Welcome back to Picture Love Friends. I can't stop smiling if you're seeing me on YouTube, you know what I mean? Maybe you can hear it, in my voice, but I'm stupid- Smiling, meaning like it. I feel so silly and giddy just with joy while I'm smiling. I don't know if you can tolerate that today. Hopefully you can. I'm wearing my bring your own sunshine T-shirt, and the reason for my goofy smile is I took time to measure back and I found some stuff I'm really proud of. I, I hope you do that for yourself today. Will you just make an appointment? If it's not coming to mind right now, I would love for you to just take a moment, pause and look back from the last 12 months, find something you're very either proud of that you did, pleased with you, did grateful that you did, something that you can stand on today that makes- that makes a difference for you. I, I hope you can think of that right now off the top of your head, and that, that pulls the cork out of the bottom and more things keep coming through your mind. I hope that you have that experience. And if you don't, maybe just jot yourself a note and ask yourself, what am I proud of? And let it come to you as your day or evening unfolds. Or maybe ask yourself before you go to sleep tonight, what am I proud of in myself? And let that, let that marinate. Let that be a thought you go to sleep with, because I guarantee something will bubble up for your waking moments. And the thing that I'm excited about was less than a, a year ago, I'd say about nine months ago when I'm recording this, I came up with the idea of. Thinking of emotions as characters. I thought, you know, I'd really love to talk to Joy as if it's a person that I can hold a conversation with. Well, why can't I? And so I started some creative writing and I started thinking about trust and, you know, healing from loss and. Self-worth and boundaries. And I wanted each one of those to develop a, a character. And the next thing I knew in the creative writing process of this, and I have never published a book before, mind you. No. But I am a creative and I love, I love thinking of new ideas I've never had before or never heard of. Through that process. I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7 so far. Character interviews that I like to call spirit interviews or spirit guides because they spoke to me with the love of a mentor. They spoke to me with the love of an ancestor. They spoke to me as, I interviewed them, as if they were a guest here in my podcast studio. I ask them questions as if they were the author of a book. And quite honestly, what came out of it made me grow. It made my heart crack wide open. It made me discover things I didn't know I knew. It helped me remember things I didn't know I knew, and it helped me open up to so many beautiful exchanges from other people around me. And I share this with you, not to brag, but to inspire. And so I just wanna do a quick little thank you to each one of these thoughts and make you aware of if you've been with me on this journey, of how many of these we've experienced together. And if you're new to picture love. Maybe you'll wanna go back and I will actually link these up as I don't know how to make a playlist in my podcast player. I'll see if I can make a playlist, but I know I can. On Spotify, I will make a Spotify's play playlist for sure. Of the episodes that I will refer, but in the show notes of this episode, wherever you are watching or listening from, I will make sure that you can find the episodes. They are all from season two of Picture Love podcast. And so I'm gonna share them briefly with you starting from the first one. And the first one was Amariel. And Amariel came around because I felt the need to really grow in forgiveness. Because there's so many ways that we walk around resenting ourselves or other people, or replaying conversations in our mind or situations where you'd wanna rewind, you know, if I had to do it again. Have you ever seen a movie. A second time and find yourself kind of willing it to change because you knew there was some kind of conflict coming up and you just wanted to stop traffic and make that not happen? Maybe you're not like that. That's a fixer mindset that I've worked with for a while anyway. There's always something that we can find forgiveness for. You know, because all of us are flawed, none of us are perfect and we make mistakes and we see things differently where we think somebody else messed up when maybe they don't think they did, and. I think the biggest lesson out of forgiveness is me forgiving someone else is less about giving them forgiveness, and it's more me letting go of my anger and resentment or whatever emotions are tied to the need to forgive. So forgiveness brings me the gift of freedom. So if you'd like to hear that, I will link it up in the notes. Then Talia came to the mic with me. Talia, Seeker of Truth, because this was inspired by me doing some of the work on myself, but also discovering all of the conflicting stories and the headlines that are curated for us and, and, you know, all the facades that we've been taught to put on to fit social norms, to be good students, to be good citizens, to be good parents, and, the seer of truth- honestly, the inspiration