101: How to Unlock Your Inner Child Through Play with Kara Latta
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
July is here and that means it is time to have some fun. Every July we break out of our routines, let go, and focus on play. This year we have a special guest to join us and guide us as we play.
Kara Latta is the Chief Fun Officer at The Playful Warrior and today we chat about the positive impact that play has on our mental and physical health. We’ll learn about the neuroscience behind incorporating play into our daily routine and you’ll discover how you can incorporate fun into your life each day.
Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode to hear how you can join all of us at Lindywell for a play-filled workshop.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...
- What Kara does at The Playful Warrior [1:22]
- What inspired Kara to create The Playful Warrior [6:04]
- What your inner child really is [10:30]
- Roadblocks to play [13:00]
- How she got back into play [16:39]
- What playful resilience is [17:58]
- Play rewires your brain [24:44]
- How to navigate play through the hard seasons of life [30:48]
- What play looks like in Kara’s daily life [32:17]
- How community is an important part of play [35:51]
- What to expect in the live workshop on Sunday, July 16 [38:50]
Resources & People Mentioned
- Register here for our FREE play workshop with Kara Latta on July 16 at 4 pm PDT
Connect with Kara Latta
- The Playful Warrior
- @ThePlayfulWarrior on Instagram
Follow Lindywell
Subscribe to The Balanced Life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of Lindy Well. Here on the Balance Life |
| 0:14.6 | podcast, you'll find honest conversations about health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all |
| 0:24.4 | and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you become the healthiest version of |
| 0:30.3 | yourself, inside and out. Hello and welcome back to the podcast. Today, we are going to have some fun. We are talking all about |
| 0:40.0 | play. And I have an amazing guest who is going to bring a thoughtful perspective around play |
| 0:45.5 | that we haven't really covered here at Lindywell. We talk a lot about how play is good for our |
| 0:51.2 | health. We know that it boosts our immunity and it improves our brain function. |
| 0:55.0 | It reduces our risk for disease. It keeps us literally young. But we're also going to talk about |
| 1:01.5 | the neuroscience. What happens in our brain when we approach life from a playful mindset and when |
| 1:06.6 | we incorporate more play into our daily and weekly lives. Today I'm interviewing Kara. |
| 1:12.5 | She is the founder and chief fun officer at the playful warrior. She helps people heal their |
| 1:18.3 | inner child through the power of play and neuroscience so you can overcome perfectionism, |
| 1:23.5 | self-doubt, and recover your playful creative self. I really appreciate Kara's approach because |
| 1:30.5 | she wasn't always in touch with her playful side, which is something I can struggle with, too. |
| 1:35.7 | In fact, for much of her adult life, she struggled with codependency, perfectionism, severe |
| 1:40.3 | OCD, epilepsy, and childhood abandonment wounds. So it was while she was working through |
| 1:46.0 | this and going through a rock bottom, what she calls a dark night of the soul, that she really |
| 1:51.1 | discovered the power of play and what it could do in her life. It helped her to go from a place |
| 1:57.1 | of fear and to start living from a place of trust in herself. |
| 2:01.9 | She's now on a mission to create a safe space for others to be seen, to be heard and heal |
| 2:07.2 | and to play freely and learn how to express ourselves without judgment. |
| 2:12.3 | She's here to help us reconnect with ourselves so that play is no longer an afterthought, |
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