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Ep 2 | The Voice of Truth: Returning to Wholeness · 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, and I'm Melissa. And today
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I am speaking to you from a space of curiosity.
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I have such a deep interest in what it means
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to live aligned with our truth. our authentic
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self and voice and the many different ways that
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that presents itself. I know for myself, you
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know, I can look back on my adolescence or my
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young adulthood and reflect on the challenges,
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right? Like, as a sensitive woman, the experiences
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that left me feeling icky, right? Whether that
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was scared for my safety, or my well being, afraid
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that, you know, I wouldn't be accepted, you know,
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or liked. And just having to navigate, right?
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Like social interactions and, you know, where
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can I just be myself? So I know that as sensitive
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women, sometimes it's just easier to, you know,
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be overly generous or, you know, just want to
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give of yourself, your time, your talents. your
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kindness, just because you want to fit in. You
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want to feel that you're welcomed, you're seen
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and heard and appreciated. And there's nothing
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wrong with that because we know as humans, right?
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Like we need connection. We need the love from
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the very beginning for our our life to really
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be nurtured and cared for and developed and as
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sensitive individuals whether it's males or females
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our childhood really sets the tone for how our
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adulthood may unfold because having a you know
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caring and supportive childhood helps us to you
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know rise up into our gifts and strengths and
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talents um as someone who you know deeply processes
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our experiences and senses the subtleties that
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others don't pick up on right but having that
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supportive childhood is really key um and what
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i've discovered is i definitely was raised in
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a very loving and caring home and definitely
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felt loved. But I also remember those experiences
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that didn't feel so loving and kind, as I said,
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when it came to my social interactions. So not
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all of us who are sensitive are introverts. And
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from Dr. Elaine Aaron's early research, Roughly
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70 % of the population who has this high sensitivity
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trait are introverts and the other 30 % are extroverts.
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Now, what I've discovered for myself is sometimes
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I feel like an extroverted introvert because
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I really thrive on being in environments with
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other sensitive individuals that are interested
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in what I'm interested in. I mean, there were
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lots of different, you know, points during my
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career where I traveled and I did events and,
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you know, I helped support others doing events.
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And, you know, it didn't matter if I was the
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one hosting and leading it or if I was the one
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supporting someone else who was hosting and leading
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it. I definitely felt really alive in those situations.
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I felt like an extrovert because again, when
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we're with people who get us, when we're with
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others who we can have conversations about deeper
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experiences or similar interests, right? Like
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that's very life giving to us. And so I really
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want to touch on how important it is for each
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of us to look at where are we? putting our time,
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our attention, our energy, our talents, you know,
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and is it a place that really recognizes your
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contribution? Is it a place where you're really
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able to be your true and authentic self and not
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someone who's kind of contorting to please others
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to be seen and recognized, right? Like we don't
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need to act. We don't need to perform. We all
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really have these innate gifts and talents. And
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that's whether, you know, we're in that minority
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of roughly 20 % who are highly sensitive or the
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80 % who don't have that trait. But our gifts
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as sensitive. individuals is definitely unique
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and it's definitely something to understand and
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honor and appreciate and realize that your gifts
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are in you being your authentic self. It's in
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you sharing, you know, your honest and true voice
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and interests. And, you know, in referencing
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our our upbringing right like whether that's
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adolescence or transitioning into adulthood we
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definitely want to be clear about who is demonstrating
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that they're capable of really holding who we
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really are because I definitely discovered that
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there were times when either somebody wasn't
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safe to share my authentic voice and self with
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Just in the sense of they wouldn't get me and
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maybe how they replied, you're too emotional
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or you think too deeply, right? Like those are
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really big judgments. And so as sensitive beings,
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sometimes, you know, with our ability to self
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-reflect, you know, we may question ourself like,
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oh, am I too emotional? You know, do I think
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too much? You know, and these questions of too
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much, not enough, right? They just kind of swirl
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at times. And so I really want to speak to, you
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know, that your heart has its own wisdom, its
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own compass, right? Our hearts have, you know,
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the largest electromagnetic field of our body.
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It's more about being true to you and trusting,
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you know, what are you feeling? You know, what's
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coming up for you in your heart, in these different
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environments that you're in? You know, and when
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we speak of, you know, socially, I mean, socially
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can be. Even being in our, you know, our family's
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homes, right? Where maybe we grew up. Now our
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parents, you know, are maybe in the same home
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we grew up in. Maybe they're not, right? So that's
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one environment that we're in socially, especially
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with the holidays coming up. Many people do return.
