October 30, 2025 • 45 mins
In this cozy solo episode of Deeply Well, host Devi Brown invites listeners into a soft embrace of the fall season, a time of slowing down, savoring the moment, and reconnecting with what truly matters. With warmth and honesty, Devi shares her growing appreciation for the colors, scents, and the spirit of autumn, reflecting on the quiet joy that can be found in even the smallest rituals.
She also opens up about recent travels and milestones, including the deep honor of receiving the Wellness Vanguard Award at the Color Vision Summit, meaningful conversations at the Relish Conference in South Carolina, and her experience participating in Culture Con. Each of these moments reminded her of the power of in-person connection, authentic dialogue, and community rooted in purpose.
This episode also marks the introduction of two new wellness partnerships that reflect Devi’s commitment to holistic, ethical care: Allies of Skin and WishGarden Herbs. She shares why these collaborations feel aligned and how they support a deeper journey into self-nourishment.
As the year begins to wind down, Devi gently encourages listeners to create their own self-care rituals, find joy in the little things, and truly honor what their mind, body, and spirit need most — especially rest.
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Take a deep breath in through your nose. Holds it.
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Now, release slowly again, deep in, helle.
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Hold release, repeating internally to yourself as you connect to
my voice. I am deeply well. I am deeply well.
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I am deeply I'm Debbie Brown and this is the
Deeply Well Podcast. Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place
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to land on your journey. A podcast for those that
are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness
and self care. This is where we heal, this is
where we trend send. Welcome back to the show. I'm
Debbie Brown. As always, thank you so much for being here.
I'm so grateful to have you as a listener of
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this podcast, as a participant in this collective journey in
growing in consciousness that you know many of us are on.
So in today's episode, this is a solo episode, which
are kind of my faves. We're going to kind of
lock into a few different conversations. I have some news
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that I'm really excited and want to be so intentional
about sharing with you. That's going to come a little
bit later in this episode. I have some soul work
for you in this episode. But first things first, I
mean welcome to Fall. We are here. It is officially
pumpkin spice season. Oh my gosh. Like I'm not a
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huge pumpkin person, and I don't really like a lot
of flavored beverages. That might sound odd, but I love
the color scheme of fall. Okay. I love these oranges
and these autumn tones and these various shades of browns
and rusts and reds, like they are my favorite colors.
So Fall, I have come to understand, is my favorite
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season of the year. I used to think that it
was summer because I well, my birthdays in summer, but
also you know that feeling of being free and I
love the heat. But in fact, Fall, when it starts
to get dark earlier, I'm coming to love that. Like
this was the very first season that I wasn't getting
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like a rationally upset that it was getting dark at
like four o'clock. I'm like, come on, keep me in
the house. This is what I need. God, Yes, Nature, Yes, Lord,
Sky Daddy, give me the tools. So I'm like really
enjoying fall right now. And I we're getting in kind
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of gearing up to get into that sacred in between,
that space where we dance in between worlds. This year
isn't quite finished, next year isn't quite started. But somehow
we are all just able to have more space and
more time and less urgency around you know, so many
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different facets of how we have to interact and stay
in connection with our work and with our friends and
with things like that. So something I'm really kind of
passionately observing and trying to really kind of sink into
enjoying is that beautiful kind of void space that fall
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brings and the opportunity to have our senses enlivened in
different ways, like through smells, through having you know, more
spice in the air, the aromas of food, the aromas
of candy because Halloween is coming, but all those things,
I'm letting myself really enjoy that. And so I definitely
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urge everyone listening to so see if you can naturally
and just intentionally connect to the rhythm of the season
right now and see what that means to you, See
what that feels like for you, And what can you
notice throughout the day with fall, depending on where you are,
I'm you know, of course, in La so we don't
really get a fall fall like not like the East coast,
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right like our trees aren't barren, not most of them anyways,
and we still got palm trees. And sometimes you're still
going to catch, you know, a quick one hundred degree
day in December, but the overall feeling, you know, it
rained in la this week, stormed, actually, but that dampness
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in the air. For the first time, I really let
myself savor that. I took some deep breaths when I
was walking out to the car to get ready to
go do drop off in the morning, and the dampness,
you know, and the crunch and the crispness, and so,
you know, we don't always get to have control of
everything in our worlds, very rarely, and also sometimes it's
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just exhausting keeping up with your self care, especially in
seasons like this. The energy is charged, it's dense. There
is a lot that is changing about the world that
will change our lives and then our own stuff outside
of that, right, and so sometimes it's a little harder,
especially in seasons like this, to show up in all
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the facets of your life. If you're a parent, getting
ready for all the various holidays coming up, and you know,
the travel and all the things, and so in seasons
like this you may not get as much time to
focus on self care, but ways that we can connect
to that same kind of intention of looking for the
moments of fuel, looking for the moments of being able
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to slow and use it as fuel in our lives
and in our bodies that really is all around us,
you know, stopping next time you're at Starbucks and really
taking a deep breath and getting a little bit of
that chi you know, in your spirit, in your nose,
going outside, noticing, you know, what does it feel like,
what can I see? What can I hear? What can
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I smell? What can I taste? Moments like that and
taking in the joy, you know, going intoe lights like
Halloween lights, Christmas lights, pumpkins and just letting your eyes
really savor those images for a few moments and see
where the thoughts take you and where the feelings take you.
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Those are really powerful, shifting, low lift, very very very
low lift ways to get some of that intentionality, enjoy
and groundedness throughout your day for yourself. And something that
we have explored on this show at various times over
the year through my own experiences or different you know,
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wonderful guests that we've had that have different modalities that
work with This is looking for ways to really study
your life and find out new kind of more intentional,
powerful ways of maximizing your life, of maximizing your unique
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flow in your life and the type and style of
work that you do and in the kind of life
that you want to live. So I've been looking really
closely at that for my own life. And something I
have really realized now more than ever is year after year,
fall is actually for work, by far my busiest season.
I'm probably on the most planes in the fall. I
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have the most kind of like active things that I'm
working on with my company and with partners in the fall.
And so I was kind of enjoying it because I
just got off like some really intense travel and trying
to catch up and kind of recuperate my body. But
you know, when you find those like strange little things
that you feel proud of about yourself, like those really
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bizarre things no one else will ever really your understand. Oh,
I spell it myself. I got like the perfect pack
and my luggage on a few of these trips. I
mean just absolutely job well done, perfect pack, the exact
amount of clothes that I needed. I used everything that
I had, the exact amount of products. You know, that
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feeling for those that kind of find themselves traveling like
I love that. I am such an organizational junkie. Organizing
brings me so much pleasure, and working on things with
my hands brings me so much pleasure. So yeah, I
was leaning into that and joining. But it has been busy, y'all.
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It's been so busy, and I kind of want to
share some of the events that I've been doing recently
and things that have inspired me about them. So I
hit up DC last month and I was invited to
be an award winner and a speaker at the Color
Vision Summit awards that takes place in Washington, d C.
