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Monselete Bowden · Postcards to the Universe

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Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Caprill. Do you believe in magic?
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What if you were told that all you had to do was get a
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little creative and work a magic spell to bring anything you can imagine into your
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life. Here on Postcards to the Universe, we will share manifesting tips,
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postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity. Here is your host, Melissa
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Caprill. Hey guys, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating
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the life you crave. How's everybody doing on this Wednesday? I hope you
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guys are doing well. Sorry last week I was planning on coming live,
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but unexpectedly I had to do a replay. So sorry I missed you all
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last week. But I'm really happy to be back here live with you today.
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And I have a really interesting and cool guest and she is a lifestyle
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and well being coach Monthly Bowden, and she's going to join me in just
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a few minutes. She does this really cool thing with a like I don't
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know if it's a romatherapy, but it's aromatic and we're going to find out
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all about that when she joins me. So to my regulars, I just
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want to give you guys a shout out and say thank you so much for
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joining me each week. It means the world to me. I get your
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emails. I know you're downloading it when I upload it on a podcast and
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you're following along with me, so that means the world to me. And
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if you're just joining my show, I want to say welcome. I hope
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that you like it and I hope that you keep coming back. Just a
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little bit about my show is we do record the show live, and we
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take each show and it's put up on the Ome Times Radio Archives, so
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you can listen to any show anytime you want. I also take the show
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and I put it up on my website on Postcards to the Universe as a
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podcast, so you can listen at your leisure anytime you want. So if
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you do like the style of the show and you want to listen to more,
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you can go there and you can go and find out if there's a
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guest that resonates with you and listen to any show that you would like.
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Also, I am an artist and I'm an author, and I have a
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book and it's titled Postcards to the Universe. Harness the universe's power and manifest
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your dream. Hence my show right comes from that book, which is all
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about manifesting. And in my book, I have manifesting stories. I have
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thirty of them, and I took the photographs of every photo in the book
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I took, and I took them of the contributors manifesting postcards. And if
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you don't know what I'm talking about, it's kind of like a little mini
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vision board instead of doing a big vision board. A lot of people like
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to do this in the beginning of the year about what they want to bring
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into their life for the year. I ask people to kind of narrow it
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down, pick one thing at a time. Time, let's work on it,
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make a postcard around it, send it to me. I photograph it.
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And when their stories, when their story that they tell me, I
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mean when they are sorry manifestation on the postcard becomes a reality in their life,
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I share their story. God, what am I tongue tied today?
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See that's what happens when you don't do it for two weeks. But it's
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really cool because I broke it down in the main areas of our life that
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we love, you know that we want more abundance in you know, our
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money, what does our bank account look like? We could always use more
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in that area. Our health. We want the best health we could possibly
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have. We want to enjoy our careers. We want to enjoy all of
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our relationships, not just our romantic relationships. We want healthy, loving relationships.
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So that's what the book is broken down to. So if you're interested
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and finding out more, you can find the book Barnes and Noble online,
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Barnes and Nobles. Some of the stores are carrying them. If they're not,
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they'll get it for you. All you have to do is ask them.
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And of course Amazon right Amazon has everything. So what I started doing
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about six months ago, maybe a little bit longer, is I started reading
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the reading the stories and showing the photographs on social media and they're like five
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minute videos. I'm actually a little behind in them. I have to sort
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of I have to record some more videos this week. That's on my to
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do list. But I'm reading the book. So if you want to follow
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along, you can find it on TikTok, Instagram. I'm sharing them on
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LinkedIn and YouTube, so you can see them all there. And each week
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I was doing these things which I call magical Messages, and it is a
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postcard that I photograph and I share each week. And I started re photographing
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the postcards that I are in the book. I have a very different perspective
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in the way that I'm photographing I'm now than when I originally did it and
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sent it to the publisher, which was almost five years ago. Now in
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November it'll be five years. I cannot believe it. It was before COVID,
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So I'm just like approaching it a different way. So follow along and
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let me know you're there, you know, send me a high, give
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me a like, share with your friends. I would love it. And
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also I'm asking each person to please send me a manifesting postcard. What is
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it that you want to bring into your life. If you need to know
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about how to do that and where to send it, just go to Postcards
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to the Universe and there is a how to create a postcard and an address
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where to send it. I'm also doing workshops, so you can check those
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out on my website too. I'm doing one called Manifesting through Gratitude, a
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visual journey where we use our camera, phones and gratitude to manifest. So
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please check that out, so I want to get to my guests. I'm
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really fascinated with what she's doing because I've this is new. I've never heard
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of somebody doing the kind of work that Monsalit is doing. So let me
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share a little bit about her and bring her on. So her name is
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Monselely Bowden and with over a decade thriving in the business world and two decades
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deeply ingrained in wellness and beauty, Monsly proudly holds accredation from the International Coaching
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Federation. Her expertise is a unique fusion hone through the years of experience and
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aromatics and lifestyle coaching. As a visionary creator behind aromatic readings, she offers
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a unique botanical card reading experience, delving into the multi dimensional aspects of human
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existence through the lens of the five pillars of life. These pillars are interconnected
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and harmonized using specifically crafted aromatic roll on botanicals. Her unwavering passion is dedicated
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to empowering individuals, enabling them to unlock their creative potential and realize their life
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aspirations. Specializing in cultivating transformative partnerships, her focus is on nurturing personal growth
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and fostering self awareness. Whether for individuals, teams, or businesses, Aromatic
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reading isn't just a product. It's a transformative tool designed to manifest a life
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filled with delightful sense while shifting mindsets to unlock fresh perspectives and sees new opportunities.