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And sometimes that can bring up old behaviors,
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right? when I was saying like, you know, where
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maybe you contort yourself to, you know, not
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speak your truth, because again, sometimes we
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think we're, we're supposed to be quiet. We're
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supposed to listen to what our parents have to
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say. I mean, they're older, they must be wiser,
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right? But I'm here to tell you that as a sensitive
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being, You need to trust your own heart. You
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know, you need to remember your own voice and
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also know when it's safe for you to honor the
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right timing to speak up for yourself. And sometimes
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that means taking a break from being around family
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and old environments. Because maybe you still
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need a little bit of time to really strengthen
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your ability to speak your truth. When I'm working
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with women one -on -one or in group sessions,
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you know, we talk about the importance of practicing,
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right? Because if we have been raised in an environment
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where we didn't feel safe to speak our truth,
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where we didn't trust that we actually did know
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something, right? Those are important behaviors
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to step away from. And we need the practice of
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stepping into, right, remembering our voice and
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reclaiming our own honesty and truth, you know,
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to speak it. invite you to you know as you're
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considering if you're getting together you know
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with any family for the coming holidays you know
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are there things that you've been just kind of
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shoving to the side or Because really we're not
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shoving them to the side. We're really holding
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them within ourselves. And what we do not speak,
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we carry with us. Sometimes I refer to it as,
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you know, think of it like it's a brick in a
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backpack that you're lugging behind you, right?
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Like it's going to continue to be there until
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you're willing to take that backpack off and
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open it. and really be with that brick what's
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the message right what needs to be heard what
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needs to be spoken so we really want to tune
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more inward um especially with the holidays right
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we're we're in autumn and you know this is an
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invitation to not only tap into what are we grateful
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for right but also what needs to be released
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and what needs to be heard. So I encourage you
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to, you know, connect with your breath, connect
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with your body and just take a few minutes to
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consider what needs to be practiced as far as
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using your voice to speak up for yourself. And
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again, this isn't only for families, right? And
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those types of social situations with the holidays
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coming up, because we also have other places
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where we're coming together socially, right?
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It could be community events that you enjoy going
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to. It could be, you know, a close -knit circle
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of friends, because for sensitive beings, you
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know, most of us tend to prefer more intimate
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gatherings, right? Gatherings where, you know,
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we're able to really talk freely, feel safe,
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and have things in common, right? So, but again,
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sometimes we push aside instead of practicing
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speaking up for ourselves. So I really want to
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invite you to consider. Are there any circles,
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right? Any social settings where you go and you
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don't feel like you're being your true and authentic
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self? Like, where are you literally withholding
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your own truth? Because to be authentic, to be
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free, to be really true to your own natural rhythm
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is to be able to speak freely. you know, with
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kindness, with respect, right? And I know that
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as sensitive women, sometimes there's a preference
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to avoid conflict. There's a preference to not
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even what some call starting it with somebody
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else, right? But again, if we're not expressing
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it, then we are holding it. We are carrying it.
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That's toxic to us. So to really be true and
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authentic, it also means caring so much about
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yourself that you're willing to speak your truth,
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that you're willing to communicate the things
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that may not be easy to communicate, but they're
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essential. They're essential to your well -being.
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They're essential to really the... the vibe that
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you're giving off to others, because it is important
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to understand that others will only treat us
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the way we treat ourselves. So by keeping our
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mouths quiet in the sense of not speaking our
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truth, it's like a permission slip for that person
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to treat us that way. And if we're giving that
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permission slip to that person, we're likely
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doing that in other situations as well. So I
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really, again, invite you to just take a few
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minutes, you know, to really breathe and be curious.
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You know, are there places where you can truly
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see that you're not honoring your own truth,
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your own voice? Because this all starts with
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us. We're never going to control what other people
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do or say or think. And I often say it's really
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none of my business what other people think of
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me because that's really about them and that's
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a reflection of them. What truly matters is what
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I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, what I'm allowing
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and what I'm expressing. So again, I really want
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to empower you to reconnect with your own inner
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truth, your own voice. And to express yourself
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authentically and freely. And if this is something
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that feels really challenging, I get it. And
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that's why, you know, I do what I do as far as
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being an integrative mental health and quantum
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biology health consultant, you know, is being
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able to guide. women to reclaim their voice,
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you know, to really reclaim their own natural
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rhythm and realigning. So this is an invitation
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for you to consider if you're ready and you're
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able to do this independently, which awesome.
