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Donna S. Conley - Wild Moon Healers · Postcards to the Universe

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Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Caapria. Do you believe in magic?
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What if you were told that all you had to do was get a
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little creative and work the magic spell to bring anything you can imagine into your
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life. Here on Postcards to the Universe, we will share manifesting tips,
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postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity. Here's your host, Melissa Caapria.
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Hey everyone, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the
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life you crave. It's Wednesday. How are you guys doing. I had
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to run a replay unexpectedly last week, so sorry. I miss being here
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with you guys. Live you know. I love being here, love doing
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my show. I have a really cool guest today. She's author Donna Only,
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and she's going to join me in just a few minutes and I'm going
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to be talking with her about Oh Got a whole bunch of Stuff, And
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we're also going to be talking about her book, Wild Moon Hailing. I
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love the title of that book. By the way, to my regulars,
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thank you so much for joining me and being with me each week. It
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funny and uplifting post So I wanted to tell you guys that I officially am
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I'm just going to share with you what it's about. So living a grateful
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and creative life is about following our hearts and embracing more things that light us
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up from the inside. It's about seeing all the wonderful things we already have
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in our lives. Many times we forget to see what is right in front
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of us. By finding the courage to prioritize, nurture, and express our
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creativity, we add more play and joy in daily life, and we get
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to experience what we love and cherish in greater depth. When that happens,
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the universe has a wonderful way of surprising us with even more magic. In
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this workshop, we cover living in gratitude by using writing exercises and doing a
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daily visual gratitude practice using our camera phones to help us get into alignment with
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the energy of abundance. Each section will focus on one area of our life
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to be grateful for. Week one focuses on worthiness and self love. Week
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two covers health and wellness. Week three looks at our money story and financial
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abundance. Week four we go into our personal relationships that could be family,
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friends, and romance. And the final week is going to be dedicated to
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a personal check in, sharing experiences and what came up for us and an
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open question and answer. I give you guys writing exercises in each area,
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At the end of the class, there will be an open discussion and a
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time for questions and answers, and students will be given homework to fulfill during
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the week, including learning how to make a manifesting postcard for each section of
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the course, and at the end of the workshop, students will be required
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to submit their workbook. Oh it's a forty four page workbook, by the
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way, and they're manifesting postcards to me. Upon completion of the course,
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you should feel inspired to continue on your journey, filled with gratitude in your
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life. A sense of purpose and well being in all areas of our life
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is the goal to finding joy and gratitude is the most powerful and effective way
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to do that. So this workshop is for you. And what's fun about
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it is too is we're going to use our camera phones, which I love
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because I'm a photographer. So if you're feeling uninspired, if your heart is
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Okay, so now to talk to my guest today. I'm excited to talk
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with Donna. Donna asked. Conley developed an integrated approach to teaching people to
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discover who they are, what they want, and how to love and accept
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themselves so they can live their best lives. Determined to become an advocate for
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mental health, she began a career as a life coach, a blogger,
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podcaster, and wrote Wild Moonhealing. While working full time in corporate America.
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Donna is working toward her goal of transitioning to a full time career to help
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remove the stigma of mental health and normalize loving, committing, believing, and
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respecting yourself. Donna has had a successful career in the human resources field for
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over twenty years. From a total wellness perspective and addressing people as a whole,
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she believes strongly in the spiritual aspects of health in addition to physical and
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mental health. She deeply believes everyone has their own inner magic and can use
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it to create their best life and inspire others. You can find out more
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about Donna and what she's doing if you go to her website. It's wild
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Moonhealers dot com. That's Wildmonhealers dot com. Welcome Donna. Thanks for being
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here with me today. Oh thank you Melissa for having me. I'm so
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excited to talk to you. I love that you use magic because that's my
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favorite word ever. In your bio, I was like, Oh, she
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uses the word magic. I love it because I think we all have our
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own inner magic and a lot of us just don't know how to tap into
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that. Right. So the purpose of the book your magic is what makes
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you unique, your authenticity. When but the moon, you know, people
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hear shadow word. Can I get afraid of that? But that's just fighting
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all these parts of you that you've hidden. You know, people think they're
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broken, but they're not. You're just parts of yourself that was hurt one
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way or another in the past. Hmm, Well, I love it.
