The Struggle Was Never in the Way. It Was the Way.
Whatif everything you have been through, every hard season, every loss, every thing that felt like it was breaking you — was never actually in the way of who you're becoming? What if it was the way?
This is one of the most personal episodes Kim has ever recorded. In it she pulls back the curtain on three decades of her own life and shows you exactly how the hardest things she lived through became the exact preparation she needed to become the coach, the woman, and the version of herself she had been calling in all along.
She talks about getting married young and stepping into a blended family before she even knew who she was. About navigating a biracial marriage and what it gave her in terms of perspective and empathy. About her weight and what she finally understood it was really telling her, that her body was keeping score long before her mind was ready to deal with it. About being pregnant with her youngest daughter Jada and receiving a cancer diagnosis she couldn't do anything about until after Jada was born, and the six surgeries that followed in a single year.
About an Ayahuasca experience that cracked her open and showed her a past she hadn't fully remembered. About over twenty years of marriage, the edge they came to, and what it meant to choose to stay and do the work. About building a business from scratch after seasons of having nothing.
This is not a motivational episode. This is a woman standing on the other side of decades of hard telling you the truth about what she found there.
Nothing was wasted. Not one single thing. And neither was yours.
What we get into:
Why the version of you that you're manifesting can only be built through the hard thing, how to shift from asking why is this happening to me to what is this building in me, why your body keeps score when your mind won't, what it means to hold space for other women when you've actually lived what they're going through, and why you are not behind, not broken, and not being punished, you are being prepared
Also mentioned in this episode:
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Kim's three part Ayahuasca series — click here.
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