April 29, 2025 • 42 mins
Parenting from a place of spiritual awareness brings unique challenges and profound opportunities. In this illuminating conversation with author and energy healer Kara Goodwin, we explore the delicate dance of nurturing both our children's spirits and our own.
Kara's spiritual journey began through tragedy - the sudden loss of her sister-in-law followed by multiple family health crises within weeks. Living abroad with young children during this tumultuous time, she discovered meditation as her lifeline. What starts as a deeply personal story opens into universal wisdom about the pitfalls of forcing spiritual practices on our children.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as we discuss how cosmic events like solar flares directly impact our highly sensitive children. Those unexplained meltdowns, headaches, or sudden bursts of intuition? They might be connected to energetic shifts happening at a planetary level. Kara offers practical grounding techniques - from barefoot walking to tree-touching - that help both parents and children navigate these intense energetic periods.
Perhaps most poignant is Kara's insight into maintaining spiritual connection with teenagers who reject overt spiritual practices. When her daughter faced serious health challenges, Kara had to reconcile her preference for alternative healing with her daughter's desire for surgical intervention. This honest exploration of parental ego versus child autonomy offers profound lessons for any parent navigating health decisions.
Whether you're raising elementary-aged children who still eagerly join your meditation practice or teenagers who roll their eyes at the mention of spirituality, this conversation offers both practical tools and heart-centered wisdom. How might your parenting transform if you could connect with your children energetically, beyond words and actions? Listen in and discover the powerful intersection where parenthood meets spiritual awakening.
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Kara Goodwin (00:00):
as gentle as you can be on yourself in terms of
listening, if you're tired andyou can rest, if you are, if you
feel like you have anoverabundance of energy and you
feel like you just it's like Ifeel like I'm just sparking and
have excess energy.
A really helpful thing is to goand put your feet on the ground
(00:21):
and like your bare feet on theground it's called grounding and
feel that as you inhale, you'repulling up the energy of the
earth through the soles of thefeet and letting your body have
that energetic exchange with theplanet.
Your body will know what to do,but there's an electronic
exchange that happens when youdo that.
If it's like super cold whereyou are and that's just not
(00:44):
going to happen, you can find atree.
Put both hands on a tree.
That is also grounding.
Having both hands on itcompletes a circuit, so it's a
better way to communicate withthe earth when you've got both
hands on it.
Salt baths can be very helpfultoo.
Or getting in a natural body ofwater, that's very helpful, but
if you can't do that, or, inaddition, putting some E or
getting in a natural body ofwater, that's very helpful, but
(01:05):
if you can't do that or, inaddition, putting some Epsom
salts in a bath can also be verygood.
Making sure you stay hydratedthat's critical as well.
Feeding yourself, nourishingfoods If you're wired and then
you're also like drinking a lotof caffeine and a lot of sugar
and things like that, noticethat and you'll want to adjust
(01:26):
because that's going to justexasperate things.
So lots of ways for us to copewith it, but funnily enough,
sometimes it takes noticing itand noticing like that we're off
, because sometimes it can feelso personal, hi Conscious.
Carrie Lingenfelter (01:40):
Parents, it's Keri here and I am here
with a little info about raisingour mindful kids.
I've got some tips and tricksabout breaking free of the box
and becoming who you are andteaching your kids how to do
that along the way.
Join us.
Hi there, happy listeners.
It's Keri here, and I'm soexcited I have a new project
called Conscious Family Travelson YouTube.
(02:02):
It's all about mindfullytraveling with our highly
sensitive kids.
We love to give tips and toolsabout how you can pack traveling
with dietary restrictions.
We love to share in-depthguides of certain areas that we
are traveling to, as well assome of the actual items that we
use along our journey.
(02:22):
So join us on this consciousfamily travels journey.
Welcome back, it's your friendly, intuitive mama here, and I'm
so excited to connect withanother mother who brings in the
spiritual side as well.
I have Kara Goodwin here today.
She's an author, an energyhealer, meditation guide, and
she hosts the Soul Elevationpodcast meditation guide, and
(02:48):
she hosts the soul elevationpodcast.
All right, so, kara, I wouldlove to dive in.
You mentioned you're a mom too,and I love that, and that your
spiritual journey was when yourkids were elementary age, and
that's the age my kids are and alot of our listeners are
elementary age and a little bitabove.
What would you say is what haveyou found as spiritual pieces
in parenting?
How would you say those alignor have overlapped for you?
Kara Goodwin (03:10):
Yeah, thank you for the opportunity to give
people this chance to thinkabout themselves, to let that
intersection happen of parentingand spirituality, because
sometimes we cancompartmentalize our lives and
not really know how those twothings go together.
My kids are teenagers, so Ihave two high schoolers and,
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like you said, when my awakeninghappened.
So some people.
They've had a spiritual journeythat started from day one and
they have kept that alive theirwhole.
That journey has stayed withthem throughout their lives.
But I think for a lot of useither we don't practice the
(03:55):
same type of spirituality thatwe grew up with or we didn't
have a foundation.
And for me, I didn't grow up ina particularly religious
household but I was alwaysinterested in spirituality and
then in my early 20s that partof me died.
I withered up and I wasn'tbecause I wasn't nurturing it, I
(04:17):
wasn't feeding it, I was verymuch just in the material world
and that was fine.
And I was still interested if Iheard paranormal things.
That was always still reallyinteresting to me, but I was not
really sure that it was real,that people weren't just making
it up and things like that.
So when I underwent myspiritual awakening, it actually
(04:38):
happened through tragedybecause many different elements
of my life started to fall apartand it began with the suicide
of my sister-in-law, who wasalso a very close friend of mine
, and that was just devastating.
And it's actually it'll beeight years, nine, nine, nine
(04:58):
years this week.
So I'm so sorry.
Yeah, thank you.
And from there, in very quicksuccession, three weeks later
our dog died and a few weeksafter that my stepdad had to,
was having spinal, had a spinalstenosis surgery on his
brainstem.
Then my mother-in-law was hitby a motorbike when she was
crossing the street, so she wasin re hospital for a long time
(05:22):
and then, after a couple ofmonths, after that accident,
then my stepmom went into theICU for a failing heart, went to
the top of the heart transplantlist and had a heart transplant
on the day after Thanksgiving.
So that was, and we were livingabroad when this happened, so
not near either family.
So it was a very tumultuous time.
(05:43):
It was like I felt like I hadbeen coasting through, enjoying
this like Mediterraneanlifestyle and enjoying life, and
then it was just like one, onething after another was getting
ripped away and it wasdisorienting, to say the least.
And so ultimately, through thatI found meditation and I felt
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such a relief from the practiceof meditation.
It really helped to center meand it was still a very secular
practice.
It was really just aboutcalming my nervous system.
But with my kids, they're partof my family and they're going
through this too and my daughter, I want to say, was like five
(06:28):
or six at this time, my son waseight or nine and both,
especially my son, I felt couldreally benefit from meditation.
Who can't benefit from?
Meditation.
This place is a mess.
Carrie Lingenfelter (06:41):
Life is hard.
Kara Goodwin (06:43):
And we all yeah, we're all just who can't use
some nourishment in theirnervous system, and so just to
feel like things are okay and torealize that we have the
capability within us, like thatcomes from within us.
It doesn't come from somebodyhanding us peace of mind.
We can, we ignite it withinourselves even with what the
(07:07):
external is bringing up.
And and my son in particularwas just a he just had a harder
time generally, like socially,at that time.
He's made leaps and stridessince we were living abroad.
We were in an internationalschool, but we lived in Italy,
and so most of the population ofthe school spoke Italian.
(07:29):
There were a lot of nativeItalian speakers or expats, but
their native language was aLatin based and so Italian was a
lot easier for them.
There was a really smallpercentage of people who were
English speakers, and that justadds another layer of complexity
to that.
(07:49):
It's a hard age.
Any ages are just hard.
Life is hard.
Carrie Lingenfelter (07:54):
It's hard to be a human.
Yes, I get it.
Kara Goodwin (07:57):
And so when you already aren't like losing
confidence, and then you're putin a situation where, like
you're ripped from everythingthat's familiar from to you and
you're entering into this smallenvironment where there's only
one classroom per grade.