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Year.
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It was absolutely so amazing, so special, and I want
to say a huge shout out to me and Davis,
who is the founder of these awards. And you know,
as a woman that has been kind of doing like
going to women's conferences and going to events for honestly
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the better part of fifteen years from my last career
to this one, this is one of the best ones
I have ever had a chance to be a part of.
There were absolutely brilliant women from all over you know,
a couple I think I had come across the work,
but so many I didn't know that I got to
discover for the very first time their expertise and what
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they do who are on the stage and speaking on panels.
And I really, after kind of like ten years of
seeing like these brunching kind of conferences happen that don't
always in my humble opinion, how a lot of takeaway
value to enrich the audiences I've seen kind of over
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the years, just so many self aggrandizing events that are
just about the photoshoots and taking pictures, but you're not
always getting like things that can actually advance you, or
people on panels speaking to you in a way that
makes it useful for you even if you can't you know,
replicate it. And I have to say this event, the
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Color Vision Awards, I was just blown away. I thought
everyone that was a part of it, they had such meaningful,
really interesting things to say, Like you could tell that
everyone that spoke had spent a lot of natural time
in their life thinking about their life and really deeply
thinking about you know, how they're used and what they
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do and what their kind of solve is or their
unique geniuses and they all gave it so generously and
freely on the stage, So it was really cool to
just even connect with some of the women and the
audience who came there to be poured into and to
learn and to you know, see a reflection of themselves,
and they were just all working on such interesting things
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that weren't all self focused, and that was so lovely
to see and to hear and to see so many
people feel that way can be so isolating when you
are not a self focused person, and so many spaces
are just about make yourself a brand, make everybody look
at you. And it's like, I get that for some people,
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that is their path and that's what they want to do,
but like y'all, that's recent. That is not what everybody
wants to do. That's not how everybody wants to work,
and that's not what's one important to everybody and may
not be a deeper need that everyone has, you know,
this kind of constant like misplaced long to be seen
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and to be seen as already fully successful and not
be seen trying, like I think that's hindered so so
so many, especially younger millennials and gen Z like that
can be such a Hindrance and it's just not real
and it's not really gonna last long term. It doesn't
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give you enough space to evolve. So I say all
that to say, it was so cool just seeing such
like incredible advice be shared. So highly recommend if anyone
finds themselves in that area in Washington, d C. If
you're based there or if you're willing to travel, definitely
keep an eye open for that conference next year Mia
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Davis color Vision Summit and the Color Vision Summit Awards.
And very honored to have received the Wellness Vanguard Award
there that day, so that was very special. So that
it was amazing. I highly recommend. I had a chance
to go on my very first visit ever to Greenville,
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South Carolina, and actually my only time my second time
ever being in South Carolina a few weeks ago, which
was so cool. It's just I don't often get a
chance to travel to the South outside of like Atlanta,
Texas and Florida, so there's so much I don't know
about those states and those cities, and it's just cool.
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It's just so cool. It was awesome to visit South
Carolina and Greenville. I went for my dear dear friend
Avanter Gray's women's ministry conference. It was called the Relish Conference,
and they had some really wonderful faith based speakers and
I did a panel about being an author and writing
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and getting your unique creativity out of you to figure
out the kind of story that you're meant to tell.
And so it was really special and really cool being
able to visit Love Story Church. My friends John and
avon Er Gray have pastored there for I believe it
might be I want to say, maybe eight years, so
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to meet, you know, all the people that attend the church,
and it was just wonderful. Loved it. And also the
airport in Greenville, South Carolina is everything. They have a
park that is a part of the airport, an outdoor park,
and once you go through security and walk across, there
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are these sliding doors and as soon as you walk
out of the sliding doors, there's a huge park with
tables and chairs and benches and statues and a waterfall
and a mountain. And what that did for my nervous
system as a weary traveler, I'm like, airports doom of this,
Like what an easy low lift? So I loved that
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and I'm always on the lookout for stuff like that,
or you know, the airports, like Lagordia does this now
where they're in some of the security lines, they play
like nature sounds and I'm like, oh my god, save
us all. This does so much. So that was that
was a cool, a cool moment. I also had my
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very first experience at Culture Con y'all in Brooklyn that
I hit up, which was so much fun. I had
never been to Culture Con before, and I had seen
it you know, online over the last few years, but
being able to go in person was amazing everyone. It
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was such like a true convergence of creatives, of creative energy,
artistic poetic energy. I did a keynote and meditation in
the morning, and then I was on a paneanel with
some really special people Care Gains, doctor Raquel Martin and
also Les Alfred, who moderated the panel, and they're just
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all outstanding. I love their work, I like the way
they share, so being able to connect with them and
spend time with them and you know, have our panel
and mental health was really dope. The audience was amazing,
and I just love bringing meditation into unexpected places. The
first time I had a chance to like really do
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that at a conference like this was probably twenty I
think it was twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen. I did
Afro Tech when it was still in Oakland, and I
got to lead med and they have like ten thousand
people that come out. It's such a shout out to
Morgan Debonn. It's such an amazing, amazing event that grows
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year after year. But I led meditation there and that
feeling of bringing it especially in rooms where people may
not have any experience with it, but my goodness, do
they need it. But especially those non traditional spaces. It's
just as a teacher, it's so fun to learn and
observe and have it. So love that at culture con
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meant some really wonderful folks ran into a bunch of folks.
But was very inspired overall. I say all that to
say I was very inspired, especially to see just like
all the crowds and crowds of gen Z that was there,
and everybody was just free, so free, dressed in such
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unique interesting ways and just moving about with like a
lot of creativity and grace. It was cool. It was
very cool to watch and see and I just feel
I feel so proud of people I had no idea
that there was you know, maybe I heard there was
some kinds of I don't know, rhetoric or banter or
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things about it. And one of the things that I
kind of gathered as people were sharing with me that
you know, there was just some debates happening around it
is It's so wild how people always make time to
criticize things that they don't build. Like when I really
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thought of what it must have took to put something
like Culture Con on, the level of professionalism was outstanding,
which I take very seriously. Nothing frustrates me more than
unprofessional environments or places that run behind on time. I
don't think there's an excuse for it. And so like
everyone that was working Culture Con, from the talent handlers
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to the show producers to the photographers, like the level
of professionalism was outstanding. It ran like a well oiled machine.
Everything was on time that I was a part of.
And so those are things that I look for to
really give kind of thought to the quality of an experience.
And I thought the range of speakers was amazing. So
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I think it's just interesting. You know, when you see
people speaking about certain things, I always wonder, like, what
were you hoping to get out of it, or what, like,
what did you think was going to happen by the
time you left, Because from my standpoint, especially if you
were a gen zer or a young millennial, you were
probably getting information from the experts on the stage you've
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never heard before. But if you're somebody that has a
more established career or you're an older millennial, I mean,
that might not be what you take away. But I
don't know if that's what you'd be looking for or
should be looking for in the first place. So I
was just kind of thinking about some of the things
that I was reading and just being like, huh, it's
so interesting, like the way we or what stands out
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to us as being critical about something and what moves
us to just kind of like put it into the world. Yeah,
so interesting, so interesting, But I loved it. I thought
it was amazing. Another event that if any of this
resonated with you, highly highly recommend looking into next year.
