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18: The Joys of Magical Mentoring With Heather Hanson
Episode 1826th April 2023 • Mystical Sisterhood • Maureen Spielman
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Heather Hanson is an intuitive, healer, Magical Mentor, creativity junkie, and creator/owner of the Creative Sage Cottage, a healing destination in Union Pier, Michigan. Heather shares with us how she didn’t come from a fairytale background or grow up with affirming messages and for many years, wore masks of her survival self until she hit a very difficult time in 2017. Following this period of darkness, she emerged stronger than ever, with more commitment to share her gifts, talents and healing abilities with the world. Heather’s work includes serving you as a “Magical Mentor”, tarot card reader, Hebrew Aleph-bes expert, and leader of workshops, amongst many other things! Heather supports humans in untangling what has held them back and illuminates light on the shadows to create new possibilities in their lives. Heather continuously asks playful questions and comes to this life with a “Why not?” attitude! She is incredibly inspiring and her energy is contagious! Listen in and let me know what you love! Um, everything!

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):

  • What if this was all true? Nature, plants, tarot, any tool we have ever been given
  • We don’t all come from fairytale backgrounds
  • What if you could use your heartbreak for your own transformation
  • The remarkable gift of using your voice and experiences to support one another
  • How the Tarot and Hebrew alphabet complement each other
  • The idea that there is a commonality amongst the tools we access for healing
  • The importance of sharing our spiritual experiences
  • Appreciation for the humans walking alongside us as a foundational principle of being
  • The importance of saying yes to the journey
  • How to name the shadow in the dark

About the Guest:

I’m Heather Hanson, and The Creative Sage Cottage is my magical Queendom. The Cottage is one part store and one part Magical Mentoring space. A few of my favorite and most consistent hats to wear are that of an intuitive, Magical Mentor, mixed media artist, spiritual interpreter, Magi-crafting facilitator, creativity junkie, writer, teacher, student, wife and mother to Sammy our “Pitador” Rescue pooch. For the last 25 years or so I have extensively studied and taken more classes than I can count in Theology, Religion, Alternative Healing, Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, herbalism, psychology, crystal therapy, Tarot as it relates to healing and the Hebrew Alef-bes, Astrology and energy healing. I am an intuitive since long before I took my first breath. I am also a perpetual student and teacher of life and spirituality. Heather founded Creative Sage Cottage, and finally at age 53, I am living from a place of authenticity and truth. During all that darkness I found my way into a deeper relationships with a few old loves; Tarot, the Hebrew Alef-Bes, Jewish mysticism and several other tools that I had always relied on to help me feel closer to God. As I was allowing myself to heal and slowly putting myself and my marriage back together, I fell very intentionally down a deep and magical rabbit hole where I wound up meeting my most authentic self…she was way down there at rock bottom. And that is how my ascent began…I ripped off every band-aid, took off every mask, fought like hell to silence every internal nay-sayer and for the first time in my life, I invited my truest self to rise up out of the ashes. I leaned in whole-heartedly and decided it was time to honor my SELF by using the burdens I had carried as a sort of spiritual healing elixir for others. This is the path of the wounded healer; and it is why my company; Creative Sage Cottage was born. I have an intimate relationship with the darkest night of the soul and it has lead me to know that my souls greatest calling is to remind you of your divine origin, to introduce you to your soul again. I now rely on my intuition in partnership with our Creator to assist you on your journey back to your most authentic self. I am a work in progress holding space for healing and the cultivation of divine memory and magic.

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About the Host:

Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops.

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Transcripts

Maureen Spielman:

Welcome back to mystical sisterhood. Today's

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guest is Heather Hansen head there is an intuitive healer, a

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magical mentor, a creativity junkie and creator owner of the

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creative sage cottage, a healing destination in Union pier

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Michigan. Today, Heather shares with us how she may not have

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come from a fairy tale background or grow up with

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affirming messages, and for many years wore masks of her survival

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self until she hit her own rock bottom, just a few years back,

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and how she cultivated that period of darkness to look

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within and see where pieces of her needed to be tended to from

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her childhood, and she emerged stronger than ever. Heather

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truly is a magical mentor. And you're not gonna want to miss

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this episode. It's filled with so much magic and so much beauty

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that I can't wait for you to listen. So here we go. Hey

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there, welcome to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

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Maureen Spielman. I started the show to highlight the

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intuitives, healers and other courageous women that I've met

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along my journey and continue to meet. Through amazing

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interviews, I seek to ask insightful questions to uncover

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ways in which you the listener can apply the wisdom and

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knowledge to your own life. I believe that we're all in this

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together. So sharing healing and joy, and bringing community

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together is both my passion and purpose. If you'd like to learn

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more about the mystical sisterhood community I'm

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building, please visit www mystical sisterhood.com See you

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in the episode. Welcome back to mystical sisterhood podcast.

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This is Maureen and I'm here today with Heather Hansen. I did

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a longer bio for Heather in the intro. But Heather, I was so

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greatly honored to meet probably about a year and a half ago at

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her creative sage cottage in new buffalo or Michigan that might

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be union pier, actually. But just this beautiful, energetic

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space feel filled with healing arts, and also attend a workshop

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at your farmhouse which was such a beautiful event for me and

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experience. And I guess the way that I'm going to introduce you,

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Heather, is that you are an intuitive a healer I just told

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you, I consider you to be a mystic other kinds of monikers

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that you have gone by our magical mentor, mixed media

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artist, spiritual interpreter, creativity junkie, writer,

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teacher, student, wife, and mother to your rescue pooch. And

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I know our conversation today will probably span a lot of

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different areas that you sort of specialize in. And we had a

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conversation preparing ourselves for today. And in it, I was

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really struck by what you called the unseen worlds and your

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fascination with unseen worlds. And this idea of what if all

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these things in front of us the nature the flowers, the plants,

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these tools we have like the taro or the Hebrew alphabet.

