Discovering Divine Balance During Midlife: Kristine Farley (Spirit-Led Life Podcast Ep. 9)

In the latest episode of the Spirit-Led Life Podcast, holistic women’s wellness coach Kristine Farley shares her profound wisdom on navigating midlife with confidence and vitality. Drawing from her rich professional experience and deep spiritual practice, Kristine provides valuable guidance for women looking to heal from trauma, manage stress, and lead fulfilling lives. From the importance of incorporating spirituality and nature into daily practices to the power of self-care and community, this interview offers a holistic approach to well-being that resonates deeply with midlife women.

Divine Balance Transcript

Introduction (00:05.068)

Marnie: My guest today is Kristine Farley. Kristine is a holistic women’s wellness coach specializing in midlife. She also helps midlife women heal trauma, manage stress, and embrace life with confidence and vitality holistically. As a certified Simply Aligned practitioner and herbalist, she helps clear root issues and integrate holistic wellness tools into her practice. Kristine offers coaching to help women discover their purpose and reinvent their highest selves.

Thanks for joining me, Kristine.

Kristine: So happy to, Marnie. Thank you.

Marnie: So share with our listeners a little bit about yourself and your work.

Kristine: Well, I am in my mid 60s. I have a large family and lots of grand kiddos. I’m married and live in the foothills of Western Washington. This picture is about 10 minutes away from our home.

And we have a little mini farm and what was the other part of the question? About the work? About your work, what you do. Yeah. Okay. So I work with clients, mostly virtually, sometimes in my office. And what we seem to work on is women who are at that menopause, hormonal changes, and the post menopause.

It’s like life kind of comes to a head and it’s like they want to find something different and work through things to be able to get to the other side. Or they’re tired or they’re sick and tired of being tired. And so, there’s physical symptoms as well as emotional ones that they’re tired of stressing out over. And so I work with them in private one -on -one sessions. I offer some free classes, workshops and then some other workshop and packages that I work with clients.

The Spirit’s Role in Everyday Life

Marnie: Cool. This is for the Spirit-Led Life podcast. So, my first question has to do with the Spirit. How does the Spirit play a role in your everyday life and in your business?

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Kristine: Okay, everyday life is vital. So I don’t know what I would do or how I would be without the spirit. And I love to get those promptings. And it’s really interesting how years ago I’m going, huh, what is that prompting? I’m supposed to buy this at the grocery store, or I’m supposed to plant this, or I’m supposed to do this or call so -and -so. And those are wonderful. And those are everyday things. But with the work I do,

I actually pray about my business and pray about how I can best serve my clients and what it is they need. And then I really try and pray before every session so that I know how I can best serve my clients. And it’s really, I feel so grateful to be able to have the spirit lead and guide and direct.

What Does the Spirit Feel Like / Sound Like to You?

Marnie: I’m going to dive a little deeper here and ask, when you’ve got those impressions of go to store, need to buy this or I need to tell my client this or that, how does it come to you? I mean, what’s it look like for you? Everybody hears the spirit differently. I’m just curious for you.

Kristine: So for me, lots of times it just comes as a thought like, by the way, or have you, or it’s do this. And I’m just going.

Okay, yes. And sometimes it is like, feel it with every fiber of my being. I know, I just had that sense of knowing that this is what I’m supposed to do.

And I’ve tested it because sometimes I don’t do it and then I go, I miss out.

Marnie: Yeah, I’ve gotten myself into some pickles not paying attention when I should have paid attention.

How Does Nature Help You Align with and Hear Christ More?

Marnie: So, you’re obviously a nature lover. You’ve got that picture behind you there. And how does nature help you align with and hear Christ more?

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Okay, so this may sound really crazy, but maybe it’s not crazy. I believe that God created us to be creators. So when I am in nature or when I am dead heading flowers or when I am planting a garden, I feel like I am co -creating with God.

