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Why Are You Here? Discovering Purpose, Passion, and Holistic Healing with Dr. Marlene Siegel · The FEEL Podcast: Women’s Empowerment, Emotional Wellness and Self-Leadership with Melissa Crook

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  Sometimes our journey isn't what we expect or what we think we
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  want, but it's always what we need.
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  So we're never live forever. Melissa, let me come on.
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  Be seriously right. We're we're all exiting this
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  planet at some point. In our animals.
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  Yes, we're all leaving and but but I think what our purpose is,
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  is how are we serving? How are we contributing to the
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  conscious edge of creation in a purposeful way using our gifts,
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  our talents, our passion? How are we doing that?
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  And when we get that, then we feel very accomplished.
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  We feel satisfied. We feel that joy and contentment
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  with knowing that we're really doing something wonderful in the
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  world. And if anybody would have said
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  to me 30 years ago, oh, you're going to transform veterinary
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  medicine, I would have, I would have looked at them and said,
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  are you crazy? And yet the program, my very
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  first program that I developed got named Transforming that
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  Medicine. Go figure.
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  Hello, I'm Melissa Crook. Welcome to today's episode here
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  on the Field podcast. I've got a new friend here with
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  me today. This episode is going to be
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  fascinating. Dr. Marlene Siegel is one of the
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  most fascinating women I've ever met.
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  Her background is just so full of it.
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  I'm just going to start with how she describes herself.
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  Creative, out-of-the-box, awakened, highly spiritual,
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  fearless, courageous, curious. She's a trailblazer.
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  She's playful. And that is just the beginning
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  with this remarkable woman. I'm so excited to have her
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  joining me here today. Welcome Doctor Marlene Siegel to
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  the Field podcast. Thank you, Melissa.
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  I'm so excited to speak with your audience and you.
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  Yes, Oh, thank you so much. And I think there's so much in
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  this. It would be really easy for me
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  for me to say, Hey, pet lovers or those who know pet lovers,
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  pay attention. But this episode is going to be
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  Even so much more than that. So yes, it's we're going to
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  appeal to you, but this is for everyone and I can't wait to get
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  into it. So let's get into it.
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  I'm going to start with prioritizing self-care in your
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  life. Talk to me about what that's
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  looked like for you. Animals have clearly been a very
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  important component of this, but talk to me about that kind of
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  evolution for you. So I've always been very good at
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  self-care. I've always worked out.
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  When I was much younger, I owned a physical gym like it was
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  called Body Masters. So I was always into eating
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  good, always into exercise. That was always a part of my
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  life. And then as I got older, medical
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  school was very taxing because your hours are ridiculous and
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  you compromise a lot going through that.
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  And then after I got out of medical school, I went back to
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  that self-care. I've always done things like
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  spiritual reflection and always focusing on what makes me happy.
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  I've always been very tuned into being present.
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  So when something happens, I look at the experience.
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  First of all, I've always owned it, so if something happens in
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  my life, I go, oh, isn't that interesting, What did I create
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  that for? And.
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  Sometimes doesn't come out right away.
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  Sometimes you're in the pain of the moment.
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  But I've never been a victim. I've always looked at how can I
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  turn this blessing? Because it's always a blessing.
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  You just don't see it at the moment.
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  Yeah. So those are the characteristics
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  I've always had. I've always been very positive.
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  I've always been a seeker of knowledge and information and an
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  implementer. So I sort of like routine, but I
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  don't like routine. But I'm kind of in between.
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  I'm a Gemini so I have multiple personalities and and I use them
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  all. Yeah, I love that all the
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  layers, all they all come into play.
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  And I think you're a busy person.
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  You do. You have this, your holistic
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  veterinary practice, You're continually expanding the way
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  you offer this to pet owners, to pets.
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  You're constantly curious. You're doing more research.
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  You evolved into this space. You went to traditional
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  schooling, but then learned through time and practice and
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  discovering what you are capable of doing with animals, your own
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  horse specifically, and it really informed.
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  So all of that to say, there's got to be, I would say, some
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  healthy boundaries that you have in your life to allow yourself
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  the time to fill your cup so you have the energy to stay curious
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  and continue to be the trailblazer that you are.
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  I've always been blessed with very high energy levels.
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  Always. So I start my day typically
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  sitting in the sauna while I'm doing my call with my staff.
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  And then I do some block therapy.
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  I do breath work. The first thing I actually do
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  when I wake up, when my eyes open is I go into a meditative
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  state. And then I start doing some
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  remote healing on a lot of my patients.
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  And then I get up and I do the sauna and then I do some
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  exercise and I don't make it like a big chore and I just make
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  it part of of who I am, part of my day.
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  I love my windows don't have any shades on them.
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  So when the sun comes up, I'm actually seeing an east window
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  in my bedroom. So that light comes in and my
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  eyes are adjusting to that beautiful sunlight in the
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  morning. And then throughout the day, I
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  just literally have so much gratitude for the moments in my
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  day. Very present.
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  I don't spend a lot of time in my past and I don't have a lot
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  of time in my future. Some planning like we all do,
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  but pretty much I'm very present in the moment and I'm present
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  with the people that I'm with. And then gratitude, gratitude,
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  gratitude. I live in a food forest, so I
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  derive so much pleasure from the food forest.
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  I walk out and I touch my plants, I'll pull a few weeds
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  and I get that microbiome on me and I breathe it in and I will
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  give gratitude to the microbiome in my garden because now that is
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  syncing with me. I guess really the, the best way
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  to to put it is just finding the bliss in each moment.
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  And that's what's so refreshing because when you're in in that
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  kind of energetic state, you really don't feel the stress and
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  the pressure and you just immediately entrain to this
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  level of higher vibration. Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I love how you make this is a part of your day.
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  So it it's a part of how you flow.
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  It's you're not having to find space for it.
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  It's incorporated created in there.
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  All that was a great way of putting it.
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  Yeah, absolutely. So good in you very clearly see
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  this in your work with animals, how they interact with people,
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  the emotional, mental, physical, spiritual health connection.
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  When was the first time you realized the power that pets and
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  animals have to impact that? When Wow, that was probably
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  30-40 years ago. I've been practicing for 40
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  years and, and so there was this always this subtle awareness,
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  but I don't think I really had the words for it until I was a
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  little further into practice. And then as my holistic side of
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  the practice started to develop and I really started to make the
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  connection and I started to see that it was never an accident
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  that there was a particular pet with a particular owner and they
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  had their own particular challenges.
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  And I very early on, probably 3035 years ago, I started asking
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  my clients when they came into my office, besides the, the
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  traditional history questions, I would literally ask them, why
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  are you in my office or no, I would say, why are you here?
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  And I don't mean in my office. I mean on planet earth, why are
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  you here? And it was always a question
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  that would take people back for a moment because they were like,
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  I don't know, I don't know what my purpose is.
