278 🔥 Radical Self-Love & Soul-Shaking Intimacy in Midlife with Allana Pratt

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>> Allana Pratt (00:00):
It's a very clear demarcation of who's

(00:02):
checking out and who's checking in, who's
bypassing and who's sitting in the fire, who's. And then
you can tell by their radiance or their lack thereof.
You can tell if their marriage is having affairs or
their kids are checked out, or they're like, they look like they just fell
in love and they've been married for 30 years. Like, you can tell.
And it's each. And it's right back to the beginning. It's each our own

(00:22):
intimate relationship with ourselves. That's what it comes down to. And
if we're not willing to look inside and do the
work, I'm, sorry. I think we're just going to bypass and die.
So midlife can be the best ever because
you've got like this new sense of youthfulness and
aliveness, but you got a shitload of wisdom.
Nobody can fuck with you. You're not attached to the results
anymore. You're just. You're free.

(00:45):
and you're bold and you're willing to risk because your worth
isn't because of the outcome anymore.

>> Wendy Valentine (00:50):
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beautiful.
Welcome back to the Midlife Makeover show, where
we ditch the scripts, spark transformation and
celebrate this bold and beautiful chapter
of life. Today's guest is bringing
the heat, the.

Heart, and the healing.

Meet Alana Pratt, intimacy
expert, global media personality, and
the go to authority for those ready to stop
settling and start experiencing
soul shaking relationships. I like how that
sounds. She has coached celebrities,
authored six books, and racked up over
5.6 million

(03:54):
YouTube views. You go, girl.

With her 6 million now we we popped the
6 bubble.

Let's change that. And racked up over 6 million
YouTube views with her Real Talk
and Raw Truth and her podcast,
Intimate Conversations. Hello. It's a must
listen for anyone looking to
become the one to find the one. Been
there, done that.

Yeah.

In today's episode, we're diving into the power
of self intimacy, because let's face
it, midlife is the perfect time
to turn inward, heal old wounds, and
reconnect with the most important
relationship of all, the one we have with
ourselves. Alana is here to show us
how emotional wholeness and radical self love

(04:43):
become the foundation for the epic love
stories we all crave. Buckle
up for some laughs. Aha. Moments, and
maybe even a little blushing. I'm, blushing right now.
Please welcome the fabulous Atlanta to the show.

Oh, I need to play the way you introduce me on my,
like, my wake up alarm every morning.
Wendy.

Thank you. So a lot of people have said, I'm like, maybe this
will be like my new gig. You know, I just record like,
alarm clock. Like,
welcome to the new day.
it is so great to meet you.
And I'm so. I. I was looking
on your website as I usually do with, like, most of my

(05:25):
guests. It's like I study my next victim. I'm just kidding.
I stalk.

Me.

Yeah, I stalk. I look around and like,
there's many so, so much good stuff.
It's so amazing what you've done. And I even said to you right
before I was asking how many books you have. And you're like, you're on, you're
like six and two journals or something. Like I'm on my first
and I'm like. But it is
such, it's, it's one of those types of

(05:50):
businesses and it's a way of life, right,
that you, you, you love it, you stick with it,
it's consistent. And you, you're making such a
huge, huge difference in
the world. So I am so grateful that you
became this beautiful butterfly and you're
flapping your wings and like the butterfly effect, you

(06:11):
know, like you're making such great
changes in the world. So. Thank
you. And my.
And I told you I'm not much of a Q A kind of gal, but I'm
going to ask you a question. Take us back
and tell us a little bit of your story of
how did you get into this intimate
niche?

I. Thank God I didn't take over Pratt's Pharmacy. The
little drugstore with the big heart, huh?
Thank God I didn't get along with my parents terribly well so
that I, I flew the coop and hopped on
Uncle Phil's 18 wheeler semi when I was 19.
Quit college. They were pissed. had
$40 left to my name. I moved to LA to be a dancer.

(06:55):
And I, I was good enough, like talented enough,
courageous enough. I didn't have the like the work visa, right.
So I was gonna turn around and go home and admit
failure. But that's not like me. I'm too fucking
stubborn for that. and it was just really in the nick of time. I got
a job dancing in Japan and I flew all
the way over there. I was a dancer, a model, an English

(07:15):
teacher, a spokesperson. I spent four years there.
And, and it was. Cause I, it wasn't like
a connection from mom or dad. It was, it was like I
earned this, I created this, I
cultivated this. And I'd never known that kind
of mix between complete bold
show up power and complete surrender. Let go.

(07:36):
Who the fuck knows what's going to happen? Like this beautiful
blend. Yeah. And then taking that,
energy to backpack around Thailand or
China or Bali, these different places, and really,
really discover we, we are the creators of our
life. I think I was quite naive then, but I was
getting the hang of intuition,
vision, all, all the rest of it. Yeah.