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So the full title of your book is Wild Moon Healing Harness the energy of
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lunar cycles to awaken your inner truth. So that's the full title of the
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book. And I love that because I am always doing like spells and rituals
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around the moon. So I love that. I love that, you know,
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I love that title. So, yeah, you brought up a good
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point. You said that people think of the moon that that shadow work.
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And I know you do talk about, you know, how to you know,
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leave unhealthy relationships and overcome addictions and deal with our trauma. So why
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don't you share a little bit about the book itself and what inspired you to
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write it, you know, from your own life. Well, the book
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is it's heavy on journaling, but there's forty seven activities and it's not all
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journaling, but it's heavy on journaling because whatever answers you're looking for, you
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have it within you. You know you know what to do, you know
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what to say, you're just afraid to do it sometimes and sometimes you're so
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just connected from your authentic self that you just can't find it. And so
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the book goes through all the phases of the moon with questions and activities that
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change as the moon phases change. But everything is looking at you just from
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different perspectives, you know. So you're going after a goal, but you're
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also learning who you are and healing at the same time. And because life
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isn't lateral, you know, and it helps you from that lateral thinking.
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So many people today, which is where I found myself, you are just
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in the grind, you know. You get us, go to work and
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you come home through the dishes, whatever, and next you know, you're
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just sting against tomorrow. And you know, you don't really realize what the
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actions that you take today, how all of your past experiences affects that.
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And so while the healing helps you, you know, pull clout your trauma
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or whatever it is that pulls you back from something, and you know it
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helps you learn who you are and love yourself because they say love makes the
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world go round. But I believe it's self love because if you don't love
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yourself, you know, you don't have enough love to keep the world spinning.
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Right, Oh my god, absolutely, absolutely, That's why the first
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part of the workshop is worthiness. You gotta work on that first, or
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note any other stuff is gonna come right. If we don't feel worth,
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worth the respectful relationship, or worth being able to look you know, heal
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our PTSC or overcome our addiction, right, it's never going to happen.
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We have to find our own worthiness, which is all about self love.
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Yeah. Yeah, and that's you know, I found myself. I was
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just really miserable in any area of my life. I was like, how
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did this happen? And I started healing, and I was like this with
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depression, I couldn't find a counselor. Literally they wouldn't call me back or
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they weren't accepting new patience. And then I would find a counselor but it
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wasn't a good fit. And I was like, well, I obviously have
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to figure out how to heal myself. And that's just started to go on
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this whole empowering just to empower myself to do that and allow myself to do
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that. And it turned into a you know, a spiritual journey as well
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as a healing journey. And I didn't know I was sting the book when
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I wrote it. My friends, so they were noticing changes in me and
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they're like, what are you doing? And I'm like, uh, moon
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work, I'm manifesting with the moon. And they're like, okay. You
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know, I know exactly what your friends were thinking because I say the same
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thing, and you just get They're probably like, Okay, there's a little
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group of Sisterhood of Wildoon Healers. And I was writing these monthly moon reports
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about the energy of that moon and and plus teaching them little things you know,
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eft and you know, um chakras and just some all kinds of little
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things visited like news letter and so I tore my Achilles about in the middle
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of doing all of this, I tore my Achilles. So I was I
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couldn't do much, and I was just had the idea. I'm like,
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what if I turned these reports into a book? And they were like so
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supportive. They're like, do it, do it, do it. So
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and now my books won three awards. Congrats, that's amazing, fantastic,
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and't that interesting because you're you tore your achilles and then it forced you to
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have the time to put this into a book. Don't you find that really
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interesting? Because your achilles heel is your weak spot on your body. Like
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if you read the story of Achilles right that that's what happened to you so
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that you could manifest this book. I find that really interesting. Yeah.
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My friend Gwen she Um is like a teacher, mentor and a friend,
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and she told me, she said, you know, they knew they had
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to slow you down and that was the best way they could come up with
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it. Look so m Yeah, So when did you personally and your own
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life start seeing how the trauma that you have experienced in your past contributed to
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how you were feeling on a daily you know, on a daily basis,
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Like when did you put those two together. My first healing modality was EFT
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and I was doing it also videos, and I really started up EFT personal
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practice and I was doing it for about a year and I was like,
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I don't know if I'm doing this right. Well, then I found myself
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in a situation where normally I would have been triggered and I wasn't you know,
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I didn't react. I responded, and then the other person didn't know
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what to do with that, and I was like laughing inside myself. I
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was like, oh, I am changing, you know. And my first
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Aha moment was you know, my sister, my mom, they're they're artists,
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you know, they can hate all and I can't do a straight line
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with a ruler. But I had that aha moment that I've been mistaking my
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creativeness with artistic ability, and once I realize I can create, it was
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like amazing. You know, my everything, my solar plies is my powerhouse.
