493. Starseed Kids & Conscious Parenting in a New Era - Carrie Lingenfelter

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Welcome to Soul Elevation, guiding Your Ascension to New Heights. I'm your host Kara Goodwin, and I'm so excited for you to hear this wonderful episode with Carrie Wingerfelter, host of the Heart to Heart Parents podcast. We talk about conscious parenting and the challenges and opportunities which come from raising highly sensitive children.

 I loved what Carrie shared about her elementary school aged kids, realizing that they were taking on the emotions of other kids and feeling sadness and anger that wasn't theirs.

I feel like many adults are not so highly attuned to the origin of their moods, so that's fascinating that these children are recognizing things like that. And we also talk about star seeds and crystal children, what they are and their traits and so many other fascinating topics around conscious parenting.

Carrie Lingenfelter is a former speech [00:01:00] therapist turned Conscious Parenting Advocate podcast host and change maker. As the host of the Heart to Heart Parents podcast, she empowers parents with mindful and spiritual tools to raise emotionally intelligent, compassionate children.

A mother of two, Carrie draws from her personal journey of overcoming anxiety, perfectionism, and parenting burnout to inspire parents to step into their power. Her mission is to support change makers raising change makers by fostering self-awareness, emotional growth, and spiritual connection within families.

So speaking of Star Seeds, I hope you'll join me in my free upcoming Galactic Summit, happening August 2nd, 2025. This event features outstanding speakers in the Galactic Awakening community. They'll offer their perspective on the role of galactic connection.

Within spiritual awakening, we'll have 

Speaker: debbie Soliris, Vivian Chauvet, Tony Gazi, Neil Gower, Isha [00:02:00] Patel, and Daniel Scranton 

as well as other wonderful and amazing guests. Get more info@karagoodwin.com. And now enjoy this episode. 

Kara Gooodwin: well welcome Carrie. I'm really excited to flip things around. I was on your podcast recently and now I get to have you on Soul Elevation, so thank you so much for being here today.

Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much, Kara, for having me on. I'm really excited to connect with you again in this heart space. Yes. Well, I want to talk about conscious parenting, which is such an important topic and not one that I have really explored on this podcast. Talk about what conscious parenting is and how you got active in this space.

Yes. So, um, in our house, conscious parenting has looked like, actually, I actually use the term spiritual parenting a lot too for, um, in our house we, um, really love to connect with ourselves as parents hearing, um. [00:03:00] Hearing our hearts and our heart space in what, what we need in our parenting journey, what our kids are needing in their journey, um, our partners are needing, our dog is needing, you know, all of the above.

So really it's bringing it back to connection. Connection within us and connection with others to see what is the best path to take. So, um, I used to be a speech speech therapist and early, um, elementary educator. Um, and I worked with kids that were birthed to age three when I was in speech therapy. So.

Before I had my kids, I was really excited about having kids and I thought I knew everything about parenting. My, my husband is an engineer side, so he is more science-based and I would say, I've got this. Don't worry about a thing. I'm the parenting expert here. I got it. Um, kids are my jam. And then as soon as I became a parent, I really.

Realized I knew nothing. Um, [00:04:00] everything I had learned, all of the textbooks and the evidence-based practice and all these tools that I thought I had really were not what I needed in the mom setting. It was not what my, um, almost 10-year-old son what he needed at the time. I was trying to live by the book, live by the box of perfection and trying to do everything that I thought I needed to do to be a parent.

Luckily I had people around me, my mom, friends, my grandmother, um, who were connected spiritually, unconsciously, and they would help me to hear my own heart. They would help me to follow my son instead of trying to do sleep schedules and feeding schedules and all of these things that you think you need.

Which at the time for the babyhood turns into what you think you need in elementary school. Having them in sports early on, having all these things right, that you think you have to do to be the perfect parent. So really, I started to learn that early on tuning in and hearing what my kids [00:05:00] needed, what I needed, really helped me to.

Figure out exactly how to help my kids and how to best connect with them and connect with myself. So, um, it really was more recently that I started heart to heart parents, um, because I wanted to reach out to other parents going through this and feeling alone and raising some of these amazing but challenging kids.