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She says, Together, as your dedicated ali ally, we can uncover
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your boundless potential, guiding you toward a life rich in purpose, harmony,
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and prosperity. And I'm going to spell out her website so that you can
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follow along if you're listening, It's www dot m N S E L E
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t e dot com. Welcome Mansilely, thanks for being here with me today.
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Thank you so much Melissa for having me. I really appreciate it.
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I'm excited to talk to you. I'm trying to aromatic. I'm like,
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got it. What is wrong with me today? I'm like so tongue tied.
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I don't know what's going on. But anyway, when I was reading
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your bio and when we connected and I saw what you were doing, I
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was like, oh, you know, I've never had anybody on my show.
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I've been doing the show now, got at least four years who does
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this kind of work. So what is an aromatic reading for those who are
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like what are they talking about? And botanical people don't know what you mean
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by botanicals either, So yeah, okay, I'll let you have it,
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So tell us, all right, I'll break it down. Well, I've
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created an aromatic reading, which is where we explore the five aspects of your
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life, probably one of them, right, I can't do all of them
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in one reading, but the five pillars would be kind of what you do
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in your work. It's you know, your career, your wellbeing, and
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your relationships, your spirituality, your prosperity, and we look for where that's
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imbalanced, like which one of those areas? And then the actual aromatic reading,
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like what are the botanical cards? Is part of the experience is I
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have you tap into your own intuition, your visual intuition, and I have
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created these cards of botanicals and you end up choosing which card of these different
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botanical images you're connecting with, and the botanical images mirror the actual aromatic roll
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on botanical That makes sense, So your roll on aromatherapy blend is mirrored in
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the botanical cards that you're looking at. Okay, I mean I understand because
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you're taught. Well, I understand because I know about botanicals and stuff.
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But for those of you, they're like, what do you mean botanicals?
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Yeah, so flowers, you know, flowers, plants, trees, Uh,
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anything that can be just still down into an essential oil would be probably
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an image on one of my cards. So it could be a flower or
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plant or a tree. Uh huh. Yeah. And then and if you
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have you have a you have a roll on with that botanical in it.
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So let's h okay. So let's say I am wanting to work on career.
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I'm just picking that, and you would present me with some cards and
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I would tap into my intuition and I picked something that had maybe a pine
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scent or like pine. For whatever reason, that was what I was drawn
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to. Would that mean that there's something in the aroma therapy of the pine
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that I need to bring into my life to help me in my area of
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career, Like, tell me if I'm totally off, but that's what I'm
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understanding. Again, that's totally it. So like we could go a little
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deeper, which is you know deeper, go ahead, so you say you
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want this experience, we meet. We probably spend fifteen twenty minutes in a
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consultation because what you're going to bring is you're imbalance. Sometimes isn't really what
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shows up. It's the symptom of something else, right, And so exactly
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though what you said, so these with the caveat to this is they're virtual
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reading. So it's like, wait, what how do I How am I
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going to do something that's with my smell when I can't smell it? And
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it's virtual. But once you pick your cards that you've chosen, we narrow
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it down and then I've got words. We pull out another deck of cards,
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and all these words that you choose are reflective of what you've chosen in
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the in the botanical card or say the flower the plant card, and then
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we kind of explore that word right and where that's fitting, maybe it's in
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your present or your past. And then basically we narrow it down and then
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through two different guided meditation that reflect the two cards you've chosen, you're going
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to decide this is what I need. And sometimes what comes up is exactly
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what you said. Career is where I'm imbalanced. I'm resonating with this card.
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We pull up words that reflect all the feelings that you're resonating and that's
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what you go with, or sometimes something else comes up and it's like,
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wait, I'm having issues with my career, but it's really my well being
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that is causing the symptoms in my career. And then we get you that
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role on Botanical to support you for that area to then move forward with where
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you're trying to go next. Hmmm, that's so interesting. How did you
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get into this kind of work? This isn't something that many people probably have
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ever heard of. I mean a lot of people know and have gone to
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people and had readings done or gone to alternative healers. A lot of people
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know what Reikie is energy work, but I don't think a lot of people
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are familiar with aromatic healings and reading. So how did you fall into that
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one? It's just yeah, right, yeah, well it's kind of interesting.
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So I'll to answer that question. I've got to go back twenty plus
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years, but I'll make it very short so we do not borrior. No,
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it's okay. People love it. People like to know people's backstory.
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I have found Oh I love it. Yeah, yeah, I was.
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I started my wellness journey in the late nineties. I was introduced to a
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roma therapy in the late nineties and that led me to follow that path of
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becoming a roma therapy practitioner. I was doing aroma therapy treatments, body work
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treatments, and that kind of went on through the early two thousands, and
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then that led me to get an esthetic license, which is skincare, and
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I continued sort of just adding the modalities. But then there was a little
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bit of a turning point where I went into staying in wellness, but I
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moved into the business side of things. And as I was doing the business
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side of things in the mid two thousands, around I think two thousand and
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seven, I took my first coaching class at NYU and I fell in love
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with coaching, and so I continued in wellness. I was working at sort
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of on the business side. I was doing sort of less and less of
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the hands on work, and then I got completely burnt out after about fifteen
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years, and I sort of walked away from that industry and moved into a
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different industry, but continued coaching, and then I started taking on private coaching
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clients. And then about three or four years ago, I was like,
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you know, coaching's great. I loved it, but it's missing something and
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I couldn't figure out what it was. I knew I wanted to do wellness.
