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April 6, 2020
We’re Being Called… to Stand in Our Strength
I wanted to share some of the learnings that have been coming up in Doorway sessions with my clients about the covid19 pandemic… I made a little 5 minute video of the ways my clients (and all of us) are being tested right now. It’s clearly here for us to learn from it. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBH4YZC8lGI&t=59s
We’re all being asked (or compelled) to shift into our true power.
My online experiential event starts this Friday, April 10th: Your Deep Knowing Matters: Claiming Your Strength, Power & Intuition. Click here for info or to register: http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/events/your-vibration-matter…
March 27, 2020
Your Deep Knowing Matters
Last fall was the first time I heard it.
A very clear, calm, inner voice said, “Don’t worry Kim, you’re going to be fine.”
I have heard that voice every day since. And although I work with the Other side, at first I had no idea WHY I was being constantly reassured.
Of course, now I know why I heard the voice.
And because this voice had been so consistent and relentless, when Covid 19 first broke out in China, I knew it was serious. I realized immediately that I needed to take extra precautions… and I didn’t travel.
You may not hear inner voices, but here is what’s true: Your deep knowing MATTERS.
And it matters now more than ever.
So I hope you’ll join me for a special teleclass Your Deep Knowing Matters: Claiming Your Strength, Power and Intuition.
There’s Something bigger that’s happening here, Something that our very brilliant minds can’t figure it out. We need another way of knowing. A way of knowing that makes us look in a much different direction…to a much different kind of intelligence. An inner, non-verbal, heart-based intelligence.
More information and the link to register are below. I hope you will join us.
Your Deep Knowing Matters:
Claiming Your Strength, Power and Intuition
In times of crisis, we humans tend to push for answers and solutions, when we really need to deepen, drop below the surface, and connect with what’s real.
When faced with fear, disruptions and the unknown, it can be too easy to forget what we know is true:
Something below the surface is begging for our attention.
In this special teleclass we will regain peace, productivity, and healthy alignment with the Deep Creative.
Collectively, we’ll rest into Something greater than ourselves… and witness It work through us.
Claim your wholeness, power, courage and creative fire.
Align with your inner Source of abundance & well-being.
Use your time, resources, attention & energy wisely.
Spend your days connected to Spirit, fully present to your inner knowing.
Experience natural strength, discipline, healthy boundaries, and focus.
When you’re in your right form, the Universe can work with you.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity.
Note: This is a tele-class, so you can live anywhere in the world and participate.
Early Bird Price: $85 until March 29th, $99 after that
includes audios, handouts & a personal reading with Kim
GROUP CALLS: 3 Fridays April 10th, 17th & 24th
10 am – 12 pm PST
* If you can’t attend live, these calls will be recorded.
“Kim’s work is pioneering.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, New York Times bestselling author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“Kim has a unique capacity to bring forth great depth in people.” ~ Dr. Elizabeth Cassanos, psychologist
November 12, 2019
You’ve Got This Babe. You Don’t Have to Keep Kicking the Can.
I have yet to work with a client who needs more training in order to achieve her life purpose and express her creative gifts. In fact, it’s amazing how many smart people (especially women) collect endless certifications and credentials and spend all kinds of money (and time) on training after training, because they fear their real gifts aren’t legitimate or good enough. I don’t mean to disrespect training programs. I just object to the knee-jerk tendency to solve every career redirection with yet another certification.
One of my clients calls it “kicking the can down the road.” Her focus is always on something outside of herself that she needs to get. Once she gets it, she kicks the can again.
The problem is, she never gets there.
The Deep Creative doesn’t operate at the level of degrees and certifications. For myself, I’ve never had the proper credentials for the significant things I’ve done. I taught a course called “Instructional Strategies” in the UC Berkeley teacher credentialing program… and I had absolutely no classroom teaching experience under my belt. I’ve taught several courses for Pacifica Graduate Institute and other graduate schools of Depth Psychology…and I’ve never taken any classes in that field. (Nor have I taken any courses in psychology, for that matter. My PhD is in Education.)
What if you already have everything you need to realize your dream of finishing that book or becoming a folk singer or running a marathon? If you have a secret longing to do something, I bet that you already have the skills that you need to do it. You don’t need more training.
The secret desire that you’ve been holding close to your chest is in your creative field with you, along with all the resources and capacities you need to take that preliminary first step. Otherwise you wouldn’t have the desire to do it in the first place.
