In this episode, Terri Lynn shares the journey when her life took a profound turn following a spiritual awakening that inspired her to reconnect with her soul and embrace a deeper path of personal transformation. She explains why generating peace and joy from within is essential if we want to create a more peaceful world, and how acceptance, presence, gratitude, and self-awareness became the foundation of her healing. Today, Terri Lynn empowers others to elevate their mindset, cultivate inner peace, and connect with their own inner guidance, proving that happiness truly is a choice.

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Terri Lynn Murphy is an International Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Transformational Coach, and Soul Entrepreneur with more than 35 years of leadership experience in the automotive industry. She combines decades of business expertise with a passion for helping people recognize the importance of putting their happiness first and creating peace from within.

Terri Lynn is the author of Journey to My Soul: Following Divine Navigation and the Amazon best-selling book 10 Minutes to a Happier You: Start Your Day in a Positive Way. Through her writing, speaking, and coaching, she inspires others to shift their perspective, strengthen their mindset, and create lasting positive change from the inside out.

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Rev. DeeAnne ‘Rose Hope’ Riendeau B.Msc, HADM, PIDP, NLP is a thought leader in spiritual and business development whose mission is to elevate how we think and live. Experiencing a life of chronic illness, and 2 near death experiences, DeeAnne rebounded with 20 years of health education and a diverse health career.

She is known as the modern day Willy Wonka for giving away her company Your Holistic Earth, which is the first holistic health care system of its kind. She is currently the owner of Rose Hope International, in which she helps those who are seeking more joy, love, freedom, and a deeper meaning in life using your souls library also known as the Akashic Records.

She has spoken at Harvard University, appeared on Shaw TV, Global Television, and CTV and has been recognized as a visionary and business leader having been nominated for numerous awards including Alberta Business of Distinction. Along with being an entrepreneur, DeeAnne is a mom of 2 bright kids, publisher, popular speaker and international bestselling author who uses her heart and her head to guide others to create their best life.

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Rev. Rose Hope: Welcome back to another episode of When Spirit Calls. Today we have the incredible Terri Lynn Murphy. Terri Lynn is an international bestselling author, speaker, and transformational coach with over 35 years of experience in the automotive industry, where she built a successful career rooted in leadership and personal growth. Her life shifted profoundly after a spiritual awakening, in which she experienced seeing her own soul guided by spirit. She wrote her first book, Journey to My Soul: Following Divine Navigation, sharing her path of living in hell, learning to practice gratitude, and choosing to be happy, no matter what. Her second book, 10 Minutes to a Happier You: Start Your Day in a Positive Way, became an Amazon bestseller. Terri's journey is one of resilience. After overcoming deep emotional pain, she made a conscious decision to choose happiness and rewire her mindset. Today, as a self-described soul entrepreneur, she helps others elevate their mindset, embrace joy, and connect deeply with their inner guidance system.

Oh, hello everybody, I'm so glad to be back with you on another episode of When Spirit Calls, our guest today. You know, it's so interesting. We were just talking that we've been in a similar community for many, many years, but we've never officially connected until recently, and I just fell in love with this woman's purity, her earth angel essence. So I am so excited to share her with all of you guys today. Hi Terry, love Dan. I'm so happy you're here with us, and we're gonna dive in pretty quick, because I know that you have so much wisdom in there that needs to come out today, and so in typical when spirit calls fashion, we're going to start with a little bit of story time, and so I would love to understand, you know, how you came into the work that you do, into your authoring, those sorts of things. What was it that kind of led you down that path? So, would you share your story with us?

Terri Lynn Murphy: I would love to. Thank you. So, it all started when I was very young, you know. I come from a typical Irish Catholic background, and became spiritually aware at a very young age, because my mother used to tell me all the time, wherever you go, God is always watching. Well, I'm telling you, I look for that God everywhere every day. I'd be searching, where are you, God? Where are you, God? Until one day I felt the presence within. You know, now when I questioned my parents about that, like, why is everybody waiting for Jesus to come? You know, He's here. I learned not to speak about it, but there was one lesson my mother taught me. My parents started a business when I was just a year old, which my mother ran. So, my sister, my older sister, and my grandfather, who lived with us, became my caretakers for the most part. By the time I was about six years old, my sister was time for her to move on with her life, and soon after she moved out, my grandfather passed. So, there I was, six years old. I lost these two key people in my life, and I was very upset. So, my parents' business was a gift shop, and one day I went to pick Mom up at the store, and she pulled me aside and showed me these two figurines that just arrived, and she said you can have one, and one was the pessimist, the other was the optimist, and of course I chose the optimist, and every day getting ready for work I would, you know, look at this figurine and say I'm going to look for everything in this day to make me happy, and that started this habit of mine, which really helped me later in life when I was divorced, and be due to a decision I made during divorce, I wasn't, you know, it was I made this choice, and it was a divinely guided choice at that,