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And also just like meeting cool, interesting people. I've never
been a place where everyone was just so I don't
know if this is a generational thing, if people my
age and older probably just had more barriers to being
free with each other, but everyone was. I was watching
people interact with one another, and there was just such
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kindness and like such community and such a sense of
collaboration that was really refreshing, was really refreshing. So highly
recommend if you're into those things deeply. Well. I did
this other event as well with my brother Shaka Sinkor,
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who has a really powerful book out that I recommend,
and I especially recommend for men, any male listeners or
women that love men of any ages. I really recommend
his book, which is called How to Be Free. There
is powerful technique in the book for connecting to higher
states of awareness and consciousness and embodied healing. And also
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he's just a phenomenal man, phenomenal man, so wise, so caring,
so on purpose. And so we did an event called
Conversations for the Client where we were in conversation with
both our books in community in the View Park, Englewood
area at Hilltop Coffee here in LA And I was
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realizing between that and this other event, I'm about to
tell you about how much I just miss the era
of when I was able to teach in person. A
girlfriend at dinner recently asked me, she goes, you know,
professionally the way my company operates, I kind of have
five full time jobs within one, but they're all distinctly different.
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And she was like, well, what's your favorite thing? And
I go, you know, my favorite thing is the thing
that I don't really get to do that much of anymore,
and technically I really can't. It just doesn't fit the
flow of my working style. But when I do get
a chance to do it, it's like, Oh, I'm just
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so grateful. There is nothing I love more than teaching
groups in person, real practice and technique, and so being
able to do that in community in my community here
in La with Shaka was so special. And you know,
whether you can make it to one of the events
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that I do, or this is just kind of your
nudge to seek out opportunities to do this in your
community or to bring this to your community. This is
what we need. We need to be with each other physically,
and we need to find ways to be in practice
and be in conversation with each other. So that was special,
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And then I just got back from this really amazing.
I talk about it often, but I am a board
member on the Mental Wealth Alliance, which is the incredible
mental health foundation by my brother Charlemagne the God, and
he does a yearly expo. This was the fourth annual.
It took place in Newark, New Jersey, and it's called
the Mental Wealth Alliance, and it's a full, chunky, chunky
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half day of really amazing programming advancing conversations within mental health.
So I led two panels while I was there. One
was a panel discussion and we're going to actually air
it as an episode of the show coming up. But
one was a panel justscussion on religious trauma that I
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had former pastor Karl Lentz from hillsong On and also
doctor Teddy Reeves, and both of them, I just have
deep admiration for the courageous way, especially as men they
are speaking about religion, are speaking about their experiences, are
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speaking out about the traumas that they've witnessed and experienced
and participated in, you know, at various times within the
church system or people they know. And so it was
just riveting and I think it's a conversation that we
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all deserve to think to spend a little bit more
time thinking about whether or not you identify someone as
someone who has experienced religious trauma. You know, when we
think about anybody trying to hijack our connection to God.
We should be looking at that and thinking about that,
or just knowing that it can and does happen in
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some spaces and with some people. I think it's really important.
And I also did a second conversation about ways to
actively create and cultivate healthy communication within our families and
within our communities, you know, kind of universally. Something so
many of us say when we're on the journey is
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how hard it is reintegrating back into your life when
you've started healing, because other people may not be and
you may not be able to change them, But how
do you work with your tools and the things that
you have cultivated and kind of still bring that back in.
So we have that conversation with therapists and author Danay
Logan who has been on this show. She has an
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amazing book out called Sovereign Love. And also the amazing
doctor Key Holman, who was recently on an episode of
the podcast, who has an amazing book called Nobody Is
Self Made. So they both gave and will air that
too as an episode. They both gave just really deep
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and interesting insight and perspective on how we can heal
our communication patterns in our lives, so that was special.
And then also having a chance to teach a breakout
breath work and meditation room there for the whole community
that came to the event. I think they told us
our final count. Nearly four thousand people within the Tri
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state area and the New Jersey community came to that
event and got connected with resources and services within mental
health and also just a chance to connect with these
kind of powerful, expanding conversations. So huge, huge thank you
to iHeartMedia, massive thank you to everyone that made this
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high in whether you were on a stage or behind
the scenes like it was. We all did our part
and it was extraordinary and I'm really grateful to be
a part of that and was so inspired, was so inspired,
so inspired by the speakers, by the attendees and the
audience that I got to meet and talk to. And yeah,
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so more of that. We just need more in real
life with each other in meaningful ways. And again I
just can't overstate this, like can we please? In this
era of peacockying and strutting around in front of each
other and going to conferences and events and you know,
doing really self focused and surface level networking, like it
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is time to get deeper. It is time to get
deeper at conferences, deeper in one on one communication, deeper
in our communities. Well, I don't even Yeah, I've been working.
I have a few other things that I might save
to talk to you about in another episode, but yeah,
So those are the things, and something that I wanted
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to share with you guys is I wanted to really
open up some understanding around two new partnerships you may
have seen me announce on social media and one you
may have heard me announce this past week on the show.
So I am really excited to tell you, you know,
for the last I mean, honestly, I feel like for
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the whole time I've ever been on Instagram, but absolutely
for the last five to seven years, I have said
no to pretty much every single partnership that has come
my way in terms of partnerships that require an element
of social media something that has been to me. This
is solely me, and it's based on the kind of
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work that I personally do. So this is not in
no way is this comparative to how anyone else is
doing business or creating, but something and that I knew,
especially when I left Terrestrial Radio, where I used to
have to do so many commercials. Something I knew very
strongly was that I didn't want to sell working in wellness.
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Once I moved fully into this mental health space in
this last decade, I knew that I didn't want to
cross pollinate the worlds of offering expertise and education in
this work and selling people on things in this space.
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I didn't want to do it. I didn't feel good
about it, I didn't see it done really well. I
didn't think it was necessary for the work that I
was doing and for me to do business and earn.
And so you've never seen me hawk products. You've never
seen me kind of try to get you to sign
up for a course or sign up for my twenty
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percent off code of this or that. Just has not
been the by design, the way I design myself to
do my work in the world. And I think for
many reasons that was important to me as a trauma
informed educator. I have really intentionally not ever wanted to
feel coheresive about things that I share because I realize
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and deeply respect that my audience, whether it's this show
or any of the ways that you might connect with me,
that you believe me that you take my word for
things that means the world to me. And I've never
wanted without absolute certainty to suggest or recommend things to
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anyone because I know how I see what I offer
and how I offer it to be a sacred or responsibility.