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Blew up, my creativity centre blew up. And you know it's like,
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no, no stopping they ever since. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
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A lot of people think that they have to have artistic abilities to be
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creative in their life, and that's not true. You can lead a very
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creative life and do a lot of things, you know, with creativity leading
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the way, but not be technically you know, a painter or a photographer,
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commercial artist or you know. You just have to find whatever it is
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that sparks you, that brings you joy, and that's where you put all
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your create creative you know, energy into and that's what will blossom. Right.
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So it's it's interesting that you had that like aha moment for yourself.
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So um talking about the wild Moon healing what in the book? So how
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is is? How does that process work? Like? What does wild moon
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healing mean? Like how can we you know, implement those those things that
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you talk about in your book to get to know ourselves and heal and all
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that and transform. Well, it's basically follows lunar cycles. So at the
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new moon you create an intention a actually even before that, at the dark
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moon, you just envision this dream for your life and it's like the biggest
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dream. That doesn't matter what's fantasy, what's not you know, it's just
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what do you want out of life? What does it look like? And
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you stay in that vision until you actually feel it because you can bring those
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emotions with you out of visualization. And then each month, what you do
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at the new moon is make an intention or a goal that will get you
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closer to this big dream. And as the moon is waxing getting bigger,
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that's when you go after your goals. But you're also learning about yourself,
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what upsets you, what triggered you, you know, and you know you
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try just to get more excuse me, so maybe you can try something else
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and then under the full moon that's the shadow work. So you've learned these
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things about yourself as the moon was growing, Well, what can you let
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go of to make room for something that will bring you more joy? Right?
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So as the moon starts waning after the full moon, that's when you
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release something. And it can be hard. You know, it can be
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a person, it can it could be just establishing a different boundary. You
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know that that's a form of release by protecting yourself. So that's the problem.
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And you know, all the questions in the book, so whether you
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journal or just think about them, you know, they really help you go
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in Like one of one of the views of the books that I did when
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I started reading this book, I didn't know it would read me. You
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know, it's to It really takes you into deep places to try to find
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your answers. That's the whole purpose of it. M Yeah, So so
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I'm curious, So what made you work with the moon, Like did you
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feel that the moon the cycle in a month, the moon cycle affected your
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mood? Like what made you put the two together? You know, because
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there's other people that do very similar work, you know about trauma and all
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this kind of stuff and and and releasing things and doing all that. But
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you specifically are working with the cycles of the moon. So were you always
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like a like a moon guy, I'll say, or like, you know,
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like, were you always like into that kind of stuff? No,
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you know, I grew up religious, the spirituality was um you know,
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new in my adulthood, I didn't grow but I've always admired the moon.
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And before my journey became spiritual, I m it was a full moon and
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I was like, I still haven't done anything on my to do list.
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So I started challenge if based on the moon, well let's see what I
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can get done, you know. But the next time it's a full moon.
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But then I really started getting into the energies of the moon, um
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sex that I'm working on. If you want to work with the moon,
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you have to know about the sun. So I actually get detailed about you
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know, airy sun season. But then there's air's energy as a new moon
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and a full moon and planets and things. So you know, this book,
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My Wild Moon Healing, it's just like a whole one to get you
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started. Yeah, I don't deeply into anything else other than the moon because
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it's a lot to take in. M Yeah, it is. It's interesting
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for the lunar cycles. You can be amazed at how much time you waste,
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you know, and how you can ask do things to you know,
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for good for your life. Yeah. I did a little self study because
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I wanted to see how, you know, how certain times of like certain
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weeks, you'll be like really, You'll have tons of energy and you get
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so much stuff done and you just scratch everything off your to do list,
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and then all of a sudden you'll have a week where you're like, oh,
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I don't want to do anything and your procrastinate, your energy is really
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low, you know, where all of a sudden you'll get like a bug
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up your butt to like clean everything, like get rid of everything, purge.
