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Deeply Well: Anchoring Integrity: Self-Care, Healing, and Personal Power · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it now,
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Speaker 1: release slowly again, deep in helle hold release, repeating internally
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Speaker 1: to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply,
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Speaker 1: deeply well. I am deeply well. I am deeply wow.
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Speaker 1: I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land in
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Speaker 1: your journey. A podcast for those that are curious, creative,
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Speaker 1: and ready to expand in higher consciousness and healthcare. I'm
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Speaker 1: Debbie Brown. This is where we heal, this is where
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Speaker 1: we transcend. Welcome to today's episode, our final installment of
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Speaker 1: our integrity teaching series this month on the Deeply Well Podcast.
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Speaker 1: So we've really been exploring in this new season a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a new format on how we're going
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Speaker 1: to go through some themes, some understandings, and some of
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Speaker 1: the deeper conversations that we get a chance to sync
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Speaker 1: our teeth into here on this show. So today's episode
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Speaker 1: is really going to be rooted in some practice. We're
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Speaker 1: going to get into some self inquiry. We're going to
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Speaker 1: go a little bit deeper into some of the ways
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Speaker 1: we've been categorizing how integrity shows up in our lives
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Speaker 1: and we're going to have a felt practice. So if
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Speaker 1: you are not driving, highly recommend grabbing a journal, having
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Speaker 1: it nearby if that feels good, getting comfy, maybe getting
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Speaker 1: something a little savory near you, a little sweet treat,
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Speaker 1: and if you're driving, of course you know how it goes.
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Speaker 1: You can pop back in anytime you wish to join
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Speaker 1: in on the soul work. Also a quick reminder if
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Speaker 1: you didn't know, every single month we're going to have
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a practice worksheet that goes along
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Speaker 1: with the episodes we're exploring. So on my website Debbie
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Speaker 1: Brown dot com and also through our newsletter, which you
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Speaker 1: can sign up for on the website, you'll get a
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Speaker 1: link to our little PDF packet which will be the
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Speaker 1: soul work that goes along with each month's drop of episodes.
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Speaker 1: So if you get a chance, it might feel really
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Speaker 1: supportive to utilize that as part of your practice. So
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Speaker 1: let's still catch up. First, I want to fill you
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Speaker 1: guys in on what's been up since we've last talked.
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Speaker 1: I've had some really special teaching experiences, so a lot
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Speaker 1: a lot of those that listen to the show may know,
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Speaker 1: but I am on the board of the Omega Institute
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Speaker 1: for Holistic Studies, and it is a campus. It is
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Speaker 1: an institute that is in i' readibly close to my heart.
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Speaker 1: It's been in existence teaching and raising consciousness for over
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Speaker 1: forty eight years, and it's located in ryan Beeck, New York,
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Speaker 1: which is upstate New York, and I typically go a
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Speaker 1: couple times a year, but this is one of the
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Speaker 1: first years in a little while that I didn't do
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Speaker 1: a retreat, and so I didn't get a chance to
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Speaker 1: go up usually in some of the months that I
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Speaker 1: do while the campus is open. But they just created
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Speaker 1: this incredible program there that we got funding for that
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Speaker 1: is so amazing. It is the Women's Wellness Collective, and
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Speaker 1: we are working with a cohort of twenty women nationally
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Speaker 1: and globally. We have a few out of the country
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Speaker 1: doing incredible work who are going to be deepening their
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Speaker 1: understanding of self care practices and nervous system regulation and
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Speaker 1: supportive bindfulness in a cohort throughout this next year. So
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Speaker 1: this incredible cohort kick off with a week long rest
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Speaker 1: intensive retreat that took place at the Omega Institute, and
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Speaker 1: so it was really excited about this. It means so
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Speaker 1: much to me, and the chance, I think for these
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Speaker 1: women to deepen in practices over the next year especially
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Speaker 1: is so exciting for me because something I always share is,
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Speaker 1: you know, none of this work it's done in a weekend.
