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When we know the hard choice is right, in a way, it's not hard because we can't not do it.
- Kimberly Braun, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, and today’s guest on Fierce Conversations with Toby
Join us as Kimberly Braun shares her extraordinary life journey with us. Kimberly discusses her challenging decision to join a monastery at the age of 24, becoming a cloistered nun, and the emotional difficulty of leaving the monastery after ten and a half years. She recounts a profound spiritual experience that led her to question her vows, ultimately receiving permission from the Pope to leave. Kimberly also reflects on the transition back to the secular world, the overwhelming noise and technological changes, and the emotional challenges of reintegrating with her family. Together, we will learn about the transformative power of healing.
Some of our fierce topics today:
[00:05] Introduction
[1:57] Joining the Monastery
Kimberly discusses the hardest decision she ever had to make, which was joining the monastery at the age of 24.
[06:59] Leaving the Monastery and Inner Illumination
Kimberly shares the moment of inner illumination in her hermitage in August of the year 2000, leading to her decision to leave the monastery after 10 and a half years.
[20:58] Changes in Childhood and Parental Busyness
Reflecting on the differences in childhood experiences, emphasizing a shift in parental availability and busyness.
[23:10] Mentors and Spiritual Exploration
Kimberly’s perspective on mentorship, including finding wisdom in various people and spiritual experiences.
[24:15] - Discovering Self Summit
Introduction to Kimberly Braun's online summit, "Discovering Self," with details about the summit's format, contributors, and the broad theme of self-discovery applicable to all individuals.
[33:06] - Overcoming Challenges and Kimberly’s new book Miracles in the Naked Light.
About Kimberly Braun:
Kimberly Braun, impelled from earliest childhood experiences, has spent over a decade as a monastic nun exploring the path of Presence. With a master’s in theology, she lives to inspire others to connect to, and live from, Divine Love at their center.
She is a TEDx speaker and former meditation faculty at the renowned Omega Institute. Kimberly’s communication skills ignite transformation on all levels serving others to lives of greater freedom and joy.
Kimberly also has three books currently in publication, Love Calls: Insights of a Former Carmelite Nun, Beloved Found: Poems from the Source, and her latest release Miracles in the Naked Light: The Extraordinary Life in Every Moment.
Curious by nature, deeper questions have been a big part of Kimberly's life from those moments forward. And these deeper questions lead her presently to believe that Source/Spirit/Life Force are within our very center (figuratively.) Yes, in this LOVE, people live and move and have their being.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Kimberly Braun and Toby Dorr will both be speaking at the Discovering Self Summit (hosted by Kimberly), happening virtually Friday January 5th through Sunday January 7th. Find out more and get your tickets here!
Kimberly Braun:
Website
All Books by Kimberly Braun on Amazon
Miracles in the Naked Light Audiobook
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Credits:
Created by Toby Dorr.
Produced by Number Three Productions, a division of GracePoint Publishing.
Theme song:
Lisa Plasse: Composer, arranger, and flutist