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And so I started for personally, what I did is I kind of
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like I would see where I was feeling emotionally and my energy levels, and
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then I would track where the moon's cycle was. And I started to notice
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that I followed a very specific cycle of the moon. You know, my
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energy from the New Moon was very different from when it was when it was,
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you know, a waning moon or to a waxing moon, a full
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moon to this that. You know, So it's really kind of interesting to
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see because I do really feel like it affects us. It affects our emotions
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and our bodies. Right, So it's it's I went on that same journey.
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But then I started asking myself and I'm like, well, if I
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know that Gemini energy is this, maybe I change what I'm doing to help
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that energy, use that energy in my life for something different. And you
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know that when I started getting into that, I was like, Okay,
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there's really something to this. You know, aware of all the out there
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and you know, and it's also not just your inner magic. You know,
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it's your connection to source, angels, gods, you know, ascended
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masters, it's your connection to the and everything. So once you're completely connected
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and your energy centers are open, you know, it's just following these linear
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cycles, but you're in tune with the energy. So it's like, Okay,
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I know this cancer moon is going to be a little emotional, you
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know, in the habit of learning these things and you can you can work
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with it and plan things differently in your life that just use that energy.
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Yeah, because you want to use the optimum energy in your in your body,
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your emotional body, and in your physical body, you know, just
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so that you can accomplish as much as you need to get done right.
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So if you're fighting against something, when that's it's exhost the saying that sentence,
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you can feel how exhausting that is. If you have to fight against
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something to get something done right, you're like wiped at the end of the
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day. But if you feel energized because you're tapping into astrologically in the moon
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cycles, what's going on in the energy, you know, you use it
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to your advantage instead of working against you, right. Yeah. So yeah,
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And a lot of people that listen to the show or into all this
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stuff, you know, the astrology and all that. Yeah. So,
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so we're speaking to an audience who, you know, it's very familiar with
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what we're talking about. Yeah, you know, I have the calendar year
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as a lunar cycle, you know, so like an energy is that spring
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equinox, you know, that's the lunar new year. Um, the summer
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solstice is equal to like the first quarter moon of the west school days and
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the fool the moon is connected to the fall equinox, and then the last
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quarter is connected to the winter solstice, you know, because a lot of
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people have always made New Year resolutions. Well, the energy isn't there to
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go bigger, go home, right, you have to wait for to do
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that. Yeah, and today actually is the summer solstice, right, the
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twenty first is the longest day of the year, which is today. So
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it's interesting the energy. So yeah, if you're listening and you're interested,
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look up what the summer solstice energy is and see how you can Where is
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the moon right now? What cycle? Where are we in the moon cycle
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right now? I haven't even looked. I should have looked before the show,
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but I don't even know where we are. We had a new moon,
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um just last week, right, yea, yeah, yeah, I
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think it was just last week, right, So it was a new yes,
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yes, just last week. So, UM, I know that,
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Uh, you suffered, and and we're gonna we're gonna be coming up to
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the break here in a minute, so we could talk about it when you
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get back. But just for you to think about when we take the break.
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Um, you had um some depression and you were going to doctors and
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you kept you talk about going, you know, sliding into habitual patterns and
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it's just your depression just just worse. And oh, Chris said, we're
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in a waxing moon. So there you go. We're in a waxing moon
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right now. I just got a little message, UM, so I want
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to talk about, um, you know, how you took these things into
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your own hands and like what changed for you, because that probably will help
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somebody who's listening today. So guys, stay tuned and we're going to be
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back in just a couple of minutes UM and have more of a conversation with
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for the second half of the show, I have authored Donna Conley on and
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we're talking from her book Wild Moon Healing, and we're talking about working with
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the lunar cycles to enrich our lives really and so, Donna, before the
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break, I was asking you because a lot of people and I've been there
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myself. You know, I have gone through periods of you know, depression
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and sadness, and you know that feeling of is this it? You know,
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you know what I mean. It's like this is it? This is
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all I got and you just feel like another day. So how did you
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what made you decide and how did you decide to take the matters into your
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own hands and change it. Well, I was pretty bad off when I
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only to my daughter and I was like, I don't know what's happening.
