Love Notes 1

Hi, and welcome to my first podcast ever.

It’s January 1st, 2019 and I just wanted to speak from my heart, and talk about how grateful that I am that 2019 is beginning and that 2018 is behind us.

There was a lot I learned in 2018, a lot of gifts in cancer, and in addiction, and in learning how to love unconditionally, even more.

So, I welcome you to my first podcast and invite you to consider what you learned in 2018.

What are your experiences and what did you learn? What would you like to let go of, what you’d like to remember, and how can you start 2019 with as much gratitude as possible?

I know I’m starting with gratitude for everything in my life right now: my children, my grandchildren, my family, my friends, my gratitude to you if you’re watching or listening. My gratitude for my clients, for my health, for the health of those I love, and my prayers for peace on earth and peace in our hearts continues daily.

I welcome you to the first of many podcasts where I will share from my heart and invite you to do the same.

If you have any questions about relationships, about self care, about spirituality, about law, divorce, communication — whatever your questions are, send them to Linda at LindaKroll.com and I’ll answer them on these podcasts.

I’ll offer my 71 years of wisdom, which I have acquired, and education, and just have a forum for connecting with you from my heart to your heart.

I’m sitting in my living room with my lights on and my computer on, and I have become a very “techie-aware grandmother”, who knows how to do this. So I thought it would. It’s on my bucket list.

I wanted to create a podcast and share everything I can about

  • Love
  • Relationships
  • compassionate communication
  • Compassionate Mediation®
  • how to make divorce more kind and loving
  • how to heal relationships
  • how to relate to your children, and your parents, and your friends, and your employers, and your employees with an open heart.

And, how to learn compassionate communication, which allows you to connect to your highest and best self, let go of any limiting beliefs, unburden pain from your past and relate from your heart.

As you unburden the pain from the past and can relate from a more open heart, you’re going to have more compassionate relationships with yourself and with everyone in your life.

That’s what I wish for you in 2019 — to have a year filled with peace, love, and joy in a way that uses the lessons and the challenges of 2018 to catapult us into 2019 with all of that new awareness and new wisdom.

I for one, am very grateful that I survived my cancer. My new hairdo, compliments of chemotherapy, is one that I’m looking forward to sharing as well as everything else in my life with you.

So, thanks for tuning in. There will be more to come.

I wish you a blessed at 2019 filled with health, and happiness, and peace, and balance, and joy, and love, and abundance in your life.

I’ll talk to you again soon and I’m sending you a lot of love, a lot of light, and a lot of hugs from me to you.

Happy, Happy New Year.

Talk to you soon. Bye for now. xoxoxo

Compassionate Mediation® for Better Relationships Video

 

 

 

 

Virginia Parsons, http://hangoutmarketingu.com interviewx Linda Kroll about Compassionate Mediation for Enhanced Relationships. “Would you like to experience more peace, love and joy in the world? My very special guest, Linda Kroll, is recognized as an expert in psychotherapy, mediation, and spiritual counseling. Through awareness, higher consciousness, and empathy, Linda believes we can make the world a safer place from which to heal and transform our most intimate relationships. Her primary philosophy is “Love is the answer, but it starts with loving your SELF.”

We will explore the following hot topics: 1) “Know Thyself” …and your Parts (Guided Meditation) 2) Tips to deepen Connections and have more Fun 3) What is Compassionate Mediation® Linda Kroll is a lawyer, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). a Certified Mediator and a Chopra Certified Master Teacher

Her trademarked systems of Compassionate Mediation® and SELF-Led Divorce® have helped thousands of couples who were at a crossroads in their relationships. They have been able to heal and transform their relationships from their highest and best SELF.

In February, 2016, Linda’s book — Compassionate Mediation® for Relationships at a Crossroads: Add Passion to Your Marriage or Compassion to Your Divorce — became an instant Amazon International Best Seller. You can get a copy of the book HERE

Or get a FREE Chapter of the book at www.LindaKrollBook.com.

You can also receive a FREE Relationship Assessment at www.LindaKroll/RA.com.

For Therapists, Coaches, Mediators, Attorneys, Counselors and Clergy – please get a FREE ROADMAP and VIDEO introduction to Compassionate Mediation and join me in my online training – Compassionate Mediation Tools for Your Practice.

 

 

Hope for 2019

It’s been 30 years since I first separated from my beloved ex-husband, and since that time, it has become my mission to make help individuals and couples to resolve conflict in the highest good for all concerned.

A marriage doesn’t have to end in broken hearts, families and fortunes.

And often, with the right information and counseling, you can create a new marriage with your partner now.

Two people who once promised to love each other forever can find it in their hurting hearts to learn how to restructure their families without the shrapnel that animosity leaves behind.

The holidays are especially difficult when there is conflict in your relationship.

You have to pretend everything is okay, but secretly you’re conflicted and confused. Many people hold on through the holidays only to decide to end their relationships as soon as the festivities end.

January is often called “Divorce Month,” but it doesn’t have to be.

Three years ago, I published my book, Compassionate Mediation® for Relationships at a Crossroads: How to Add Passion to Your Marriage or Compassion to Your Divorce.

