Kim's Podcast - Encouraging Audio Messages

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Encouragement for Your Soul

I’m so glad you are checking out my Podcast.

Below you will see the weekly podcast segments that you can play directly from this page, or download to your computer. They are arranged from most recent at the top to the oldest at the bottom.

Please enjoy, and feel free to let me know if you have any questions Kim@KimFredrickson.com

Here you’ll find practical answers and encouragement for your life in the areas of relationships, parenting, marriage, goal setting, and self-care.

These Encouraging Messages are offered free of charge. There are two ways to listen to this podcast:

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Episode 50 – Taking Care of Yourself

Listen in to hear great information on ways you can include yourself in decisions and plans you make. Get ready for some great questions to ask yourself!

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Episode 49 – How Do I Handle Unsupportive Family and Friends by Pursuing My Goals and Dreams? – Part 2

Today we’ll talk about how normal it is to get opposition as you pursue your goals and dreams, as well as some unexpected benefits of this opposition. You’ll also learn ways to increase your support…with yourself and others.

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Episode 48 – How Do I Handle Unsupportive Family and Friends by Pursuing My Goals and Dreams? Part 1

Listen in to help you understand some of the reasons others may find it hard to be supportive as you pursue your dreams, as well learn practical and realistic ways to pursue your dreams without damaging your close relationships.

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Episode 47- The Benefits of Personal Growth

Listen in to receive encouragement about the benefits of the personal growth work you are doing.

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Episode 46 – Practical Skills to Build Your Relationships

Listen in to hear about two practical skills you can use to build healthy relationships with yourself and others.

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Episode 45 – 4 Keys to Relational Transformation

Today we look at 4 important components to nurture relational transformations in how we relate to ourselves and others

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Episode 44- How Do You Soothe Yourself?

Today we look at some ways we use to ease the pain and loneliness we experience on the inside.

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Episode 43 – Healthy Relationships Need Emotional Connection – Part 7

Today we wrap up this series as we experience a way to deepen our connection with God and ourselves

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Episode 42 – Healthy Relationships Need Emotional Connection – Part 6

Today we look at ways we can deepen our connection with others

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Episode 41 – The Need for Bonding and Connection – Part 5

Today we look at practical ways to deepen our connection with ourselves

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Episode 40 – The Need for Bonding and Connection – Part 4

Today we look at practical ways to deepen our connection with God

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Episode 39- The Need for Bonding and Connection – Part 3

Today we look at ways we devalue our need for connection, and what to do about this

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Episode 38 – The Need for Bonding and Connection – Part 2

Today we look at the different components of family bonding, and how well our families were bonded growing up.

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Episode 37 – The Need for Bonding and Connection – Part 1

Today we start a series on how important emotional closeness is for healthy relationships. We’ll begin by defining what emotional closeness is, take a look at God’s example to us, look at examples of family bonding, as well as see what happens when not enough bonding occurs.

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Episode 36 – Don’t Assume

We all make assumptions that seem perfectly reasonable to us at the time. We often don’t check out our assumptions because they seem so real, so right. Tune in to hear what to do instead of making assumptions that can harm your relationships.

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Episode 35 – Working with Your Emotions – Part 2

Listen in for steps you can take yourself to strengthern your own emotional development. When you are stronger emotionally, it will help your Relationships in every area of your life.

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Episode 34 – Working with Your Emotions – Part 1

Our emotions are more than just random feelings. They are a central part of who we are…the essence of who we are. Listen in to hear how you can better understand yourself and your emotions.

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Episode 33- How To Handle Your Child / Teens Mean or Critical Comments

Listen in for tips to handle your child or teens mean or critical comments. These tips will help you turn negative comments from a painful experience to one that actually deepens and strengthens your relationship with your child or teen.

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Episode 32 – Soothing Truths About Your Worth and Value

Listen in to hear soothing truths about your worth and value from God’s perspective. Take a deep breath, relax, and soak in these truths!

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Episode 31 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 7

Today we’ll be finishing this series by learning ways to connect to others out of your growing relationship with yourself.

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Episode 30 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 6

Today we’ll be exploring more ways to reconnect with yourself, as well as connect with God

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Episode 29 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself –

Part 5

Today we’ll be covering some practical ways you can start relating to yourself in compassionate and accepting ways

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Episode 28 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 4

Today we’ll understand more fully what “mirrors” in your life contributed to an incorrect view of yourself, and how to see yourself more accurately.

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Episode 27 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 3

Today we’ll be unpacking both how a healthy, accurate sense of self develops, as well as some ideas as to how your sense of self may have developed.
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Episode 26 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 2

Today we’ll continue with this topic, and take a look at where we each developed our view of ourselves, because this contributes to the relationship we have with ourselves now.

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Episode 25 – Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself – Part 1

Today I’ll be starting a series on Building a Healthy Relationship with Yourself. We’ll start off by understanding what a healthy relationship looks like with yourself.

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Episode 24 – Top 10 Strategies for Success

Tune in to hear some strategies for success that you can apply to achieving any goal that is important to you

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Episode 23 – What Our Teens Need From Us

Listen in to hear what teens need from their parents, and some concrete ways to meet those needs

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Episode 22 – Encouraging Words for Parents of Teens

Listen in to hear some encouraging words you can say to yourself to bring hope and comfort during these challenging years.

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Episode 21 – What Do You Need To Motivate You?

Today we’ll look at what you might need to have in place to motivate you. I got to thinking about some goals I have for myself…and thought about what outside help I need to accomplish them. I’ll guide you through a process to figure this out for yourself.

