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Energetic and Emotional Healing with Tammy Waldron · The Bridges and Beacons Podcast

• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bridges and Beacons podcast.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm your host, Kelly Meyerson, and today I have my friend Tammy Waldron with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to have an amazing conversation.
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  SPEAKER_02: We already started one and then eventually got our two defined throats to get actually started on the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this is the best possible start to a conversation because I feel like we're both in the flow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tammy is an informed energy healing teacher, founder of Tawanda Wellbeing.
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  SPEAKER_02: She guides women leaders, therapists, and seekers to uncover the energetic and emotional root causes beneath surface symptoms for lasting transformation from the inside out.
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  SPEAKER_02: Using theta healing, silent counseling, and the gene keys, she empowers them to awaken intuition, release inherited patterns, and lead with clarity, resilience, and authentic power.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tammy, thank you so much for being here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for having me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so happy to be here.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm already obsessed through your bio, particularly some of the tools that you're using and the fact that what you're aiming towards is that clarity, resilience, and authentic power.
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  SPEAKER_02: That resonates with me so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I know part of what has led me to this point to revamping the podcast to the work that I do on LinkedIn and what I just kind of feel this inner drive for is that healing journey and going from a place of not feeling empowered, not feeling clear about my future, not feeling safe to be my authentic self.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I wonder if we could start.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_02: Could you tell us a little bit about your own personal healing journey, where it started?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for me, it all started in the womb of my biological mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was 15, found out she was pregnant and did not want to have a baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that imprinted on me in womb in utero.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was then when I at birth, I was taken straight from my mother's womb into a bassinet in the 70s.
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  SPEAKER_00: And before we knew anything about attachment disorders and how important bonding is for children, I didn't have that.
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  SPEAKER_00: She didn't want to look at me and she didn't touch me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And wrapped up into a blanket and put into a bassinet for five days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have the most amazing adoptive family who are my parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there was this big primal wound of abandonment in that experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really, I mean, how my my neurological system was formed in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my mom, my mom would always say I was the best baby because I would never cry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it led me to all these really destructive patterns in my behavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what happens is that pain and misery loves company.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have all these phrases where we just say them, but we don't really understand what they mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: But pain and misery loves company.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants to be validated and it wants to feel itself over and over and over again until you understand it and heal it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's our gateway, it's our doorway to show us and our teachers to show us what we have to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in my growing up life, I was very spiritual and had would have these moments of spirituality that was so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there were moments where all of my pain was driving completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I couldn't be alone in relationships once I was a teenager.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started dating and never stopped dating until after a divorce.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always had a partner.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could not be alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I didn't have a partner, I was quickly finding one because it was chaos in that season and time until after a divorce, I got really quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I allowed myself to be quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that, in that time, I had searched in all the ways to heal self-help books, in multiple religions, talk therapy, medication, exercise, and relationships, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If I find the right partner, everything is gonna get better, but it doesn't because all the things that I need to heal are inside of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So after my divorce, I was like, wow, I've been searching outside of myself all this time and I haven't found what I'm looking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me actually just be with myself alone for the first time and accept myself, forgive myself, love myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it all of that pain and misery stepped back, and this new thing grew inside of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the fear quieted down and it gave me space.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just spent time getting to know myself, going on walks and continuing to explore for answers because I knew there was something that needed to heal, and I knew I was gonna find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then shortly after that, I found Theta healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the first thing I ever did that touched that wound and healed the wound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wow, I'm gonna teach this to other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not the only one in this situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It changes changed my life, and it's just tapping into what we already have access to.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I I love that story so much, especially because, as you said, so many people will relate to that story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, even if it's not the specifics, but maybe the parts of your story that they do relate with, whether it's somebody who's gone through an adoption journey or had parents or guardians who were emotionally unavailable, and there are some challenges with their attachment, or the part that you were sharing, chasing relationships in order to find that thing outside of yourself, that drive.
