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Bonus Episode: Grounding in Chaos: Illuminating the Path for Mindful and Twice-Exceptional Children · The Spiritual Parent: Mindful Tools for Raising Spiritual and Conscious Kids

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  Carrie Lingenfelter: think about that spiritually.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If you are this spirit and you are vibrating and some of us in the spiritual ideas, we're raising our connection, we're raising our vibrations to connect with source, world, god, connection around us.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If we are raising that spirit or we are born connected many children born today, highly sensitive kids, twice exceptional.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If we are born connected Many children born today, highly sensitive kids, twice exceptional we are born connected into the spirit and then we're like coming into the body.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, it's painful, I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, it's loud down here.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, I don't know, this thing really tastes.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Why is mom feeding me this green stuff?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So thinking about these pieces of grounding ourselves is connecting our spirit with our body as one right, keeping that connection as one.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi, conscious Parents, it's Keri here and I am here with a little info about raising our mindful kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I've got some tips and tricks about breaking free of the box and becoming who you are and teaching your kids how to do that.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Along the way.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Join us, hi conscious moms and dads.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Do you have moments where you miss that flow state that you used to find before becoming a parent?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Was there something that you used to work in that your heart was really passionate about and you felt like you were making a difference in the world?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can join us with a free guided meditation, available in the show notes, to help you rediscover your passion in life.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Hi there and welcome back.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's Keri, your friendly, conscious mama here, and I'm so excited to connect with all of you parents and share some little words of wisdom in this bonus clip today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Bonus episode Today I would love to share this little phrase that I have been thinking in my mind and actually it's kind of part of my New Year's resolution that I was looking at I call it resolution, but I guess it's more of an intention.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: And so this year for my resolution, I was looking at light me up and I felt like that light me up was this openness that I have toward the universe to receive.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I am open to receiving lessons that I am hoping to learn, information that I am looking to download, things I am learning to connect with, with my kids, with my family, with my parents, with myself all of these pieces.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So lighting me up this year is what I am asking the universe to do, hopefully not with some big life lessons.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's try to keep it like low key please, because I am a mom and we are a neurodiverse family here.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are highly sensitive people, okay.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So one phrase that I was thinking that was coming to mind this week was be the light, and it's kind of having to do with what we're talking about.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, when our little people are feeling discombobulated, when they're having a hard time being a human, it comes in the OT side and it also comes in the spiritual side of they're looking to you and your system to ground them.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Their system is so overwhelmed they cannot ground themselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: They need your tools and they're looking for your system to be grounded.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So what does that look like?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If I am Having a hard time, if I'm sad and gloomy and doomy, if I'm getting angry and taking it to the next step?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What does that look like for their systems?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Do you think that's going to help them?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Do you think it's going to be more taxing?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Do you think it's going to put more demands on their body?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That is already at their limit with their demands.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: They have no more room for demands in their capacity cup.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It is full.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So let's think about being the light.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's think about grounding ourselves, grounding our own energy, and then helping them to ground themselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You don't even have to have the tools to teach them to ground themselves.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can just be grounding in your own self and that in itself so many selves here that in itself will help to teach them how to do it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That will help them to relieve some of the stress that they're feeling on their body.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So what's really been interesting to me as I have been researching the evidence-based side, I love to read about ADHD, autism, neurodiversity, twice, exceptional, gifted and talented.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh my gosh, I have so many books on my bookshelf.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This weekend, my husband and I were like, oh my god, we gotta donate some of these books, because we are a little bit of book hoarders over here.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We buy thrift books.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We buy used ones too, by the way.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So back to my story.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We have jumped into the evidence-based side and then we have also been diving into the spiritual side, because there's always room to grow and you know something, where they come together, they continue to both talk about grounding.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: What does grounding mean?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Grounding means to me.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is how I am interpreting it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Interpreting this is how I am understanding it evidence-based, wise and spiritual.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Wise, and maybe people will disagree with me, disagree or agree.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can take it at the door or you can leave it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Your choice but this is what I am understanding in my own version is it is teaching us how to connect our spirit, soul, purpose, what makes us tick our light in us.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It is connecting that peace with our body, our physical peace and a lot of OTs talk about like grounding.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You're jumping on the ground, you're bringing yourself into your body.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, think about that spiritually.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If you are this spirit and you are vibrating and some of us in the spiritual ideas, we're raising our connection.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're raising our vibrations to connect with source, world, god connection around us.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If we are raising that spirit or we are born connected many children born today, highly sensitive kids, twice exceptional If we are born connected into the spirit and then we're like it coming into the body, oh, it's painful, I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, it's loud down here.