And I didn't want to. Yeah, I didn't want to
cross those worlds. I didn't see a way to do
it that I believed in. And so in that sense,
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I want to give full disclosure about these two new
partnerships I'm working with and why I chose to work
with them. So the first partnership that I'm really excited
about that I am. We're just at the beginning stages
of kind of rolling out the beautiful ways we're going
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to be in partnership. But it is an incredible skincare
brand called Allies of Skin, and I've just taken a
position with the company as the integrated healing advisor there
and so in this year long partnership that we've just
locked into, I'm going to use my expertise in spiritual,
energetic and physical healing to create meaningful embodied work with
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the brand. So we are going to be sharing holistic practices.
Is we are going to be connecting with this incredible organization.
And so some of that work will include like really
cool campaigns and front facing stuff, and some of it
will include like really deep partnership work that we're doing
with this incredible organization based in California called the Face
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Forward Foundation that works with men and women and everyone
who has experienced facial trauma. Specifically that organization is they
do powerful work helps people who were in situations of
domestic violence, and in the domestic violence had facial disfigurement
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or were burned severely. And so I am so excited
and thrilled to be able to do this kind of
work with them and with this organization. I feel so
proud of this. And the skincare is just nominal. So
Allies of Skin was founded in twenty sixteen. It's a
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science led brand that's built on the belief that everyone
deserves to feel fearless in their skin. Each formula is
powered by supercharged clinicals, so highly concentrated actives for multiple
benefits in much fewer steps. They are known for multifunctional products,
rigorous testing, and full transparency in ingredients, and they're available
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in thirty six countries and counting and they continue to
redefine skincare as a tool for transformation and self acceptance.
The founder is an amazing man named Nicholas Travis, who
is just genius, brilliant, recently one Innovator of the Year
at the Beauty Awards, but his own story of moving
through highly i mean just significant amounts of life trauma
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to even find this work and create these visiontionary products
that help your skin and face heal. I'm deeply inspired
by him. He is a friend. He is doing really
important work that is multiprong work within the skincare industry.
I also want to say that the cost of the
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products is at a higher end of the price point,
there may be barriers to being able to access the
product for those that do connect with it. I think
for many, it's also completely on par with a lot
of a lot of costs or a lot of spending
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that you may already be doing on skincare, depending on
the kinds of products that you use and what you're
looking to target. Definitely amazing for millennial skin like mine
that wants to be healing and hydrated, and I'm always
looking for ways to age gracefully and powerfully and as
I'm getting to the age where I'm starting to discover
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and figure out, you know how that's going to go,
letting myself go gray like, you know, not really knowing
what I might or might not do in the future
when it comes to my skin in my face. You know,
working with these products has been really healing personally for
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my skin and it's brought out the best in my face.
And so I'm so excited to you is I'm very
excited about their partnership, and I wanted to give you
full transparency on what it entails and what it's about
and why I said yes, and why I'm excited for
you to discover this brand as well. So the next
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partnership that I want to share that I'm so proud
about and excited for is my Wish Garden Herbs collaboration.
You may have heard a recent episode where I had
doctor Aaron Stokes of Wishgarden come and share a lot
of specific detail about herbal products that are such a
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low lift for us to do and consume and add
into our daily life, but add a tremendous amount of impact. So,
as a woman that lives with chronic pain, shout out
to the chronic pain, girlies and symptoms of autoimmune that
also has a life that requires a lot. I work hard,
and I'm raising a sun. I know many of us
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can identify with that, having very full lives that require
a lot, and you know, probably having dealt with so
many significant stressors throughout life anyway, but now the overall
stress of life, you know, I am so committed to
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sharing with everyone more of the tools that I honestly,
authentically and organically use that help my process and help
me be able to show up in my life regulated emotionally,
having my nervous system regulated, feeling like myself, and navigating
a body that sometimes is in pain, getting good sleep.
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So Wish Garden is that. And I have been using
their products already. They help me significantly. I use their
products with my son. I love boosting my immunity with
their products, because lord knows, can't none of us afford
more sick days or off of school days, or you know,
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all the things. And so these are the products that
keep me thriving. They keep me feeling really alive and
really healthy. The price points are so I mean, from
my viewpoint, I think the price points are just absolutely
fantastic and easy to keep up with. And again I
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say that that that is through my lens. But if
nothing else, I hope that this really inspires your journey
to start to experiment a little bit more with things
that are good for you and add more things into
your daily routine. So in this partnership, and I know
you heard a lot on the last episode, but wisch
Garden is America's number one selling liquid herbal blends. They've
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been around since nineteen seventy nine. Then they can bind
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That's important, preservatives or hidden nasties. That is important, especially
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that claim that they're holistic and organic and may not
be so. Wisch Garden is pure plant power, speaks to
your body's language, and for nearly fifty years, that's mastery.
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They've been perfecting the formulas to really help us and
help us be in control of our health naturally and sustainably.
So I'm so excited that you can refer back to
that conversation with doctor Aaron and that you can follow
the journey and hopefully connect to some products that feel
good for you from the inside out. So I wanted
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to be so transparent, give a lot of language to this.
Apologies if this deviates from the traditional show that you're
used to hearing, but I wanted to be so open
and authentic with why both of those were a big
yes for me. And know that I have said no
to things other people would gag about, you know, truly
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that because it didn't in the line, but these do
and I'm proud of them, and I'm excited for you
to come into those worlds with me. So thank you
for listening, thank you for grabbing the book. Living in
Wisdom is available everywhere. Thank you for listening to this show.
And we're going to have even more great things before
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we break for the top of the year. So to
check in your soul work for today. You know, we
are getting closer. We are officially in fall. We're getting
closer to the top of the year. Are you know,
quote unquote societal restart of the new year, but those
that know that know it really starts in the spring
with the equinox. But I want you to really make
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tiny joy a bigger practice than ever. The world is hard,
life is hard. The overall natural stresses and triggers of
fall and winter and the holidays, you know they may
come rolling in. And so I want you to really
diligently sit and think today and list for yourself three
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to five things you are committed to actively intentionally adding
into your life to support you. If you are someone
that seems to have the SADS seasonal effective disorder, right,
you get a little sadder when it's darker, a little
sadder when it's more rainy and cold. I am one
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of those people. If you are one of those people too,
let's start pre planning for that. What can you do
to bring yourself a little more light in your life,
a little more joy. Maybe it is adding an extra
warm epsom salt bath, but really taking the time to
light some candles, play some playlists, light some incense. Maybe
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it's making more time to take a walk and as
you walk, deep breaths, noticing the crispness of the air
and connecting your senses. What do you see feel here touch.