These kids have known eachother for years because they
(08:17):
just keep moving up gradestogether.
They can speak like the secretcode that you can't crack and
you're you just feel like theoutsider all the time.
So I kept I my mind was likethis will really help my kids,
like I want them to grow up withthis tool.
Yeah, and so I'm.
(08:38):
As I was learning meditation, Iwas making a point of
translating that into how do youdo this for kids, and so I did
things before we would leave forschool get your stuffed animal,
get your favorite stuffedanimal, let's put it on your
belly and let's just take somebreaths and notice the like when
(08:58):
you inhale, make the thestuffed animal rise, and then,
as you exhale, notice it fallback down and just do that and
that it was great.
For a couple of weeks, honestly, while they were interested in
it, it was great, but it did nottake long before that became a
(09:21):
push where it was like all right, we're going to leave.
Guys, Come on, get your.
Why are your shoes not on?
All right, get on the couch,get your.
Get your stuffed animals.
We don't have to come on guys.
Yeah, Real life, yes, and it wasthis thing.
They didn't want to do itanymore.
It was this I don't want to.
And that was an interestingplace to be in, because and it's
(09:46):
just a really also it's ametaphor for our roles as
parents, where it is like weknow things that could really
benefit them.
We know these tools that wehave, and they're their own
person, they're their own being,they have their own desires,
(10:07):
and sometimes, the more we push,the more we're pushing away.
And it became this reallyobvious thing where it was like,
wow, they're really rejectingnow this mindfulness, they're
rejecting this.
Notice your breath Like it'sgot, it's like tainting because
I'm pushing so hard.
And I was like the last thing Iwant them to do is to feel like
(10:30):
, no, that's that stupid thingthat my mom makes me do.
And and they're so young thatit's such a that you're, there's
such a deep imprint from thosetimes.
So that was something that myego needed to recognize.
Like you may know somethingthat you think, but there's
another layer to this that youwould be wise to take note of,
(10:51):
and it's not just about research, it's not just about what your
meditation teacher is tellingyou, it's not just about what
YouTube videos are telling you.
You can see what's happeninghere and what do you really want
for them.
It just felt important for meto notice, like, long-term, I
really want them to have ahealthy relationship with these
(11:12):
tools, and if that means thatthis isn't the right time for it
, then that's what that means.
And that kind of reared itshead again because I did just
drop it and it was like okay,yeah, ultimately, the and that
was years ago and I havecontinued to uphold my role at
this time is as a role model foras far as, like the meditation
(11:37):
things go, they know howimportant it is and I, and they
can see that the.
They can see how I behave andmy ability to cope with stress
and the way that people commentabout how they feel when they're
around me and things like that.
It's like that's just there forthem to notice.
And then, as they mature and asthey deal with life and life
(12:02):
gets more complicated for themthey know very well what this
tool is or these types of toolsthat I have.
Where to find it, where to gettheir support?
But it did rear its head againrecently because my daughter had
a health issue and needed avery extensive surgery a few
(12:24):
months ago.
And leading up to the surgery,Okay, so my I have.
I like I prefer alternativehealth and I like I don't
necessarily run to my Westernmedicine doctor for them to
prescribe a lot of things for meor to advise.
And so when I knew that we hadthis problem, I we dealt with it
(12:49):
for many years and I tried alot of different things and she
came along for the ride for alot of different types of
treatment and I think for hershe was hoping for a silver
bullet and I knew that none ofthese things were going to be a
silver bullet.
I would try something and itdidn't immediately fix it.
(13:13):
She would be like let's justhave the surgery because this
isn't working.
So it was another, like ego push, pull.
I don't tend to go to extremeson any, so I knew that there
could be a role for Westernmedicine into that.
But I just didn't want to belike, first and foremost, let's
(13:35):
have surgery, but I just didn'twant to be like, first and
foremost, let's have surgery.
But that was another time wherethe time came and she was just
done and she was just like no, Idon't want being careful about
(13:56):
the words that I chose and theenergy that I put out there of
okay, this is the path forward.
You have an amazing team, youare, you're surrounded by angels
and helpers in the Pete.
You have the.
You have a great medical teamthis you have people around the
world praying for you, and so itwas like invoking this holistic
(14:16):
thing.
But, okay, we're moving forward.
There is a place for thesurgeon and the surgical team
and we are blessing them and weare bringing in, like the full
force of all the energy, theenergetic support that we can.
But it is what it is and I'mnot going to go.
I'm not going to like beirresponsible with either, with
(14:39):
my egoic Nope.
This is the way forward.
The only way is the alternativeway and also just respecting
her.
I've had enough.
Now, when it's okay, it is yourbody and I'm your guardian.
You're still 14.
So you know, but you're 14 andthis is your life, your body,
(14:59):
and so I was like Kara listen toher.
What is she wanting to tell you?
Carrie Lingenfelter (15:04):
I love how you stayed conscious in that,
because I feel like the pendulumcan swing so far in either
direction alternative medicineor Western medicine, the
pendulum tends to go really far.
And being conscious as a parentand also acknowledging
sometimes the mom shame that cancome with it, we did not have
(15:25):
the exact same level ofintensity.
My daughter recently.
We were sick a week and a halfago.
We're still getting over it,but she had an ear infection and
I tried all the alternativemethods, all of the pieces, and
it was so intense and I've had afriend who the tympanic
membrane, the eardrum, ruptured.
So in my mind I'm like there'sa balance, right, there's this
(15:49):
balance, and then you have themom shame of oh God.
I have to give her antibiotics.
Oh, that's the worst, andyou're not supposed to do that
because of gut health and allthese things.
Right, the pendulum as itswings in either direction.
So I love how conscious youwere about that and you're
looking at is it my ego sidesaying it?
And then also, once you made achoice, you jumped in and you
(16:12):
used all your spiritual toolswith you and your mindful tools
along the way to really feelprotected and present, and this
is what we're going to do rightnow.
So it was beautiful how youtransitioned into that.
Kara Goodwin (16:25):
Thank you so much.
And that's a powerful story too, and so relatable with the
antibiotics, and that's anotherpiece to our spiritual evolution
, as some people come tospiritual evolution through
parenthood, through the portalof becoming a parent that is
that ignition within them of,okay, there's something more
here, like reality has shifted.
(16:47):
What's?
There's a lot deeper Things aredeeper than I expected.
So what does this mean?
And that can take them intospirituality.
But for a lot of people, thatdeeper than I expected.
So what does this mean?
And that can take them intospirituality?
But for a lot of people, thatentry point is health.
It's a health crisis, and theygo through something, whether
it's a family member orthemselves or both, and just
what you're saying.
The pendulum can go so far over.
(17:09):
And a big component, in myopinion, of spiritual evolution,
spiritual growth, enlightenment, whatever you, however, you
relate to, that is empowermentand it is the and understanding
that your doctor is not the beall and end all.
They're not a god, they are notactually the one responsible
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for your health.
You are actually responsiblefor your health, and that can be
a big, a big step for people toin their own growth and
evolution.
But that empowerment piece iscritical and it requires
discernment, and so we can that.
(17:51):
What can happen in it frankly,it does happen a lot is we throw
the baby out with the bathwater, whether that is oh, my eyes
are open to this whole petroleumpharma big government like
industrial military complex andhow it all works together and
(18:12):
it's like we're just like thewhat they're feeding on and it's
not actually about our health.
If that's like the conclusionthat we're coming to, then we
might say, okay, what I actuallywanted to do is go to, I'm
going to pick on functionalmedicine.
Now my doctor is a functionalmedicine doctor.
I really appreciate functionalmedicine in that viewpoint, but
(18:37):
there is a watch out therebecause it a lot of functional
medicine programs aremember-based, they're
subscription-based, and it canbe one of those things where you
get you decide that the onlytrue medical way to go is
through functional medicine.
You can say the same thingabout chiropractic you can say
(18:57):
that and which I also use, saythe same thing about acupuncture
, which I also use.
No judgment, but it's like, froman empowerment standpoint, we
just want, we need to stay inour discernment and not say,
okay, I withdraw the power thatI was giving to my primary care
physician, who was a traditionalWestern person, or the
(19:18):
pediatrician, who is atraditional to traditionally
trained Western doctor, and I'mjust going to hand that over now
to this functional medicinegroup and if they tell me that I
need 16 supplements that I haveto buy through their practice.
