Tend the Flame

Last week we talked about experience over convenience.

This week, even simpler — a 3 minute invitation — shorter than an IG scroll session.

What can you create?

With curiosity,

Kate

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Hello Creative Friend,

Do you have 8 minutes to chat?

We’re talking about one thing you have this week: a choice.

🔥Snippet of this week’s focus:

Is there an embodiment of warmth that you're paying attention to when you're cooking?

Are youthinking about the flame, whether you're on gas or induction?

Are you thinking about the element of fire, of light?

If you are standing on a cliff and you've been thinking about all the unseen forces

that are working against us,

whatever that means,

Are you thinking — since you're living in a world where there's two sides to every piece of toast — you've heard that you're living in a polarity environment,

polarity aperture,

there's infinite possibilities.

If you can see or feel or acknowledge an unseen force

algorithm that seems to be pulling everything apart in a polarity universe that

means there is a reciprocal force of equal magnitude that could join us together.

🔥 See you back here next week!

Before I go, can I ask you to share this episode with 2 friends?

Let’s light up the world,

Kate

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Have you been in it this week? — This episode is for you.

Mission: More people living in harmony with their purpose + more people living in harmony with each other.

In this episode we talk about:

* Specificity & Sustainability

* The Change in Cultural Conversations

* The Change of the past 5 years

* Jesus & the Bible and the reclamation of personal, accessible truth —  direct relationship

* Laws of Polarity

* Price of Attention:

🗝️ The Third Option

Keep growing,

Kate

📝 Ps.

* Don’t forget to write it down. Learn why here.

* Check out The Everyday Meditation Method

If you can, now is the time to consider become a free or paid subscriber. Keep the fires burning bright 🔥

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We often use words to employ our doubts, but what if we used them to empower our belief?

In this pod-chat we talk about the use of intention and focus, and the employment of prayer to better serve the very human reality of being here now in a way that feels real & good.

Unless you power down the operating system that you're actively using,

and let there be an eclipse moment for reset - so you may have a new operating system.

When people say make an intention around the eclipse, what is an intention?

It's an arrow of focus within a life of infinite possibilities.

May you make the time to hear what you already know,

Kate

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* Do you have a calling, yet feel overwhelmed and not sure where to pinpoint your focus?

* Do you want to stop wasting your time and feeling exhausted from confusion and frustration?

🔥 You’d do the work if you KNEW what to do.

You found the solution ➡️ Ignite your Intention

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We are back with some new questions for you on Tend the Flame.

This episode is a bridge from claiming and learning the path to cultivating the space and trust to be present in the unknown, whether literally by letting your house go dark, or figuratively by being patient and peaceful with what you cannot yet see.

Do you turn on all the lights when you wake up?

Are you comfortable in the dark?

Do you remember what it was when you were a kid to walk out and see the night sky and the stars twinkling back?

✅This week: as the light grows (gratefully in the Northern Hemisphere) make some space for the dark.

🌌 Leave your comments and memories - -let us know!

📚Book referenced: https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781948626729

💡🔗 Alternative light

The world threatens to numb

My soul’s powers.

Therefore, step forth memory,

Shining from depths of spirit,

Strengthen my vision

That only by strength of will

Is able to sustain itself.

- Rudolf Steiner

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Hello Creative One —

This morning’s session is lit.

Grab your ☕️ and enjoy your Sunday Stack.

If you are too busy — then you need this episode even more.

See you inside,

Kate

🔥Podchat Transcript Excerpt

“Here's the pivot:

We're supposed to enjoy our lives.

We're supposed to have a fire that's burning,

that sometimes is a bonfire and sometimes is an ember,

not constantly birthing and doing at a high voltage,

but also not constantly hidden in the ash of the hearth.

That's what Tend the Flame is about:

Gathering, kindling, creating that reciprocal flame

🔥 You know, fire brings comfort and calm.

It draws humans still.

And second best doesn't do it.

LED candles don't do it.

I love salt lamps.

They don't do the same thing.

Nothing captivates like the fire because it's alive.

You are alive.