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But every time I opened my mouth, I would just start crying and I'm
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like I can't even talk, you know, and nothing is wrong. And
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that's when she was like, I think you have depression. That's what we're
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going to treat you for. And you know, the medicine really helped a
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lot. But through my journey with depression, I've kind of classified depression kind
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of like um diabetes, you know, like there's been one and depression type
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two. So I put myself in this type two category, which is lifestyle,
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and I really started looking at everything that I was doing. You know,
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I was smoking a pack and a half cigarettes today, I was drinking
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till black out. It's like, can my life be inspiring to myself or
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others if I'm not doing anything to make that happen. So as I just
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started, you know, picking one thing at a time and like, okay,
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now I haven't had a cigarette and almost seven years. Okay, that's
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great. Next thing. You know, so I've been sober for over three
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years. You know, you just work on one thing at a time to
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trying to figure out who to let yourself, your authentic self out, because
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when you're in depression, you're not doing anything you know, authentically. But
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you know, depression affects the way you feel, thinking, act, but
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it's not a weakness, it's not an abnormality. You know, our body
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is always giving us messages, and depression is a message that something's not right.
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Well, you know, whether it be chemical or lifestyle. You know,
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be a doctor because it's it can be healed. Yeah, and what
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about now, how did you incorporate the obviously you made style changes, but
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how did you incorporate the spiritual nourishment that you needed to make yourself to take
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yourself out of the depression and make yourself feel inspired where you wake up and
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you're excited about your day. You know, Well, one thing, if
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you don't like the way something is, then you have to stop doing something,
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do something differently, or just start doing new things. So I was
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like, well, I need to start trying new things. So I got
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into what I call heal modalities, so breasts work, a lot of journaling,
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sound healing and all of these things. And the more that I did
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those things and created this atmosphere still in the you know, easier, it
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became to let some of these habitual patterns in my life go. Did you
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notice did you notice whe you were doing these? Because I have done the
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same kind of work. There's a lot of these healing modalities and I for
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me, it works, you know, and for you it sounds like it
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works too. Um and a lot of people you know, go about it
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in different ways. That's why there's so many people talking about different things that
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they could do. Raiki. I've had guests on who have talked about EFT
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tapping, which you've mentioned, and just different things to kind of like work
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with our our energies and our body and our and our emotional body. Also,
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so, um, you noticed did you notice, like righte way,
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that you were starting to see shifts and feeling shifts in your life or like
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what was your journeying with Because I think people a lot of people think,
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oh, like once you understand it, and you're like, Okay, I
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understand it, I'm gonna do this, and then all you automatically feel better
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and I don't feel like it or at least personally. It didn't happen in
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that way. For me. It took time. Yeah, yeah, like
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it's every change you make has a consequence, right. So when I stopped
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doing the bar scenes and drinking and smoking, I found I had no one
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to do anything with because everyone was still going to the bars and they wouldn't
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invite me, you know, because they you know, how does she feel?
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You know, we're drinking, she's not, and they feel judged,
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you know, so it was kind of a lonely experience. And yeah,
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so you know you have to be prepared. You're doing something proactive for your
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health, but you know every action has a reaction, and you know it's
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not always positive, you know, like, um, yeah, yeah,
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well you're shifting your energy. So because I always talk about stuff in a
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vibrational like, our energy, we vibrated at certain levels, so we manifest
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and bring those things in that we are a matched too. So when you
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dropped the partying, the drinking, the smoking of this lower vibration and they
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were still there, you guys couldn't meet up anymore because they weren't in the
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same energetic spot that you have now become in when you started to do your
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healing work. But I imagine new people came into your life, correct,
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Yeah, see I attract these people. I found these people that are amazing
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trish for myself, for my breath work and for my sound healing. And
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you know, it's all these different people in my life that helps, you
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know, help me get out of that. Okay, now I'm alone,
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right, But the more you work and say no, I'm doing what's best
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for me for my life, then the more you attract what's better for you,
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and you know that's how manifestation works. Can't just say I want to
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sit there and check your foot to your part. Yeah, you have to
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take inspired action. You can't just you know, sit around and wishing for
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something to be different and visualize it different, and then you go back to
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the same old stuff and acting the same way and talking the same way and
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not taking care of yourself. You have to take an inspired action, which
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it sounds like you did. So now I've talked about journaling, and I
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go through cycles. I'm not a consistent journaler in the sense that I journal
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every day, but if I'm working on something, I'll find like I'll journal
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a lot and I have found that very helpful. So you have a lot
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of exercises for people who are people who are listening in your book of Momps
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that can help them like kind of clarify. Yeah, talk a little bit
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about that. I'm gonna share some some with us. Yeah, you know,
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I have, um, I think there's forty seven and they're one of
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the one of the activities is mirror work, which is really really start.
