Guided Meditation: Release Your Pain & Reclaim Your Power

Amanda Paolicelli: 00:00:06

What's up, radiant icons and welcome back to Dare to Be

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Iconic, the podcast made for icons

who are daring to be themselves.

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I'm your host, Amanda Paolicelli.

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And for today's Tea Time sesh

radiant icons, we are doing

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a little guided meditation.

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For today's meditation, it is designed

to help you release, reframe and

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Rise because this is your moment

to stop running from what hurt you

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and start becoming because of it.

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And radiant icons, I am so excited to

dive into this guided meditation, but

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before we get into all the iconicness,

that is today's tea time sesh.

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I do want to share something that is

incredibly close to my heart that we did

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just announce on socials this past weekend

which is our Own Your Sexy Campaign.

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But before we get into that campaign,

I do want a preference with saying

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that today is actually denim day.

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Denim Day in particular is a day

that is about awareness and education

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when it comes to sexual violence.

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And this day, denim day is where millions

of people across the world will wear

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jeans with a purpose to support survivors

and educate themselves and others

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about all forms of sexual violence.

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So with Denim Day, being today and April

being sexual assault awareness month,

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I have been really reflecting on how

Dare to Be Iconic can make a difference

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this month, especially with this phrase

that we've been using all throughout not

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even just April, but since the beginning

of this year, in January of owning

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Your Sexy, and that's where this Own

Your Sexy Campaign really came to be.

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Because the Own Your Sexy campaign

is more than just a campaign.

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It is a movement.

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It is about reclaiming your body,

your confidence, your voice,

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your power on your own terms.

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And as someone who is a survivor

of intimate partner violence and of

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sexual violence, this mission runs so

incredibly deep for me, and that's why

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with our Own Your Sexy Campaign, 10%

of proceeds from the Dare to Be Iconic

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Shop or our own your sexy bundles will

be donated to organizations that support

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survivors of sexual and dating violence

because healing should not be something

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that anyone has to navigate alone.

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And when you support the Own Your

Sexy campaign Radiance icons, you

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are not just investing in yourself.

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You are helping someone

else find their power too.

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And that is what being

iconic is all about.

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So let's dare to make a difference

together this denim day.

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Now let's get to today's piping hot tea.

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Wherever you are, radiant

icons, get comfortable.

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Take a deep breath, and let's

step into our power together.

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Are you ready?

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radiant icons, because your

tee time sesh is starting now.

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Take a deep breath in.

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Slowly exhale, let your shoulders

drop and clench your jaw.

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Allow yourself to arrive

fully in this moment.

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Today, we're not running from the pain.

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We're not silencing it.

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We're not pretending it didn't happen.

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Today, we transform it.

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Bring to mind a moment, a

feeling or season that hurt you.

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Don't force it, just let it gently rise.

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Notice where it lives in your body,

your chest, your stomach, your throat.

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Just observe.

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No judgment, no fixing.

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Breathe into that space.

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Inhale and exhale.

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That pain you're holding, it's real.

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It mattered and it shaped you,

but it does not get to define you.

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Now imagine that pain as energy,

not something heavy and stuck,

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but something that can move.

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Picture it as a color, a

light, or even a flame.

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With every inhale, you're

giving it space, and with every

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exhale, you're reshaping it.

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What once felt heavy

begins to feel powerful.

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What once felt like

breaking, becomes rebuilding?

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Breathe with me.

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radiant icons.

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Inhale.

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Exhale.

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You are not the version of

you who went through that.

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You are the version of you who

survived it and not just survived.

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You're learning how to rise from it.

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Now, gently say to yourself, I

honor what I've been through.

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I release when no longer serves me.

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I choose to turn my pain into

power again, radiant icons.

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I honor what I've been through.

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I release what no longer serves me.

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I choose to turn my pain into power.

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Feel that.

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This is where your power lives, not

in perfection, not in pretending,

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but in your ability to rise, to feel,

to heal, and to keep going anyway.

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Now, imagine yourself stepping forward,

stronger, lighter, more aligned.

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The pain is no longer something you carry.

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It's something that fuels you.

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It becomes your voice,

your story, your purpose.

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Breathe that in.

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You are allowed to evolve.

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You are allowed to outgrow what hurt you.

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You were allowed to become someone

your past did not see coming.

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Let's take one final deep

breath in and exhale.

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When you're ready, radiant icon, gently

bring your awareness back, wiggle

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your fingers, your toes, and remember,

your story did not end in pain.

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That was just the beginning of your power.

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All right, radiant icons.

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That is your tea time session for today.

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If you enjoy today's episode,

make sure to subscribe to leave

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a rating, a review to tell your

friends about us, to tell everyone

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and anyone, because you know what?

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We love more rating to icons in

our iconic community of ours.