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I didn't really want to do health coaching, and I thought, you
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know what, I need to go back to the bases and explore like where
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I started. Where I began, which was the oils, the essential oils,
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the aromatherapy, and so that kind of led me on this year long
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exploration of how do I incorporate what like the essential oils on a cellular level
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to help people in a coaching session and at the same time give them an
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experience if they don't want to do you know, three months with me or
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six months, that's sort of the standard coaching procedure, right, So what
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if they just want to one one experience, a one off in addition to
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working three or four six months together. And it's so funny, Melissa,
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Like the old me and my twenties, I was always like, oh,
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I never you know, I don't want to reinvent the will. I want
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to create everything from scratch. It's got to be like new and exciting.
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And then here I was like, I don't want to create anything new I
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don't want to reinvent the will. I just need to develop something that can
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incorporate. And out of all of that came all of a sudden, here
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I was creating something that had never been done before, which was creating my
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own cards, creating my own reading. And so that's kind of how I
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ended up doing it. Was it just kind of all came together. Yeah,
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No, sounds yeah, well it sounds like I find that a lot
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of people, especially the people that I meet that I talked to, especially
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in my during my show, is we've all had very similar journeys in that,
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you know, we're all kind of doing similar work, right. We're
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we're putting ourselves out there to help other people, right to find out that
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you can have a life that you want, a life that's filled with joy
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and health and abundance, and how can we get our message out? But
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we all have our unique ways of doing it. And I love the fact
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that you're using these these these these trees, these flowers, these bushes,
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these things that were given to by nature as part of a healing tool and
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that you were given you know, however, you created your beautiful cards that
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you were given that to create these cards and that's your your spin on it,
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right, that's your Like, this is how I'm gonna help you,
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because I was going to ask you if you I kind of knew you did
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design your own car, but I just was going to ask you about how
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was that experience doing your own cards. I'm working on doing cards right now.
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That's why, like I'm making my own Oracle cards out of my photos.
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So yeah, so how did you, like, how was that experience
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doing your cards? Yeah? It was, you know, it was challenging
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because I you know, like you, I mean, you are an artist.
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I mean I think there's a language that artists speak, and so I
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was having a really hard time trying to get this thing from my head into
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like on a piece of paper. And I'm also a terrible artist. Like
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it's so bad. So I remember going to my partner, who is a
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creative, and I said, I need your help. I was like,
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I'm trying to I want three botanicals on a card, and he just wasn't
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getting it. And so we found an artist and then I was like,
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okay, let's just start with one image, like one image on that So
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I have ten cards. But now I'm going to be with let's just do
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thirty images. And then so after we got the thirty, I'm like,
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okay, now let's combine the three together. And it's like once we got
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the three together and we placed it, and then I you know, said,
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okay, change the background. It was like both of both my partner
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and the artists were like, Okay, now we get what you're trying to
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do. But it definitely was a big challenge for me because I don't even
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speak the language really, so that was hard. But I think, right
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you did it, you did you did it, and you know, it's
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still evolving. I mean, I'm sure that, like, like you were
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just saying, before, you know, you wrote a book, you took
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all these photos, and now you're redoing the photos after five years of your
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own postcards, like cause you see it differently, and so I know that
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there's an evolution to these cards. Like maybe eventually I'll be able to make
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them to give to the person, you know, like they do receive an
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aromatic print through email, but I can't right now, I don't have the
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cards to give them, you know, but eventually maybe that will be a
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step. So I think it's also just as being kind in the process to
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ourselves that this is an evolution and it's got to start somewhere and then it'll
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kind of evolve into whatever it's supposed to evolve into. Yeah, now,
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did you study all the botanicals and you know all their meetings? Because I
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know every flower, every tree, every bush, every herb you know has
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is associated with certain meanings. And did you have to do like a deep
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dive into finding out what each each thing meant? Yeah, so I haven't.
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I have a certificate. I am a roma therapist, and I start
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thought a roma therapist, but I kind of really worked on that aroma therapy
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in fifteen years and I when I went to aesthetic school, I went to
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AVEDA, which was, you know, all about armology. So but I
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hadn't really kind of worked in that in that area for about nine years.
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So I did have to sort of go back and refresh myself. And probably
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in twenty twenty two I took a couple more certifications and I'm continuing to educate
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myself in that regard. But yeah, it did help to have that foundation
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that I had began with back in the nineties in the early two thousands,
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for sure. Yeah, And is there any themes that you have found when
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you're doing your readings. I want to we're going to talk about we're going
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to get into detail about the botanicals, but I don't want to do that,
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so we come back from the break because I don't want to cut you
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off. So is there any themes that you notice when you were doing the
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card readings before you were giving them the botanical roll on to help them with
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whatever it is they were going through that kept coming up, Or because I'm
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trying to get people who are listening to us to get a visual of like,
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okay, so they work hard, what does the card look like?
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And what does it say on the card? You know, like so people
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who are listening to us can be like, oh, I get it,
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I understand which yeah, yeah, well I think I think it's there's no
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words on the first cards. They're just images. They're just beautiful cards.
