The Karen Kenney Show

Is there something that you're duct-taping in your life and crossing your fingers in hopes that it doesn’t fall apart? I know from my own first-hand experience as a kid growing up, that there are times in our lives when we have to work with the things we currently have, and that a hand-me-down might feel like a pick me up (on the right day and in the right context). However, this doesn’t mean that...

When we don’t like something we give it a label - good or bad. This is especially true when it comes to how we’re feeling inside at heightened moments of stress. The truth is that those emotions we often try to reject or run and hide from are just simply “energetic patterns”... and as today’s guest reminds us, if you can think of them as “creative impulses” being given off by our body then everyth...

As a kid growing up, I often had the hardest time making even the simplest decisions. The thought of making the wrong decision (aka: mistakes) was paralyzing. I needed choices in order to “feel alive” but give me too many options and I would end up stuck spinning like that damn pinwheel on your computer. Ha! Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re looking at the decision making process and why it ca...

Our whole life is built on relationships. We are literally in relationship to everything and everyone around us. The fact is, happy, healthy, strong relationships with others only happen if we have cultivated one with ourselves.   If we don’t take care of the primary, internal relationships first - with Self, Source & Spirit - there’s no way we’re going to relate to the rest of the w...

Sometimes in life, we’ve gotta’ be our own hero. It does us no good to sit around waiting for someone else to come and save us.   Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking about showing up for ourselves, making our own decisions and not asking permission from anyone to do it. The sooner we realize that there’s no knight in shining armour coming to our rescue and that we’re responsible for...

Do you ever think back on your life and wish you could just hit the reset button and give yourself a damn do-over? Whether it be to receive more information so you could make more informed decisions - or - simply be more intentional with your choices or actions. Whatever the reason is, sometimes we find ourselves wishing for the opportunity to do it differently. Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’...

In Chapter 13 of A Course in Miracles it says: “You have but two emotions, love and fear… and one you made (Fear/the ego) and one was given you (Love/God).” Love or fear are the only two emotions that we as people fall under. Anything that doesn’t fall into the category of Love, automatically lands itself under the guise of fear. Fear can show up as so many things like; shame, blame, jealousy, rag...

So often when we see or hear about successful people, (especially in today’s world of slick social media marketing) it’s easy to think that their rise to where they are now was all smooth sailing. Truth is, our path in life can be a wicked bumpy and sometimes, especially when the odds are stacked against us, we have to just do it scared. Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking with my friend...

Let’s be honest, it’s not really about the pasta. Whenever we find ourselves upset or not at peace - it helps to recognize that it’s often not about that thing. It was actually about all the built up hurt, anger, frustration or needs that have not been met within us. If we’re willing to be honest, sometimes we lose our cool over the smallest shit and to the person on the receiving end - it seems l...

Have you ever heard the statement, “I'm about to go all ‘woo, woo’ on you”? I was thinking to myself the other day, “Why does everybody feel the need to apologize for the “woo”?” Why do people lead with a warning, like; “OK, so I'm about to go all ‘woo’, on you” as if all the adults in the room need to prepare themselves or perhaps they couldn't handle it. It’s as if we have some sort of fear that...

One of the challenges of being human is that the ego-mind automatically leads with its opinions, judgements, and stories that will either build others up or more likely tear them down. It has no neutral thoughts and it’s almost always sure that it’s right and because of this, we think we know and understand where someone else is coming from. We write stories, apply meaning and assign ourselves the...

“You need to be special!” is a message that we’re constantly being bombarded with when it comes to our personal and professional social media presence. This is especially true as entrepreneurs and business owners in the digital age. We’ve been taught that amongst a sea of people, profiles and posts - it's essential to our success - that we not only have an online presence and platform, but that we...

The term “stay in your own lane” can mean different things to different people and we’re going to dive into a couple of ways of looking at this. Most of the time as adults, when we say “Stay in your lane” - it’s to tell others to stay out of our business or to keep the focus on what they themselves are doing. Just like when we were little kids and the teachers would advise us, “Keep your eyes on y...

