Break Free and Trust with Jacqueline and Chris: A Redesign for Living

Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch & Chris Kalbfleisch
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Are you ready to become the creator of your own life? Tune in to Break Free and Trust for real conversations about all aspects of life, death, and everything in between. And healthy conversations between the feminine and masculine. Join Jacqueline and Chris as they navigate relationships, friendships, parenting, work, health, and systems of power with vigorous honesty, full transparency, and raw truth. They courageously support each other by stepping out of the drama triangle and into the field of creative potential. Together they model how to harness the power of relationship as a mirror to befriend our shadow. Jacqueline and Chris’s energy serves as an invitation to each other and their communities to step into life fully, consciously, and courageously. They are committed to the practice of surrendering everything that gets in the way of them living in full alignment with who they choose to be. What stands in the way becomes their way. On their own they are successful, together they are magic, and they model alchemy through the divine union of the masculine and feminine. To learn more, check us out here: http://www.agatheringplace.ca

  1. Sep 28

    Avoiding the Trap of Self-Righteousness and Spiritual Pride

    “More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”— Glen Cook There’s a curious detail in the story of the carpenter from Nazareth. He could sit with just about anyone — tax collectors, thieves, the openly messy — and he had remarkable patience for all the usual human failings. But there was one thing that reliably got under his skin: self-righteousness. The certainty of the people who were quite sure they were the good ones. Jacqueline and I find that fascinating, because self-righteousness might be the most universal blind spot there is. It’s the one pitfall on the road of self-work that everybody can spot in everybody else and almost nobody can spot in themselves. Think of it as a cul-de-sac: you’re driving along feeling like you’re making great progress, and you’ve actually just looped back to your own front door with the windows down, letting everyone know how far you’ve come. And here’s what makes it such a good subject for an hour of conversation — it’s sneaky. The ego is clever. When it can’t win by being the richest or the most successful, it’ll happily settle for being the most right, the most awake, the most evolved person in the room. Same appetite, nicer outfit. So today we want to explore this pitfall with a lot of curiosity and, we hope, a little humor — because taking it too seriously is its own kind of trap. What is self-righteousness really — and why is it so much easier to see in other people? How does it dress itself up in spiritual clothes and call itself growth? And what actually gets us out of the cul-de-sac and back onto the road? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Avoiding the Trap of Self-Righteousness and Spiritual Pride

  2. Sep 14

    The Posture of Abundance

    Abundance is not something we chase or build. It is a frequency we endeavor to align with — spiritual power rather than material force. Abundance is not out there waiting to be earned, chased, or deserved. It is already here, already broadcasting, and the only real question is whether we are tuned to receive it. This is how we’ve chosen to position our life together — and it runs against almost everything the world trained us to believe. We came to this posture from opposite directions, which is part of why we wanted to explore it together. Jacqueline has felt at home in abundance for as long as she can remember — it’s her natural frequency. The other road was longer and rougher: years spent in the opposite posture, clutching and striving and quietly certain there would never be enough, until the futility of it finally gave way to surrender. Two very different roads — and we’ve arrived in the same place, living this together now. And we want to be clear from the start: we include money in this. Money is a flow of abundance, not the exception to it — and we’ll get into exactly what we mean by that. One more thing, so no one mistakes this for spiritual bypass. The posture of abundance does not mean the end of struggle or pain. Sometimes it means more of it. Because abundance always sits on the other side of surrender. What does it actually mean to live from abundance instead of scarcity — and can a posture like that really change? Why do we insist on including money — and what do we mean when we call it a flow? And why does real abundance so often wait for us on the far side of our surrender? All of this and more in the next hour.

    The Posture of Abundance

  3. Aug 24

    The Elimination Diet: Gossip, Judgment, and Drama

    “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.” — Maya Angelou We spend so much energy watching what we put into our bodies — the food, the drink, the supplements. But Jacqueline and I have been asking a different question lately: what’s in our emotional and spiritual diet? And when we looked honestly, we found some things worth eliminating. Gossip. Judgment. Drama. Here’s what we keep coming back to. Underneath gossip is a hunger to belong. We bond with someone over a shared opinion about someone else, and it feels like connection — but it’s a counterfeit. The belonging we’re actually starving for is belonging to ourselves, and every helping of gossip and judgment takes us further from it, not closer. We get enmeshed in the outer world, outwardly focused, and — in the language we love — our frequency drops. But something remarkable happens when you take those things off the menu. With nothing left to project outward, you’re left sitting with your own discomfort. You turn inward. You meet your own shadow. And your frequency rises. Because what we judge in other people is almost always a part of ourselves we haven’t yet accepted. So today we want to go on an elimination diet together — and see what kind of freedom is waiting on the other side of it. Why do we gossip and judge in the first place — what are we really hungry for? What happens when we stop projecting and finally sit with our own discomfort? And is it possible that self-forgiveness — self-love — is the whole point? All of this and more in the next hour.

