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1. Crack Open Moments with Whitney Guerrero · The Woo Report: Everyday Spirituality

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  Hi everyone! I recorded this episode assuming it was evergreen as they say in the industry.
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  That same industry that went up in flames earlier this month.
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  The devastating losses of life, homes, businesses, land, the land I called home for 14 years.
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  It's been heartbreaking to watch La Burn and hear about friends and old coworkers and families losing everything, losing pets.
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  It's been devastating and emotional.
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  If LA is listening, I hope what you hear today sparks hope.
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  Hearing stories of others treading water in the darkness.
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  Though the pain is real and the road ahead is long.
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  Know that we've moved through the darkness before.
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  And we will again.
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  It's difficult and it's painful.
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  And my heart is with you every step of the way.
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  This episode is dedicated to your healing.
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  in 2020, I was run over by a car.
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  I was sitting on the grass, and someone mistook the gas pedal for the brake and ran me right over.
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  My consciousness flew out of my body, and I saw myself laying there.
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  I didn't know if I was going to survive.
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  Spoiler alert though, I did.
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  My body was broken, but my soul was cracked wide open.
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  Hi, I'm Laura Scott Patty, filmmaker, and woo woo enthusiast here today.
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  To cut through the noise, pull back the veil, and cozy up in this space between reality and spirituality.
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  Thanks for listening to the woo report.
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  It only made sense for me that episode one of the report be all about crack open moments, a crack open moment I would define as a catastrophic life altering event that changes you, that fundamentally changes the DNA of your day to day.
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  How you think about every moment, how you think about your purpose, how you think about the universe, how you see the present moment and how you choose to spend it.
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  And for me, this accident that happened in 2020, where I was run over by a car, cracked me wide open, minus Covid, everything else in my life was seemingly okay, seemingly great.
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  Even I had an amazing job as a producer for The Ellen DeGeneres show.
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  I had a cute little two and a half year old.
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  I had still have a very handsome, kind husband and we were doing okay, or so I thought.
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  But in retrospect, when I look back at that time in my life, my mind was turbulent.
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  I did not have a lot of peace.
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  And while oftentimes my job was fun, it was also problematic.
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  There's nothing like trauma.
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  Then, to force you to grow, to release all the old patterns and build something new, build something may be better.
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  And that's not to discount the pain and the suffering or anger or the grief that comes up from any crack open moment.
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  Because that's still all valid too.
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  By nature, hitting rock bottom is devastating, and we can honor the big feelings by recognizing the polarity in them like that.
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  Grief is another form of love, and it's possible to reframe that trauma into a purpose.
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  And that is exactly what my friend Whitney Guerrero did.
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  And talk about cutting through the noise.
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  That's one of the beautiful things about telling the story of my accident.
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  I find that when I share this journey, it opens the door for others to share theirs.
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  I didn't know Whitney well when I sat on her back porch and I told her I got run over by a car, but she listened and she asked questions, and then she opened up about her own journey through child loss, a heartbreaking journey that also cracked her wide open.
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  We recorded this episode at her home, and before we started recording, she brought down her Oracle deck for us to pick a card.
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  So if you're not familiar how an Oracle deck works, all you do is you take the deck, you shuffle it, you're putting your energy on it as you shuffle it and you ask a question.
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  Then I usually ask something like, what do I need to know about X, Y, and Z?
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  That night I asked, what do I need to know about recording this podcast tonight?
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  And here is a brilliant universe synchronicity for us.
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  You'll never believe it, of course, but the card that I pulled said cracked open, cracked open, rock bottom surrendered to the alchemy of life.
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  And I'll put a picture of this card on the report Instagram for you.
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  But Whitney and I just stared each other in disbelief.
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  We should have recorded it.
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  But it's episode one and I'm learning.
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  Whitney is a wonderful mom.
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  She's a great friend. She's a warrior.
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  Her journey has not been easy, but her perspective now is beautiful and I am grateful she is here to share the story and perspective with us all.
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  Thank you Whitney, and thank you for listening to episode one of The Wu Report.
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  And we are just getting started.
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  Have you had a crack open moment?
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  I would love to hear about it.
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  So grateful you're here. By.