Maybe it's you know, like buying yourself the Christmas present
you really wanted honestly, or you know, choosing for yourself
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not to go to the family commitment because you're choosing
yourself instead. You know, whatever it is, and just make
sure it feeds into protecting your peace, bringing you some
level of joy or tiny joy, and doing something that
is nourishing for your physical, mental and emotional health. Really
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give it some thought. You have the tools, and you
definitely gathered a lot of tools. If you're a listener
of this episode, I don't know that you need to
hear anything new. I want you to investigate your past,
what has worked? What if you wanted to try and
not made time for, or what have you heard about
on a previous episode or in a previous soul work
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that was shared that now is the time to like
pump it up, supercharge it. How are you going to
supercharge your rituals to meet the level of stress and
potentially the level of triggers that may come during this season?
Think about it, plan for it, you serve it, and
get more sleep. I'll join you back here next week.
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are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness
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I'm so grateful to have you as a listener of
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this podcast, as a participant in this collective journey in
growing in consciousness that you know many of us are on.
So in today's episode, this is a solo episode, which
are kind of my faves. We're going to kind of
lock into a few different conversations. I have some news
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that I'm really excited and want to be so intentional
about sharing with you. That's going to come a little
bit later in this episode. I have some soul work
for you in this episode. But first things first, I
mean welcome to Fall. We are here. It is officially
pumpkin spice season. Oh my gosh. Like I'm not a
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huge pumpkin person, and I don't really like a lot
of flavored beverages. That might sound odd, but I love
the color scheme of fall. Okay. I love these oranges
and these autumn tones and these various shades of browns
and rusts and reds, like they are my favorite colors.
So Fall, I have come to understand, is my favorite
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season of the year. I used to think that it
was summer because I well, my birthdays in summer, but
also you know that feeling of being free and I
love the heat. But in fact, Fall, when it starts
to get dark earlier, I'm coming to love that. Like
this was the very first season that I wasn't getting
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like a rationally upset that it was getting dark at
like four o'clock. I'm like, come on, keep me in
the house. This is what I need. God, Yes, Nature, Yes, Lord,
Sky Daddy, give me the tools. So I'm like really
enjoying fall right now. And I we're getting in kind
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of gearing up to get into that sacred in between,
that space where we dance in between worlds. This year
isn't quite finished, next year isn't quite started. But somehow
we are all just able to have more space and
more time and less urgency around you know, so many
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different facets of how we have to interact and stay
in connection with our work and with our friends and
with things like that. So something I'm really kind of
passionately observing and trying to really kind of sink into
enjoying is that beautiful kind of void space that fall
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brings and the opportunity to have our senses enlivened in
different ways, like through smells, through having you know, more
spice in the air, the aromas of food, the aromas
of candy because Halloween is coming, but all those things,
I'm letting myself really enjoy that. And so I definitely
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urge everyone listening to so see if you can naturally
and just intentionally connect to the rhythm of the season
right now and see what that means to you, See
what that feels like for you, And what can you
notice throughout the day with fall, depending on where you are,
I'm you know, of course, in La so we don't
really get a fall fall like not like the East coast,
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right like our trees aren't barren, not most of them anyways,
and we still got palm trees. And sometimes you're still
going to catch, you know, a quick one hundred degree
day in December, but the overall feeling, you know, it
rained in la this week, stormed, actually, but that dampness
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in the air. For the first time, I really let
myself savor that. I took some deep breaths when I
was walking out to the car to get ready to
go do drop off in the morning, and the dampness,
you know, and the crunch and the crispness, and so,
you know, we don't always get to have control of
everything in our worlds, very rarely, and also sometimes it's
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just exhausting keeping up with your self care, especially in
seasons like this. The energy is charged, it's dense. There
is a lot that is changing about the world that
will change our lives and then our own stuff outside
of that, right, and so sometimes it's a little harder,
especially in seasons like this, to show up in all
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the facets of your life. If you're a parent, getting
ready for all the various holidays coming up, and you know,
the travel and all the things, and so in seasons
like this you may not get as much time to
focus on self care, but ways that we can connect
to that same kind of intention of looking for the
moments of fuel, looking for the moments of being able
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to slow and use it as fuel in our lives
and in our bodies that really is all around us,
you know, stopping next time you're at Starbucks and really
taking a deep breath and getting a little bit of
that chi you know, in your spirit, in your nose,
going outside, noticing, you know, what does it feel like,
what can I see? What can I hear? What can
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I smell? What can I taste? Moments like that and
taking in the joy, you know, going intoe lights like
Halloween lights, Christmas lights, pumpkins and just letting your eyes
really savor those images for a few moments and see
where the thoughts take you and where the feelings take you.
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Those are really powerful, shifting, low lift, very very very
low lift ways to get some of that intentionality, enjoy
and groundedness throughout your day for yourself. And something that
we have explored on this show at various times over
the year through my own experiences or different you know,
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wonderful guests that we've had that have different modalities that
work with This is looking for ways to really study
your life and find out new kind of more intentional,
powerful ways of maximizing your life, of maximizing your unique
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flow in your life and the type and style of
work that you do and in the kind of life
that you want to live. So I've been looking really
closely at that for my own life. And something I
have really realized now more than ever is year after year,
fall is actually for work, by far my busiest season.
I'm probably on the most planes in the fall. I
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have the most kind of like active things that I'm
working on with my company and with partners in the fall.
And so I was kind of enjoying it because I
just got off like some really intense travel and trying
to catch up and kind of recuperate my body. But
you know, when you find those like strange little things
that you feel proud of about yourself, like those really
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bizarre things no one else will ever really your understand. Oh,
I spell it myself. I got like the perfect pack
and my luggage on a few of these trips. I
mean just absolutely job well done, perfect pack, the exact
amount of clothes that I needed. I used everything that
I had, the exact amount of products. You know, that
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feeling for those that kind of find themselves traveling like
I love that. I am such an organizational junkie. Organizing
brings me so much pleasure, and working on things with
my hands brings me so much pleasure. So yeah, I
was leaning into that and joining. But it has been busy, y'all.
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It's been so busy, and I kind of want to
share some of the events that I've been doing recently
and things that have inspired me about them. So I
hit up DC last month and I was invited to
be an award winner and a speaker at the Color
Vision Summit awards that takes place in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Year.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It was absolutely so amazing, so special, and I want
to say a huge shout out to me and Davis,
who is the founder of these awards. And you know,
as a woman that has been kind of doing like
going to women's conferences and going to events for honestly
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the better part of fifteen years from my last career
to this one, this is one of the best ones
I have ever had a chance to be a part of.
There were absolutely brilliant women from all over you know,
a couple I think I had come across the work,
but so many I didn't know that I got to
discover for the very first time their expertise and what
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they do who are on the stage and speaking on panels.
