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103: Feeling Flat? How to Rebuild Your Energy and Creative Spark · The Everyday Awesome Project

• 0:47
  Polly Mertens: Hey superstars, welcome back.
• 0:48
  Polly Mertens: Paula here.
• 0:50
  Samantha Pruitts: And Sam Pruitt.
• 0:51
  Samantha Pruitts: What's up, beautiful humans?
• 0:53
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh my dear, our first episode, sensor surgery.
• 0:56
  Samantha Pruitts: So good to have you back online.
• 0:57
  Samantha Pruitts: I know you're getting there.
• 1:00
  Samantha Pruitts: And we're gonna talk on some of what the basis of what we're talking about.
• 1:04
  Samantha Pruitts: So this is about pump it up.
• 1:06
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's not our usual pump it up because, you know, like yeah, usually, you know, we're like, get on the court or get out in your lot, you know, like really like mask go.
• 1:15
  Samantha Pruitts: But this is about like unblocking energy and the source of creativity and things like that.
• 1:21
  Samantha Pruitts: So why don't you tell them a little bit about what you've been, you know.
• 1:24
  Samantha Pruitts: So you had surgery on Monday, and we're recording this on a Friday.
• 1:27
  Samantha Pruitts: So what what like like what what have we been talking about?
• 1:31
  Samantha Pruitts: What's been your experience that kind of led to us to going, you know what, this is a thing, because I've had some too.
• 1:36
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah , yeah, totally.
• 1:38
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, so I had the surgery on Monday afternoon.
• 1:42
  Samantha Pruitts: It was it went great.
• 1:44
  Samantha Pruitts: So I am in the process of healing.
• 1:46
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, hallelujah.
• 1:48
  Samantha Pruitts: So first I went through, you know, of course, I was put out, anesthesia, I was put under, and they're operating on you.
• 1:57
  Samantha Pruitts: So you're kind of hoping.
• 1:58
  Samantha Pruitts: What's funny is I didn't even know what the anesthesia was going to be going in.
• 2:01
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, wait, how are we doing this or whatever?
• 2:03
  Samantha Pruitts: So that was a little bit of a like, oh yeah, shit.
• 2:06
  Samantha Pruitts: Okay, this is gonna be um a little bit more intense.
• 2:09
  Samantha Pruitts: And I had envisioned or something.
• 2:10
  Samantha Pruitts: I was so proactively looking about my healing and getting the right doctors and all that kind of stuff.
• 2:16
  Samantha Pruitts: So anyway, but when I came out, so I was full of steroids for anti-inflammation drugs, you know, for pain, had been totally under for hours, you know, like all that kind of stuff.
• 2:27
  Samantha Pruitts: So that first day I just felt like amazing because I had no pain.
• 2:32
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, this pain that I'd had for almost three months was gone like that.
• 2:38
  Samantha Pruitts: And I was like, what the hell?
• 2:39
  Samantha Pruitts: This is freaking amazing.
• 2:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, I felt so like liberated to be able to a stand on my left leg and foot, yeah, like that alone, and not be in pain, and also be able to like move around, not do crazy stuff, but like just be able to move and like sleep, lay down, just basic things that you kind of take for granted.
• 3:00
  Samantha Pruitts: Go to the bathroom.
• 3:01
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, I can sit in the toilet.
• 3:04
  Samantha Pruitts: I was sitting on one of those little grandma things, you know, the big cushion pad things.
• 3:07
  Samantha Pruitts: So came out, felt great.
• 3:10
  Samantha Pruitts: And now my body's like, okay, sister, settle down a few notches because I do need to clear all this from my body and from my brain.
• 3:19
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, right.
• 3:19
  Samantha Pruitts: And so one of the things you and I were talking about is how I this week haven't been out in the world like I normally would be going and talking to people, seeing things out in nature or whatever, even though I was doing it, you know, on a very small level before because I was injured, I was still doing that because that's who I am.
• 3:37
  Samantha Pruitts: And not having that, having that part of me sort of closed off or stagnant was actually blocking my creativity, you know, my connection to the world and other people.
• 3:51
  Samantha Pruitts: Like it's just fascinating.
• 3:53
  Samantha Pruitts: Your own brain, it seemed like, too.
• 3:55
  Samantha Pruitts: It's just like it was empty, you're like weak.
• 3:57
  Samantha Pruitts: You're all I got nothing up there.
• 4:00
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like you end up kind of flatlined, or uh it's like the anesthesia is still there having its impact, even though it's worn off.
• 4:09
  Samantha Pruitts: Psychologically and emotionally, you're still in this sort of like flatline state.
• 4:15
  Samantha Pruitts: And we were comparing it to other parts and times in our lives where this has actually happened to us, and we've seen this with other people too, that sometimes circumstances happen, it's very stressful, or you go through a thing, and then you end up sort of stuck there in this blocked state.
• 4:32
  Samantha Pruitts: And you and I practice on the regular, pumping ourselves up to do things, to accomplish things, to be on top of our game, to whatever it might be.
• 4:41
  Samantha Pruitts: We have the that skill set and we realize maybe not everybody does.
• 4:45
  Samantha Pruitts: And a lot of people might just be walking around flatlined.
• 4:48
  Samantha Pruitts: And that's not gonna work for us.
• 4:51
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, you know, some of a lot of what we've talked about, what we were talking about, this pre-air is you know, a lot of what we help people with is like slowing their nerves, you know, getting out of that, you know, sympathetic nervous system state, the high, you know, uh fear and flight, fo flight.
• 5:09
  Samantha Pruitts: Fight, fight and flight.
• 5:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Flight and fight.
• 5:11
  Samantha Pruitts: Fighting and flying.
• 5:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, right.
• 5:13
  Samantha Pruitts: Because that's most people are walking around all jacked out.
• 5:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, you know, emails are flying at you like the tiger's coming out of the woods, you know, something, whatever.
• 5:21
  Samantha Pruitts: Totally.
• 5:21
  Samantha Pruitts: And you know, oftentimes our episodes are like, whoo, slow that nervous system down, taking breaths, like getting grounded, whatever.
• 5:27
  Samantha Pruitts: And this is like the opposite, because you and I both, so this two weeks ago, I uh had some uh work done, and it was like, don't don't get your heart rate up, right?
• 5:37
  Samantha Pruitts: So, like just you know, don't you don't want to be oh, you know, a lot of pump up, my usual whatever, running, hiking a lot and stuff like that.
• 5:45
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's been raining, so it's like not a lot of going outside.
• 5:48
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, it's just been wet here.
• 5:49
  Samantha Pruitts: So like indoors a lot, it's cold, not going to the gym, walking when I can, right?
• 5:57
  Samantha Pruitts: But just not as much.
• 5:58
  Samantha Pruitts: And I just like by two weeks in, I was kind of like, you know, uh I know and not quite realizing it.
• 6:07
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, I was like, okay, I'm just gonna like do my walking, whatever.
• 6:10
  Samantha Pruitts: And I just felt sort of blah, you know.
• 6:14
  Samantha Pruitts: And and without you and I kind of both, you know, about but the beauty of us having this podcast and having our relationship and being coaches and stuff is like we we have the outward reflection of like, oh yeah, no, wait, that's not who I am.
• 6:26
  Samantha Pruitts: Wait a minute.
• 6:27
  Samantha Pruitts: No, no, no, no, no.
• 6:28
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, something to remind us of who we really are when we go into these little pits or periods, right?
• 6:34
  Samantha Pruitts: And not to stay in them.
• 6:36
  Samantha Pruitts: Also, right, right.