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I support you. I encourage you. Accept this as
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that permission slip of you deserve to speak
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your truth. Do that. And then there's others
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who it is helpful to have a guide. It is helpful
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to have someone walk that path with you, especially
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when it's somebody who's walked that path themselves.
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And that's really why I'm here. This is really
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why I'm sharing is. i've walked the path of being
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a sensitive empathic woman you know the one who's
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felt unseen unheard under acknowledged you know
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the one who's carried the the wounds of you know
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um the unkindness you know that that does happen
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in the world um and how it impacts our own body
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and our own biology right like for me this is
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about reclaiming our ability to be healthy and
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happy um because what we suppress we carry and
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what is suppressed and carried in our body affects
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our body's well -being. There is an intimate
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relationship between the mind and the body. And
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when we don't understand that, right, then we
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kind of see them as these two separate entities.
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There's mental health and there's physical health,
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but that's not the reality. We're whole beings,
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right? We have our mental health, our physical
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health, emotional health, spiritual, right? Like
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there's so many layers to who we are. And so
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it's really important to see the interconnectedness
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of ourselves and to really start nourishing yourself
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and understanding what does contribute to your
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health and happiness. So if I haven't guided
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you. to connect with your breath and your body
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in a specific way. And you would like that. I
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wanted to share the physiological sigh. This
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was discovered, right, through science and research
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in the 1930s. But this is something that our
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bodies naturally do. So this isn't something
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that you necessarily need to be taught. But it's
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something that you need to remember. It's how
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your body naturally wants to reset the nervous
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system after. really letting out emotion and
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crying, right? If you think of, you know, if
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you've been crying pretty heavily, there's like
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this double inhale, and then an exhale that happens.
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And it also happens, you know, at times of sleep.
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So I really invite you to Put this into practice
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for yourself to create the space needed to really
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reflect on your own social interactions. And
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you know, how attuned are you to your natural
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rhythm and your voice? But it's a double inhale
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through the nose. So you inhale deeply through
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the nose. And then the second inhale further.
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And then the exhale is out the mouth. Just let
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it all go. Now, I'm a big fan of one is better
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than none, but three is always a beautiful place
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to be as well. So I invite you to practice this
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to really see where you can fit it into your
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day, not just in moments of reflection, you know,
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like we're talking about, but also in moments
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when you just need to be alone, right? I always
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recommend restroom breaks are an ideal time to
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connect with the breath because we're already
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being asked to step away from other people. We're
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already being asked to tune in and tend to our
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body. So adding in some breathing practices,
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you know, when you go use the restroom is an
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ideal time. So my invitation again is for you
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to connect with your breath and your body. And
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to start tuning in more to your own natural rhythm
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and your voice. And if you want to reach out
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to me, you can certainly do so. You can go to
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my website, realignwithmelissa .com. And you
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can schedule a session with me or you can read
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more through my blogs or sign up for my Rise
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and Realign Lunar Letter. Just want you to know
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that, you know, as sensitive beings, this is
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your time to rediscover, you know, what it means
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to be sensitive, you know, and to bring peace
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within yourself, bring peace to your relationships.
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Often the women who I do end up working with,
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are women who are ready. They're ready to break
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those old patterns. They're ready to be the one
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to initiate change in their relationships, in
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their life. And that's not always easy to do
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because sometimes when we're the first one, when
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we're the one who chooses to step into something
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new and different, Others don't necessarily understand
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it, and it's hard to support people at times
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if you don't understand it. But I want you to
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know that if you do need somebody, feel free
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to reach out. You're not alone, and you are supported.
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And if you do already have a circle of friends,
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you know, people that you are able to talk to
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and reflect on, celebrate that, you know, express
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your appreciation for that each and every day,
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because it's so important, you know, that we
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do have that connection with not only our own
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breath and body, but having those close relationships
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with others. They are really priceless. So I
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wish you all the best this week and just, you
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know, take some time. Connect with your breath,
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your body, your natural rhythm and authentic
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voice and know that you are so important. Your
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gifts are so incredible and keep tuning in to
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you. All right. Okay. Be well. Until next time.