Kara Gooodwin: Wow. Well, thank you for sharing that. Can you give some examples about things that you needed to be in this, um, you know, unite kind of needed to come out of? What does the book say versus what really is needed here? What were some examples of, of things like that, that you learned? Mm-hmm. Through parenting.

Carrie Lingenfelter: Sure. So let's see. Examples would be, it's really interesting because I would notice my kids have, um, they have a lot of, they have labels and such with the Neurodiverse side. So even more so [00:06:00] in our house, it's following the child and what the child has in their strengths, what they have in their challenges, and.

So I quickly learned as a parent that I was not in control as much as I thought I was and as much as I wanted to be, I could not control us getting to school on time. I could not control, um. Uh, things going smoothly every day in the house. As I would want my soul like to be in a calm setting. I could not control that, and I didn't realize how sensitive I was, how much I really wanted to control things or how perfectionist qualities I had in me or people pleasing.

These were all things that my children taught me along this journey. So an example would be my son when he was, um. In first grade, he always wanted, he runs hot and he always wanted to wear shorts. And where I live in Colorado, it would be 35 degrees. And so it would be this struggle in the morning, put on your pants, I want shorts, [00:07:00] put on your pants.

And it was this challenge. And I started to really look into the root of why I was wanting him to wear the pants. And it was because when we would wear the shorts. And we would get to school. There were other parents that would say things out loud like, oh wow, brave wearing shorts today when it's 35 degrees, or the looks I would get, and all of those pieces, right?

That I would have a challenge with receiving as his mom. So then we started to dive into that, okay, let's let him wear his shorts. He'll bring his. Pants in his backpack. Let's look at the root cause of this and let's, and so we did the basic right, the physical piece, and then I looked at the spiritual piece, the foundation of what is going on within me, what do I need to look at?

The people pleasing being okay with. Being who we are and letting our flags fly of who we are as lingon filters. Um, so that was a piece, this healing piece that I had to go through. And as I started to look at those pieces of myself, it was like, [00:08:00] whoa, there's a lot of inner child work. There's a lot of, every time a challenge comes up in our family.

Our 2025, my year, my year word is light. Light me up and it's send me, I'm okay with the challenges coming. Please don't send me more than I need, but I'm okay with the challenges coming and when that challenge arises, I'm tuning in. I'm tuning into them, my kiddo. Tuning into my partner if that's the situation myself.

And I'm looking at these moments as opportunities to heal, grow, and learn from what is it that we need to change right now? 'cause that's what this challenge is showing us. Something needs to happen, some shift needs to happen energetically in our house. Does that shift look at something internally? For me, oftentimes it is because the, our children are the mirrors of our energy.

An example would be, um, recently we've all been sick in our house recently and, uh, [00:09:00] my energy levels were low and I was having a hard afternoon with my kiddo trying to get her to go to bed, trying to get her to brush her teeth, and she just wasn't in the mood. She was, her energy was low as well. She had been sick and at school or coming over a cold and at school and I kept, I felt this, you know, you feel the energy bubbling up and you like.

Why is this resistance? Just brush your teeth. Mom wants to go to bed, she's not feeling good. She needs to heal. So do you. You need to go to bed and you just, you snowball as a parent, you can snowball in your mind of. Um, you're resisting me. Are you gonna grow up and not follow rules? Are you gonna grow up?

And so then you fight harder, right? Which they're the reme of our energy. So they're gonna be pushing back like, oh, oh, nope, I'm getting angry too, mom. And so it was interesting, I asked my husband to switch out at that point so I could go wash dishes and kind of regulate myself. And he came in with a calm energy and she reflected that energy.

He sat down, he. [00:10:00] Played with her for a minute and then he was able to go brush her teeth and we know that when something in us is working up in that energy and you, you need a moment to step out that that's so helpful to come in with a pure and loving vibration that they're going to reflect back towards you.

Kara Gooodwin: Yeah, I love that. It's so interesting too, how when there are two people who can kind of balance each other out, when things get tricky in, um, raising children, it's almost like the other parent can come in and it doesn't really even matter what they say. Or what they do, it's just different. And it's like, it just infuses things and it, and it shifts things.