I’m not the master, but I am in a small, small part co -creating with God. And I even have an analogy. When I go out and weed, I am not just weeding to help another plant thrive, which a weed in my book is a misplaced plant, but I am actually weeding out and take that mindfulness of weeding into I am weeding out negativity in my own life, negativity in my own thoughts and emotions. And sometimes just going out and ripping out some weeds really helps bring down your stress levels and helps me not to be so self-absorbed into what is bugging me or the negativity. Interesting. So the external world is kind of helping you process your internal world at the same time.

Marnie: I love that.

Suggestions for Getting Started with a Homesteading Lifestyle

Marnie: So you’ve got a lot of talents and skills and as far as beyond the work that you do, but like with growing plants, flowers, herbs, raising animals, making beautiful, delicious food. I’ve been the recipient of some of that before and it’s just amazing. So what advice or recommendations would you give to someone who’s interested in pursuing that type of a lifestyle?

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Kristine: Start with one or two things. Don’t get overwhelmed. Start small. And if you’re feeling impressed to learn new skills, just start doing it. We live in the day and age of YouTube and you can YouTube almost anything, but that’s not the same as having a mentor or somebody, a friend work with you to help you or that you can call and say, well, how do I do this? Or this doesn’t look right. Or you take a picture and send it to them.

But I would just say, get your hands into it. Just start. Yeah. Experiment a little bit, I guess, right? But don’t get overwhelmed either, because it’s really easy to get overwhelmed. We all think that a homestead needs to be 50 acres and cattle and milking a cow and all the things and that kind of stuff. Or if you’re an herbalist, you got to grow every herb. don’t grow every herb. I buy some organically.

But we can’t do it all. So we have to look and see what really works for us. And that’s where we can use the spirit to make choices. And also know that there is a time and season.

Yeah, that’s true. Definitely. Well, I like that idea of starting with starting kind of small and what you’re interested in and not trying to do it all at once. think, yeah, definitely helps to start that way. Sort of biting off more than you can chew.

What Does Holistic Wellness Coaching Look Like?

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Marnie: So how do you incorporate holistic wellness into your coaching sessions?

Kristine: Okay, so when I am doing an intake with a client or we first start a session, always say, you know, what’s up with them? What do they want to work on? But usually it’s we start to work on the emotional part and then sometimes what happens is some of the physical things start to come out.

Like, for example, most women, if they’re getting tired between two and three in the afternoon, of course, depending on what time zone, but we’re indigenous to our own time zones, that is a clue that they may have depleted adrenals. Well, almost in my research, almost every woman who’s ever been pregnant has depleted adrenals.

And then adrenals are actually directly related to stress. So I don’t know anybody who is stress free. And so when those little clues start to come up of, well, I’m tired every afternoon, so I drink, you know, something with caffeine or I go and take a nap or I eat chocolate or I have a snack or any of those normal, things that women do to keep their energy going.

We can look at what are the root causes. And so then we can look at the emotions related around adrenal glands or the emotions are related around the stress or maybe there is some previous trauma from childbearing or childbirth. And so these are all things that we can look at these little clues and then figure out what can be done and emotionally do the work with energy work and then look at the support. Now my job is I never diagnose or prescribe. My job when it comes to physical part is I educate. And then clients can make their own choices about what they wanna do, but they can take the things that I share with them that are based on historical science or personal experience.

Looking to God for Answers to Tough Challenges

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Marnie: Love that. Okay. What typical challenges do you see women’s face? That Adrenal is obviously is one of them, but maybe some challenges that they face where they need to turn to God for their answers. Like you can help them so much, but then at some point they’ve got to learn to get their answers for themselves. Any tips on that or advice you would give them?