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  I don't know why I'm here. Or I thought about it and I
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  don't know. And there was literally less
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  than a half a percent of people had an answer.
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  And well, a couple of people said, I'm here to serve or I'm
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  here to serve God. And and so they referenced their
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  purpose for being here where everybody else was more like
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  going down the luge without a steering wheel.
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  They were just bouncing off the walls, not really having a
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  direction. They were more like a victim
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  than a victor. And I realized, and that was a
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  real aha moment because I realized that that particular
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  pet was bringing them to an opportunity to actually start
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  seeking what is that actual purpose?
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  And I think there's more than one purpose.
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  I don't think you're limited, but at least finding what is
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  that direction? Like, why am I really here?
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  Why did I choose? Because we all make that choice
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  to Incarnate with the kind of gifts that we have, with the
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  passions that we have, with the opportunities that we've
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  created, the direction we've taken in our life.
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  Why are we doing that? And that is very, very deep and
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  very rewarding conversation to have because I've seen people
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  find their ability to have forgiveness for themselves and
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  for others. I've seen people finally step
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  into where their real passion and strength is.
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  I've seen them find purpose in their life that before, they
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  just really didn't think they could ever find what they were
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  here for. So it there, there's been so
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  many blessed moments where you see people really flourish and
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  and contribute in the way that I think we all were designed to
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  contribute in our own unique and special way.
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  You invited them into really tap into what fills my cup, what
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  renews me, how do I want to feel in my life over time, what are
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  my values, what do I care about, what are my expectations, what
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  are my hopes and informing yourself about these things
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  because these are all areas that I talk to women about when I
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  work with them. It then allows you to tap into
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  where you want to be spending your time, what you want your
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  calendar to look like, how you can set up your life in a way
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  that fulfills that which is what you have.
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  I've done. What led you to start asking
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  that question? What led me?
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  I think somewhere deep inside I realized that there was a
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  connection between that Pets challenge and what that owner
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  needed to experience. And when I made that connection,
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  and that was very early on in my career when I really started
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  going into more integrative work and the spiritual side of my
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  work started to come forth. And I started to really
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  understand that it's all interconnected.
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  And as we look for the, as we ask the question and we are
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  prepared to receive the answer, that's where the magic happens.
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  Yeah. Yeah, it's that prepared to
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  receive. You hit on something really
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  important here. There's got to be a level of
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  curiosity and you've got to be able to remove the judgment and
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  what's comfortable because I, I, I say all the time, comfort and
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  curiosity cannot coexist together because it will, you
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  cannot be curious and stay comfortable.
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  It it's not allowed. And it's in getting curious that
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  you really tap into what all is within you, what all is
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  possible. And it's such a beautiful
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  discovery. It can be complex and
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  challenging and you got to ask yourself some hard questions at
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  times. But yeah, it's a really an
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  invitation. I love that you were able to get
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  there and see that connection between people and their pets
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  and what's possible when it comes to talk to people a little
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  bit about you have this story with your own.
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  Was it your daughter's horse that you realized, wait a minute
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  here. There's something that is
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  outside of traditional vet medicine that's possible.
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  Tell our listeners about that experience.
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  Well, I think anytime somebody we have a choice when we
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  experience something that is really challenging, you know it
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  something that really causes us to have to break out of our
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  limiting beliefs. Those are those golden moments
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  that take you where your passion and your purpose really lie.
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  And so for me, my daughters and I were showing horses, and my
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  youngest was involved in a riding accident where her horse
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  reared in the air. No one had taught her that if
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  your horse rears in the air, just bail off.
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  You know, you just want to be as far away from that horse landing
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  on you as pop. Sure.
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  But no one pulled her. And she's 10 years old.
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  She's a little 50 LB child. And so she was literally trying
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  to keep herself from falling off by holding on to the reins,
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  which was then acting like a fulcrum and literally pulling
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  the horse over backwards. Wow.
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  And the horse squatted on her left hind leg like she played.
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  She squatted down on that left hind leg and tried to push
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  herself as hard as she could in the opposite direction of where
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  my daughter was starting to slide off.
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  But when the horse hit the ground, she fell over backwards.
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  And when she hit the ground, you couldn't see space between horse
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  and rider. So I was already over the edge
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  of the rail and I'm running towards them.
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  The horse caught her breath and got up and my daughter was still
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  on the ground, not moving. So when I got there, I really
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  didn't know what I was going to find.
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  But your mind is blank. You just, you're frozen.
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  You can't, you can't even conceive of what going to see.
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  But thank God she opened her eyes and she was fine.
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  She was just embarrassed and, you know, embarrassed and and so
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  that was the first incident. But back at home, we had a
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  couple of more incidences where something was happening and I
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  was standing next to the horse. The third time it happened and I
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  could just see the spasm going all the way up her neck and I
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  didn't know if it was a seizure or a spasm.
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  I had equine veterinarians come out and look at her.
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  I do small animal work. So I I out who were supposed to
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  be the experts and they said we don't know what's causing her to
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  do this. This is the third episode, but
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  we can tell you she's not safe to ride.
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  You'll never show her again and your choices are you can put her
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  out to a pasture or you can put her down.
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  And it was the words of there's nothing more that can be done
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  that just woke something up in me and I didn't blame them for
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  not having any answers, but I was determined I was going to
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  find solutions. This was a 7 year old Canadian
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  and U.S. National champion in open
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  divisions. But the most important thing was
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  this horse consciously saved my daughter's life and there was
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  nothing that I wasn't willing to do to fix her and have that
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  little team back out on the circuit.
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  So that started my journey. And I made a promise that in my
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  veterinary practice, I would never utter the words.
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  There's nothing more that can be done.
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  And since that day, I was only tempted once to do that.
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  That was a really challenging case.
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  And I, this person looked at me, she said, you're our last hope.
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  And so I just dug in deep and I made it happen.
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  And I've never uttered those words.
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  Well, if you're going to make a promise like that, you have to
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  have a big toolkit. Like you cannot miss your
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  standard Western medicine, steroids, antibiotics, surgery,
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  chemo, like you have to have a much larger toolkit to be able
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  to handle the complex diseases that we're seeing today.
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  Sure. And that's what I do.
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  And every day I'm looking for more and more technologies.
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  I'm always looking for something that I can employ that would be
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  safe and effective and cost effective.
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  So I'm always looking for that. So over the years I've developed
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  the largest integrative services of anybody in the entire world.
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  It also pushed me to be able to really understand biology of the
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  body in a way that I would never have imagined I would be doing.
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  You know, it's just funny how you're taking where you need to
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  be. Even if you're sleeping and
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  screaming, you're still going to go eventually.
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  So I just accepted it and as I became open to it, I was
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  mentored by some of the greatest human MD's in the world and
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  people that were both intelligent and spiritual and
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  were able to really help me to raise myself to the level I
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  needed to be in order to understand these complex
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  diseases and how to solve them. And now I make it simple.