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  SPEAKER_02: And even the I think I've even talked about it with other guests on the podcast, that like continuous search for meaning, for purpose, for why did this happen to me, or what is the thing that's gonna make a difference?
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  SPEAKER_02: I think I fell into the category of you know, being such an emotional, highly sensitive person as a child with people around me who could not handle that level of emotionality and learning to tone that down and people please as a response and a coping mechanism.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then that feed fed into and often feeds into the good girl syndrome, into the high achieving, into the yada yada yada.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I feel like yours your story is so relatable and so so meaningful.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I love that rather than get stuck in the journey and in the the sadness, you found something that was more about going inside instead of outside.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I I think that that is where so much transformation happens when that recognition that you it's never going to be out there, it's only going to be in here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So for somebody who's listening who has not heard of Theta Healing before, can you give us a small description of that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it meets you where you're at.
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  SPEAKER_00: It identifies what is happening in the subconscious level that's driving patterns that you can't understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's healing them, it's changing them, it's connecting us to our intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's really is a neurological pathway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a it is a guided meditation, connects us to source, and in that we can do infinite things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's changed my brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've I have an EKG picture of me outside of Theta Healing and in Theta Healing, and it lights up my whole brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I would even think, as I'm sitting here thinking, the pathway to ourselves and that habit into our neurological system is a pathway that we create energetically and that we don't fully know how to look at scientifically, but it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the beginning, it's like you're in the middle of a jungle with a machete trying to find your way with no map.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you do this work, you you you you create these neural pathways that become highways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just, I can quickly tap into my intuition, I can quickly get back into my center and get grounded and have perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: What it has done for me is given me this space.
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  SPEAKER_00: Victor Frankel talks about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The our power lies in this space between a stimulus and a response.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in some people, they're not even responding, which requires some cognitive thought, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're reacting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so theta healing and silent counseling and jinkies help us to understand our triggers, to understand it's not somebody else's fault.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trigger lives inside of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it pointing to?
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  SPEAKER_00: We can heal it and it we can resolve it, and it doesn't have to be a part of our system.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's what we're meant to learn about and understand.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love this so much because I think when we get to that microcosm of where we're really struggling, it is in those patterns, whether they're conditional, experiential, wherever they're coming from, generational, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: That we can get slowed down and calmed down enough to recognize, like you said, that trigger, that space in between and get in there and heal it and uproot it in a way that you know it doesn't have to be, I'm assuming, because you say theta and I'm immediately calm, you know, but it that it really gets us to the point where this can happen in a very positive, affirming, comfortable way that that gets to be a way for us to be in alignment with ourselves and more comfortable in our own body.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: 100%.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So tell me about silent counseling.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's not something I'm familiar with.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Silent counseling is a way to tap into your meridian system that's been used and recorded for thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first first record, his historical record of our meridian system is 100 BC.
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  SPEAKER_00: In ancient Chinese medicine, is now today most popularized with acupuncture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: With silent counseling, we don't need needles, we just need our touch and breath on these meridian points.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is our that where it's the channels that our energy moves through our body, our life force, and our nervous system is a part of that system.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's actually recent research in acupuncture that is showing a new channel in this in our bodies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they have created a new dye that identified a whole new channel system, and they're curious and they're looking into could this represent the meridian system?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can feel it, we can experience it, we just well, maybe we have seen it, maybe, maybe not.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so we can each part of the meridian holds on to certain things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we touch and breathe with it with intention and with a protocol, a set intention and a and a set thing of like we go in with set certain steps of what to do, then you can heal it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know exactly what to do with this yet, but we're gonna compartmentalize it so that you can be your highest and best.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what happens is our library gets really full over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, like you said, we inherit things from our ancestors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it gets to the point where it's so full it can't hold on anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where we get fissures in the system, our hot buttons, our panic attacks, our anxiety, our generalized stress and anxiety, our burnout, our you know, road rage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, when losing our temper, we're at the end of our rope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, we we we're hotheads.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have all this language behind it, but we don't know what it means.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's not normal, but we've normalized all of it.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, Tammy.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm like literally geeking out on so many levels.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, first, I need to know where is this this channel that they think they're seeing, like in terms of on the meridian where it's it's moving.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do they know?
