{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ff73ca422-f1ec-4ff1-ac14-ebddf30c9534","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Connecting The Dots","description":"As a Spiritual Mentor, I often jokingly say that, \u201cThis being human is an ongoing problem.\u201d\n\nFunny things about humans though, we often don\u2019t make the connection between human problems and spiritual solutions.\n\nWhen we\u2019re facing human sadness, fear, loneliness, grief, heartbreak, trauma, overwhelm, anxiety, disconnection, and the thousand and one other ways that humans can suffer and cause suffering\u2026\n\nIt doesn\u2019t usually occur to many of us that our fecked\u2019 up situations can\u2019t be solved by the same ego-strategies and thought systems that got us into the fecked\u2019 up mess in the first place.\n\nWe somehow don\u2019t connect the dots to finding strength, support, and solutions through spiritual work, tools and practices.\n\nIn fact, if you had told the much younger version of myself that being willing to say a prayer would solve my human conflict, I\u2019m not sure I would have believed you.\n\nUntil one day 27+ years ago, I had an experience with my friend and mentor, Marianne Williamson that changed my life forever.\n\nToday on The Karen Kenney Show, we\u2019re talking about how we sometimes overlook Spiritual practices and mentoring as a solution because it either never occurred to us before, or we have these different ideas about what we think spiritual work is and how it may or may not help us when we\u2019re suffering.\n\nHowever, as I often tell my clients and members, suffering is a wicked good teacher until you get a better one. \n\nAre you ready for a better one?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/22c50850-e75c-4734-b25e-87faf90de9ff/2026-Podcast-Artwork-512KB.jpg"}