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What if they were these magical just tools waiting for us to use

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them? They were they they've been part of our cultures for

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centuries. And and just the discovery of these tools is like

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wow, these these aren't just made up things that some people

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can access and some people don't have access to. So that was

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really striking to me. And then I'm just gonna say a quote that

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you said yesterday, that I think is really important. And that

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was, we all want to know we are holy, and how are we going to

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support one another? In knowing this? Amen. Right? Yeah. So with

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those, I'll just start, you know, whatever struck you with

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what I just said, or wherever you want to start about

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yourself. I welcome it.

Heather Hanson:

Oh my goodness. Well, first of all, I'm so

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beyond honored and thrilled and humbled to be a part of this

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because I feel like what you're doing is opening a container for

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people to be able to hear in whatever needs to come through

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this sacred thing that we call life and all these different

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moving parts. You give us a space where we can listen and we

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can listen without can tendency without judgment, we can share

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our experiences and sort of come together as these remarkable

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human beings that we are. So whatever I can contribute to

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this part of the journey, I'm so grateful. So thank you for that.

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I appreciate the opportunity. I think one of the things that is

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the at the forefront of the work that I do and that I hope to

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continue to do for as long as I am here, is this idea that,

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like, what if this is all true? What if all these guideposts and

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signs and little intuitive nagging things that we get and

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these things that show up for us? What if it's all real? What

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if that there really is this divine supreme being who, for

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whatever reason, decided to breathe all of us into

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existence, and now our greatest responsibility, and what I hope

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is our deepest and most profound joy is being able to reflect

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back to God, what he has created through our eyes. So it's a

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Yeah, it's a profound honor to be here in this space on the

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planet at this particular time, just to be in observance and

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celebration of what's happening right now.

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I love the way that you say that. And I, what I

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hear from people over and over and over again, is was what you

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just said to about how we're all this divine representation.

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Like, that's not just, you know, we can look at social media and

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say, like, Oh, they're saying that they're saying that, but

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no, no, no, that's one of those. Those gifts, like, what if what

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if it were true that each one of us was instilled with these

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gifts, this myriad of just this cocktail or alchemy of? Yeah,

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what we're what we're here it is to serve and support? And what

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if it were true?

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Well, and I feel like, you know, not all of us come

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from fairy tale backstories, some of us have really chaotic,

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oftentimes horrific, traumatic. backstories. And what if we're

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able to, instead of sitting in that space of these tragedies

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that were a part of my life? What if I could figure out a way

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to use them as medicine for someone else? What if every

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experience is holy and sacred? And somehow, we get to alchemize

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it and say, How can I use this to help the next person? How can

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I shine a light a little bit brighter for the next person

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that comes along. And so my greatest burden, perhaps can

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become a blessing for you. And that's one of the things, gosh,

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it's kind of become like one of my missions to make sure that

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everybody understands, there's an opportunity here for the

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divine to be a part of all of it, if you choose to see it, if

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you'll receive it, it's not reserved with the idea that you

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have to have a certain degree or you have to have gone through

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the worst of it or nothing at all. It just is. Because you

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were, I believe a prayer on the heart of God before you ever

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took a breath into your humanity. And what are you going

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to do with that knowing how does every single thing change? If no

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matter what your backstory here, backstory is, you're here with

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intention and divine purpose. Now what? Right there's no

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limit?

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No, there's there's no limit and to have

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someone like you and as many of us who can be a reflection for

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the others who need that, at a particular time, it can change

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lives.

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Yes, I think that's one of the most remarkable gifts

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that we have is the opportunity to use our voice and use our

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experiences regardless of what that looks like. I in the work

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that I do with one on one mentoring. I have a lot of

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clients that come to me, and they want to heal, they want to

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figure out like how do I put this burden down. But then it's

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so comfortable. We don't even recognize that we're carrying it

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half the time. It's like the sweater that's faded out and

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it's pillowy and but you won't throw it away because you it's

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the first thing that you see in the closet. You don't even give

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it a thought. And I like the idea of shining a light into

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shadows where we might not want to look because we're so afraid

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of what's hiding there. And then realizing that it's not so scary

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when it's framed in divinity. That yes, it was a horrible

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experience. And I'm so sorry that it happened. But what can

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we do with it now? How can we take The backstory and turn it

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into a happily ever after for anybody else that you touch and

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for your own experience. Yeah,

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I love that part of your work. Because just

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bringing up, I really appreciate you bringing up, hey, we don't

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all come from fairy tale backgrounds. And so there's no

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bypassing care of what we've been through. And I think, you

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know, you had sent me a beautiful, long, longer bio, and

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I in the bio, you talk about how you had your own crash and burn

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and kind of, I don't know, I forget what you had called it.

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But that time where it seemed that everything was occurring

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for you, and then you kind of had a awaking up or it sounds

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like a gentle waking up out of that.