• 6:37
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, the whole point of um nervous system regulation is regulation, right?
• 6:42
  Samantha Pruitts: It's not a pendulum into the 10 out of 10 over here or the 10 out of 10 over here.
• 6:48
  Samantha Pruitts: Like you try and find some homeostasis, some balance where you can, in a very healthy manner, move back and forth as needed, as needed, right?
• 6:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Mastery, you know, we talked about mastery.
• 7:01
  Samantha Pruitts: Hell yeah.
• 7:02
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:02
  Samantha Pruitts: On not just daily, but like hour by hour sometimes, depending on what you're up to.
• 7:08
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 7:08
  Samantha Pruitts: And so one of the things is we were talking about this state that you've been in and how I realized, so you know, in the last week, I've been back in the gym, and I forget how much I do this for myself.
• 7:20
  Samantha Pruitts: It's just part of my what program.
• 7:22
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, it's like self-programming.
• 7:23
  Samantha Pruitts: I listen to motivational, you know, just really good stuff.
• 7:27
  Samantha Pruitts: I feed my brain in the morning as I'm at the gym and you know, doing my workout and stuff, and just feeling stronger again, you know, like lifting heavy shit has a way of like pulling that, I don't want to say fierceness, but that that life force of you back into your body and going, like, oh, I gotta, you know, like come together for this moment, right?
• 7:48
  Samantha Pruitts: In this present.
• 7:49
  Samantha Pruitts: And um, those two things, like feeding my brain again with like all that great juju, and then using my body in a in a powerful way.
• 7:58
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, oh, here we are, here we are again, you know.
• 8:02
  Samantha Pruitts: And right, the emotions lifted up.
• 8:05
  Samantha Pruitts: Like I was ax accessing higher levels this morning.
• 8:09
  Samantha Pruitts: I jumped out of bed.
• 8:10
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, all right, game on, man.
• 8:11
  Samantha Pruitts: Legacy time, you know.
• 8:13
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, we're going, you know, and I just was like in this flat mode, like life is happening to me instead of for me.
• 8:19
  Samantha Pruitts: And now it's like, no, yeah, yeah, and that's happening for a multitude of reasons, right?
• 8:24
  Samantha Pruitts: There really is a physical biochemical reaction happening in the body when you do those things, when you cue those things.
• 8:32
  Samantha Pruitts: So for you, the cues are like the video, the music, like you priming the pump or whatever.
• 8:37
  Samantha Pruitts: And then you've obviously directly linked that to lifting heavy shit and like delivering the freaking goods in the gym, right?
• 8:45
  Samantha Pruitts: And I have my own experience like that too, and then being able to down-regulate, you know, back into the real world or whatever.
• 8:54
  Samantha Pruitts: All of these skills that we we don't take them for granted because we're talking about them, but we kind of just we are and we've been doing it for so long, and we've honed these skills that we feel are incredibly not just invaluable, like critical to being able to operate at a high level, like being able to drop the goods when you need to, like bada bing, bada boom, and then also um bring that back home.
• 9:21
  Samantha Pruitts: So pumping yourself up that way or even to do work, you know, when we have a big work project.
• 9:28
  Samantha Pruitts: If I'm going into a big work project where I'm like, oh MG, right?
• 9:32
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm gonna be in 10 days of basically, you know, boot camp or hell week or whatever you want to call it.
• 9:39
  Samantha Pruitts: You have to really fire yourself up for that shit.
• 9:43
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, you know, you have to get your body ready and you have to get your mind and brain ready because you have to be thinking again at a high level, you know, day after day after day or whatever, same kind of same kind of thing.
• 9:53
  Samantha Pruitts: And so I guess what we're really saying today is like we want to teach people how to do that in case they don't know or in case they're not doing it, and they're just walking around in an anesthesia state, you know, either from doom scrolling.
• 10:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh, I heard another term the other day.
• 10:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh my gosh, it's called bed wasting.
• 10:15
  Samantha Pruitts: Have you heard of this term?
• 10:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh no, no, it's people who are sitting in their bed for hours, either in the morning or the evening, on their phone.
• 10:25
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, doing the doing the scrolling, basically wasting, physically wasting, mentally, emotionally wasting away because they're just trapped on these phones.
• 10:34
  Samantha Pruitts: We can't be living like this people.
• 10:36
  Samantha Pruitts: This is unacceptable.
• 10:38
  Samantha Pruitts: Unacceptable.
• 10:40
  Samantha Pruitts: So if you feel like you're one of these people that's either stuck in one of these extreme cases, like we just mentioned, or maybe just on a regular basis, it just sort of visits you, this sort of flat, uninspired experience.
• 10:54
  Samantha Pruitts: Let's take them through some ways.
• 10:56
  Samantha Pruitts: And I want you to share Joe's work um about how they can move themselves out of that and why it's so powerful.
• 11:04
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, something I wanted to say that Joe does so this video, and we'll link to it.
• 11:08
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, and Joe Dispenza is, you know, pretty global, and you can find him um in a lot of videos and interviews.
• 11:15
  Samantha Pruitts: This one particular that I saw him on on the Gaia G A I A channel.
• 11:19
  Samantha Pruitts: He was interviewed, and he he talks about this in a lot of interviews, is this process he has, and I think his book is even called like becoming super supernatural or superconscious, supernatural, supernatural, right?
• 11:28
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's this process of um uh I don't want to go through all of it, but basically consider um you've people likely heard of the chakras, right?
• 11:38
  Samantha Pruitts: Or so just like your spinal column from the top of your head to the base of your your pubic area, whatever.
• 11:44
  Samantha Pruitts: So there's energy flows in there, right?
• 11:47
  Samantha Pruitts: And he has this process that he teaches people take taking energy, basically cerebral spinal fluid is how he starts to describe it, and using the muscles to sort of push it with intention up into the brain.
• 12:00
  Samantha Pruitts: And he talks to that those lower three chakras, and I'm no expert at this, but I can definitely attest to having lived in it and feeling it, is they, you know, the lower three are the sources of like, you know, reproduction, um digestion, digestion, elimination, elimination.
• 12:19
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly, right?
• 12:20
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's like you know, they're they're the source of like the having your basic needs met, right?
• 12:25
  Samantha Pruitts: You get up to the higher ones, your throat chakra, your heart chalk, or your in your head.
• 12:29
  Samantha Pruitts: It's you know, inspiration and connection to the divine and stuff.
• 12:33
  Samantha Pruitts: But he says, you know, so many people, the thoughts are just keeping the energy stuck down in this, they're just living at a frequency and a vibration that this, you know, this process that he teaches is like to help liberate that energy, if you imagine, like between your belly button and your your bum, right?
• 12:49
  Samantha Pruitts: That energy just is like held down there, like in stuck, stagnant.
• 12:56
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 12:57
  Samantha Pruitts: And you just sort of like it just ruminates down there.
• 13:00
  Samantha Pruitts: And like you said, yeah, things like constipation can be, you know, an outcropping, poor digestion, all sorts of things, you know, trouble reproductive, you know.
• 13:09
  Samantha Pruitts: All yeah, and you can't access these higher frequencies of you know your open heart when you're like in fear mode all the time, right?
• 13:17
  Samantha Pruitts: Or creativity and self-expression, or communication, rich communication through the throat chakra, or vision through your pineal gland and your third eye, or whatever.
• 13:27
  Samantha Pruitts: So his process, and we'll link to it, is you know, bringing that spinal fluid up, bringing the energy down there up into the brain, like lifting it out through the top of the head.