I need that every month.
I need to be in a membershipprogram and we have this even
with veterinary care.
(19:38):
Like the vets are membershipbased.
I just picture when I see theseprograms.
I just picture these businessconsultants in a room with all
these whiteboards like trying tofinagle the system to
manipulate everybody to be like,okay, they might need, is it
enough that they're coming tothe vet once a year if they have
(20:00):
healthy pets?
No, let's incentivize them tocome as much as possible so that
we can have the opportunity toone get funds from them, even
when they only really need tocome in once a month or once a
year, if that, but also whateverwe find on top of it that we
can sell to them.
This is the reality.
(20:21):
So really it is Again, I've gotpets, I go to the vet.
I'm not like trying to shameanybody I'm in this system too,
but these are the reality checksand the learnings that I have
experienced along the way, whereI'm like, wow, I could spend a
fortune at my functionalmedicine doctor and I'm a really
(20:43):
healthy.
So yeah, opening our eyes andstaying empowered.
Carrie Lingenfelter (20:49):
Yeah, finding a balance between it all
is so important and also beingconscious in it for sure.
I was going to ask you when youwere going through your
challenging situation and you'rehaving so many things with so
many family members when youwere living abroad in Italy,
meditation and sounds helped youas you were going through that
spiritual journey.
Was there anything else?
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Is that when your the energyhealing, or what did you do to
help yourself in that time?
I feel like so many parentsright now are raising intense,
spiritually gifted, gifted kids,highly sensitive kids, and it
can feel so intense on oursystems.
Yeah, yeah, so I was curious.
Kara Goodwin (21:31):
Yeah, so part of my like learning meditation
there was also a big breath,breath work.
Focus on that too, and breathwork is so helpful for
regulating our nervous system.
It's, it is this shortcut, itis this way to like hack in and
it takes that mindfulness ofnoticing, cause we can just be
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in the thick of it.
It's like when things arewhirling around us and we're all
caught up in everything, it canbe really hard to even notice
that we're not really breathing,or we're breathing really
shallowly or we're holding ourbreath, or when it's like
noticing.
Even just this weekend, Ididn't have anything in
particular that was stressfulthat I could point a finger at,
(22:12):
but I could.
I just kept feeling thistightness in my solar plexus, at
the top of my stomach, and Iwas like what is that?
And then I was like justbreathe down in there, and so I
wanted to feel it opening up.
I wanted to feel my solarplexus, which is just this
bundle of nerves just belowwhere your rib cage and you know
where it comes together at thebottom.
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Just below that is this bundleof nerves, the solar plexus, and
I was just consciously, while Iwas driving, like inhaling and
filling that and feeling itexpand and it was like I feel
like that's the first breathI've taken and I don't even know
why, but it was just like goshwhen it was so tight.
And so when we're in thatconstant state of worry, of
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anxiety, of whatever it is thatwe're in, getting that breath
down into the belly is critical.
But there are other likemagical breath work, pranayama
exercises, that really help tochange, like the pH of our
oxygen and our blood sorry, phof the blood through the oxygen
regulation.
So that was a big part of it.
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And then other components thatcan go alongside with meditation
, like affirmations, can be huge, because the affirmations it's
the repetition of a word.
So if we're using your nativelanguage, you might be saying
something that is.
I just led an affirmationmeditation yesterday and we were
saying like I am love, I amloved, I love, and it was just
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this repetition of those threephrases.
And over the more you say it,you get beyond the concept of it
and there's just this energy,this like signature, and it just
becomes.
But words are spells.
What are the gospels?
God spells.
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There is such power, there'senergetic power where the sounds
that we make actually have ageometric signature.
And if you've ever heard ofcymatics, there's a really
fascinating field of sound studycalled cymatics, where it's
different ways that we canvisually see sound, so we can
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see these shapes that sounds aremaking, and we also,
fundamentally, our energy.
So it's this way that we getour energy coherent and
organized.
And I didn't have that level ofinsight while I was doing it,
but it just was a another tool,like back then when I was just
trying to keep my head abovewater.
But, but that can be anotherreally effective way is using
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affirmations.
And then visualizations isanother component that's really
helpful if you're in ameditative state.
But visualizing whether that'sjust being in a peaceful meadow,
(25:17):
being on the beach, justfeeling like everything dropping
away, letting yourself be justwith the waves, or just with the
earth, just with the sun andthe calmness of that, or, if
it's more okay, I want to be ina sacred.
I'm imagining myself in thesacred temple with my higher
self, with my spirit, guides,angels, whatever it is that we
resonate with.
There might be some ascendedmasters that we feel like could
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bless us in this space, orwhatever it might be, but those
are all.
The imagination is a huge.
It's a huge tool that canreally help us.
It's actually the imagination.
I always say the imagination isactually a portal, it's a
gateway.
It's not.
We're not making it up, we'rejust using the power of the
imagination to open us up toother realities that we have the
(26:02):
power to bring in through whatmight feel like make-believe.
And it's a great way to alsoconnect with our kids.
Because I feel this now I havethis internal resistance to like
trying to force anything on mykids and if there are parents of
teenagers who are listening toyou get it also, because when my
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kids were in elementary school,we just had a different
connection than what you havewhen they're teenagers and I
never thought especially mydaughter.
I was like, oh, she won't belike your typical teenager,
she'll we'll still be close andwe have a connection.
And there was my ego again.
That needed to be tempered,because she's a regular teenager
(26:47):
and it can be hard to connectwith her and they're in their
phones and I I do try to tellthem like guys, get out of your
phones, come and join us, comeon, we're here.
Hello.
3d Physical reality it's aroundyou, but I that is one of the
things that I love to do in mymeditation is just feeling like
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connecting with the energy, thespiritual nature of that
spiritual aspect of myself,because just whoever's listening
and just like you, carrie, I'ma human with a physical body.
I have thoughts, I have emotions, but really, beyond all of that
, all of those are temporaryexpressions of this eternal
being that I am, and thateternal being is energy, is
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energetic, and my kids have thattoo, and so in meditation that
is what I really enjoy doing,especially when they're in need,
if they're not feeling well orif they're, if they're having
going through a hard time insome way.
It's like getting myself stillso that I can perceive my own
energy, and then I might use avisualization, and then I
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visualize them and a lot oftimes I'll see them as like a
being of light, or I see themmore like transparently, so that
it's not even just the physical, and then feeling like that my
heart is radiating to theirheart, or that they're wrapped
in divine energy and highfrequency energy, or that they
(28:16):
are.
Their connection with theirguides is getting stronger and
they're just receiving theseblessings.
And every single day I meditateand every single day I ask God
to protect them, to wrap them inGod's light and to strengthen
their connection, that kind ofsneaky way where I don't
necessarily have to beat a deadhorse with them of don't forget,
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god's there for you and allthis, which is great if they
will listen and they're open tothat.
But failing that or not, westill have power as energetic
beings to bless everybody thatwe love, and so my kids and my
husband in particular, my pets,always get that individual
(29:01):
blessing every day as well aspart of my meditation.
Carrie Lingenfelter (29:05):
That's beautiful.
I love the way you describethat connection and how the
process and everything, becauseI'm thinking in my mind yes, I
have elementary kids and rightnow we can do the guided
meditations, or every night whenwe're going to bed I do it with
my seven-year-old and almost10-year-old and they ask me for
it, they ask me for Reiki.
(29:25):
So they're still at that agewhere it's exciting and it's fun
.
And then I'm thinking in mymind maybe I'm like planting
these seeds for when they're 16one day.
And yes, my ego is, oh, but ofcourse we're going to be
connected and we'll still bedoing.
No, carrie, let's be realistichere, as Kara has told you.
So I'm hoping like maybe ifwe've planted some of those
(29:49):
seeds, then they'll have thosetools for when they're having
those hard moments.
But you did also help my mamaheart and maybe my ego a little
bit in saying we can stillconnect with them energetically,
we can still spirituallyconnect with them as they're
older and when they're notwanting to do the guided
meditation with mom me at thatpoint.
Kara Goodwin (30:10):
Yes, and I hope for you that they'll.