The Deep Creative wants you to own your wholeness, meaning that all you need is right here. It says, “You’ve got this, babe.”
The Deep Creative wants us to create. Let’s start doing that.
October 7, 2019
Organic discipline, strength, focus and clarity
It’s fall and I don’t know if this is happening to you, but all areas of my life are pinging and needing attention all at once—work, finances, health (I’m determined to lose my 10 extra pounds), love (I’m surprised at this one…), my creative muse (wish I had more time to devote…), and family (I need to fly to Iowa to help clean out and sell the family house. When am I gonna have time to do that…?)
I’m feeling some overwhelm.
When we’re in fear, overwhelm, confusion, or exasperated that our goals aren’t being achieved, what we humans tend to do is put artificial structure on ourselves. We set demanding schedules, read self-help books, and beat ourselves up when we don’t make progress on the things we most want to do.
In this upcoming experiential teleclass, we’re going to be working with a particular form of Source energy that will give you organic, internal structure, clarity and definition. This visceral Source energy will allow you to navigate relationships, unruly emotions, and overwhelm with grace, ease and strength… because it’s coming from your essence.
It’s going to be a powerful class, I hope you’ll join me.
TELECLASS:
STRUCTURE, CLARITY & DEFINITION:
MOVING BEYOND OVERWHELM
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Most creative people don’t need more ideas. Nor do they need more creative flow, or more fire. They need proper containment of their creative energy. They need structure—discipline, boundaries and focus—to execute their brilliant visions. They need to own their authority and not get distracted by drama, obligations that don’t fill them up, or their own unruly emotions. They need clarity about what their next step is and when they have that clarity, the fortitude to act on it.
Do you:
say yes when you mean no?
find days floating by without accomplishing much?
have sloppy habits around food, money, and time on the internet?
feel emotional, fuzzy, confused or unclear?
get distracted, depressed or overwhelmed easily?
have ongoing issues w/ a colleague, friend or family member?
long to start a project but can’t seem to get going?
Whether we want to lose ten pounds, grow a business, have a more loving relationship with our partner, or gracefully navigate a challenging situation, we need sturdy inner structure and the ability to hold clear boundaries.
Our minds think, “this is ridiculous, it’s so easy. All I need is to follow a food plan and I’ll lose that weight.” Or, “I just need to schedule time every morning to work on my book.” But if you’re like many creative people, after two days (or two hours), our old patterns and distractions take over. We’re back in fuzzy energy again.
In this class we’ll work with a particular form of Source Energy that provides natural strength, discipline, healthy boundaries, focus and clarity.
You will up-level your daily habits, move past the fuzziness that’s been clouding your brain, clean up those messy areas in your life, and operate from a natural strength of purpose.
This is about sturdy inner form… we’ll be aligning our deep desires with who we’re being in the world.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity.
Note: This is a tele-class, so you can live anywhere in the world and participate.
Early Bird Price: $89 until October 10th, $99 after that
includes audios, handouts & a personal reading with Kim
GROUP CALLS: three Fridays October 18th, 25th & Nov 1st
10 am – 12 pm PST
* If you can’t attend live, these calls will be recorded.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
September 2, 2019
Magic Happens… When We Sit in the Driver’s Seat
In a dream last week, I had a new car. It was an upgrade, bigger and nicer than my old car, but it was hard to drive. Then I realized I wasn’t in the driver’s seat.I was trying to drive from the passenger seat.
I’m not surprised by the message from this dream, because I’m offering a new teleclass on Speaking Up (subtitle: Claiming Your Voice, Wisdom & Gifts) that starts this Thursday and the course material always ‘works me’ during the weeks leading up to the class.
I can give you so many examples in my own life of missing the creative opportunity of a particular moment… because I was too afraid to speak up, or to act on what I knew to be true. I didn’t trust myself, I didn’t trust Spirit. (In other words, I was trying to drive from the passenger seat.)
But as I’ve worked with the very real Source energies of the Deep Creative, I’ve become connected to my own intuitive knowing in a deep way. I can see how the Deep Creative wants to move. I’m much more likely to see the creative opportunities that are present in a particular situation.
This visceral inner knowing has given me the strength to speak up (and show up) in ways and situations that I previously would have found way too intimidating. In this class I’ll be sharing my experiences, as well as the experiences of some of my clients. But more importantly, you’ll be discovering your own strength, power and uncanny inner clarity.