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You know, you just get an you sit there and you look at yourself
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and at first you start to notice, you know, um, the skin
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damage or the rifle around your eyes something, but you have to throwly focus
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on your eyes and then you see, well, look at all that I
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time, you know, look at what I've came from. And that's because
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once you start looking in your eyes, you know, shame and guilts might
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come up too, but you have to you have to see where you are
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now to get over those things. And UM, that's like really good um
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exercise. If anyone has out there, want to, UM, I call
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mirror what do you call it? Say it again? You call mirror mirror
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what? Mirror meditation? Mirror meditation? I love that you said mirror work
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because people who listen to my show, No, I talk about it all
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the time. Mirror work. I mentioned it in my first book and in
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my second book, which the first draft is finished and polishing it as we
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speak, and sent it. Just sent it to a publisher last week.
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I talk about daily, daily mirror work practice because I heard about it from
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Louise Hey. I don't know who you heard about it from, but I
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did it. And it is not easy. But between I think the mirror
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work and the gratitude work that I did were the two biggest influences that I've
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had shifts in my life from doing that work about my own self worthiness.
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I can't describe how powerful it is. So it's funny that you picked mirror
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work of all of your exercises that you have because it's not easy, but
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oh is it worth it? Right? Yeah? Yes, I have.
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One of my exercises is your life box. And basically this box and you
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see this person in there and you get closer and you realize it's you.
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But you can see all everything you're doing in your life, your habits are
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affecting you, and then you once you find a way in, you invite
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in your future self. So all three of you are having conversations and figuring
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out where you want to go. And it's visualization of seeing your future self
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and actually having a conversation with that person. It's just like your child work.
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So you don't when you were talking to the seven year old self.
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You know you can talk older self as well, and you know, visualizing
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that future person and versing with that, you know energetically that's very powerful.
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Oh, very powerful visualization. It's very very powerful. Um for manifesting work,
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What do you think just from your own personal experience and maybe some of
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ther other you know that in your community that you've talked to, Like,
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why do you think a lot of us sabotage the work that we're doing?
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So we're on this healing journey, you know, you're you're, you're going,
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you've done all of this, You're you're doing the work every day and
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then, I don't know, for some reason, is something I'll come up,
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or maybe it won't even come up. Who knows, to just wake
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up one day and you'll you'll do something that sabotage is the work you've done?
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Why do you think that we do that? U? Two things?
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The first one is fear, you know, fear of being, fear of
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you know whatever if you take the saction, what is the reaction going to
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be? And maybe you're you can't handle the reaction that you expect, so
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you just kind of stay stagnant. But the other is womening beliefs um once
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enough journaling and enough moon work that I finally realize my false women belief is
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that I am unimportant. So any time if someone makes me wait, you
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know they be here at ten, ten thirty or not. You know,
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it's like, I'll be right down, well, I'm not important. You
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know, anytime you go to a doctor's office, they're never on time.
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But it reinforces important and to do moonwork, and you follow the processors,
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you eventually start to make these connections that you wouldn't have made before, and
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you know, those aha moments. And then if you keep digging and you
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find out that central thing, which mine was feeling important, that is huge
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because you can be going towards your goal and then somebody makes you feel unimportant
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and it's like, uh, you know, and the next thing you know,
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you're not doing anything. But if you're not what that was, you
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know, then you know, m hm, no, it's due. So
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I don't know why I just did that, but there is a behind it
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or right right, right, that's funny that you said that, because I
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have that's that was always mine too. I'm not important or I'm not as
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important as that person or whatever. I'm not as important, like yeah,
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like mine wasn't as much as I'm not good enough. More mine was I'm
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not important, right, So it would show up in so many ways in
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my life, so many ways for me to say, you know, and
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it still does, and it still does. Every once in a while it
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pops up and I have to say us. You know, like if I'm
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if I'm in a group and I'm speaking and I'm interrupted, I have to
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be firm and say I was speaking, like I have to stand up for
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myself and it's and I never used to do that, but I do it
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now, you know, so so that I'm not important, experiences are not
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coming as often as they used to. You know, it's now that I've
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been doing the work, right, I'm sure you're having a similar experience because
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you're also doing work I am. And also it could be a chakra issue,
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you know, with feeling safe. Um, you know, chakra is
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so important. You know really if it is not strong, those to the
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other ones you know, going to be pretty weak because it's the foundation of
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everything. It's the sacral it's the sacral chakra that that you see that at
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the the root chakra the root oh of course, right, your roots,
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right your root chakra. So do you have any recommendations about stuff that people
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could do to clear out their shot you know, clear their shot ra or
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strength in their chakra. Well, like some people say either red apple wear,
45:05
some red underwear. I think if your intention with things, um is
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there to you know, work on your protection or your safety or your grounding
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or whatever it is you're working on. But moreover, I think meditation,
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doing like a chakra meditation to help you open your energy those things, and
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even going to a reggy practitioner to help help you move your a get it
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flowing. But um, the main thing is journaling to figure out why don't
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you feel safe? Why don't you feel secure? You stand it because you
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have you have those answers, you really do somewhere lapped away m Yeah,
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it's the most important work I think that you'll do is working on yourself.
