Beth Kadlec M.A, LCSW

10/28/2025

Welp, since Chat GPT “knows” so much about, here’s what she said this mantis at my office door means today

A few possible messages for you:
• 🌿 Pause before reacting. Even if decisions or conversations feel urgent, spaciousness will give you more leverage than control ever could.
• 🔮 Trust the unseen orchestration. Like the mantis who waits invisibly until the perfect moment, your path may be aligning quietly behind the scenes.
• 💗 Prayerful embodiment. Its posture reminds you that your power doesn’t come from force — it comes from the union of intention and surrender.

10/16/2025

09/29/2025

What a blessing to celebrate my favorite Virgo queen today ♍️👑

08/11/2025

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Life has been extra weird and intense for more than a year now.
Last August I was here, in a completely different incarnation of Self.

I was here as a family. In November I returned on a solo journey.
Now, I sit here with my daughter. Our first trip, just the two of us.

It’s a very special place that welcomes me with open arms every time.

06/17/2025

So much bitter sweet.
So much holding multiple truths at once.

I went to Michigan for a funeral. One of my best friends lost her child at the age of 20. And he was one of the most shiny, extra special humans out there.
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. His mom is an exceptional, powerful, resilient warrior. Always has been. Now she faces a circumstance that is unthinkable…. With so much grace. In her very own radically optimistic way.

A sh*tty, awful reason for a trip, yet I was so filled with gratitude the whole time. I connected with old friends some of whom I hadn’t seen in 30 years. So I connected with parts of myself that were tucked away for a while.
I was reminded of simple things.
Childhood is SHORT, even though it feels so long while we’re in it.
No one was on their phone. People have regular jobs (I’ve lived in LA for so long, I almost forgot) and they are witty and hilarious and without pretentiousness.

I spent lots of time outdoors with the sounds of frogs, and bugs and in awe of the massive lawns and giant trees of Midwest suburbia. I even encountered a family of deer on my evening stroll around the neighborhood.
This being human… such a ride

05/28/2025

Deciding to take action is really important — but actually doing something is what matters...
or sometimes NOT doing something 🤷‍♀️

Our choices, whether active or passive, shape our reality. While thinking about it and talking about it can be helpful, it's our actions that have true impact.

Embrace the paradox. Be bold today. This is your reminder to do the thing. Tell the truth. Take action. Walk your talk 💥

Have an epic day. I love you.

05/06/2025

Maybe also fall in love with the f*ck ups.
🤷🏻‍♀️🫠🌀🩶🖤❤️‍🔥

04/23/2025

I often hear people say they want to recapture the past – to feel how they used to or get back to a time in life that was easier. But I believe that’s impossible.

Life is a continuous journey forward, upward, and onward – a spiral staircase where we may see familiar sights, but from a different vantage point than we had before.

To me, finding the NEW EYES 👀 or the new perspective is what healing is all about. It’s not as much about changing circumstances, it’s changing our relationship to the circumstances. That’s the secret sauce. 🌀

03/10/2025

Im back
I’ve been away

Not just from the ‘gram

I was missing in action

Circumstances got to me

I forgot the Truth

I got caught up in the emotions and thoughts and stories

And despite my best efforts, I lost my way. I slipped into the churn

Thank god I surrendered to it.
And I stopped TRYING to get out.
I needed to be there.

In the darkness I forgot.
And then this weekend: the remembering

I’m here now
Back in my power

Returning to the ALL and arriving in my body again

Coming back onto alignment with my Authenic Self and soul

Radiant, radical aliveness

Feeling delicate, but also strong AF

Winter was dark. And spring feels so hopeful.

How YOU doin?! 🤪🥹🥰🌈✨

02/11/2025

Ding 💥 Ding 🛎️ Ding 🎯

There is an epidemic of NOT sitting. Not staying. And it’s not our fault. We didn’t learn how. We likely didn’t have someone by our side to help normalize it when we were flooded with emotions, overwhelmed and scared of the process.
In fact our culture glamorizes / shows us a lot more avoidance of what is.

We likely felt shame for not knowing how to live through and sit with hard moments. We likely judged ourselves and compared ourself to others — who seemed to do it better, or have less intense ups and downs.

The shame and judgement became patterns. And that made it harder and harder to sit with it - because now we must sit with shame and judgement as well. They are invited to the table.

There is an invitation that many of us miss to sit with contentment, love, pride, awe, compassion, gratitude and joy as well. Especially in recent years, there’s an energy that beckons us to record the moment, share it, comment on it. Do it for the gram, lol.

When we sit with it — with ALL of it, we can more fully feel it. The experience of feeling is healing and expansive. It strengthens us and makes more room for MORE and whatever is next.

💚 I spend much of my day with clients sitting with it.
And, wowwwww what a dynamic encounter of healing for us all.

01/31/2025

A world full of weirdos is our only hope

01/20/2025

The gravitational pull of habits, sameness, EGO mind and old stories are trying to stop us from breaking free. These forces masquerade as certainty, identity and safety.

Once we are aware of the magnitude of such forces, we can recognize the breaking free as a necessary part of the growth process.

Breaking free sometimes feels worse as it begins. Lots of instability, it can feel gritty and sticky, lots of internal pressure and increased tension.
Use that as traction to LAUNCH higher 🚀

Stay with it, because the freedom and the glide on the side is so worth it.

If this resonates with you, and you’d like my support: please reach out.

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