Kristine: So I would suggest that they, and I recently wrote a little newsletter about this, is just to stop, to pause, to take a few moments with no stimulation, no phone, no podcast, no audio books, no nothing. And maybe I wouldn’t necessarily call it a meditation, but just stopping, stopping the stimulus. And maybe, which I wholeheartedly suggest is to get out in nature and totally pause. And then you are more receptive to the spirit. The spirit can talk. It’s not having to communicate with you with lots of noise behind you or with you.

Yeah, I’d have to talk over all of the man -made noise or the technology or whatever. Yeah, love that. So, let me see.

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How to Find Meaning During Menopause and Beyond

Marnie: Okay, so some of these women at this age bracket, usually, they’ve gone through menopause, their bodies are changing, they’re feeling different, they may not feel like quite themselves anymore, maybe they’re empty nesters, maybe they’re taking care of elderly parents or whatever. How would you recommend that they get more hope and meaning and purpose in their lives if they feel like they’re kind of floundering at that stage of the game?

Kristine: Well, and one other demographic is the sandwich generation, where they’re taking care of grandkids and they’re taking care of their parents too. And personally, I have been in those situations, and they are challenging. So I think the most important thing that a woman can do is self -care and combine that with boundaries. One of the biggest recommendations that I give almost every client that I work with is the book Boundaries by Townsend and Cloud. That book came into my life many years ago and has helped me. And I think lots of women, we are all nurturers. And so we think we can just keep doing it and doing it and doing it. And that’s our job and we have to and all that kind of thing.

But what we’re missing out is love. like that scripture says, what are the two great commandments? To love the Lord thy God, but to love thy neighbor as thyself. And so if we want to love other people and serve them, we have to love ourselves first. And that is something that most women have not truly taken the time and the energy or even figured out what path that is to finding that love for themselves. And I’m not talking, unless this really works for you, going and getting your nails done. mean, if that works for you, God bless you. I’m happy for you. I never get my nails done. Occasionally a pedicure, but never mind. They won’t. Polish doesn’t keep on my hands. But it’s deeper than that.

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And it’s not being selfish at all. My husband learned many years ago when we first got married that if mom ain’t happy, nobody is happy. And we have, as women, we have such great power and everything that we do is magnified. Our emotions are magnified with everybody that we come in contact, whether it’s in our home or out. They can see, is this person happy? Is this person being genuine?

Are they fulfilled? Do they have joy and zest? Are they vibrant? And so we have, in taking care of ourselves, working through our trauma, learning to manage stress, doing self -care, we are serving our fellow man in doing so.

Marnie: Amen. Definitely. Definitely. Can you share a success story that particularly stands out when you’re coaching, obviously, without giving any names or anything, but something that stands out to you?

Kristine: I had this lovely client and I just love her. And she came to me, and she just sat in my office and just was sobbing. And she could not seem to stop crying. And it was, she was just so emotional and she had some root issues that we were able to get to in a couple sessions and start to work on and. Really quickly, sobbing, the crying stopped, not stopped completely because we’re supposed to cry, but this was uncontrollable to where she wasn’t work was very difficult.

She was a business owner. was very difficult for her to interact with her, employees. And it was, it was a challenging situation, but it went back to a root situation that was in her early childhood. And you know, and then we, it’s like, when you are working with clients on an energetic, emotional level, it’s like peeling an onion.

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And so we would get a couple layers off, but sometimes that childhood trauma or maybe something that one of your parents said to you when you were young affects how you, what kind of relationships you draw to yourself and how you interact with other people, especially members of the opposite sex. And so she is doing rather well and is now very successful in her business and is doing well.

Marnie: Right. Right. It’s amazing what the SimplyALIGN Method can do. Then all the other things that you bring to it, I think, really add an extra richer experience for your clients. I know I’ve been the recipient of your wisdom and have really appreciated it over the years. So. Thank you.

When You’re Dreading Upcoming Heartache or Challenges

Marnie: What advice would you give to people who anticipate maybe some potential trouble or heartache ahead in their lives? And what strategies do you use to stay centered with God and especially when facing difficulties? Because I know you’ve got your own life and your own challenges and things that you face as well. So how do you stay centered with all of that?

