Infinite Love with Kate
Infinite Love with Kate
S4: Ep: 66 "Infinite Love Season Finale"
Can facing personal health challenges transform your understanding of self-love and resilience? Join me as I reflect on the emotional rollercoaster of Season 4 of Infinite Love on the Go with Kate. From wrapping up a jam-packed school year to navigating the vibrant, diverse cultures of Asia, the journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. As I gear up for a critical medical procedure—a hysterectomy to combat those pesky "gremlins" known as uterine fibroids—I candidly discuss the physical and emotional toll they've taken. This episode is a tribute to the unwavering support of my listeners, followers, and amazing coworkers who have been my rock throughout this journey.
In this closing chapter, I delve into the transformative power of embracing change and the importance of self-care. As I share my personal experiences of overcoming life’s hurdles, I emphasize that sometimes, setbacks and losses pave the way for new opportunities and growth. By loving ourselves unconditionally and learning from our adversities, we can emerge stronger and more resilient. Join me in celebrating community, resilience, and the incredible journey of self-discovery. Here's to new beginnings and endless possibilities. Thank you for being a part of this beautiful season and for your incredible support and love.
Back at it once again with another episode. Well, final episode of Season 4 of Infinite Love with Kate. I cannot believe 16 weeks have gone by and here I am finishing up, wrapping up, really, season 4 of Infinite Love on the Go with Kate. What a journey. It's been filled with extreme gratitude, started off kind of trying to finish up the school year, then kept pushing through and enjoyed a very quick but adventurous summer, traveling abroad to asia for a couple weeks, taking you guys with me on the road throughout this entire season, whether it was out of state, out of the country, on nature, hikes at the lake, at a friend's house, or I've actually hosted friends here. You guys have been with me this entire season and I truly, truly appreciate it. Many, many highs, some lows, but nothing that I can't bounce back from. And ending the season on a perfect note, taking care of my health, as this episode airs this week, which will be my final week of work until I'm off for a month, because I have a hysterectomy coming up, so I have to put all my energy into taking care of me, my body. So here I am, finishing up last episode with all of you and I am filled with gratitude. So, first and foremost, I want to say thank you. Thank you to all that have listened to, all that are brand new to my show, thank you to all of my followers who keep coming back and listening and enduring my beautiful voice. God help your soul. Thank you to all who have given me insight, have sent me messages, supported me along the way. I truly, truly appreciate it. This has been probably one of my favorite seasons so far, and it's not because of anything radical. Rather, it's been more of something comfortable within me, finding my footing, my placement, and feeling really comfortable with growth within and around and utilizing this growth and exploring, exploring this growth and then projecting this growth outwardly. Well, you all listen and hoping that you guys take these conversations with you, whether for yourself, for your family, for your loved ones. Either way, thank you, thank you. Thank you for being a safe space for listening with, with love, because that energy is real and I felt it and I'll continue to feel it, even on my break. And who knows what season five will bring me. That's the exciting part the unknown, yet knowing and having all my faith in the universe. So let's get this show on the road. Really, there is no show. There is no road. It's me on the couch today.
Speaker 1:As I said, I'm about to have surgery in almost a week and this body has been through it especially the past couple months, and I'm looking the part more and more every single day and it's wild. I wish you could see me because maybe I'll post a picture on my audio in Buzzsprout. Who knows, if you want to know, you can go there and see it. But my co-workers this is a huge shout out to my co-workers who have been absolutely amazing. They have been so supportive and they've laughed with me. So supportive and they've laughed with me. They've embraced my craziness as I honestly flow with it, because I look the part. When I say I look the part of pregnancy, I do. I call it my baby gremlin. But I was telling them.
Speaker 1:I just completed my biopsies, had my mammogram this past weekend, did my blood work. Everything came out all good, no cancer. I'm good, I'm ready, I'm literally ready to birth. These four little uterine fibroids and they're not even little, but these four uterine fibroids, gremlins. I've been calling them gremlins. I want them out of me.
