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Ep 1 | When the Soul Says It’s Time: The Beginning of Rise & Realign · Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul

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  Welcome to Rise and Realign, conversations for
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  the sensitive soul. I'm Melissa, and this space
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  is for those of us who feel deeply, love fiercely,
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  and sense the world in ways that are hard to
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  explain, but impossible to ignore. Here, we honor
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  your sensitivity as a strength, so not something
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  to fix. And many may just be realizing that there
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  even is such a thing as being a highly sensitive
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  person and that there's absolutely nothing wrong
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  with it. It's normal. We're just in the minority,
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  but it's certainly a gift worth unwrapping. So
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  through reflections, realignment, and soul -led
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  stories, we remember how to move through life
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  in a way that feels true to who we really are
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  so this is your space to rise to realign and
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  to come home to yourself again and again because
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  within you is a wealth of wisdom beauty And gifts
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  that have not been recognized or honored. And
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  this is your time. I feel really honored to be
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  creating this at this point in time. As a sensitive
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  woman myself, a year ago, I actually was feeling
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  the inspiration to create a podcast. And I...
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  jumped right into it. You know, it sounded like
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  it was going to be quick and easy. And I was
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  met with a lot of frustration in the process,
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  you know, understanding the tech parts and, you
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  know, all these pieces to connect it to. And
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  it was really frustrating. And I didn't feel
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  aligned with my true and authentic self. And
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  I ended up tripping. on a morning walk with my
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  son and just landed on my face. And I really
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  sat with that for the weekend in pain, you know,
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  using ice and red light therapy and just being
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  open and curious about what this was really about.
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  And I just really got it that I was pushing myself.
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  I was pushing myself to step into that next level
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  of my own journey. And I was not paying attention
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  to those cues of frustration. So I'm here talking
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  to you authentically, honestly, because as sensitive
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  women, we so often feel that we're alone or that
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  others don't understand us. because we feel things
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  really deeply and there's a lot of emotions that
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  move through us because again as a sensitive
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  woman um you know our ability our ability to
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  feel sensations right to be aware of the thoughts
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  that are spinning around um in our mind but we
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  don't always adhere And the universe has a way
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  of showing us at the level that we're ready to
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  receive. So I'm here now offering this podcast,
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  Rise and Realign, conversations for the sensitive
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  soul, because you're perfect just as you are.
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  And I really, really mean that. It's not something
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  that I... always believed about myself nor did
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  I always find it easy to believe about others
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  because there's a lot of things that we experience
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  in this world that are hurtful they do harm us
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  but what I've come to understand is that these
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  experiences are part of our own self -discovery
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  our own growth our own ability to really recognize
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  and honor ourselves. And so I'm here speaking
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  to you as a guide, but somebody who's walking
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  the same path. I just may be at a different point
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  in my journey on some levels that you're now
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  walking through. I know that my voice and my
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  message finds the women who are ready to receive
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  what I'm here offering. And I really also want
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  to speak to the women that I already am supporting.
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  Amazing, sensitive women who... have the deepest
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  hearts for caring about their family their friends
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  strangers um i really find that those of us who
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  are highly sensitive you know this depth of processing
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  you know as far as that scientific language for
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  um the minority of us who have this sensory processing
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  sensitivity trait um i really find that it's
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  a depth of caring that comes from our ability
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  to reflect and think so deeply about our experiences
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  and also our ability to feel so deeply and and
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  that's going in both directions right so the
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  women I support can be the greatest cheerleaders
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  they just get so excited and happy for each other
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  you know um And they can also be the ones who
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  feel the deepest pain. And so this podcast that
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  I am stepping into now is really to honor each
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  of those women who haven't maybe found someone
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  who really can understand where they're coming
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  from. And relationships are important you know
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  our whole life is around how our relationships
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  um impact us how they influence us to grow um
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  and to really realign with who we really are
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  um and oftentimes you know the women who do resonate
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  with my message and my way of guiding um They
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  do feel like the outlier, you know, the outsider
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  in their family, even though they feel very loved,
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  you know, and may have relationships with their
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  family and their friends. They're just sensing
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  that their path has just gone in a little bit
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  of a different direction. They need somebody
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  to talk to. They need somebody to listen to in
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  the sense of there's nothing wrong with you.