The thousand things are not alive.

You bring the thousand things alive.

When you understand that an hour of focus can give you back weeks of confusion and you are ready to harness the forward motion, click here

XO

Kate

It's sexy to drink water without microplastics.What? ➡️A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study found that a liter of bottled water contained about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic.

🔗 to article here. ⬇️ Get hydrated easily without the plastics & the chemicals. https://lnkd.in/epwQWPbH

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Hello Creative One —

Here is your Sunday Stack. If you have been following along we are moving into the action of “no” with the stabilizing force of being honest with where we are and where we are going.

Each episode stands alone, yet if you are in a spiral, head on over to this episode below and go on the journey of tending your flame.

Why would I think you are spiraling? March is giving hints of wild ride, epic rebirths and New. To have new, we have Old. To have Old, we have endings.

If we create a space to sit in our center and stay as connected as possible to the present, we have everything we will ever need. Even while there is laundry and lists, taxes and troubles, we are here. Let’s remember that.

*Please note, I did not say want. I didn’t say you’d get what you want….you’d get what you…you know the tune.

Clear it out and create a life you want to wake up to,

Kate

How to eat a Poem

by Eve Merriam

Don’t be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice thatmay run down your chin.It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth.For there is no coreor stemor rindor pithor seedor skinto throw away.

Get Creative

* When we allow ourselves to speak freely, clarity emerges and that includes silence.

* Spend a few minutes each morning journaling out when you need to release or journaling in what this new moon, new month is calling forward for you.

* Have an idea and ready to let in some help to get it going? Say no more. Click here. Grab a consultation with 5 days of voice note support to go from “I think” to “I can.”

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As soon as you say you are off sweets, you have to have a chocolate.

As soon as you say, I’ll exercise everyday — you stop. Until, you don’t until you have enough fire or momentum that you blow past a previous indecision to a new commitment.

Universal law states that for every action there is an equal reaction. So as soon as you decide to up level anything, we expect resistance to knock on the door, and it is our job to send her elsewhere or put her to work.

Let me know what you are taking captive this week & thank you for tuning in to the Sunday Stack.

🔗📚 Here's that book resource I mentioned.

Also, remember to come to the 30 minute live co-work for our subscriber family

📆Focus to Flourish February 26th 12- 12:30 EST

Why?

* Have you ever brought your to-do list to a co-work space where you set your intention and worked on it without wandering away to get a drink, empty the dishwasher, or scroll? Sh*t gets done quickly.

* It’s a thank you for this growing community.

* It’s a way to make our Sunday Stack’s more tangible in our lives.

What?

* We will do a quick check-in to set an intention for the work session.

* We will mute ourselves and create. That can mean write, delete your e-mail sent folder (which is a real thing we all need to be doing), get your to-do list together, sketch out a blog post — whatever you need.

* We will also select a focus for the following month. This has been such a valuable practice for me. I have a focus for the year, and a focus for the month that I break down into weekly goals professionally, personally and spiritually. It has been really helpful.

* This one is for EVERYONE, free & paid subscribers 💚.

That’s it. No pitch. No hitch.

It helps me practice what I write and look for ways to harness the power of community for the good. I think if we focus on flourishing clarity and confidence will follow.

Hope to see you there.

📍I will post the zoom link on 2/26, but I wanted you to mark your calendars.

Remember, the better it gets, the better it gets.

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Sometimes what we initially perceive as late, is actually right on time.

I’ll keep this short & sweet and send you onto the quiet routine of your Sunday night.

Tune in to challenge on this week’s #sundaystack

🔗📚 https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781668072240

The Better it Gets the Better it Gets— do you believe that?

Kate

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In our first Sunday Stack, we talked about the simple actions that can stop the big change.

Our second Sunday, we talked about collecting the data (what are we really doing and what is working?)

This week: Be. Do and then Have.

🔥Thank you for all your comments. You are helping create the conversations, which means more of us are lighting the flames of clarity and moving into being, rather than chasing shadows, and doing from past-patterning.

Keep it up because the better it gets, the better it gets.

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