The Madelyn Moon Show (Previously Mind Body Musings) Kendra Cunov: How to Let Him Lead You {Badly}
Episode 204: Founder of Fierce Grace: Practices of Embodied Wholeness for Women, Kendra Cunov has been studying, facilitating, and (most importantly) practicing Authentic Relating, Embodiment Practices & Deep Intimacy Work for the last fifteen years.
Kendra has worked with thousands of men, women & couples in the areas of embodiment, intimacy, communication & full self-expression.
She co-founded Authentic World, as well as The Embodied Relationship & Intimacy Training Salon, and pioneered some of the most cutting edge relation work on the planet.
Kendra has consulted for companies such as Genentech & is currently on staff for 4PC, an elite mastermind for the top 4% of coaches in the world.
She works with organizations & leaders, as well as men, women & couples, who know that presence, truth, connection & integrity are our truest access points to success - in business & in love.
Show notes:
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- Why Kendra lived at a Buddhist Monastery for a period of time and how it eventually led her to leave the monastery to lead relational dynamics with her now ex husband
- Two of her teachers: Sofia Diaz and David Deida
- Authentic relating: the practice of hiding nothing (not to be confused with share everything)
- How making assumptions about what people can and cannot handle from you can lead you to limiting yourself (all from just an assumption, too!)-- this is why we often show our full spectrum of emotions to some people, but not all people.
- How Kendra has learned what works for her when she feels jealous in her relationship (and how she communicates it with her partner)
- Letting your emotions flare
- How to be generous and patient while you learn to let your man lead (sometimes badly)
- How to not be defensive when your partner is doing his best to be honest and vulnerable
- Let {Him} Lead You Badly (video)
- Going three layers deeper so you move past the surface level complaint and get to the real desire
- An example of how we often sabotage our partner from taking the role of leader
- My fear of going deep into this woo-woo relationship realm and how it may disconnect me from the "mainstream" men I have available to date (and what Kendra has to say about that)
- The Myth of Being Met in Relationship
- You can be exactly who you are whether you are in a relationship or not: you never have to change your ways or your behavior (unless you decide to)
- How the masculine creates the structure and the feminine is the energy that fills it
- Why using a word like "energy" might feel better than a word like surrender
- Must-read book: The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
- Diptyque Rose Candles
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