• 13:35
  Samantha Pruitts: That's one thing, you know, there's Tai Chi is other whatever it is, right?
• 13:40
  Samantha Pruitts: But I just think that being present.
• 13:43
  Samantha Pruitts: But you notice none of it is sitting around, doing nothing.
• 13:45
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 13:46
  Samantha Pruitts: None of it is sitting around or laying on your damp sofa or whatever, doing nothing.
• 13:51
  Samantha Pruitts: It all engages movement of some type, whether it's oxygenating and blood flow to the area or movement itself, like so you can actually start to get some contraction and movement within the tissue.
• 14:07
  Samantha Pruitts: We're a cellular being.
• 14:09
  Samantha Pruitts: Cells are not gonna just do their own thing.
• 14:13
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, I think of people who, you know, you were talking about like bed wasting, that picture just sounds so terrible for me.
• 14:19
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, they've got their phone and they're just flipping through it.
• 14:21
  Samantha Pruitts: The body is just kind of like limp, you know, they're just limp and there's not much stimulation.
• 14:27
  Samantha Pruitts: And one of the things you and I talked about before we went on air is how um if you study the re you know, the the downstream of what happens when people watch pornography, a lot of it or you know, a fair amount of it, is their arousal with their partner or you know, people in the world, um, it it diminishes, right?
• 14:45
  Samantha Pruitts: So if you watch these same thing with gambling, same thing with um peak states of you know, narcotics or alcohol or scrolling, right?
• 14:56
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, if I look at what and movies too, but if you look at what social looks like now to what it looked like 10 years ago, like people used to put phone uh food, you know, their pictures of their food or like their happy dog or something, and it was like, oh, like the stimulation was entertaining or enjoyable.
• 15:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Now I see the little videos of the stuff that people are doing to get attention and it goes viral.
• 15:22
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, it's like full-on, you know, productions, you know, fireworks going off or whatever, the most silliest thing to have to bring that person out, you know, get that dopamine hit that they're looking for.
• 15:35
  Samantha Pruitts: And I need to, I would say the first thing is like a detox from that.
• 15:39
  Samantha Pruitts: Actually, I had a cow move in to the house next door to me here.
• 15:43
  Samantha Pruitts: This was funny.
• 15:43
  Samantha Pruitts: And she said, Oh, you know, interview.
• 15:45
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm like, oh, nice to meet you, whatever.
• 15:47
  Samantha Pruitts: She goes, Yeah, and just you know, I have an old school flip phone right now.
• 15:50
  Samantha Pruitts: And I was like, I was like, wow, just for you.
• 15:53
  Samantha Pruitts: Because yeah, I just really consciously see uh all of that energy and the things that I was giving to that and texting and all this stuff.
• 16:01
  Samantha Pruitts: She's like, you know what?
• 16:02
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm going to flip phone for I was like, bruh, oh, right?
• 16:06
  Samantha Pruitts: That detoxing from needing to be available, needing to, you know, the scrolling and and all this stuff.
• 16:13
  Samantha Pruitts: And like, take your life back.
• 16:15
  Samantha Pruitts: That was phenomenal.
• 16:17
  Samantha Pruitts: So well, and I think what you were alluding to also, just to kind of like pull that thread a little bit more, is developing uh an immunity or a numbness, a tolerance to, you know, you see that a lot with television.
• 16:31
  Samantha Pruitts: And, you know, it used to be that shows looked a certain way and were a certain experience for us when we were growing up, you know.
• 16:38
  Samantha Pruitts: And then now what people are watching and the level of violence and the level of just really, in my personal opinion, very traumatic visual uh stories that are being told and shown and sounds and whatever.
• 16:55
  Samantha Pruitts: There is no way in hell we would have digested that stuff growing up, and now it's basically being scream streamed, so younger people are basically entitled.
• 17:05
  Samantha Pruitts: What do you mean?
• 17:06
  Samantha Pruitts: Crime, rape, pillage, whatever.
• 17:09
  Samantha Pruitts: This is all normal.
• 17:09
  Samantha Pruitts: No, it's not freaking normal, and we should not normalize it.
• 17:14
  Samantha Pruitts: Absolutely not.
• 17:15
  Samantha Pruitts: I think you had a little bit of this experience when you did your um Catalina, you know, when you go back into the woods or you go out into nature and you don't have all the comforts of air conditioning and running water, and I don't know, and just the the experience, the environment is more natural, right?
• 17:35
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Samantha Pruitts: It's just in its own sense, beauty and stillness and presence, right?
• 17:41
  Samantha Pruitts: It's it's nature doing nature versus all this animated, contrived, you know, supernatural kind of stuff that yeah, just to get people's attention.
• 17:52
  Samantha Pruitts: And I think it's where our nervous system, like we were talking about that pendulum, like our nervous system is like, oh, nature is like homeostasis, like sweet, hang out in here, you know, like you don't need all the jumping around or whatnot.
• 18:05
  Samantha Pruitts: So, you know, where we felt with this episode is we wanted to take people that were, you know, kind of in that numb state, some sort of like disconnect, numb or whatever.
• 18:16
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like, okay, zombie mode.
• 18:18
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:19
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's not, you know, pump, you know, for you.
• 18:21
  Samantha Pruitts: The one thing we did want to say though is you're in recovery.
• 18:24
  Samantha Pruitts: This isn't like get back into CrossFit next week or something, right?
• 18:29
  Samantha Pruitts: So, yeah.
• 18:30
  Samantha Pruitts: So your diagnosis, your prescription for yourself.
• 18:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Tell us about your plan.
• 18:34
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, how do you see, you know, you already, and that's one thing is pointing out is like you have a plan.
• 18:39
  Samantha Pruitts: You have a plan.
• 18:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Totally.
• 18:42
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, I was even making a plan before I was going to surgery.
• 18:47
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, okay, what's this gonna look like?
• 18:49
  Samantha Pruitts: So there's gonna be a period of time in my life where things are gonna look differently, right?
• 18:54
  Samantha Pruitts: First, there was the injury, and then there was that period of time of like figuring out what the hell it was and going through all the doctor's appointments and blah, blah, blah, getting myself educated, right?
• 19:03
  Samantha Pruitts: So then once I got to the other side of like, okay, you're gonna have the surgery, and then you're gonna come out, and this is what your the next chapter is going to look like.
• 19:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Again, taking ownership of that, me becoming empowered by like, okay, have the information that's knowledge.
• 19:20
  Samantha Pruitts: Knowledge is freedom, continue to educate myself, come up with a game plan.
• 19:24
  Samantha Pruitts: So, like, I know I'm gonna have two weeks of very, very light activity.
• 19:29
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, I'm literally not driving myself, you know.
• 19:31
  Samantha Pruitts: My husband's driving me around, and so there's I can only sit for no longer than 30 minutes at a time.
• 19:37
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's a lot of restrictions still, but I'm phasing myself slowly out of like I'm not taking pain medication anymore.
• 19:44
  Samantha Pruitts: That's freaking amazing.
• 19:45
  Samantha Pruitts: I have to detox all that out of my body, yeah, right?
• 19:48
  Samantha Pruitts: So I have to like get my stomach and my other systems back normalized and functioning again.
• 19:53
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, and then after that two-week period, we'll just call it like rest recovery detoxification.
• 19:59
  Samantha Pruitts: It really is a form of detox, too.
• 20:01
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, there's a lot of stuff floating around in this brain right now.
• 20:04
  Samantha Pruitts: Need to get that to move on out, right?