You might have memories of times in your own life when you were too shy to speak. Or too confused, angry, or depressed to step up and participate in a situation in the way that you wanted to. And then sometimes, we’re just simply looking in the wrong direction.
Magical things DO want to happen. And in a world of chaos, unstable financial markets and global turmoil, we all need to be plugged into our courage, strength and deep inner knowing. I hope you’ll join us for this powerful class.
SPEAKING UP
CLAIM YOUR VOICE, WISDOM & GIFTS
Those who genuinely have something to share, are often too afraid to speak up.
This teleclass is about your voice, because you have a choice how you use it in this life.
If you’ve spent your life muffling your deep truths and hiding your gifts… If you’ve suffered through moments of deep yearning to speak up, but timidity and low self-worth got the better of you… If you have something important to share, but find yourself mired in self-doubt and fear… If you find it hard to value yourself, your wisdom and your contributions, please join us.
Because our worst betrayal is the betrayal of ourselves.
There are truths lying buried beneath the surface that can transform this world. There are creative solutions, powerful gifts and answers to our most pressing problems.
You have a sacred responsibility to give voice to what you know.
voice what’s been hidden
firmly own your worth and value
speak your truth with self-confidence, grace and ease
allow your voice be heard above the din and noise
In this teleclass we will take an experiential journey into Source energy. As you enter this vibrantly alive energetic field, you’ll receive clarity, guidance, next steps and deep connection with your own inner knowing.
It’s time for you to fully own your gifts and stand in your innate courage, wisdom, bravery and power.
What you know matters. When you speak what you know, it matters even more.
Note: This is a tele-class, so you can live anywhere in the world and participate.
$75 includes audios and a private, individualized reading
(The reading will happen separately from the group calls.)
Group calls: Thursdays September 5th & September 12th
10 am – 12 pm PST
NOTE: If you can’t attend live, this event will be recorded. And all participants, whether you attend live or not, can receive a personal reading from Kim as part of the class.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
August 23, 2019
The Creative Needs Sturdy Form
Creativity is kind of like soup. If we want to make soup we need a strong pot. Because of course, if the pot leaks, we lose the soup.
I work with creative people. They don’t need more ideas. What they need is a way to manage the flow. They need a way to feel safe stepping into the unknown. Then need a way to not feel overwhelmed. They need a way to protect their work.
In other words, they need form.
They need a structure, which I metaphorically see as a square or what I call “square energy.” Square energy allow us to step into unknown territory—it gives us boundaries, clarity and definition.
Yes. Even in the midst of the unknown, even when chaos is descending around us, we can create structure for ourselves. Through the wisdom of metaphoric energy, we have the ability to create lines and boundaries for ourselves.
But when we work with form and structure, we don’t want it to be too small for us.
What we often do (…out of fear) is settle too quickly. We create form too quickly–we just want to make the darn decision about the job, or we’re eager to launch something so we launch too soon, or write a book but we’re afraid of really saying what we want to say. Or whatever.
The creative form needs to be proper size.
When you feel overwhelmed, when you don’t know what we’re doing, when you’re exploring something new…you can tap the metaphoric energies below the surface to create structure for yourself.
August 13, 2019
Having the Courage to Speak Up
I’ve always had trouble voicing things… speaking up for myself, calling out deception, and owning my own value and worth. When I was growing up, my mother would always tell me, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I wasn’t sure that whatever I was thinking was nice, so I stuffed my thoughts and feelings.
Years ago, I heard a story about a Cesar Chavez farm worker meeting in the 1950s. The room was packed with men who were arguing loudly. And then an old woman who’d been sitting silently in the back of the room for the past hour, rose to speak. Apparently, you could hear a pin drop. I don’t remember now what she said, but I do remember how important her voice was. Her courage to stand up and speak changed the energy and direction of the entire conversation.
In a machismo culture, in a roomful of men, her voice had an impact.
Perhaps the reason that story has stayed with me is because I’ve had moments where I haven’t had the courage to speak.
I grew up in an ordinary middle class home in Iowa, my father was a farmer, and I attended public schools. Through a stroke of fate, I ended up being critically injured in a head-on collision in my 20s, received insurance money and wound up in the PhD program at the University of Chicago. Unlike myself, most of my fellow classmates came from wealthy families.