Um, you know, 'cause I know I've had that where like. I've been on both sides of it. But let's say my husband, you know, is things are getting all worked up and he's not getting anywhere with, [00:11:00] with our, one of our children, and this is more when they were younger 'cause they're teens now. Mm-hmm. So it's, it just looks different but.

Yeah. You know, and then, and then he, you know, okay, you're, you try, you know, and it's, and I come in and I don't do anything special. Yeah. But it's just different, you know, and it's like, and I'm not charged because I haven't been in all of this, and I'm just staying neutral. And I've had it the other way too, where I, you know, I'm, I don't have any more ideas, and I'm frustrated and it's like, I'm, I'm done.

I'm done. And then he comes in and it's like, well. He's not even doing anything, and now she's doing it. You know? I know. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah. There's a little bit of the ego that pops up like, oh, well I've been doing that same exact thing, but it works for him now in five minutes. But yeah. Then you just kind of go, oh, yep.

High ego. There you are. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just glad that she's going to bed. Let's, let's focus on the love and the happy 

Kara Gooodwin: pieces, right? Right. Now here's a tricky thing, at least in my, [00:12:00] maybe you've got a great. Thought about this, but the balance of learning from our kids and leading our kids. Mm-hmm. Because in so many ways, I feel like kids these days are a lot of the, the souls who are coming in and have been coming in have a different level of consciousness than we older people do.

And they have a lot to teach us. They, and I think they're gonna be, you know, they're gonna be so. Beneficial for this planet, you know, when they're in charge, let's say. Right. But for now, they're still children. Mm-hmm. And I'm sure we all have experience with kids who are running the show in the household.

Yeah. And it doesn't work like it just, they're not ready for it. They need boundaries. So. You know, too much of letting the kids, quote unquote lead creates a toxic balance, a toxic environment for kids. So how, what do you think about that balance and how to strike it? Definitely, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: yeah. I feel [00:13:00] like. I live in a pretty crunchy area of Colorado, and I see so much of the positive parenting pieces without boundaries.

And I agree with you. There have to be boundaries because we are the adult. We're not gonna let them run into the street, right? We have to have boundaries, and we have to teach them the ways of the world. So it's definitely a piece of it, and I think the connection piece is such a huge piece. Um, and oftentimes, it's so funny when I'm talking on all these podcasts, I hear so many people like, yes, put the phones away, and we're not active on our phones.

And I have little ones, so they don't have phones in this, in this house at all. So we're not on devices or anything except for work. Or once in a while we get some TV time, a very short amount, but. Um, I hear so many people say, put your devices away. Have them outside of the room. When you're playing a game with your kid, when you're connecting with your kid.

And in our house, we have a five minute connection every night. We have [00:14:00] special playtime right before we go to bed. So my husband and I, we swap times with the kids. So we're each with them one-on-one, and we're following their lead. We're connecting with them. We try to get that every day. So even in a busy day, a busy school day with activities, we're still going to have some connection with them because having that connection and that loving peace with our child is going to allow us to establish those boundaries in a loving way.

I love to use this term or this phrase that I say with my son 'cause he's 10 and he is definitely getting up there to the preteen age, right? That adolescent age of questioning, why do I have to do this? Why do I have to go to bed at eight 30? My kid, my friends go to bed at nine. Why can't I play Minecraft every day after school?

It's when my friends get so. I love to say, my job right now is to help you become the best version of yourself, and along with that job, I'm going to support you. I'm going to take care of you, and I'm going to help [00:15:00] you when you're in need. Along with that comes the challenges. I have to also challenge your body too, because you're growing into this amazing human, and I have to, I, my job is to give you opportunities to grow in yourself too, so I love to.

I love to put that out there and I'm starting to use it with my 7-year-old as well, which is, um, new in itself. But, um, having this connection and being upfront and having these conversations, and I'm sure it might look different in your house too, um, Kara, as you have big kids. 

Kara Gooodwin: Yeah, it does. I mean, so many things just change as they age and the, the challenges change.

Um, and I know that, you know, mindfulness is. A big component for you too. What, what do you think mindfulness looks like for kids? 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah, it's, it's really interesting because I feel like. People are really opening the mindful door up to kids, and I love that [00:16:00] so much. Um, my kids, they love to do that. It's, oh, I can't remember the name of the psychologist.