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  What you're experiencing is totally valid and
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  understandable. As a sensitive woman, there's
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  going to be a lot of people who cannot understand
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  what it's like to be you. I mean, no one fully
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  can understand what it's like to be anyone else
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  because that's our own internal experience of
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  ourself. But I assure you that you're not alone
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  on your journey. There are other sensitive women
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  and not that only women are sensitive. That's
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  just the... path that my own professional career
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  has taken me on, and personal for that matter,
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  because I am, I'm a mom. I'm a sensitive woman,
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  a mom, and those are the women who most resonate
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  with my journey. You know, whether you've had
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  your own health challenges. I know I have since
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  my childhood, whether you've experienced trauma
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  repeatedly or in, you know, more spaced out experiences
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  that just have gone unprocessed because of how
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  intensely you felt those experiences that they
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  kind of got buried. I really want you to know
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  that there are other highly sensitive professionals
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  out there in the realm of therapists. And there's
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  just wonderful work being done in the world to
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  raise awareness around this sensitivity. And
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  in addition to us humans, it's over 100 species
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  who have this. high sensitivity trait. There's
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  an evolutionary reason for it. And I feel like
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  that's my calling. It's been to repeatedly be
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  curious, to delve deeper into really wanting
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  to understand what it means to live this life
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  as a sensitive woman, to navigate health challenges,
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  infertility. miscarriages, you know, traumatic
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  births. And then raising children is like, wow,
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  that's one of the most life -changing journeys
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  I think we can experience. Or maybe that's just
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  the one that was for me. Perhaps yours is completely
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  different. And of course, absolutely. valid and
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  true for you. And that's what I really want to
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  speak to from my heart is that this podcast,
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  I'm going to speak about the mess of, you know,
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  my journey as far as the pain, the heartache
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  that I've gone through and how I've risen above
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  it and repeatedly come back to myself. And that's
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  why I created the Realign Journey. to really
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  help other sensitive women come back to themselves
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  to rise reclaim and remember but we all have
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  very unique journeys and what's mine that helps
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  me awaken to my authentic and true self could
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  be very different than yours but there's still
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  threads that connect us in the sense of our ability
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  to understand and as sensitive women right we
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  have more mirror neurons our ability for deep
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  empathy right is so so essential to understand
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  there's many that talk more about being an empath
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  because you know that seems easier for some people
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  to understand than you know the the science jargon
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  perhaps um around Having the sensory processing
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  sensitivity trait, which, again, is completely
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  normal yet invisible. But we do have a more finely
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  tuned central nervous system. You know, we do
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  have a higher access to awareness, spiritual
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  understanding, and even our ability to access
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  higher intelligence. We're certainly not superior.
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  It's just different. But this is a time for sensitive
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  women to really rise up out of the old conditioning
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  and the old beliefs that have been in the subconscious
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  and under the surface. Because we can rewrite
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  those stories as we understand what makes us
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  unique and different. And really honor who we
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  are. Honor our own journey, you know? This life
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  experience is for you. So I just want to, again,
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  thank you for being interested in hearing my
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  message and to know what this podcast is going
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  to be about. Now, I have come to accept my human
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  design, if you're not familiar with the human
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  design system. It's a synergy of the Chinese
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  I Ching, the Hindu Brahman chakra system, the
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  tree of life, right? The Kabbalah, the Eastern
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  and Western astrology, and, you know, our moment
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  of birth, you know, time, location, all of that
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  imprints us with a conscious. side and an unconscious
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  side and it's something that came to me um about
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  12 years ago and i really didn't like it when
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  i first heard it because there's certain language
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  that didn't resonate didn't feel good um but
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  through the years i've really learned a lot about
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  that um and really shine a light on it for others
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  when i see that there's value in it so I'm just
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  wanting to share with you that I am literally
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  speaking from my heart because my profile from
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  a human design perspective is the three five.
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  So the three is all about trial and error. I'm
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  a pioneer in my own journey because I'm willing
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  to try so many different approaches, so many
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  different things to see what works and what doesn't
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  work. And then I take what works and I live it.
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  And that five line is about being a messenger.
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  So I take what's worked for me, what I've come
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  to understand through all of my research, all
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  of my studies as a licensed independent clinical
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  social worker. And I universalize it. Like, how
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  can I assist others in learning from what I lived
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  through? But that's just my design, right? So
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  I accept myself as someone who is an outlier.