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe we could put it in the show notes, yeah, the research study.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please, I have it in my presentations, and so they actually have mapped it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's mapping out around the gut.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so fascinating.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and if you want to geek out more, there's actually a lot of research on energy healing in biofield energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've just been, you know, marginalized.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a lot of there's a lot of doctors and and organizations that are speaking out to say, actually, you know what, let's let's pull this in.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: And that's my calling is to help integrate it back into our systems because we talk about mind, body, spirit, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And in and we're integrative health care practitioners, but no, you're not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because where's the spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where's the energy in your system?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not tapping into all that's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I do is I help these therapists and integrative health practitioners bring energy healing into their practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't, it can be a spectrum of how it shows up in their practice, but it helps to get to the root cause.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we pull all these things together, we get this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, for one thing, if we're really in mind, body, spirit, we can operate in an integrated resilience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because resilience that we're talking about today is mind resilience, mind over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you, the body always wins those battles.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if we pull it into healthcare, we have this integrated wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our intuition can be a precision tool when we know how to use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have all these tools to tap into.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: I love this so much.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: I have two things to say about it because I'm like totally getting very excited.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm just gonna say for the listener, if you didn't catch the previous episode that I did with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cara Cruz, who is on last episode, and she talked, we talked a lot about that piece of intuition opening up and bringing that spirit in.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I love that that's what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_02: The second, if you don't mind, I would love to share a story with the listener because I think it'll really highlight what you're talking about here.
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  SPEAKER_02: So a number of years ago, I was having a health crisis and having these terrible migraines and gut issues, and like they just it just kept kind of cycling, and even no matter what I did.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I ended up going to Chinese medicine specialists who did acupuncture.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I went for my first acupuncture session.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had done acupressure in the past, but I hadn't done acupuncture.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so as she was, you know, she did like a full full body back in front.
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  SPEAKER_02: She placed the on my pressure point by my heart chakra.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I immediately started crying.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, it was the weirdest experience because it wasn't like there wasn't an emotional buildup.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was really very relaxed because she had done most of the other spots.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she she said to me, Oh, interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's like, You're having an an emotional release.
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  SPEAKER_02: You've been holding.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: And I didn't, I had zero connection or awareness at that point in my life that that's what I was doing.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it it lifted that.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: And she was, she just held like a nice space for me to just let it out.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: But I think it perfectly highlights that piece of, you know, that storage and that overflow.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I mean, and the verbiage and the things that came out of me were maybe things that had been like in my my conscious, probably more subconscious.
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  SPEAKER_02: And as I said them, I was almost surprised by the things coming out of my mouth because it wasn't anything I was consciously tracking necessarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, when we're in session for for silent counseling, the awesome part about it is talk therapy has us repeat our stories and can re-traumatize us.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it actually does not clear what's in the body.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So when we do silent counseling, it's called silent counseling because you don't need to talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You actually get out of your mind and into your body, and we're releasing things that the body has that we may or may not know or understand, and we don't need to know or understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The body can process it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can have spontaneous crying, coughing, yawning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can feel the energy shift in your body.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's what's amazing is like we tap we tuck things into different places.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: So one story that's popping into my head is is a client that has chronic had chronic sinus issues.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: And we we cleared all the parts and and we really was working a lot in the head.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: And she was like, wow, my my sinuses have never been this clear.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: I can't even remember the last time they were this clear because her body was storing things in her in that area of her body, and then when we reconnected weeks later, I'm like, How's your sinuses?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, they are literally have stayed open and clear.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's not come back.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's so magical.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: I had another client who was really stuck in loop thinking about a decision that they had made, and he could not get out of his head, and then he would spiral.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we worked on that, and we were able to close that loop.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: He was he was having really a lot of trouble sleeping, and he just couldn't get it out of his head.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And we closed the loop so that he could put that to bed and he could actually sleep again.