One day I was sitting in a huge conference auditorium where an educational policy was being discussed. It’s too much for me to go into the details of what made me so angry, but it had to do with the arrogance of privilege. A fellow graduate student waxing on about public schools, while he himself had never set foot inside a public school, nor would he ever send his children to public school.
I couldn’t believe the arrogance. I sat there steaming, yearning to stand up in front of all these people and call out the hypocrisy.
But I didn’t. I didn’t have the courage.
My teleclass below is a redress.
I don’t know what you need to say to someone (…and perhaps you don’t either.) And what you need to say might not be so dramatic as standing up in a room packed with people. Perhaps it’s for your husband or mother, the community group you belong to, or voicing the value of your work in the world
We’re not always in a position to make a difference, but sometimes we are. And when that moment comes for you, I want you to be standing in your full value, worth, strength and integrity.
It’s about speaking with authority when we need to do that, but of course, it’s also about so many other things…
Valuing ourselves and our work
Appropriate boundaries
Deep clarity and conviction
Self-confidence, self-esteem, and…
Trusting yourself.
Please join us. (The early bird rate ends August 20th!).
SPEAKING UP
CLAIMING YOUR VOICE, WISDOM & GIFTS
If you’ve been muffling your deep truths and hiding your gifts… If you’ve suffered through moments of having a deep yearning to speak up, but timidity and low self-worth got the better of you… If you have something important to share, but find yourself mired in self-doubt and fear… If you find it hard to value yourself, your wisdom and your contributions… please join us.
This teleclass is about your voice, because you have a choice how you use it in this life.
Those who genuinely have something to share are often too afraid to speak up, but the worst betrayal is the betrayal of ourselves.
There are truths lying buried beneath the surface that can transform this world. There are creative solutions, powerful gifts and answers to our most pressing problems.
You have a sacred responsibility to give voice to what you know.
voice what’s been hidden
firmly own your worth and value
speak your truth with self-confidence, grace and ease
allow your voice be heard above the din
In this teleclass we will take an experiential journey into Source energy. As you enter this vibrantly alive energetic field, you’ll receive clarity, guidance, next steps and deep connection with your own inner knowing.
It’s time for you to fully own your gifts and stand in your innate courage, wisdom, bravery and power.
What you know matters. When you speak what you know, it matters even more.
Note: This is a tele-class, so you can live anywhere in the world and participate.
Early bird price: $65 includes audios and a personal reading with Kim. ($75 after August 20th)
Group calls: Thursdays September 5th & September 12th. 10 am – 12 pm PST
NOTE: If you can’t attend live, this event will be recorded. And all participants, whether you attend live or not, can receive a personal reading from Kim as part of the class.
August 3, 2019
Be Too Much
I work with so many clients who have ‘big energy.’ They worry about being ‘too much,’ they want to be nice and fit in. But artists are people who can’t live in that place of ‘fitting in’…that’s not what they’re ABOUT. Their GIFT is to be TOO MUCH. I’m reminded of something the film critic Pauline Kael said, “Art doesn’t come in measured quantities: it’s got to be too much or it’s not enough.” PLEASE y’all. Be too much.
July 15, 2019
Imagination is subversive
It lives in a place that’s beyond social conditioning.
July 12, 2019
What is ‘good’ writing?
Occasionally I run into someone who tells me that he or she is a good writer, and for whatever reason, this has happened to me recently with two former graduate students.
With both of them (bless their hearts), I thought, “huh?” To my mind, neither of these two individuals are good writers. Smart, capable, creative, interesting, charming, and having worthy things to say? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. But good at writing? No.
So… having spent my career reading graduate school papers, PhD dissertations and writing, reviewing and editing books, I’d like to offer what I believe makes writing “good.”
Good writing is not about the writing. If I’m reading something and I’m thinking about the writing in any way, it’s not good writing.
Writing is good when it sinks into the background and is absent… while I become totally engaged and enthralled with what I’m reading.
Clunky writing is not good writing. Vague, unclear writing is not good writing. And to me (…and I’m sure there are many who will argue with me on this one), slick, witty writing is not good writing.
Writing is only there as a way or a path for the reader to enter another world. It’s like the road under your feet, it’s taking you somewhere. And when it’s “about the writing,” you’re stuck at the doorway. Even hearing someone say she or he is a good writer, is a bit suspicious. I want to know that you can take yourself out of it.
I want to know that this isn’t about you. You work is only the vessel for something greater than you to be brought into this world.
