child, and continues now? How do we arrive within ourselves when the beauty of who we were as young daughters was not reflected back to us by our mothers? Even now? 

Join me in my personal exploration of this.

As always, I appreciate your presence. Thank you for being here with me. 

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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Communication, and the many ways of its importance, has been in the air for me these days. I see how easily we miss opportunities when we choose not to communicate. We lose, and others lose because of us. How is there to be true repair when we do not communicate? How is there authentic connection and relationship, including friendships, if we are quieting our truth and proceeding from some place inside our heads where stories are made?

There is no repair.
There is no authentic connection and relationship.

What then are we doing, if not missing opportunities to learn, grow, heal, and connect? Have you ever thought about yourself in relation to repair? Join me tonight where I share my thoughts.

Thank you always, for your presence.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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I am often in thought or conversation about time and how it's the one thing we do not get back. It's something I contemplate regularly in my practice to stay alert. I appreciate time, and yet so often it isn't given the presence of its due. We easily take it for granted until the hour glass begins to fill and what is being poured thins to fade. What makes us feel like there isn't enough time, and why isn't there? How are we spending our time to the point where we run on fumes, exhausted by its seeming scarcity. That's the illusion. Time isn't scare, yet the amount of time we are gifted in a single human lifetime, is finite. 

Today, we gather to reflect on time, what it means for us, how we're spending it, our mindset around time, and ultimately, our relationship to time. Thank you for your presence and support. 

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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Communication is important and yet so lacking. The consequences can be weighty, particularly when we aren't being seen clearly by those in positions of power and privilege. I've been dealing with this at work and it's rather unfortunate. 

Join me tonight as I share a personal experience navigating, and being with, the impact and effects of not being seen clearly.

Thank you for your presence.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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We're not always gonna be on the path. That's impossible. The nature of being human has a connection to imperfection. So we seek instead to be as aligned as we are able by way of being alert, awake to ourselves and our lives. When we find ourselves off the path, or teetering about, the inquiry and exploration becomes about our practice for returning to truth. What do you do to bring yourself back to  center, back into alignment, and back on the path?

Join me in today's episode where I openly share about my own recent teetering, and what that looked like with my partner.

As always, thank you for being here. I appreciate you.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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Take a moment to pause the happenings and drop into yourself. It's far too easy to get swept up and away by the tasks and to-dos of life, that we give little to know thought to ourselves. It isn't sustainable. It just isn't. We may not yet see the effects or how grand a reality of the many things being compromised, but it's happening. Cause and effect are real. 

It's a new day, or at least we need to treat it as such. It's time to carve a new path, a path that sustains us from the inside out. No one benefits when we forsake ourselves or forgo our own needs working instead toward maintaining the status quo, or keeping that hamster wheel turning. 

Pause. 

In today's episode we look at the necessity and importance of implementing a pause, if only for two minutes, and connect with ourselves. No one is more deserving.

I appreciate your presence.

Deep gratitude, 

Kissiah

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Grief is such a little word of magnanimous power and presence. In the same way that it can bring us to collapse, it can crack our hearts so wide open that we see the beauty and gift of each moment. Grief is beautiful. It's devastating and heartbreaking, yes, and it is beautiful. I invite us to feel the fullness of our grief in the same way that we feel the fullness of what has arrived us at the door of our grief. Let us not abandon our deepest pain nor lose ourselves in the slippery slope of feeling like we cannot again wake to fresh and new life. We can. I believe there to be a path that leads us more in connection and closeness with our grief and less at odds or separation. For me, that path begins with sitting with my grief and turning my ear toward its expression. 

This is an invitation.

Let's connect with our grief, so that we honor ourselves, our journeys, and our hearts. Let's give our grief some love. 

Thank you for your presence with me today.

Deep gratitude,

~Kissiah

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