That will be a habit thatthey'll love to continue with.
Yeah, who's to?
Carrie Lingenfelter (30:18):
say don't, let me limit you.
Who's to say we never know?
Never know what's coming.
This morning I was listening toone of your recent episodes
about the solar flares and theenergy with the sun and I found
it so fascinating because myalmost 10 year old this past
week we've all been sick andI've been hearing there's been a
lot of energy, like, oh, that'sinteresting.
(30:38):
And my son turned to me and hesaid, mom, I feel like I'm, I've
had this shift and I'm moreintuitively connected right now.
And I was like, whoa, that isreally cool, dude.
We were just celebrating.
Okay, sometimes that can comewith our headaches.
Maybe that's why our head ishurting, because we're in tune
and we're connected and it'sjust showing us.
So let's release that pain,like I know that you're there
(31:00):
and we're connected.
Let's release it.
Have you found any tools whenyou're going through this
heightened sensitivity piece?
My daughter's seven, she's beenmore agitated than normal, like
just very sensitive.
I was curious if you have anytools for those times.
Kara Goodwin (31:15):
Yeah, that is so fascinating with your son that
he was not only just recognizingthat something felt different,
but that he felt a shift andthat he felt more connected.
That's just amazing and I thinkit's such an amazing indication
of just the souls that arecoming in, like this young
generation who it's like.
(31:37):
We have just some reallyincredible, like such special
beings incarnating now, which isso exciting.
Yeah, thinking about the solarflares, the, the geomagnetic
activity on the planet peoplemay be familiar with the
Schumann resonance when thatspikes, all of things work
together and I'll just lay thefoundation in case there are
(31:59):
people who are like what in theworld are we even talking about?
The sun emits frequencies oremits energies and sometimes
they it will shoot out theseconcentrated energy bursts, and
the sun is much bigger thanearth.
So a lot of times these hugethey call them flares, solar
flares, will happen and theyit's not directly earth facing.
(32:21):
We might get a little bit ofside radiation.
Sometimes we get a big one andit's coming right at earth.
We'll have an, or there mightbe like a coronal hole and that
emits like solar wind whichincreases the wind.
We've had a lot of those lately.
Increases the wind we can alsohave if we come back to the
earth, so anyway.
(32:42):
So when that happens with thesun, the energy of the sun
travels.
It's, it starts with the sun,but then it travels and it hits
all the planets in our solarsystem, including the earth, and
so we have this protectionquote unquote protection around
the planet, which is ourgeomagnetic sphere.
It's like this magnetic forcefield around our planet, and so
(33:07):
we simultaneously have thesetimes where that's that weakens,
so the magnetic sphere of theplanet weakens.
And so if we have a weakenedmagnetic sphere and then we have
this heightened solar activity,it means that we're getting
more radiation in the planetbecause that protective, like
magnetic field keeps theradiation, the solar radiation,
(33:29):
the cosmic radiation.
It keeps it from comingdirectly into the planet and
affecting us as much, thosethings.
So when we have things likegeomagnetic storms, that can be
that the magnetics are changingand that can be with a physical
manifestation that we can see ofthat is the changing in the
northern lights.
So when you see things youmight see things in the news
(33:50):
about, oh, the Northern lightsare visible like way further
South than normal, or they'revery active.
That is what that is.
And then the resonance is likethe heartbeat of the planet, so
that's a planetary vibrationthat will spike and so we have
this kind of frequency that isthe sort of normal frequency for
(34:11):
the planet.
Then that can get high and allof these things together affect
us, just like your son wasintuiting, because we are energy
beings.
So, even though we havephysicality, we experience
ourselves as solid, but we areenergy, that we're comprised of
energy underneath and beneathand behind, like all the
(34:33):
physical, all the physicalitywhere it's actually.
We're an energy being and ourphysicality is affected by
changes in energy.
And so, in terms of what I do,when I notice things, so a lot
of times like I'll feel tiredand if I can, I'll rest, but
(34:53):
there are times where I feellike anxiety and I can't
pinpoint why.
I'm like gosh.
It feels like I'm, it's likethis anticipation of something
that I feel like I'm almost likestoring energy for or I'm
nervous about or whatever, but Idon't really know what it is
that's causing that.
We can, so there can be thetired or wired or headaches,
(35:17):
like you mentioned.
That can be really common oneas well.
We can have hormonal imbalances.
It can cause physical issueswhere sinus pressure or
cold-like symptoms.
All of those things arelegitimate responses from an
energetic perspective and it'sjust our bodies taking this new
(35:38):
information and being like, okay, this is different than what,
how I'm used to vibing.
And so there's this periodwhere our energy is like
integrating it or going okay,here's this new thing I'm
getting hit with and I don'talready have.
It doesn't have anywhere to gobecause I don't know what to do
with it, because this is new,and so your body's trying to
(35:59):
figure out what do we do withthis?
And so, as gentle as you can beon yourself in terms of
listening if you're tired, andyou can rest if you are, if you
feel like you have anoverabundance of energy and you
feel like you just it's like Ifeel like I'm just sparking and
have excess energy.
(36:20):
A really helpful thing is to goand put your feet on the ground
and like your bare feet on theground it's called grounding and
feel that as you inhale, you'repulling up the energy of the
earth through the soles of thefeet and letting your body have
that energetic exchange with theplanet.
Your body will know what to do,but there's an electronic
(36:42):
change that happens when you dothat.
If it's like super cold whereyou are and that's just not
going to happen.
You can find a tree.
Put both hands on a tree.
That is also grounding.
Having both hands on itcompletes a circuit, so it's a
better way to communicate withthe earth when you've got both
hands on it.
Salt baths can be very helpfultoo.
(37:05):
Or getting in a natural body ofwater that's very helpful, but
if you can't do that, or, inaddition, putting some Epsom
salts in a bath can also be verygood.
Making sure you stay hydratedthat's critical as well.
Feeding yourself, nourishingfoods If you're wired and then
you're also like drinking a lotof caffeine and a lot of sugar
(37:26):
and things like that, noticethat and you'll want to adjust
because that's going to justexasperate things.
So lots of ways for us to copewith it.
But funnily enough, sometimesit takes noticing it and
noticing like that we're off,because sometimes it can feel so
personal.
It's like people are triggeringus and we can think like why is
that person saying these, whyis everybody annoying me?
(37:50):
And it can feel like otherpeople are doing it to us and we
don't recognize.
Wait a second.
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm extrasensitive or I'm irritated or I
need to take care of myself.
There's something within methat's calling out for some
nourishment or some TLC.
Carrie Lingenfelter (38:10):
Yeah, I love the way you describe it.
I think so many of us may havethose heightened sensitivities
here and there and not know howto describe it.
And it's interesting because asan adult, you can be like oh,
I'm feeling more anxious, oh,I'm feeling more agitated, I'm
tired, all these pieces, whereasmy seven-year-old she might
just be erupting a lot duringthe week and she can't tell us
(38:31):
why.
She doesn't know why yet, maybe.
But, yes, understanding seeingthe pattern in your kids and
then, like you said, findingsome of these tools, slowing
things down and knowing it's notalways going to be like this
it's a it's a phase with yourkiddo right now, possibly, and
my daughter's better now.
So we slowed everything down fora couple of weeks and we went
(38:54):
through that period and nowwe're back to normal.
Yeah, hang in there, parents,it's not forever.
Yes, I love it.
Yeah, so you wrote a book.
Can you tell us about it?
It sounds really nice.
Kara Goodwin (39:06):
Yes, thank you.
It's called your AuthenticAwakening a guide to everyday
spiritual living.
So this is more for nourishingour own spiritual journey as
parents.
It's not so much it can be forany age, but it's not really
written for kids.
But really we need to know howto fill our own cup so that we
(39:28):
have more to give to our kids,and the more that we're in
alignment within ourselves body,mind and soul the better
parents we are and the better wecan emulate or that our kids
have that role model to emulateand our energy ripples out to
everything.
But it really it talks about myjourney, but it also it's more
(39:49):
about the awakening process andsome of the ways that things can
become tricky and sticky andand be hard terrain to navigate.
There are a lot of practicaltools.
Every chapter finishes with ado it section, which is okay.
Here's here are the conceptsthat we talked about and the
(40:12):
examples that you saw.
