Welcome to the Almost 30 Podcast. I'm Lindsay and I'm Krista and we're your hosts, guides and friends on this path.

Almost 30 is not about your age, it's about the feeling. All of us are almost something, seeking community and resources to support the rumblings of transformation within us.

Our conversations are deep dives, shepherded by our insatiable curiosity and desire for connection and during inspiration and a sense of levity that we can all benefit from.

We're looking to find the magic in the human experience. Buckle up baby, your evolution is waiting.

Hello and welcome back to Almost 30 Podcast. If you're new, welcome. I'm so grateful you're here. I'm meeting with Krista Williams and in one half of Almost 30.

Mother chef, my bestie, Lindsay Sinsick and I started this about seven years ago and we've been doing it ever since then.

And we are all about sharing our process very openly with you, sharing what's worked, what's helped us.

And we really want to be that big sis that's going to support you in your evolution and in your journey and process.

And today's episode is going to be just with me, pizza solo. We love to do solo episodes every once in a while, sharing some teachings, some insights, some wisdom, some things we got going on in an effort to be authentic and real with you.

And a few months ago, I shared with you all publicly about my separation, my divorce, whatever you want to call it.

We were spiritually married, we were never legally married. I don't really know what to call it. It doesn't even really matter to me, but it was a breakup of epic proportions.

And you can listen to that episode where I talk a little bit more about how to know when to let go of your relationship.

So some of the ways in which I was able to understand and process that this relationship had ended, you know, that the relationship as it was in the way that it was during our time was over.

And we needed to move on to another stage of our relationship now into a friendship.

And so that one's a really powerful one. And that one really talks about more of the impetus around the separation and breakup process.

And in this episode, I wanted to talk about the things that I've learned going through a breakup, going through a divorce.

So I'll be using those words separation, breakup divorce, interchangeably. If it triggers you, I don't know what to tell you, but that's just something that I'm working with and navigating it is because it wasn't a real marriage, but we did have a wedding blah, blah, blah, blah.

But this portal and the things that I've gone through in this process have been some of the deepest learnings of my life.

And I just felt like ending a 10 year relationship with someone that I grew up with that I became who I was with has been so instrumental and so powerful.

And sometimes breakups and endings of relationships provide us with the deepest growth and the deepest opportunity in our lives to be who we are and to reclaim the parts of us that we've lost along the way and to step into more magnetism and to step into more truth.

And to step into a life that we love and for so long at the end of our relationship, God bless, but I was so unaligned and I felt so out of my authenticity and I felt so out of my truth and I felt so scared, honestly, because I felt so depressed and I felt so unaligned that I had this fear that I would never actually live a life that I wanted.

Because in the spiritual community, there's such a focus on aligned and there's such a focus on having a high vibration and all of those things that when I was in that phase, feeling depressed, feeling anxious, feeling low vibrational, feeling unaligned, I was like, wow, I'm actually doomed not only in my inner relationship that doesn't feel like it's my highest expression.

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