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Yeah, I feel like, well, most of my childhood on

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into adulthood was chaos. It was just my parents had a very

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unique way of existing in the world. And a lot of it was not

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cookie cutter founded on truth, it was more, they created their

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own kind of reality in a lot of different ways. And so it took a

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really long time to understand that this isn't the way most

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people are raised. I started going to a therapist, because I

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was afraid that I had a warped sense of reality. Because if

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you're the one who's telling the truth, and everybody else has a

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skewed narrative, the collective, even in my own home

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was more like, Well, you're the one that isn't actually being

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honest, we're the ones that are being honest. So it took a long

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time to sort that out. And let be able to listen to my own

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voice and the one that was deeper. And then just when I

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thought I had figured it all out, 2017 came and my marriage

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was blown to smithereens, my younger brother passed away

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after a long battle with cancer, I was hit by a drunk driver. My

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mother was I put her was actually coming home from

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putting her in the hospital with end stage leukemia. And then she

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passed away two weeks later, it was literally in the course of

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2017 into 2018. And I was like, day after day, kind of in this

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emotional, fetal position, like Oh, my God, everything that I

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thought I knew, and everything that was certain for me, doesn't

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exist anymore. What do I do now? Like, where do I go and what

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I've never been comfortable in, like walking into a synagogue or

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going to a girlfriend. Because I had a mother who used to tell

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me, people didn't like me. So I kept everything very close to

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the breast. So eventually, I had to sort of decide like, am I

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gonna move forward? And somehow find my way out of this? Or is

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this the end of the story for me, like, do I just kind of curl

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up into a ball under a desk, start sucking my thumb. And

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that's the end of it. And I decided that there was too much

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at stake. Like there was too much life that I had come

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through for that to be the end of the story. And so here I am.

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And I turned back to the Hebrew alphabet, and taro and God and

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all the tools that I had been accumulating in this amazing

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spiritual toolbox, my whole life without even realizing that at

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some point, they were going to step forward and essentially

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save me. And now I get to use them as medicine for someone

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else. So it was, yeah, it was a crazy time. And I, I think life

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is an ongoing evolution and healing and uncovering and

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releasing, and, but I'm still here. So as long as I'm still

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breathing, then I'm still evolving, and it's a really good

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day.

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Yeah, but thank you for sharing, you know,

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that the trajectory of that year and, and the pain of it, and I

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think a lot of people listening are going to relate to that,

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because when rock bottoms come, they sometimes come really big

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and heavy. And then it also strikes me that because I had

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read that you had been a practitioner and a seeker and

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just loved all these different kinds of tools that were out

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there and and it really ancient, you know, modalities. And then

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when you hit that place and you started to turn around is that

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when you began to see it different differently, like wow,

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maybe these even have more meaning that I ever knew they

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and I can kind of see them sitting on your shelves kind of

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waiting for you. Well,

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yes, I love that. You just said that because I had

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this book about the Hebrew alphabet this little tiny book.

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And I'd probably had it for 10 years I've been accumulating,

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like spiritual knowledge my whole life, I sample from every

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face every back store every background, because I love it so

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much this idea that we all come from these different experiences

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and places religiously spiritually. So there was this

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book and I kid you not. I looked over at this thing, and it

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almost like lit up it was, it was brighter than I had ever

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noticed it to be. So I took it off the shelf. And it was all

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about the mysticism of the Hebrew alphabet, and how these

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letters were actually God's tools to create the entire

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universe and everything in it. Each one of the 22 letters

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represents something in creation. And then it went a

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little further when I realized Hold on a minute, the 22 Major

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Arcana of the Tarot that I've been playing with essentially,

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since I was six years old. This kind of sounds familiar, started

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digging deeper, Kabbalistic wisdom and the sages, it all

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starts overlapping. And each of the 22 majors are assigned a

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Hebrew letter. There's numerology, there's astrology,

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there's herbs, and I just allowed myself to literally

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tumble down this rabbit hole, and was like, Okay, God, I'm

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listening, show me everything, and show me how I'm going to put

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this all together. And here I am. It's been quite a journey.

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Yeah, has it ever right? And I feel like you

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were in a higher consciousness. And we're able to see these

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things almost from a mountain top down, and then we're able to

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link them up. But what also comes to mind, to me in this

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conversation, is that the way that society is set up are in

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these different religions. And that, that the certain tools or

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books or you know, ancient teachings are for that religion

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only. But I hear what you're saying is like, oh, you know,

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maybe we can share, maybe there are three lines from one to the

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other. And it was never meant to be only for one group of people

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and other people excluded.

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Nope. And that's one of the things that I love the most,

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is we it's kind of like what you and I were talking about

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yesterday when I said, you and I will both stand in front of the

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Mona Lisa. And we will both see different aspects of that piece

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of artwork. You're going to see one thing, maybe it's the

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colors, I'm going to see something else. Maybe it's a

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twinkle in her eye. And rather than me say, No, Maureen, that's

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not what you should be looking at. What if I looked at it also,

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what if you shared it with me, and all of a sudden, I got to

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experience the Mona Lisa, in a completely different context and

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through someone else's eyes. And I believe this is what God

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intended for us on a spiritual level. He created this unknown

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limited body of humanity, not the same, but entirely

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different. Every single one of us brings something else to this

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story. And what if the way I experience God, I get to share

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with you and all of a sudden, you have a different experience

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of God? Oh, I didn't really think of it that way. Oh, that

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hasn't been my experience up to this point. People are always

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surprised when they come to me for intuitive readings. And I

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quote scripture from the New Testament. Why do you know the

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New Testament? Are you Jewish? Yes, but it's a beautiful part

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of this whole thing. And I love that there are these keys and

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these beautiful lines of what I believe to be divine hope. My

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gosh, if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move a

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mountain, there's no limit to that. Ask and You Shall Receive

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knock and the door will be opened, that I was made in the

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image of the one that made me not if I do things a certain

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way. But as of being because it is it was designed that way. And

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far be it for me to get in the way with my interpretation. I

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just want to be able to share and hopefully when you leave my

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presence, you and I are better people for having crossed one

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another's paths. It's pretty simple. I think. It just gets,

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you know, humanity. We like to take things and make it more

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complicated. And I think the beautiful thing about God is he

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or she made sure there's room for everyone at the table. You

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don't have to do anything to be seated there.