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So okay, when a person comes in, they're coming in because maybe they
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want clarity on something, or they feel a little stuck, or maybe they
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just want to have this fun experience, and all of a sudden they're using
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their visual intuition. It's like, I say, just tell me which one
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you really like and all of a sudden it becomes kind of a fun journey
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where they're like, wow, I really like that one. And then they'll
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say I really like that one. And almost eighty and I would say ninety
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five percent of the time the ones that they chose or are the ones that
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we are the topics of the ones we just talked about, you know,
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like they chose the well being card after they've just told me for twenty minutes
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how they're having all these health issues, or they've chosen the career card.
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I mean, it always happened, but it's like I didn't do it,
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they did it. I mean, this is what they chose. This is
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what they liked, you know, this, this is what they were attracted
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to. Was that image. Yeah, that makes sense because people don't realize
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how strong their own intuition is. Right, we are given our instuition for
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a reason to carry in that life. Yes, And you know, part
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of the reading is to help people reconnect into their body, to get out
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of their heads and to connect into their body because we you know, so
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often we're just we're disconnected. And I think that when they come into the
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reading, as you said, it's like we forget that we have all that
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we have five senses that we're not really always using, and we don't really
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rely on them, you know, and all of a sudden they're like,
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oh my gosh, like I can trust myself, I do know what I
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need. I do know. Like it's so strong when you can see that
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person connect to their own gut and their own intuition and then they're able to
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really they start to uncover themselves what it is they're needing. Yeah, it's
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true. And if you if for anybody listening, if something is going on
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in your life in any area, let's say you feel a disconnect. Let's
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say let's say you're having a pain in your body and you don't understand where
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it's coming from, or you feel a disconnect in your relationships or with your
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what you're doing as your job, your career, you know, asking yourself
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like what is going on? Or why am I having this pain? What
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is it trying to tell me? You'd be so surprised that if you quiet
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yourself enough, you'll start to get some answers, some thoughts will come in,
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maybe some flashes of insight will come and you're like, and you could
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just keep taking that further and further down. So I imagine when people come
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to you, they're feeling a disconnect somewhere to themselves in some aspect of their
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life. Is that correct? Is that most of your client base? Yeah,
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I would think so. I think there's some that are just looking for
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maybe an experience, and then they realize, yeah, wow, this is
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so much more and I want to go deeper for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
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right. Of course, for some people it's like, well this is
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fun. I just want to see what we botanical I would be attracted to.
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Why am I attracted to it? Right? Yeah? And you know
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it's I think it's also you know, these people that are coming to me
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are people that I think are so exhausted from the sort of technique minded philosophy
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that's out there right now, which you know, as you know, there's
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so much self help out there, and it's great that this is all becoming
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in the open and things to help us. But I think that a lot
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of my clients are getting tired. I think they're exhausted with just like,
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oh, five techniques for this, four techniques for that, three steps,
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four tips, and it's like they want to make change, but they can't
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seem to do it because they've been using those concepts, and we work more
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on how do we focus on your essence and the essence that you want to
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show up as to those things versus focusing on those things. Now, did
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you create all the botanicals yourself? Have you created all of each the botanicals
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that you sell? Yeah? So I yes, As far as mixing them
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mmmm yeah, you made them for them the person whatever they're like, Yeah,
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So just quickly, I'm just curious, And like I said, we're
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going to get into your whole botanicals and all that when we get back from
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the break, which is coming up in like a minute and a half.
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But I'm just curious. Is there one botanical roll on that you would recommend
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for people who just have a lot of stress in their life because we all
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have a lot of stress, but some people stress levels just off the charts.
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Is there one that you go to? Yeah? Well, when I
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think about stress, I would I would want to know where it's coming from,
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you know it kind of situational? Is this underlying like is it chronic?
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But and then how is the stress affecting them? But the first thing
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that came to my mind when you said that was so you're overthinking. So
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the average the stressed person, right, they're overthinking. A nervous system is
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on high alert. They're probably releasing a lot of cortisol. So I probably
26:14
do my number ten blend, which is quiet the mind. So that's where
26:18
the cana mill siam wood and lavender. Another one that kind of comes to
26:23
me right away is my number eight blend, which is like blue tansy with
26:29
sweet margroom and mandarin. It's really calming and soothing and cooling. So a
26:33
lot of times when you're really stressed, you're kind of on a hotter temperature.
26:37
You know, your body's warm, it's hot, so cooling that down,
26:41
bringing that down. Yeah, yeah, that sounds like one I need
26:45
because I'm always hot. Right. Yeah, they're really cool. But before
26:52
we go, let's take our break down and then let's really get into the
26:55
botanicals because I want to hear about them. They sound really interesting. All
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coolest guests, trailblazers, mystics and creatives who enrich our lives. Hi guys,
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and welcome back. If you're just joining me. I have wellness coach
30:15
monthly, a bowden On, and her specialty is aromatic readings and helping us
30:22
with our wellness. And she designs botanicals roll On botanicals that are sort of
30:27
like a prescription. I don't really want I don't know another word to say,
30:32
Montsally, but kind of like it's like a prescription for you know,
30:37
if we come to you and we're needing some help in a certain area of
30:41
our life, and how the scent can help us in that area, which
30:47
is really interesting because I notice and that smell. Our sense of smell is
30:56
so interesting because out of any other sense that you have, if I smell
31:00
something, it will bring me back to a memory of something faster than anything
31:07
else, Like it could just bring me right back to that place more than
31:11
anything else. So there's something about our sense of smell, right, So
31:17
yeah, that note, Oh okay, yeah, go ahead, no,
31:21
no, say that and I'll tell you go ahead. Yeah, First,
31:23
I'll tell you it's interesting because the sense of smell is the most underused,
31:29
you know, sort of talking point for senses, but it's actually the most
31:34
you know, we can change our mood in a matter of seconds just by
31:37
smelling something. And when you say that, you're when you smell something,
31:41
it takes you to all these memories. It's because they're linked, you know,
31:45
memories in the Olympic system, and so it's smell and so the minute
31:48
that you smell something, it can immediately trigger a memory from the past or
31:53
create a new memory in the moment. Yeah, and I don't think it
31:56
was until COVID that we really started to see how much we do depend on
32:00
our smell. For those that didn't have it, had lost their sense of
32:05
smell. Yeah, I know. I always I felt really bad for the
32:09
for people who I had to go through that. I constantly have a lavender.