Here are practical things thatyou can do to help integrate
what we've been talking about.
So that is the nuts and boltsof it.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:24):
Great, and it's called your authentic
awakening.
Kara Goodwin (40:27):
Yes.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:28):
Okay, great , yeah, and we'll include I can
include all of your info in ourshow notes today, and thanks so
much for coming on and sharingall of your background and all
of your stories with us.
It's been such a treat.
Kara Goodwin (40:42):
This has been wonderful.
Carrie, thank you foreverything that you're doing for
parents and for kids andhelping people to open up their
hearts and increase that heartto heart connection with their
kids.
It's so critical, and thanksfor having me on your great host
.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:59):
Thanks so much.
I look forward to connectingwith you on your show.
Kara Goodwin (41:02):
Yes, I can't wait.
Carrie Lingenfelter (41:05):
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as gentle as you can be on yourself in terms of
listening, if you're tired andyou can rest, if you are, if you
feel like you have anoverabundance of energy and you
feel like you just it's like Ifeel like I'm just sparking and
have excess energy.
A really helpful thing is to goand put your feet on the ground
(00:21):
and like your bare feet on theground it's called grounding and
feel that as you inhale, you'repulling up the energy of the
earth through the soles of thefeet and letting your body have
that energetic exchange with theplanet.
Your body will know what to do,but there's an electronic
exchange that happens when youdo that.
If it's like super cold whereyou are and that's just not
(00:44):
going to happen, you can find atree.
Put both hands on a tree.
That is also grounding.
Having both hands on itcompletes a circuit, so it's a
better way to communicate withthe earth when you've got both
hands on it.
Salt baths can be very helpfultoo.
Or getting in a natural body ofwater, that's very helpful, but
if you can't do that, or, inaddition, putting some E or
getting in a natural body ofwater, that's very helpful, but
(01:05):
if you can't do that or, inaddition, putting some Epsom
salts in a bath can also be verygood.
Making sure you stay hydratedthat's critical as well.
Feeding yourself, nourishingfoods If you're wired and then
you're also like drinking a lotof caffeine and a lot of sugar
and things like that, noticethat and you'll want to adjust
(01:26):
because that's going to justexasperate things.
So lots of ways for us to copewith it, but funnily enough,
sometimes it takes noticing itand noticing like that we're off
, because sometimes it can feelso personal, hi Conscious.
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Welcome back, it's your friendly, intuitive mama here, and I'm
so excited to connect withanother mother who brings in the
spiritual side as well.
I have Kara Goodwin here today.
She's an author, an energyhealer, meditation guide, and
she hosts the Soul Elevationpodcast meditation guide, and
(02:48):
she hosts the soul elevationpodcast.
All right, so, kara, I wouldlove to dive in.
You mentioned you're a mom too,and I love that, and that your
spiritual journey was when yourkids were elementary age, and
that's the age my kids are and alot of our listeners are
elementary age and a little bitabove.
What would you say is what haveyou found as spiritual pieces
in parenting?
How would you say those alignor have overlapped for you?
Kara Goodwin (03:10):
Yeah, thank you for the opportunity to give
people this chance to thinkabout themselves, to let that
intersection happen of parentingand spirituality, because
sometimes we cancompartmentalize our lives and
not really know how those twothings go together.
My kids are teenagers, so Ihave two high schoolers and,
(03:34):
like you said, when my awakeninghappened.
So some people.
They've had a spiritual journeythat started from day one and
they have kept that alive theirwhole.
That journey has stayed withthem throughout their lives.
But I think for a lot of useither we don't practice the
(03:55):
same type of spirituality thatwe grew up with or we didn't
have a foundation.
And for me, I didn't grow up ina particularly religious
household but I was alwaysinterested in spirituality and
then in my early 20s that partof me died.
I withered up and I wasn'tbecause I wasn't nurturing it, I
(04:17):
wasn't feeding it, I was verymuch just in the material world
and that was fine.
And I was still interested if Iheard paranormal things.
That was always still reallyinteresting to me, but I was not
really sure that it was real,that people weren't just making
it up and things like that.
So when I underwent myspiritual awakening, it actually
(04:38):
happened through tragedybecause many different elements
of my life started to fall apartand it began with the suicide
of my sister-in-law, who wasalso a very close friend of mine
, and that was just devastating.
And it's actually it'll beeight years, nine, nine, nine
(04:58):
years this week.
So I'm so sorry.
Yeah, thank you.
And from there, in very quicksuccession, three weeks later
our dog died and a few weeksafter that my stepdad had to,
was having spinal, had a spinalstenosis surgery on his
brainstem.
Then my mother-in-law was hitby a motorbike when she was
crossing the street, so she wasin re hospital for a long time
(05:22):
and then, after a couple ofmonths, after that accident,
then my stepmom went into theICU for a failing heart, went to
the top of the heart transplantlist and had a heart transplant
on the day after Thanksgiving.
So that was, and we were livingabroad when this happened, so
not near either family.
So it was a very tumultuous time.
(05:43):
It was like I felt like I hadbeen coasting through, enjoying
this like Mediterraneanlifestyle and enjoying life, and
then it was just like one, onething after another was getting
ripped away and it wasdisorienting, to say the least.
And so ultimately, through thatI found meditation and I felt
(06:07):
such a relief from the practiceof meditation.
It really helped to center meand it was still a very secular
practice.
It was really just aboutcalming my nervous system.
But with my kids, they're partof my family and they're going
through this too and my daughter, I want to say, was like five
(06:28):
or six at this time, my son waseight or nine and both,
especially my son, I felt couldreally benefit from meditation.
Who can't benefit from?
Meditation.
This place is a mess.
Carrie Lingenfelter (06:41):
Life is hard.
Kara Goodwin (06:43):
And we all yeah, we're all just who can't use
some nourishment in theirnervous system, and so just to
feel like things are okay and torealize that we have the
capability within us, like thatcomes from within us.
It doesn't come from somebodyhanding us peace of mind.
We can, we ignite it withinourselves even with what the
(07:07):
external is bringing up.
And and my son in particularwas just a he just had a harder
time generally, like socially,at that time.
He's made leaps and stridessince we were living abroad.
We were in an internationalschool, but we lived in Italy,
and so most of the population ofthe school spoke Italian.
(07:29):
There were a lot of nativeItalian speakers or expats, but
their native language was aLatin based and so Italian was a
lot easier for them.
There was a really smallpercentage of people who were
English speakers, and that justadds another layer of complexity
to that.
(07:49):
It's a hard age.
Any ages are just hard.
Life is hard.
Carrie Lingenfelter (07:54):
It's hard to be a human.
Yes, I get it.
Kara Goodwin (07:57):
And so when you already aren't like losing
confidence, and then you're putin a situation where, like
you're ripped from everythingthat's familiar from to you and
you're entering into this smallenvironment where there's only
one classroom per grade.
These kids have known eachother for years because they
(08:17):
just keep moving up gradestogether.
They can speak like the secretcode that you can't crack and
you're you just feel like theoutsider all the time.
So I kept I my mind was likethis will really help my kids,
like I want them to grow up withthis tool.
Yeah, and so I'm.
(08:38):
As I was learning meditation, Iwas making a point of
translating that into how do youdo this for kids, and so I did
things before we would leave forschool get your stuffed animal,
get your favorite stuffedanimal, let's put it on your
belly and let's just take somebreaths and notice the like when
(08:58):
you inhale, make the thestuffed animal rise, and then,
as you exhale, notice it fallback down and just do that and
that it was great.
For a couple of weeks, honestly, while they were interested in
it, it was great, but it did nottake long before that became a
(09:21):
push where it was like all right, we're going to leave.
Guys, Come on, get your.
Why are your shoes not on?
All right, get on the couch,get your.
Get your stuffed animals.
We don't have to come on guys.
Yeah, Real life, yes, and it wasthis thing.
They didn't want to do itanymore.
It was this I don't want to.
And that was an interestingplace to be in, because and it's
(09:46):
just a really also it's ametaphor for our roles as
parents, where it is like weknow things that could really
benefit them.
We know these tools that wehave, and they're their own
person, they're their own being,they have their own desires,
(10:07):
and sometimes, the more we push,the more we're pushing away.