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Yeah, and you have this way of, I don't know,

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the person that's sitting next Do you look at or looking at the

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Mona Lisa with you, that's this beautiful kind of way we're

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meant to relate to one another, there's an energy or a quality,

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you hold a reverence, I feel like for the human being that's

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in front of you, or you're speaking to, it's just a

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different feel. And, and, and one that I'd say is so needed

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right now.

Unknown:

Thank you. You know, I feel like I'm coming from a

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place. I mean, honestly, most of my life, and now I really, I was

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recently in Sedona on this private spiritual journey. It

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was a an organization that offers, literally, it was a

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private retreat. So your interview, they find out what

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your intentions are. And then you are assigned these different

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teachers, depending on how long you're going to be there. And I

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said to the guy, the concierge that interviewed me, this is

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what I do for a living. So give me your best, like I want I can

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take it I, I did it over Yom Kippur war, because I wanted to

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leave everything in Sedona. And I needed answers to questions

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and I needed to come back, knowing that I was either going

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to go full force into the spiritual journey. Or maybe I

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needed a course correct. So the very first day, they sent me to

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this lovely woman, and her name was Danny, the title of my

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teaching with her was healing the childhood wound. And I went

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into it kind of arrogant. I was like, my god, I've been in

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therapy. Like for years, I think I got this. No, this woman, a

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lot of the people, the practitioners were also

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therapists. So they lent a very interesting perspective. She

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started asking me questions. And the next thing I knew I was

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sobbing, because I had this memory of being in third grade.

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And I wanted to invite a teacher to come home and have lunch with

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us. This was like a thing we did in elementary school. And my mom

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said, yeah, she's not going to want to come, she's never liked

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you. And you've never been somebody that she's really

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wanted in her class to begin with. And I was like, Oh, my

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gosh, I had this like lightning bolt moment sitting with this

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woman, Denny, when all of a sudden, I realized that my mom

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spent most of my life doing this, when I would say I want to

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go after this job, my mom would have some weird reason why the

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person who was supposed to hire me wasn't going to like me. And

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I'm not saying this out of a place of, I don't come from this

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as a victim. This is what I believe became one of my

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greatest tools. Because I walk through the world very

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intentionally, making sure I do whatever I can do so that nobody

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ever feels the way I was made to feel. If I had known that God

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just loved me, for me, and that I was created with intention.

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And I didn't have to be anything more than who I already am. How

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would every single thing have been different than and so it's,

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it's the number one thing on the top of my, like, how can I serve

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is just making I don't care if you're a Christian, a Muslim and

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eight I don't does none of that. What matters to me is that you

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know that you're here, because you matter, because you mattered

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so much that you had to be created, in order for God to be

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able to express this most holy aspect of his or herself through

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you. There was no other way it could be done. Oh my gosh,

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that's like,

Maureen Spielman:

why now what? Yeah. And so in the ceremony

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that you had where this the memory was coming, and you're

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seeing the patterns of the way your mom came to you, then was

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there a time where then you went back to yourself with this new

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messaging? Or how did she work?

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Yeah, that was so I didn't realize at the time, so

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that was on Monday, and every modality every teacher

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throughout the rest of the week, was intentionally building on

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each experience that you had getting to. It was supposed to

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not happen till Friday, but on Wednesday evening, I had an

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experience with a shamanic breath worker that I thought I

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was dead like I it took me weeks after I got home to be able to

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even talk about it. Because it was such a profound experience

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where I literally I knew for the first time without doubt that I

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was that I matter that what it was okay to put everything down

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now that I can now free up that space be Because the way I heard

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it, in this unbelievable, I was like, I can't even there's not

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really words to describe. I just heard this beautiful voice

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saying to me, you have been, you've spent your life trying to

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intellectualize me. But if you would just get to know me from

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your heart, we're already connected. This is already I've

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been here the whole time. And it was like, I can set this stuff

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down, I can literally set it down. And the next teacher had

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me call up an image of myself in third grade, bring it up, what

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did I look like, and begin to have a conversation with nine

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year old me. And that little version of me has stayed with me

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since. But now she's safe. Now she feels like, I want to do

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this with you. And so you get to bring that childhood energy,

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that innocence that wonder that curiosity. I get to bring it

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forward now. And I don't have to keep her at bay where she can

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feel protected and sort of out of frame. So yeah, Sedona

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changed my life like I can't, there's no way to be the same

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after that.

Maureen Spielman:

I know, I had read it when you said you went

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through everything, you know, five years ago, that the one of

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the lines, you said something like I learned to take all the

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masks off. And you know, through your healing workout in Sedona,

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you can see that. I think taking the masks off, it's all a

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process with which being patient with ourselves and calling in

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what we need are picking up that book we need to read at a

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certain time. But then down the line. I love that it came to you

Maureen Spielman:

altogether within a week. And then you were it feels like you

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really became freed you really became liberated, you really

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became just your true self and ready to shine ready to share

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from your essence. And then that's the gift that you give

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back to your clients now. Oh, I

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pray that's true. Because I feel like I tell

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everybody, we're onions. We're like these human onions. And

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just when you think you understand everything, oh,

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there's another layer to me. And there's one more and Oh, I

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totally forgot that happen. And only in hindsight, can we look

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back and see this complete picture. But the the gift of it

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all is not using that as a weapon or a shield, but instead

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carrying it forward and alkalizing all of that into the

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barrel? The very best of what's on the horizon now, like, what

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can I do with this? Now, I've been given all of this. And I do

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believe even the worst of it, it depending on how we choose to

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frame it going forward can become a gift. But it's a

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choice. Just like we wake up every day and we decide, how am

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I going to experience the day, there could be 20 people that

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come at you with their own stuff? Do you let it stick? Do

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you alchemize it into something good to give back to them? What

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is it? What how do you utilize that? And so I think when we

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live our lives from this space of a holy intention, and make no

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mistake that it's like an emotional chacha, we take a few

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steps forward and always back. But as long as we're moving with

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awareness, we're moving in the right direction. Yeah.