cracked open when I was like, "what's true and what's not"? What do we assume is true just because it's always been said? What do we assume is true just because it's published? You know, and knowing that my truth is maybe different from somebody else's truth. Those were all some of the inspiration behind the creation of the conversation with Talia. Then there was Veyra, the guide of boundaries. I really did believe at some point in my earlier years that boundaries were walls. I think walls keep us safe. They give us privacy, they give us protection from the weather and the elements- things that we as humans perceive as harmful. But boundaries- from an emotional standpoint, give us a false sense of safety sometimes- when we build them unnecessarily too thick and we don't let anybody in. We protect our hearts so our hearts can't get hurt. Well, let me tell you, it can get lonely behind layers and layers of emotional cinder blocks. And boundaries are a great way of loving one's self and putting action behind that love when it comes to yourself and others. You know, boundaries to what am I willing to do for myself and when am I willing to say, oh, enough. That's enough, Kris. And, and that leads right into Maelu. Oh, love Maelu. She is such a love. She's the warmest hug. She is a great conversation around self-worth. And you know, self-worth and self-love are not separate. They are branches of the same tree and it's not self glorifying. It's truly honoring the gift that our lives, each one of us is. My life is a gift and your life is a gift, and it's a beautiful experience and it's messy, but it's valuable, and just honoring and respecting the worth of ourselves is something that Maelu helped really shine a light on. Then there was the trio of truth seekers. The three of them are like a squad and they will be visiting picture love again, hopefully together on an episode. But they, we are just trying to coordinate some calendars, but we've got Elira, the spirit of grit and grace, you know, sticking with something, persistence, giving grace where needed. But it, it requires degrees of patience and neutrality, and Elira is such a beautiful spirit of all of that. And so calling Elira my spirit of grit and grace- it's like the best compliment I could give this personality the spirit, because. She, they are so beautiful. And then there's Riven, the one who had really loud cracked a wide open betrayal and recovery and really faced the flames. Forged it out. Pounding steel literally is how Riven personified that transformation. You know, after being betrayed and being let down and, and really brought down to rock bottom. Riven even chose a new name for himself. Coming up from those ashes and rebuilding. And there was hermiting involved and there was so much unraveling involved, and Riven is just courageous and open renewal. And then there's my sweet, my sweet spirit Soraya who makes me think of hummingbirds. And she is the spirit of trust unfolding. And there's degrees of patience with a lot of these. And the trust trusting the soft unfolding with Soraya to me is like. Tea with this flittery, beautiful ethereal being who gives us that bird's eye perspective. Who loves cheerfully, whose high vibration is just so beautiful that you can find yourself at a loss for words, but just grateful to watch with wonder and to listen to the love. And there were beautiful humans that helped me personify these characters. And so for each one of them, I'm so thankful and I'm thankful to those of you who tolerated me playing with my, um, my studio sounds. I tried to read some of these characters and, and modulate and. And it's been a work in progress. Maybe someday I'll rerecord them to have some consistent, more professional sound, but I believe that the words in the spirit of these interviews were so valuable that they are perfect in their own as they are. And if you ever need to remember more of the words, you're welcome to listen back, of course. But I also do provide the transcript so you can go in and, uh, don't mind the typos, no matter how often I correct all the grammar, the punctuation, and spell my name with a K. Kris with a K for summaries and YouTube and other platforms. Love to, uh, ignore all of that formatting and correction and just default to some misspelled phonetic interpretations. But hopefully you can read them phonetically and get the gist. I am, I'm excited to tell you I have a spirit of joy. I have reunions coming. I have other characters that are going to be visited and revisited in the coming months and episodes, and I hope that you'll come here with your heart wide open, ready to discover what little piece or pieces of each episode lift you up wherever you are. And I really wanna build a community around this. Let's help each other, not only picture love into our hearts and into our days and into our relationships... not just so that we can shine more brightly in the world and be more grounded, while everything else is kind of crazy. Let's root into ourselves and invite others to come along with us. Will you please help me share picture love? Because quite honestly. I think we need to spread more of the love in the world. But for now, thanks for letting me silly grin and reminisce with you.