Rev. Rose Hope: yep,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and later, about five years later, my kids moved away with their father, and there was nothing I could do because of this decision I made. Whoa, yeah. So they moved two hours away, and I was faced, you know, first I was angry. I was angry at God. It's like you led me here. Now, how am I going to get out? You know, how am I going to. It deal with this, and I just.. I wanted to die, and I literally prayed for death and prepared. I just.. anything I ever prayed for came to me.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: but finally I got the message. God said, "Nope, you're gonna live, and I'm like, "Okay, well, if that's the case, then you have to help me. And I knew it was a 10 year window, you know, until my kids were old enough,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and we didn't have cell phones, and we didn't have that back then,

Rev. Rose Hope: right? So

Terri Lynn Murphy: I had, I made a conscious choice to be happy, because I knew I had to be happy in order to survive, and I wanted my children to have a happy mother, so you know, I saw them whenever I could, every other weekend during the summer I could see them a little more often when they weren't in school,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah.

Terri Lynn Murphy: But it was hell, it was a living hell for me every day. Yeah, so that was this journey, and in order to survive that journey, I've repressed my emotions, which I don't suggest anybody do. It's not the healthiest way to live, yeah, but I repressed them in order to get through, and I filled myself with happy thoughts, and I just had to focus on things in the present moment, because if I, you know, my mind started to wander, I was a goner, right. So then years later, when my children came and lived with me after high school, and they both did,

Rev. Rose Hope: they did, yes,

Terri Lynn Murphy: so I was so grateful to God for carrying me through those years, and I made it a point that my next goal was going to be to get as close to the Creator as humanly possible, and that's when my journey within began with meditation, and and after a few years of meditating, I had this huge cathartic release from all these emotions, because I had the limiting belief that this, you know, pain - they say pain, time heals all wounds, but time is not going to heal this, because that time with my kids is never coming back, right? That's my limiting belief, but I had this release, and I was guided to write my book, Journey to My Soul, which is the story about my career in the car business, because I've been, you know, a leader in the automotive world for many years, and but it led me to being an author, into writing my story, and I had the vision of seeing my own soul.

Rev. Rose Hope: Okay, I gotta peel back some of the layers here, and there's a few questions that I have about this, because first of all, I think it's such a beautiful story in how sometimes we make decisions or sometimes things happen for us, and at the time, it doesn't feel so good, and you know, as a mother, you know, hard to imagine your kids being taken and moved away and not being able to do anything about it. So, there's like a helplessness I'm sure that you felt in that experience. What I love in how you moved through it, and some might say it's a little bit of spiritual hijacking, where it's like I just need to think the happy thoughts and focus on the positive, and that's what I need to do to get by, but I also want to say I think that was your survival, you know, I don't think it was a bad thing that you did that, I think that was probably your saving grace, as a matter of fact, and I think I think in the spiritual community, there's a lot of judgment about people being overly positive and not honoring their emotions, and you admitted repressing your emotions is not the best thing, but I also feel like that when we get into that spiritual hijacking energy, meaning that I'm gonna put my feelings aside so I can function over here, I think that's a little different, you know, rather than it just being a habit, but rather a function of survival, and so I just wanted to bring that to the surface for people that are like, well, isn't that spiritual hijacking? Well, yeah, it is, but it was also a survival mechanism for you, and it was the one thing that helped you to get through that, and I think back to my life, because as a spiritual, you know, guide or teacher, I would reflect on my life, and they, oh my god, I was totally spiritual hijacking there, and I was spiritual hijacking there, and rather than beating up on myself for that, I now this just just shifted, just in this moment, I now am looking back at that, saying that was a function

of my survival at the time. I needed to still do those things. I needed to put some of my emotions aside in order for me to get through what I went through in that moment in time. And when I have the space and capacity, then I'll honor the feelings, or the honor, the feelings will show themselves to me. So I'm curious to know all that repressed emotion. How did it reveal itself to you, Terri?