• 20:07
  Samantha Pruitts: And then after that, I will have PT for about six weeks and I'll slowly get into more activity.
• 20:13
  Samantha Pruitts: And there's a progression to that and what that's gonna look like.
• 20:17
  Samantha Pruitts: And anyway, between now and over the next couple months.
• 20:20
  Samantha Pruitts: So by the time I get to three months, basically I'm back to normal as long as everything goes as planned.
• 20:25
  Samantha Pruitts: But I very with great intention have not just awareness about what that's gonna look like.
• 20:30
  Samantha Pruitts: It's not happening to me, it's me doing it.
• 20:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Just gonna say that I'm very engaged in doing it.
• 20:35
  Samantha Pruitts: The most important thing I say here, yes, you have a plan is like your intentionality and taking responsibility.
• 20:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Right?
• 20:42
  Samantha Pruitts: You're like, I'm taking responsibility for the healing and the well-being in my body.
• 20:45
  Samantha Pruitts: I want to be where I want to be.
• 20:46
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, A, you had a nice state that you were in before all this, you know, this valley came in, right?
• 20:54
  Samantha Pruitts: And you know your normal is where you want to, you're you know, your normal, right?
• 20:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Which is a high state, high functioning, high energy, high uh creativity, you know, contributing, all that stuff.
• 21:07
  Samantha Pruitts: So she was just making me laugh because I was before I went into surgery, you know, I was in this like uh I was in the hospital, obviously, and nurses, I changed my clothes.
• 21:17
  Samantha Pruitts: There's this whole thing that has to happen, right?
• 21:18
  Samantha Pruitts: And I'm basically like waiting for the surgeon to come in and the anesthesiologist and the nurses, all these people came in.
• 21:25
  Samantha Pruitts: I was meeting all these people.
• 21:27
  Samantha Pruitts: I was just like, why is this a meet and greet?
• 21:29
  Samantha Pruitts: Look at me.
• 21:30
  Samantha Pruitts: And I was in there for a couple hours because they were running late, which is totally fine, right?
• 21:35
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, and during that time, it was so interesting to like be talking to people and like and I was still totally cop, you know, coherent.
• 21:43
  Samantha Pruitts: I didn't have any pain meds or anything.
• 21:45
  Samantha Pruitts: I was just laying in the bed waiting for this party to get started.
• 21:47
  Samantha Pruitts: And I was so chill and zen.
• 21:49
  Samantha Pruitts: I felt completely confident I was in the right place doing the right thing and all that kind of stuff.
• 21:53
  Samantha Pruitts: But when the surgeon came in and I was talking to him, he's like, So if you have any questions, blah blah blah, whatever.
• 21:58
  Samantha Pruitts: He's just the loveliest guy.
• 22:00
  Samantha Pruitts: And I said, Well, I don't have any questions, I'm good to go.
• 22:02
  Samantha Pruitts: But just remember, this is me talking to him.
• 22:05
  Samantha Pruitts: Just remember now, I gotta get back to running.
• 22:08
  Samantha Pruitts: Okay.
• 22:08
  Samantha Pruitts: I got I'm gonna do in the John Muir trail this year.
• 22:11
  Samantha Pruitts: I gotta get that going on.
• 22:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Uh he's just like, okay, okay.
• 22:15
  Samantha Pruitts: He's like, we got this, we got this, you know.
• 22:17
  Samantha Pruitts: I was very clearly like delivering the message of like, I will with your help, and I'm in your hands now.
• 22:24
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm literally giving my life over to your hands to get back to my old life.
• 22:29
  Samantha Pruitts: And I so appreciate that you're gonna be the guy to help me do it.
• 22:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, you know, instilling confidence and connection with him, I think is a very important part of like when you don't feel well or when something is happening and it's not going great, not showing up disempowered, you know, like, hey, I'm gonna just wait for you to tell me what's gonna happen next.
• 22:52
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, yeah, that's just not how I roll.
• 22:56
  Samantha Pruitts: I love it.
• 22:57
  Samantha Pruitts: And you know, in my world, what was going on this past weekend was I you were telling me before we aired about um years in your past where you had this like we call it like a depression cloud, or you know, oh yeah.
• 23:11
  Samantha Pruitts: So you said, you know, it's kind of like a cloud that comes over in the sky, and you can you can almost feel it, experience it, you know, see it if you will.
• 23:19
  Samantha Pruitts: And uh how I I wouldn't say I was in depression uh last weekend, but just a funk, like a like a funk, and how I described it was like come Friday, just a bit of burnout and like things that I was doing, strategies not working, and I just went like tumbling down, like a like if you're on your surfboard and this wave comes crashing over, and then like I'm down in the rocks and you know, I'm like fighting for air, and I was like, you know, just that those moments.
• 23:47
  Samantha Pruitts: And then finally, like that that cloud, if you will, whatever that funk was that I was in.
• 23:52
  Samantha Pruitts: And thankfully, what I wanted to point to is I came out of it, and I think a couple things happen is the mind um has a way of wanting to isolate us, right?
• 24:04
  Samantha Pruitts: So it wants to protect and isolate and like push the world out or whatever.
• 24:09
  Samantha Pruitts: And I, you know, reached out, like being in communication was surprisingly more helpful, you know, in in AA and those kind of traditions.
• 24:17
  Samantha Pruitts: They say, call your sponsor, reach out, you know, be in communication.
• 24:20
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, and how important that was for me to break that pattern that was the start of things like going, wait a minute, I'm uh this isn't me, this isn't how I want to feel.
• 24:30
  Samantha Pruitts: And and you're like, hold up, just pause, pause, you know, and all these things that I was wrapping my head around that were just continuing it.
• 24:38
  Samantha Pruitts: So making those calls, being in communication, having some trusted friends, partnerships, coaches, whatever it is, to work through those things, you know.
• 24:47
  Samantha Pruitts: And I would say, even before you got to that piece, like recognizing out of the corner of your eye, like I can almost like smell it when it's happening now.
• 24:55
  Samantha Pruitts: It's a visceral experience.
• 24:57
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, you know, it's like I see a little dark cloud over here blooming around, right?
• 25:04
  Samantha Pruitts: And like having great awareness of like, hmm, something is not quite right.
• 25:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Am I going to ignore it?
• 25:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Or should I be like, hey, I see you over there, I don't know what that's about, but I should start getting busy doing the things I know that work for me that will make sure that it doesn't become a freaking tsunami tornado, right?
• 25:27
  Samantha Pruitts: Taking over my life.
• 25:29
  Samantha Pruitts: It becomes a thing, it's a blip in the road, it's a moment in time, right?
• 25:33
  Samantha Pruitts: And it could have very good reason for being there.
• 25:36
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, understanding recognizing all of that, and then starting dialogue, so that's your own awareness, and then starting dialogue with your support team, your A team, whoever that is, whatever that looks like for you, like wow, kind of in a funk today.
• 25:51
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm just something's not, and then let's just talk and be seen, be heard, be loved, you know?
• 25:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, because I think what we were pointing to is, you know, if you go through periods and you don't get support, you don't, you know, remember your normal, you have too much time in that low energy, or you're taking in information, media, whatever it is, and that energy is stuck in those shot, lower chakras, or the mind is just hijacked, you know, and the whole body just feels abnormally adrift, you know, if it's if it's kind of like a numbing feeling or if it's a lower frequency, just moving those out, whether it's through conversations to like hear your truth and go, wait a minute, this yeah, wait a minute, you know, have your internal world externalized in conversation so that you can discover, wait a minute, what's really true here?
