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When You Begin To Live Differently · Living & Learning with Aundria McMillan Humphrey

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to Living and Learning with Andrea McMillan Humphrey.
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  This is a space for reflection,
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  for noticing,
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  and for all who are still becoming
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  SPEAKER_00: This is episode 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you begin to live differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seeing clearly is the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Living differently is something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Living differently is the practice that follows noticing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't usually happen all at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no moment where everything changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: No clear line between who you were and who you are becoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there are moments, small ones, where something feels different.
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  SPEAKER_00: You pause where you used to react.
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  SPEAKER_00: You notice something you might have missed before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You choose something that once felt out of reach.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may not look like much, and it may not feel like change, but it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you've realized you're not done yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: When you've allowed yourself to begin again, this is what follows.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the core truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Living differently isn't a decision you make once.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something you practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not perfectly,
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  SPEAKER_00: not consistently,
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  SPEAKER_00: but gradually,
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  SPEAKER_00: quietly,
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  SPEAKER_00: in ways that almost go unnoticed,
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  SPEAKER_00: at least at first.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to become someone new.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're simply allowing something already within you
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  SPEAKER_00: to come alive, to be lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seeing clearly is the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we practice noticing and we practice reflection.
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  Living differently is also the practice that follows noticing
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  and reflection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wherever you are,
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  may you meet this moment with a little more awareness and a
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  little more kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: because we are all in our own way still becoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has been Living and Learning with Andrea McMillan Humphrey.
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  And this podcast is part of an ongoing series of reflections
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  about navigating
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  SPEAKER_00: seasons when life feels uncertain.
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  SPEAKER_00: If someone you know might need this today, feel free to share it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thank you for that.
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  I will be here again on Monday of next week and look forward to
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  having you here with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.