Terri Lynn Murphy: Oh boy, well, it was through. It was due to the meditation, which, like, peeled layers away.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: little by little, I could see that happening.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: but I've always been like. Like a dreamer, and my dreams have always revealed certain things to me. So, I had these three dreams, and one was of my father, who passed, one was with my sister, who passed, and another one was just a general one, but all three meanings, according to my dream book, meant a horrific event is plummy.

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh my,

Terri Lynn Murphy: so I was just like looking for.. I didn't know, and then I had another dream one night where I was with.. now my children are two sons, but in the dream, sometimes dreams are opposite.. there was a little five year old girl,

Rev. Rose Hope: okay,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and she witnessed me cut off my left thumb,

Rev. Rose Hope: okay,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and I wrapped it up, and then she witnessed me, like I'm like, you have to help me, I had to cut off my right hand, and I said, I can't do it without the thumb, can you help me, and we cut off my right hand, and I wrapped it up, and we just went on. A matter of fact,

Rev. Rose Hope: wow,

Terri Lynn Murphy: I didn't know what that meant, and I was with a friend, and we were debating it, and everything, and I was at the at the beach. Well, the minute I hit the water, it was revealed to me that I made a decision back during my divorce, which was equal to about cutting off my thumb, but in the end result I ended up cutting off my, my right hand, and internally I always felt guilty, like I must have done something wrong to have had this happen to me.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and this dream revealed to me I did the best I could,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah.

Terri Lynn Murphy: And that's when, you know, it was a few years earlier, God revealed to me that I was going to write a book about my life, and every time I sat down to write, I couldn't get to those emotions, they were locked. Okay, so now after this release, and after I realized I did the best I could, the writing started to flow.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, it was almost like you gave yourself permission, then at that point to like feel all the feels and recognize it. If you continued, you would continue to sever your limbs, probably. You know, like that's what that's the message I was getting, is like, if you don't stop this now, you're going to keep cutting your limbs off until there is nothing left,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and it was, it was when I was writing the book where my soul revealed and stuff. I, there was an incident, we had a blizzard here in Pennsylvania, and my son had an episode with his wife where she ended up in the hospital, and I couldn't get to him to give him support, so I was emotionally upset about that, I also had fallen and had like a whiplash type pain.

Rev. Rose Hope: Okay,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and I sat down to write, and it was like these feelings were coming up, and it was like the muscles in my back were like stop, like every every letter I wrote was like stop, stop, and I was just in physical pain, emotional pain, until I just couldn't take it anymore, and I went, and I soaked in the bath, and I sat on my bed to meditate, and when I opened my eyes, there was my soul leaning over me, comforting me. Yeah, it's tough. It gives me pills today.

Rev. Rose Hope: I just got goosebumps, and so, yeah, you said this in your story, you met your soul, so this was that meeting. When you get to that point, you're starting to write, you're acknowledging all the emotions that are buried deep in within, and now your soul is consoling you. Wow, what did your soul look like and feel like? I'm curious, how it showed for you.

Terri Lynn Murphy: It had a shape, like you know, a head and shoulders.

Rev. Rose Hope: Okay, but

Terri Lynn Murphy: it was just.. it was just energy. It was translucent. It was there. Yeah, it was a substance. Yeah, but it was a beautiful feminine.

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, wow, amazing.

Terri Lynn Murphy: Yeah. And then we looked directly at each other. First, it was leaning over me, and then we looked directly at each other, and then it retracted itself right back into my,

Rev. Rose Hope: into you. Yeah, that is you. And how beautiful for you to have a meeting like that. You know, I think some people crave that, or wish they could have those experiences, right? You know, a lot of people, they're like, I wish I would have died like you, and I'm like, no, no, wrong wish. You want to have a euphoric experience like I had, but you don't want to die like me, you know. So, I think that's so beautiful that that you had that opportunity to experience that. So, you continue to write your book, and you know that piece has grown. And so, tell me a bit about how you are in service to the world, you know, what are the things that you do now that help the rest of us to be able to maybe have that connection with God or our souls.

Terri Lynn Murphy: My biggest passion is to help people see a. Value the importance of putting their happiness first, also of creating the peace within. You know, for several years I've asked this question of all the people I've trained and coached, and it's like, if peace on earth depends on your internal world, would we have peace,

Rev. Rose Hope: right?