There's a research psychologist, um, from Columbia and she has a lot of research. She has a book called The Spirit to Child, and it's. Really interesting. It talks about children, um, being born connected spiritually and, um, seeking, um, spiritual answers in their childhood. And they want to know, you know, um, they're very connected to nature.

Nature is a healing component for them, and they come with this excitement for life. This. This is describing my kids to a t. They're born with an excitement for life. They're born wanting to know why does that train go that direction and not the other direction. They're wanting to know why is the sun, um, why do we only see it for 12 hours of the day or such?

Um, and so fostering those spiritual pieces, fos, fostering those, those, um, intense questions when they're younger. Whereas when I was little, it would be like, oh, I don't have time for that. Oh, I'm not sure. I can't look that up. We [00:17:00] do have access on our phones or our internet, which is pretty cool. We can look up these big answers for them.

Um, but along. With these ideas is they are so in tune and so connected that these brains of these kids. I always tell my kids, and I'll describe neurology and things that we're finding for neurodiverse children too, or highly sensitive kids or gifted and talented kids, they're so connected. Their brains are so fast and they work so in such a powerful way that it can be so easy to to end up.

Feeling more anxious to end up having a very overactive brain that maybe, maybe brings in the fears more often than other kids might have. So these mindful pieces have been so powerful for my kids. We've done, I mean, I used to be a speech therapist, so we've done many different types of therapies in our house.

But I will tell you, spirituality, mindfulness, conscious parenting, all of these things have done more for my kids, empowered [00:18:00] my kids more than anything else. So in our house. We don't use labels, for instance. We talk about our brains work differently. Our brains may be overactive than other people. We talk about that and how that looks.

So I love to teach them. We talk about, um. Positive thinking positively. Right. I know there's the such thing as like too much positivity. We have to be alert and aware. Yes. We talk about that too, but we, we mainly focus on the magnetic idea of being the change you want to see or if I'm having a feeling in my heart and I'm sending out that.

Feeling to the universe, it could attract that feeling back to me. So if I am, somebody looks at me funny and I'm like, oh, I don't like that person. They don't like me. Look at the way they looked at me. I would use this example. Um, then I'm going to be, they're going to feel my energy, my. The way I'm looking at them, oh, I don't like them.

They're gonna feel that and they're gonna reflect that back toward me. Is that the [00:19:00] feeling I want to have toward me? No. I want to change it. Maybe they're having a tough day. I'm gonna smile at them and I'm gonna think of the positive and move on. Or another example of changing our, the mindset from what we don't want to see to what we do want to see is every single time we go to the zoo on a field trip, it's always raining or snowing or sleeting.

Here in Colorado, I don't know why. Thank you universe, but uh, it's an opportunity for me to tell my kids, okay, there's no bad weather, just bad clothing. So we're gonna put on all the clothing and then we're gonna pack the sunscreen because we're gonna picture the sun coming out. And luckily, I live in Colorado.

Sometimes that happens, but we're gonna focus on what we want to see. We're not gonna focus on the nitty gritty of, Ugh, I don't wanna be walking in. Mom And her head may be going toward. I really don't wanna have kids complaining today. Nope. I'm not gonna allow it in. Me too, because they can feel that energy too.

I can talk about energy if you would like, Kara. That's a big one. I love to talk to my kids about too. 

Kara Gooodwin: [00:20:00] Yeah. How do you, how does, how do you incorporate that into, with, with your kids? 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah. So. You know, it's really interesting raising these amazing kids coming in. So many of them, and I'm hearing it more and more, there's a lot of terms, highly sensitive, child empaths, um, all of these pieces, and I really found that everybody in our family is highly sensitive.

And it took us a while, my husband and I were like, oh. Yeah, we're both highly sensitive, so why would we be surprised that our children are as well? And it, we started to notice my kiddos would come home and say, um, so and so was having a meltdown. And I sat next to him and mom. I felt his energy and I felt I was absorbing some of that sadness he was having, and he felt better.

And so then I started to realize we need to have a conversation on energy. So we would discuss, um, the energy I am full of. I am. Hi am energy. You are energy plants. Our energy, the sun is energy. [00:21:00] The earth has an energy vibration. I'm sure you could go on about this, Kara. Yeah. In your podcast. You know, I can know.