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  I make it really easy for people to understand what do we need to
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  do differently. Yeah, yeah.
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  Basically, identifying our deficiencies, identifying our
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  toxicities, identifying what's causing mitochondrial
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  dysfunction, the energy packets that help drive our energy, and
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  then what are the trapped emotions associated with the
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  disease? If you can accomplish those 4,
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  then you can understand the path to healing.
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  Keeping in mind that sometimes our journey isn't what we expect
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  or what we think we want, but it's always what we need.
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  Yeah. So we're never going to live
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  forever. Melissa, let me come on.
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  Be seriously. Right.
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  We're we're all exiting this planet at some point.
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  In our animals. Yes, we're all leaving and but I
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  think what our purpose is, is how are we serving, How are we
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  contributing to the conscious edge of creation in a purposeful
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  way using our gifts, our talents, our passion?
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  How are we doing that? And when we get that, then we
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  feel very accomplished. We feel satisfied.
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  We feel that joy and contentment with knowing that we're really
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  doing something wonderful in the world.
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  Yeah. And if anybody would have said
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  to me 30 years ago, oh, you're going to transform veterinary
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  medicine, I would have. I would have looked at them and
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  said, are you crazy? Yeah.
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  And yet the program, my very first program that I developed
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  got named Transforming that Medicine.
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  Go figure. Who the thunk and and yeah, so
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  that's my veterinary training program, but it's also the
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  umbrella company for all of our education.
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  So transforming that medicine crazy.
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  But that was named so long ago, and now I stepped into that
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  role. Wow.
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  I used to be shy. Now I speak in front of hundreds
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  of thousands of people like I would never in the middle.
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  If you knew me 30 years ago, you would have been shocked.
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  You would have said, this girl can't stand up and say her name
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  in public. Seriously.
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  And my first speaker engagement was at The Truth About Cancer.
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  I was a keynote speaker, my very first presentation.
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  And the guy miking me up, you know, he's putting my mic up
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  now. We're in front of 192 countries,
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  10 million people watching in a live audience of 1500.
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  And he says to me, oh, so where have you spoken before?
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  And I went, oh, never. And I hear him suck his breath
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  in. He walked around my shoulder and
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  he looks up at my face. And he said, are you okay?
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  I went, yeah, I'm supposed to be on stage, get done.
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  And, you know, and you're a little nervous the first time,
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  but then after that, you are just.
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  I think it's because you step into your passion.
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  You are so connected with what you're doing.
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  Yes, and you're you're just walking your truth and when you
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  do that, you don't hesitate anymore.
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  It it feels like you're doing what you're supposed to be doing
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  and you're supported and you're nurtured and you know the right
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  things turn on for you. So that's what I would say to
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  anybody who is not sure is be open to receiving the guidance
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  so that you can step into your purpose.
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  And what I would with my clients, when they would come
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  in, they go, I don't know what my purpose is.
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  I would literally have them do an exercise where they wrote
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  down all of the things that they like to do.
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  Every skill that you can imagine, if it's organizational,
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  if it's typing, whatever, just list all of your skills and then
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  the summit column where what are the things that you really,
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  really love to do? What are you passionate about?
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  And then they, I would list all those and then I would say look
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  at all of your skills and your passions and what does the world
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  need that only you can provide? It doesn't matter if it already
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  exists. You're providing your unique
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  twist. You're providing you into that
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  solution, and that's valuable. And it would just change
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  people's lives. And the way the animals
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  responded was pretty magical and and, and truly, I can always
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  tell how successful or not a case is going to go based on the
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  emotions of the pet parent. Yeah.
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  So the ones that are, yeah, the ones that are stuck in fear and
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  they're, they're victims and life is always against them.
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  And they have just very low vibration, very low energy.
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  They're not bad people. I'm just saying they're stuck in
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  this victimhood. Those are the ones that it's
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  really hard to get them to to transform if they're not willing
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  to do the transformation. Those are going to be the ones
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  that we're really challenged with.
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  And those animals tend to be harder to get them to turn
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  around. And then the ones where the pet
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  parents have that positive look and they, they're just, they're
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  ready to do whatever they need to do whatever they can do.
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  And they're more accepting that they're going to do their very
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  best. And then whatever happens is in
• 22:16
  God's hands or the universe or, you know, however they want to
• 22:19
  phrase that they have let go of their attachment to the outcome.
• 22:26
  And when we do that, the outcome will will be more of what we
• 22:33
  were really meant to experience. Yeah.
• 22:35
  Oh, that is so good. I love that so much because our
• 22:38
  animals sense our emotions like they pick up. 100.
• 22:42
  Percent you know, when we're tense, when we're scared, when
• 22:45
  we're fearful, when we're happy, when we're joyous, when we're
• 22:48
  sad, when we're sick. I mean, we hear stories all the
• 22:50
  time of when you're sick and your animal comes and sits close
• 22:54
  to you or snuggles up against you or our we, we had a dog when
• 22:59
  our kids were little that slept under the bunk bed just to, you
• 23:02
  know, as a protector. And you know, they have that
• 23:05
  sense. And that goes for all of those
• 23:07
  emotions and how their the ability to connect with those.
• 23:11
  But yeah, I think that releasing outcomes and being open to
• 23:16
  what's there and what's possible is can be such a freeing
• 23:20
  practice, but it but you have it takes intentionality and
• 23:24
  releasing those years and that that space you get stuck in when
• 23:29
  you you're comfortable, so to speak, but you're not thriving.
• 23:34
  You're not living. You haven't connected to you
• 23:38
  haven't. You're not living in alignment
• 23:40
  with who you were designed to be.
• 23:42
  Exactly. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
• 23:46
  And the animals, not only do they entrain to our energy.
• 23:49
  So if we are giving off a lot of based on our emotion, if we're
• 23:55
  angry, frustrated, if we're bitter, if we're blame your
• 23:58
  shamers, then we're creating or fearful, we're creating neural
• 24:03
  chemicals that are then sending signals to our microbiome, to
• 24:09
  our genome, to our gene expression.
• 24:12
  We're turning on different functional genes that are
• 24:15
  reflecting what we're communicating.
• 24:17
  It's almost like you're communicating to the the planet,
• 24:21
  your body being the planet, you're communicating internally
• 24:24
  what's happening on the outside based on your perception.
• 24:28
  And our animals will literally entrain to that energy.
• 24:32
  Because if they think that if we're acting like there's a
• 24:35
  boogeyman constantly out there based on our level of fear and
• 24:39
  anxiety, then they're going, hey, my pet, my parent, my pack
• 24:45
  leader is saying that there's something really dangerous out
• 24:48
  there. I don't know where it is.