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And you said to that you came back from that

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retreat? Seeing yourself, I don't know, translator a

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translator came out of that one. But you also said wounded

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healer. And after we spoke yesterday, I was speaking to a

Maureen Spielman:

friend and I was so excited. And I said that, you know you had

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used that term wounded healer, which I've heard before, too.

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Would you explain that a little bit to the listeners to what

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what you mean by that?

Unknown:

Um, I think and I hope this doesn't sound arrogant when

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I mean it with the best of intention. I feel like if we're

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going to step into a space of healing, where we want to heal

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ourselves and then hopefully use that to heal forward. You can't

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gain the depth of understanding from a textbook. It has to have

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been lived. This doesn't mean that everybody's lives in order

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to do good have to be born out of catastrophe, but a certain

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sense of having walked in the shadows to know what the shadow

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is because I believe very much that life is about duality. And

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we can't know one thing without the other. We can't have a full

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appreciation for light until we've been in the dark. So I

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feel like you know there's that phrase healer heal thyself.

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There was a lot of work to do. I had a lifetime of work that I

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have been kind of adds easier not to do it and just be

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protected. Add from it, and shove it under a box under the

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bed somewhere in a box. And then when you take it out and you

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look at it, it's time to fix all of this and start the process of

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healing it so that I can draw on my own experiences. And not to

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say your experience will be anything like mine. But I have a

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certain level of empathy, because I know what it feels to

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be broken. I know what it feels like when you literally feel

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like there's nothing left to hope. Like, what am I doing

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here? Why, where do I find value in the world? And so when people

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come to me, and I have a very specific client in mind that

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came to me and said, The world is just a horrible place. Why

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would I want to be a part of this? And I, the only answer I

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could give was like, give it a chance. If you're constantly

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looking for devils, you'll always find devils. But if

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you're looking for sunshine and light, and the good that's out

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there in the world, it's there. Sometimes it has to come from

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you. Sometimes that divine spark that was given to you, before

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you showed up. That's where you have to dig into. And you have

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to release that spark into the ether so that somebody else gets

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the benefit of shining from it. So it's very much coming from a

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broken place. And then using that to heal forward. Yeah, that

Unknown:

I would say that would be the wounded healer for me.

Maureen Spielman:

I think that giving the permission I love I

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like the advice of its advice or the reflection of give it a

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chance there reminds me of be willing just all you need to be

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is just a little bit willing. I know yesterday you were talking

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about you said something, it's time to up and everything as we

Maureen Spielman:

know it. And I was wondering, you know if we're a collective,

Maureen Spielman:

if everyone listening in today is leaning in and listening into

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what's being said, you know, how can we all contribute towards

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sort of being part of that recreation of what this was all

Maureen Spielman:

meant to be?

Unknown:

Oh, that's a big one, isn't it? Yeah. Go big or go

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home as? Well, I sort of love that. Because don't you have a

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choice as to what you're going to contribute to the world? And

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if we literally decide, I asked the client last week, what would

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happen? If in this moment, just while we're sitting here, forget

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about when you leave here. But just in this moment? What if you

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decided to believe that you truly are a divine being? What

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if you decided to know that? What if all the stuff that

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happened up to this point, the context of your family? Forget

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about all of it just for a minute, put it on mute, put it

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on pause? What happens then what happens when you know, I made in

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the image of the one that made me this gets me every time I

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tried to talk about it? Because how can your life ever be the

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same? How can you not want to tell everybody? It's going to be

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okay, you came from the same place? I did. And I'm so sorry

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that up to this point. It may not be perfect. But guess what?

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We have hope here we have an opportunity to remember who we

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are not who my mom told me I was not who whatever judgment or

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whatever the who the humanity, that version of the collective

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decided. But the voice beneath the voice beneath the voice.

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That's the one that's there. When you're sobbing on the floor

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in a heap. And you hear that teeny tiny whisper, you're okay,

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you're going to be okay, get up, it's going to be okay. That's

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the divine. That's where I ultimately come from. That's

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where you come from. And if we can start talking about that, if

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we can start reminding one another that this is my God,

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yes, we all started in the same place. And how can we grow this?

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We that's hope on a level we can't even begin to understand

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yet. And I think that's the other thing. There's a Hebrew

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letter Samak, and its energetic essence is the reminder that you

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and I cannot see around corners. So whatever has been up to this

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point, there's something bigger at play here. And if we have

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enough faith to know that there's a lot happening in the

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ether that if it is meant for me is working its way to me. That

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takes a lot of burden off of me because I get to just Out of the

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way and say yes. And if we all decided to say yes, then what?

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Can you even imagine how different it would all be?