32:15
I have lavender going a lot in my diffuser, so I'm always that
32:21
smell uh is very comforting to me and very relaxing. So I understand why
32:27
lavender would be used in your what did you say it was your number ten
32:30
blend for s uyesh and stuff. Yeah, that makes sense to me.
32:34
So talk to me about the combinations of the role on. So you created
32:43
certain combinations for certain for certain things that are going on with people, Like
32:49
let's say somebody's dealing with pain. Is there a role on for that.
32:54
I don't have a role on for pain. But okay, So what I
32:59
did was when I created the aromatic reading and I knew that I wanted to
33:02
focus on the five pillars through coaching, I designed aromatics to support those five
33:10
pillars. So I have two for every pillar, so every category of those
33:14
five categories. Now in the future, well I have something for pain maybe,
33:19
but I really wanted to. I feel like I feel like right now
33:23
now that aroma therapy has become so mainstream compared to when I started in the
33:27
nineties, everybody's very focused on Okay, you have a rash, you put
33:32
this oil on it. You have a headache, you know, put this
33:35
a set of oil on it. And I think that that's great. But
33:37
I'm sort of focusing or pivoting to more of the how do we use inhalation
33:45
application for the mental health, for the essence versus for a physical element?
33:52
If that makes sense, you know. So, yeah, that's where I'm
33:53
at. That's where I am right now. But yeah, I could do.
33:57
I have prescripted sort of blends for each category. So if we're focused
34:01
on your well being, you've got a couple of options. If we're focused
34:04
on relationships. We've got a couple of options, and so I've designed blends
34:08
specifically for those categories to support those categories, and those would be the pillars.
34:14
Why don't you share with us what the pillars are? Yeah, so
34:16
the pillars are. Well being would be the first pillar. And when I
34:20
think about well being, I'm thinking not just fitness, but stress, eating,
34:25
how you feel, how you're sleeping, So well being is going to
34:29
encompass all of your health, all of your health, body feelings, stress,
34:34
sleep. Then you've got relationships as a second pillar. That could be
34:38
obviously internal relationships with yourself, with your family, with your partner, spouse,
34:44
your social community. That can also be professional relationships. Then the third
34:50
category is business career, So that's going to be you know, your passions,
34:55
your dreams, whether it's your own business or you as an employe.
35:00
How are we supporting your career life or your business life. Then we've got
35:06
prosperity as a category four. And when I think about prosperity, I think
35:10
it's the first thing we all think about is money, which of course that's
35:14
one of it, one of the things, but the prosperity of just expansion
35:17
of dreaming something bigger. I mean dreaming like allowing yourself to have the possibilities
35:23
of dressing up for a beautiful dinner if that's what you want. I mean
35:27
allowing your mind to really dream about something that you're having a hard time dreaming
35:30
about. So prosperity and also maybe giving in prosperity. So prosperity kind of
35:36
again is a big spectrum like well being. And then the last is spirituality
35:42
or the soul. And I know when people hear that word spirituality, it's
35:45
like, I'm not religious. It's like, Okay, I'm talking about the
35:47
heart. You know, like if we can't connect to the heart, if
35:52
the heart stops beating, we die. So how do we get back into
35:55
that intuition? How do we know and explore the heart? And maybe that
36:00
has to do with faith or higher power or spirituality or religion, any of
36:06
those. Right, Yes, I totally understand that, And that's good what
36:12
you said about prosperity, because that's one of the things that when I talk
36:15
about wealth and prosperity falls under that. It's not always monetary wealth. Of
36:21
course, yes, we do want more in our bank accounts, but what
36:24
does it look like to you, what does prosperity mean to you? So
36:28
does it mean being able to travel the world? You know, maybe that's
36:32
what it looks like to you. Maybe it means to be more giving in
36:37
charities, like so it looks different to everybody. So it's good that you
36:40
mentioned that. And I want to yeah, because I think people always just
36:45
think like, oh, how much money do they have? How much money?
36:47
And it's not about the money. It's about No, it's so much
36:52
more right. I mean, sometimes it's about people holding onto their money.
36:54
I mean, you know, sometimes it's about they can't seem to let it
36:58
go. And so it's like, how do we start this? So right,
37:01
because it's energy, it's ery, So walk us through how you integrate
37:07
the ICF coaching and the readings with the botanicals, Like how somebody, yeah,
37:16
how does that all integrate together? Well, if you're familiar with ICF
37:22
coaching, they have their sort of own way of coaching. There's a code
37:24
of ethics and a core competencies and so we really believe that we're not here
37:31
to give you advice and guide you. A lot of coaches do that and
37:36
that's that's great, that's that style. This is a different style of really
37:38
we're trying to create a safe space for you to maybe help point out blind
37:44
spots, but to really partner with you so that you can find your own
37:47
answers. And so typically the first part of the coaching is around that.
