Welcome to "A Gift in Strange Wrapping Paper," a podcast exploring the transformative power of life's unexpected challenges. Kelly Goetz, is an intuitive educator and leadership coach. Kelly's journey into holistic practices began after the stillbirth of their second son in 2007—a profoundly devastating experience that she now lovingly refers to as "A Gift in Strange Wrapping Paper." This pivotal moment revealed her life's purpose: to teach and empower others to heal with grace and gratitude and to live their best lives now. Join Kelly as she delves into stories of resilience, healing, and personal growth, uncovering the hidden gifts within life's most trying times.
Kelly, has been an Advanced Holistic Practitioner Since 2007. Kelly is an Eden’s Energy Medicine Advance Practitioner as well as a Faculty Instructor in Donna Eden's Certification Program and a Master Lifeline Practitioner, having worked directly under the creator Dr. Darren Wiessman at the start of her holistic training, serving clients nationally and internationally to heal and transform their lives. Kelly has been honored to be a Faculty member for Donna Eden in the Eden Method Certification Program, and a Couples Facilitator for Pathways to Successful Living Couples with the Founder, Sue Paige and her husband, Jeff Paige. Kelly volunteers her time as a Senior Leader with Tony Robbins Event Team.
What if your most painful experiences hold the key to your greatest transformation? Kelly Getz shares her powerful journey of healing after the stillbirth of their second son, revealing how she discovered gratitude in the midst of overwhelming grief and anger. When Kelly made the conscious decision to "heal with grace and gratitude" after leaving the hospital, she had no idea what that would look like in practice. In this deeply moving episode, she walks us through the exact moment—one month...
8 Jul 2025
Episode 15 - When Silence Speaks: Unraveling the Cost of Unspoken Assumptions
This episode explores how unspoken assumptions impact relationships and trigger threat detection systems, potentially leading to misunderstandings and disconnection.
26 May 2025
Episode 14 - Sensitivity as a Superpower: Thriving in a World that Feels to Much
This episode explores embracing sensitivity as a superpower, teaching listeners to harness its potential and navigate various energy frequencies for personal growth.
12 May 2025
Episode 13 - Breaking Patterns: Turning Self-Sabotage into Self-Care
In this powerful episode, Kelly explores the patterns and behaviors that often hold us back, such as overworking, people-pleasing, and neglecting self-care. Sharing her personal journey and insights drawn from the Five Rhythms (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal), Kelly reveals how understanding these cycles can transform challenges into opportunities for growth. Discover how to break free from destructive habits, celebrate small victories, and build resilience to create the life you truly d...
5 May 2025
Episode 12 - Unspoken Expectations: Navigating Relationships and Self-Awareness
Kelly delves into the universal experience of entering situations with unrealistic expectations. She shares a personal story about planning a spring break trip, hoping to break her pattern of overworking and reconnect. Kelly explores the challenges of: Dealing with unspoken expectations in relationshipsCommunicating across generational gapsRecognizing and addressing our own emotional needsThrough her candid reflections, Kelly offers listeners valuable insights on: The importance of self-awar...
28 Apr 2025
Episode 11: When Triggers Cross Your Path: Choosing Love Over Fear
This week, Kelly explores the decisive moment when life triggers us — and how we can choose to respond with love instead of fear. Sharing personal stories, including an unexpected encounter with a coyote, Kelly discusses the critical importance of self-awareness, emotional healing, and nervous system regulation in today’s reactive world. Listeners will learn how to recognize when they’ve slipped into fight-or-flight mode, how to shift from resistance to gratitude, and how conscious living can...
21 Apr 2025
Episode 10 - Rediscovering the Light in the Darkness
In this powerful, heart-led episode, Kelly reflects from a quiet walk in a forest preserve—a space that becomes a metaphor for how clearing out what no longer serves us allows light and life to return. She weaves in her personal journey of growth, healing, and the tools she's collected over 25 years of navigating deep pain, loss, and transformation. This episode is both a love letter to anyone walking through something hard right now, and a reminder that no matter how dark it gets, there is l...