• 26:44
  Samantha Pruitts: Is this is this how I want to be feeling?
• 26:46
  Samantha Pruitts: Is this, you know, no, right?
• 26:48
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, but when it's all going on inside, whether it's energetically in our gut, just sort of like like, oh, that's just there, unless it's sometimes if it's not um, what do you call it?
• 27:01
  Samantha Pruitts: Uh like it it interacts.
• 27:03
  Samantha Pruitts: Um sort of like when they had that story of like the you can boil frogs if you don't you turn it up slowly, slowly, slowly, they won't jump out, right?
• 27:11
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's like we're in our body.
• 27:13
  Samantha Pruitts: If the boiling of emotions of toxicity or whatever is like slow, we don't realize until it's you know, you know, you need to jump out of this body, if you will.
• 27:24
  Samantha Pruitts: So having those conversations can help us relate to like this doesn't sound normal.
• 27:29
  Samantha Pruitts: This doesn't sound like you.
• 27:30
  Samantha Pruitts: This this what are you doing over there, you know?
• 27:32
  Samantha Pruitts: So having our inside come outside so we can, you know, presence ourselves to no, this isn't how I want to be feeling.
• 27:40
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 27:40
  Samantha Pruitts: And I mean, to be clear, we're not saying that there isn't a physical thing going on.
• 27:45
  Samantha Pruitts: There is also a physical thing going on.
• 27:47
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Samantha Pruitts: Right.
• 27:48
  Samantha Pruitts: And the problem could be, could arise if it goes on for a really long period of time.
• 27:55
  Samantha Pruitts: One of these hyper-vigilant or hyper-depressed states can really have a massive cascading effect, negative cascading effect on your hormones and how your whole body and brain function if it goes on for a really long period of time.
• 28:11
  Samantha Pruitts: And in those cases, of course, that's going to require more work.
• 28:14
  Samantha Pruitts: It's going to be a bigger lift to bring those people down from those low places.
• 28:20
  Samantha Pruitts: But what we're seeing today is in a perfect world, you'd have awareness before it would get so extreme, or you would have people in your life who would help you recognize, hey, I'm seeing a pattern again.
• 28:34
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm seeing, like I can think of people that I share my life with, right?
• 28:38
  Samantha Pruitts: You share your life with, we share our life with each other.
• 28:41
  Samantha Pruitts: If you see somebody kind of having a funk for a couple days, reach out to them, you know, whether it's a very simple conversation, if you're not seeing them, to text them, call them, whatever.
• 28:54
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, I just make it a regular practice to have kind of a pulse on about 20 or 30 people who are like, you know, in my space.
• 29:02
  Samantha Pruitts: And on a regular basis, I am asking them, how is your mental health?
• 29:08
  Samantha Pruitts: How is your physical health?
• 29:10
  Samantha Pruitts: How are you doing?
• 29:12
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, this is just basic human connection.
• 29:16
  Samantha Pruitts: This is how we should be operating.
• 29:18
  Samantha Pruitts: But I think um we've gotten away from that more and more the more we have digitalized our lives and becoming siloed, really post-pandemic.
• 29:25
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, the pandemic kind of started it, but a lot of people have stayed in those little uh home office or small life silos.
• 29:34
  Samantha Pruitts: The people that will not get out of their car and grocery shop and get food because they are still doing the drive-thru thing is blowing my mind.
• 29:44
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like you'd actually need to go walk around and see things.
• 29:49
  Samantha Pruitts: And I had a conversation with someone just the other day about this.
• 29:52
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, are you still having your food delivered?
• 29:55
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, come on now.
• 29:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Why are we doing that?
• 30:00
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 30:01
  Samantha Pruitts: So it might seem like small things, but they're big things and they really are impactful in terms of the energy.
• 30:08
  Samantha Pruitts: And I know you're big on the energy element of this.
• 30:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Maybe you want to.
• 30:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, one thing I just want to touch on what you're saying, you know, as um, you know, we're recording this before my um December program that I'm leading.
• 30:20
  Samantha Pruitts: And I've just been reaching out to people that I think would love to do the work, you know, to be in the group.
• 30:27
  Samantha Pruitts: And A, I'm amazed at how much I haven't been out in communication.
• 30:31
  Samantha Pruitts: Like I haven't, you know, yeah, like you said, like the 20.
• 30:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Mine's smaller because I don't have the extended family like you do with the kids and whatnot.
• 30:38
  Samantha Pruitts: But that, you know, small.
• 30:40
  Samantha Pruitts: And then I was like, so I've been doing these little hours of like, hey, how are you doing?
• 30:43
  Samantha Pruitts: I haven't wondered.
• 30:44
  Samantha Pruitts: And like I think people are hungry for it.
• 30:47
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, I don't, I think a lot of people are just as not being connected with as I've been feeling, you know.
• 30:53
  Samantha Pruitts: So I'm like, oh, I'm initiating.
• 30:55
  Samantha Pruitts: Okay, maybe my initiation will help others initiate in their life as well.
• 30:59
  Samantha Pruitts: Like, oh, who haven't you?
• 31:00
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm not telling them to do that, but it's like, you know, maybe them reconnecting with somebody they haven't connected with in a while will give them the in the surge and the idea.
• 31:09
  Samantha Pruitts: Dude, people are starving.
• 31:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Starving.
• 31:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Look at the origins of the species, human species.
• 31:17
  Samantha Pruitts: We're we're social beings.
• 31:19
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Samantha Pruitts: So us pretending we're not is not ultimately going to serve ourselves and each other.
• 31:25
  Samantha Pruitts: I want to just mention this one thing because this is really interesting to me.
• 31:28
  Samantha Pruitts: The um spinal fluid.
• 31:30
  Samantha Pruitts: So you're earlier talking about the sheet the three chakras, and in particular, Joe's work is like squeezing that area, bringing tension, muscular tension to the area, and creating like a pulsing through your breath and through your muscular into the spinal cord.
• 31:44
  Samantha Pruitts: And then that spinal fluid keeps pumping up and down, right?
• 31:48
  Samantha Pruitts: And when I was looking at healing the pain in my sacrum, which I originally I thought it was a sacrum injury, and it turned out to be an actual lumbar disc injury, but it's all in my pelvis, hip, low back region, right?
• 32:04
  Samantha Pruitts: Um there's protein, there's salts and fluids in your spinal fluid going up and down, up and down, which means it actually has an energy to it, like everything in the body.
• 32:16
  Samantha Pruitts: But it's such a great visual to think of that fluid being pushed and pulsed.
• 32:21
  Samantha Pruitts: We've talked about the lymphatic system before.
• 32:23
  Samantha Pruitts: The fact it also doesn't have a drain, you have to pump it through muscular contraction.
• 32:28
  Samantha Pruitts: Spinal fluid is the same.
• 32:31
  Samantha Pruitts: I have to move this spinal fluid.
• 32:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Okay.
• 32:34
  Samantha Pruitts: Me just sitting or laying down on the sofa waiting for my body to heal will not heal my spine.
• 32:41
  Samantha Pruitts: That is not going to happen.
• 32:44
  Samantha Pruitts: And I think it's unfortunate that people sort of want to lay back, if you will, on that idea of like rest means doing nothing.
• 32:54
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, there is a thing called rest, and there's a thing called recovery.
• 32:57
  Samantha Pruitts: So believe me, I slept 10 hours last night.
• 32:59
  Samantha Pruitts: I was resting.
• 33:01
  Samantha Pruitts: But my recovery is not the same thing.