As a therapist, mediator, and attorney, I have spent 30 years counseling thousands of individuals and couples who are:

  • Unhappy but hopeful things will improve,
  • Unhappy but “stuck”
  • Separated
  • Divorcing
  • Or Divorced

This year I finished the online course, which is six hours of videos of everything I offer to my clients in person, plus six months of live monthly calls with me.

It is my goal to reach as many people as possible with the hope that this information can help to change the face of divorce — one heart at a time.

For a limited time, I am lowering the cost of the course to make it affordable to anyone who could use this information.

You can LEARN MORE HERE:

So if you, or someone you know, is suffering this holiday season (or any time), please get the information and support you need to create the relationship you desire and deserve – no matter what form it takes.

I believe families need not be “broken,” but can be peacefully and respectfully “re=structured.”

So whether you want to add more passion and partnership, or think you want to part ways with as much kindness and compassion as possible, this course is for you.

Or you can get it to give to someone you care about so they can benefit from the education and empowerment they will receive.

If you have any questions, please join me on my next Live Q&A which will be coming soon.

Let me help you end this year and begin 2019 with a sense of hope and healing, so the coming year will be filled with more peace, love and joy.

Sending love,

Linda

P.S, You can take my free Relationship Assessment and see how you can make positive changes today!

Free Compassionate Mediation®

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If you work with individuals and couples in conflict, I’d love to share my process of Compassionate Mediation® with you.

Compassionate Mediation® helps individuals and couples add passion to their marriage or compassion to their divorce. It is a transformational process of conflict resolution, based on SELF-leadership.

It addresses the emotional, spiritual, financial and legal aspects of creating a new relationship with a current partner, or pursuing a peaceful and respectful i.e. SELF-led Divorce®.

You can check out this one minute video for an overview.

Please click here for more information.

I look forward to connecting soon.

All my best,
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Also, if you’d like a free chapter of my book, Compassionate Mediation®, How to Add Passion to Your Marriage or Compassion to Your Divorce please click here.

My Kindle book on Compassionate Divorce™, Changing the Face of Divorce, One Heart at a Time is available here.

The Power of Faith

 

 

 

Dearest Friend,

I hope all is well with you and yours.

Last year my Love Notes were focused on the Power of Hope and the Power of Surrender. This month I’m exploring the Power of Faith, which I think is a combination of both – hope and surrender.

As I currently finish off the last of my six-month chemotherapy regimen for what (I pray) is as they say, a curable form of lymphoma, I focus on the hope I have to live a long and love-filled life, with my surrender to the outcome and the gratitude for each day.

There was one scene in (movie) where Harrison Ford, as Indiana Jones, was stuck on a precipice needing to get to the other side of a deep gully.

It looked like the only way was down, and there was no way he was going to be able to reach the other side. Instead of giving up or turning back, he carefully put out a foot to take one step, and landed on an invisible bridge to the other side.

There is something about that scene that reminds me of the Power of Faith.

What does FAITH mean to you, and where can you add more to your life?

Faith can be a belief in God, a knowingness of some deeper connection to all, a sense of Oneness, a believe in one’s own Self.

Maybe it’s about trusting that if I have the courage to take a step in the direction of my heart’s desires, then God (or the Universe or Higher Power) will be there to support me.

Faith, trust and courage. The traits that are serving me well as I undergo chemo for stage 4 lymphoma. As long as I focus on the faith that the way will be shown to me, all I have to do is I just take the step that’s in front of me, whatever that is.

Maybe it’s going for chemo, or dealing with the side effects.

Maybe it’s being with my grandchildren, and relishing every moment.

Perhaps the extra time I’m spending with friends and family is all part of the journey.

Cancer brings many gifts. You just have to know where to look.

  • I finally lost the 20 pounds I gained after college.
  • I don’t have to worry if I’m having a “good hair” day.
  • I realize (which I always have) how wonderful my family is.
  • I celebrate the connection with friends who truly care.
  • I enjoy everything I eat when I have the appetite.
  • I rejoice on pain free moments and days.
  • I revel in my sense of independence and self care.
  • I am infinitely grateful to the doctors, nurses, and medications that save lives.

But faith is what sustains me beyond the present moment.

Instead of worrying about the future, or planning my next list, goal or project, I am feeling more relaxed now than before my diagnosis.

Maybe because the reality of my own mortality, or the possibility that I may not live forever, I realize I may not really have time (no matter how much time I have) to complete all the projects I have considered, books I want to write, or courses I plan to create.

So I’m surrendering the reins of trying to control any outcome, and just showing up each day with gratitude.

That way, I follow my inspiration as to what to “do” when I feel like it, and not concerning myself on what I think I “should” be doing.

The Lord’s Prayer is what I repeated when I had scary and painful procedures to endure.

And each night I thank God for the day I have.

As George Michael sang, You Gotta Have Faith,“Cause I gotta have faith
….Mm, I gotta have faith …..
Because I’ve gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith”

I invite you to do the same.

What can you stop worrying about today, and instead have a little faith?

What is your definition of FAITH? And what “Leap of Faith” can you take?

I’d truly love to know and any response you make comes directly to me, and I read every word.  xoxoxo