And it became this reallyobvious thing where it was like,
wow, they're really rejectingnow this mindfulness, they're
rejecting this.
Notice your breath Like it'sgot, it's like tainting because
I'm pushing so hard.
And I was like the last thing Iwant them to do is to feel like
(10:30):
, no, that's that stupid thingthat my mom makes me do.
And and they're so young thatit's such a that you're, there's
such a deep imprint from thosetimes.
So that was something that myego needed to recognize.
Like you may know somethingthat you think, but there's
another layer to this that youwould be wise to take note of,
(10:51):
and it's not just about research, it's not just about what your
meditation teacher is tellingyou, it's not just about what
YouTube videos are telling you.
You can see what's happeninghere and what do you really want
for them.
It just felt important for meto notice, like, long-term, I
really want them to have ahealthy relationship with these
(11:12):
tools, and if that means thatthis isn't the right time for it
, then that's what that means.
And that kind of reared itshead again because I did just
drop it and it was like okay,yeah, ultimately, the and that
was years ago and I havecontinued to uphold my role at
this time is as a role model foras far as, like the meditation
(11:37):
things go, they know howimportant it is and I, and they
can see that the.
They can see how I behave andmy ability to cope with stress
and the way that people commentabout how they feel when they're
around me and things like that.
It's like that's just there forthem to notice.
And then, as they mature and asthey deal with life and life
(12:02):
gets more complicated for themthey know very well what this
tool is or these types of toolsthat I have.
Where to find it, where to gettheir support?
But it did rear its head againrecently because my daughter had
a health issue and needed avery extensive surgery a few
(12:24):
months ago.
And leading up to the surgery,Okay, so my I have.
I like I prefer alternativehealth and I like I don't
necessarily run to my Westernmedicine doctor for them to
prescribe a lot of things for meor to advise.
And so when I knew that we hadthis problem, I we dealt with it
(12:49):
for many years and I tried alot of different things and she
came along for the ride for alot of different types of
treatment and I think for hershe was hoping for a silver
bullet and I knew that none ofthese things were going to be a
silver bullet.
I would try something and itdidn't immediately fix it.
(13:13):
She would be like let's justhave the surgery because this
isn't working.
So it was another, like ego push, pull.
I don't tend to go to extremeson any, so I knew that there
could be a role for Westernmedicine into that.
But I just didn't want to belike, first and foremost, let's
(13:35):
have surgery, but I just didn'twant to be like, first and
foremost, let's have surgery.
But that was another time wherethe time came and she was just
done and she was just like no, Idon't want being careful about
(13:56):
the words that I chose and theenergy that I put out there of
okay, this is the path forward.
You have an amazing team, youare, you're surrounded by angels
and helpers in the Pete.
You have the.
You have a great medical teamthis you have people around the
world praying for you, and so itwas like invoking this holistic
(14:16):
thing.
But, okay, we're moving forward.
There is a place for thesurgeon and the surgical team
and we are blessing them and weare bringing in, like the full
force of all the energy, theenergetic support that we can.
But it is what it is and I'mnot going to go.
I'm not going to like beirresponsible with either, with
(14:39):
my egoic Nope.
This is the way forward.
The only way is the alternativeway and also just respecting
her.
I've had enough.
Now, when it's okay, it is yourbody and I'm your guardian.
You're still 14.
So you know, but you're 14 andthis is your life, your body,
(14:59):
and so I was like Kara listen toher.
What is she wanting to tell you?
Carrie Lingenfelter (15:04):
I love how you stayed conscious in that,
because I feel like the pendulumcan swing so far in either
direction alternative medicineor Western medicine, the
pendulum tends to go really far.
And being conscious as a parentand also acknowledging
sometimes the mom shame that cancome with it, we did not have
(15:25):
the exact same level ofintensity.
My daughter recently.
We were sick a week and a halfago.
We're still getting over it,but she had an ear infection and
I tried all the alternativemethods, all of the pieces, and
it was so intense and I've had afriend who the tympanic
membrane, the eardrum, ruptured.
So in my mind I'm like there'sa balance, right, there's this
(15:49):
balance, and then you have themom shame of oh God.
I have to give her antibiotics.
Oh, that's the worst, andyou're not supposed to do that
because of gut health and allthese things.
Right, the pendulum as itswings in either direction.
So I love how conscious youwere about that and you're
looking at is it my ego sidesaying it?
And then also, once you made achoice, you jumped in and you
(16:12):
used all your spiritual toolswith you and your mindful tools
along the way to really feelprotected and present, and this
is what we're going to do rightnow.
So it was beautiful how youtransitioned into that.
Kara Goodwin (16:25):
Thank you so much.
And that's a powerful story too, and so relatable with the
antibiotics, and that's anotherpiece to our spiritual evolution
, as some people come tospiritual evolution through
parenthood, through the portalof becoming a parent that is
that ignition within them of,okay, there's something more
here, like reality has shifted.
(16:47):
What's?
There's a lot deeper Things aredeeper than I expected.
So what does this mean?
And that can take them intospirituality.
But for a lot of people, thatdeeper than I expected.
So what does this mean?
And that can take them intospirituality?
But for a lot of people, thatentry point is health.
It's a health crisis, and theygo through something, whether
it's a family member orthemselves or both, and just
what you're saying.
The pendulum can go so far over.
(17:09):
And a big component, in myopinion, of spiritual evolution,
spiritual growth, enlightenment, whatever you, however, you
relate to, that is empowermentand it is the and understanding
that your doctor is not the beall and end all.
They're not a god, they are notactually the one responsible
(17:31):
for your health.
You are actually responsiblefor your health, and that can be
a big, a big step for people toin their own growth and
evolution.
But that empowerment piece iscritical and it requires
discernment, and so we can that.
(17:51):
What can happen in it frankly,it does happen a lot is we throw
the baby out with the bathwater, whether that is oh, my eyes
are open to this whole petroleumpharma big government like
industrial military complex andhow it all works together and
(18:12):
it's like we're just like thewhat they're feeding on and it's
not actually about our health.
If that's like the conclusionthat we're coming to, then we
might say, okay, what I actuallywanted to do is go to, I'm
going to pick on functionalmedicine.
Now my doctor is a functionalmedicine doctor.
I really appreciate functionalmedicine in that viewpoint, but
(18:37):
there is a watch out therebecause it a lot of functional
medicine programs aremember-based, they're
subscription-based, and it canbe one of those things where you
get you decide that the onlytrue medical way to go is
through functional medicine.
You can say the same thingabout chiropractic you can say
(18:57):
that and which I also use, saythe same thing about acupuncture
, which I also use.
No judgment, but it's like, froman empowerment standpoint, we
just want, we need to stay inour discernment and not say,
okay, I withdraw the power thatI was giving to my primary care
physician, who was a traditionalWestern person, or the
(19:18):
pediatrician, who is atraditional to traditionally
trained Western doctor, and I'mjust going to hand that over now
to this functional medicinegroup and if they tell me that I
need 16 supplements that I haveto buy through their practice.
I need that every month.
I need to be in a membershipprogram and we have this even
with veterinary care.
(19:38):
Like the vets are membershipbased.
I just picture when I see theseprograms.
I just picture these businessconsultants in a room with all
these whiteboards like trying tofinagle the system to
manipulate everybody to be like,okay, they might need, is it
enough that they're coming tothe vet once a year if they have
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healthy pets?
No, let's incentivize them tocome as much as possible so that
we can have the opportunity toone get funds from them, even
when they only really need tocome in once a month or once a
year, if that, but also whateverwe find on top of it that we
can sell to them.
This is the reality.
(20:21):
So really it is Again, I've gotpets, I go to the vet.
I'm not like trying to shameanybody I'm in this system too,
but these are the reality checksand the learnings that I have
experienced along the way, whereI'm like, wow, I could spend a
fortune at my functionalmedicine doctor and I'm a really
(20:43):
healthy.
So yeah, opening our eyes andstaying empowered.
Carrie Lingenfelter (20:49):
Yeah, finding a balance between it all
is so important and also beingconscious in it for sure.
I was going to ask you when youwere going through your
challenging situation and you'rehaving so many things with so
many family members when youwere living abroad in Italy,
meditation and sounds helped youas you were going through that
spiritual journey.