Kristine: Okay, well, let’s speak. to first anticipating problems. My historical response would be prepare for the worst and hope for the best. And that has served me very, very well through the years. And I am one that likes to have prepared, but I still like spontaneity, but I don’t like surprise trauma. But that’s part of life, right? So.

I think too that sometimes the anticipation ramps up the negativity of what your response might be when the circumstance actually happens. And it’s like, if you know that someone might be passing away because they have a terminal illness, you start to grieve as soon as you understand that they have a terminal illness. And yet,

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by grieving over and over and over again, you’re just re -traumatizing yourself. So if we can turn that into gratitude and use gratitude as the tool, the vehicle for, my goodness, I get to have another day with this person or another phone conversation instead of, I’m gonna miss them so much and all that kind of thing, which are real human feelings. And I do want to acknowledge that when we have the feelings, whether they’re negative or positive, we need to really feel them. But then we need to say, OK.

I can feel those emotions. I know what they feel like and I can choose what I feel. Many of us have not learned the tool that we can choose what we want to think about.

And that makes a huge difference.

Marnie: Any recommendations about where to start with that?

Kristine: So first, I would feel your feelings. Get them out. There have been times where I have gone out in my garden and laid on the grass in the walkway and sobbed to God.

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and told him, I don’t like this. I don’t want to deal with this. It’s too hard. And that kind of stuff. And I think sometimes I’m releasing it to God. I’m also releasing it to the earth. And so, but we have to get, we have to feel it. We have to get it out. Journaling is also another way that is really helpful to just journal out all your emotions about how that is going for you. What is your feeling? What would you like to have happen? What would you not like to happen? Just get it out of your mind and your body.

And then you can start to focus on, all right, what is the base case scenario of this? Asking God to help you, finding scriptures or hymns or music that lift your soul.

When Your Mind Is Spinning and Nesting on Your Troubles

Kristine: Speaking with a friend, a practitioner, client, I mean, a coach. So then you start having the options of what to do, but unless you get to it and let it all out, and it may not be all out, but at least get that. It’s like a pot that’s boiling and it’s boiling and boiling and it starts to boil over. It’s preventing it from boiling over.

Let’s get out and leave the rest of the sauce in the pan. It can be easily stirred around, but we’re getting rid of all the extra foam.

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I don’t know if that makes sense, but yeah, it makes sense. Because if you don’t process it, it starts to set up camp in your body and you know, ailments or yeah, it’s I know for me, if I don’t get it out on paper or in some way verbalizing it to someone, it tends to keep me up at night just stewing on it, you know, and then I’m not I’m losing sleep over it I’m just running scenarios in my mind, but if I can get it out of my mind and onto something else or out to someone else, then it’s like it, like you say, it’s getting that foamy stuff off the top. So it doesn’t spill I also think that as women, we are really good about running the railroad tracks and they don’t go anywhere. They just keep going around and around and around. So we have to figure out ways. And that’s one of the things that I share with clients is tools to break that spinning cycle that keeps going around. That’s great. You need to write a book on that. Forthcoming maybe with all the others that are.

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So what do you do on a day to day basis to stay close to the Lord? Like maybe walk me through your spiritual practice if you have one that you’re. I do have one.

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It starts with prayer first thing in the morning. And that’s while I’m just, so my husband and I have this deal, unless it’s emergency, if you don’t see my eyeballs, don’t talk to me. So whether I’m sleeping and my eyes are closed or whether I’m praying, that is how I start my day is with that in the morning. I don’t like to just hop out of bed and just start running.

And then most days, not all, because sometimes after that prayer time, you have to hit the road running. But what I like to do is read my scriptures, think about them, maybe journal. And now I have recently in the last few weeks added in worship music. Beautiful hymns.

popular worship music or what do they call it? Christian music, I don’t know, gospel music. And it is amazing how many times during the day I’ll be doing something else and then all of a sudden I’ll go, I’m singing that hymn in my head. How cool is that? And so that is the way I do my morning worship.