7 Apr 2025
Episode 9 - The Power of Asking for Support
This week Kelly explores the emotional journey of planning a family trip to Germany and Paris—an adventure sparked by her son’s acceptance into a work-study program abroad. What began as an exciting opportunity quickly spiraled into stress as Kelly tried to plan the trip solo, while balancing a demanding work project. Through her story, Kelly reveals the powerful lesson that sometimes, the biggest breakthrough comes when we ask for support. With a mix of humor, vulnerability, and inspiration,...
31 Mar 2025
Episode 8: Push vs. Pull: Let Your Dreams Move You
Kelly dives deep into the transformative difference between pushing toward goals and being pulled by them. Sharing her personal story of grief, healing, and hope after the stillbirth of her son Montana, she explores how having a clear vision and emotional “why” became her anchor and fuel. Rather than forcing herself to move forward, Kelly was pulled by a deep conviction to heal with grace and to welcome another child into her family. Using this journey as a backdrop, Kelly offers guidance on:...
24 Mar 2025
Episode 7 - From Belief to Knowing
In this episode, Kelly Goetz explores the powerful shift from believing something intellectually to knowing it through personal experience. She shares a life-changing moment of intuitive connection during a time of emotional pain, and how that experience deepened her trust in her inner guidance. Kelly discusses how intuition often shows up as subtle nudges, physical sensations, or repeated thoughts—and how learning to trust and act on them leads to greater clarity and confidence. She encourag...
17 Mar 2025
Episode 6 - The Gift of Finding Your Voice
Kelly explores the transformative journey of finding and owning one’s voice. She reflects on her struggles growing up as a middle child in a loving yet hardworking family, where she often felt loved but not truly understood. Like many women, Kelly fell into people-pleasing patterns, struggling to speak up, and feeling unheard despite her efforts. Through personal anecdotes, she shares how her belief that she wasn’t "smart enough" led her to compare herself to others—particularly her aca...
10 Mar 2025
Episode 5 - When you are deep in it
In this deeply personal and reflective episode of A Gift in Strange Wrapping Paper, Kelly Goetz opens up about facing unexpected challenges and the emotional turmoil that comes with them. She shares her current struggles, including her husband's recent job loss, and how it has reignited old patterns of stress and overwork. Kelly recounts her past experiences with financial uncertainty and how she instinctively turns to productivity and problem-solving in difficult times. She explores the infl...
3 Mar 2025
Episode 4 - Expanding your Comfort Zone
Kelly explores the power of embracing all emotions—even the ones we resist. She shares a transformative moment in her healing journey, discovering gratitude for anger and grief as signs of life and growth. Through personal stories and holistic insights, she reveals how expanding our capacity to feel discomfort also expands our ability to experience joy, love, and hope. Tune in for profound wisdom on emotional resilience, energy healing, and the infinite possibilities that emerge when we allow...
24 Feb 2025
Episode 3: Navigating Grief and Finding Meaning
In this episode, Kelly explores the complex emotions surrounding grief and loss, offering a heartfelt and reflective discussion on navigating difficult times. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, a job, or a significant relationship, grief manifests in various ways, and each individual’s healing process is unique. Key Takeaways: Recognizing Grief in All Forms – Any form of loss, whether expected or unexpected, can bring about grief, and it’s important to honor those emotions rather than comp...
17 Feb 2025
Episode 2 - The Gift of Trusting your Intuition - My daughters Golden Birthday
In this episode, Kelly explores the profound concept of intuition and how it manifests in various ways and is an integral part of who we are. The episode is particularly significant as Kelly reflects on her daughter’s 17th golden birthday and the importance of listening to the subtle nudges of intuition. These nudges ensured that Kelly knew that even after the devastating loss of her son, even when wrapped in the “strange wrapping paper” of uncertainty and fear, she was destined to be t...
9 Feb 2025
Podcast Episode 1: A Journey of Love, Loss & Gratitude
Welcome to the long-awaited first episode of Kelly’s podcast! In this deeply personal and heartfelt conversation, Kelly sets the stage for what’s to come—sharing her story, her journey, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. She takes us back to 2007, a pivotal moment in her life, when she and her husband faced the unimaginable loss of their second son. Through grief, healing, and self-discovery, Kelly found a powerful way to reframe every challenge—transforming pain into purpose and ad...
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