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Speaker 1: We can get our burst of profound inspiration and motivation
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Speaker 1: for our path and for our calling in a weekend.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely we can have the breakthrough thoughts that change our
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Speaker 1: lives instantaneously, but then we get a chance to deepen
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Speaker 1: our path of mastery by connecting to practice, and practice
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Speaker 1: takes really beautiful slow time to unfold in our lives,
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Speaker 1: to take us past the point of intellectualization into a
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Speaker 1: life experience of embodiment where you are living and breathing
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Speaker 1: who and what you say you are with a lot
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Speaker 1: of ease, a lot of grace, a lot of joy,
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Speaker 1: and so being able to really support this beautiful group
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Speaker 1: as they are on their pathway of embodiment, which is
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Speaker 1: all in support to their higher purpose and to the
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Speaker 1: community service they do in the world is really special.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't want to miss it. But the way
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Speaker 1: life is set up and scheduling is set up, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't get away to really do a deeper teaching there
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Speaker 1: for the whole week. So I did a very fast
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Speaker 1: New York turnaround trip, so caught the flight from LA
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Speaker 1: to New York and then took a really gorgeous three
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Speaker 1: hour drive through the leaves changing and falling and the
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Speaker 1: season changing from JFK to Upstate and did that travel
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Speaker 1: back and I was able to stay on campus for
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Speaker 1: about twenty four hours, taught for a few hours of
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Speaker 1: workshop on trauma informed meditation, and it was just I
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Speaker 1: love getting into the fibers of doing deep teach on meditation.
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Speaker 1: It's just such an extraordinarily powerful subject matter, not just
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Speaker 1: for expansion of consciousness, but for truly truly deep, deep
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Speaker 1: deep healing on a mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual level.
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Speaker 1: So that's my jam. So that's what I was doing
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Speaker 1: for the last week or so since we've been together.
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Speaker 1: And one of the things that I loved that I
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Speaker 1: think really ties into this episode especially is I've been
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Speaker 1: trying to find ways in this season. This is a
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty full season for me in a lot
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Speaker 1: a lot of ways. It's a full season career wise,
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Speaker 1: it's a full season in my motherhood and in the
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Speaker 1: spaces that my son is now moving into and his
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Speaker 1: development and full season with friendships and with family, and
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Speaker 1: so being able to find more time to reset my
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Speaker 1: own nervous system. I've had to get really creative with that.
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Speaker 1: And so when I went to Upstate New York, something
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Speaker 1: that I knew I only had twenty four hours and
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Speaker 1: I would be working for some of that time. But
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Speaker 1: I also knew that, like listen, there's no service up here,
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Speaker 1: so let me not even try to do anything that
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Speaker 1: has to do with the internet with my phone, and
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Speaker 1: really soak up every free hour you get here before
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Speaker 1: you get on this nine hour journey home and feel good.
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Speaker 1: And so I was able to get really full nights
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Speaker 1: of sleep, and my little cabin slept the whole night
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Speaker 1: through which my dear God, did my brain and soul
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Speaker 1: need that. And then after I taught, I just took
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Speaker 1: a walk. I just walked and walked and walked, and
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Speaker 1: I had some somatic and kind of sensory practices going
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Speaker 1: where because all the leaves were falling, I would slowly
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Speaker 1: walk in piles of leaves to hear the crunch underneath
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Speaker 1: my feet, and I just kind of walked myself circle
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Speaker 1: over and over for like twenty minutes listening to that
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Speaker 1: slow crunch and you know, like that forest medicine. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, delicious and pink noise, which is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite sounds to work with, especially when I need
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Speaker 1: some extra rest, is really rooted in. One of the
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Speaker 1: layers of sound is the sound of leaves crunching. So
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Speaker 1: that was really yummy. Another thing that I love to
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Speaker 1: do while I'm out there. So this campus is about
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty acres. It's like in the forest,
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Speaker 1: you got cabins, it's the trees, all the things. But
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Speaker 1: because I live in la I don't really get the
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Speaker 1: chance to go take long walks in the dark. Right
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't necessarily be the wise thing for me to
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Speaker 1: do in my neighborhood late at night is to walk
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Speaker 1: around alone in the dark. So it's not something I
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Speaker 1: really get to do, but it's something that I love.