• 33:04
  Samantha Pruitts: My recovery is gentle movement and getting these fluids to move around and eating healthy and exposing myself to positive things so my brain can be stimulated.
• 33:13
  Samantha Pruitts: It's all these other things.
• 33:15
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Right?
• 33:16
  Samantha Pruitts: To bring myself back into that state of health.
• 33:20
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, I I do, I love that.
• 33:22
  Samantha Pruitts: And I was trying to think of like what is the metaphor.
• 33:26
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like um, I don't know, it's like a turkey baster, like you squeeze it, you know, and like the it's I don't know what it is, but I'm trying to think of like a thermometer and like you heat it up on the bottom and it goes up.
• 33:35
  Samantha Pruitts: Something, right?
• 33:36
  Samantha Pruitts: Like because that's I was thinking a coffee press.
• 33:38
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, an old coffee, old school coffee press, they're coming back now.
• 33:41
  Samantha Pruitts: But anyway, you put the hot water in, then you press the coffee down and it makes coffee.
• 33:45
  Samantha Pruitts: All the hot water comes in coffee.
• 33:47
  Samantha Pruitts: But like it's a pumping mechanism.
• 33:50
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's actually a pumping, it's literally like you have squeezing, yeah.
• 33:55
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 33:55
  Samantha Pruitts: Like squeezing it from the outside in.
• 33:57
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 33:57
  Samantha Pruitts: And what you're pointing to, and I love it, is you know, this fluid um gets a charge, right?
• 34:04
  Samantha Pruitts: And if you if you further go down, yeah, if you go down Joe's work, so where a lot of this leads, he talks about it like the pumping up and down.
• 34:11
  Samantha Pruitts: And like picture, you're sending this fluid up from the bottom of your bum to your head and then back down and then up and back down, right?
• 34:18
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's it's moving.
• 34:20
  Samantha Pruitts: And when it gets into your head, it's you know, it's like magnetizing your thoughts, right?
• 34:26
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's giving you higher access to higher energy, higher frequencies in the mind space, right?
• 34:32
  Samantha Pruitts: And there's three levels of that, and la la la.
• 34:34
  Samantha Pruitts: You can go, I think I would encourage people to go check it out.
• 34:37
  Samantha Pruitts: And then, you know, some of his work, other work that he talks about is getting the heart and mind in coherence.
• 34:42
  Samantha Pruitts: And that's a lot of the work that I do in, you know, my program, which is the heart chakra, the heart energy.
• 34:48
  Samantha Pruitts: The heart is, you know, a polarity, right?
• 34:52
  Samantha Pruitts: So it pulls things, like you get your mind with the ideas and it sends it out, and then your heart pulls it in, right?
• 34:58
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's this like you're you magnify the thoughts that you have, positive ones, we hope, you know, like the ones that you want to attract, not the things that you don't want to attract.
• 35:07
  Samantha Pruitts: So you send that out, and then the heart being aligned with it pulls it in.
• 35:11
  Samantha Pruitts: So they work like this, you know, this yin and yang, or you know, it's like out and in, you're sending the frequency out that you want, and the heart pulls in those things that you want.
• 35:20
  Samantha Pruitts: It's really beautiful to, you know.
• 35:22
  Samantha Pruitts: Electrical charges.
• 35:24
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 35:24
  Samantha Pruitts: Same with the heart, right?
• 35:25
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 35:27
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 35:30
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 35:31
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Samantha Pruitts: But it starts with like moving that those.
• 35:34
  Samantha Pruitts: I what I found so profound in that video was how much of culture and the things that on the external world that we get pulled into or distracted by keeps that lower energy in place.
• 35:49
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's more about us realizing and rising above that energy so we can move it in our own little sphere over here, our own little temple to keep us in the state that we want to be in, right?
• 36:00
  Samantha Pruitts: Because the outer world will keep us in that lower frequency.
• 36:03
  Samantha Pruitts: So it's us to generate, create that generation of energy and the spinal flowed up and down.
• 36:08
  Samantha Pruitts: Like you said, what are some ways that you get yourself pumped up?
• 36:12
  Samantha Pruitts: So if you feel like you need to break yourself out of something like that, give us some examples of what you do.
• 36:18
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, one thing we just talked about that I don't do enough, which is the having conversations with people in my life that, you know, help me recognize the shitty state I have myself in, you know.
• 36:29
  Samantha Pruitts: So that's one is like, oh damn, okay.
• 36:32
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, this is not commiserating though.
• 36:34
  Samantha Pruitts: Again, this is an energy thing.
• 36:35
  Samantha Pruitts: And I I don't have people around me that commiserate.
• 36:38
  Samantha Pruitts: Uh uh.
• 36:38
  Samantha Pruitts: Like my reflection mirror is not, oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
• 36:42
  Samantha Pruitts: Nope.
• 36:43
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, so I was thinking about myself.
• 36:45
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm thinking about myself just having this injury and then going through the surgery.
• 36:48
  Samantha Pruitts: And so I did have a lot of people reach out to me, which I love that.
• 36:52
  Samantha Pruitts: And thank you, everybody.
• 36:54
  Samantha Pruitts: But some people are the worry wart sort of catastrophizing people, right?
• 36:59
  Samantha Pruitts: And I'm like, okay, you're hilarious because you forgot you're talking to me.
• 37:02
  Samantha Pruitts: But what is this?
• 37:05
  Samantha Pruitts: Henny penny, the sky's falling and all things are ending.
• 37:07
  Samantha Pruitts: What the hell is that?
• 37:08
  Samantha Pruitts: This is time surgery.
• 37:10
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, yeah, that's a hell no.
• 37:12
  Samantha Pruitts: And by the way, what the hell, what's the you know, like you have to sort these people out.
• 37:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Because for some people, that is a little bit of uh where they default.
• 37:21
  Samantha Pruitts: And then they started like one instance with somebody I hadn't talked to in quite a long time.
• 37:25
  Samantha Pruitts: I used to coach this guy, and anyway, he's great, love him.
• 37:28
  Samantha Pruitts: But he immediately went into the 50,000 things that are going wrong in his body, and it was this whole like you're not gonna believe, and then and I was like, yo, bro, stop right there.
• 37:39
  Samantha Pruitts: It's my temple over here.
• 37:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, we're right.
• 37:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Right there, yeah.
• 37:42
  Samantha Pruitts: And also, what is this story you're telling yourself?
• 37:45
  Samantha Pruitts: Everything's broken and it's all falling apart to hell.
• 37:48
  Samantha Pruitts: Like trying to the commiseration uh thing.
• 37:51
  Samantha Pruitts: So just throwing that out for people to have awareness.
• 37:54
  Samantha Pruitts: But yeah, you you go into a conversation and you're like, My energy is low.
• 37:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Could you bring me like I need to plug in and get a little fired up?
• 38:02
  Samantha Pruitts: And you and I'll do that on a regular basis.
• 38:04
  Samantha Pruitts: We have to go do a thing and whatever, and we'll be like, hey, oh look, I just need to talk for five minutes.
• 38:08
  Samantha Pruitts: I gotta go, or like I need to get fired up.
• 38:10
  Samantha Pruitts: Start the bonfire, pour some gasoline on that shit.
• 38:14
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah, charge it up.
• 38:15
  Samantha Pruitts: And then I think the other thing that I do on the daily is my morning routine, you know, my meditated, like I know that I'm always coming back to that grounding, right?
• 38:22
  Samantha Pruitts: And they're daily fluctuations in how powerful it is, how grounding it is, how loving it is, whatever.
• 38:29
  Samantha Pruitts: But it's like I'm never, you know, a day or two away from recentering myself, recentering myself.