Terri Lynn Murphy: And out of 1000 people, I could only remember three or four people that gave me an affirmative. Usually, it's like negativity and negative body language, but the truth is, we are creating this planet.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and if we can't get to peace within, how are we ever going to have peace without?

Rev. Rose Hope: That is precisely the mission that I'm on, as well, so I'd love to know. I mean, you've already shared some interesting and profound aspects of life in your story, but what are some of the things you know, like, if I, you talked about being angry with God, and I want to talk to this, because this just came up recently for a client, too. They're so angry, and they've never given themselves permission to be angry, or either, or just honor it, right? And I'm curious to know, how did you come to peace with God when you were so angry, did you have a step by step, or was there a process, or an experience?

Terri Lynn Murphy: No, I was just angry, but God reminded me that my prayer during my divorce was to be guided for the best choice for my children, not the best choice for me, and God reminded me that, and then, and it was just like, okay,

Rev. Rose Hope: now it's the best thing, yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: but in the long run, you know, I can see it now, living through it, it was hell,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: you know, I was asked the question recently in an interview, like, knowing now the outcome of your life, would you make the same choice, and I honestly, I hope I would, because I see the outcome is best, but I don't, I don't, I don't trust myself to say yes to that pain again, because I don't know that I have the courage to walk through that pain again.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, is that interesting? Yeah, so obviously you reconciled with God.

Terri Lynn Murphy: Yes,

Rev. Rose Hope: what? What does that relationship look like? Like, I have a lot of people are like, I don't know, what is my relationship to God? Can you, can you enlighten us on how you stay connected to God? Like, what are the things that you do to keep that relationship?

Terri Lynn Murphy: Well, I pray every morning, I meditate most days for at least 15 minutes, usually 30.

Rev. Rose Hope: Awesome,

Terri Lynn Murphy: I exercise, I do my best to eat right. That is one of my weakest moments at the at the moment,

Rev. Rose Hope: but with my hand up over here, you know. Yeah, me too. Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and you know, some days are easier than others. We all have different things affecting us, yeah, but I really do my best to stay at peace and just accept what comes, yeah,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah. So, how do you, you know, you talk about inner peace? What are some of your methodologies or your, your teachings around finding that inner peace, you know, especially when we're in a world that seems actually more overwhelming and volatile than ever before, you know, like I feel like I'm getting hit every direction every day with fear, with, you know, struggle, with the list goes on, and I'm making some very conscious choices in my life to not fall into that space, but finding that inner peace, you know, when your kids are yelling at each other, or you know when, when there's drama or trauma, or whatever it is, it's not exactly abracadabra, wave my magic wand, and so I know meditation, prayer are helpful tools, but anything else that we need to know about finding that inner peace. Where does that begin? What do we do with that? Like, how do we start to build that?

Terri Lynn Murphy: It takes time, but the best thing, and the best place to start, is breathing exercises. If you find yourself stressed out or going in that direction, just stop for a minute.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: check into this moment, yeah. And just breathe, and tell yourself it's okay. No, however you feel is okay, but it's the acceptance when we try to resist what's happening.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: that's where we get entangled.

Rev. Rose Hope: That's right. Yeah, we start wasting energy when we're resisting, right? What we resist persists, they say. Yeah, and I think so many of us are resisting what really needs to be welcomed, right, because even your anger on some. Level, you had to welcome your anger at some point, right? You had to accept the anger at some point, and I think you oftentimes forget that acceptance is a big part of this alchemization process, you know, that was his depth, right,

Terri Lynn Murphy: basic rule. We can't change what is,

Rev. Rose Hope: we cannot change what is, you know, Byron Katie has a great book, Loving What Is, and it's all about loving what is, and you had said something else there too, because you, you recognized in your, in your clarity when you went to the ocean after the dream of cutting off the limbs and all that, and you're like, I was doing the best that I knew how, and this was one of the most significant understandings and teachings that I was privy to. It is in every given moment you are doing the best that you know how, and I struggled with that, Terry. I fought that belief because I was like, no, I could have chosen a better ex-husband, I could have chosen, you know, a better job pathway, or whatever the stories were, but as I sat back, I thought, no, at the moment in time that that was, I was making the best decision, because if it wasn't the best decision, I wouldn't have made the decision, and so it's reminding myself that every decision is the best decision at the time, right, every choice is the best choice at the time, and give myself permission to make different choices as I go, and so that was a gift for me too, because once I could come into everyone's doing the best that they know how with what they know, and I gave myself permission to be that I became so much more compassionate for everybody around me, even the people who are doing what we might perceive as bad things. I still can see through a lens of compassion, which most people don't understand, because I know that that person was doing the best that they knew how, even if they did something that I think is very bad. So, it's been a.. it's a gift, I think. If we can all work on that perception, everyone is doing the best they know how. So, for all you listening, you are doing the best you know how, and so is everybody else in your world, so a little reminder for us. Okay, Terry, give me some nuggets. I want to know what you would love to share with the audience today, in terms of what you

feel compelled to articulate. What do we need to know?