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Speaker 1: So when I'm a place that I can do that.
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Speaker 1: A personal practice I have with myself is noticing how
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Speaker 1: I feel within my body and within my sense of
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Speaker 1: protection over time by monitoring kind of taking these slow
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Speaker 1: dark walks by myself whenever I get the chance. So
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Speaker 1: that was something that I loved doing on the campus.
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Speaker 1: So before I went to bed, walked outside, laid on
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Speaker 1: the grass, stargazed, paryed, meditated, listened to the crickets and
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Speaker 1: the ambient noise, took really really really deep, beautiful breaths,
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Speaker 1: and then walked around and kind of the pitch black
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Speaker 1: on a trail and noticed how safe I felt, and
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Speaker 1: it was really special, and instantaneously I felt my shift
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Speaker 1: back into peace, and I felt just so many weeks
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Speaker 1: and weeks of a lot of high intensity and day
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Speaker 1: to day life stress just really roll off of my
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Speaker 1: shoulders and it's carried me through and it just reminded
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Speaker 1: me of the power of even when you have limited
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Speaker 1: time to take care of yourself, if you choose to
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Speaker 1: have deep presence with yourself as you're caring for yourself,
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Speaker 1: even those little moments can really ring throughout your life
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Speaker 1: for days, for weeks. And you know, I'm like a
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Speaker 1: week removed from that experience and I'm still feeling like
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Speaker 1: really high energy. I have a lot of vitality, My
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Speaker 1: brain feels super clear, my heart feels really open. So
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Speaker 1: if anyone needed that, just a reminder, even if you
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Speaker 1: only have thirty minutes every two weeks, do it, do it?
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Speaker 1: Do it, you'll have a response, but it's important that
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Speaker 1: you stay deeply present in it. So don't get distracted,
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Speaker 1: don't let yourself pour into other thoughts that you could
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Speaker 1: think at any other time. Just stay with it, stay
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Speaker 1: with it, and let it really serve you. So one
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Speaker 1: of the things that I noticed after we release some
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Speaker 1: of the clips of this EPP, we have been getting
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Speaker 1: such amazing feedback and it's been really dope because a
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Speaker 1: lot of you that have been connecting to these episodes
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Speaker 1: are giving a lot of detail on how you're experiencing it,
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Speaker 1: which for me as a teacher is so helpful. I'm
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Speaker 1: always like, oh, wow, yeah, so that's where it took
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Speaker 1: you where, that's you know, where you were able to
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Speaker 1: take yourself. And so one of the comments that I
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Speaker 1: was reading on one of the clips that we posted,
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Speaker 1: I just loved because I would have never even thought
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Speaker 1: of it this way. But someone shared that from listening
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Speaker 1: to the series so far, they had this kind of click,
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Speaker 1: this aha moment around they had previously always looked as
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Speaker 1: it at integrity as who you are towards other people.
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Speaker 1: So maybe a little bit of that kind of martyrdom
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Speaker 1: program that we see all things or that bigger person programming.
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Speaker 1: It's how you were showing up for others powerfully and
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Speaker 1: you know, with dignity, with your integrity, And they shared
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Speaker 1: that from listening to the episodes, they're understanding they're making
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Speaker 1: that bridge of connection. That choosing to work on yourself, right,
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Speaker 1: choosing to regulate your emotions, choosing to break your patterns
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Speaker 1: and your systems, choosing to heal, choosing to really dedicate
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Speaker 1: yourself to a daily practice like meditation or self care,
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Speaker 1: that is what is having integrity for your self. And
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Speaker 1: so the loop of integrity is not complete if we're
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Speaker 1: only showing up with it for others and we're not
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Speaker 1: showing up with it for self, that in fact is avoidance.
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Speaker 1: That's the way that we continue to feed this loop
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Speaker 1: and this false belief that there is somehow, this righteousness
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Speaker 1: or this reward that is coming for always exasperating yourself
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Speaker 1: for others but not looking to meet your own needs
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Speaker 1: in the same way. And it's it's a very sophisticated
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Speaker 1: way that especially the best healers can avoid themselves. Right.