There’s a quote I heard that I’ve been contemplating that says how people should, “Praise in public & critique in private.” I’ve got a few thoughts now on this point of view and one of the things that informed me in my mulling and musing about it is an even older saying that tells us that “our words should pass through 3 gates before we ever write them or speak them out loud.” Before we open our b...

With the world being how it is in this moment, now is not the time to stick our heads in the sand. If you are here on the planet right now, I believe it’s for a reason and a greater purpose. Sometimes, we need to turn to our Spiritual Team to help figure out what that is. When we find ourselves in situations where we feel overwhelmed, defeated, scared, anxious or worried it’s helpful to remember t...

From the loss of a younger sister in a car accident by a drunk driver, to finding & fighting the cancer of her then 2 year old son, my guest has experienced some of life’s most painful experiences. Through it all she has found a way to connect with others and build community where there was none. Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re talking with Courtney Daniel who went from being an wicked shy c...

Social media has a grip on society and it’s changing the way we interact with each other and even ourselves. The addiction to using it, getting those likes and views are at a concerning level with dire consequences to our human connections and psyche. This is especially true with teenage girls and young women who are up over 300% in anxiety, depression and suicide rates since the introduction of s...

Our internal peace of mind and happiness are extremely important to our overall well being. In order to find that for ourselves we have to stop and take the time to really look at where it is that we came from and heal the wounds of our past. The truth is it doesn’t matter how we got here, we are here and who we are because of it; belongs to us. It is a part of who we are right down to the core. T...

In our lives we’re often looking for consistency. We want to know that we can count on certain things to be available to us or have particular people show up for us - whether that be in our personal, spiritual or professional lives. Where there’s reliability & responsibility - there’s trust - and relationships can start to build on that foundation of faith. Today on The Karen Kenney Show, we’re ta...

From “victim to victimizer of victimizers” today’s guest talks about his journey from childhood victim to vigilante status and how somewhere in the midst of the chaos, writing saved his life. Today on The Karen Kenney Show we’re talking to one of my most favorite people in the world; New York Times Best-Selling author Andre Dubus III. Andre is not only a beloved friend but also one of my writing m...

In this world, there are a lot of reasons why we find ourselves tempted to go into a contracted state of being. A place we want to tuck into for protection. This pulled in, tightened up reaction creates a realm of separation - where we not only feel removed from the love of those around us - but also from the true essence of who we are meant to be.   This ego conditioning limits our ability to lov...

My meditation teacher taught me that a mind that moves too fast does not have the ability to love. WHOA! A mind that is unable to slow down, pause and choose its response, will find itself running around and reacting to life. Reacting is a kind of an automated fear-based trigger that stems from our past experiences and conditioned thinking. It keeps our minds stuck in the ego-loop and at the mercy...

Most people in this world want to be liked and accepted. But the truth is… sometimes in life, no matter what we do or say, certain people are just not going to like us. For whatever reason, they’re simply not a fan (HA!) and if we resist this fact, it can be extremely draining, mentally and emotionally, trying to contort ourselves into who or how they would prefer us to be. If we keep looking outs...

OK, so this might seem like a total no-brainer, but it’s something that my Spiritual Team recently gave me a hysterical & humbling reminder about ----> We cannot fix a problem until we can clearly identify who, what or where the source of the problem is coming from. Until then, we’ll just keep throwing away our precious resources; money, time, energy and exhaust ourselves in the process of trying...

Sometimes in life we find ourselves feeling lost, confused or “discombobulated” (that’s such a great word - HA!) when stepping into a new area of our life where we become the “complete beginner” again. This experience of the unknown can leave us feeling as if everything we’ve built and created before this moment is falling away and we find ourselves unable to see a way home to our true way of bein...