Maureen Spielman:

Just the message alone, Heather, to hear

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that and to have the permission to even begin to, to believe

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that I loved what you're saying, too, because I've had a poll

Maureen Spielman:

recently to reflect back to people, all the things they are

Maureen Spielman:

doing, or just that reflection, because I think what you're

Maureen Spielman:

saying too, is based on what's gone on for us in our lives, we

Maureen Spielman:

we we just develop these stories and these limiting beliefs. But

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so part of what I hear you saying is like advancing the

Maureen Spielman:

humanity, and the collective is seeing it in each other. And

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reflecting back being the mirror that that we can't always be for

Maureen Spielman:

ourselves, and holding up the light. And I love the Hebrew

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letter and the around the corner and the unknown, and can we let

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go? Can we trust? Can we know that it's all going to be

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working out in our favor? Well, I

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mean, this is an easy, I think that that the big

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misperception is like, Oh, I say yes to God, and my divinity. And

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now, all the other stuff is just going to miraculously fall away.

Unknown:

I've been committed to doing this work for years, but never

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was vocal about it. Because my story has always been, well, who

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would I be to talk about this? My mom didn't even like me.

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Like, if my own mother didn't like me, how can I possibly help

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someone else. And then I realized, my mom was doing the

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best that she could with where she came from. And it's these,

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we have these generational limitations and understandings,

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because we don't know better. And once we do to know better

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means we have the opportunity to do better. And so if I decide on

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Tuesday, that I'm going to begin to believe a different voice,

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there's a lot of possibility there. And if you get to see me

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doing that, or I get to see you doing that, and that makes it a

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little more okay for me, now, we have a ripple effect happening,

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that we don't even understand the limitation. I mean, there's,

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it just keeps going at that point. But sometimes we have to

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be able to see it in someone else, to know that it's okay to

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do that.

Maureen Spielman:

I agree with you completely. And, you know,

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people might even look at you and say, Oh, this is so easy for

Maureen Spielman:

her, but you are telling us your journey was not always stepping

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into that. This is who I am, these are my gifts, this is how

Maureen Spielman:

I serve. It's been an evolution. But I love how, you know, a

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couple of times today, you've pointed out, you know, no, there

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is healing to be done. And I think that when I, you know, had

Maureen Spielman:

gone through my breast cancer journey, and then down the road,

Maureen Spielman:

when the idea of this podcast came to me, I always had, in my

Maureen Spielman:

experience that these two elements joy and healing could

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co occur. And it's it was when I put the language together for

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the podcast, it was joy and healing could co occur. And then

Maureen Spielman:

within community. And I think it's important what you're

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saying, because we all have our painful places, and we are all

Maureen Spielman:

you know, we are here for each other to to be here for each

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other to help the healing process how we can and largely

Maureen Spielman:

it's our own to do and, and and then there's the and I also love

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yesterday, I think I don't think I said the words that you said.

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But when you said, if all this is all this beautiful, magical

Maureen Spielman:

tools in front of us. You call it the show and tell. And I just

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thought a lot of what you're tapping into reminds me when you

Maureen Spielman:

talk about the Divinity, and the show and tell it reminds me of

Maureen Spielman:

our childlike nature. It reminds me of how we used to play and be

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in the sandbox and just the delight that we carried as young

Maureen Spielman:

young children, and that we see we witnessed in young children.

Maureen Spielman:

But that is a rediscovery of our inherent essence I believe, too.

Unknown:

It's a choice, because we can layer on. I mean, listen,

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being human is tough sometimes. Like there's a lot of stuff that

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gets thrown at us that given a choice, we would not have chosen

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this for ourselves. So what do we do with it? It's already

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here. I can't deny it. That hasn't served me in any way. But

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what if the worst of it actually can serve me? What if there's

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something good that I can do? Do with it. And oh my god, what

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else is out there? Like, where's the rest of the story? If I

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shrink myself down, keep my head down and don't look for it. All

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that magic that's been tapping that's been trying to get my

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attention is like, alright, well, I gave it a shot. I guess

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I'm gonna move on down the road to Amy's house. Maybe she's

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open. Maybe she's listening. So I feel like Yeah, I mean,

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sometimes. Someone said to me, I think I told you this yesterday,

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I was having a conversation with someone about God. And I said, I

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truly believe at the end of the day, it's all about loving one

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another. And this person looked at me and he was like, that is

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that's from the mouth of a simpleton. Nobody, nobody talks

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like that. Nobody actually believes that. And I was like,

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Yes, but what if that's true? Why wouldn't it be so much more

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exciting to live in that world and to come at life from that

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experience? Because little kids, they bring like a certain energy

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to things until we tell them not to, until we say like, no,

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Johnny, that isn't how it's supposed to be, you shouldn't be

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that joyful, contain yourself. And I feel like, it's so

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interesting to me, because we start out like that. We go

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through this grown up s aspect of ourselves, and then we become

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older. And in our later years, we get back to that place. A lot

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of times, they lose their inhibitions with age, because at

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a certain point, you say to yourself, What have I been

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waiting for? Like, why have I been keeping all of this joy in

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a box? There's only so much time, I may as well enjoy it

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now. So it's Yeah, meaning from a play. You know, when people

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come to me, I create a lot of personal rituals for people to

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just draw their attention to the present while they're setting an

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intention, and a lot of times people will ask, like, what kind

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of candleholders should I use. Now I always tell people to go

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to a park, where a lot of children play and collect the

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gravel or the dirt from around the swing, set the slide the

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playground and anchor your candle in that. Because that

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energy, that's pure joy. That's what it looked like when we were

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kids before the world said it's not supposed to be that way. So

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every time you look at that dirt, it's just some gravel, but

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it's charged with this beautiful innocence that laughs when the

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craziest things happen and doesn't care. It's just innate

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joy. And that's what it should be.