In the evening though, my husband and I will have prayer together. If I don’t fall asleep, I will have personal prayers. But I almost always, now it is such a habit, I journal. And I try and write down at least three things that I’m grateful for. And my journaling started out only to write those three things that I was grateful for.

But now I have started writing more into my journal and sometimes it’s only a little short paragraph and other times it’s a full page about the goings on of the day or the things that, the activities or something monumentous or a little tender discussion that I had with somebody that just blessed my soul.

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Love it. So do you have a scripture that is kind of on your mind these days? You know, I know we can go through different phases of our lives where one verse really speaks to us and then later on it might be something else. What’s coming up for you these days? Well, it’s not just these days. This is my scripture. I have claimed it, but I will share with whoever wants it. And it is 2 Timothy 1 verse 7, “for God had not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” That scripture has helped me through some very, very horrific, hard physical and emotional things that I could not have gotten through without God’s grace and the help of that scripture.

I do have others that I like. love Psalms 23, and there are so many layers and levels to that one. And there’s so many others for God so loved the world that he gave his only son.

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Marnie: Yeah, all of those are great. That spirit of fear one is kind of a mantra that I have when I start getting anxiety about something. I’ll just start repeating that one over and over again. It’s definitely casts out that anxious feeling really well.

Kristine: Well, and if we can real recognize, yes, there is real fear. That’s a real thing. And God gave that to us on purpose to protect ourselves and protect our loved ones. But if we realize that that

The track of fear, the fear of the future, that fear of an upcoming event and those kinds of things, that many times that is just the adversary trying to trick us and trying to block our lives from moving forward in ways that would serve him and serve others and serve ourselves.

And I love…

But that God, through that scripture, can give us love and he wants us to have power. And that power is connecting with God, connecting with the spiritual. And then, after that, then you get the sound mind. But I don’t believe that you could truly have a sound mind without having the connection with God.

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Yeah, because I was just thinking of the question, like, how do you tell the difference between maybe a foreboding feeling that something you need to prepare for something and going into that train track sort of thing where you’re, it’s more you who has set yourself on this spirit of fear versus, you know, maybe just a feeling of

Hmm, you need to prepare for this or whatever like that. Is there a distinction for you that you? think two is to recognize number one. What do I what do I need to do to prepare for that situation? So if I need to do anything, then write it down, just make a list and then be proactive and kind of work on that list. If it is the adversary you need to look at that and ask God, okay, so what is this? Where is this coming from? And then when you recognize where it’s coming from, then you kind of, it makes it easier to deal with, excuse

So.

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I think that that is just the way, the best way to deal with it is write down the to -do list, recognize that it is something you can do. I am the one that is a hands -on person. want to figure it out and go get it. Okay, so what is it that I need to do? And if I am doing that, then I know that I’m actively engaged.

Marnie: Good advice.

Musical Suggestions for Calming the Mind

Well, you mentioned music. So do you have a favorite new song that you’re listening to? I’m always a collector of music. So. Okay. This may sound really simple, but I love different renditions of the Lord’s Prayer.

It is just.

That just like…

God’s got me there.

Marnie: You have a particular artist that stands out?

Kristine: There’s a new one that I’ve been recently listening to that I just really really like and let me find it.

It has really impressed me. And actually it was another Simply Aligned practitioner who recommended it.

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Well, I don’t want to take too long to find it. I can clip out the… Okay, okay, you can clip that out. then I will just go to my history. It is…

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It’s Hillsong Worship. Okay. The Lord’s Prayer. like their stuff. Absolutely beautiful. Another one is David Archuletto. I love his things. And then Kristine DiMarco. Phenomenal. Check them out.