• 24:49
  I don't know where it's coming from, but I'm going to be on
• 24:51
  high alert. So pet parent is in high
• 24:53
  sympathetic tone, animal stays in high alert, high sympathetic
• 24:58
  tone. So that's one thing that
• 24:59
  happens. But the other thing that they
• 25:01
  do, and I think this is so magnificent, is they also help
• 25:06
  to relieve some of that heavy density that we experience in
• 25:11
  this third dimension. So you said it earlier when
• 25:14
  we're up set and that animal sits on our lap or puts their
• 25:17
  head underneath our hand and then we start to put them and
• 25:20
  whatever you were either angry or crying about, it just doesn't
• 25:24
  feel so dense and you start to feel better, you start to
• 25:27
  breathe. So they do that as well.
• 25:29
  And then the third thing is they actually reflect and mirror that
• 25:34
  which we really need to experience the most.
• 25:37
  So based on wherever the DIS ease is, if it's an organ system
• 25:43
  or if it's an expression that they're having, there's always a
• 25:47
  relationship back to either the pet guardian or somebody in that
• 25:52
  household that is important. Wow, wow, thank you so much for
• 25:58
  that. That is so fascinating.
• 26:00
  You, I think, are are such a great example of this.
• 26:04
  But showing up as yourself unapologetically and supporting
• 26:10
  other women in doing so, other people in doing so.
• 26:14
  Talk to me about how you've arrived in this place because
• 26:17
  you are so aligned with who you are and you are your curiosity
• 26:22
  keeps you going. And I love earlier how this this
• 26:25
  situation that could have been very terrifying and was in the
• 26:29
  moment with your daughter, how that drove your curiosity or
• 26:32
  something about being a woman, about being a mom and tapping
• 26:36
  into these events that happened in our lives, especially with
• 26:39
  our kids that can drive this curiosity and open up this whole
• 26:44
  new world when we're willing to follow it.
• 26:47
  You really did that. That's an example to me of how
• 26:49
  you just unapologetically went after this thing.
• 26:52
  There are other traditional, no, no one's done what you've done
• 26:56
  before. So talk to me about this
• 26:59
  unapologetic manner which you live in.
• 27:03
  How does that happen? My dad was a very strong
• 27:07
  influencer. He wasn't a rule follower.
• 27:11
  So I I. Probably had some good modeling
• 27:13
  there and you know, you can be anything that you choose to be.
• 27:18
  And so I had that kind of growing up.
• 27:20
  I had a good model where my mom was very fearful, which was
• 27:23
  interesting. My mom was when I went to open
• 27:26
  my own practice, she goes, well, what happens if nobody comes?
• 27:29
  What happens if you do something wrong?
• 27:31
  What happens? What happens?
• 27:32
  And I was like, I'll deal with it, you know, but you just, you
• 27:36
  have to strike out and do it. So I, I had a dad who was very a
• 27:41
  risk taker and then I had a mom who was absolutely not a risk
• 27:45
  taker. So interesting that dichotomy
• 27:48
  that I, I got to observe and they think I always had the
• 27:51
  spiritual side. I just didn't know that it was a
• 27:54
  spiritual side. I didn't know I had intuition
• 27:56
  and those skills because it's just who you are.
• 27:59
  And it isn't till you get older that you go, oh, everybody
• 28:03
  doesn't do that. And then, and then I
• 28:05
  intentionally developed it. So I've intentionally worked on
• 28:09
  my mediumship skills and my ability to read energy and to do
• 28:16
  energy work in addition to the physical things that we do.
• 28:19
  And and I'm just always learning and I just find absolute joy in
• 28:25
  everything I do. I love that.
• 28:28
  And you also invite other people into it.
• 28:30
  Going back to that question you asked, you know your clients as
• 28:34
  they come in with their animals, you are inviting other people
• 28:36
  into this as well, which I think is so beautiful.
• 28:40
  And I think this is a direct correlation to your to your why
• 28:44
  and your values. Everything you do feeds out of
• 28:48
  that. What made you decide to go down
• 28:52
  this road initially in the veterinary world and talk to me
• 28:57
  about how your why and your values have informed how you've
• 29:00
  continued to evolve? Well, you know, obviously the
• 29:05
  the Horror Story was what really made me do that paradigm shift.
• 29:09
  That was the one that took me out of my typical comfort zone
• 29:13
  and said, I have to find answers where they don't exist.
• 29:16
  And as I did that, I would, oh gosh, back then it was just the
• 29:21
  beginning of functional medicine that they that was just
• 29:25
  happening. And so I would get out of all of
• 29:27
  these webinars and it was interesting how it would just
• 29:30
  show up in my e-mail feed and then I would click into a
• 29:33
  webinar and I would learn everything they were talking
• 29:35
  about for people. And then I would contact the
• 29:38
  speakers and I would say, I want to apply that to animals.
• 29:41
  And would you give me some guidance on how you do it for
• 29:44
  people? And so I would, they would say,
• 29:45
  well, I don't know how to work on animals.
• 29:47
  And I said, that's fine, you tell me what you do for people.
• 29:49
  I will learn how to extrapolate it and apply it to the animals.
• 29:53
  And so I just continue to, I still do that to this day.
• 29:56
  And and then just I think you have to walk your talk and I and
• 30:01
  I know that's what makes it different because like attracts
• 30:05
  like, right? We know that in homeopathy, so
• 30:07
  many other aspects of our world. So a majority of the people that
• 30:11
  end up finding me, whether they're a direct client or
• 30:14
  telemedicine, now that we can just telemedicine or hearing me
• 30:17
  speaking on stage, whatever, it's that attraction of me
• 30:22
  walking the talk. You can't pretend that you
• 30:27
  believe a certain thing, but then you don't really live it,
• 30:30
  right? So I live everything I do, the
• 30:33
  way I eat, the way I grow food, the way I treat Mother Earth,
• 30:37
  the way I treat my patients, the willingness to go to any length
• 30:42
  that is necessary. I haven't come across a piece of
• 30:44
  technology that I wasn't willing to spend the money on if it was
• 30:48
  going to work on my pet. So you know, I, so I, I live
• 30:53
  that. And every once in a while the
• 30:56
  wrong energetic match can slip under the veil.
• 30:59
  And those are my one star reviews.
• 31:01
  So it's really interesting because when you read those one
• 31:03
  star reviews, it's very clear we are not aligned.
• 31:08
  And, and I bless them. And I say, I want you to find
• 31:13
  who is going to be a good fit for you.
• 31:14
  It's just not me because I'm not going to listen to somebody
• 31:19
  blame, even shame and come up with excuses.
• 31:22
  Not everybody has to live the life I live.
• 31:26
  But then don't point fingers when you suffer the consequences
• 31:30
  of what you chose to do. If you want to eat unhealthy,
• 31:35
  there's going to be a consequence at some point.
• 31:38
  There's just it is what it is. Those are kind of the you know,
• 31:42
  the facts of life isms that I. Would love.