Maureen Spielman:

And I feel like that's what you're

Maureen Spielman:

delivering to because if we if we talk about the creative sage

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cottage, which you opened I've been there and when I walked in

Maureen Spielman:

it's it's it's got a little bit of something for everyone and

Maureen Spielman:

you feel like a kid in a candy shop. Because it's it's so so

Maureen Spielman:

magical and everything that you're describing today and the

Maureen Spielman:

different things that you turn to to assist your clients and

Maureen Spielman:

yourself. It's like this potpourri. And that's the way I

Maureen Spielman:

see that the cottage as well because someone can walk into it

Maureen Spielman:

and pick and choose pick up a journal and say like is okay oh,

Maureen Spielman:

is this one for me? Do I like the color? Okay, I'm gonna put

Maureen Spielman:

that back. I'm gonna go over here. Oh, she's got crystals

Maureen Spielman:

over here. So just talk about that create the creative sage

Maureen Spielman:

cottage. And how did that come to be? And it's just such a

Maureen Spielman:

magical place. And I know a lot of people are going to visit and

Maureen Spielman:

get joy from it. Thank you.

Unknown:

It's like a buy bubble. I always tell people, you know,

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I've been doing this for a while and I had this little tiny

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cottage that we had built next door. I'm super lucky because I

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live on a piece of land we purchased that zoned commercial

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residential. So this is literally in my backyard. And

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when I started out, I just I mean, I've been I was afraid to

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say like, Oh, I do tarot readings. And I'm an intuitive

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but I'm not a fortune teller. I want to share my understanding

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of God with you. And I didn't want to sound like everything

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I've done. I've always, like held everything back. But then I

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sort of started putting it out there like, this isn't for you

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to have a winning lottery ticket. This is not for me to

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wave a magic wand and change anything for you. This is for me

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to offer awareness. And people started showing up at this teeny

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tiny little cottage. And you would I'd have to like open the

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doors and bring chairs and these beautiful conversations would

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happen. And I my husband, thankfully is immensely

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supportive and was like yeah, we have this isn't going to work.

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We're going to need Need something else. So we decided

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that I would have a bigger space, we would basically like,

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I think we tripled it. Because I do new moon and full moon

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workshops. And it's about community, and it's about sacred

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community. And I have a waiting list people like wanted to be a

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part of a conversation and community. And to be honest with

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you, I had this, I'll call it a download, or during a

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meditation, where I heard a voice very clearly saying to me,

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I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna give you all the tools, I'm

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going to make sure you have everything you need to show them

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the tools, and then get out of the way. Eventually, everybody

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will find their way to God, I hope and their version of the of

Unknown:

God, I feel like my job is to say there isn't a right or wrong

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way to get there. You could try this, you could go to church,

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you could go to synagogue, whatever feels right for you,

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wherever you feel most comfortable in relationship with

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God, go there. These are the things that I feel good sharing

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with you do, I think that I'm going to hand you a piece of

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Rose Quartz, and you're going to fall madly in love with

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yourself. No. But I pray that when you hold that piece of Rose

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Quartz, you remember what it means. And when you remember

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that it's about unconditional love. It triggers you to start

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thinking that way about yourself. So I feel like a lot

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of it is I call them for better for lack of a better word like

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holy props, because they really are. You know, I'm known for

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these Mojo bags and intention candles that I create. But I'm

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not doing anything other than putting things together that are

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in direct spiritual and energetic alignment with

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whatever your intention is for yourself. So I just create a

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space for it. And then I hope to open a dialogue about it. What

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you do is that when you leave, that's completely up to you. And

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that's between you and God. I don't believe there's a right or

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wrong way of taking that journey. I believe the most

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important thing is that you say yes to the journey. Because that

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to me is like there's nothing better.

Maureen Spielman:

Oh, I think anyone's stepping into the place

Maureen Spielman:

and you call them the Mojo bag. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It's an

Maureen Spielman:

invitation. It's I can see though, that when people come

Maureen Spielman:

in, they're ready. They're ready to go. They're ready for the

Maureen Spielman:

conversation there. People are hungry were we talked about

Maureen Spielman:

briefly yesterday that most of us have been conditioned to be

Maureen Spielman:

brought up in the doing doing doing and we're all

Maureen Spielman:

deprogramming from that, I believe COVID. You know, COVID

Maureen Spielman:

handed us that lesson. And some of us may have gone back. And

Maureen Spielman:

even if we went back to the previous doing, we're still

Maureen Spielman:

being called to deprogram that and I think we know it.

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So awareness. Absolutely. And thank God for

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that. I mean, truly, I mean, I COVID was horrible. And so much

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of what happened during that time was just catastrophic on a

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million different levels. But it shattered a sort of sacred

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vessel and scattered light everywhere again, and we came

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back to our families, we came back to a place of quiet, we

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came back to a place of understanding what it feels like

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when we cannot be with community. So we figured out

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ways to create community, even if we weren't sharing physical

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space together. So yeah, it was awful on a million levels. But

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then there was the, it's the beginning of something. And

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sometimes the pendulum has to go to the worst place so that it

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can swing back again. That's that duality. One of the things

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that I love more than anything is the new moon. Because going

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back to Biblical times, way back in the Old Testament, it was

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essentially given as a god gave it as a New Moon is like a gift

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for women. It's a moment for you to press pause on everything,

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and be in this place of faith, that even though we can't see

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the moon, it's there. And it's this opportunity to come

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together and be still for a moment. Check in on our lives on

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one another on what the energy of the season is on what the the

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energy of the calendar day feels like. And try to get ourselves

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in soul alignment with that. And I feel like that's the that's

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the pendulum swinging back to that place of awareness. Because

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we know we know that we can't keep running around like maniacs

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at some point. We're all going to crash. Yeah. And so if it's

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just one day and minds that you decide, today's the day I'm

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going to be quiet. That starts something that's a seed for

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something. And it's a pretty amazing place to begin.