And I really, after kind of like ten years of
seeing like these brunching kind of conferences happen that don't
always in my humble opinion, how a lot of takeaway
value to enrich the audiences I've seen kind of over
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the years, just so many self aggrandizing events that are
just about the photoshoots and taking pictures, but you're not
always getting like things that can actually advance you, or
people on panels speaking to you in a way that
makes it useful for you even if you can't you know,
replicate it. And I have to say this event, the
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Color Vision Awards, I was just blown away. I thought
everyone that was a part of it, they had such meaningful,
really interesting things to say, Like you could tell that
everyone that spoke had spent a lot of natural time
in their life thinking about their life and really deeply
thinking about you know, how they're used and what they
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do and what their kind of solve is or their
unique geniuses and they all gave it so generously and
freely on the stage, So it was really cool to
just even connect with some of the women and the
audience who came there to be poured into and to
learn and to you know, see a reflection of themselves,
and they were just all working on such interesting things
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that weren't all self focused, and that was so lovely
to see and to hear and to see so many
people feel that way can be so isolating when you
are not a self focused person, and so many spaces
are just about make yourself a brand, make everybody look
at you. And it's like, I get that for some people,
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that is their path and that's what they want to do,
but like y'all, that's recent. That is not what everybody
wants to do. That's not how everybody wants to work,
and that's not what's one important to everybody and may
not be a deeper need that everyone has, you know,
this kind of constant like misplaced long to be seen
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and to be seen as already fully successful and not
be seen trying, like I think that's hindered so so
so many, especially younger millennials and gen Z like that
can be such a Hindrance and it's just not real
and it's not really gonna last long term. It doesn't
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give you enough space to evolve. So I say all
that to say, it was so cool just seeing such
like incredible advice be shared. So highly recommend if anyone
finds themselves in that area in Washington, d C. If
you're based there or if you're willing to travel, definitely
keep an eye open for that conference next year Mia
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Davis color Vision Summit and the Color Vision Summit Awards.
And very honored to have received the Wellness Vanguard Award
there that day, so that was very special. So that
it was amazing. I highly recommend. I had a chance
to go on my very first visit ever to Greenville,
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South Carolina, and actually my only time my second time
ever being in South Carolina a few weeks ago, which
was so cool. It's just I don't often get a
chance to travel to the South outside of like Atlanta,
Texas and Florida, so there's so much I don't know
about those states and those cities, and it's just cool.
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It's just so cool. It was awesome to visit South
Carolina and Greenville. I went for my dear dear friend
Avanter Gray's women's ministry conference. It was called the Relish Conference,
and they had some really wonderful faith based speakers and
I did a panel about being an author and writing
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and getting your unique creativity out of you to figure
out the kind of story that you're meant to tell.
And so it was really special and really cool being
able to visit Love Story Church. My friends John and
avon Er Gray have pastored there for I believe it
might be I want to say, maybe eight years, so
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to meet, you know, all the people that attend the church,
and it was just wonderful. Loved it. And also the
airport in Greenville, South Carolina is everything. They have a
park that is a part of the airport, an outdoor park,
and once you go through security and walk across, there
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are these sliding doors and as soon as you walk
out of the sliding doors, there's a huge park with
tables and chairs and benches and statues and a waterfall
and a mountain. And what that did for my nervous
system as a weary traveler, I'm like, airports doom of this,
Like what an easy low lift? So I loved that
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and I'm always on the lookout for stuff like that,
or you know, the airports, like Lagordia does this now
where they're in some of the security lines, they play
like nature sounds and I'm like, oh my god, save
us all. This does so much. So that was that
was a cool, a cool moment. I also had my
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very first experience at Culture Con y'all in Brooklyn that
I hit up, which was so much fun. I had
never been to Culture Con before, and I had seen
it you know, online over the last few years, but
being able to go in person was amazing everyone. It
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was such like a true convergence of creatives, of creative energy,
artistic poetic energy. I did a keynote and meditation in
the morning, and then I was on a paneanel with
some really special people Care Gains, doctor Raquel Martin and
also Les Alfred, who moderated the panel, and they're just
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all outstanding. I love their work, I like the way
they share, so being able to connect with them and
spend time with them and you know, have our panel
and mental health was really dope. The audience was amazing,
and I just love bringing meditation into unexpected places. The
first time I had a chance to like really do
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that at a conference like this was probably twenty I
think it was twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen. I did
Afro Tech when it was still in Oakland, and I
got to lead med and they have like ten thousand
people that come out. It's such a shout out to
Morgan Debonn. It's such an amazing, amazing event that grows
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year after year. But I led meditation there and that
feeling of bringing it especially in rooms where people may
not have any experience with it, but my goodness, do
they need it. But especially those non traditional spaces. It's
just as a teacher, it's so fun to learn and
observe and have it. So love that at culture con
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meant some really wonderful folks ran into a bunch of folks.
But was very inspired overall. I say all that to
say I was very inspired, especially to see just like
all the crowds and crowds of gen Z that was there,
and everybody was just free, so free, dressed in such
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unique interesting ways and just moving about with like a
lot of creativity and grace. It was cool. It was
very cool to watch and see and I just feel
I feel so proud of people I had no idea
that there was you know, maybe I heard there was
some kinds of I don't know, rhetoric or banter or
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things about it. And one of the things that I
kind of gathered as people were sharing with me that
you know, there was just some debates happening around it
is It's so wild how people always make time to
criticize things that they don't build. Like when I really
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thought of what it must have took to put something
like Culture Con on, the level of professionalism was outstanding,
which I take very seriously. Nothing frustrates me more than
unprofessional environments or places that run behind on time. I
don't think there's an excuse for it. And so like
everyone that was working Culture Con, from the talent handlers
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to the show producers to the photographers, like the level
of professionalism was outstanding. It ran like a well oiled machine.
Everything was on time that I was a part of.
And so those are things that I look for to
really give kind of thought to the quality of an experience.
And I thought the range of speakers was amazing. So
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I think it's just interesting. You know, when you see
people speaking about certain things, I always wonder, like, what
were you hoping to get out of it, or what, like,
what did you think was going to happen by the
time you left, Because from my standpoint, especially if you
were a gen zer or a young millennial, you were
probably getting information from the experts on the stage you've
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never heard before. But if you're somebody that has a
more established career or you're an older millennial, I mean,
that might not be what you take away. But I
don't know if that's what you'd be looking for or
should be looking for in the first place. So I
was just kind of thinking about some of the things
that I was reading and just being like, huh, it's
so interesting, like the way we or what stands out
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to us as being critical about something and what moves
us to just kind of like put it into the world. Yeah,
so interesting, so interesting, But I loved it. I thought
it was amazing. Another event that if any of this
resonated with you, highly highly recommend looking into next year.
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And also just like meeting cool, interesting people. I've never
been a place where everyone was just so I don't
know if this is a generational thing, if people my
age and older probably just had more barriers to being
free with each other, but everyone was. I was watching
people interact with one another, and there was just such
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kindness and like such community and such a sense of
collaboration that was really refreshing, was really refreshing. So highly
recommend if you're into those things deeply. Well. I did
this other event as well with my brother Shaka Sinkor,
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who has a really powerful book out that I recommend,
and I especially recommend for men, any male listeners or
women that love men of any ages. I really recommend
his book, which is called How to Be Free. There
is powerful technique in the book for connecting to higher
states of awareness and consciousness and embodied healing. And also
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he's just a phenomenal man, phenomenal man, so wise, so caring,
so on purpose. And so we did an event called
Conversations for the Client where we were in conversation with
both our books in community in the View Park, Englewood
area at Hilltop Coffee here in LA And I was
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realizing between that and this other event, I'm about to
tell you about how much I just miss the era
of when I was able to teach in person. A
girlfriend at dinner recently asked me, she goes, you know,
professionally the way my company operates, I kind of have
five full time jobs within one, but they're all distinctly different.