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And I don't mean it and and we don't mean it in the cell fish
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you know, look at me, look at me, look at me.
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Ways, it is a selfless act because when you are in a good place
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in your life and you love yourself and you feel that you're worthy of what
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you have in your life, all you're gonna do is spread that out to
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everybody else around you, right, so everybody benefits from that. It's different
46:22
than being self absorbed or selfish or you know, forget narcissists. That's the
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whole other end of the spectrum. You know, it's it's really important work
46:32
because you can't change anybody else, right, you can only change yourself.
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You can only work on yourself. And what's going to happen is and I
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have noticed that people like you said, people were asking you what are you
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doing because they see it. They feel the shift in who you are right
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in what your your energy is different and they can feel it. So and
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that's a ripple that you create by loving yourself. Yeah, I believe I
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can heal past generations, so the current family, and it can heal generations
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to come that you don't even you'll never meet. Yeah, is the one
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person you smile at today, So change their life? You know, it's
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it's you know. So the more positive and loving you are towards yourself,
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the more you express that to other people. M Yeah. And I've been
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hearing more and more about people doing generational work, like you can change the
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generational um trauma even though these people have passed on, right, Yeah,
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you might you don't even know them, just by doing some work. And
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there's something new that I've kind of been hearing more and more about. So
47:47
that's really interesting than that that that's another thing that keeps coming up more.
47:51
Do you have it like a daily practice that you like to do that keeps
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you grounded and and and inspires you and makes you feel like really good about
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your life? Well, my, um my morning routine. Isn't it sporadic?
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Because I'm not a morning person per se? But me neither me neither
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to you know, really get in the self love and the hair. I
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light a candle, I had to ornate cone and I just brust. I
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just brush through my hair and take the time to look at myself, and
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you know about um, you know how far I'd come. And I always
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love to do um meditation. I don't journal every night, um, but
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I definitely journal on the four New Moons for sure. Yeah, and yeah
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every night. But as long as I just take the time to brush my
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hair and look at myself, that's just reinforces to me that I am important.
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M hmm. No, that's good. I think um that anybody listening
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can take anything that makes them feel like they're taking care of themselves, even
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if it only takes five minutes, you know, just to nurture yourself,
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to love yourself, to take care of yourself, to incorporate that in your
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daily routine. I mean the things that we can think about. You know,
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when you're brushing your teeth or taking a shower, you have to do
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that anyway, right to clean yourself, Like you could come you could visualize
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a whole story. You could do what you were talking about, meet yourself
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now in the future and the past as you're sitting there brushing your teeth instead
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of thinking about everything you have to get done for the day. Right,
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takes literally five minutes. Yeah, And the more we do it, the
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more practice we do, the more we strengthen that spiritual muscle. It's like
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anything else, it's a practice, and you have to like you have to
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make it a part of your routine. And when you'll come to find fine,
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at least in my experience, was when I started doing these daily practices
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because I I'm not a morning person either, So the first hour that I'm
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awake is me and my coffee and and quiet and contemplation, maybe journaling,
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maybe like just visualizing, just chilling, grounding whatever you know, and then
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like I'll do like a whole like I do like my yoga poses and my
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stretches after that and then working out I like to row and i've I look
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forward to it now every day, and when I don't do it, I
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feel different. I noticed that. M Yeah, I love what you said.
