WHAT WOULD YOUR LIFE LOOK LIKE IF YOU DECIDED TO JUST CUT THE CRAP ALREADY?
What if you no longer insisted on writing, directing and starring in that old “made for TV movie” where you’re always playing the lead victim role?
(Insert dramatic music here 🎵)
What kind of miraculous stuff could happen if you were finally willing to let go of your old story, change your habits, own your brilliance and your bullshit, and chose to remember who you really are?
What might become possible when we stop trying to do everything from our head - with the same consciousness that created the damn problems in the first place - and instead, let ourselves drop down into that deeper knowing - by expanding our consciousness and checking out the wisdom of the heart?
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THERE’S
A WAY FOR YOU TO LIVE MORE
HAPPILY Than EVER BEFORE ?
Wicked exciting, right?
I mean, how awesome would it feel to know that no matter what kind of sucky cards life tries to deal you, you could still play that hand like a champ? This doesn’t mean that we deny our past or try to “spiritually bypass” that sometimes life can feel like a big ole “suck it in a bucket”. HA! But it does mean that you could learn new practices and tools that help you to choose to be happy, peaceful & grateful despite your circumstances.
I WANT TO HELP YOU FINALLY ACCEPT THAT YOU’RE FECKIN’ AMAZING… NOT DESPITE WHAT’S HAPPENed TO YOU - BUT SOMETIMES BECAUSE OF WHAT’s HAPPENed TO YOU.
It’s time to see that the very things you’ve been blaming for all your suffering - can actually become your ticket home.
I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO OWN YOUR MAGIC!
You can have a grievance
or you can have a miracle.
you can’t have both.
Because fear cannot exist in the presence of Love and darkness cannot exist in the presence of Light.
So you’ve gotta’ ask yourself, which one do I really want?
What lights me up IS helpING people shift their perspective
from fear to Love
and to transform Your Story to Your Glory!
BECause IF YOU CAN DO THAT, THEN YOU CAN HAVE A MIRACLE.
WHILE THIS KIND OF PERSONAL GROWTH & SPIRITUAL WORK ISN’T ALWAYS EASY,
IT ALSO DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SO HARD.
You can:
• Put down your dukes, weapons and shields.
• Stop building blocks & barriers to Love.
• Get the heck out of your own way.
• Learn to move through the world with nothing to attack, defend or prove.
• Come back home to your True Self.
Because here’s the thing, YOU are a child of God/Love. YOU WERE BORN TO “CREATE THE GOOD, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE HOLY.”
Those days of playing small & not taking responsibility for your own happiness and peace are over.
It’s time to answer the call of your heart.
Your Spirit is knocking loud and clear & asking you to take that leap of faith.
And while that mofo’ is patient as all get out - why would you want to wait any longer?
Why would you delay your happiness or deflect your inner peace?
Why wouldn’t you, for the love of all things good & holy, just put down your gosh-dang dukes already & STOP COCK-BLOCKING GOD?
I REMEMBER WHEN I USED TO THINK THAT I WAS
AT THE MERCY OF THE WORLD.
I thought I was powerless & helpless over all of my circumstances. In fairness, at the time, I had good reason to feel that way. I was 12 years old, my mom had been murdered & I was scared out of my mind. ALL. THE. TIME.
I dog-paddled in the deep end of the “victim pool” for many years, using these little, pathetic, inflated “arm-floaties” of the ego - that barely kept my head above water. I always felt like I was on the verge of drowning.
And trust me, in my earlier years, I tried all kinds of man-made “life rafts” to keep myself from sinking. I dabbled in drinking, drugs, distraction…. But at the end of the day, that shit had no legit staying power, it was lacking Soul Force.
It wasn’t until I found the right books & mentors, became open to doing my own trauma work and discovered my Spiritual Team (ST) and Daily Spiritual Practices (DSP), that I was able to start to get out of my own damn way.
Each of these tools/resources that I added to my Spiritual Toolkit™, invited me to trust, go deeper and take a closer look at who & how I was showing up in the world.