37:54
It's about asking questions, trying to find out where it is or trying to
37:58
go, and also what's the outcome that they want with where we're going,
38:02
you know, what do they want to get out of this experience when we're
38:05
done. And so that's where the ICF coaching comes in as well as I
38:09
don't ever suggest, you know, in that first experience, I never say
38:14
like, this is the blend Melissa you should have. I mean, it's
38:15
your decision, so that when you get that in the mailbox, you're like,
38:19
this is what I chose. This was my decision. And so that's
38:22
where I think I've combined the ICF coaching in that in that regard, and
38:28
then the aromatic piece is through the cards and then just creating that space for
38:32
you to explore words that go with it, and then you choosing that blend,
38:37
and there are these two guided meditations that you get that I think is
38:42
more of on the lines of the well being and the holistic side of things.
38:45
That's not really coaching per se, right, but again it's it's so
38:52
that's how I combine the two. I really wanted to be able to create
38:55
a platform where you are able to really explore what you need and I help
39:00
you to uncover that. Hmm, yeah, that makes sense. I mean
39:06
totally, it makes one hundred percent sense. So I know those listening are
39:08
going to want to know about the botanicals, So how are they sourced?
39:14
Because I know people are very interested nowadays of how we're sourcing you know,
39:17
the things that we're putting on our bodies, in our mouths, you know
39:21
everything. So yeah, yeah, yes, So my essential oils, I
39:27
have a partner who has been in the essential oil business for over thirty years.
39:31
We work with we know these farms, so all the oils were coming.
39:37
They're coming from farms from different countries, some that we've had relationships with
39:42
or my partners had relationships with for thirty years or forty years. And everything
39:49
is you know, not everything can be organic, because not every oil is
39:52
organic, but everything that we source is small, batched and you know,
39:57
once we get it, it's not like we can get twenty more drums of
40:00
it. I know that there are big corporations that mass produce really great sourced
40:07
oils, but that's not where I'm getting mine. All of our oils are
40:10
coming from farms. We have relationships with them. They're independent, some of
40:15
them have been the farms have been in the generations of families for three or
40:19
four decades or you know, hundreds of years. So that's how I'm getting
40:23
them. And they're all small batched. Everything that I'm making, I'm making
40:27
in small batches and then selling, so nothing sitting on the shelf for long
40:30
periods of time as well. Yeah, now are they vegan? Are they
40:36
vegan? Because I know yet everything's vegan everything. Yeah, so everything's vegan.
40:42
Everything's on synthetic. And what's really cool about my blend, not to
40:45
say it's the best, but it's really good, is that most of these
40:47
roll on botanicals or roll on essential oil. Blends that you find are typically
40:52
in a carrier oil. They're in an oil like ajajoba oil or and we
40:57
put ours. I put mine in the serum, so is like seventy percent
41:02
organic. It's got meto foam, it's got willow bark, it's that olo
41:08
leaf, and so it's allowing the essential oils to expand their molecules. It
41:14
rolls on the skin without being greasy. It absorbs into the skin. So
41:17
coming from a skincare background, I really wanted to make sure that when we
41:22
apply it to the skin, it's going to be good for the skin.
41:23
It's just going to sit on top of it, and like a carrier oil.
41:27
Like to me, I wanted something even more luxurious to go on the
41:31
skin. Yeah, yeah, so it goes deeper into his skin. I
41:36
love serums, I really do. I have always loved serums. And you
41:40
feel the difference. Yeah. And also it mixes the blend, you know,
41:45
like a lot of those oils. Will see all the oil sitting at
41:47
the bottom right right, the carrier at the top. And because of the
41:52
serum, it's allowing the molecules to expand of the oil so that they can
41:55
still like they fill up the whole serum versus being yeah, parted from them,
42:00
if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, So you guys who are
42:04
listening, if you go to her website, she has on her website all
42:08
of the oils listed for sale and you can see what each one is and
42:14
the blends, and obviously you know, if you want to do a reading,
42:17
uh an aromatic reading, you reach out to her and then schedule that
42:22
and see which one is best for you. But as I'm talking to you,
42:24
I have my computer in front of me, so I could see your
42:27
webs. So tell us how smell or how does smelling these sense help us
42:36
get out of our head and into our body. Yeah. Well, you
42:40
know if somebody once said you can't think and smell at the same time,
42:44
you know, it's really hard. I mean, you smell and then you
42:46
have the thought immediately afterwards, though, I think, yeah, that's true.