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Speaker 1: It's this idea that no, it's because I do for others,
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Speaker 1: but it's really because it might be triggering that you
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Speaker 1: haven't learned how to be slow and patient with yourself,
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Speaker 1: or it's triggering to realize that maybe no one has
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Speaker 1: met your needs yet and so you're still having to
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Speaker 1: meet your own And that's so understandable. It's just so understandable,
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Speaker 1: but it's not the path to full wholeness and healing,
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Speaker 1: and I think each of us deserve that, and so
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Speaker 1: just reading that, reading that connection and reading that feedback
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Speaker 1: was really special. So I think the beautiful soul that
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Speaker 1: shared it and everyone else that's been sharing feedback, and
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Speaker 1: especially from a community standpoint, it's so helpful as a
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Speaker 1: group for us all to be able to hear a
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Speaker 1: multitude of experiences and a multitude of breakthrough thoughts. It
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Speaker 1: also led me to realizing an area where I had
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Speaker 1: to tighten up in my own integrity, my own personal
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Speaker 1: integrity and so care in the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: and that has been around. So I'm someone that for
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of my life has lived with chronic
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Speaker 1: illness and chronic pain, and to varying degrees, I've been
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Speaker 1: in a season in the last several years where it
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Speaker 1: has been the lightest load I've ever had, and I
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Speaker 1: am extraordinarily grateful for the way my relationship to a
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Speaker 1: very high pain tolerance has changed. And I also think,
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Speaker 1: as someone who's just always been a leader in my
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Speaker 1: own life and incredibly independent, I have a very high
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Speaker 1: tolerance for emotional and physical pain, and so I have
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Speaker 1: to really stay on myself to take good care of
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Speaker 1: myself or I just won't notice when I let myself
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Speaker 1: slowly fall apart. And so something I've been working through
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Speaker 1: is that in the last few months, I've been having
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Speaker 1: a little bit of flare ups and I've been moving
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Speaker 1: through them, but I've also just been really busy, and
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Speaker 1: everything else in life has been really good. And I
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Speaker 1: got in this last couple of weeks I found out
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Speaker 1: that I have tendonitis in one of my shoulders. And
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Speaker 1: I have never had tendonitis before. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: anyone else has ever had it. I don't like it
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Speaker 1: at all, Like I am not efin with tendinitis. I
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Speaker 1: am offended by tendonitis, Like it is so painful, and
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Speaker 1: not having use of that limb for myself has been
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Speaker 1: IOPA nine and incredibly challenging, and so I'm just kind
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Speaker 1: of walking around and my arm is in like true
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Speaker 1: chicken wing fashion, Like I've just been able to kind
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Speaker 1: of hold it pin to my side and kind of
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Speaker 1: like hold my solar plexus. But it's it's interesting, you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to do all the things that you need to do.
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Speaker 1: And so I found myself, you know, a little bit
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Speaker 1: frustrated with that and just kind of frustrated at having
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Speaker 1: to plow through the day being in so much pain
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Speaker 1: because I was taking you know, the the ibuprofens and
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Speaker 1: all the things, and I wasn't having a change. So
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Speaker 1: I was just feeling frustrated. And I got back home
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Speaker 1: and I looked around my house and I looked at
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Speaker 1: the life that I created for myself, a life that
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Speaker 1: really supports my nervous system and supports my health. I
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Speaker 1: have a lot of biohacking stuff everywhere. I do constant
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Speaker 1: self care. I cold plunge SANA, I use PMF, I
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Speaker 1: use infrared lights, I have frequency sounds. And I kind
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Speaker 1: of had to just take a deep breath and laugh
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Speaker 1: at myself because I realized that I have all of
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Speaker 1: this at my disposal and I hadn't yet used any
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Speaker 1: of it to care for this injury. And so it
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Speaker 1: was just a reminder of how even when we have
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Speaker 1: gotten to places where we are so diligent with ourselves
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Speaker 1: and maybe so much in our personal integrity or in
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Speaker 1: deep alignment with our bodies and the way that we
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Speaker 1: care for ourselves, sometimes we can get distracted and blink
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Speaker 1: and forget. And so I hope this episode also serves
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Speaker 1: as a reminder to reconnect to a practice that maybe
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Speaker 1: you just haven't had time for lately and consider if
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Speaker 1: it would serve you or not. So I spent an
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Speaker 1: evening after I put my son to bed a couple
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Speaker 1: hours where I did my sauna. I did epsom salt bath,
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Speaker 1: of course, did infrared light directly on my shoulder, did
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Speaker 1: a little bit of cupping, and the pain like went
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Speaker 1: away by fifty percent immediately. So yeah, that was my
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Speaker 1: beautiful reminder of making sure and evaluating and bringing up
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Speaker 1: for a review that I stay in integrity with myself
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Speaker 1: and with my own body as I share practices for
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Speaker 1: you to do the same deeply. Well, well, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's dive into today's episode. This is our final episode
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Speaker 1: deepening in our understandings of intego. We are gearing up
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Speaker 1: for a moment in American history, global history where we're
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Speaker 1: going to notice that more and more in the world.