    The Elimination Diet: Gossip, Judgment, and Drama

  4. Aug 10

    Physical Health: A Pillar of Individuation and Union

    For forty-five episodes now, Jacqueline and I have gone deep into the inner life — the emotional, the mental, the spiritual. Shadow, protectors, forgiveness, consciousness. We love that terrain. But if you spent an ordinary day with us, you’d notice something we almost never talk about on this show: a huge amount of our life is physical. The training, the running, the food, the recovery. The body. So we’re going to lighten it up a little today. Because the truth is, keeping this vessel running well might be one of the most foundational things we do — not separate from the spiritual work, but underneath it. You can’t transmit or receive a clear signal through a neglected instrument. Today we want to talk about our genuine passion for health and fitness — as two people each becoming more whole, and as a couple and a family doing it together. What changed for us — why, after a lifetime of being “healthy,” did we both get truly disciplined these last few years? What happens to your emotional and mental state when you start doing hard things on purpose? And how did this become something that draws us and our whole family together? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Physical Health: A Pillar of Individuation and Union

  5. Jul 27

    Meeting the Protector

    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Jung Jung is pointing at something most of us would rather avoid. The path doesn’t run through the light we imagine — it runs through the dark we won’t look at. And the darkness rarely announces itself as darkness. It shows up as a reaction that’s far bigger than the moment that caused it. I’ve been sitting with my own triggers lately, and instead of managing them or explaining them away, I got curious and followed one all the way down. What I found waiting there wasn’t a flaw or a defect — it was a guard. Something that had been standing watch over an old wound for a very long time, doing exactly the job it was built to do. It even had a name, once I was willing to give it one. Then I did something that initially felt really uncomfortable but it turned out to be one of the most intimate things I’ve done: I introduced it to Jacqueline. So in this episode the two of us go into this together. What is a trigger actually pointing at — and why is the reaction always bigger than the moment? Who are these protectors that show up for us, and what exactly are they guarding? Is a protector an enemy to be defeated, or something to be met, named, and thanked? And what happens to a relationship when you introduce yours to the person you love? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Meeting the Protector

  6. Jul 13

    Resentment Free

    Here’s an image that has never left me: holding a resentment is like drinking a little poison every day and expecting the other person to die. Sit with that for a second — it’s absurd. And yet almost all of us are doing exactly that, right now, carrying resentments toward people, places, and things. Some of those resentments we know about. Many more we don’t — they run quietly in the background, and they color everything. Jacqueline and I have come to believe that to truly break free, you have to become resentment free. Not resentment-managed. Not resentment-justified. Free. Why do we hold onto them — and what do we secretly think we’re getting in return? What is it actually costing us to carry them? And how do we finally let them go — the ones we know about, and the ones we don’t? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Resentment Free

  7. Jun 22

    Perspective Is Everything

    One of the first teachings Jacqueline ever shared with me was that the most important decision you will ever make is your answer to a single question: is the Universe benevolent? Because however you answer it, quietly, underneath everything, that answer becomes the lens you see your whole life through. Jacqueline and I have come to believe almost nothing shapes a person’s perspective more than this one choice. Answer that it’s hostile, and every hardship is proof you’re under attack. Answer that it’s benevolent, and the very same hardship becomes something happening for you, not to you — an invitation rather than a punishment. Same life. Completely different world. In this episode we are going to look more deeply into this idea. What do we actually mean by a “benevolent” Universe — and is believing it just wishful thinking? If it’s all benevolent, then what do we do with suffering, cruelty, and loss? And how do soul contracts, quantum physics, and the frequency of consciousness fit into any of this? All of this and more in the hour.

    Perspective Is Everything

  8. Jun 8

    Intuition

    “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind — you are the one who hears it.” — Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul  Jacqueline and I have, and continue to have, powerful experiences with intuition. It has brought up the question - how do you differentiate between the voice of your own intuition from the thousand other voices competing for your attention? Michael Singer suggests — you are not the voice of the mind, you are the one who hears it. Intuition, we think, is learning to recognize that one true voice beneath the noise of fear, conditioning and conventional wisdom. But there is much more to this. Once you can hear that voice clearly, you are no longer being asked only to follow it — you are being asked to become it. To Be it. What is intuition, really — and how is it different from a feeling, a fear, or a wish? Can intuition be trained, or is it something we simply uncover. And what does it mean to stop being the sheep and become the Shepherd? All of this and more in the next hour.

    Intuition
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Are you ready to become the creator of your own life? Tune in to Break Free and Trust for real conversations about all aspects of life, death, and everything in between. And healthy conversations between the feminine and masculine. Join Jacqueline and Chris as they navigate relationships, friendships, parenting, work, health, and systems of power with vigorous honesty, full transparency, and raw truth. They courageously support each other by stepping out of the drama triangle and into the field of creative potential. Together they model how to harness the power of relationship as a mirror to befriend our shadow. Jacqueline and Chris’s energy serves as an invitation to each other and their communities to step into life fully, consciously, and courageously. They are committed to the practice of surrendering everything that gets in the way of them living in full alignment with who they choose to be. What stands in the way becomes their way. On their own they are successful, together they are magic, and they model alchemy through the divine union of the masculine and feminine. To learn more, check us out here: http://www.agatheringplace.ca

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