ONCE I SURRENDERED & ADMITTED THAT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE FECK’ I WAS DOING, I ACTUALLY BECAME TEACHABLE (OR LEARNABLE AS I SOMETIMES LIKE TO SAY).
I had to accept the fact that if I could’ve figured it all out on my own - I already would have. I was smart kid (which was sometimes my biggest problem)… so, I had to take a good look around at my “attitudinal longitude and latitude” & get it through my thick head that it had been MY best thinking that, at the time, had gotten me “here”. (Lord have mercy Ha!)
WITH THE RIGHT HELP & RESOURCES, I REALIZED
SOME POWERFUL & REVOLUTIONARY TRUTHS LIKE:
I'm a child of God/Love & Only Love is Real.
I don’t always have a choice as to what’s happening, but I do always have a choice as to how I respond to whatever's happening in my life.
That mentors are great - but tor(mentors) can take your ass a long way too. Ha!
Hurt people might hurt people, but happy people tend not to hurt people. Not on purpose anyway.
My trauma had “wired” me and my nervous system in a certain way and there were tools, therapists and therapies that could help me to experience and feel a different way.
That I could play a proactive role in my own healing.
I didn’t have to do every damn thing all on my own.
That my mind is Cause & the world is Effect & that my projections often became my perceptions.
If I don’t like what’s happening “out there” in my world - I have to change what’s “in here” within me.
Forgiveness sets you free.
Having a supportive spiritual teacher and community to walk along beside you is a game changer.
When I started to really get all this - to not just think & theorize about it - but to actually apply it, practice it & live it - EVERYTHING changed.
first, i went on a quest.
then, I TOOK MY POWER BACK.
And once I learned how to help myself - I naturally wanted to help others too.
I wanted to do what I now call, “sending the elevator back down”.
LOOK, LET’S CALL A SPADE A SPADE - LIFE CAN BE TOUGH.
PEOPLE CAN DO SOME CRAZY, CRUEL THINGS TO ONE ANOTHER.
THIS whole HUMAN THING IS LIKE BEING IN THE FECKIN’ FORGIVENESS OLYMPICS.
But here’s what I know to be true…
suffering can be a WICKED good teacher, until you find a better one.
I work with people (like you) who’ve probably had more than their fair share of wicked hard shit happen to them.
I help them to live their life like nothing bad has ever happened.
Which doesn’t mean that you deny or ignore your past, or walk around piously or with “prayer hands” pretending that everything’s “fine”.
This isn’t about spreading a culture of spiritual bypassing, social media bullshitting, or trying to “namaste” away our trauma & pain.
It does mean:
• That you can learn to consciously shift your perception & perspective from fear to Love.
• That you can ask for help, do trauma work, gather tools & play a proactive role in your own healing.
• That you can “choose peace instead of this” & assign new meaning to your life and stories.
• That you can take part in the non-negotiable, Daily Spiritual Practices (DSP) that I often refer to as: Mind Training.
As A Course in Miracles says, “An untrained mind can accomplish nothing.”
If you’re willing to cut the shit and “stop playing dumb” about who you really are, and if you choose to commit to taking responsibility
for your own happiness & inner peace - you can experience a new level of fun, freedom & flow - greater than you’ve ever known.
ARE YOUR READY TO transform your life?
SHORT BIO:
Karen Kenney is a certified Spiritual Mentor, Writer, Hypnotist, Integrative Change Worker and Coach. She’s known for her dynamic storytelling, her sense of humor, her Boston accent and her no-bullshit approach to Spirituality and transformational work.
She’s been a yoga teacher for 25 years, is a Certified Gateless Writing Instructor, and is also an author, speaker, retreat leader and the host of The Karen Kenney Show podcast.
A curious human being, life-long learner and an entrepreneur for 20+ years, KK brings a down-to-earth perspective to the spiritual principles and practical tools that create powerful shifts in people’s lives, relationships and businesses.
She works with people individually in her 1:1 program THE QUEST - and in her group program THE NEST.
Her approach brings together tools that coach both the conscious and unconscious mind. She combines Brain Science, Subconscious Reprogramming, Integrative Hypnosis, and Spiritual Mentorship to help clients regulate their nervous systems, remove blocks, rewrite stories, rewire beliefs, and reimagine what’s possible!