• 38:36
  Samantha Pruitts: So I'm just not gonna kind of drift off into you know, six weeks.
• 38:40
  Samantha Pruitts: Like I hear people who are like, oh yeah, I used to work out.
• 38:43
  Samantha Pruitts: Like it was a like a thing in the far, far past.
• 38:46
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm like, I don't drift that far, you know, two, three days, like that two weeks was I was still walking.
• 38:51
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, okay, well, I'm still gonna be moving, you know, or vacuuming and you know, just getting some movement, if you will.
• 38:56
  Samantha Pruitts: Vacuuming that last that makes me laugh just saying that because I find vacuuming very meditative and fascinating.
• 39:02
  Samantha Pruitts: Because like you can actually get your heart rate up vacuuming.
• 39:05
  Samantha Pruitts: Anyway, right?
• 39:06
  Samantha Pruitts: I know, and I've been told not to vacuum.
• 39:08
  Samantha Pruitts: I can't clean my house, can't do all these things.
• 39:10
  Samantha Pruitts: I was like, vacuum?
• 39:11
  Samantha Pruitts: Like that's strenuous, but okay.
• 39:13
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh, you can't do that.
• 39:14
  Samantha Pruitts: Um pulling.
• 39:15
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh, if you've got one of these modern day, man, it's quite a workout.
• 39:19
  Samantha Pruitts: Totally, totally.
• 39:21
  Samantha Pruitts: And then for me, some of the pump up things that I do and what I've witnessed with being off in this period of time, right, is like because I wasn't doing my regular activities like get up, go to the gym, yeah, go to my coffee shop, go do this thing, blah, blah, blah, run my life, my day in a certain way, um, being able to clean the house or do whatever the hell the things are that I want to do.
• 39:44
  Samantha Pruitts: I basically move all day long.
• 39:46
  Samantha Pruitts: I don't actually sit down until the end of the day.
• 39:50
  Samantha Pruitts: And even then, I might sit for a couple hours at the end of the day if I'm watching something that's worth watching or whatever.
• 39:56
  Samantha Pruitts: But the rest of the time I'm, you know, moving around.
• 39:58
  Samantha Pruitts: So the energy in my body is pumping up or whatever.
• 40:01
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, because I wasn't really doing that, I had no creative juices.
• 40:07
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, I'm in the middle of a study program right now with Dr.
• 40:09
  Samantha Pruitts: Stacy Sam's, right?
• 40:11
  Samantha Pruitts: I couldn't focus to learn the your substacks, you know, your writing.
• 40:17
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, you know, any creative.
• 40:19
  Samantha Pruitts: I got nothing.
• 40:21
  Samantha Pruitts: And normally I can barely contain it, you know.
• 40:25
  Samantha Pruitts: And so finding I know you're like making recordings like all day long, or you know.
• 40:29
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 40:30
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, and I'm like, uh that was really kind of a fascinating eye-opening experience for me, you know.
• 40:38
  Samantha Pruitts: And I told you I was awake at two in the morning and I was having all these things or like downloading, and I should have got my ass up and literally written all those things, typed them up, whatever, because then they were gone.
• 40:49
  Samantha Pruitts: Bye.
• 40:50
  Samantha Pruitts: Mm-hmm.
• 40:51
  Samantha Pruitts: So how how do you I know some of yours, your some of your joy, you know, your joy routine, like you said, you go to the coffee shop, that connection, the human connection for you.
• 41:01
  Samantha Pruitts: You go and you get your your workouts with your ladies there, and you know, like those things that you're big for you, I think is that that checking in, that connection that you get when you're with people.
• 41:13
  Samantha Pruitts: And um, having creative outlets and seeking them too.
• 41:16
  Samantha Pruitts: So I found because I was in a great deal of pain, uh, my brain wasn't really willing to have a lot of stimulus or have a lot of exposure to uh whether it's podcasts or reading or whatever.
• 41:31
  Samantha Pruitts: Like I was trying to read and I ended up like getting, because I read quite a bit, I had to buy the most basic, simple book that took almost no brain energy at all just to like be able to have something to read, but it took very little focus or attention from me.
• 41:46
  Samantha Pruitts: It wasn't something I was gonna be learning, it was more like a passive kind of reading, and I was just like, Well, I'm reading.
• 41:51
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh, what did she say?
• 41:52
  Samantha Pruitts: I gotta read that paragraph over again.
• 41:54
  Samantha Pruitts: It was kind of crazy.
• 41:55
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, so just keeping some things going, uh, but not being able to really take in much.
• 42:03
  Samantha Pruitts: And so you can find yourself in places like this for prolonged periods of time where you know you really are not learning.
• 42:11
  Samantha Pruitts: And if you think about that's a real problem, right?
• 42:16
  Samantha Pruitts: If I went for prolonged periods of time that I wasn't able to learn new information, that's literally such a big part of what makes me happy.
• 42:25
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:26
  Samantha Pruitts: And how I feel like an evolving human in the world.
• 42:30
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, that just feels like I'm starting to die.
• 42:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Literally, a part of me is starting to die if that part were cut off.
• 42:37
  Samantha Pruitts: And that's just not okay, right?
• 42:39
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, I think that's you stimulating your brain too.
• 42:41
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, like your brain just loves like the newness, the freshness, you know, like it's deleting old and it's replacing it.
• 42:47
  Samantha Pruitts: I think for me too, um, and you have this, is um being outdoors, being in nature, seeing something beautiful, precious, simple beauty, whatever, right?
• 42:59
  Samantha Pruitts: So like I look up my window um here and I see the these beautiful yellow flowers.
• 43:03
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like, oh, right.
• 43:05
  Samantha Pruitts: But if I'm indoor, you know, dark weather, cold weather, uh rainy weather can have us, you know, but you know, stuck inside.
• 43:14
  Samantha Pruitts: And I we just like having fever is a real thing.
• 43:16
  Samantha Pruitts: Like we just crave those even right now.
• 43:20
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm like standing by the window.
• 43:21
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 43:23
  Samantha Pruitts: Birds, oh, a couple birds over there.
• 43:25
  Samantha Pruitts: What are they doing?
• 43:26
  Samantha Pruitts: There's a hummingbird.
• 43:27
  Samantha Pruitts: Oh, okay, there's clouds in the sky or whatever.
• 43:30
  Samantha Pruitts: Still staying connected to it.
• 43:31
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 43:32
  Samantha Pruitts: Hell yeah.
• 43:33
  Samantha Pruitts: Or going out in the yard and walking around totally.
• 43:36
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, yeah.
• 43:37
  Samantha Pruitts: And I it's interesting.
• 43:38
  Samantha Pruitts: I think about my mom who watches television and there's a window and behind her.
• 43:43
  Samantha Pruitts: And like I've tried to like situate um seating areas and move all the furniture.
• 43:47
  Samantha Pruitts: She can and it's like no interest, like no interest in in that.
• 43:52
  Samantha Pruitts: I'm like, well, but whatever, you know, whatever.
• 43:56
  Samantha Pruitts: Everybody's got a little different thing.
• 43:57
  Samantha Pruitts: So finding what pumps you up.
• 44:00
  Samantha Pruitts: And if you don't know, like try, experiment, right?
• 44:03
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, and I would say there's different layers to this or levels to this, you know, where you're at with the recovery is we're not talking about going and getting jacked.
• 44:12
  Samantha Pruitts: Like you don't need like 300 miles an hour pumped up, but it's, you know, for whatever frequency, whatever band you're in at that moment, what's an elevated state from there?