• 31:46
  But, but I don't make anybody, I don't intentionally want to make
• 31:50
  anybody feel like what they're doing is wrong.
• 31:53
  It's a choice. We get to live Earth school the
• 31:57
  way we choose. And sometimes I think people
• 32:00
  choose to be the contrast and God bless them, because without
• 32:05
  the contrast, it wouldn't really gear us in the direction for us
• 32:11
  to be very clear on what we do want.
• 32:13
  Yeah. So I appreciate the contrast.
• 32:16
  I don't want everything to be the same.
• 32:19
  I want to know that the choices that I'm making are going to
• 32:23
  have a big impact for me, for my patients, for the planet.
• 32:28
  But that's me. We're all different.
• 32:31
  We have diversity, and that's a wonderful thing.
• 32:34
  And so I bless everybody to live the life that they choose.
• 32:39
  Doesn't have to be mine, but if they want a different life, if
• 32:43
  they don't like where they're at, you know what?
• 32:47
  Get up and do something different.
• 32:49
  And it's not hard. It's not hard, it's just a
• 32:53
  choice. We all have the same number of
• 32:55
  hours in a day. I just choose to not watch
• 32:58
  television. I choose to not waste my time
• 33:02
  doing meaningless things. I'm always doing something that
• 33:08
  either educates me or provides me pleasure or helps enhance
• 33:13
  something in the world that I'm working on.
• 33:15
  Yeah, but that's me. So I do a majority of my own
• 33:19
  cooking. My daughter and I, we do a lot
• 33:21
  of cooking. We grow our food.
• 33:22
  I love going out to harvest. I love making things from the
• 33:26
  things I grew and I nurtured. And I'm grateful to the plants
• 33:31
  and what they provided to Mother Earth.
• 33:33
  And that's just me, but that brings me to absolute grounding
• 33:37
  and joy and community because of course, the people that I do
• 33:41
  this with, we're all like minded.
• 33:44
  So we, we support each other in those those kind of activities
• 33:49
  that bring us great joy. One of my best friends, she's an
• 33:51
  herbalist and the two of us are so geeky when we go to
• 33:55
  conferences or we just go out to a, a park or something and we
• 33:59
  have our little scissors and our little Ziploc Baggies.
• 34:02
  We don't use Ziploc anymore because it's plastic back in the
• 34:05
  day. But you know, we'll, we'll get
• 34:07
  cuttings off of things and we bring it back and we learn about
• 34:10
  it and we grow it and it just we have so much fun doing stuff
• 34:14
  like that. But that makes.
• 34:15
  Me happy you. And you said something really
• 34:20
  important and this is part of the principles that I operate
• 34:23
  out of. I have 3 principles that I
• 34:24
  really operate out of is that you're valuable, you're worthy,
• 34:29
  and you get to choose. And sometimes we live life like
• 34:33
  we, I, oh, I, I'm stuck in this. You get choices, things are
• 34:37
  going to happen to you. You get to choose your response.
• 34:40
  You get to choose how you're going to move forward.
• 34:42
  You get to choose if you're going to stay stuck or
• 34:45
  comfortable or whether you're going to make a decision.
• 34:47
  And I think what you're saying about that's such an important
• 34:50
  component. We have an accountability in
• 34:52
  this where we have to be willing to be part of our own story.
• 34:58
  And that's going to require and everything we do is a choice.
• 35:01
  It's a choice to stay where we are or it's a choice to change
• 35:04
  our situation. But I appreciate what you said
• 35:05
  so much. I've had some different people
• 35:09
  in my life over the last couple years.
• 35:10
  And there's one particular person and she'll continually
• 35:14
  talk to me about this same family dynamic over and over and
• 35:17
  over again. And I have been giving her the
• 35:19
  same responses for for years now where I finally got to a point
• 35:23
  I'm like, listen, we have beat this to death and you it's so I
• 35:30
  so I'm going to very kindly, but pointedly say to you, do
• 35:35
  something different about it. Make a different choice because
• 35:39
  I'm not willing to entertain this conversation anymore.
• 35:41
  It's frustrating. And you have a choice and you've
• 35:45
  decided, you know, to stay where you are and gripe about it
• 35:50
  versus doing something about it. And, and it was like, and she
• 35:54
  was like, you know, we have a long relationship.
• 35:56
  And so I can, you know, and she was like, no, you're right,
• 35:59
  you're absolutely right. Thank you for saying that to me.
• 36:02
  It wasn't met with hostility. Like, and you know, it's
• 36:04
  sometimes it's read the room, but also it's, it's OK to say
• 36:07
  that. And we, but we've got to it, you
• 36:09
  know, and working with women, when I'm working like you, I'm
• 36:12
  going to give you a framework here, but you've got to choose
• 36:15
  to be part of this. I can't do it for you.
• 36:18
  And it's not a magic potion. But if you're willing to make
• 36:21
  these choices for yourself and stay curious, you can thrive and
• 36:24
  find your alignment. And that's where the good stuff
• 36:27
  is. Absolutely.
• 36:30
  On a quantum level, it is said that there's nothing in the
• 36:33
  universe but you, and everything that you experience is a
• 36:40
  reflection of something inside of you.
• 36:43
  So when you pass that homeless person on the street, some part
• 36:47
  of you is that homeless person, How are you going to treat them?
• 36:51
  And when you experience, let's say, wealth and prosperity or
• 36:57
  tragedy, how you experience it is the choice that you get to
• 37:02
  make. You can be a victim or you can
• 37:05
  look at everything and say it's uncomfortable right now.
• 37:08
  Absolutely, you are entitled to feel the emotion.
• 37:12
  But somewhere in there is taking responsibility that you in fact
• 37:16
  created everything and you created it for your highest and
• 37:22
  best good. And you cannot understand that.
• 37:26
  When you can really accept that, then it allows you to again
• 37:31
  release the attack attachment to the outcome and realize that
• 37:35
  everything is moving you in a direction that will help you to
• 37:40
  be the best version of who you are.
• 37:44
  And that's not always easy, really.
• 37:49
  You know it. Do you want to play a puzzle
• 37:51
  that has three pieces and it's not challenging?
• 37:55
  Or do you want to feel good when you play a puzzle that has 3D
• 37:58
  and 10,000 pieces and then you get done and you just have to
• 38:02
  frame it because it was so much work that you put into it and
• 38:05
  you feel so good afterwards? That's what Earth School is We.
• 38:09
  Didn't come here. To belittle, we didn't come here
• 38:12
  to have an easy go of it. We came here to do something big
• 38:15
  with ourselves and sometimes it just takes an accident or an
• 38:20
  event that kind of wakes you up out of your slumber and says now
• 38:27
  is the time. We've given you all the skill
• 38:29
  sets you have, all the motivation you have, everything
• 38:32
  you need. Now step up to the plate and
• 38:34
  make a home run. Yes, you, you have it all within
• 38:37
  you. I think that's such an important
• 38:39
  piece to tap into. You've got it all within you.
