SoulDipped Podcast with Kristy Maffit

Kristy shares more about her connection with angels and how their guiding presence has helped her during her journey. 

She responds to the nudge to share more and more of her experiences with the messengers of the Divine. 

This is a goofy insightful conversation with Kristy's daughter, Marlie. It's long and may be best broken into two pieces. 

Mars shares her definition about SoulDipped and what she thinks about her mother having a podcast. 

They discuss feeling and expressing emotions. Mars defines religion (beliefs) and soul (a seed) in her words and they discuss her transition from Japanese Immersion school to Catholic school despite having no prior religious background. 

Kristy shares how connected and intuitive Marlie can be, how she doesn't question when things start to flow in her words or knowing. 

Mars shares how she expresses through drawings or snippets from shows her emotions and feelings in contrast to Kristy with writing poetry or prose. 

The idea that creativity and curiosity can sprout from soul as one follows question to question, expression to expression. 

They talk about shoving feelings down, disconnection and numbness and how they navigate the pandemic. 

Kristy shares the significance of starting her blog, A Renaissance Glow. How a series of small changes resulted in a tipping point and that difference isn't indicative of change as change is the unfolding from the snow-flake patterned expression of soul through self.

She notes that not only did she need to connect with soul, but with writing...part of her soul's expression.

This episode is a weaving of previous episodes together for integration.

She shares a few stories and how they all nudged her along her path. How and why she started running when she didn't believe herself a runner, much like how she started to write even though she didn't see herself a writer.

She shares a few blog posts and intro to Forty Mornings, where she wove her way from idea to write, to sitting down to write, to now.. her expressions transforming as she grows.

It all started with an angel pendant and a sliding door moment where her life opened to the opportunity to veer in a different direction- one that sprouted from within. 

Kristy shares that when we create, we get to choose. What is important and how do you want to create and share that?

She shares that she doesn't believe in karma, and instead leans toward grace. She shares that while we have lessons and patterns we learn to stop, but that if a human was left to never thinking, acting upon a negative thought...let alone lifetimes that it's not possible. Grace, for Kristy, is the belief that we all have this aspect of one self-impossible to balance all "negative" energy/deeds. We don't hold another to a level of accountability that one can't for hold one self in absolution.

She shares that every human has the love and compassionate self and the greedy, self-serving self. As said by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

She believes that we're able to connect deeply and want for another what we want for ourself. It's important to not "other" someone. We all deserve the same space and grace to be who we are meant to be.

Given the tumultuous times, she asks what makes us think or believe we can do different. That history, is a story written by "the victors".. that the times right now are course correction. There are stories left out, or told out of context and we need to reinsert them and allow accountability and healing ensue.

She shares about What is the Bible by Rob Bell and how he provides context for the meaning for the stories in the Bible and what "turn your left cheek" really meant.

She confronts hierarchies that persist even today despite the fact that underneath it all we're all connected to the same force of divine love and all are inherently equal. Full stop.

She shares about growing up in Montana, the outrageous idea one can own land (stolen from others) and people and which side of the heart that belief would belong to: good vs evil.

Kristy brings up the idea that if you want to help someone, ask them how to help. Do not assume you know what's best for another.

She ends with the events and nudges that resulted with her writing her first book, Forty Mornings. Soul isn't unique to each of us, but how it expresses through each of us is.

Kristy explores the concept and feeling of love, the difference between thoughts, emotions & feelings, and leaning into intuition & GLOWmind. She broaches the idea that when we devote to that which is deepest in our hearts and tap into inner voice/GPS, we're putting love in motion.

She shares about her YA fictional novel, Glow and Angel Academy- the place angels in Glow go to train for incarnation on Earth. She shares how she follows nudges and intuition with writing, allowing the part of her mind connected to symbols guide her through next steps.

She highlights her experiences with flow, allowing the deeper connected aspect of her that guides and knows, as well as questions what aspect of ourself can function this way if it's not intentional conscious thought.

She mentions the book Why God doesn't go away. Brain science and the biology of belief. The name of the part of the brain that she discusses that tells you where you are in physical space is the Orientation Association Area (OAA). 