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And when we're recording this today, are we on

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the eve of a new moon? Full moon, full moon, full moon.

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Yeah,

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we're like tonight into tomorrow night is the full moon.

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And so this is the other part of this. So if the New Moon is all

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about faith, and setting an intention for what we would like

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to draw forward for the next 30 days, whatever your timeframe

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is, the beauty of the full moon is full illumination, we get to

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check in that light, that beautiful divine energy of the

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moon, lights up all the corners where the shadows live. And we

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get to ask ourselves, okay, how am I doing? As far as this

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intention? I said, How do I feel about this? Do I need to tweak

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anything, Are things going well, is there something that is in

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the way that I can release in order to hold space for this new

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intention that I've created for myself, so most of the time,

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when we do workshops on the full moon at the cottage, I don't

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know, if we did this, when I was with you, where we write down

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what we would like to release, we then set it on fire and allow

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it to go up into the smoke. But I don't like anything to be left

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open ended. So we then take those ashes, and we mix them

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with roses, and lavender and salt, and all sorts of energetic

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organics. And now wildflowers, and we sprinkle them with the

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idea that something that was a burden yesterday now becomes a

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blessing. And it's sort of a seed now, we alchemize something

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that felt negative, and we make it into something potentially

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really positive. And now we have this new space, where something

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else good can move in with intention,

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you beautiful ritual I, I can and to be able

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to have access to that through nature, you know, once monthly

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for each of those events, it's, it's, it's right there for us. I

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really love and appreciate sort of, as we're wrapping up here,

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just the way that you approach life. And really, when you talk

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about the shadow, because I was thinking of you and holding even

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the light in the dark, you know, even when you talked about

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COVID, and you said that, it was really hard times it's, I love

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that you can name that and not have to bypass the reality of

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what that was or how that affected people's lives deeply,

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not always for the better. And in to be able to name it and

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just be with it. And just, it kind of it's got an ease about

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it. And a real grounding for sure. But just an honoring of I

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think what I'm tapping into is honoring of each of our

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experiences than we and to do that for another is such a big

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gift.

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It's sacred work. I believe it's 100% sacred work. I

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always tell people, you know, kids, when they come to your

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room in the middle of the night, because there's a monster under

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their beds, there's some dark, shadowy thing that's terrifying

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to them. And then we go into their bedroom, and we turn the

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light on, and we show them under the bed that there's nothing

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there to be afraid of. It's just a shadow. Yeah, I feel like this

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is how if we choose to exist in the world, it could be really

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bad, it could be a horrible, terrifying thing. But we still

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have to look at it, we still have to be able to acknowledge

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that it exists. Because if we are not willing to shine a light

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on it, it never has an opportunity to heal. Some seeds

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grow in the dark, but ultimately, they need light to

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thrive. You know, the lotus flower, which is like one of my

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sacred symbols, she starts out in the mud. I mean, it's the

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very worst conditions for her to begin. And yet she knows if she

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keeps climbing, there's light to be found there. But we have to

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have the experience we can't do not pass go do not collect 200

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at like you have to be able to walk through this because every

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part of this process is for you. And if we decide to know that

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this whole experience is here for us, we get to look at it

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through a different lens. And even if it's scary, something

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good potentially could come out of this. And what if that's

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true. Now what do we do?

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Oh, that's a great it's a great way to just

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circle back around and and finish today. You've left the

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audience with alimony, beautiful things to think about things to

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explore. And I always ask at the end, where can listeners find

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you either online or, you know, physically if they venture up

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into your area? Or any workshops that you have coming up?

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Yeah. So every month, I'm in Union pier Michigan, this

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magical little lakeside town in southwest Michigan. And my

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cottage is on the property right off Red Arrow highway by the

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legendary skips restaurant. You can go online to creative sage

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cottage.com and find out all about what's coming Instagram,

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Facebook, carrier pigeon, I have a mailing list. It's all like, I

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do the best that I can I have to tell you like social media and I

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are not, we're not on the greatest terms, because I love

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to communicate like this. So but if information about workshops,

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and magical mentoring is definitely available there. I

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also started sending out actual love letters to people. I kept

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hearing that I needed to send mail like real snail mail,

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because we don't all exist in this computer land. So I put out

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a call like a year ago and just said, Hey, if you're up for

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receiving a love letter, I would love your physical mailing

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address. And I honestly thought like, maybe 510 people. So I'm

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over 300 names on this list right now. And while I sit down,

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I mean, people don't even realize I'm actually writing you

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these letters. So I pray about it. I asked what name needs to

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be like, Who do I need to write the letter to? And then I wait

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for the address and the name to light up and sit for a minute

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and I write this hand illustrated, handwritten letter.

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Oh, my gosh, and then it goes in the mail. So if you're somebody

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who craves mail, physical addresses or something I'm still

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collecting. And the cool thing is I'm getting letters back now.

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So I'm, I feel like I'm in day camp again. But I have like pen

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pals. Yeah. So yeah, it's it's a good thing. There's many ways

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for us to come together. But always here at the cottage. I've

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open hours on Fridays, and Saturdays, and then the new moon

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every month, it fills up very quickly, because I tried to keep

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it very intimate. But hopefully it will be expanding at some

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point. So I would love to hear from your people and keep

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building this beautiful holy community that I know, has just

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beautiful and tremendous and sacred work to do and whatever I

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can do to support that. I'm here for all of it. So yeah, thank

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you. Good thing. Thank you.

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Yes. Okay, Heather. So thank you to the

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listeners for being here today. And I know that you just are

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walking away with so much. So I'll see you next time. Thank

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you. Thanks for listening to this episode of mystical

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