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Episode 20 – What Is Important to You That You Are Not Doing?

Today I’ll be sharing some insights and thought provoking questions to help you figure out how to include important goals/desires into your life that are important to you. What I want to convey to you is that whatever this goal is…matters! There are goals you have, ways you want to spend your time, things you want to accomplish, or even parts of you that you want to express that are important to you. They matter, You matter!

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Episode 19 – The Rejuvenating Power of Beauty

Today I am sharing with you some thoughts I had on my recent trip to New Zealand. I was struck by many things in this beautiful country….and wanted to share with you the impact being in beauty had on me, as well as simple ways you can add beauty to your life.

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Episode 18 – An Inspirational Story – Go For It

Today I am sharing about an amazing story I heard on my recent trip to New Zealand about someone who took a risk putting himself out there and the amazing positive results that occurred. You’ve got to hear this one!!!

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Episode 17 – Peace of Mind – Becoming Your Own Best Friend – Part 3

Listen in to hear how you can become your own best friend by how you relate to yourself, and talk to yourself. You are worth it, and you can learn healthy ways to interact with yourself…especially learning to have a loving dialogue with yourself.

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Episode 16 – Peace of Mind – Becoming Your Own Best Friend – Part 2

Listen in to hear how you can become your own best friend by how you relate to yourself, and talk to yourself. You are worth it, and you can learn healthy ways to interact with yourself.

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Episode 15 – Peace of Mind – Becoming Your Own Best Friend – Part 1

Listen in to hear how you can become your own best friend by how you relate to yourself, and talk to yourself. You are worth it, and you can learn healthy ways to interact with yourself.

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Episode 14 – Soothing Yourself When Distressed

Part of living in this world is being hurt or frustrated by others, either accidentally or on purpose. An essential life skill that will help you not be tossed and turned by these events involves being able to calm yourself down when you feel harmed, stressed, or frustrated.

Listen in to hear soothing ways of interacting with yourself.

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Episode 13 – How Do I Handle it When I’m Scared About Someone Else’s Choices?

Listen in to hear practical ideas and questions you can ask when you are scared about another person’s choices. You’ll hear cautions about sharing too quickly, as well as an effective way to get more information without harming your relationship.

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Episode 12 – How to Help a Teenager Who Says He/She Wants to Die

Today I’ll be answering this question, which was submitted by one of my subscribers. What an important topic! It is true that teenagers these days experience a lot of stress and emotional pain, and often feel overwhelmed to the point of wanting to die. This episode will cover what to say and do when a teenager communicates this message.

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Episode 11 – Getting Your Voice Back

Today we’ll be talking about how to get your voice back, if you’ve lost it, or it is weak in certain areas. By asking yourself questions, and by listening to the answers that come, you’ll figure out what you think, feel and want…rather than letting yourself be told what to think, feel, want or do by others.

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Episode 10 – Are You Listening To Your Voice?

Your voice is your internal sense of what you think, feel, and want. Tune in to gain understanding about your “voice”, how we develop it, how we lose it, and the process of regaining it. I’ve got some real encouragement for you in this area today!

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Episode 9 – Getting the “Spark” Back in Your Marriage

This podcast addresses a common question I hear from couples: “We’ve been married a while, and have grown distant from one another. What can we do to get some of the “spark” back?”

This is a great question and happens to many couples. With the advent of our careers, children, and the fast-paced society we live in, it’s common to have distance develop slowly between couples. There are a variety of reasons distance occurs, from more serious reasons such as built up anger and resentment and/or a couple’s long-term inability to resolve conflicts to more minor reasons such as taking one another for granted over time.

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Episode 8 – The Power of Sharing Your Needs – Part 2

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we cover The Power of Sharing Your Needs - Part 2 Listen in to learn about sharing your needs with yourself, God and Others, as well as how to do so effectively. Today’s podcast gives practical and simple guidelines as well as several examples.

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Episode 7 – The Power of Sharing Your Needs - Part 1

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we cover The Power of Sharing Your Needs - Part 1 Listen in to learn about our needs as well as assess which of your needs are being met, and which ones need some care and attention. We must know this before we can learn how to share these needs effectively.

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Episode 6 – The Power of Loving Confrontation – Part 2

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we cover The Power of Loving Confrontation – Part 2 Listen in for 8 Tips for Loving Confrontation plus what to do with your emotions and their response after the conversation. Kim also handles on of the subscribers questions by applying these principles.

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Episode 5 – The Power of Loving Confrontation – Part 1

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we cover The Power of Loving Confrontation – Part 1 We’ll be learning about the basics of confrontation, as well as what needs to occur for confrontation to be loving and healthy.

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Episode 4 – The Power of Owning Your Part

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we cover The Power of Owning Your Part in what ever situation you are dealing with. Find out ways to figure out what you can do to care for yourself and take steps to move forward in whatever situation you are dealing with.

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Episode 3 – The Power of Listening

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we talk about The Power of Listening. Tune in to learn about effective listening skills to help you listen to others as well as to yourself.

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Episode 2 – The Power of Self-Awareness

This episode continues a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we talk about The Power of Self-Awareness…

As we grow in self awareness, we will better understand why we feel the way we feel as well as why we behave as we do. This understanding then gives us the opportunity and freedom to change those things we’d like to change about ourselves and our relationships.

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Episode 1 – The Power of Empathy

This episode begins a series of podcasts on important and life-changing relationships skills. Today we talk about The Power of Empathy…the ability to connect to another by understanding their emotions and/or state of mind. Empathy enables us to understand the thoughts, feelings, and needs of another person…thus increasing emotional connection and empathy.

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