I loved it. So we were talk about, we're all energy and when, when some of us are born with these amazing gifts, labeled gifts, sometimes I don't tell them that, but labeled gifts. We're born with these heightened sensitivities. We can hear better. We can see better. Sometimes that can be really intense and seen as a challenge.

In our house, we choose to empower ourselves and see it as a superpower. We can read the energy of a room, so it talk about to the kids if we're around another child who's having. Maybe a sad moment, and they're, they're feeling the sadness and they're telling us about it. And without realizing it, I could be like a magnet pulling that energy onto me.

I could feel it in my stomach, I could feel it in my head. I could just suddenly, I was happy at recess and now I'm really sad. Or I'm really angry, um, I could be [00:22:00] absorbing this without realizing it. So I described the energy and what it could look like for our kids at school. And I, um, started to teach them every morning before we go to school.

I taught them this in a, in a seated. Calm time, and then we, now they know it so well that we just recite it when we're driving to school or when we're walking out the car to get in the car or walking out the door to get in the car. We, um, picture a white light, a pure white light, um, spiraling from our, the head of coming out the head, and then it spirals around our face.

It spirals around our shoulders, our tummies, the upper leg, the lower leg, our feet, it goes straight into the earth and connects me from the sky to the earth. And then we do the same thing with Golden Light. And then we picture roots growing from our feet straight down into the earth, all the way down into the core of the earth.

And that's grounding us. And then we say out loud, only positive energy, no negative energy aloud. And I recently [00:23:00] added the roots. I had a friend that said, you need them in their bodies. They're trying. Sometimes they. Check out. We need them to stay grounded. So that was when we added for each morning, we saved that.

Um, and I taught my daughter. Six. She was six at the time and she was having a friend that was having a lot of changes in her house and it was a hard time for her. So we would, um, I said, if you feel like you're taking that on, try doing this if you feel like you're picking up their energy. And she said, mom, I felt it at recess.

I, someone was telling me a story and I was feeling really sad, so I did the white and gold light and I felt better. So That's awesome. It was really cool to hear a little one. 

Kara Gooodwin: I love that. That's so great. I love it. Now, I'm curious as your kids have gotten older, um, particularly because you're saying, you know, we could label them, we choose not to label them, but.

There are some people who work in the spiritual world who are really focused [00:24:00] on children, and particularly children who, who get labeled and they, you know, A-D-H-D-A-D-D, all of that. Mm-hmm. But with those types of labels, a lot of times these are very connected souls who are coming in very big energies, advanced energies from a spiritual perspective. So I'm curious mm-hmm. As the parent of children who might be labeled in that way, have there been. Have there been times where they've surprised you with their wisdom or what they've brought to you that seems kind of unexpected in terms of what they would, how they would understand the workings of reality, for example?

Or, or relationships or anything like, I mean, you've given some hints of 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah. 

Kara Gooodwin: Of things, but does anything come to mind? 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yeah. You know, it's really interesting. My kids. They were born alert. They were born conscious. Um, when my son was laid on my chest, he looked me in [00:25:00] the eyes and he had these bright blue eyes, and my husband and I do not have blue eyes.

So we were like, what happened here? And my husband said, he's beautiful. And he turned his head and looked in my husband's eyes and we were like, whoa, our earth is rocked. So it's been from the start that we knew that our kids were very connected. I don't know if you've ever. I heard, um, I know Dolores Cannon does some pieces of like the Star Sea chil, or she does more Indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children.

And then I've also looked at Star Sea Children and it's been really interesting to, um, I, I like looking at the YouTube. I look for videos and they describe the differences between them and I one time found one that had all four, all three of them, I think. And it was describing the differences. And I played it for my kids.

I said, what do you think of this? And they were like. We're all star seeds, all of them. And my husband too, said, we're star seeds. They all felt star seeds. And then I said, what do you think I am? And they were all like, you are a crystal child. It was really [00:26:00] interesting. So the crystal children were more, um.

Uh, like lightworkers and energy healers, teachers, people that worked with, um, other people and people that shared information like I do with my podcast. It's really funny. And then my kids always are drawn towards space. They're drawn toward, um, you know, trying things differently. So it's been interesting to see these things progress, but I will say they definitely absorbed information in life so quickly.

