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When crisis strikes and the headlines stay silent, what do we do with the fear that rises?

In this raw, unscripted episode, Kris shares what happened when her daughter’s school went into lockdown after a bomb threat—and no news outlet offered real-time updates. Everyone is safe, but the silence spoke volumes.

This is not a story about panic.
It’s a reflection on truth-telling, media noise, and what it means to return to peace in a world addicted to fear.

🔍 Inside this episode:

• A personal brush with emergency on her daughter’s 23rd birthday
• The disturbing realization that even helpful businesses can rely on fear-based sales
• A call to rise above doom-scrolling, empty headlines, and fear marketing
• The shift from reaction to response, from spiraling to sovereignty
• A mantra to support you in heavy emotional moments

For anyone overwhelmed by today’s world, here’s your soft landing.
A space for clarity, compassion, and choosing peace again when you’re ready.

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This episode is for the ones who learned to earn love by being useful.
For the people-pleasers, the strong ones, the givers.
For the ones who are just now learning to rest in the truth:

✨ You are loved because you exist. ✨

In this gentle solo episode, I share a journal-inspired word ramp — a guided sequence of healing thoughts to help move from emotional survival to authentic self-worth.

You’ll hear:

• The phrase that inspired this episode (and why it hit so deep)
• A 9-step word ramp from pain → compassion → embodiment
• A new mantra to anchor your truth:

“I am. I am here. I am love. I am love visibly here. I am.”

• Reflections on being vs. doing, and how to give from your overflow
• An invitation to join the Picture Love Collective (coming soon!)

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I’ll be updating these notes once the new email list is ready — so check back or catch it in the next episode notes.

In the meantime, explore: www.picturelove.us

🩷 Let this be your permission slip to stop proving and start receiving.

🐚 If this episode touched your heart…

Please share it with someone who’s learning to rest, receive, and remember they are already enough.

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This episode is pure joy, and a proud moment for me. About nine months ago I had a playful idea: What if emotions and life lessons could be interviewed like real guests? That creative spark became my “Spirit Interviews” in season 2… and honestly, it changed me.

In this recap, I introduce each guide, share the heart lesson they brought, and point you to the episodes so you can binge the one your heart needs most right now.

A gentle prompt for you: What are you proud of from the last 12 months? Even one small thing — let it count. ☀️

Featured Spirit Interviews (Season 2)

• Amariel — forgiveness & freedom (S2, E13)
• Talia — seeker of truth (S2, E14)
• Veyra — boundaries- not walls (S2, E16)
• Maelu — self-worth & self-love (S2, E18)
• Elira — grit & grace (S2, E20)
• Riven — betrayal, recovery & rebuilding (S2, E24)
• Soraya — trust unfolding (S2, E26)

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2025 was full—beautiful, exhausting, and deeply shaping. In this episode, I’m sharing the biggest lessons I’m carrying forward: staying peaceful without joining the chaos, boundaries as love in action, listening to the body as wisdom, loving people without suffering for them, strengthening discernment, and remembering that being is doing.

I also offer a simple 6-prompt “Thank You Note to 2025” you can use as a quick, heart-led year-end ritual—written, spoken, or felt.

Want a deeper dive on loving boundaries? Listen to “The Ape & the Chair” (Season 2, Episode 17) to hear from Veyra, Guardian of Boundaries.

6 Prompts for an easy thank you note/release:

1. Dear 2025, the moment I thank you for most is ______.
2. The strength I discovered in myself was ______.
3. The part of me that healed/returned home was ______.
4. The love I received (and gave) looked like ______.
5. The truth I’m carrying into 2026 is ______.
6. The way my body tried to love me this year was ______.

If something resonates, share this episode with a friend who needs a gentle way to close the year—and leave a review if Picture Love has supported your heart.

From my heart to yours: keep picturing love. 💗

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This one’s close to my heart.

In this episode, I (host, Kris LeDonne) share a story about a total stranger who sat beside me on the beach and reminded me what safe space really feels like. No advice, no fixing—just presence. And it changed everything.

Together, we’ll talk about what “holding space” truly means, why it matters more than ever, and how we can practice compassion without carrying someone else’s pain.

You’ll hear:
💗 The 10-minute beach conversation that shifted my whole evening
💗 What my grandmother taught me about holding space through heartbreak
💗 The three things you never do when holding space for someone
💗 Gentle ways to offer presence instead of advice

This episode is actually like a love letter to anyone who’s ever needed to be heard… and to those learning to listen with their whole heart.

If someone has ever held space for you, send them this episode as a thank-you.
And if you’re the one who holds space for others—thank you. You’re helping picture love into our world.

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What if some of your most normal phrases are quietly hitting the gas and the brake on your life?

In this episode, Kris shares how a loving compliment from her dear friend Lily opened her eyes to “word spells”—those everyday sayings like “hope for the best, prepare for the worst,” “don’t get your hopes up,” and “I’m just being realistic” that mix hope with fear and keep us stuck.

You’ll hear gentler, truer replacements (like “What’s meant for me can’t miss me” and “I’m allowed to experience good things like this”), plus a simple 30-second, 3-step ritual to:

Catch the “two-foot driver” phrases

Find the real desire underneath them

Speak in the direction you actually want to go

If your words have ever sounded calm on the outside but chaotic on the inside, this one will help you become the master of your own word spells—with more ease and a lot less inner whiplash.

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In a world overflowing with noise, urgency, and endless distraction, it’s easy to forget the medicine that’s been with us since childhood: levity, laughter, and face-to-face connection.

In this episode, Kris explores why joy is not a luxury, but a form of nourishment — a spiritual technology that reconnects us to each other and to the truth of who we are. Through the lens of “Game Time Unplugged,” she reflects on the power of gathering around a table, sharing belly laughs, and rediscovering real human presence without screens.

You’ll hear:
• Why levity regulates the nervous system
• How analog play helps us remember our oneness
• The magic of rituals that bring families + neighbors together
• Stories of laughter, mischief, and moments that melt stress away

🎁👉DOWNLOAD THIS FREE LIST of simple board and card games for some timeless multigenerational fun.

This episode is an invitation to reclaim joy as nourishment, to laugh freely again, and to make levity a ritual we return to again and again.

Let’s picture love in motion — starting with one shared moment of play.

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In this short but powerful episode, Kris offers a compassionate bridge for anyone who listened to last week’s conversation about appreciation and thought, “I’m not there yet.”

Today’s message is for the tender ones… the tired ones… and the ones stuck in a story they don’t quite know how to step out of. With empathy and clarity, Kris explores the difference between presence and repetition, and why grief held in both the body and the mind requires two different kinds of attention in order to heal.

Together we explore:

✨ Why grief lives in both the body and the mind — and why they don’t heal the same way
✨ How ‘truth’ softens and opens you, while ‘loops’ tighten and exhaust your system
✨ Three gentle questions that create real shift (not bypass, not pressure)
✨ Why retelling your whole backstory doesn’t bring relief — and what actually does
✨ A loving message from Riven, Elira, and Soraya on leaving the familiar pain-loop with compassion

Kris reminds us:
“Wherever you are is not a failure — it’s an honest beginning.”

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