• 38:41
  Thank you so much for that. So good.
• 38:43
  Yeah, and no one else is responsible for you.
• 38:45
  No one can make you happy but you.
• 38:48
  And it's no one else's job to make you happy or accomplished
• 38:52
  or anything else. It's up to you.
• 38:54
  And that's why, you know, on a quantum level, when we say
• 38:56
  there's nobody in the universe but you, you're it.
• 38:59
  Yeah, exactly. Everything is a reflection of
• 39:02
  you. Yeah, so.
• 39:03
  Make the most of it. Absolutely 100% leaving out of
• 39:07
  your own expectations versus others.
• 39:09
  You do that on a multi layered level, like you have not allowed
• 39:14
  others societal medical expectations within the vet
• 39:19
  world. Anything of that get in your
• 39:21
  way. You have very comfortable living
• 39:23
  out of your own expectations. You went in when there weren't
• 39:27
  answers. You know, when holistic medicine
• 39:29
  was only available on a human level.
• 39:31
  You took that information and you learned and researched how
• 39:35
  to apply it to animals. Like, you have just blown
• 39:39
  expectations out of the water, which I think is such a
• 39:42
  beautiful thing. What do you say to people, you
• 39:46
  know, when you run into somebody that's trying to, like, put you
• 39:51
  back in that box? What's your response to them?
• 39:55
  You know, I'm so blessed that I don't let other people define
• 40:00
  me. And that's why I I want to also
• 40:03
  point out that veterinarians have the highest rate of suicide
• 40:07
  of any industry worldwide. And it's because that
• 40:12
  veterinarians are very compassionate.
• 40:14
  We have deep, deep feeling for the things that we do.
• 40:18
  And when people in today's day and age, they bully and they
• 40:23
  write one star reviews and they try to.
• 40:25
  Blame and shame. We didn't 'cause their pets
• 40:27
  cancer. Yeah, You know, was it our job
• 40:31
  to fix everything in the world? That's not realistic, No.
• 40:33
  But for many veterinarians who don't have a good strong
• 40:37
  self-image of themselves or maybe they're points in there,
• 40:43
  some self doubts, that can be very painful.
• 40:46
  And that has caused a, the highest rate of suicide of any
• 40:49
  industry. It would call it compassion
• 40:51
  fatigue. And so it's #1 be kind to your
• 40:54
  veterinarian. They're not out there to hurt
• 40:56
  you. They're not out there to harm
• 40:57
  your pet. They're doing the best that they
• 40:58
  know with the level of education that they have.
• 41:02
  And if that isn't what you're looking for, be kind, say thank
• 41:07
  you. And if they don't want to learn
• 41:10
  or step out-of-the-box, then go find somebody who you can work
• 41:13
  with. But be kind with your words,
• 41:15
  because who wants to know that their ugliness caused that level
• 41:20
  of pain in somebody else? That's not good karma.
• 41:24
  So what I do is I just live every day with my own level of
• 41:32
  standards and my standards are higher for me than what anybody
• 41:38
  else can have for me or expect for me.
• 41:42
  And so I meet what I know is the very best that I can do.
• 41:46
  And if somebody has to say bad things, I know in my heart that
• 41:51
  hurting people hurt people. So I just don't take it
• 41:54
  personal. And again, you can look at our
• 41:57
  one star reviews and when I answer people, I respect the
• 42:03
  fact that they're hurting. And these are people who are
• 42:06
  blamers and shamers for the most part, and they don't know how to
• 42:09
  accept responsibility. I'm not going to rub it in their
• 42:12
  face that that animal lived a lifestyle under their care that
• 42:17
  created the problem. And then they come to me for
• 42:21
  help, but they're not happy with the outcome.
• 42:24
  That part's not on me. I'm going to do the very best
• 42:26
  that I can, giving very clear information, very clear
• 42:31
  expectations. I'm very honest with people.
• 42:35
  I don't know what the outcome is going to be.
• 42:37
  I'm just going to do the very best that I can.
• 42:39
  And we work together as a team and, and what the outcome is, we
• 42:44
  are going to trust it's going to be the highest and best good for
• 42:48
  everybody. Because I think there's a
• 42:50
  relationship between the experience I have with the
• 42:53
  experience that the pet parent or pet guardian has and the pet.
• 42:57
  Like we're together in this experience.
• 43:00
  We're not isolated from each other and we're all going
• 43:03
  through this experience together because we have this energetic
• 43:06
  connection. Thank you so much for that.
• 43:09
  So good. And this really goes nicely
• 43:11
  into, I call it embracing your layers, all the pieces and parts
• 43:15
  of your life that happened to you.
• 43:17
  You have tapped into this. You have really done this.
• 43:21
  When do you what, at what point in your life do you think there
• 43:26
  was a realization about the importance of this for you?
• 43:29
  Was it pretty young? Is it something you grew into?
• 43:32
  Yeah. I think pretty young.
• 43:34
  I remember I just went to my 50th high school reunion.
• 43:38
  Wow, I know. And just last weekend, and, and
• 43:42
  it was interesting because I don't remember 99% of my high
• 43:47
  school life. Yeah, I, we walked the hallways
• 43:51
  of my high school and I'm thinking, I barely remember this
• 43:55
  place. I, I couldn't even picture
• 43:57
  myself in a classroom. I, I just had no memory of that.
• 44:00
  Sure. And I'm actually graduated a
• 44:03
  year earlier. I had all my requirements done
• 44:05
  and my junior year, so my senior year I really wasn't in school.
• 44:09
  And then I had friends that were paramedics and firefighters and
• 44:12
  so I became an EMT one at the age of 17.
• 44:15
  Oh wow, very good. Then.
• 44:16
  Oh, I had a candy business. I was always very driven.
• 44:19
  I had a candy business in high school and I would buy nickel
• 44:23
  candy at the store down the road and I would come back and I
• 44:27
  would sell it for $0.10. Such an entrepreneur.
• 44:30
  And if I had anything left before lunch, it was 3/4
• 44:33
  quarters. And I didn't hate hundreds of
• 44:35
  dollars. I never got caught.
• 44:37
  And a couple people try to kind of butt into my business and
• 44:41
  they got caught and they got suspended from school.
• 44:43
  So I was very lucky I never got caught.
• 44:45
  And so that was my first entrepreneurship was, you know,
• 44:49
  working at a candy business. Yeah.
• 44:51
  That's. Hilarious and then and then I
• 44:53
  worked for a veterinarian and when I was 17 I became a an EMT
• 44:58
  1 and when I went to college I worked on an ambulance service.
• 45:01
  So always worked hard, always very entrepreneurship.