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  I felt like the black sheep of my own family.
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  And I feel like that in most circles. So I really
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  want you to know. That if you resonate with any
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  part of what I'm sharing, you know, then that's
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  a beautiful thing. And I'm honored to support
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  you. And I certainly invite you to reach out.
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  I'm on social media a little bit. I'm not that
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  savvy with it and living my own authentic path.
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  oftentimes I don't go on it. Um, I trust how
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  I feel and sometimes social media feels really
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  heavy and icky and I choose to do what honors
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  me and my vibrancy. Um, so my invitation to you
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  is To connect with your heart and your breath.
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  And really honor what comes up for you. Really
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  tune in to you. Because no one else knows what's
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  best for you. No one. Because no one else knows
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  what it's like to be you. To have lived through
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  the experiences that you've lived through. And
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  with the filters that you may have accumulated,
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  you know, in living those experiences. So I'm
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  here to honor you wherever you are on your journey.
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  And I invite you to, you can certainly subscribe
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  to my Rise and Realign Lunar Letter, which is
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  a weekly. lunar insights and soul wisdom and
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  reflections where you know you'll also be informed
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  of the next podcast episode um that's been um
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  published and but yeah feel free to just let
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  me know how this felt for you because i really
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  feel like this is about The sensitive women who
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  need to hear what I have been able to bring peace
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  within myself around. And I'm really excited,
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  actually, as I pause with that. I'm really excited
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  to hear from you, you know. the one who needs
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  to know that she's okay there's nothing wrong
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  with what she's feeling that there is something
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  within herself that wants to be heard that wants
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  to be honored that wants to be acknowledged and
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  what i know is that sensitive souls want to be
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  in their wholeness. In no way do they want to
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  hurt anyone else. And so through our own healing,
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  we align ourselves more and more with our authentic
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  self, the one that is so filled with love. Because
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  I see that, I feel that, and I sense that with
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  the women who I have the opportunity to meet
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  with. Your hearts are beautiful. They're so loving
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  and so kind. And the world has felt harsh, even
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  when others didn't mean it. And so barriers get
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  built. And we start to feel like it's not safe
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  to be ourselves, that it's not safe to speak
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  our own truth. And I really want to honor that
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  because those mechanisms, those coping skills
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  that you developed help to keep you safe. So
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  they weren't bad or wrong, but it's our ability
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  to say, Is it still true though? Do I really
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  need to still keep up these walls? Is it safe
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  now? Can I breathe? Can I relax? Can I trust?
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  Is support really accessible for me? So I just,
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  I really want you to know that I welcome An email,
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  you know, I welcome communication. If there's
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  something that I can do to support you in rising
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  up out of the old patterns, the old conditioning,
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  so that your beautiful heart, your beautiful
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  light, the kindness and love that you have within
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  you. can flow more easily because you deserve
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  to relax. You deserve to feel safe. You deserve
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  to feel loved. You deserve to feel seen and acknowledged.
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  And breathe. Connect with your breath. Connect
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  with your body. Because it does begin with you.
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  You can do this. You can connect with your breath.
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  You can connect with your body. And you can soften
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  so that your authentic self can begin speaking
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  more clearly with you. Well, I sense that this
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  is a good time for me to, well, I guess it was
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  a moment for me to pause. It's a moment for me
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  to just really tune in and see if there's anything
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  more I'm sensing that you might need to hear.
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  The pattern may be that you feel that there isn't
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  support, that so much falls on you to do. And
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  perhaps even some uncomfortable feelings are
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  coming up as I'm letting you know how deserving
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  and worthy you are. And I just want to meet that
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  with, that's valid, whatever's coming up for
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  you. as you hear what I'm saying. And it's all
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  okay. You know, we are where we are on our journey.
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  And the important thing is to be honest with
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  ourselves, right? And honest with others. So
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  that's another reason why I'm really inviting
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  you to reach out and let me know. How this resonates
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  for you. And if there's something more that you
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  would like me to tap into and share with you.
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  There's so much that we can do when we come together
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  to rise, to reclaim, and to remember who we really
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  are. I will close now the Rise and Realign podcast.
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  conversations for the sensitive soul and invite
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  you to reach out to connect with your breath
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  and your body. And until next time, be well and
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  be true to you.