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be big things like what I'm talking about, healing trauma, big traumas, or it can just be small things.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: And what's really cool when you learn how to do this yourself, after we unpack all the things that are in storage, we can use this to process things in the moment.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it's great for people on the front lines and people in stressful.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: Work conditions where you can take a break, decompress, regulate your nervous system, and then recharge your batteries so you can go and do your work again.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because we have a lot of professions that are burning out and people are leaving the field.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_02: That that resonates so much.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: I just want to highlight the true importance of what you're talking about in terms of, you know, one working through these things and not having to consciously be processing them or emotionally or verbally and doing it more so in the body, I that to me feels so uplifting and like a relief because we don't necessarily want to continuously relive things.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: And if like you you shared that client story, your second client, if we are somebody who has that looping and revisiting and feels like it can be out of control, not having to battle that while overcoming something feels like to me, feels like such a relief.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like this is this is an option and you can do this.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_02: And also the fact that it's not just about we're going to find a practitioner, we're going to work with him, but that we're eventually going to learn to do that.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: And finally, that piece about burnout, I think is so important to talk about.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I think it's something that I'm really passionate about, having, you know, experienced years of a burnout cycle and some really pretty intense burnout.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_02: I think we don't talk about that enough.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: I think we expect the un you know, unproducible being inhuman at times and putting aside your own humanity and well-being in order to give to the other.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: And I think that's where there's a mismatch in that sustainability piece and what we can accomplish and what we can do over time.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: I can say specifically, you know, working as a therapist, occupational therapist in the school setting, that we've got teachers, therapists, counselors, professionals, administrators who are just the most giving-loving people who entered the fields because they love working with children.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_02: They love making a difference.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_02: And somewhere along the way, we haven't been taught how to sustainably give.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: So we go through those cycles of burnout.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: So many of us, I think there's very few people I know who haven't hit that wall and said, hey, I don't want to do this anymore.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_02: Or they start to sacrifice in their personal lives, or they they end up feeling resentment towards the the people that they're meant to be giving to.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_02: And then we're not we're not operating as our best positive self.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: So those pieces that you just offered us make me like extra excited and want to know more.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I have a number of questions that I want to get to, but I also feel like it would be so helpful to take what you're talking about and really think about where we are at this point in time in 2025.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: What do you see as some patterns and some things that people are really needing right now?
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, perspective.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Perspective.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Is we're all being called to be our authentic self, but in order for us to be able to do that, we need to regulate our nervous system and we need to know that that is being authentic is coming deep into our spirit.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: I call it our true selves, being in unity and harmony with our true self that lives inside of our bodies.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that pathway of coming home to it and regulating the nervous system to help us to do that.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Can I do we have time for me to tell a story of what happened this summer?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Please, please.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Still a little emotional.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and and just to preface, like feeling our feelings is in a very important part of this process.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: They're our teachers, they're here to help us and guide us and have an awesome lived experience.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't have to be all hard.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, when we unpack what's in storage that's making things so serious, it lifts us, like you said.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: I get it lifts us and opens our heart so we can love deeply and enjoy deeply and live in delight.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it's an amazing place to be when you have that capacity.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: But this is what I see is that people are not there.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: So what happened, what happened to me this summer is that I spent our house is getting remodeled.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: I spent a considerable like four months at my friend's house with my dogs, and she lives in this beautiful forest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my dogs are off-leash, they're on e-collar.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a GPS on them, and they hang out around the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very open there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The houses are far apart from each other, and her dogs are free dogs, and it's so fun to watch the dogs run.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so much joy.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: And the dogs would go off her property when we would walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'd walk with us and they would go and explore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, one day my friend took went for a walk with her friend and her son, two of her friends and her son, and went a little further than we normally go, really close to the neighbor's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my dog followed, and she wasn't really paying attention to my dog because she was talking to her friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the dog, my dog went into the neighbor's yard, and she's calling her, come back.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a lab, she's a lab, a silver lab, and she's the sweetest dog ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they heard seven shots fired, and then saw my dog running by them with a with a gunshot wound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her son, who's 10, and they all were running for their lives, came running in and told me, Winnie just got shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Sawyer, I was so calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sawyer, that I said to him, Sawyer, that's not a nice thing to joke about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, I'm not joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I could see he was panicked.