Terri Lynn Murphy: I feel that if everybody could just make the decision to be happy, no matter what. Make the decision to be happy, that you will live your best life.

Rev. Rose Hope: You're saying happiness is a choice, Terry. Is that what you're telling us?

Terri Lynn Murphy: That's what I'm saying, and I know it, because I lived it, and every day I chose to be happy, and I look for things to be happy, and I practiced gratitude every day, even if the only thing I had to be grateful for was grateful this day is over. I was one day closer towards that, that 10 year mark, you know? I knew there was an end in sight.

Rev. Rose Hope: I love that, even if my gratitude was that the day was over, and some days were like that. I mean, some days that was the best part of the day, that it was done. Yes. Oh, I loved that, and I loved it. To me, it's like it's got comedy to it, you know. It's so fascinating to me, because I think a lot of people don't realize that it is a choice,

Terri Lynn Murphy: you don't need anything to be happy, you need something to be upset or sad about. You don't know anything to be happy.

Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, wait a second, you just.. that just landed in my spirit. I don't need anything to make me happy, I'm innately happy. You guys, happiness is innate within each and every one of us. There is nothing that needs to be done or nothing I need to acquire in order to be happy,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and it's easier to find when you just live in the present moment. I was forced to live in the present moment because if my, my wonder to my kids, or I was in trouble, so I had to stay in the present moment.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: and boy, oh boy, that helped me train my brain, for sure.

Rev. Rose Hope: Absolutely, and I think the presence piece is so important, and we, we talk about it, but many of us are not living that, and I know for myself, too, you know, it's, it's really easy to get caught up in all the stories, and I was watching an interview with Eckhart Tolle, and he says the number one addiction is overthinking, and I remember that just landing, I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm an overthinker, and when I was younger, I would overthink myself into worry and. Shame, and all these other rabbit holes. Now I'm not near as bad with the overthinking, but I still find myself thinking about, oh, did I say the right thing when I talked to that person? Did I write like all those other little things that I'm questioning? And so I've been working on the presence practice myself in really allowing myself, when I am here, I am with you, I am fully here. I'm not thinking about anything else, but this and that is, I think, my life's work. I think I'll be practicing presence for a long time, but I think it's such a beautiful reminder for us, because most of us aren't living in presence in our bodies, even for that matter. So, that's a powerful one too. Yeah, brilliant. Okay,

Terri Lynn Murphy: thing is, science has actually proven that people that are in a positive state were happy. The outcome in life is 31% better on average for somebody like me from a sales background, it's 37% higher sales just by being in a positive state. So, you will live your best life if you can manage to stay positive.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow. So, do you do affirmations like what do you do to stay positive, because okay, so there was a study recently, and I might have mentioned this on the podcast before, but there was a study done, and the question was, what's more effective, less negative thinking or more positive thinking, and in their studies it was less negative thinking, because, of course, we have so many thoughts in a day. I don't know if you know the percentages, but there's a lot of negative thoughts there, 1000s