So what advice would you give to somebody who is just beginning their spiritual journey?

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look for God in the little and small things and show gratitude.

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Gratitude is huge, isn’t it? It seems like it is. It is giant for me.

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And I guess they say on a vibration level, here’s love and gratitude is like just a notch below it.

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So what role does community play in your wellness journey and your coaching practice?

Okay, so I have a few different communities that.

even my soul, besides my family and besides a couple of super close dear friends. And these communities, we can freely discuss things that may be too weird or esoteric. It’s not something you’re going to bring up in a

church meeting or at the grocery store necessarily, you know? And so they feed my soul. Those are just such a delight. And I have a group of women coming over this evening and this group we have met for some of us or it’s going on over a dozen years. Wow. So yeah, and we’ve met almost monthly. It’s been phenomenal. So that

be a part of community for, are you talking about community for my clients?

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whatever you’ve got that you. Well, I’ve got something that’s kind of just hanging there. And that is I have a private group that I have. I used to put videos in on a regular basis and that kind of thing and answer questions and that kind of stuff. And I’m it’s on my it’s on that list of things to do is to revive that up. Because I think it provides a safe place for clients to interact or for me to share information or for them to ask questions.

And I think it’s important that we all have community. I used to think I could live up in the meadow, out away from everybody and all that kind of stuff. Well, maybe if I had lots of good internet. Or maybe I just have people that I love live right around me. Or both. I think women need other women. We do.

So however you can find that, whether it’s a group of friends or a group from church or a bunch of people getting online on Zoom and talking or whatever, I think it helps. Right. And if you move to a new place, I had a daughter, when she moved to a new place, she found a hiking group on Facebook and she started going hiking. And some of those have been dear friends for a long time.

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Cool. So have you ever had a time when you were dealing with something heavy and you weren’t really sure that you could see any good way out and yet you still felt a feeling of peace about it? And is that something, maybe is there any way you can share that without getting too personal but…

I’ll make it very genetic. I mean, general. At one point, we had a child who was

Which one do we choose?

who brought me closer to God than any other child, okay? We’ll go with that one. And this child…

Was not

able to govern themselves in a way that would be appropriate and was spiraling. And I was not sure how this would end. And so much prayer. Some of my own being a client working with, I think I worked with you, Marnie, during that time.

getting to the point in which I had to reach my own bottom. Child was reaching their own bottom, but I had to reach my own bottom of, okay, Lord, they are yours.

And at one point I even got to the point of they’re not only yours, but you can take them if you need to, if that is in their highest or greatest good.

and was able to release that child to God.

And that child is still alive. And it was not that long. And this was a long trial. It was years. But that child, of course, is an adult, but is now a responsible adult, has a beautiful family, has a job. And

We weren’t sure if that child would ever get to that point. But through God’s grace, he intervened. But I also had to just say, this child is yours, not mine. And I think lots of times we think that it’s all on us. We have to take care of it. We’re the mom, we’re the matriarch, we’re the nurturer.

got this right? and we have to get to the point where it’s okay if we don’t have it because God’s us. And it’s okay however it turns out, even if it’s not okay.

So is it that surrendering that gets you to the peace about it, even though it’s, you know, is that where that peace comes at, at that point of surrendering to God and just trusting Him, you think? I think so, because I had to hit to the point where there was nothing more. There was nothing more in me. There was nothing more I could do. There was nothing more I could pray for except to just release them to God and say, I don’t know.

I’ve done everything. I’ve done everything you’ve asked me to do. I’ve done everything. I’ve found every resource. I can’t do anymore. But it was like me hitting emotionally my bottom and going, whoa, okay, there’s no more. There’s nothing left.

And then I was able to totally release to God.