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Speaker 1: We're just a couple weeks out from election. I really
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Speaker 1: want to encourage anyone who isn't to please register to vote.
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Speaker 1: Please please please register to vote. Please vote, Please vote,
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Speaker 1: please vote. Please consider integrity as you vote. I'm very, very,
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Speaker 1: very excited to cast my ballot for Kamala Harris. That
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Speaker 1: is my personal decision. That is what feels most closely
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Speaker 1: aligned to my beliefs and to what I think can
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Speaker 1: bring about what is necessary in the world right now.
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Speaker 1: And I'm so excited to do it, so grateful to
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Speaker 1: be alive in this time. And I think, no matter
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Speaker 1: what happens in the world, no matter what happens with
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Speaker 1: any of this, no matter what no matter what happens
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Speaker 1: in the greater government or the things that we watch
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Speaker 1: on TV, it's still about who we are individually and
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Speaker 1: as a community, in smaller action, in smaller detail, in
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Speaker 1: every day of life. And I think integrity is a
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Speaker 1: profound guiding point for that. So let's talk about, you know,
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Speaker 1: some of the ways that integrity is actually an agent
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Speaker 1: for deep healing and for change. We've already explored kind
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Speaker 1: of definably what it can be in the various facets
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Speaker 1: of who we are and in our lives. But let's
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Speaker 1: talk about integrity as a way to actually reclaim your
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Speaker 1: power when you're on a healing journey. I love this.
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Speaker 1: When we find ourselves in challenging situations, when we're triggered,
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Speaker 1: especially when we're on a healing journey and we're redeveloping
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Speaker 1: our relationship to self and others, it can be really
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Speaker 1: easy to feel sometimes like our sovereignty or our autonomy
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Speaker 1: is being challenged. As we grow that self confidence, as
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Speaker 1: we grow that personal autonomy and the sovereignty which is
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Speaker 1: you being the leader of your life and of your soul,
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Speaker 1: the triggering aspect of kind of recalibrating our life and
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Speaker 1: inviting in new relationships and new people and shedding other
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Speaker 1: ones can sometimes really affect the way we come into
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Speaker 1: personal choice. And so with integrity as the guiding post
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Speaker 1: our personal values, it becomes a really powerful way to
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Speaker 1: actually grow our aora, grow our personal power, grow our magnetism,
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Speaker 1: grow our healing, and also grow our boundaries and our
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Speaker 1: protective forces of the bs that we get to keep
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Speaker 1: out of our lives. Because we have this force field
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Speaker 1: of personal integrity around us, So staying true to our
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Speaker 1: values is what really helps with that. It's one of
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Speaker 1: the most powerful ways to reclaim a sense of control
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Speaker 1: in our lives and to rebalance and harmonize the way
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Speaker 1: we're experiencing other people and the way we're experiencing our work.
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Speaker 1: So when we're in integrity, we reclaim the power to
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Speaker 1: navigate life on our terms, even in situations that can
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Speaker 1: feel disempowering, right, because in life that's not necessarily going
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Speaker 1: to cease. We're on a planet with nine billion people.
