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“Choosing a ‘Smaller’ Life Brings Her Integrity” KEW The Are vs Should Problem Interview Series: Candice Smiley

By kpluseiswise | March 24, 2022March 22, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Have you experienced trauma? Have you overcome adversity? Many, if not most, of us have not have perfect lives. Candice Smiley is like us. Though we don’t talk specifically about her past, you will be amazed to learn that this sophisticated, confident, and calm woman made it through her suffering. In fact, you will be impressed at her candor and her, well, knowledge, experience, and wisdom. We are lucky that Candice is healing and taking…

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Preview KEW Episode 84: Mindfulness and Mindset

By kpluseiswise | February 9, 2022 by kpluseiswise

What do you think about when you hear the words ‘Mindfulness’ or ‘Mindset’? You might be indifferent. Many are. You might be opposed to these terms or they may induce a knee-jerk reaction, like, ‘More mumbo-jumbo hippie talk.’ Or something negative, at least. Many of you, of course, will recognize these terms but have varying familiarity with what the words really mean in practice. Funny how that is. We all think we know the meaning…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 4: Quiet vs. Distraction

By kpluseiswise | February 7, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Do you sometimes struggle with what to do next? Analysis paralysis style? How about when you are by yourself in a crowd. Do you feel like you have to pull out your phone? Personally, I have trouble just ‘being’, sometimes. And it’s really kind of funny, because deep down, that’s all I really want. And I think a lot of us are like this. We crave peace. Calm. Even…

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KEW Episode 82: What Do You Need?

By kpluseiswise | January 28, 2022October 10, 2023 by kpluseiswise

What DO you need? Have you ever really asked yourself this question? And I don’t mean what do you ‘sort of what right now to pacify or distract you’, I mean what do you REALLY need in your life that you don’t have enough of? I, and many of my guests, talk a lot about Values and knowing your ‘Why‘, and knowing what you need is related to those ideas. It amazes me how we…

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KEW The Are vs Should Problem Interview Series: Emmanuelle Chasse

By kpluseiswise | January 27, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Have you ever met someone who seems to be doing exactly what they were meant to be doing? I have. And this week I’m sharing our conversation as part of the Are vs Should Problem discussion. Emmanuelle Chasse is a helper. Like many we’ve interviewed on KEW, she helps people through her writing, podcasting, and coaching. You can find out all about how she can help you here: https://rapidtransformation.ca. Reach out and she can help…

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Preview KEW Episode 62: Change (cont.)

By kpluseiswise | September 8, 2021 by kpluseiswise

I’ve been talking a lot about how change is a FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF LIFE. Biological entities have DNA which builds our bodies and defines our unique abilities and deficiencies. But more than that, DNA is the mechanism that perpetuates and propels species through TIME by allowing adaptation to changing environmental conditions. The universe is always changing and anything wishing to persist needs a way of dealing with those changes. Biological things, like humans, have DNA…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 44: Unnatural Selection

By kpluseiswise | August 16, 2021 by kpluseiswise

“We went from modifying our behavior to suit the Earth, to modifying the Earth to suit our behavior” I’m sure I didn’t make that phrase up, but it does describe what I think is a critical flaw in human evolution. Starting maybe 12,000 years ago, we changed the way we live. In the beginning, the alterations to our ways of living were subtle and had mostly beneficial consequences. In the past few hundred years, however,…

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Preview KEW Episode 56: Domestication

By kpluseiswise | July 28, 2021 by kpluseiswise

I am borrowing the term ‘domestication’ from Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the Four Agreements. A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book). If you’ve listened to any of my podcasts you know I am very fond of the Toltecs and their way of living in our universe. But this week’s episode is specifically about the process we humans experience as we grow that essentially teaches us how to live. On the one…