The Karen Kenney Show

I bet most of us can agree that we don't like feeling like “we're the problem” or that we might be letting someone down.

When we make plans to meet up, or attend something together with someone else, or as in my story today, plan an event and then... life unexpectedly happens, the situation changes, and we have to cancel on them.

UGH! It can be such an uncomfortable feeling when those thoughts of, “Oh, I'm going to let this person d...

I often say, “Humans love to put other people up on a pedestal of praise and then move them over to the cross of crucifixion when they see their humanity.”

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking about how people like to build others up onto a pedestal of praise and then when they eventually discover that other person’s humanness, weaknesses or even failures - those same people love to yank that pedestal out from under them.

I...

It can be wicked easy to get attached to the idea that relationships are supposed to last forever – and that people and how we relate to one another are supposed to stay the same.

This notion gets reinforced in our minds, because our brains really like familiarity and don’t particularly love change.

When it comes to human beings and relationships - things remaining the same - is not a reasonable expectation because like trees, we’r...

From the childhood trauma of living through a cult-like experience, to now being married with 2 kids and running her own successful Podcast Management Company...

This week’s guest is an inspiration for just how possible it is to get out, start out and eventually stand out in life and business!

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking to my guest Alesia Galati owner and founder of Galati Media.

Alesia’s younger years were shaped ...

In the world today, you just can’t be on the internet and more specifically, on social media, and not see the way that people try to come for one another.

There’s so many people with going around spewing their mean, hateful and ignorant comments all over everyone and everything.

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking about the cheap shots that are being thrown around online from behind a keyboard or the safety of a screen.

Br...

When we’re trying to create good, new, positive, or helpful things in the world - we sometimes find it hard to remain consistent and keep the momentum going.

We might find ourselves in a pattern of starting and stopping again and again and again - which can lead to frustration and feelings of failure.

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re flipping this pattern on its head!

Instead of attacking ourselves – we're going to get curious,...

Love isn't just reserved for romantic, sexual, or intimate relationships. Love is all around us and one of the most powerful things you can do is learn to love yourself.

I'm not talking in some big grandiose, egocentric way, where you decide you are “special”.

I’m talking about truly learning how to be in relationship with yourself - with both your ego personality / the small s / self and your Higher / capital S / Self.

Today on The K...

If we think, say, feel, believe or do something enough times - it creates a habitual well-worn groove within our subconscious mind.

And if we get into a groove - that is no longer groovy, we can create a well-worn path that can easily become a rut that we feel stuck in.

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking about getting stuck in these ways of thinking and being - where we want to change - but find it difficult or overwhelmi...

“There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents” is a famous line by beloved artist, painter, teacher and TV personality, Bob Ross.

But when I was watching him the other day, he stopped me in my tracks with this other golden gem of wisdom - “Learn to work with what happens.”

WOAH!!!

These 6 powerful words are not only applicable for the painters, artists and creatives he was teaching to, but for human beings overall!

And when I hea...

It’s normal and natural as kids to look for those external social cues that tell us which behaviors are good or bad - what is encouraged and what is discouraged .

In fact, we were constantly being conditioned and molded as children growing up by how our parents, society, teachers, coaches, priests, siblings, and our friends were responding to us.

If we aren’t careful, we might continue this habit of looking outside of ourselves for...

Maybe you suffer from the same affliction that I have - which is I'm a hyper responsible person and have a nervous system that is still unlearning some old ways of being.

And in this episode, what I’m highlighting is how this urgency pattern specifically shows up in my life by how much pressure I feel and put on myself to quickly respond to other people and their needs.

This of course, doesn’t mean that I always try to swoop in and f...

When we become adults - if we’re not careful - we no longer create enough time for fun, play and joy in the things we choose to do.

This way of living can become a slippery slide down slope - where everything in our life feels like an ‘I have to’ - instead of - an ‘I get to’.

Why would we want to wake up each day only to have to jump into things that don’t feel good to us, aren’t aligned with our well-being, and feel more draining ...

Apologizing is an art form and a skill set that we have to take time to learn, practice and build.

It’s not something that most of us do well or even automatically. In fact, plenty of people suck when it comes to making apologies and trying to heal a situation where they may have caused hurt.

Sometimes, people take it a step further and unfortunately, aren’t even willing to apologize.

In some family dynamics, they thrive on holding ...

As we start to do some spiritual work - we can become more aware, awake and sensitive to our previous words and behaviors - when we weren’t at our best.

If we don't have any tools or resources in place when our past mistakes come up for our attention, they can become all-consuming.

They’ll often play on repeat in our mind — leaving us overwhelmed with guilt or regret and eventually sucked under from the undertow of our own self loat...

Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re continuing our conversation from my previous episode on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), by talking with one of my brilliant mentors and teachers!

If you listened to my show last week, you heard me say how hypnotherapy has been one of the most significant and effective healing steps that I took to help manage and drastically reduce chronic IBS symptoms.

I also shared how it was all made possible w...

Did you know that between 15% to 20% of people in the world suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome – also known as IBS?

It’s incredible to think about how those three little letters (IBS) - can wreak so much havoc, distress, despair, depression and anxiety in people’s daily lives. 

Medical data reports that “1 in 5 people” have Irritable Bowel Syndrome - and that’s just the stats for the people who have actually gone to the doctor...

When it comes to trying new things - the best way for me to learn what I think about it, what I feel about it, and whether I like or don’t like a particular person, place, program or product, etc. - is to do what I call: FAFO!

That’s right, I’ve got to: “F*ck Around + Find Out”. Which is a fun way to say that I have to experience things for myself.

This applies to ALL kinds of things, like… learning new skill sets, gathering “tools” ...

A quote I love from writer Jonathan Franzen is at the heartbeat of today’s episode. He says:

“When you stay in your room in rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders as I did for many years. The world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there's a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them and who knows what might happe...

Like the Fall leaves that blow all over our yards, we can often get blown around by our thoughts.

Have you ever been looking for the answer to something, and you say to yourself, “I'm just going to look this up real quick on the Google”... and before you know it, you've gone down some sort of rabbit hole that now has you scrolling on some social media site — and you're left wondering, “How did I get here?”

You started to kind of fol...