(40:21.39) Making Peace with Death

But you kind of touched on it in this last example, but a lot of people in the world grapple with the fear of death. And especially as we get older, as we get 50, 60, 70, like today, we just buried a friend of mine from church, a 71 year old lady who just kind of died very suddenly. How do people who believe in Christ, how do you make your peace with death? Whether it’s yourself or somebody else that you love or whatever, you’ve got to have some insights on this, I know. Well, and you know I do because I was very sick and had a surgery and had come home from being in the hospital for a few days.

And then something was wrong and I was in excruciating pain. And my husband drove me to the hospital as fast as I could. was laying down in the backseat with my mom and I said to her, have to help Scott with the kids. And got into ER and had the opportunity.

And I say the opportunity to go to the other side. They weren’t aware of how sick I really was.

And when I got to the other side, or as some people would say, the interim place, you know, I was in such physical pain. was, and I’ve had seven babies. I’ve had kidney stones. I’ve been in car accidents. This was the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt in my life. And there was lots of emotional things going on with a blended family that were emotionally excruciating too. On the other side in that place was the most divine and indescribable love that there is. And there is no pain. There is no emotional pain, no physical pain, no traumatized pain, and no even remembrance of pain, no residue of pain.

And it was just like, my gosh. And God talked to me and gave me a choice. Did I want to stay or did I want to come back?

And I told God, I can’t leave Scott with all those kids. And we’re talking over a dozen in a blended family.

And the next thing I remember was waking up in a hospital bed and having the surgeon walk in and slap me on the thigh and said, my gosh, you’re still here. Because he wasn’t sure I was going to make it. And that was a confirmation to me that I wasn’t crazy and didn’t just dream this experience. And yes, I recovered. But then it took me a year of because there was a lot of very difficult things after that. It took me a year of not thinking that I had made a mistake in my choice. And it was during that time in which I went to a Christian therapist, I sought out resources for myself, I cried a lot. Had to figure out that life was worth living again because it was so magnificent. The cool thing about this experience though is after about a year, I I got so much better and…

I had already become an herbalist and was already had taken some other modality classes and things. And it wasn’t long after that, that I had the opportunity to learn to simply align. And it has been such a blessing that experience to me because I have had my brother who’s five years younger than I in 2016. He got

He had a surgery that went awry and we had the opportunity before he passed to talk about what it was going to be like and it was going to be safe and wonderful and beautiful and better than he could ever even comprehend or imagine. Recently, I’ve had my father -in -law who lived with us and we cared for. Well, not too recent anymore, but.

but he never really had any religious upbringing or background, and yet we were able to discuss this freely, and he wasn’t afraid. And being able to know what it’s like and be able to share that has been such a great blessing, a sacred blessing to me. And I feel like it’s a sacred responsibility at the right times to share it with others. Well, I appreciate you sharing it with me here. Really appreciate that. Something that struck me is you’ve been a doula. So you’ve brought people into the world and then here you’re able to help people make their peace with going out. And I actually considered training to be a death doula. wow. Yeah.

I have since decided that that is not on my bucket list anymore, but I did consider it. And there are such things.

Marnie: Thank you for sharing that. Is there anything else that you’d like to share with the listeners?

Kristine: So many years ago, I was praying about my business and the spirit said, you’re going to call it joyful empowerment. And I’m going, okay! And so you can find me at joyfulempowerment.com or KristineFarley.com, but that is my mission to help. And I’m just going to save women. Okay. I’m not being prejudiced, but, I really like working with women, especially women going through hormone changes and all the things. just, that’s those transitions of life are just a beautiful experience, even though they’re hard. But my goal and my mission is to help women feel joyfully empowered because we are such a reflector. We can reflect what’s in our souls and we can share that with others. And when we feel joyfully empowered, then we have the opportunity to share that and spread that with others.

Marnie: Beautiful. And you do it so well. You really do. Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, thanks for letting me interview you. This has been great. And everybody run over to joyfulempowerment.com and get you a session with Kristine.

Kristine: And you can also find me on Instagram and on Facebook too.

All right. Thank you.

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