Um. More recently, I, I just had this feeling I was drawn to start the podcast, to try to connect with other people. And it was interesting because a year ago I started it and I was more, or more than a year ago, 15 months ago, and I was drawn toward the conscious piece and the mindful piece. But I kept hearing, you need this spiritual piece, you need this, and these kids, and I kept hearing this message.

These kids are coming in with these amazing gifts. It can be hard [00:27:00] with these gifts also come the challenges of being a human. I. Right. Being in this human form can feel painful at times. It can be loud. Mom can make you eat those green things that don't taste good, and it can, you know, the signals in their brain are very loud, so they want to sometimes pull out, check out of the human body.

And I kept having this feeling when they would have a, my kids would have a meltdown. It was like, Ooh, their spirit doesn't wanna be in the human form. It was, it's interesting because I felt that as a kid, like I didn't wanna be in my human spot listening to math when I was in third grade. I wanted to just.

I don't know what I wanted to do, be in nature. Um, so yes, having to consciously be in our bodies. Um, but I kept hearing these kids are being born with these amazing gifts and going through the human existence can be very, very hard. My kids wanna push through, they wanna be adults. Right now, the human form.

It takes a long time to become an adult. It takes [00:28:00] a long time for your baby sister to get to the point where she can walk. My son was like, I want her to walk right now. Um, so these pieces, human, the human form can be intense. And I have this mission to help parents understand that we can still support them, we can still guide them.

We don't have to control them. And the more we want to control them, the more we want to put them inside of society's. Box of expectations, they're more that they're going to develop these layers of protection on them. And then when they're adults, they can't hear their intuition. They're no longer connected.

We need to have them, we need to raise them. Staying connected to their intuition and their hearts and their spirits, their mind, body, spirit connection into adulthood. 'cause they're already there right now and it's so easy for them to connect right now. 

Kara Gooodwin: I love that. That's so, it's so fascinating. I wish you could have been with me like all day to see how this conversation ties into [00:29:00] every other conversation I've had this, like, this day, um, you know, it started with a coffee with a friend and we always go deep and never know where the conversation's gonna go.

And it, we were talking about how it's hard to be a human and the kind of, the challenges of. Knowing that you're not from here and, but, but like the opportunity that's here and the yes, the like, okay, I've got an opportunity here as a soul to have this physical experience, but also what is the opportunity for the collective and how does that play in with the energy that we're holding.

Um, and then another, I was on another podcast and. We, she, when we finished, she was like, so are you a star seed and where are you from? Oh, and it was the, the podcast is a Reiki podcast and we did kind of touch on star seeds and things like that, but she, that was just, as soon as we finished recording, it was kind of not out of the blue.

It was relevant, but it was also unexpected. [00:30:00] Then I had another podcast guest right before you. Who is a galactic IC reader, but he went right into mm-hmm. My Akashic, uh, or my star lineage. And just, you know, again, not unexpected and totally on point, but I didn't expect you to go there. And so I love that your, your family's like, well, we're star seeds and you're a crystal child and all of this.

That's amazing. It was so cool. So there's a. A guest I've had, um, a long time ago from Australia called Mary Rodwell, and she has written books on, she calls in the Alphabet children, and she specifically, I, I think, I think the book I'm thinking of is called The New Human. And she talks about these children who are being diagnosed with these letter.

Names, you know, they're like the, the A DHD, the a DD, whatever it is, but like the alphabet, you know, the acronyms, yeah. [00:31:00] Mm-hmm. Yeah. And how they are star seeds and they're, it's just this misunderstanding with within society of like, they don't operate the way that we expect people to operate. But it's really more from like the big picture standpoint of like.

Oh, they're here to help us. They're here. Like even if they don't specifically work within, you know, it doesn't really matter what they do as a profession when they're older. Mm-hmm. But just the way that they see the world, the way that the energy that they're holding, it's very specific and it is to help us through this evolution.

So, um, I, you're, you are clearly already tuned into this, but I think you might enjoy Mary Rockwell's work. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Okay. 

Kara Gooodwin: Um, it's really amazing. So. Talk about, oh, go ahead. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: I was gonna ask you, have you listened to the, it's a really popular podcast, telepathy tapes? 

