🎙️ Episode 6: Don’t Quit—Pause With Purpose

The Habit of Showing Up™ with Kimberly Sparks

In this episode of The Habit of Showing Up™, Kimberly Sparks shares a powerful reflection on what it means to keep going when life unexpectedly slows you down.

We often believe progress looks like movement — pushing forward, staying on schedule, and holding everything together. But what happens when life interrupts your plans and forces you to sit still?

Drawing from a deeply personal experience while preparing to move from Chicago to Los Angeles, Kimberly reflects on a moment that felt like a setback — a flooded basement, a sudden injury, and a delayed move — that later revealed itself as protection and preparation. Through this story, she invites listeners to reconsider how they interpret pauses, detours, and moments of uncertainty.

This episode is especially for anyone who feels behind, overwhelmed, or quietly carrying more than they let on — including caregivers, parents, partners, and those supporting others while navigating their own challenges.

Kimberly explores how pausing with purpose can bring clarity, emotional awareness, and direction — without abandoning dreams or momentum. She offers gentle, practical ways to sit with uncertainty instead of rushing past it, including journaling, reflection, and talking things through with trusted people.

Rather than framing pause as failure, Don’t Quit—Pause With Purpose reframes it as a moment of wisdom-gathering — a necessary step before moving forward with clarity and peace.

• Why slowing down doesn’t mean you’re falling behind

• How unexpected interruptions can protect and prepare you

• A compassionate perspective for caregivers and those suffering quietly

• Practical ways to reflect without quitting or giving up

• A reminder that progress isn’t about speed — it’s about intention

Whether you’re in a season of waiting, rebuilding, caregiving, or uncertainty, this episode offers reassurance that pausing doesn’t mean stopping — it means listening.

Thank you for listening to The Habit of Showing Up™.
Until next time, keep showing up — even in the pause.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

🎙️ Episode 5 – “Strong Is All I Know”

Sometimes strength doesn’t look like confidence — it looks like trying again.
In this episode, Kimberly Sparks reflects on her lifelong journey through school — from failing geometry to earning a master’s degree — and the lessons that taught her what real resilience feels like.
What she once called struggle was actually the quiet training ground for strength.

If you’ve ever faced rejection, self-doubt, or a season that tested your endurance, this conversation will remind you that you’re not behind — you’re building muscle.
Because sometimes, the only way forward is to show up… again.

Episode 4: “The Strength to Show Up — The Decision That Changed Everything”
When Kimberly’s daughter Grace was three, a single conversation with a doctor changed everything. What began as fear and uncertainty became a defining moment of strength, courage, and commitment.
In this episode, Kimberly shares the story behind her decision to learn her daughter’s feeding-tube care — and the lesson every caregiver can hold onto: strength doesn’t come first; it comes after the decision to show up.
If you’ve ever questioned whether you’re strong enough, this episode will remind you that you already are.

Key Takeaway:

You don’t have to be ready — you just have to decide. Strength will meet you there.