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Speaker 1: We get to do as much to stay on our
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Speaker 1: path as we can and keep our connection to God
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Speaker 1: really strong and pure. But we're also interacting with nine
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Speaker 1: billion other incarnated souls who have all of their own
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Speaker 1: spiritual curriculum, and I don't necessarily know that any of
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Speaker 1: that will ever get less challenging, less irritating, less confusing.
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Speaker 1: But we are in command of self, and so that
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Speaker 1: is always a great equalizer for our experience. And so
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Speaker 1: when we're in integrity, we can really reclaim the power
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Speaker 1: again to navigate life on our terms, even in situations
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Speaker 1: that feel hard, that feel disempowering. We can stand firm
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Speaker 1: in our personal truth and we can stand firm in
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Speaker 1: our authenticity. So a way to kind of ask invite
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Speaker 1: that into this lens of what we're discussing is consider
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Speaker 1: asking yourself, where in my life do I need to
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Speaker 1: reclaim my power? And when we're using the word power,
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Speaker 1: it's important to see how you even view and define
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Speaker 1: that because it doesn't necessarily mean aggrandizing power or dominating power.
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Speaker 1: It means dignified power, It means honest power, integral power.
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Speaker 1: So where do you need to reclaim your power, your
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Speaker 1: true authenticity and sense of self and self respect in
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Speaker 1: your life? And how can you do so in a
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Speaker 1: way that's an alignment with what your deepest value, use
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Speaker 1: and desires are. So I hope we're kind of like
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Speaker 1: really tracking this thought process right. So we have our
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Speaker 1: deep values, our core sense of belief, our desires to belong.
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Speaker 1: Then we have our desires for what we want in
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Speaker 1: this life and who we want to be, and then
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Speaker 1: we bring that thread over to the way we live
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Speaker 1: in integrity and utilize our wisdom, and all of those
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Speaker 1: things happening at one time is what brings us into
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Speaker 1: a state of personal mastery, a state of wholeness, a
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Speaker 1: state of transcendence. Of our life's circumstances and our wounds
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Speaker 1: and our traumas. But it's kind of all of that
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Speaker 1: in a multifaceted way moving through you to have the
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Speaker 1: intended results and the intended experience and purpose. So thinking
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Speaker 1: about integrity from the standpoint of our healing process. Healing
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Speaker 1: can be a really fragile and tender thing. It is
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Speaker 1: not at all uncommon to feel bitterness or disappointment along
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Speaker 1: that path. In fact, I encourage it. Sometimes give yourself
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Speaker 1: a chance to feel angry when it naturally arises. Do
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Speaker 1: it in a way that keeps you safe and keeps
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Speaker 1: other people safe, but do it in a way that
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Speaker 1: it can be felt and expressed, especially if that is
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Speaker 1: something you historically have not been allowed to express or
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Speaker 1: have not allowed yourself to express. Now. If you're on
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Speaker 1: the other end of this spectrum and that is an
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Speaker 1: area where you may have been leaning into a lot
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Speaker 1: more and getting angry a lot more, that may not
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Speaker 1: be what you need to do now, but if you haven't,
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Speaker 1: you might want to consider that. And integrity personally is
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Speaker 1: about allowing ourselves to feel those emotions without letting them
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Speaker 1: dictate our actions, harden our hearts. It helps us build
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Speaker 1: emotional and spiritual bandwidth in our lives. So rather than
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Speaker 1: striving for perfection, it's really important, it's impossible, don't attempt it.
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Speaker 1: Remember that healing is a journey, of course, it's not
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Speaker 1: a destination. And the more that we can hold space
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Speaker 1: for our own humanity, the more that we can stay
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Speaker 1: in alignment with what our truth is, stay on mission,
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Speaker 1: stay on assignment, and as we heal, we strengthen our
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Speaker 1: capacity to live even more deeply in integrity and get
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Speaker 1: have even more depth of intimacy with the people that
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Speaker 1: are in our lives. Little soul work for today on
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Speaker 1: this episode, and again you can download that PDF and
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Speaker 1: our newsletter and also on my website in the podcast
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Speaker 1: tab Debi brown dot com. Little soul work that I
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Speaker 1: would love to share with everyone today I think could
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Speaker 1: really be rooted in a beautiful breathwork practice. We have
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Speaker 1: shared quite a few promptings around integrity on this episode,
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Speaker 1: on past episodes and also in our soul Work journal.