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And you know what I also love

radiant Icons is I love that we are

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all coming together in community

to not only dare to be ourselves,

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but to turn our pain into power.

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We are allowing ourselves to be

vulnerable, real, honest, and raw.

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We are allowing ourselves to get to

the nitty gritty self introspection

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that is required on this turning

your pain into Power Journey.

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I know firsthand how ugly and

beautiful it can be because there

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is always beauty within pain.

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But when we are in the pain, we can't

see the beauty most of the times, and

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that's okay, but I love that this year we

are really giving ourselves the freedom

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and the permission to release the old

narratives and to truly, truly become

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aligned with who we are and who we want

to become as we dare to be ourselves.

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So just remember it is a choice.

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It is a choice that you make time

and time again to turn your pain into

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power and not let your pain define you.

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Turning your pain into power is not

something that just happens overnight.

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It requires time, effort, and

attention, and I am so happy

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that we are doing this together.

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It makes it a lot less scarier and

it makes it a lot less isolating, and

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I know while I was in the beginning

stages of healing out loud from

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my dating violence relationship.

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It felt so isolating, but as soon as

I started getting comfortable in my

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voice and giving myself the freedom

to talk about it in the way that

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I was ready to, it's allowed me.

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To make that deliberate choice on

how to turn my pain into power every

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single day, because the pain from

that relationship does not define me.

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Does not define me, but what I do

with the pain does, and on this long

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ass nine, almost 10 year journey

of healing out loud from this.

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Violent relationship, right from these

traumatic experiences in my life.

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It's just reminded me time and

time again that it is a choice.

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It is a choice that I make

every single day of my life

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to turn this pain into power.

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And it has evolved and grown

as I have evolved and grown

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throughout the years on my healing

journey, right in the beginning.

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I could not talk about it

to anyone, catch me dead it.

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No, absolutely not.

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But now, nine, almost 10 years

later, I am talking about it on a

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podcast to to hundreds of people

who listen to my podcast episodes.

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Never in a million years did 18-year-old

Amanda think that she would have the

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courage and make that choice and be

comfortable in that choice to heal out

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loud in the aspect of talking about

it to hundreds of people with the

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hope that it would help someone else.

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Someone else wouldn't have to go through

what she went through or to feel less

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alone or to just have that awareness of

the warning signs of X, Y, and Z, right?

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Never in my life would, I think

eventually I would've evolved and

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grown into this version of healing

on my pain into power journey.

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But here we are.

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That is the power of it, and I

am reminded time and time again.

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Every time I pick up this mic, every time

I pick up my camera, like my phone, right?

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Every time I post a, a post, an

episode, whatever it is, or I

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announce a campaign and my reasoning

behind it, I am reminded that.

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This individual journey of me

turning my pain into power is

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not only individual, is not only

individualistic, it is a community effort.

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Because we are choosing

to heal out loud together.

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We are choosing to turn our pain

into power and I think that's pretty

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fucking awesome and that's why I

love us so much 'cause we are the

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most iconic club out there and I just

can't wait to meet so many of you.

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This may like, that's so insane to me.

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We are having a radiant icon club

meet up on the track at the Miami

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Grand Prix on Saturday, May 2nd,

at turn three at 2:00 PM Eastern.

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I have some very exclusive DTBI

goodies I will be handing out along

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with some friendship bracelets

from Emily loves racing, so if

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you're at the Miami Grand Prix.

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I want to see you.

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I want to hug you.

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I want to give you all the DTBI goodies,

so make sure to meet us on the track.

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Turn three Saturday at 2:00 PM

Eastern, and if you are not at

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the Miami Grand Prix, but you

are in the central Florida area.

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I got you.

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We just announced our first official

Big Radiant Icon Club meetup, which

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is our hot and healing picnic.

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We are pouring our hearts out

and then we're burning it.

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radiant icons.

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I am so excited.

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It is inspired by our breakup journal.

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We will be dressing in our florals.

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We'll be having cute little

light refreshments, desserts,

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fruit, fizzy, cute little drinks.

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And we'll be doing one of my favorite

exercises from the breakup journal.

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We are releasing the old narratives.

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We are releasing the pain

that we have been holding.

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We're gonna pour it out and

then we're gonna burn it.

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And I think that's great.

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The hot and healing picnic on

Sunday, May 17th at 3:30 PM Eastern.

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I am so excited.

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Tickets will be linked

in the show notes below.

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It's just so many opportunities for us

to come together in community and heal

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out loud and turn our pain into power

and just like dare to be ourselves.

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I cannot wait to see you there.

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I guess I'm gonna go, 'cause I have

to get ready for the Miami Grand Prix.

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I'm literally leaving tomorrow,

so I'll chat with y'all next week.

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Then.

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Remember, radiant icons,

dare to be iconic.

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Bye.

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