Was there anything else?
(21:11):
Is that when your the energyhealing, or what did you do to
help yourself in that time?
I feel like so many parentsright now are raising intense,
spiritually gifted, gifted kids,highly sensitive kids, and it
can feel so intense on oursystems.
Yeah, yeah, so I was curious.
Kara Goodwin (21:31):
Yeah, so part of my like learning meditation
there was also a big breath,breath work.
Focus on that too, and breathwork is so helpful for
regulating our nervous system.
It's, it is this shortcut, itis this way to like hack in and
it takes that mindfulness ofnoticing, cause we can just be
(21:52):
in the thick of it.
It's like when things arewhirling around us and we're all
caught up in everything, it canbe really hard to even notice
that we're not really breathing,or we're breathing really
shallowly or we're holding ourbreath, or when it's like
noticing.
Even just this weekend, Ididn't have anything in
particular that was stressfulthat I could point a finger at,
(22:12):
but I could.
I just kept feeling thistightness in my solar plexus, at
the top of my stomach, and Iwas like what is that?
And then I was like justbreathe down in there, and so I
wanted to feel it opening up.
I wanted to feel my solarplexus, which is just this
bundle of nerves just belowwhere your rib cage and you know
where it comes together at thebottom.
(22:33):
Just below that is this bundleof nerves, the solar plexus, and
I was just consciously, while Iwas driving, like inhaling and
filling that and feeling itexpand and it was like I feel
like that's the first breathI've taken and I don't even know
why, but it was just like goshwhen it was so tight.
And so when we're in thatconstant state of worry, of
(22:55):
anxiety, of whatever it is thatwe're in, getting that breath
down into the belly is critical.
But there are other likemagical breath work, pranayama
exercises, that really help tochange, like the pH of our
oxygen and our blood sorry, phof the blood through the oxygen
regulation.
So that was a big part of it.
(23:17):
And then other components thatcan go alongside with meditation
, like affirmations, can be huge, because the affirmations it's
the repetition of a word.
So if we're using your nativelanguage, you might be saying
something that is.
I just led an affirmationmeditation yesterday and we were
saying like I am love, I amloved, I love, and it was just
(23:42):
this repetition of those threephrases.
And over the more you say it,you get beyond the concept of it
and there's just this energy,this like signature, and it just
becomes.
But words are spells.
What are the gospels?
God spells.
(24:02):
There is such power, there'senergetic power where the sounds
that we make actually have ageometric signature.
And if you've ever heard ofcymatics, there's a really
fascinating field of sound studycalled cymatics, where it's
different ways that we canvisually see sound, so we can
(24:28):
see these shapes that sounds aremaking, and we also,
fundamentally, our energy.
So it's this way that we getour energy coherent and
organized.
And I didn't have that level ofinsight while I was doing it,
but it just was a another tool,like back then when I was just
trying to keep my head abovewater.
But, but that can be anotherreally effective way is using
(24:52):
affirmations.
And then visualizations isanother component that's really
helpful if you're in ameditative state.
But visualizing whether that'sjust being in a peaceful meadow,
(25:17):
being on the beach, justfeeling like everything dropping
away, letting yourself be justwith the waves, or just with the
earth, just with the sun andthe calmness of that, or, if
it's more okay, I want to be ina sacred.
I'm imagining myself in thesacred temple with my higher
self, with my spirit, guides,angels, whatever it is that we
resonate with.
There might be some ascendedmasters that we feel like could
(25:37):
bless us in this space, orwhatever it might be, but those
are all.
The imagination is a huge.
It's a huge tool that canreally help us.
It's actually the imagination.
I always say the imagination isactually a portal, it's a
gateway.
It's not.
We're not making it up, we'rejust using the power of the
imagination to open us up toother realities that we have the
(26:02):
power to bring in through whatmight feel like make-believe.
And it's a great way to alsoconnect with our kids.
Because I feel this now I havethis internal resistance to like
trying to force anything on mykids and if there are parents of
teenagers who are listening toyou get it also, because when my
(26:26):
kids were in elementary school,we just had a different
connection than what you havewhen they're teenagers and I
never thought especially mydaughter.
I was like, oh, she won't belike your typical teenager,
she'll we'll still be close andwe have a connection.
And there was my ego again.
That needed to be tempered,because she's a regular teenager
(26:47):
and it can be hard to connectwith her and they're in their
phones and I I do try to tellthem like guys, get out of your
phones, come and join us, comeon, we're here.
Hello.
3d Physical reality it's aroundyou, but I that is one of the
things that I love to do in mymeditation is just feeling like
(27:10):
connecting with the energy, thespiritual nature of that
spiritual aspect of myself,because just whoever's listening
and just like you, carrie, I'ma human with a physical body.
I have thoughts, I have emotions, but really, beyond all of that
, all of those are temporaryexpressions of this eternal
being that I am, and thateternal being is energy, is
(27:33):
energetic, and my kids have thattoo, and so in meditation that
is what I really enjoy doing,especially when they're in need,
if they're not feeling well orif they're, if they're having
going through a hard time insome way.
It's like getting myself stillso that I can perceive my own
energy, and then I might use avisualization, and then I
(27:55):
visualize them and a lot oftimes I'll see them as like a
being of light, or I see themmore like transparently, so that
it's not even just the physical, and then feeling like that my
heart is radiating to theirheart, or that they're wrapped
in divine energy and highfrequency energy, or that they
(28:16):
are.
Their connection with theirguides is getting stronger and
they're just receiving theseblessings.
And every single day I meditateand every single day I ask God
to protect them, to wrap them inGod's light and to strengthen
their connection, that kind ofsneaky way where I don't
necessarily have to beat a deadhorse with them of don't forget,
(28:40):
god's there for you and allthis, which is great if they
will listen and they're open tothat.
But failing that or not, westill have power as energetic
beings to bless everybody thatwe love, and so my kids and my
husband in particular, my pets,always get that individual
(29:01):
blessing every day as well aspart of my meditation.
Carrie Lingenfelter (29:05):
That's beautiful.
I love the way you describethat connection and how the
process and everything, becauseI'm thinking in my mind yes, I
have elementary kids and rightnow we can do the guided
meditations, or every night whenwe're going to bed I do it with
my seven-year-old and almost10-year-old and they ask me for
it, they ask me for Reiki.
(29:25):
So they're still at that agewhere it's exciting and it's fun
.
And then I'm thinking in mymind maybe I'm like planting
these seeds for when they're 16one day.
And yes, my ego is, oh, but ofcourse we're going to be
connected and we'll still bedoing.
No, carrie, let's be realistichere, as Kara has told you.
So I'm hoping like maybe ifwe've planted some of those
(29:49):
seeds, then they'll have thosetools for when they're having
those hard moments.
But you did also help my mamaheart and maybe my ego a little
bit in saying we can stillconnect with them energetically,
we can still spirituallyconnect with them as they're
older and when they're notwanting to do the guided
meditation with mom me at thatpoint.
Kara Goodwin (30:10):
Yes, and I hope for you that they'll.
That will be a habit thatthey'll love to continue with.
Yeah, who's to?
Carrie Lingenfelter (30:18):
say don't, let me limit you.
Who's to say we never know?
Never know what's coming.
This morning I was listening toone of your recent episodes
about the solar flares and theenergy with the sun and I found
it so fascinating because myalmost 10 year old this past
week we've all been sick andI've been hearing there's been a
lot of energy, like, oh, that'sinteresting.
(30:38):
And my son turned to me and hesaid, mom, I feel like I'm, I've
had this shift and I'm moreintuitively connected right now.
And I was like, whoa, that isreally cool, dude.
We were just celebrating.
Okay, sometimes that can comewith our headaches.
Maybe that's why our head ishurting, because we're in tune
and we're connected and it'sjust showing us.
So let's release that pain,like I know that you're there
(31:00):
and we're connected.
Let's release it.
Have you found any tools whenyou're going through this
heightened sensitivity piece?
My daughter's seven, she's beenmore agitated than normal, like
just very sensitive.
I was curious if you have anytools for those times.
Kara Goodwin (31:15):
Yeah, that is so fascinating with your son that
he was not only just recognizingthat something felt different,
but that he felt a shift andthat he felt more connected.