Kara Gooodwin: Yes. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: I love that one. Yeah. I feel like that's really opening the door to people being more aware [00:32:00] and seeing pieces as.

Strengths instead of just the challenges. 

Kara Gooodwin: Yes, it's been huge. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's funny because in, I wanna say like maybe it was January or so, that was when the first text came about. Have you heard the telepathy tapes? And from then I must have gotten, uh, yes. Every week I would get like about. Between three and five texts from people going or emails or whatever.

Have you heard of the telepathy tapes? And they're like, yes. It's great. You know, I do. I love it. It's amazing. But, um, people have been very, very moved by it, and it's amazing. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yep. Yep. I love that. It's bridging that for us, right? Yes. Yeah. 

Kara Gooodwin: And it, it just changes what you think because from a mainstream society perspective, it's like a problem, you know?

Mm-hmm. It's, they're a problem for us to solve. How do we solve them so they can become. What we want them to be. Yes. What we're used to. [00:33:00] Yes. You know? And it takes in the boxes. I mean, yeah. And it's like, but that's not what they're here for. But I mean, it does make sense for like, this is how it's always been.

This is how. We, you know, this is what, what it is like to have the human experience and you know, we're having trouble ushering these kids into that box, you know, so how do we fix that? No, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: they're building outside of the box. Yes. 

Kara Gooodwin: And it's just gonna be amazing to see. What, how, how society, you know, changes because of that.

Because, you know, I mean, just the fact that there are so many kids who could not care less what mainstream society thinks of them, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: you know? Yeah. It's already, and like your children's age, I feel like there's so many of them already, 

Kara Gooodwin: right? And it's like, mm-hmm. Oh, I, why would I do what they're doing? Like, I could not care less about that.

Whereas, you know, in my general, like I'm a Gen Xer and mm-hmm. [00:34:00] We were the, there was less of that. You might have like the rebels, you know, you have more of a rebellious mentality that is more deliberately rebellious and Yeah. But then this like, it feels like now there's just this whole other echelon where it's like, yeah, I'm not pushing to push, I'm not like trying to challenge you because I wanna challenge you.

Mm-hmm. I just, that doesn't make any sense to me. So why would I. Why would I adopt that behavior? Yes. Or why would I care about that? You know, and yeah. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Yep. Um, that's beautiful. It's really cool. Yeah. I feel like now you can, you can go into the world and it, I feel like more often now you can go into the world and be more spiritual.

Mm-hmm. You don't have to test the water as much anymore. 

Kara Gooodwin: Yes. Yeah, it's definitely taking on a different perspective within the collective, and because I think you, you know, your work, your life is similar to mine and where, where like, we just have more exposure to that. [00:35:00] Like in my world, it's true. People expect me to be talking about that kind of stuff, and I expect people to, so my barriers are lower.

But then I, I find myself surprised sometimes where I'm like. Oh, this is how like, oh, you still, you still trust what the news is telling you. Oh, you still believe. Like you still believe that that matters? Oh, yeah. That doesn't matter, but, but it's like I have to quickly re-shift like, oh, well then what do I say in this perspec in this situation?

Because they're not ready. Like they can't, they have no foundation for what I would normally say. Yep. This isn't the right time. You know, it's kind of just understanding and respecting where people are not needing them to necessarily understand what I was. You know what I think about that and just, you know, letting them be where they are.

And, um, but it's funny because my expectations, I, I'm like, oh yeah, there are people [00:36:00] who, I was at dinner the other night with a, somebody I hadn't seen for a long time, and. She started like the conver, she started like kind of taking the conversation in a political, um mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Direction. And I did used to really care about politics.

Yeah. And, and I could not care less. Now I don't believe any of it, you know? And 

Carrie Lingenfelter: oh, it's interesting you shifted. 

Kara Gooodwin: Right. And it's not like, oh, I used to be this, and now I'm like, oh, I used to be left and now I'm really right. Or I used to be right and I, now I'm really left. It's just like I don't believe in, in it.