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And she was like, well, what's your favorite thing? And
I go, you know, my favorite thing is the thing
that I don't really get to do that much of anymore,
and technically I really can't. It just doesn't fit the
flow of my working style. But when I do get
a chance to do it, it's like, Oh, I'm just
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so grateful. There is nothing I love more than teaching
groups in person, real practice and technique, and so being
able to do that in community in my community here
in La with Shaka was so special. And you know,
whether you can make it to one of the events
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that I do, or this is just kind of your
nudge to seek out opportunities to do this in your
community or to bring this to your community. This is
what we need. We need to be with each other physically,
and we need to find ways to be in practice
and be in conversation with each other. So that was special,
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And then I just got back from this really amazing.
I talk about it often, but I am a board
member on the Mental Wealth Alliance, which is the incredible
mental health foundation by my brother Charlemagne the God, and
he does a yearly expo. This was the fourth annual.
It took place in Newark, New Jersey, and it's called
the Mental Wealth Alliance, and it's a full, chunky, chunky
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half day of really amazing programming advancing conversations within mental health.
So I led two panels while I was there. One
was a panel discussion and we're going to actually air
it as an episode of the show coming up. But
one was a panel justscussion on religious trauma that I
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had former pastor Karl Lentz from hillsong On and also
doctor Teddy Reeves, and both of them, I just have
deep admiration for the courageous way, especially as men they
are speaking about religion, are speaking about their experiences, are
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speaking out about the traumas that they've witnessed and experienced
and participated in, you know, at various times within the
church system or people they know. And so it was
just riveting and I think it's a conversation that we
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all deserve to think to spend a little bit more
time thinking about whether or not you identify someone as
someone who has experienced religious trauma. You know, when we
think about anybody trying to hijack our connection to God.
We should be looking at that and thinking about that,
or just knowing that it can and does happen in
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some spaces and with some people. I think it's really important.
And I also did a second conversation about ways to
actively create and cultivate healthy communication within our families and
within our communities, you know, kind of universally. Something so
many of us say when we're on the journey is
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how hard it is reintegrating back into your life when
you've started healing, because other people may not be and
you may not be able to change them, But how
do you work with your tools and the things that
you have cultivated and kind of still bring that back in.
So we have that conversation with therapists and author Danay
Logan who has been on this show. She has an
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amazing book out called Sovereign Love. And also the amazing
doctor Key Holman, who was recently on an episode of
the podcast, who has an amazing book called Nobody Is
Self Made. So they both gave and will air that
too as an episode. They both gave just really deep
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and interesting insight and perspective on how we can heal
our communication patterns in our lives, so that was special.
And then also having a chance to teach a breakout
breath work and meditation room there for the whole community
that came to the event. I think they told us
our final count. Nearly four thousand people within the Tri
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state area and the New Jersey community came to that
event and got connected with resources and services within mental
health and also just a chance to connect with these
kind of powerful, expanding conversations. So huge, huge thank you
to iHeartMedia, massive thank you to everyone that made this
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high in whether you were on a stage or behind
the scenes like it was. We all did our part
and it was extraordinary and I'm really grateful to be
a part of that and was so inspired, was so inspired,
so inspired by the speakers, by the attendees and the
audience that I got to meet and talk to. And yeah,
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so more of that. We just need more in real
life with each other in meaningful ways. And again I
just can't overstate this, like can we please? In this
era of peacockying and strutting around in front of each
other and going to conferences and events and you know,
doing really self focused and surface level networking, like it
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is time to get deeper. It is time to get
deeper at conferences, deeper in one on one communication, deeper
in our communities. Well, I don't even Yeah, I've been working.
I have a few other things that I might save
to talk to you about in another episode, but yeah,
So those are the things, and something that I wanted
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to share with you guys is I wanted to really
open up some understanding around two new partnerships you may
have seen me announce on social media and one you
may have heard me announce this past week on the show.
So I am really excited to tell you, you know,
for the last I mean, honestly, I feel like for
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the whole time I've ever been on Instagram, but absolutely
for the last five to seven years, I have said
no to pretty much every single partnership that has come
my way in terms of partnerships that require an element
of social media something that has been to me. This
is solely me, and it's based on the kind of
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work that I personally do. So this is not in
no way is this comparative to how anyone else is
doing business or creating, but something and that I knew,
especially when I left Terrestrial Radio, where I used to
have to do so many commercials. Something I knew very
strongly was that I didn't want to sell working in wellness.
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Once I moved fully into this mental health space in
this last decade, I knew that I didn't want to
cross pollinate the worlds of offering expertise and education in
this work and selling people on things in this space.
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I didn't want to do it. I didn't feel good
about it, I didn't see it done really well. I
didn't think it was necessary for the work that I
was doing and for me to do business and earn.
And so you've never seen me hawk products. You've never
seen me kind of try to get you to sign
up for a course or sign up for my twenty
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percent off code of this or that. Just has not
been the by design, the way I design myself to
do my work in the world. And I think for
many reasons that was important to me as a trauma
informed educator. I have really intentionally not ever wanted to
feel coheresive about things that I share because I realize
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and deeply respect that my audience, whether it's this show
or any of the ways that you might connect with me,
that you believe me that you take my word for
things that means the world to me. And I've never
wanted without absolute certainty to suggest or recommend things to
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anyone because I know how I see what I offer
and how I offer it to be a sacred or responsibility.
And I didn't want to. Yeah, I didn't want to
cross those worlds. I didn't see a way to do
it that I believed in. And so in that sense,
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I want to give full disclosure about these two new
partnerships I'm working with and why I chose to work
with them. So the first partnership that I'm really excited
about that I am. We're just at the beginning stages
of kind of rolling out the beautiful ways we're going
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to be in partnership. But it is an incredible skincare
brand called Allies of Skin, and I've just taken a
position with the company as the integrated healing advisor there
and so in this year long partnership that we've just
locked into, I'm going to use my expertise in spiritual,
energetic and physical healing to create meaningful embodied work with
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the brand. So we are going to be sharing holistic practices.
Is we are going to be connecting with this incredible organization.