Karen wants her clients to have their own lived experience with spirituality and to not just “take her word for it”. She encourages them to discover and deepen their own personal connection to Self, Source and Spirit in tangible and actionable ways.
Her “Your Story To Your Glory” process helps people to shift their minds from an old thought system of fear to one of Love - using compassion, empirical evidence and humor, her work is effective, efficient, and wicked fun!
KK’s been a student of A Course in Miracles for 30 years, has been vegan for 20+ years, and believes that a little kindness can make a big difference.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME:
I grew up in Lawrence, MA, a tough little city on the Merrimack River about 30 miles north of Boston.
I was a wicked curious kid - always wanting to understand everything and everybody around me. I’ve been told that my mantra when I was little was “Why, Mum? Why, Mum? Why, Mum?” Last I checked, I’m still that way. Ha!
I’ve loved words, books, reading and storytelling for as long as I can remember and started journaling and writing stuff down when I was about 13, a year after my mother was murdered. I often say that books and writing in their own way saved me.
I was an athlete all throughout my childhood and I started playing softball around the age of five. I played team sports and was a cheerleader all four years at Lawrence High School.
I ran the weight room at the Case Athletic Center as part of my work-study program at Boston University and discovered yoga in 1988 (during my sophomore year).
I got a BS in Communications and after graduation, I moved to Los Angeles where I waitressed, became a personal trainer and played women’s baseball for coach Mike Boyd (brother of notorious Red Sox pitcher - “Oil Can” Boyd).
The violent and tragic loss of my mother sparked a search for answers and a quest for truth, peace and nonviolence that started at 17 and gradually but inevitably, led me to deeper practices of writing, Yoga, Passage Meditation, A Course in Miracles and veganism.
In 1992, while living in LA, I stumbled across the book, A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. (It literally fell off the bookshelf and at my feet at Crown Books in Burbank. You can hear that whole story here).
The teachings in Marianne’s book, which are reflections on the principles of A Course in Miracles, opened new doors to compassion, God, forgiveness, choice & profound healing. A few years later, I was blessed to meet and travel with Marianne on a few Spiritual Pilgrimages to the sacred places of mystical Egypt, and also England & Ireland.
It was on that last trip at the Hill of Tara that she asked me to come work for her. I moved to Santa Barbara to live, learn and work closely with Marianne, who became my “spiritual godmother” and mentor.
I’m grateful for all the women that took me under their maternal & spiritual wings along the way, including: “Miss” Kae LeFebre, Marianne Williamson & Daphne Rose Kingma. Having lost my mother as a 12-year old tomboy, these incredible teachers played a significant role in shaping me and my life. I wouldn’t be who I am without the love, support, grace, kindness & occasional “ass-kicking” I got from them. I love them & believe my mom would love them too. xo
I’m married to my sweetie, Chris Lester -
a Wicked talented professional musician; Multi-instrumentalist, SINGER, songwriter & producer.
He’s been making music since he was a toddler. An incredible guitar & bass player, he also plays drums, mandolin & keyboards, which means he can literally record a whole album on his own! Along with his solo & studio work, Chris is also in The Dark Desert Eagles (an Eagles tribute band with Pat Badger of Extreme) and plays in the popular Boston based band, Fortune. He’s written music for and has toured with Sully Erna (Godsmack) and he’s played with legendary artists like Carole King and other Rock n’ Roll Hall of Famers. (📸 Credit: Trixie’s Tilted Tripod)
I’m an animal lover, Animal RIGHTS ADVOCATE, ANIMAL RESCUE SUPPORTER & have chosen a VEGAN lifestyle for 20+ years.
Animals have always been one of my safe places and where I’ve sought and found happiness, belonging and comfort.
I feel at home around furry creatures and they’ve often been some of my best and most loyal friends. They’re also some of my best teachers and easiest pathways to love and the Divine.
I believe that all beings deserve compassion and kindness and should have the right to live happy lives, free from cruelty, abuse, forced entertainment and suffering.
I believe in speaking up for those without power and being a voice for the voiceless.