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: She just got shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went outside, assessed her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am calm this whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone around me is freaking out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm assessing her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Winnie, are you okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: What just happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, here she comes because I'm talking about her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I take her to the vet, and she's a miracle dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was shot with a 22 rifle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It went through her backhind into her abdomen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bullet's still there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It caused no internal damage, no surgery needed.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I stayed there.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: It was in the middle of my stay.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so I would walk every day on the road.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I continued to walk every day on the road.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never was in fear.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, I felt a little bit of fear and I allowed it to be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it didn't overwhelm me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't take control of my life.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wow, this is the first time since I've been on this journey of energy healing over the last 11 years that I've had a big event happen in my life that I could see what that work has done for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was able to see that the world around us is swirling.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a hurricane, literally and figuratively.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: And we're, when you're in the middle of the storm and you don't have perspective of being in the center, you're getting the shit kicked out of you every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you just need to take that pathway back into your heart, into your center, and it's calm there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the eye of the storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's the capital eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can be the capital eye of your storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter what's happening outside of your life.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: And the other thing that I realized is a mantra and a saying that I've said, life happens for you.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: I even watched a video that morning.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: A client sent me this so cute Instagram video of this guy saying, Life is happening for you.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Oh yeah, life's happening for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's so cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this happened and my dog got shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, F that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life isn't happening for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life just happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to have a meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it doesn't, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we can, no matter what, we can stay grounded and centered in ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what matters.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I can tell you one thing, you don't have to stay in the storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an I everywhere you go, is you, it's there.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just have to find it again, connect to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is the most amazing, delightful, peaceful, awesome place to live from.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also feel all the feelings that life has for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just grateful, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really was in a state of gratitude and a little bit of shock and awe of wow, where is that guy at?
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  SPEAKER_00: And sending him love.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, where are you at that you can shoot a dog?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I hope that you don't, you know, you can get out of that place.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe this has helped him to wake up too, but I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_02: Well, first of all, as a dog lover, I'm like going on that journey with you.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_02: But I think it really does illustrate what you're talking about and that ability.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love how you call it the I, the capital I, because I see that too in like big and small ways.
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  SPEAKER_02: And especially if you're listening and you're somebody who is around people a lot, you know, and which, you know, whether it's in your home life or in your job, and it can feel like such a storm, especially if you're tuned into the emotions of other people and you're seeing their situations, and it can feel overwhelming.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I love that you're offering us this place where it doesn't have to be.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can be self-resourced, you don't need to be looking externally to have that security, safety, and calm and really being able to extend that time and space.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's almost operating outside of conventional time.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: And like, let me step back and take some distance from like the pace and energy that's going on and recognize that that is something that we can subscribe to or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
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  SPEAKER_02: So please tell us how can people find you?
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  SPEAKER_02: How can they connect with you?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_02: And especially if they're hearing what you're talking about, how can they work with you?
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can find me at my website, tawanda wellbeing.com.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm also on LinkedIn, Tammy Waldron on LinkedIn, and I'm a teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my goal is to equip people with these skills.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm a teacher, and I've been doing this for over 11 years, and I still have to go to people to help me with my blind spots, but there's so much that I can do for myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's equipping you with these skills you already have.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: They're just dormant in your body.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: You have intuition, and it's to harness it so that it's clear for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have I have courses and workshops and certifications.