50:38
A daily press. Everyone is that phrase. Oh you have another tool
50:44
in your toolbox. That's the problem why people think these things don't work.
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It's because in your toolbox, you know if you have like a tool that
50:55
everyone has slashlights and like might not go out that often, so when they
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do, you try to find your flashlight. It's not in your jump drawer
51:04
and you run find it upstairs, but there's no batteries, and then you
51:07
don't have any batteries. You're like, I'll light some candles. Then you
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realize you get rid of all your candles for essential oils. Right, it's
51:17
in real life, and you're like, oh, i'll meditate now. Well,
51:21
if you haven't meditated in six months, it's not gonna happen the effect
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of calming you down that you think, unless you have a daily practice.
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M. Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. Oh god, yeah, I love
51:37
my my more. Everybody knows like, come, I always put my phone
51:39
on do not disturb, so every and everybody knows like, okay, she's
51:45
you know, don't you know, don't bother her. And I turned off
51:49
all notifications. I get no notifications unless I open up apps. I mean
51:52
obviously, you know, when my phone's working again, it rings and I
51:57
get Texas. But I shut everything off because I had to make that a
52:04
priority so that I could be a you know, a better person for myself
52:09
and everybody else. Yeah, at two hours, that's a luxury, you
52:16
know that. Well, you know, when I meditate, I'm there for
52:22
thirty to sixty minutes, you know, like you don't need to yoga poses
52:25
in five minutes. To those people out there going, you know, well,
52:30
I wish I had the time. No, you make time for what's
52:34
important for you, and you realize if you excuate your time, you you
52:38
do have time for yourself. You just have to mix things around and reprioritize
52:44
things that are going on. People always make time for things that they really
52:49
want. So I everybody says they don't have time. No that I don't
52:53
believe you. It's not that important to you, which is okay, but
52:58
yeah that's fine too. But yeah, if it's important to you, you'll
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you'll make the time. So Donna, we're almost like we only have a
53:04
couple of minutes. Um, what do you want? Um? Us,
53:07
Like, what's the biggest takeaway you want to give us from your book or
53:10
what's your biggest wish for your book? For this book, I wish everyone
53:15
would start doing some wild mood healing and learn to love yourself. And you
53:20
know that's that's the biggest goal I have. It's just just learn to love
53:24
yourself. Get over whatever is, you know, trauma or whatever making you
53:30
mad or feeling guilty. You know you can heal from all that and love
53:36
can't exist where anger or shame or guilt is, so you have to heal
53:39
those things. Um. But yeah, I just pray that everyone loves themselves.
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M Yeah, No, it's true because the more of us that love
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ourselves, like I touched on, the more people will you know, love
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have the love to give in a healthy way to other people. Right,
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we want to give it in a healthy and a healthy way. UM.
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Now, do you find a lot of people are telling you from just knowing
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you, your friends, family or whatever, are following what you're teaching them.
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Has that been a nice surprise? Yeah? I do know that.
54:25
Um. Several people that have the book and they they're getting their own practice
54:30
and stuff. You know, they'll call me everyone Yeah, oh my god,
54:32
I don't have to worry about I'm glad you tried something new, but
54:38
um yeah I do. So I have people that are when their daily practice
54:44
and getting it more into journaling and realizing. But that's the best part.
54:49
I have this moment. Oh yeah, that is the best. That is
54:53
the best part when people are saying, oh, because of you, I
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felt inspired and this is how and because that's why we're putting it out there.
55:02
Right. You know, it's not easy to be an author and to
55:05
write a book and to put it out there. So you're not just doing
55:08
it for yourself or you would just have private journals, right, You're doing
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it inspire other people, right, So you so so Donna. The best
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way that anybody who wants to reach out to you, what's the best way
55:22
that they can find you my website wild Moon Healers, and that has links
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to all my social and it has you can email me through my website,
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So wild Moonhealer dot com. M thank you. I was such a pleasure
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talking to you today. Thank you so much. Sounds like a lot of
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the stuff that you're doing is the stuff that I'm doing so perfect, perfect,
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resonated wonderfully. Thank you, Donna. Okay, guys, as always,
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thank you for listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the life
55:55
you crave. And I'm wishing everyone a wonderful for a week filled with joy,
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abundance and love. Peace,