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Oh, I don't know this.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This thing really tastes.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Why is mom feeding me this green stuff?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I want to go back up.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So, thinking about these pieces of grounding ourselves is connecting our spirit with our body as one right, keeping that connection as one, being able to be in our body form while not wanting to run away.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's what I look at as grounding.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's how I have created this idea in my mind, and I was recently reading a book, psychic Psychology, which gives so many amazing tools.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Love it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: I need to connect with these people because I'm really enjoying it, and I came across this guided meditation that they had talked about, and I would love to share it with you guys today.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So Psychic Psychology is where I got it, and I recently have been doing this with my six-year-old.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: She's almost seven.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: She just went back to school after our winter break and it has been hard for her.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: She's been having nightmares at night.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So, before bed, we're doing this energy release and let's work through it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So I'm just going to guide you through it.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is one you can do with your kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This is one that's awesome for adults to do before bedtime.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's release all of that energy of our day and connect with the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So I'm just going to walk you through this one.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So we're going to close our eyes, we're going to take some deep breaths, breathe in, breathe out, and we're going to listen to our breathing.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel our feet calmly placed on the ground.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel our back supported by the back of the chair.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to feel our head sitting at the top of our body and connecting with the universe, source, god, spirit, whatever feels comfortable to you.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to picture a green ball at the top of our legs, a ball, a green ball that is spinning.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's going to be in our root chakra area.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's going to continue spinning and it's going to go deep down toward the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's going to go through the crust of the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's spinning and it's going into the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's diving deep, deep into the deep, deep, vast space of the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Right, it's going through the crust, the mantle, and it's getting to the core.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now it's connected deep into the core and it's created a green tube that connects from your root chakra or near the tops of your legs all the way down into the core of the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We are connected with the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We can bring up a green ball of energy from the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's coming up the tube and it's filling into all of our body.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's filling into our hands, our feet, our head.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's filling us with loving, kind, generous energy from the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thank you, earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We see a second ball of energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's a green ball of light.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's coming up the tunnel into our body and filling throughout our body with all of this energy and love.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We see a third ball.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's coming up the tunnel from the earth.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's going through.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It comes up through our third root chakra, our root chakra, and it's going into all of our body, filling our body with conscious, loving energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Now we're going to breathe out anything that doesn't serve us, anything from your day, any dreams that may be scary for kids, anything that may feel yucky in our body, anything we're fearful of, any fear of success, any fear of imposter syndrome.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to breathe that deep down through the tube.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's going down down all the way into the core of the earth, and this earth is so big and majestical that it can handle it, it can absorb this energy.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So breathe out anything else that you have, take a deep breath of cleansing, breath in, breathe out that energy that does not serve us, send it deep into the earth, feel the sun rays on your skin, feel the cleansing of all of that energy, and then we're going to tip inverted.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: So what I like to do is I like to tell my kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: We're going to point the top of our heads to the ground.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: That's what I just did.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: If you were on video, you followed it and we're going to take some more breaths, two more breaths, and we're going to say thank you for giving me this clarity and this calmness, thank you for helping me to be the light, and so it is.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: When you feel like it, you can open your eyes.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can open your hands as well, so I would love for you to try this with your kids.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: It's so good to do these guided meditations, and maybe you have a kiddo that laughs and giggles at it, so maybe you need to do it when they're they're in the bathtub.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Maybe you need to do it when they're playing.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Sometimes I have them play with a bowl of water and dish soap and a straw and we blow bubbles in it, because then you get the breathing in right, you're breathing the exhaling.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can do it any way you see fit for your kiddo.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: My two kids love sitting on the bed and doing this after we read a book.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: You can follow it with a prayer, whatever you feel drawn toward.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: But I would love for you to try thinking about these grounding pieces, thinking about what it's like.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Just think of the word ground, write it down and think what does this bring to me this week?
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Happy times, changemaker parents.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Remember we're Changemakers, raising Changemakers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Let's keep it going, guys.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, that's a wrap.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in Changemakers.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: This's keep it going, guys.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Well, that's a wrap.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in Changemakers.
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• 12:43
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Thanks so much for tuning in and happy life.
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  Carrie Lingenfelter: Happy times, changemaker families.