And so some of that work will include like really
cool campaigns and front facing stuff, and some of it
will include like really deep partnership work that we're doing
with this incredible organization based in California called the Face
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Forward Foundation that works with men and women and everyone
who has experienced facial trauma. Specifically that organization is they
do powerful work helps people who were in situations of
domestic violence, and in the domestic violence had facial disfigurement
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or were burned severely. And so I am so excited
and thrilled to be able to do this kind of
work with them and with this organization. I feel so
proud of this. And the skincare is just nominal. So
Allies of Skin was founded in twenty sixteen. It's a
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science led brand that's built on the belief that everyone
deserves to feel fearless in their skin. Each formula is
powered by supercharged clinicals, so highly concentrated actives for multiple
benefits in much fewer steps. They are known for multifunctional products,
rigorous testing, and full transparency in ingredients, and they're available
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in thirty six countries and counting and they continue to
redefine skincare as a tool for transformation and self acceptance.
The founder is an amazing man named Nicholas Travis, who
is just genius, brilliant, recently one Innovator of the Year
at the Beauty Awards, but his own story of moving
through highly i mean just significant amounts of life trauma
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to even find this work and create these visiontionary products
that help your skin and face heal. I'm deeply inspired
by him. He is a friend. He is doing really
important work that is multiprong work within the skincare industry.
I also want to say that the cost of the
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products is at a higher end of the price point,
there may be barriers to being able to access the
product for those that do connect with it. I think
for many, it's also completely on par with a lot
of a lot of costs or a lot of spending
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that you may already be doing on skincare, depending on
the kinds of products that you use and what you're
looking to target. Definitely amazing for millennial skin like mine
that wants to be healing and hydrated, and I'm always
looking for ways to age gracefully and powerfully and as
I'm getting to the age where I'm starting to discover
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and figure out, you know how that's going to go,
letting myself go gray like, you know, not really knowing
what I might or might not do in the future
when it comes to my skin in my face. You know,
working with these products has been really healing personally for
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my skin and it's brought out the best in my face.
And so I'm so excited to you is I'm very
excited about their partnership, and I wanted to give you
full transparency on what it entails and what it's about
and why I said yes, and why I'm excited for
you to discover this brand as well. So the next
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partnership that I want to share that I'm so proud
about and excited for is my Wish Garden Herbs collaboration.
You may have heard a recent episode where I had
doctor Aaron Stokes of Wishgarden come and share a lot
of specific detail about herbal products that are such a
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low lift for us to do and consume and add
into our daily life, but add a tremendous amount of impact. So,
as a woman that lives with chronic pain, shout out
to the chronic pain, girlies and symptoms of autoimmune that
also has a life that requires a lot. I work hard,
and I'm raising a sun. I know many of us
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can identify with that, having very full lives that require
a lot, and you know, probably having dealt with so
many significant stressors throughout life anyway, but now the overall
stress of life, you know, I am so committed to
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sharing with everyone more of the tools that I honestly,
authentically and organically use that help my process and help
me be able to show up in my life regulated emotionally,
having my nervous system regulated, feeling like myself, and navigating
a body that sometimes is in pain, getting good sleep.
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So Wish Garden is that. And I have been using
their products already. They help me significantly. I use their
products with my son. I love boosting my immunity with
their products, because lord knows, can't none of us afford
more sick days or off of school days, or you know,
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all the things. And so these are the products that
keep me thriving. They keep me feeling really alive and
really healthy. The price points are so I mean, from
my viewpoint, I think the price points are just absolutely
fantastic and easy to keep up with. And again I
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say that that that is through my lens. But if
nothing else, I hope that this really inspires your journey
to start to experiment a little bit more with things
that are good for you and add more things into
your daily routine. So in this partnership, and I know
you heard a lot on the last episode, but wisch
Garden is America's number one selling liquid herbal blends. They've
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been around since nineteen seventy nine. Then they can bind
a lot of the ancient herbal wisdom with modern science
to create artisanal formulas that truly work. Their legendary herbal remedies.
Harness the power of USDA organic and ethically wild harvested
herbs that are tested for purity and potency with zero fillers.
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That's important, preservatives or hidden nasties. That is important, especially
in a landscape where there are more products than ever
that claim that they're holistic and organic and may not
be so. Wisch Garden is pure plant power, speaks to
your body's language, and for nearly fifty years, that's mastery.
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They've been perfecting the formulas to really help us and
help us be in control of our health naturally and sustainably.
So I'm so excited that you can refer back to
that conversation with doctor Aaron and that you can follow
the journey and hopefully connect to some products that feel
good for you from the inside out. So I wanted
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to be so transparent, give a lot of language to this.
Apologies if this deviates from the traditional show that you're
used to hearing, but I wanted to be so open
and authentic with why both of those were a big
yes for me. And know that I have said no
to things other people would gag about, you know, truly
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that because it didn't in the line, but these do
and I'm proud of them, and I'm excited for you
to come into those worlds with me. So thank you
for listening, thank you for grabbing the book. Living in
Wisdom is available everywhere. Thank you for listening to this show.
And we're going to have even more great things before
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we break for the top of the year. So to
check in your soul work for today. You know, we
are getting closer. We are officially in fall. We're getting
closer to the top of the year. Are you know,
quote unquote societal restart of the new year, but those
that know that know it really starts in the spring
with the equinox. But I want you to really make
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tiny joy a bigger practice than ever. The world is hard,
life is hard. The overall natural stresses and triggers of
fall and winter and the holidays, you know they may
come rolling in. And so I want you to really
diligently sit and think today and list for yourself three
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to five things you are committed to actively intentionally adding
into your life to support you. If you are someone
that seems to have the SADS seasonal effective disorder, right,
you get a little sadder when it's darker, a little
sadder when it's more rainy and cold. I am one
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of those people. If you are one of those people too,
let's start pre planning for that. What can you do
to bring yourself a little more light in your life,
a little more joy. Maybe it is adding an extra
warm epsom salt bath, but really taking the time to
light some candles, play some playlists, light some incense. Maybe
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it's making more time to take a walk and as
you walk, deep breaths, noticing the crispness of the air
and connecting your senses. What do you see feel here touch.
Maybe it's you know, like buying yourself the Christmas present
you really wanted honestly, or you know, choosing for yourself
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not to go to the family commitment because you're choosing
yourself instead. You know, whatever it is, and just make
sure it feeds into protecting your peace, bringing you some
level of joy or tiny joy, and doing something that
is nourishing for your physical, mental and emotional health. Really
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give it some thought. You have the tools, and you
definitely gathered a lot of tools. If you're a listener
of this episode, I don't know that you need to
hear anything new. I want you to investigate your past,
what has worked? What if you wanted to try and
not made time for, or what have you heard about
on a previous episode or in a previous soul work
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that was shared that now is the time to like
pump it up, supercharge it. How are you going to
supercharge your rituals to meet the level of stress and
potentially the level of triggers that may come during this season?
Think about it, plan for it, you serve it, and
get more sleep. I'll join you back here next week.
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Thank you for listening. I'm sayday the content presented on
Deeply Well serves solely for educational and informational purposes. It
should not be considered a replacement for personalized medical or
mental health guidance, and does not constitute a provider patient relationship.
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As always, it is advisable to consult with your healthcare
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