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182. Time to Detox · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: You know, life really does mimic the seasons, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's why I see my lights and I see
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  Speaker 1: my experience in this life as seasons, and it really
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean, the seasons are a blueprint to
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  Speaker 1: what we experience in life. Like right now, we are
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  Speaker 1: in winter. We're in the middle of winter. We were
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  Speaker 1: told maybe a couple of weeks ago that the groundhog
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  Speaker 1: or a week ago that the groundhog saw his shadow.
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  Speaker 1: So we have six more weeks of winter and it's dreadful,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it got cold again, and so we're
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  Speaker 1: back to cold snaps and snow in different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the country, and so that's uncomfortable, right you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: ready for spring already, but it's part of the seasonal
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  Speaker 1: process that nature is going through. And when you think
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  Speaker 1: about your life, you are going through a seasonal process
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  Speaker 1: and there's changes that come along with that. I think
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  Speaker 1: the most fascinating time and the time of the year
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy the most is fall because in the fall,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of shedding that has to happen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the spring and in the summer, we tend to
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  Speaker 1: prune our trees. We tend to shape the trees into
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  Speaker 1: the way we want them to look, and we prune
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  Speaker 1: them so that we can have, you know, it grow
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  Speaker 1: in the way that we want to see it grow.
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  Speaker 1: But in the fall, nature does all that. Nature handles everything.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing we are left to do but to rake
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  Speaker 1: up those leaves. But there's a shedding season that happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hard season to watch in some instances because
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  Speaker 1: you're watching this beautiful tree that once you know, was
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  Speaker 1: bearing fruit and was all green, and you're watching it
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  Speaker 1: go through a stage of dying essentially, right that's the
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  Speaker 1: shedding period. There's something that's dying that has to die
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  Speaker 1: so that this tree can mature and be ready for
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  Speaker 1: the next season. And I don't know what you have
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  Speaker 1: right now that's going on. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: are feeling that so to speak, slow death, where you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the leaves fall off. You're watching different parts of
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  Speaker 1: your life change, and it feels like a death. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like a breakup, it feels like a loss. But
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  Speaker 1: I promise you there is a spring around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to go through that awkward and really
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  Speaker 1: cold season that maybe some of you are going through now.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to give you new perspective today. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we do here is all about the perspective. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I want you to think about is
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  Speaker 1: when you're growing, just like the trees outside your window,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a season of shedding. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a cycle of where things are comfortable and stagnation.
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  Speaker 1: And I really want us to dive into what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like to let go of that and be okay
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  Speaker 1: with that, what it feels like to detox from all
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  Speaker 1: the things that you need to detox from. It might
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  Speaker 1: be your belief system and be ready to step into
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  Speaker 1: a season where you are ready for your growth. And
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  Speaker 1: so as you're shedding, I want you to recognize first
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  Speaker 1: of all the weight that you carry, because you have
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  Speaker 1: to think, what are you holding onto that no longer
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  Speaker 1: serves you. I'll tell you what happens is your comfort
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  Speaker 1: zones get disguised as routines, relationship and sometimes even your mindset. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how many of you know that there is a relationship
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  Speaker 1: that is comfortable. But if you go back to the
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  Speaker 1: first part, are you holding onto it knowing that it
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  Speaker 1: no longer serves you? And it's an uncomfortable thing, it's
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  Speaker 1: discomfort it's not where you want to be, but it's
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  Speaker 1: where you need to be. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: walk away understanding that your growth is not necessarily about
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  Speaker 1: your ability to endure more. Growth is about your ability
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  Speaker 1: to release what's holding you back. It is the courage
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  Speaker 1: to choose to let something go that maybe once, maybe twice,
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  Speaker 1: maybe more served you, But where you're going in this
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  Speaker 1: new season, it's not going to serve you anymore. So
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  Speaker 1: it truly is about your ability to release what might
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  Speaker 1: in fact be holding you back. Because again, when we
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  Speaker 1: look at the season, when we look at this shedding,
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  Speaker 1: we often think it's all about loss. But what if
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  Speaker 1: we saw it differently, what if we saw it as detoxing.
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  Speaker 1: Detoxing is a necessary process. I mean, anybody who is
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  Speaker 1: and has been on a weight loss journey, you were
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  Speaker 1: probably told about and discussed along your journey the importance
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  Speaker 1: of detoxing. There are foods and even the air we
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  Speaker 1: breed that has toxins in it, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times those toxins are weighing us down internally, so it
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  Speaker 1: makes it hard for us to process our foods, digest
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  Speaker 1: our foods, and ultimately for some people lose weight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that's what it is in all cases, but
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  Speaker 1: it is a conversation that tends to come up around
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  Speaker 1: the topic of weight loss. And I would like to
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  Speaker 1: look at the phase you're in as a phase of detox.