• 45:05
  I bought my first house when I was 18 and and I farmed up there
• 45:11
  as well. And so I think I always was very
• 45:16
  driven and I'm just, I just didn't take no for an answer and
• 45:21
  no was not my vocabulary. So if something sparked my
• 45:24
  interest, I went for it. Is that in the Nate?
• 45:29
  I don't know. I, I think I just maybe the way
• 45:31
  my dad raised me or own inner workings of who I was, but I
• 45:37
  was, I think I was always like that and very intuitive, but I
• 45:40
  didn't know what intuitive was. I didn't even know what the word
• 45:44
  metaphysical was until I was in my 30s.
• 45:46
  OK, go figure. Well, when when you, when you.
• 45:50
  Learned that, did that was that kind of an aha moment?
• 45:53
  Like, oh, it all makes sense now.
• 45:57
  So as I was becoming more energy medicine, more integrative, more
• 46:04
  bioregulatory medicine, that energetic component became more
• 46:09
  and more clear. And then, and I'm Jewish, so,
• 46:14
  but I wasn't very religious. I was more spiritual, I would
• 46:16
  say. But then as I started to study
• 46:19
  Kabbalah and some of the more spiritual aspects of Judaism, I
• 46:24
  was like, Oh my gosh, I do that every day.
• 46:29
  They're talking about the mystical segments of, of
• 46:33
  religion. And it was so empowering to know
• 46:36
  that those before me channeled and those before me understood
• 46:40
  numerology and intuition and connection and connection to
• 46:45
  source and communication. It was amazing.
• 46:48
  And so that gave me a lot of freedom to realize I'm not
• 46:53
  unique and I'm not the norm. Yeah, but it's OK.
• 46:58
  You know, it's OK to step out of your boundaries and step into
• 47:02
  your gifts. We all have this, Melissa.
• 47:04
  We all have the ability to connect to higher consciousness.
• 47:07
  We all have the ability to step into our intuition.
• 47:10
  It's just something that isn't taught in our common society.
• 47:14
  And I didn't have any family members that were like that, so
• 47:17
  didn't really have any models. But now that I'm aware of it now
• 47:21
  I actually seek the education and the training.
• 47:24
  So I'm more intentional with how I use the skills that we all
• 47:29
  have, but I'm just developing them or like a language, like I,
• 47:33
  I speak one good language, English, I speak Spanish, but
• 47:37
  it's kind of pitiful. But you know, you have to work
• 47:40
  at it, you have to learn it. And so I think learning how to
• 47:42
  use our intuition and tap into higher consciousness, we all
• 47:46
  have it. We just have to learn how to do
• 47:49
  it. And the more we practice, the
• 47:51
  better you get with it. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:53
  Thank you so much for that. So good.
• 47:55
  All right, you live out feel finding empowerment, embracing
• 47:59
  layers so well. Talk to me about how that
• 48:03
  impacts your relationship with yourself as well as your
• 48:06
  relationship with other people. Wow, that's a big question.
• 48:11
  So my relationship with myself, I'm very comfortable in my own
• 48:16
  skin. I own my strength and I own my
• 48:19
  weaknesses and so I'm very comfortable there.
• 48:23
  I was married for 23 years and chose to separate and divorce
• 48:30
  and my world opened up after I divorced and a wonderful person.
• 48:36
  But talk about opposites. You know, me being very
• 48:39
  positive, somebody else who didn't know how to find
• 48:42
  happiness and kept asking me how do you do it?
• 48:45
  And I can't do it for somebody else.
• 48:47
  You have to do it yourself. And so the freedom to be the
• 48:53
  best that I could be happened after I divorced because I
• 48:56
  didn't have to see, I didn't have to play small in order to
• 49:00
  not step on somebody else's ego. Yeah.
• 49:05
  So because the bigger I got, the smaller he felt, not because I
• 49:10
  was trying to 'cause that that was his issue, not mine, but but
• 49:15
  I was trying to not make it worse.
• 49:18
  But now that I've been on my own for, gosh, 1520 years, I can
• 49:23
  tell you I am fearless. Nah, I, I don't want to ever
• 49:30
  have to pull back. I don't ever want to have to
• 49:32
  play small. I would love to meet Mr.
• 49:35
  Amazing, but it's going to have to be somebody who isn't
• 49:39
  intimidated, who is as smart, is as successful or more in their
• 49:44
  own right. So that all don't have.
• 49:47
  And this is a big lesson for women.
• 49:48
  Gosh, I'm so glad you asked the question because I know so many
• 49:51
  women who don't step into their authenticity because they don't
• 49:58
  want to hurt somebody else. They don't want to make somebody
• 50:00
  else feel less than, but they will never fulfill who they
• 50:04
  really are. And it's OK to be your powerful
• 50:08
  portion if they have a problem with it.
• 50:10
  If your other half has a problem with that, it's not you.
• 50:14
  Now, provided you're not sitting there bullying them.
• 50:16
  And I mean, obviously. But if you're just being your
• 50:19
  authentic self and you're showing up in the world in the
• 50:22
  best way that you can be, I can't even tell you, Melissa,
• 50:25
  how wonderful that feeling is. I wake up every day with so much
• 50:28
  gratitude and so much joy and so much bliss because I don't have
• 50:32
  to be less than who I am. And it's a wonderful feeling.
• 50:37
  Yes, it would be amazing to meet Mr. Wonderful, but he just
• 50:43
  hasn't shown up yet, and that's OK too.
• 50:45
  Yeah, Yeah, 'cause you're thriving.
• 50:48
  Yeah, you're thriving. You're living unapologetically
• 50:51
  into your full self. Yes, I'm I think it's so
• 50:54
  important we get caught up so many times as women trying to
• 50:58
  fix or satisfy or meet or not exceed or not step on or not
• 51:04
  offend, and we've abandoned ourselves in the process.
• 51:08
  And if you're 100? Percent in any relationship that
• 51:11
  is asking you to do that, then you need to really take a look
• 51:14
  at where that relationship fits in your life.
• 51:17
  And if it does and I and I think sometimes so well fed yeah.
• 51:22
  I mean, I think sometimes we have to realize that there's
• 51:24
  some relationships that have a season and it doesn't mean
• 51:28
  anyone's failed if that relationship comes to some kind
• 51:32
  of an end. You just sometimes you just
• 51:34
  outgrow each other. You just don't fit anymore and
• 51:38
  we don't have to. Make like you said, that season
• 51:41
  was for a purpose. Now take that and grow right?
• 51:45
  Exactly, so good. Thank you so much for that.
• 51:48
  All right, as we wind down here and then I'm going to give you a
• 51:51
  chance. I want you to share more at the
• 51:53
  end before, after I you answer these questions about oh, that's
• 51:58
  possible in coming on your on what you offer.
• 52:01
  But before we do that, tell me 5 activities that nourish you.
• 52:07
  Gardening, exercise, cooking, serving others, and veterinary
• 52:19
  medicine. Yeah, yeah.