I don't believe that. Yeah. And I don't pay attention to it, and I don't give it my energy And, um. Interesting. And so it was like the conver, like I could feel where she wanted to go, and I was just like, there was no, I had nothing. I mean, I don't have an I, I don't have any information to offer. I don't, I don't want to go that path, you know, in the conversation.

So it just kind of died, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: you know? It's. It's interesting because, so I've studied Reiki too, and I recently just did, um, [00:37:00] ready, uh, level two, and it's been, it's been really interesting. Um, as you go through the attunements, you can see changes in your mind, body, spirit connection. And for me, I feel like before I did reiki.

I would have this, um, this strong feeling and connection to things like politics or whatever. And now that I've done reiki level two, um, I can breathe things out like in a moment if I'm feeling. Drawn toward a politics situation. I breathe it out and then I just feel neutral and it's given me this gift of just neutralizing like, Hmm, I don't have to hold that in me.

I don't have to hold that in my space. I can breathe it out and just be present. And it's, it's been wonderful. 

Kara Gooodwin: That is amazing. I love it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that neutrality is a critical component of spiritual foundation. Like, and, and the ability to hold more energy and to up level. It's like [00:38:00] we've got to be able to get neutral about things, and it takes practice, it takes dedication, and it takes a lot of compassion, but it's, it's a key component to it, so, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: you know.

As a parent too, you have to have those tools in your bag because I think any spiritual guru, even Ed cart, is gonna have his human moments. 

Kara Gooodwin: Yeah. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Like we all need to, we're always gonna have those human moments. No matter if we're a Reiki practitioner, like a Master Reiki person, we're still gonna have human moments that come up.

We're still gonna have an. Explosion at a time when you're trying to rush out of the house, you have to have those pieces. 'cause we're human, we're living a human experience no matter how connected we are. And so having those things to come back to, it's really cute. My kids, they ask me for reiki every night at bed.

Oh yeah. Especially my 10-year-old. Um, he was going through standardized testing recently, which was awful. And. Every night he would say, mom, I need my reiki. I'm like, okay, let's [00:39:00] do it. So, yeah, you know, they're learning these tools and these things. And then also as a, as a parent, as they say, you have to be able to put your, um, oxygen mask on first, which I used to always laugh at with my husband.

I was like, put. Put my, put mine on because I'm gonna be putting my kids on. I used to always joke. Now I'm like, I have learned, you know, you have to take care of us. We have to have our spiritual tools and our baskets because connecting with ourselves, you know, they're, they're feeling that they're, they're living that.

Kara Gooodwin: Right. Well, it goes back to what you're saying. When your child was observing, like, oh, somebody was feeling badly. I went and sat by them and then I was taking on Yes. What they were, and it's like the. There is definitely more empathetic that we, we lend our energy subconsciously, but through that strengthening we have when we, when we get to, um, you know, as we keep evolving, we become these generators and then we are [00:40:00] radiating and not.

Where it's more of an offering than a like, oh, let me take that for you. Um, we don't take it on as easily. And so what you're talking about with like the spiraling and everything and that protection you were putting around, it's strengthening their fields. Mm-hmm. But the doing that work on ourselves.

Strengthens our energy and keeps us so that we can offer more. You know, we've got more of us to offer, not necessarily meaning that we need to burn the candle on at both ends, but just our presence, we offer more energy to each situation. And um, so yeah, it's really important. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: I love that description.

That's beautiful. 

Kara Gooodwin: Yeah. Yeah. So Carrie, um, this is just incredible. Please tell people how they can connect with you. I mean, you're such an amazing role model for parents and you're doing such great work, so. How can, yeah, 

Carrie Lingenfelter: how can people find you? So we have our thanks. We have our website, [00:41:00] heart to heart life.com, and then we have the podcast Heart to Heart Parents.

It's on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. And then I'm also on Instagram with some daily fun and message. And affirmations for Heart to Heart Parents Podcast as well. And I really appreciate connecting with you. You have such a wonderful show. I think you're doing amazing work for, so for your listeners and your community, 

Kara Gooodwin: well likewise, thank you so much.

It's been great. We've had a great week together. With me being on your podcast earlier and you being on mine now. So thank you so, so much. Thanks for everything that you're doing in the world and with your family and uh, it's been just a delight. Thank you so much. 

Carrie Lingenfelter: Thank you. 

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