(07:59):
No, no regrets. No regrets.
Let's see what happened after that. Wendy?

Yeah.

I don't know how many husbands you've had. I've had two. So, met first
husband. He was, a Wall street trader who was
an expat with the bank account. Right. All the things.
And, I remember, I remember the first
vacation he took me on. I was dancing in a club,
teaching English by day, dancing in a club with all these hot French
girls at night. and he took me on a,
A date to the Philippines. He said, bring your bikini and a

(08:28):
passport on a date for the weekend. I'm like, oh, my God.
and I remember him talking about his bonus
for the year 1.3. And I was like, oh,
that's probably millions. And I was so
proud that I had saved $50,000 at
that point, which I ended up using to put myself through Columbia University
in New York when I followed him. But I don't know

(08:48):
why I did this, Wendy. But at the time I said, he's
better, I'm worse, he's smarter, I'm not
as smart, he's superior, I'm inferior. Like, I
made money mean. He was
more my
subconscious. Daddy wounds clicked in and it was
my job to get him to love me and choose me and see
me. So he was my first. I, didn't know it at the time,

(09:11):
but there's how the universe gives us our lessons
so that we grow, if we are alert, aware,
lean in, sit in the fire and, and evolve. So that
was a six year relationship. There was. We moved to New
York, got married, did the whole thing. I went to
Columbia. We had the house out in Connecticut. Like, it looks so good.

It looks so good.

And yet I was hiding in the closet to
meditate because that was, you know, weird, according to him.
And, and I just sort of changed into somebody
I wasn't until. I just buy that anymore.
We did therapy, we did workshops, but that wasn't going to be a
fit. Take a deep breath. Husband number two.
Right, right on the heels of my mom

(09:51):
getting cancer. And I thought,
I didn't know this at the time, but I thought, okay, no, no,
you know, I'm gonna make, make it through this. You know, a man is a plan,
and I'll have a baby and I'll replace the loss of
my mom. And this is just life. Like the first
fairy tale. Like, that's all stupid. Love is stupid. I'm
just gonna, like, it was sort of like going from the, the victim,

(10:13):
damsel in distress into the boss babe
phase, right?

Yeah.

Like, I'm gonna make this happen. I'm in charge. I'm
gonna buy the house. I'm gonna, you know, So that one
only lasted a year. M By the time
I figured out, oh, my closed heart
acted. A closed heart.
Really angry and super angry that I
divorced him. And then Wendy, it was about

(10:38):
a 13 year custody battle. it was
awful. I lost everything. I lost my house,
my savings. I went into a quarter of a million
dollars of debt. family members turned
against me. and then in the end,
I lost my son. He chose to live with his dad
to create peace, and he. He succeeded. It was
peaceful.

(10:58):
No more court.

Yeah, but.

But also no more son to hang out with.

A.

It was. It was a really tough go.

Yeah.

To this very day, I still don't have contact with my
son.

Oh.

Yeah. He's now 22. it's been five
years since we've spoken, since I've been
blocked. And it's been a really tough,
you know, we come all the way back to intimacy. How did I choose to be an intim.
Intimacy expert? Into me. I see.
I haven't liked.

Oh, I love that. Let's take a moment. Intimacy.
I see.
I see. I love that. Okay, sorry.
Continue.

No, no, no. Thank you.

Amazing.

I haven't liked who I saw. When I looked inside,
I felt like I was a failure as a mother,
A, failure as a woman. Fake as a business
owner. Like, I'm so successful. I can help all these
other people. Why am I such a hot mess? So it's been
a real journey of using my business
as a spiritual practice to be

(11:58):
vulnerable, brave,
transparent, share where I'm still a hot
mess. Own, where I'm bloody amazing. And
just keep going. Just keep going.
So there's your. There's your story.

I love that there's so much there. That
was so meaty. It was so
meaty. I love
that you. first of all, thank you
for sharing all of that because I feel,
especially as women, we are supposed to appear like
we have our. All of our together and
it's either one or the other. Right? Like you have all your

(12:34):
together or you don't. And you cannot, like, stand
in your power if you don't have all of your shit together.
And. And I love that about you,
that you're still. You are shining
your light so, so freaking bright.
Even though. And we always. I feel like we
always will have these little dark places within

(12:54):
us that it's not like you
just arrive and, you know,
like, we are awakened and that's it, we're good
to go. Nothing else will harm us anymore.
No, that's not true. We will continue to have
losses. We will continue to have Heartbreak, but
it's how you see yourself and

(13:15):
how you carry yourself throughout the rest of your life.

Yeah.

I mean. I mean, you think about it too, right? Especially
at midlife.

Right?

Our parents, going through illness, or friends
and family going through illness, death,
divorces, even, like, I mean, if you think about it,
even if we're not going through a divorce or some type of,
breakup, our friends do, and it changes the
dynamic. Like, there's all sorts of
birdies leaving the nest. