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Ep 29 | Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Honoring Your Body's Metabolic Wisdom · Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul

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Welcome to Rise and Realign, conversations for
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the sensitive soul. I'm Melissa, and this space
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is for those of us who feel deeply, love fiercely,
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and sense the world in ways that are hard to
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explain, but impossible to ignore. Here, we honor
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your sensitivity as a strength, not something
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to fix. Through reflections, realignment, and
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soul -led stories, we remember how to move through
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life in a way that feels true to who we really
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are. This is your space to rise, to realign,
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and to come home again and again to your own
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wise, sensitive self. So today is actually a
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continuation of my last episode, episode 28 called
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Wearing One Hat, Authenticity, Human Design,
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and Uranus in Gemini Resonance. And, you know,
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I just, I continue to see posts. you know, on
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LinkedIn and Instagram from different psychiatrists
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who I respect. They have very different perspectives.
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But it really, you know, all four of these who
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show up in my feed the most, you know, really
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speak to very different. like i said perspectives
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angles experiences um but they really they bring
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me back to why i'm i just feel called to keep
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highlighting you know that those of us who are
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highly sensitive really do benefit from having
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The reminders, you know, of how there are so
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many different perspectives that we can have,
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right, as individuals. And each of our bodies
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need different things, right? There's no one
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right way or one right path for everyone. And
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so we can't... outsource our authority. The days
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of just trusting what a doctor told you or whatever
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the profession is, teacher, it really doesn't
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matter. Those days of just honor and obey whoever
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that other person is, that is not what serves
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us, any of us, but especially those of us who
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are highly sensitive. The days of dismissing,
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you know, our own body's signals, you know, and
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whether that's through a physical symptom, or
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even, you know, what we would just describe as
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that felt sense, like, you just don't know how
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to describe it, perhaps, but you just have this
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inner knowing, you know, like, we are in the
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time of awakening, you know, I mean, gosh, one
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of my favorite songs is, you know, the age of
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Aquarius and let the sunshine in. It's like,
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finally you know like more people more and more
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are talking about you know um just understanding
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how we're we're all connected but we're each
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having a very unique and individual experience
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and you know I like exploring the information
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that I'm guided to, you know, and I've said like
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certain things come to me and they just don't
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resonate with me. And I just say, okay, that's
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not for me, right? It doesn't mean that there's
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something wrong with it. And then there's other
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things that I'm like, okay, I didn't quite like
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that initially, but I'm still curious, right?
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And let me continue to explore. That's something
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that's really helpful as highly sensitive individuals,
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right? Is to pay attention. You know, what do
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you feel resistance to? You know, and what do
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you feel really lit up about? Because resistance
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doesn't always mean it's not for you, right?
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It may be just bumping up against an old belief
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or a fear that you have, right? But back to why
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I'm recording a second podcast today is that,
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you know, the topic of, you know, anxiety and
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specifically, you know, depressive symptoms,
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like that is really important to me because I've
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absolutely lived through my own periods of heightened
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anxiety, really interfering in my ability to
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feel fully myself, fully vibrant and alive and
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healthy and happy. Right. And it dealt with gut
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issues and, you know, just lots of things. But
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also I dealt with periods of depression and,
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you know. Often those were around, you know,
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the grieving process, right? Like when my brother
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passed or when, you know, some of my unborn children
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passed. Those are really deep, dark periods for
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me. But also, you know, I had traumatic pregnancies.
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deliveries and postpartum. And so, you know,
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depression came for me then and a medication
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at the time was beneficial and it helped turn
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things around for me. But then another pregnancy
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came and another round of depression. And this
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time the medication didn't help me, you know?
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And so again, through my own lived experiences,
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And, you know, what I've been opened up to, to
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just really understand that they are symptoms,
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right? And that we need to be curious about all
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areas of our life. You know, what's going on?
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Because medication, you know, that's a temporary,
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short -term support when needed, right? But that's
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not a long -term solution. It's just not. And
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I love that, again, there's more people speaking
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out about other theories and other approaches
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to understanding it. I'm a fan of Dr. Christopher
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Palmer and his brain energy, really highlighting
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how a lot of it is mitochondria and metabolic
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dysfunction. When we understand that and we understand,
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you know, how does nutrition fit into this, right?
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How does sunlight, right? How does grounding,
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you know, how does understanding the vagus nerve?
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Like there's so many aspects, you know, that
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are important for us to understand. Now, when
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I was experiencing depressive symptoms, I didn't
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know any of that. Being in the mental health
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field doesn't mean that we're trained in all
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aspects, right? And we're each having our own
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interests. So when we do our continuing education,
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you know, year after year, we get to choose what
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area to do it in, right? So mine became the focus
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on that more holistic approach. And I really
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want to understand, you know, how to support
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my body, you know, what foods help, you know,
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me recover from back then, it was Hashimoto's
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I was focusing on, right. But I was also told,
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like, take this synthetic thyroid medication
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for the rest of your life. And it's like, no.
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I, that's not for me. I don't remember how long
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I took it. Definitely was on it for years, but
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that in and of itself, I just didn't feel like
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myself. And I can't tell you how many women,
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you know, I've had the honor of supporting who
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come to me saying like, I've tried medication.
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It didn't help. It flattened me. It blunted me.
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Right. And you know, that takes courage. When
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we say, no, there's got to be another way. Medication
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is not the cure. It's not. It's not even the
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optimal treatment approach. So we really need
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to understand our sleep, our nutrition, all the
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inputs that we receive. Now, as highly sensitive
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individuals, we are taking in like five times
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more stimuli than people who don't have this
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trait. Now, if the majority of the professionals
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who are prescribing don't consider that, right,
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or brush it off, you know, then again, you're
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not being treated as the unique individual that
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you are, you know. And again, oftentimes, you
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know, if we go to a professional, we're looking
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to them to tell us more than we already know.
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And what I find truly fascinating is for the
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highly sensitive women who come to work with
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me, you know, like their intelligence, right,
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their, their curiosity, their openness, right,
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in these different areas, every one of them is
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different. Some are way more interested in open
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to, you know, the holistic path and, you know,
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willing to, to really explore, okay, what am
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I doing that's helping my sleep? Or what am I
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doing that's, you know, nourishing my body, staying
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hydrated, right? Like all of these different
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things. But I think that what's being highlighted
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you know currently around depression itself like
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that acknowledgement that it's not a chemical
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imbalance like was often believed and you know
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i mean this is the this is evolution right i
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mean gosh think of back when doctors were smoking
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and talking about you know uh that as not a problem
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at all, right? Or how many doctors recommend
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that people drink alcohol, right? And now we're
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at a place where, you know, it's very clear,
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right? Cigarette smoking, like those are toxic
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chemicals. They're carcinogens and alcohol, right?
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I mean, these are toxic items. that were previously
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recommended. And we're seeing the same thing
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in the medical, in the pharmaceuticals, right?
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In so many different ways. And so I, again, just
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feel my heart needs to keep saying like, as a
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sensitive woman, you know, specifically, you
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have quicker access to that felt sense, to your
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own intuition, but you might be bogged down.
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by the fact that you receive more stimuli right
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you get overwhelmed faster you process your experiences
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and your thoughts more deeply so you may grieve
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more deeply longer right than other people um
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you know so when when we're talking about changes
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transitions right whether it's something we would
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consider positive right like becoming a mom like
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that was my life dream was to become a mom, right?
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I had no idea that that path was going to be
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so challenging, so difficult, so traumatic. I
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mean, on so many levels, the things that I encountered
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during that period, right? So that's why I'm
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saying like, life happens, and it can create
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and overwhelm to our system. And so depressive
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symptoms can show up. Anxiety can show up, right?
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Because that stress, that's creating a positive
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charge in our body. And our bodies run on a negative
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charge. Each of our organs has its own, like,
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you know, level of negative charge. And these
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are not things that we were raised to understand,
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right? I mean, I'm so grateful for the work of
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so many amazing individuals in the field of,
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you know, quantum physics, quantum mechanics,
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quantum biology for health, like Dr. Catherine
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Clinton, you know, and I'm really grateful for
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the work of Dr. Leslie Korn, who, you know, I've
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trained with both of these amazing doctors. And
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just from the perspective of mental health and
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medication, you know, that that is not the only
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way and it's actually a way that again can can
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cause more disruption when we are overloaded
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overwhelmed high stress chronic stress right
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like it's a temporary mask and it can often be
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even more challenging when somebody says well
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I want to get off of it now And often, again,
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as highly sensitive individuals, you're intelligent,
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right? So, so many don't go then back to their
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doctor and say, I want to get off. I certainly
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have several, more than several, but there's
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a balance between like the number of women that
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just decide to get off their medication, but
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they still don't have the awareness and the understanding
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of. what their body's going to go through as
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that chemical, you know, that they had been taking
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in is either decreased or, you know, is removed.
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And so it really is important to be educated.
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You know, if you are somebody who did say yes
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to medication because you didn't know that there
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were so many other ways of viewing and understanding
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depressive symptoms, right? I mean, we're talking.
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We're talking sleep. We're talking nutrition,
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right? We're talking light exposure, like blue
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light, right? Like there's so many aspects of
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what lends to us feeling depressive symptoms
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and how long they last. And so for high sensitivity
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trait. It is really important to know yourself,
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you know, are you a highly sensitive person?
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And if you are, be educated, you know, educate
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yourself. And again, Dr. Elaine Aaron, she is
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the research psychologist who, who shared this
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with us in the 1990s. And there are others who
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are, you know, speaking about high sensitivity
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from their own lived experiences. So definitely,
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you know, educate yourself, know that this is
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there's research, right? It is absolutely real.
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And it's in over 100 species, right? But also
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to understand your own journey, you know, and
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the gifts that are within you can be more accessed
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when you create the space to really slow down,
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calm your nervous system, you know, start really
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opening up, you know, that space to not just
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breathe, right? Which I'm always guiding because,
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you know, breath is our bridge. But also like,
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there's so much to process as highly sensitive
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individuals. And so when you start to slow down
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and say, okay, I do want to learn about myself.
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I do want to understand what makes me unique
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in this way. How do I honor my body's signals?
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You know, um, more things can come up, right?
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Because again, like we notice subtleties, you
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know, we notice the different nuances the patterns
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um so it's quite the journey to wake up to the
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awareness that you're a highly sensitive person
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and what that means right but also how to navigate
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the challenges right when anxiety is high right
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when stress is chronic right and when um The
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depressive symptoms, you know, may come in. You
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know, it's just really important because medication
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serves a purpose in certain situations. But again,
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my own awakening journey helped me to see and
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realize that that was not the path for me. My
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sensitive body made it very clear that I was.
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I was done with that path. And you've heard me
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talk about naturopathic physicians. And they're
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all each unique and different as well. But as
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a highly sensitive person, really understand,
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you know, why you may be experiencing the symptoms
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that you are, you know, and actually take the
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time to breathe. to get yourself centered, to
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connect with your own heart and ascertain, like,
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are you at a place in your journey where it would
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be beneficial to receive support, to receive
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education in, you know, the areas of sensitivity
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and any of the other ones that I spoke to, right?
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And would it be supportive to come together with
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other highly sensitive women and professionals?
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Because again, your path is uniquely yours and
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you are here, not just as a sensitive soul, right?
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But somebody who has a journey and you came into
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this world with your soul group family, you know,
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and there can be different things to navigate
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and it's not the easiest, but there's so many.
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other ways to tend to how you're feeling. And
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there's different ways of understanding if you've
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taken medication, and, you know, you don't want
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to anymore, you want to honor your body, like,
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there are safe pathways for doing that. And Again,
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I'm really grateful to be hearing more and more
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from different psychiatrists who are speaking
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up about this. And I really love, too, Christopher
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Palmer. was briefly in the cholesterol code that
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was available on Amazon just recently. And that
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was really eye opening for me to hear because,
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you know, so much again about cholesterol, there's
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so much misinformation out there. And more and
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more people are speaking up about how it's incorrect
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information. that needs to stop getting carried
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forward you know so we're talking about you know
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the effects of medication on all people but for
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me especially sensitive people right your body
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has a sensory intelligence and so tune into those
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signals and what it's communicating so that you
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can make the adjustments you can realign what
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your body needs what you need to feel your best
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to feel vibrant right but to also understand
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what may be influencing you you know in the environment
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which Can be, you know, work, family, neighborhood,
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things like that. But it can also be what's going
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on with the planets, right? With the moon. Again,
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as sensitive beings, there's so much that we
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can be aware of. And to just trust more. And
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trust is definitely one of those most important
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things. For us to be able to trust in ourself.
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right and to trust that we're part of something
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bigger you know the vastness right that there
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is this universal intelligence that's organizing
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and orchestrating things right that you don't
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need to push you don't need to try so hard you
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don't need to shove down feelings you know um
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But to trust yourself. So if you are somebody
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who has taken, you know, antidepressants or other
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medication that, you know, you're just not sure
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if that's the path for you, then definitely talk
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with your doctors, you know, work with other
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professionals who can support you. And I'm certainly
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a holistic psychotherapist, and I'm here to support
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sensitive women who are waking up to what it
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means to be highly sensitive, right? How to navigate
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when your provider may not be hearing you, may
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not be looking at the things in your labs that
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need to be looked at, you know, who may not be.
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as open and curious and interested as you are
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in discovering how else to support your unique
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makeup. Because again, as highly sensitive individuals,
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you are taking in more, right? So that means
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you're going to feel the effects of things more
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intensely. So again, I know this was a lot on
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my own journey. But I share it just because,
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again, I want you to know, like, you're not alone
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and there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing
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wrong with any of us. But what's important to
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understand is that. Besides that broader explanation
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that we're all unique and different individuals,
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it is important when you look at it from the
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lens of roughly 80 % of the population don't
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feel the effects of things as deeply as those
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who are highly sensitive. And so for me, when
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people talk about the research on medications
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or different things, the question that comes
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up in the back of my mind is, Yeah. And how many
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of those people are sensitive individuals? Because
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if they're not discerning, like, okay, this number
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of people, you know, have this high sensitivity
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trait and this number of people don't, then how
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can I rely on those studies? Right? Because I'm
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a highly sensitive person. I need to make sure
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that if I were to consider something, that the
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research was speaking to my kind of makeup. But
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even as I say that, I'm not somebody who anymore,
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you know, really looks to research the way I
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used to. Because when you truly realign with
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your truth, your voice, you know, who you're
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really here to be, right? Like you have your
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own inner guidance. You have your own inner compass.
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And trusting in that, that's king above everything
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else. Right. Because it doesn't matter what the
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research says, because what matters is what you
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feel is true for you. Right. So being able to
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trust yourself, being able to understand how
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you're designed, you know, what your purpose
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and path is about. Like, that's what's really
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key for me. Is to know yourself, understand yourself.
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And understand that you are part of something
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so much greater. And boy, we can just have a
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field day talking about all the different kinds
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of things there are to talk about, you know,
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once you are just being yourself. You know, in
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the last episode, I talked about how I'm a manifesting
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generator type, right? And I'm born under the
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my sun sign is gemini and um my actual sun sign
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from a human design lens it's um it's 20 .3 so
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for me it's all about the now so i speak from
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What is rising in me now? And so that's why I
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decided to do this second episode, just because,
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you know, the frequency of these posts that I'm
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seeing, you know, around, again, Christopher
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Palmer talking about brain energy and the cholesterol
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code and just the importance of us understanding.
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mitochondria and metabolic dysfunction. Like
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that's huge. And again, I'm grateful for my integrative
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mental health and quantum biology approach because
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it's changed my life, you know, how much more
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I trust myself and how I'm caring for myself.
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But it's also, you know, I'm coming across psychiatrists
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talking about indigo children, crystal children,
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rainbow children. And I'm like, wow, that's new.
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I hadn't come across any speaking that way before.
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And after my awakening, when I first visited
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Sedona, Arizona, you know, that's when I was
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more open and curious. And, you know, people
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were telling me, you know, oh, your children,
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they're crystal children. And I was just like,
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I don't know what that means, you know. But again,
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that all started coming about before I understood
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this framing of being a highly sensitive person.
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And it just opened my door, you know, to understanding.
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There's so much more going on than a lot of us
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realize. the more we can be open and curious
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and trusting in our own inner guidance, right?
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Because I can say something and say, this is
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what I know. But it doesn't mean that's something
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that's going to feel safe and comfortable to
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you and something that you can trust, right?
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Like you need to trust how something feels for
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you. So it comes down to, you know, what's resonating
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for you. So again, There's the one approach,
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you know, where we look at that mitochondria
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and metabolic function, right? There's another
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perspective of, you know, how some of us are
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coming in, again, from that soul perspective
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of why we're coming in differently, you know,
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what purpose that serves for the planet. There's
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others who are Again, talking about, you know,
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tapering people safely off antidepressant medication
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and really raising awareness to how many incorrect,
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you know, old... recommendations and theories
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and perspectives have still been carried forward
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and how we want more and more people to wake
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up to that, right? Like we can't keep playing
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the same old records. That's not going to serve
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us in the long run, right? Or even in the short
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run from my perspective. But again, it takes...
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a commitment to ourselves, right? It takes a
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commitment to us as a collective that we're all
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here together. So let's do our best to understand
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and know ourselves, right? And honor each other's
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paths as completely different. And what's good
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for one person may not be good for another person
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at all. And that's not a problem. Right? So this
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part two, so to speak, episode was really just
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to touch on you being more aware of whether you're
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a highly sensitive person and what recommendations
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Are you considering or have you already taken
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around medication, substances, you know, identifying
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with a particular identity or diagnosis, right?
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Like, I'm always here to speak from my heart
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and to remind you that there's nothing wrong
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with you. It's about being true to you, knowing
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yourself. And letting go of what doesn't serve
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you. Because again, you're tuned in. You're realigning
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with who you really are. So, before we close,
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I invite you to return to your breath. To your
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body. And to what? feels true for you right now.
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If you'd like to take a break and breathe love
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with me, I invite you to inhale through your
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nose, another inhale, and then exhale. And again,
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that exhale can be a sigh, it can be a slow blowing
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out a candle. Sometimes I do it while I'm smiling.
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It's really up to you. The important thing is
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that you're breathing in deeply. And a second
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inhale. And then exhale. Remember, there's nothing
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you need to fix. Just notice what's here. Where
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the heart leads, the body remembers, and the
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soul awakens. As a reminder, we are here together
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to rise, reclaim, remember. And as always, I'm
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so grateful you're here. And if you'd like to
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explore ways to work with me, my new pathway
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of... Your Sensitivity is Intelligent Design
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Essentials course for sensitive and strong women
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is available on my website, as is my Rise and
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Realign Lunar Letter. You can find everything
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at realignwithmelissa .com. Take good care of
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you. Much love and light.