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  Speaker 1: It is a necessary discomfort. Nobody wants to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to you know. A couple months back, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was around Thanksgiving, the gym that I participate in,
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  Speaker 1: the gym that I belonged to, we did a detox
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  Speaker 1: with Arden's Garden right here. They are a local juicer
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  Speaker 1: in town. They do a lot of natural juices, they
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  Speaker 1: have great products, but they also have this two day
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  Speaker 1: juicing detox And essentially all you do in these two
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  Speaker 1: days is you drink this kind of detox juice. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really kind of like a grapefruit, a citrus type,
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  Speaker 1: you know, drink that is in a gallon container. So
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  Speaker 1: you get a gallon for day one and a gallon
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  Speaker 1: for day two, and you drink the gallon all of
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  Speaker 1: day one and all of day two, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: you have. You don't eat anything. And again, the intention
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  Speaker 1: there is for you to use the liquid, right, this
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  Speaker 1: detox juice, and that is the only thing that you're
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  Speaker 1: consuming in that time, so you're not bringing any new
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  Speaker 1: foods in your body and you're allowing your body to cleanse,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's a painful process. I know when we
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  Speaker 1: did it as a group at the club at the gym,
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  Speaker 1: we did it together so we can have accountability because
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  Speaker 1: we wanted it to feel less painful that we weren't
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  Speaker 1: going through it alone. But it was a necessary discomfort
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  Speaker 1: because we had all been sitting at that Thanksgiving Day
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  Speaker 1: table and we had all indulged, right, so we knew
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  Speaker 1: that we wanted to do something that was necessary but uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: right to say no to food for two days. It's
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  Speaker 1: not something we do in our culture very often, so
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  Speaker 1: most definitely a discomfort and shedding something as basic as
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  Speaker 1: food and not including food. It does feel painful. You're
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  Speaker 1: not chewing. And the key is it's essential though even
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  Speaker 1: though it's painful for those two days, when you think
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  Speaker 1: about it, it's really just two days and we got
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  Speaker 1: through it and all of the things. I will say
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  Speaker 1: that it gives you the opportunity to break the cycles.
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  Speaker 1: You can break the cycles, right. I know for me
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  Speaker 1: when I did the detox, it helped me realize that
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't bringing into my body enough fresh fruits and vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's something I started to adopt, right, is
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I have that serving. So it's
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  Speaker 1: an important thing for you to do the detox. But
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  Speaker 1: I think when you trust the process and you understand
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  Speaker 1: the necessary discomfort in it, you can begin to get
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  Speaker 1: yourself back on the right path. Right And that's a
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  Speaker 1: big part of that process. I think another big part
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  Speaker 1: of the season you might be in is you need
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  Speaker 1: to start seeing yourself as a force of nature that's
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  Speaker 1: constantly growing. You're not going to be the same version
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  Speaker 1: you were two months ago, that you were two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: that you're even going to be two months from now.
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  Speaker 1: You have new perspectives, you have new experiences, you have
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  Speaker 1: new relationships that you have formed and forged and will
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  Speaker 1: form in the future. And that's going to give you
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  Speaker 1: a new perspective, a new outlook because of that, and
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  Speaker 1: so allow yourself to be okay with the decisions of
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  Speaker 1: the past. And I say that because I had a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with a client recently and they said something along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of, like, you know, I made a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mistakes, and you know, I look back on you know,
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  Speaker 1: these past years. And they went on and on and on,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, first of all, you're looking back into
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  Speaker 1: the past years and you're not allowing yourself the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to look ahead. But more importantly, you are not celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the decisions you have made, incremental decisions right over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years that got you to this point.
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  Speaker 1: There were some yeses and some those that you said
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  Speaker 1: along the way that got you to that point. There
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  Speaker 1: were some things that you weren't ready to say yes to,
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  Speaker 1: and some things you could not yet say no to.
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  Speaker 1: But now you're learning that you can use those words
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  Speaker 1: for the things that will benefit you. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to relax into what you've always done because you have
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  Speaker 1: now a new perspective and you can celebrate that. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to celebrate the fact that a version of
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  Speaker 1: you would have done it this way. But here's where
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  Speaker 1: you are now. I think it's important to learn to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the unfiltered version of you, the version of you
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  Speaker 1: from the past, the version of you now. Celebrate that
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  Speaker 1: version of you because you're going to grow again. And
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. It's moving from I have to let this
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  Speaker 1: go to I'm now making room for more. I'm now
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  Speaker 1: making room for more. What if you gave yourself that
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  Speaker 1: affirmation that you are making room for more? What would
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  Speaker 1: that say to your own psyche? How would that help
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  Speaker 1: you think about yourself? Think about the steps that you
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  Speaker 1: take in the day, in the week, in the month.
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  Speaker 1: I am making room for more. That's what this does. Again,
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  Speaker 1: there's a painful experience of shedding, but man, you're leaving
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  Speaker 1: room for new growth, new experiences, and so it's embracing
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  Speaker 1: the new finally, right, it's embracing the new after you shed.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's the best part of the spring
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  Speaker 1: season is to go from that shedding season, go through
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  Speaker 1: that cold winter, and then watch things rebuild. And that
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding for you is going to be in the form
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  Speaker 1: of who am I becoming? What do I want to
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  Speaker 1: do with my life? What do I want to do
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  Speaker 1: in this season? How do I want to celebrate my
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  Speaker 1: life and celebrate the things that I'm working towards. How
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  Speaker 1: do I want to do that? There's so much empowering
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  Speaker 1: questions you can ask yourself while you're making room for more.
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  Speaker 1: It's about setting new intentions and creating intentional patterns about
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  Speaker 1: how you are going to align and evolve yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you recently, one of the things I started
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  Speaker 1: doing was a daily devotion. I used to do daily
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  Speaker 1: devotions years ago, right where you know. I have a
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  Speaker 1: devotional and it gives me a scripture in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: to go study. And I did this for a while
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  Speaker 1: and then I kind of fell off, and I really
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  Speaker 1: am working to get and work my way back into
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  Speaker 1: the Word and work my way back into the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: I happen to really enjoy reading the Bible. There's some
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  Speaker 1: really amazing stories and amazing feats that happen there, and
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  Speaker 1: it gives me a lot of hope. It gives me perspective.
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  Speaker 1: It allows me to see myself in this new you
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  Speaker 1: know version. You know, it allows me to put myself
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  Speaker 1: in an area of discomfort. I say all that to say,
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  Speaker 1: it's time for you to come up with what your
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  Speaker 1: intentional next patterns will be to get you aligned to
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  Speaker 1: this next level of you. For me this season, it
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  Speaker 1: just happens to be that I'm back in my devotional
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  Speaker 1: and I will tell you I am enjoying myself each day.
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  Speaker 1: I have something to I mentioned this last week to
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  Speaker 1: fill up my cup, and it helps me walk into
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  Speaker 1: the day already filled and not having to worry about
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  Speaker 1: waiting for or looking for something to fill me up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm already there. And what that does for me it
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  Speaker 1: gives me the power to look ahead. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to look back into how the yesterdays were and the
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  Speaker 1: last year's where I can look ahead to where I
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  Speaker 1: where I am today, where I'm going today, instead of
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  Speaker 1: clinging to how were, how things once was, how this
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  Speaker 1: used to happen. I'm looking forward. I'm making room for more,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm encouraging you to make room for more. I
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  Speaker 1: want to challenge you to evaluate your season of shedding differently.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you've been looking at this like a death and
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  Speaker 1: a burial, and I want you to see that there's
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  Speaker 1: a resurrection to this. There is a season of rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: that comes out of all of this, And although you
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  Speaker 1: might not be there yet, you want to keep taking
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  Speaker 1: a step through the discomfort, through the adverse situations, because
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, that's your becoming. All of those
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  Speaker 1: steps and those highs and lows are building the version
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  Speaker 1: of you that you are becoming. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: embrace this season of detox, just as simply a necessary
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  Speaker 1: step towards real transformation. See, the thing about transformation is
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  Speaker 1: everybody sees a before and after. And what I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you is you're gonna get to the after. We're in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. You're in the middle right now. And in
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  Speaker 1: the middle is the detox. It's the messiness, It's the shedding,
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  Speaker 1: It's the brokenness, is the relationships gone bad. It's the
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  Speaker 1: routines that were you know, the routines that were disguised
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  Speaker 1: as routines, but in fact there were just comfort zones
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  Speaker 1: dressed up the mindset of limitation and lack that you've
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  Speaker 1: been holding onto. It's time to let it go and
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  Speaker 1: make room for more. I hope you enjoyed this week's
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