Speaker 1:I pretty much talk to my belly every single day and there's no hiding it. I thought I could do so good, but we're about to have a heat wave and I can't wear hoodies or sweatpants this week period, so t-shirts and shorts and I wear typically medium shirts and I'm just, I'm large and in charge and I'm embracing my body, I'm embracing my belly, I, I'm playing the part. My body really is playing the part. It feels it, it looks it, it's going through all of the phases of pregnancy and my doctor even said I'm mirroring it. My body really thinks I'm pregnant and it's wild to me. It's wild how a woman's body works, or just the body in general, and it's really wild how the universe is working with me and for me. And as I'm finishing up the last week week, trying to make the most of it but also trying to prepare for my sub, making sure I have everything lined up for her, it's exhausting but it's keeping me preoccupied and it's not to say that I'm beyond anxiety ridden. I will probably feel those feelings more closer to the weekend and I know I'm allowed it and I'm going to be okay with it, but it has been a whirlwind of a ride.
Speaker 1:And the fact that my coworkers and my students I don't even think my students even notice at this point anymore. They embrace me. But my coworkers just embrace me every single day as I'm goofy and I'm trying to waddle in, or I'm literally resting my hands on my belly, or I'm resting a mug, or I'm just indulging in every food I can, because, let's face it, I mean I'm still going to enjoy the goodness of foods while it lasts, because after this bad boy is out of me, I am back at it. I am back to what I was doing prior to all of this, the big bang theory, this popping of my stomach like a turkey in the oven you just hear the timer go off. That's how my belly feels and looks. So I'm ready to get back out there, working out, running, feeling so aligned within around all of it. I'm looking forward to being able to breathe and not feel like something is sitting on my insides. But again, a huge shout out to my coworkers because today we were taking. Now bear with me.
Speaker 1:I have these beautiful angel fairy wings in my office. I wore them for Halloween last year with the kids and I kept them. I was like you know what? These are gonna stay here, just in case I ever want to put them on. And, you know, prance around and I have the tendency to do so because that is just me, in my energy, in my humor. So one of my co-workers near and dear, and my other co-worker had a camera. She's like, oh my god, let's do um, do you know those absurd, absurd, like I want to say. They're like the 1980s, 19, early 90s photo, pregnancy photo shoots. Yeah, so we busted out some of those. So she held my belly, but of course I had to go get my fairy wings and we had our own humorous pregnancy photo shoot. Oh my God, I mean, if you could be a fly on the wall, this would be the time. I'd desire you to be a fly on the wall Because the poses, the laughter, and you know what's even funnier is, when I laugh, all of my muscles, my stomach muscles, everything shakes at once.
Speaker 1:It is the weirdest feeling, but it makes me laugh more because everything just shifts up and down, up and down. I'm going to make myself laugh. So I just I'm cracking up doing this. They're cracking up. It's all in good nature, it's. It is what it is. So I have to accept it, but I accept it with beautiful love and grace because it has allowed me to feel the joys of pregnancy, I know, but I don't have the beautiful baby that comes with it. But there's more to it than just that and you'd have to really know my story and my love and desire for wanting kids from such a young, in early age. But it was also the desire to feel pregnant.
Speaker 1:So to get all this, to have all this experience, I truly believe, and then to have everything removed and feel aligned because I really do believe it's things get taken away from you to make space for what's to come for you. So I am looking forward to whatever is to come for me. Sometimes the bad, you know, has to come. It has to shift you out of your perspective for the good to come through and I'm open to that. I'm open to receiving that and I'm honored and blessed to receive it. So some may think of this as bad and it may have been a setback here and there, but once I allowed myself to just embrace and to love who I am. That's the whole point of this journey, right?
Speaker 1:Self-love is you're given these tests to really go deep within and embrace all of you, love all of you, and I have. I found that within me and even in the most challenging times. I've loved all of me and will continue to do so, and I love that I get to share that love with everyone around me and I hope they really feel it and see it. And a thought you can ask and desire for is that self-love to just continue and spread like wildfire For all to choose and love themselves For who they are, for what they have. So that's it. This is my grand finale of season four and I choose self-love, I choose life, I choose living, I let go of fear and I look forward to what's to come, without holding any expectations. So watch out Season 5. You'll be here before you know it. And to all my fans, to all my beautiful, beautiful, beautiful listeners, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you. Stay blessed and take care of you, because you, you're worthy.