That's just amazing and I thinkit's such an amazing indication
of just the souls that arecoming in, like this young
generation who it's like.
(31:37):
We have just some reallyincredible, like such special
beings incarnating now, which isso exciting.
Yeah, thinking about the solarflares, the, the geomagnetic
activity on the planet peoplemay be familiar with the
Schumann resonance when thatspikes, all of things work
together and I'll just lay thefoundation in case there are
(31:59):
people who are like what in theworld are we even talking about?
The sun emits frequencies oremits energies and sometimes
they it will shoot out theseconcentrated energy bursts, and
the sun is much bigger thanearth.
So a lot of times these hugethey call them flares, solar
flares, will happen and theyit's not directly earth facing.
(32:21):
We might get a little bit ofside radiation.
Sometimes we get a big one andit's coming right at earth.
We'll have an, or there mightbe like a coronal hole and that
emits like solar wind whichincreases the wind.
We've had a lot of those lately.
Increases the wind we can alsohave if we come back to the
earth, so anyway.
(32:42):
So when that happens with thesun, the energy of the sun
travels.
It's, it starts with the sun,but then it travels and it hits
all the planets in our solarsystem, including the earth, and
so we have this protectionquote unquote protection around
the planet, which is ourgeomagnetic sphere.
It's like this magnetic forcefield around our planet, and so
(33:07):
we simultaneously have thesetimes where that's that weakens,
so the magnetic sphere of theplanet weakens.
And so if we have a weakenedmagnetic sphere and then we have
this heightened solar activity,it means that we're getting
more radiation in the planetbecause that protective, like
magnetic field keeps theradiation, the solar radiation,
(33:29):
the cosmic radiation.
It keeps it from comingdirectly into the planet and
affecting us as much, thosethings.
So when we have things likegeomagnetic storms, that can be
that the magnetics are changingand that can be with a physical
manifestation that we can see ofthat is the changing in the
northern lights.
So when you see things youmight see things in the news
(33:50):
about, oh, the Northern lightsare visible like way further
South than normal, or they'revery active.
That is what that is.
And then the resonance is likethe heartbeat of the planet, so
that's a planetary vibrationthat will spike and so we have
this kind of frequency that isthe sort of normal frequency for
(34:11):
the planet.
Then that can get high and allof these things together affect
us, just like your son wasintuiting, because we are energy
beings.
So, even though we havephysicality, we experience
ourselves as solid, but we areenergy, that we're comprised of
energy underneath and beneathand behind, like all the
(34:33):
physical, all the physicalitywhere it's actually.
We're an energy being and ourphysicality is affected by
changes in energy.
And so, in terms of what I do,when I notice things, so a lot
of times like I'll feel tiredand if I can, I'll rest, but
(34:53):
there are times where I feellike anxiety and I can't
pinpoint why.
I'm like gosh.
It feels like I'm, it's likethis anticipation of something
that I feel like I'm almost likestoring energy for or I'm
nervous about or whatever, but Idon't really know what it is
that's causing that.
We can, so there can be thetired or wired or headaches,
(35:17):
like you mentioned.
That can be really common oneas well.
We can have hormonal imbalances.
It can cause physical issueswhere sinus pressure or
cold-like symptoms.
All of those things arelegitimate responses from an
energetic perspective and it'sjust our bodies taking this new
(35:38):
information and being like, okay, this is different than what,
how I'm used to vibing.
And so there's this periodwhere our energy is like
integrating it or going okay,here's this new thing I'm
getting hit with and I don'talready have.
It doesn't have anywhere to gobecause I don't know what to do
with it, because this is new,and so your body's trying to
(35:59):
figure out what do we do withthis?
And so, as gentle as you can beon yourself in terms of
listening if you're tired, andyou can rest if you are, if you
feel like you have anoverabundance of energy and you
feel like you just it's like Ifeel like I'm just sparking and
have excess energy.
(36:20):
A really helpful thing is to goand put your feet on the ground
and like your bare feet on theground it's called grounding and
feel that as you inhale, you'repulling up the energy of the
earth through the soles of thefeet and letting your body have
that energetic exchange with theplanet.
Your body will know what to do,but there's an electronic
(36:42):
change that happens when you dothat.
If it's like super cold whereyou are and that's just not
going to happen.
You can find a tree.
Put both hands on a tree.
That is also grounding.
Having both hands on itcompletes a circuit, so it's a
better way to communicate withthe earth when you've got both
hands on it.
Salt baths can be very helpfultoo.
(37:05):
Or getting in a natural body ofwater that's very helpful, but
if you can't do that, or, inaddition, putting some Epsom
salts in a bath can also be verygood.
Making sure you stay hydratedthat's critical as well.
Feeding yourself, nourishingfoods If you're wired and then
you're also like drinking a lotof caffeine and a lot of sugar
(37:26):
and things like that, noticethat and you'll want to adjust
because that's going to justexasperate things.
So lots of ways for us to copewith it.
But funnily enough, sometimesit takes noticing it and
noticing like that we're off,because sometimes it can feel so
personal.
It's like people are triggeringus and we can think like why is
that person saying these, whyis everybody annoying me?
(37:50):
And it can feel like otherpeople are doing it to us and we
don't recognize.
Wait a second.
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm extrasensitive or I'm irritated or I
need to take care of myself.
There's something within methat's calling out for some
nourishment or some TLC.
Carrie Lingenfelter (38:10):
Yeah, I love the way you describe it.
I think so many of us may havethose heightened sensitivities
here and there and not know howto describe it.
And it's interesting because asan adult, you can be like oh,
I'm feeling more anxious, oh,I'm feeling more agitated, I'm
tired, all these pieces, whereasmy seven-year-old she might
just be erupting a lot duringthe week and she can't tell us
(38:31):
why.
She doesn't know why yet, maybe.
But, yes, understanding seeingthe pattern in your kids and
then, like you said, findingsome of these tools, slowing
things down and knowing it's notalways going to be like this
it's a it's a phase with yourkiddo right now, possibly, and
my daughter's better now.
So we slowed everything down fora couple of weeks and we went
(38:54):
through that period and nowwe're back to normal.
Yeah, hang in there, parents,it's not forever.
Yes, I love it.
Yeah, so you wrote a book.
Can you tell us about it?
It sounds really nice.
Kara Goodwin (39:06):
Yes, thank you.
It's called your AuthenticAwakening a guide to everyday
spiritual living.
So this is more for nourishingour own spiritual journey as
parents.
It's not so much it can be forany age, but it's not really
written for kids.
But really we need to know howto fill our own cup so that we
(39:28):
have more to give to our kids,and the more that we're in
alignment within ourselves body,mind and soul the better
parents we are and the better wecan emulate or that our kids
have that role model to emulateand our energy ripples out to
everything.
But it really it talks about myjourney, but it also it's more
(39:49):
about the awakening process andsome of the ways that things can
become tricky and sticky andand be hard terrain to navigate.
There are a lot of practicaltools.
Every chapter finishes with ado it section, which is okay.
Here's here are the conceptsthat we talked about and the
(40:12):
examples that you saw.
Here are practical things thatyou can do to help integrate
what we've been talking about.
So that is the nuts and boltsof it.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:24):
Great, and it's called your authentic
awakening.
Kara Goodwin (40:27):
Yes.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:28):
Okay, great , yeah, and we'll include I can
include all of your info in ourshow notes today, and thanks so
much for coming on and sharingall of your background and all
of your stories with us.
It's been such a treat.
Kara Goodwin (40:42):
This has been wonderful.
Carrie, thank you foreverything that you're doing for
parents and for kids andhelping people to open up their
hearts and increase that heartto heart connection with their
kids.
It's so critical, and thanksfor having me on your great host
.
Carrie Lingenfelter (40:59):
Thanks so much.
I look forward to connectingwith you on your show.
Kara Goodwin (41:02):
Yes, I can't wait.
Carrie Lingenfelter (41:05):
Well, that's a wrap.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
Changemakers.
This is Keri, and if youhaven't done a review for us
five stars and a little fewwords about what you've enjoyed
in our podcast episodes we wouldreally appreciate it.
If you guys would like to evermessage me, I would love any
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(41:26):
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