Kristy believes that we have an ability to lean into these inner aspects, to come home to soul and put love in motion in devoting to self-discovery. It's less about a journey and radical shifts but brief daily moments to connect in and ask yourself your what you want in your life then allow the answer to flow as you follow the nudges and what feels right next.

In this episode Kristy introduces the term nudge. The use of that term, as it relates to soul, was introduced to her by her mentor, Lou Cruz. She shares stories where she followed the nudge to find her way along her path with writing her novel Glow.

Kristy shares practical steps to recognize when you feel the nudge and the subconscious beliefs that can surface as we step toward our dreams and desires. Through sharing her own personal stories, Kristy sets the stage for how she navigated the nudges and subconscious or limiting beliefs that tried to keep her in the same place versus grow into her unique expression today as a mystic and writer. 

If you're curious about soul, intuition or nudges and magic, this episode is for you. 

In this episode Kristy ditches notes and the prescribed path to take you on a ride with flow as she allows the episode to unfold. 

What is flow? Kristy believes that we are always in connection and able to attune to what our soul is sharing and guiding us to. We simply must set aside preconceived notions of what things should look like and allow them to reveal themselves.

We're constantly bathed in divine information but often we don't pay attention as we're too busy or don't trust. Finding flow can be as simple as allowing yourself to navigate in the way that feels best. 

Listen in to hear Kristy share about flow as she follows the flow with the episode. 

Kristy shares her love of coffee, fave black beanie story and how the surface of us is just as true as our depths. 

She feels we are each here to create or share something that is wanting our attention. We simply must slow down and pay attention to the nudges. 

Purpose doesn't have to be lofty. Its simply being who you were made to be and opening to allow all that wants to come to and through you. 

Our dreams and longings can be guideposts for the meaning and fulfillment we've been missing in our life. 

Connecting back in with eyes of wonder can help unlock dormant dreams and desires, the golden brick path to ones purpose. 

Through story Kristy weaves her own soul's nudge with the angel sign that set her on her path ten years ago and connects with the same jeweler's pendant she purchase this past summer that says, "Tell me a story..." Part of Kristy's purpose is to connect souls with scrolls (purpose) through storytelling. While the desire to write a novel surprised Kristy, when she tracked back to her childhood love of reading and story, along with writing her own Oz book, she realized she's been given all the breadcrumbs for her to find her way. 

Trained as a Doctor of Pharmacy that led her down the prescribed path, becoming a writer and opening up her mystical abilities has been the fruits of unlocking the patch within. We each have ours. 

And yours is calling you, nudging you, too. 

Come share a few moments, let yourself breathe deep, be present and connect with soul. 

I'm Kristy Maffit. I'm a writer, mother, mystic living in the Pacific Northwest. While I was formally trained as a Doctor of Pharmacy, I'm passionate about the soul and understanding its language. I wrote my first book, Forty Mornings, as a self-discovery devotional walking folks home to their soul. I'm currently polishing up Glow- a mystical young adult novel about incarnated angels. I first leaned into my intuition when I was nudged to write Glow.  This began a journey of rediscovering myself from the inside out as I entered the space of the spiritual. For the past decade I've been integrating the two seemingly disparate selves- the logical, mundane, and scientific with the intuitive, magical, and spiritual - into the glowing whole of a human being.  Above is my bio from my book, Forty Mornings. I have a saying, I am my atoms and am the space between. Just like this bio gives a description of me, it doesn't really fill in the spaces. You have an idea of who I am, but you don't know who I am. Let alone get a feeling for who I am. This is how I feel about soul. It's a presence a quality of life that isn't tangible. It's felt. We know when it's present and when it's not. I walk you through the beginning of my journey to dipping into my own soulful life. In this episode I cover where it all began and lead you up to now, this moment where I share soulful stories, inspiration and encouragement to help you come home to your soul. May you find yourself present in your presence as you listen in. 

You can connect with me on instagram- https://instagram.com/kristy_maffit/

You can order my book Forty Mornings: A Forty Day Self-Discovery Devotional - https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Mornings-Self-Discovery-Devotional-soul/dp/0578483335/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=forty+mornings+kristy+maffit&qid=1604902948&sr=8-1