42:51
Yeah, And so I think it's like, you know, we want
42:55
to get into to make a change. You know, when we're all in
43:00
our head and we're always overthinking and we become disconnected to our body, it's
43:05
really hard to sometimes get answers. And so if we can just take a
43:08
minute and we smell something and those molecules go into the brain, they go
43:14
right into the limbic system. We immediately smell, we immediately move into our
43:17
body and we have this moment where it's almost like the smell has intercepted all
43:24
that thinking. It's like it's intercepted it. It stopped you, you know,
43:28
Melissa, stop thinking, smell this, and all of a sudden we
43:31
have this one split second of a moment to change perception and what you're thinking
43:37
about and what you're doing. And we know even scientifically that the minute we
43:42
smell something, especially with essential oils and more volatile, they are that we
43:45
you know, they affect a nervous system, they affect our bloodstream, they
43:50
affect the way we feel. And so sometimes when we're just always in our
43:54
head, it's like we need we need a moment to just like something to
43:59
shake us out of it. Right, and so this is such a great
44:01
companion to open it up. It doesn't take any work other than just you
44:06
have it there, you're smelling it, and now you can sort of reset
44:09
yourself and go back to them. Maybe the things that you needed to go
44:13
back to that you couldn't figure out. Yeah, well, if you think
44:17
about it, I mean, people have been wearing fragrance forever, right,
44:21
We're always wearing fragrance. So now what you've created is you're using botanicals to
44:25
help us. You know, Well, first of all, they smell good.
44:32
That's the one thing that's important. They smell good. Yeah, And
44:37
we're individuals, yeah, and so we're used to wearing scents all the time,
44:42
but these are specifically geared for whatever it is that you really want to
44:47
work on in your life or where you feel a disconnect to help you.
44:52
Maybe it's to feel just more grounded in your own body, right, Yeah,
44:57
it could be as simple as that, because a lot of us aren't.
45:00
We're everywhere else, but we're not grounded at all. Yeah, I
45:04
mean, it's it really is. You know, you said a fragrance.
45:07
It's like, fragrance makes us smell good, but we don't necessarily other than
45:09
maybe a little momentarily momentary of confidence, we don't really get a lot of
45:14
benefits out of it. This is a functional fragrance. You've got a functional
45:17
fragrance, and even if you picked one that was not even for the one,
45:22
the thing that you're struggling with, you're still going to get benefits from
45:24
it, like absolutely, yeah and so, and it's non synthetic and you
45:30
get to wear it all day, So I mean, I would say you
45:31
apply it five, six, seven times a day. You get to wear
45:35
it throughout the day because it's not like a one time thing and then you
45:37
don't put it on again. I also keep mine by my desk, so
45:40
when I'm on the computer all day, it's like I can just open the
45:44
bottle, take some inhalations of it, and then put that back down.
45:46
Like it's strong enough to just get feeling better from it just through inhalation.
45:52
Yeah. Yeah, So for like, you can check out check them out
45:55
and see what's in them, like for example, like one of them yours
45:59
has petuli and it I happen to love pachuli. Now, not everybody likes
46:02
the smell pachuli. It is very distinguished smell. It's very strong, but
46:07
patually. To me it is like it's very comforting because my grandmother used it
46:15
and my mom used it. So it always brings me back to that feeling,
46:19
that warmth, that feeling the family and the feminine love and all of
46:23
that stuff because that's where my mind goes. And I actually have a fragrance
46:29
of pachuli in my bathroom that I spray all the time just because I love
46:32
the smell personally. So yeah, so for anyone just look at what she
46:37
has and see what blends and what sense like just that you just even like
46:43
the smell too, because I bet you there's an underlining reison your attraction to
46:49
that smell. Would you say that, Oh? Absolutely? And you know,
46:54
on the flip side, sometimes when what you're not attracted to is what
47:00
you need most. So yeah, so sometimes with somebody, you know,
47:05
it isn't that often. But sometimes if I have a client who gets a
47:07
blend in the mail and they're like, I don't like this, I say,
47:10
okay, why don't you give it a week, don't have any judgment,
47:15
and then come back to me if it still isn't if it still isn't
47:19
fitting for you. And you know, sometimes we maybe we don't like it
47:22
because there's a negative memory attached to it that we've got to uncover. Or
47:28
maybe we don't like the smell because it isn't familiar. I mean usually when
47:34
we've never smelled something that you know, vanilla, pure vanilla oil does not
47:37
smell like the synthetic vanilla. And I remember with the first time I smelled
47:42
real vanilla, I didn't like it because I was so used to what we
47:45
smell in the candles, Yeah, in the synthetic forms. Right, So
47:49
sometimes we don't like it because we're just not familiar with it, or we
47:52
haven't really developed a nose palette, you know, advanced palette for it to
47:57
smell that. But you're right, we're craving. What we like is what
48:00
we're craving in what we need. But sometimes what we don't really like is
48:04
sometimes what we really need. You know, like a lot of people who
48:07
are really heady, they love the citruses, but what they really need are
48:10
things that are grounding, like patuli, things that are gonna, you know,
48:14
put them in the ground. So you just described to me, you
48:17
just describe me. I'm very heady and I love citrus. I love citrus,
48:22
and what I need is no wonder why I like that patuli because I
48:27
need to be grounded. No, I'm seriously, I'm yeah, I'm like
48:30
floating in my head all the time. So yeah, so we need to
48:32
get around me. Yeah. So maybe like number three could be good because
48:37
it does have some citrus, but it's also got the vanilla, it's got
48:40
the naroli. Again, the number ten comes back to me for you because
48:45
it's got the siam wood, which is we get that from Vietnam, and
48:51
siam wood is actually they use that to make coffins in Vietnam, which sounds
48:54
a little ir you know, eerie, but think about it. I mean
48:57
this means this wood is ever lasting, it's enduring. So that's what it's
49:02
about, right, the endurance, the everlasting of it, building something that's
49:07
going to stay for a long long time. So m I love that.