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Speaker 1: And a way to integrate what we're thinking about, what
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Speaker 1: we're writing down and how we actually live it is
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Speaker 1: by bringing it into our bodies. And so breath work
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Speaker 1: can be a way to really anchor everything that you
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Speaker 1: may have been exploring internally in this last month. So
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Speaker 1: I want you to set a timer on your phone,
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Speaker 1: or you may have like a little clock in the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: However you like to do it for about five minutes
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Speaker 1: to focus on and really lose yourself in a conscious
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Speaker 1: breath work practice. Create the container for yourself before you
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Speaker 1: settle into doing this. So before you lock into that
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Speaker 1: five minutes, I want you to make sure you come
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Speaker 1: into a space that maybe feels a little more quiet,
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Speaker 1: a little less distracting. Having access to a lowlit area
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Speaker 1: or a place with more natural light could feel great.
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Speaker 1: If it's possible, Stay away from fluorescent lights, stay away
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Speaker 1: from bright lighting, and find someplace that feels a little
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Speaker 1: more soothing to your body and your brain and your heart.
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Speaker 1: If it feels good, maybe invite some other elements in
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Speaker 1: and light a candle, maybe light a piece of stage
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Speaker 1: to really cleanse the energy in that area. I would
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Speaker 1: say I wouldn't necessarily recommend lighting a piece of incense
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Speaker 1: because doing the breath work and taking in all that
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Speaker 1: smoke if you don't have a lot of ventilation, could
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Speaker 1: actually create a little hardship in the practice and you
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Speaker 1: give you some coughs, and then I want you to
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Speaker 1: sit down and really center in to a comfortable seated position.
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Speaker 1: Let the seat of your body melt into whatever is
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Speaker 1: beneath you, let your shoulders relax and fall, let your
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Speaker 1: jaw feel really loose and relaxed. Taking a few deep
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Speaker 1: breaths to get ground did just start letting it all
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Speaker 1: come down your shoulders. And as you do this practice,
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Speaker 1: I want you to let any emotions arise as you
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Speaker 1: really think about and connect to the way that you
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Speaker 1: have observed integrity or not in others, in any of
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Speaker 1: the ways or examples or circumstances that you have observed
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Speaker 1: integrity or not in yourself, and anything any particular curriculum
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Speaker 1: that is uniquely your own that comes up for you
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Speaker 1: when we have this conversation. Just let yourself open that
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Speaker 1: container here. You don't even have to think about anything specific,
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Speaker 1: but just let yourself open the door and let it
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Speaker 1: in the room with you. So whether grief, joy, frustration arises,
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Speaker 1: notice it, it's up for a review. Gently feel it,
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Speaker 1: breathe in it, release it. And then after you do
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Speaker 1: this session, I want you to journal about what came
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Speaker 1: up and how you want to look to be with
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Speaker 1: what you observed moving forward. It's a process. Explore these
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Speaker 1: thoughts over the next week, the next month, the next season,
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Speaker 1: maybe give yourself the fall in the winter, the next year,
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Speaker 1: couple of years, however long it's present, so the charge
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Speaker 1: really lessens. Be with it, review it, experiment with it,
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Speaker 1: and in this five minute breathwork practice, let yourself connect
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Speaker 1: to a releasing breath so that can look like deep
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Speaker 1: inhale in through your nose. If it's possible, you'd hold
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Speaker 1: it at the top for a few seconds one, two, three, four, five,
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Speaker 1: release through your mouth, let your body fall as you do,
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Speaker 1: really let it be fully expressed, and do that over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again for a few minutes, and
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Speaker 1: then connect to the peace that begins to submerge after that.
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