Jun 12, 2022
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Welcome back friends to another episode of Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. My name is Cindy MacMillan.
Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right spot. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between.
Self-love well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.
In this episode of Exploring the Seasons of Life, we are chatting about 4 Self-care practices for our spiritual life. I’m really excited to share with you today my conversation with Lydia Knorr.
Lydia Knorr has more than 25 years in the Health and Wellness industry, formerly as a Registered Dietitian and currently, as a Healthy Lifestyles Coach. Her signature program Discovering Y.O.U. (Your Own Uniqueness) is centered around empowering people to turn inward, establish and align with their personal core values, and honor their own set of best practices so that they can live in a way that feels authentic, purposeful, and fulfilling.
Welcome back to the podcast, Lydia and thank you for being part of this special edition series called, “Self-care is more than a buzzword. It’s personal.”
8:19 (Lydia Knorr) In light of my own journey and in some of the more challenging times in my life, nature really was a go to for me, and it's just this place where I can find solace.
10:42 (Lydia Knorr) If you get yourself deep into a forest, and I don't mean deep to get lost, but just where there's, you know, a lot of trees, sometimes, you know, with the different seasons, you can hear the needles falling from the trees, and it's almost like a light raindrop. And it's just this magical quiet, and yet, you're just a stone's throw from civilization, but you can just get lost in it. And I really find it important to take note of those moments, and just be present with them and appreciate it, you know, because we have so much abundant nature around us. And it's something that I personally don't take for granted, it really is my fuel.
14:36 (Cindy MacMillan) I have mentioned journaling before, but what I haven't talked about was the different types of journaling. There's art journaling, where you are just really cutting out pictures and you have these images and these patterns, so you don't have to do a lot of writing. It's just purely filled with those images. We've all heard of the gratitude journal. What about that laughter journal just writing down things that make you laugh during the day?
20:23 Journaling prompts: What's preventing me from having the life I want? What would my life look like if I gave myself permission to do that? What can I learn from nature? Who or what is God to me? And how would I describe this higher power? What spiritual practice do I like to engage in?
22:14 (Lydia Knorr) Let's talk about first and foremost, what is forgiveness. And I think forgiveness really is about releasing feelings of resentment, or vengeance. And it's really important, to let that go, you know, whether it's towards someone else that we feel have hurt us or even of ourselves, which I think is really, really important to cover. And I will do that in a second.
26:26 (Lydia Knorr) Here's the thing, whether it's a positive event or a negative event or a positive action or negative action, everything has a ripple effect, right? So let's say your actions, my actions caused a negative ripple effect on someone else. That's the part that's hard to let go of. And that's my point where I say, Forgive yourself but don't forget. Don't forget that there was a ripple effect on someone else because it'll remind you the next time moving forward and in how you do things moving forward, that there are consequences.
29:10 (Lydia Knorr) To forgive yourself, it's giving yourself permission to bring practices into your life that nourish your well-being, it's giving yourself permission to be happy. But if you're not going to do it, who's going to do it for you?
33:28 (Lydia Knorr) I think that's why people meditate so that they can just find and really connect to their inner self, and let flow whatever needs to flow or nothing at all, just to experience that state of peacefulness.