49:13
Yeah, maybe I will have to get myself a number ten over there,
49:15
so anybody, Yeah, so tell us, like, how what kind of
49:20
steps do we need to take to create this life that we want? And
49:24
how can we utilize your aromatic readings and your botanicals to do that? Yeah?
49:34
Yeah, good question. Well I think it's two parts. I mean,
49:37
I think if you have the means to do an aromatic reading and to
49:44
take the initiative to say, hey, I want to be open to a
49:49
roll on botanical or a blend to support me to work through my challenges and
49:55
find my essence, then that's the route. And there may be people that
50:00
can't do that, you know, they can't do anything. And I would
50:02
say, then maybe it starts with just breathing, because breathing doesn't cost anything,
50:07
and taking breaths laying in bed, you know, breathing. Really,
50:14
maybe instead of being so focused on the problems or the goals or the to
50:20
do list. Maybe the focus becomes, you know, how do I want
50:22
how do I want to be when I show up to those things? Versus
50:27
I have to just show up and do them. So, but how do
50:29
you want to be? What's that presence you want to have or what's the
50:31
energy you want to have when you do show up for those things? I
50:37
love that I think we do. I think we need to have more inner
50:39
dialogues with ourselves instead of self criticisms, because we have a habit of putting
50:45
ourselves down, criticizing ourselves and getting angry at ourselves, instead of asking ourself,
50:53
what is it that you need? What is it that you want to
50:55
be? What is it how do you want to show up in the world,
51:00
how do you want to show up in this relationship? What is it
51:02
that you need? Right now? We don't do that enough. And I
51:06
love the fact that you're asking these questions. You know, you're saying,
51:09
we need to do that. And I'll take it one step further, Melissa,
51:14
which is it's almost like what's your personal mission statement for you as a
51:19
person? You know, yeah, because that is one statement becomes how you
51:24
then show up. You know we have we all have mission statements for the
51:28
businesses. The companies have their mission statements businesses. But what about our you
51:31
know, like we we die alone, like this is it we We're just
51:37
it's just you know, ourselves. And so yeah, I would say maybe
51:42
start even with that. Yeah, I like that a lot, because you
51:46
know what I mean, I can write one. I'm sure I could,
51:50
but I don't have one, Like I never even thought about it, but
51:52
I'm gonna. I'm going to create one now that you said it. So
51:54
everybody looking write your personal mission statement? What is it that's really good?
52:00
You're right now, I said that loud. You're right. So can you
52:05
share with us? We only have like, you know, like four minutes.
52:07
Can you share, like any of your clients success stories without obviously revealing
52:15
anything personal. Yeah, it's so funny. I was just having this conversation
52:19
with a friend yesterday because she had reminded me of a client of mine and
52:22
I had forgotten. So I would say, you know, one client came
52:27
to me and she was struggling. We didn't even really address it, but
52:31
once she got the blends she got, she lowered her screen time from scrolling
52:36
down after eight years of waiting to file for a divorce, she filed it
52:40
for her divorce. I had three other clients who have now had like left
52:46
their jobs. One had been trying to leave their career for twelve years and
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they did it. Another one had been looking for jobs for two or three
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years, and then just after six months of working together, they are now
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have moved to a better career with you know, more money. They're really
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you know, they just they couldn't seem to make that change or the transition,
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and they did. And then another person was finally ready to sort of
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go out on their own. They had their own business, but they were
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still working part time to support it, and then they finally made the shift
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to just to do it. And I would say that those are some of
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the big, yeah, the big ones, like the big running theme that
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I've had lately. And then I would say, also a client who has
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been really triggered just they've had a lot of PTSD in their life, They've
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got a lot of relationship triggers, and having a couple of blends has really
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helped them to process differently. Because you know, what we do know about
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essential oils is I can't treat PTSD, but I can give you support so
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that your mind can respond differently from the PTSD triggers through the essential oils.
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Yeah. So that has been really helpful for that client, just being able
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to catch those triggers and respond differently, respond the way they want to be
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able to respond versus it being triggered, and then the responding out of the
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triggerness. Yeah. Yeah, no, I like that because during the break,
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I have a friend text me and say, ask her patanical I should
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use to help me deal with people on a regular basis. Well, the
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question would be, what's the challenge she's having with people? I think she's
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getting triggered. When you said triggered, it made me think of that just
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triggered three. Shesed to get number three. Hey, key, So I'll
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tell him you need number three. He's listening right now. You need number
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three or number five. If you're having a really hard time not being clear,
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you know, if you can't communicate, if you're having communication issues in
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the relationship, then I would say number five. Okay. Yeah, So
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it's been so interesting talking to you monthly. So tell people the best way
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that they can find you get in touch with you or follow you or yeah,
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yeah, okay, so you mentioned it in the beginning. My website
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it's Monthsolyte dot com m O N s E l e t e dot com.
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You can also get in touch with me on Instagram at Montsolite uh so
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m O N s E l e t E. And then I'm also on
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LinkedIn so Monthsolite, Bowden D for boy oh w D for doctor e And
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I know it's a whole mouthful Noah LinkedIn or my website and my website you
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can you can apply for reading see if you're a good fit. You just
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fell out a quick survey and yeah, or you can d m me on
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my Instagram page. Wonderful. Thank you so much, it was so interesting.
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I really appreciated having you today, Monsally at everybody, thank you so
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much for listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the life you crave.
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And I'm wishing everyone a wonderful week filled with joy, abundance and love
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peace. Thank you,