• 52:21
  All right. And five words on how you want
• 52:23
  to feel the next six months. How I want to feel in the next 6
• 52:27
  months. Joyful, vibrant, energetic,
• 52:37
  grateful and inspirational all. Right.
• 52:47
  OK, A doctor, Marlene Siegel, you, there's only one of you in
• 52:50
  the world and there's really only one of you that offers vet
• 52:55
  services and and help the way that you do.
• 53:00
  Obviously not everyone can come to you where you are, but talk
• 53:04
  to me about what you have available on your platform
• 53:07
  online, what people can tap into even if they're far.
• 53:11
  Away from you. So we do have telemedicine
• 53:15
  available thanks to COVID as of the loss in Florida have
• 53:19
  changed. And so we can do telemedicine
• 53:21
  with some restrictions. I can do a lot.
• 53:24
  If somebody takes the empowered pet parent course, which is a
• 53:27
  requirement in order to establish our client patient
• 53:31
  relationship, then I can be their health coach.
• 53:35
  And then if it is something more complex, they've already taken
• 53:39
  the empowered pet parent course. We're already on the same page.
• 53:41
  We're moving forward. If it's something more complex,
• 53:45
  I can always work with their veterinarian to take it to the
• 53:48
  next level. But I'm finding that either
• 53:51
  veterinarians are uncomfortable, they don't like their cheese to
• 53:55
  be moved, and so it's harder to find somebody who is willing to
• 53:59
  step out-of-the-box. And it's also going to be
• 54:01
  challenging because they may not have the tools of the things
• 54:05
  that I do. So I think it's ironic, not a
• 54:09
  surprise at all that a majority of the tools that I use in my
• 54:14
  practice are available for home purchase.
• 54:17
  Now, that's not saying that every pet parent's going to go
• 54:19
  out and spend $100,000 on technology, but I think it's
• 54:23
  interesting that almost every single tool I have, there's a
• 54:28
  home version of it and that. Interesting.
• 54:30
  Is very interesting, yeah. You were.
• 54:32
  You were. Go ahead.
• 54:34
  Go ahead I was going to say that I'm hoping by next year to open
• 54:38
  our spas family Wellness centers.
• 54:40
  It's S apostrophe PAWSI was going to open right before COVID
• 54:46
  hit and then when COVID hit put the brakes on everything.
• 54:49
  You know, I didn't know if we were going to be on FEMA camps.
• 54:51
  We had no idea what kind of chaos was happening in the
• 54:54
  world, but we haven't been floated yet.
• 54:57
  So I we're back on track to get our facilities up and open and
• 55:01
  then these are going to be franchises where all the things
• 55:05
  that they do to detox the pets and their parents, they can go
• 55:08
  in with the pets will be now available as a franchise
• 55:12
  worldwide. So that is probably the pinnacle
• 55:16
  of my achievements because now I'm going to be leaving
• 55:19
  something for the world again. The problem I've had is that I
• 55:23
  can talk to people about how to detox, but if they don't have
• 55:26
  the technology to do it, it makes it really challenging.
• 55:29
  But I have a home course, I'm doing lymphatic therapy that
• 55:35
  requires a small little handheld stone.
• 55:37
  It's easy. I have a fascia decompression
• 55:40
  course that requires your hands and of course the knowledge.
• 55:44
  And then the empowering pet parent course.
• 55:46
  There's many more courses that we have that we're getting ready
• 55:49
  to release. But the whole point is to
• 55:51
  educate people so that they can make better decisions, not
• 55:56
  trying to turn people into their own doctor or need somebody to
• 55:59
  guide you. And we don't want to have people
• 56:01
  take any tool that we are using and use it incorrectly.
• 56:05
  Sure, that can cause harm. So it's working with us and we
• 56:09
  give you the guidance to help you understand how to improve
• 56:13
  your pet's life for not only longevity, but for quality of
• 56:17
  life. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:19
  Oh, thank you so much for that. And what's that?
• 56:21
  What is your website? Where can people find more
• 56:23
  information about this? The hub of everything me is
• 56:28
  www.drlikeindoctormarlenesiegel.com so you just have to spell my
• 56:34
  name right. Perfect.
• 56:35
  OK. And that will be on our website
• 56:37
  at embracinglayers.com on the resources page.
• 56:39
  So you can just copy and paste it.
• 56:40
  You don't even have to remember worrying about the spelling.
• 56:43
  But thank you so much for sharing that.
• 56:45
  But I could talk to you forever. I think you're just one of the
• 56:48
  most fascinating people I've ever met.
• 56:50
  I love having you here today. I appreciate you taking the time
• 56:54
  to join me. What's one last thought you'd
• 56:57
  like to leave with our listeners today?
• 57:01
  Take your power back, Yeah, The power to do everything is within
• 57:08
  you, and you just have to take it back.
• 57:11
  And that means finding education, surrounding yourself
• 57:16
  with your tribe. And your tribe are the people
• 57:20
  that are like minded because they're going to support you,
• 57:23
  they're going to elevate you, they're going to hold space for
• 57:26
  you. And the others are the contrast.
• 57:30
  Nothing wrong with them. They're just in a different
• 57:32
  place. Just like there's is black
• 57:35
  better than white? No, they're just different,
• 57:38
  right? Is hot versus cold is 1 better
• 57:40
  or not? Depends on the circumstances,
• 57:42
  right? So it's about aligning with your
• 57:47
  higher consciousness and the people who will help you to
• 57:52
  continue to grow and thrive. Yeah, so good.
• 57:55
  Such a great way to wrap this up.
• 57:57
  Thank you again for being with me today.
• 57:58
  Listeners. Tons of gold to extract from
• 58:02
  this conversation. Go back, listen, take notes,
• 58:04
  check out what Doctor Siegel offers and and remember, you've
• 58:09
  got it all within you. Tap into that, take your power
• 58:12
  aback, see where you have choices and how you can live
• 58:16
  your life in alignment. When you're willing to do that
• 58:18
  for yourself and realize what you're what is already in you
• 58:22
  take good care of yourselves. Thanks so much for joining us
• 58:24
  today, and we'll see you next time here on the Field podcast.
• 58:29
  Many blessings. Hello and thank you so much for
• 58:33
  being with us today on this episode of the Feel Podcast.
• 58:38
  If you would like more information on how you can apply
• 58:42
  these talking points that I share with our guests in each
• 58:45
  episode to your own life, really utilize this Feel framework, go
• 58:51
  to embracinglayers.com, fill out our contact form, and let's set
• 58:56
  up a free 30 minute consultation to talk about how you can start
• 59:01
  being your most authentic, organic, healthy feel fueled
• 59:06
  life. Thanks again for being with us
• 59:09
  today. We'll be back to you soon with
• 59:11
  another episode here on the Feel Podcast.