• 44:23
  Samantha Pruitts: And then what's an elevated state from there?
• 44:25
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, and sometimes we do need radical interventions.
• 44:28
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, not I would say, you know, when you're in recovery, I'm not saying anything like this, but you know, like for me, after these two weeks, I was like, I gotta, you know, like unfortunately it was raining, but I wanted to like jump up on a mountain, get going, right?
• 44:41
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like something radical being back in the gym and lifting heavy stuff was like, okay, this is who I am, this is how my body likes to move.
• 44:49
  Samantha Pruitts: And whatever it is for somebody, it could be Pilates that just feels like flow for them, whatever.
• 44:55
  Samantha Pruitts: Music, I think, is really good for this.
• 44:57
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah.
• 44:58
  Samantha Pruitts: Um, listening to music, also singing and humming is really good for this.
• 45:03
  Samantha Pruitts: So again, you're changing the vibration that's coming into your cellular being and the output vibration that's going out of your body as well.
• 45:12
  Samantha Pruitts: I think music is really, really powerful.
• 45:15
  Samantha Pruitts: I mean, just yeah, figuring out obviously we've talked about movement enough, but um, cold is another thing.
• 45:21
  Samantha Pruitts: So there's a lot of research around cold therapies right now, obviously, but just splashing cold on your face and putting your hands in cold water can be enough to be like, damn, okay.
• 45:32
  Samantha Pruitts: So let's say you're gonna go do a presentation to whatever you you know, you need to in a place that's not appropriate to do a lot of ranting and raving or playing music or whatever.
• 45:44
  Samantha Pruitts: Go in the bathroom, put your hands under cold water, splash your face if you can and get a little cold water, like even cold air on your face, like it's things like this.
• 45:54
  Samantha Pruitts: It can be very, very simple.
• 45:56
  Samantha Pruitts: People don't have to get all crazy about it, but you know, integrate these things into your practice.
• 46:01
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, like I think about like clapping has a tremendous, you know, like clapping and uh affirm like yelling or you know loudly speaking affirmations, you know, like like things that fuel your you know pump you up.
• 46:14
  Samantha Pruitts: Singing, like you talked about, you know, like sing to that damn song in the car, like let it out, right?
• 46:19
  Samantha Pruitts: You know, exactly, exactly.
• 46:22
  Samantha Pruitts: Whatever it takes, whatever it takes, baby.
• 46:24
  Samantha Pruitts: All right.
• 46:25
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, it's so good to have you back in sort of out of pain.
• 46:29
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:31
  Samantha Pruitts: I was getting a little grumpy.
• 46:33
  Samantha Pruitts: I was getting a little grumpy for a minute there.
• 46:36
  Samantha Pruitts: You're like, we gotta find the thing, you know, keep finding the thing until because Grumpy Town isn't where you want to stay.
• 46:41
  Samantha Pruitts: So yeah.
• 46:42
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 46:42
  Samantha Pruitts: So glad to have you back.
• 46:43
  Samantha Pruitts: Well, what do you excelling?
• 46:45
  Samantha Pruitts: What's our one thing?
• 46:47
  Samantha Pruitts: What's one thing from this that is you think is the most like pivotal?
• 46:52
  Samantha Pruitts: I think just bringing awareness to people that they do need to pump themselves up.
• 46:56
  Samantha Pruitts: Okay, that that the pumping up is not coming from some external, someone else's responsibility, something else.
• 47:04
  Samantha Pruitts: I need to be responsible for lighting my own fire.
• 47:08
  Samantha Pruitts: Like this is a responsibility I'm taking on, and I would like others to do the same thing.
• 47:14
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, yeah.
• 47:14
  Samantha Pruitts: And we can look for external support and help in that, or like you, like going out to your CrossFit.
• 47:20
  Samantha Pruitts: You go into an environment that serves that, and you know, like you don't stay at home and like, oh, I'm just gonna cheer myself up, right?
• 47:26
  Samantha Pruitts: You're like, I'm gonna put myself in an environment, or like some of you, it's like a retreat, like a beautiful retreat to bring you back to your center and let go of some crap that you've been carrying around, right?
• 47:35
  Samantha Pruitts: Whatever, like our my program, right?
• 47:37
  Samantha Pruitts: It's like completing the year, like let that go.
• 47:39
  Samantha Pruitts: So you're freed up for new energy.
• 47:43
  Samantha Pruitts: So brilliant.
• 47:44
  Samantha Pruitts: I love it.
• 47:44
  Samantha Pruitts: Exactly.
• 47:45
  Samantha Pruitts: Are we gonna beat drums?
• 47:46
  Samantha Pruitts: What are we gonna do?
• 47:47
  Samantha Pruitts: Are we all gonna have instruments?
• 47:49
  Samantha Pruitts: No, it's gonna be a little more mellow than that.
• 47:52
  Samantha Pruitts: Yeah, this is really sacred time.
• 47:54
  Samantha Pruitts: I found I was telling some um a hairdresser about this yesterday, and it was like, there's so much busyness going, intake, like there's so much coming at us from the world and so much responsibilities.
• 48:06
  Samantha Pruitts: We're just pulled in all these directions, lots going on.
• 48:09
  Samantha Pruitts: You have been, you know, taking care of yourself, but a lot of the women of the world are just out in the world, contributing, supporting, whatever.
• 48:17
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's like, hold up, let's let's get that container, shrink it down just to you and have time with you so we can remember the us that's in here and the beautiful soul that we are, and like what matters most to us because we can get very influenced, we can get very engaged, like we're velcro out in the world.
• 48:35
  Samantha Pruitts: And it's like, you know, just pull that in.
• 48:37
  Samantha Pruitts: So we're gonna be kind of not walling ourselves off, but like welling ourselves up, right?
• 48:43
  Samantha Pruitts: Welling ourselves up so that we can contribute it in what ways we most want, what feels most aligned for us.
• 48:50
  Samantha Pruitts: So and there's still opportunity to join, right?
• 48:54
  Samantha Pruitts: Yes, that very yeah, November 30th.
• 48:56
  Samantha Pruitts: So depending on when you're hearing this, like that's the cutoff, November 30th, 2025, uh for this year, and then we will do it again next year.
• 49:03
  Samantha Pruitts: So that's exciting.
• 49:03
  Samantha Pruitts: And you and I have lots coming up in 2026.
• 49:06
  Samantha Pruitts: So if you're listening to this, you know, check us out on our social and website.
• 49:11
  Samantha Pruitts: We'll definitely be making announcements as things are rolled out.
• 49:13
  Samantha Pruitts: All right.
• 49:14
  Samantha Pruitts: And we're talking about listening parties and all sorts of things of getting engaged with people who are following us and and supporting the work that they're wanting to get up to, right?
• 49:22
  Samantha Pruitts: So exactly.
• 49:24
  Samantha Pruitts: All right.
• 49:25
  Samantha Pruitts: What do we want to remind them though?
• 49:26
  Samantha Pruitts: Of our last, last thing after um all this yummy work.
• 49:30
  Samantha Pruitts: This is really beautiful.
• 49:31
  Samantha Pruitts: What do you want to well, how your body feels is how it feels.
• 49:35
  Samantha Pruitts: That's true too.
• 49:36
  Samantha Pruitts: That's also true.
• 49:37
  Samantha Pruitts: How your body feels is one thing, but how your life feels is more important than how it looks.
• 49:44
  Samantha Pruitts: Love it.
• 49:45
  Samantha Pruitts: And every day is your opportunity to find yourself.