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  SPEAKER_00: I certify people in silent counseling and theta healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am growing and creating right now a membership that will start next year so that we can learn practice, practice, and embody this work together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and my my teaching is feelings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feelings are our teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so going through every month, we'll have a master class, we'll go through each feeling so that we can really feel what that is for us and how our relationship is with it and really connect and heal what's getting in the way of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can work with me one-on-one too.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: I I love this so much.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I also forgot to say earlier the when you had said like it's like feeling the feelings is important and it's okay.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: Because I think sometimes the calming strategies can have like a little bit of a toxic positivity tinge to them, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Or the spiritual bypassing, like, let's just get you calm.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_02: But and sometimes in doing that, we're we're not allowing ourselves to experience, or we're we're kind of conditioning people to not experience their emotions.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_02: I find that with children.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh my God, they're crying, let's just calm them down.
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  SPEAKER_02: Whereas I'm like, let's extend that process a little bit, let's make sure I have a lot of children who are communication challenged.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_02: So sometimes it takes them longer to communicate what's going on and how they're feeling.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_02: But we should get that opportunity to say, this is how I'm feeling, this is why, and to learn to choose the tool.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_02: But if we haven't validated for someone what they're feeling or for ourselves in a very authentic and caring way, which is why I think this work is so important, because it's really about us being the perfect vessel of love and compassion and having that availability, especially if we serve other people in some way, shape, or form.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and our first person to serve is ourselves.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're not taught or allowed or given permission to feel our feelings or to verbalize them.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it's time for that to change.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I see that it is changing, and I want to be a voice, and I am a voice, I am a voice in that giving permission and allowance and a and a one and one path on how to get it done.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do it in a positive way, in one that's empowering.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I'm hopeful, especially from the perspective of working with children, that it can this kind of movement, and I see it not just in the work that you're doing in other fields.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: I was just out in Portland in the beginning of October for the Division of Early Childhood International Conference and had the pleasure of speaking there from my OT lens, talking about activities of daily living.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I work with children with multiple disabilities.
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  SPEAKER_02: So them being able to become more independent, whether it's you know, physical independence or developing their self-advocacy skills, if they're going to need to direct their self-care, but all about really teaching them to be empowered and to have the control and be able to really be in control of themselves and not just submitting to other people caring for them and deciding things for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: But at the conference, I got to attend so many amazing conversations and presentations, very much about being trauma-informed, developing healing environments, you know, reconsidering the idea of classrooms as not being traumatizing, but being places where healing can take place.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I think some of what you're talking about, especially if you're listening and you are somebody who serves children, doing this work for yourself so that you're informing the people around you.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's so contagious in the best possible way for us to really get to the space where we're feeling good.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm sure Tammy, people say to you all the time, tell me what you do.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: You look, you look great, you look lit from within, you seem very happy.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what are you doing?
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: What is working for you?
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_02: So I think let's take that page out of Tammy's book and let's uptake this because it really does become about how are we acting on our purpose in our lives wherever we find ourselves.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: And it's not so much about what we do, it's how we be.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I love all of this advice and beautiful practice that you've shared with us today.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna encourage everybody to hop down into the show notes.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_02: We'll have everything there for you so that you can connect with Tammy and please give us some feedback.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, rate, and share this episode so that more people can hear about this.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: I think these practices that are so largely based in science and spirituality and bridging that gap are the things that are going to make a difference.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're feeling like in 2025, like things are a storm and out of control, here we are giving you some solutions and some direction so that you can embrace your authentic voice and you can make a big impact on the planet, which I think if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably all about.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you again, Tammy, for being here.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_02: Any last words of wisdom for the listener?
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: One thing I have a I've created a video for you that introduces silent counseling and practices you can begin to do right now.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can I you can identify where your energy is at, and you can do a quick and easy way to reset and regulate that.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's really, really cool.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_00: So that that'll be in the show notes.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: And my my takeaway, my last statement is just you you are the most important person in your life.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: How does that show up in your daily actions and your words, your thoughts to yourself and others and your calendar?
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_00: We can really stretch ourselves thin and not give time to ourselves.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: You've heard it, folks.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_02: Beautiful wisdom from Tammy.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much for being with me.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_02: And we'll see you next time on the podcast.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_02: Bye for now.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for having me.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: You are so welcome.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_02: My pleasure.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_02: Bye.