Terri Lynn Murphy: of 1000s, yeah,

Rev. Rose Hope: 1000s, right. And so, if, if I have less of those 1000s of negative thoughts, then one might deduce that I will have more positive thoughts, because there'll be less negative thoughts getting in the way of those positive thoughts, right? So I like to think I'm a very positive person. I always look for the silver lining, while still honoring my emotions now as well, so holding the space for both. But when I look even at those difficult situations, the drama, trauma energy, I find that I can keep myself fairly positive, even though I might, you know, see some suffering or having a bit of suffering myself. I found that it's much easier for me to move into a state of positivity than ever before, and I believe part of that is because of practice, right, as you talk about, but I also do a lot of affirmations, and I also really allow myself to dial into the truth that everything is happening in its divine way, so that there's value in everything for me, there's something in it for me always, and that has been helpful, because even the worst of the worst situation, so for example, my daughter backed into a car, she doesn't even have her full license yet, she just has her learners, and so mom now has to pay for the damage on the other vehicle, the damage on my vehicle, and of course I'm feeling like frustrated by this, right, and and I stepped back from that, and I was, I was upset for a minute, because it was $5,000 it wasn't nothing, you know, and I stepped back for a minute, and I said, "Okay, God, show me what, what the value is in this for me, like, show me, and I saw the scene of my daughter talking with the woman who she backed into, and the woman holding the space for my daughter, saying, "Oh, it's okay, I've been here, I've done this, you know, I did this before too. And the experience for my daughter, she'll remember of that experience her whole life, she'll probably never back into a vehicle again, you know, and she got a really healthy

exchange with someone who could have been very awful and mean and difficult, so she got a really good entryway into what that experience is, so now when she does get her license next month, she will be okay, and I'll trust and know she's going to know what to do if anything happens. She's going to know to exchange information, she's going to know how to handle it, so that, and there was more to it, but that was like a really beautiful takeaway for me of the value of that experience, and again, like I said, many layers to that, so you know, I think it's so powerful when we're willing to witness there's something in everything for us, even if it might feel like hell as we're moving through it at the time. Yeah, okay, any more nuggets of wisdom in. Or that you're intuitively feeling a pull to bring to the surface.

Terri Lynn Murphy: My best advice to everyone would be to start to meditate, even if it's a few minutes at a time, and I've - I know for so many people it's difficult, they get frustrated,

Rev. Rose Hope: yeah,

Terri Lynn Murphy: but remember, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah, I actually needed that message today, Terry. I think that you were meant to talk to me today and remind me of the power of meditation, because I go into a meditative state with all my sessions through the day, sometimes I don't feel like doing that for myself, but I'm doing myself a disservice, and I do have today I went and walked barefoot, hiked barefoot in the trees today, so that was a form of meditation to me, so I want to just bring that to the surface for people, because for me sitting and oming or something, it doesn't work for me, and so I'm learning different ways, and what I use to meditate, and so walking slowly, intentionally feeling Mother Earth beneath my feet, that was very meditative for me today, and I think it's a beautiful reminder for all of us that meditation can look different for different people. I also teach a flame meditation, where we stare at a flame, and then we get to close our eyes and witness all the different shapes and activate our clairvoyancy. Right, so you know there's a lot of ways people can meditate that don't require them to be, oh, I need to empty my mind and be in stillness, and not be thinking about anything, because

Terri Lynn Murphy: that have a good friend of mine that does it through jogging, gets her into that at state.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yep, yep. So I think that's just wonderful for our audience, because it's like I want them to have permission to do it in their own way, but at the same time to create some consistency in the practice, and I have been getting poked to start a meditation practice more consistently, and so you just sealed the deal for me today, dear Terry. I want to thank you so very much for taking time to share your story and to share some golden nuggets with us, some great reminders for all of us, and I just.. I want to give you an opportunity to speak about what you've got on the docket. So, how can people reach you? How can they get access to your book? Let us know that.

Terri Lynn Murphy: Okay. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I feel honored. But the best place to reach me would be my website, Terry Lynn's Happy Talk, www.thinkhappybehappy.com

Rev. Rose Hope: Amazing, we're going to have that in the show notes for everybody. Yes, okay.

Terri Lynn Murphy: And I also have a gift there that I left with you, a stress buster exercise to help relieve stress in the moment,

Rev. Rose Hope: oh yes, I think we all need that, Terri. So that stress buster also going to be in the show notes. So for those of you listening, just click on those links below our replay of this wonderful podcast. Thank you so much, Terri. We're going to wrap things up. I hope that for those of you listening, that something landed for you today that is just going to shift you in the most beautiful way, and a reminder you get to choose happy, right? Terri is a choice, and you have full permission. You have my permission, Terri's permission, you have our permission to allow yourself to be happy, it's all that other mock and gunk that actually blocks us from realizing the innate happiness we have, and you said that so beautifully, Terri, when you said it's like, you know, we're naturally happy, it's all the other stuff that happens that actually takes away from that, so, so beautiful. I've loved our time together. And thank you so much for listening and tuning in to another edition of When Spirit Calls. We're signing off until next time. Be well, everyone. Bye for now.

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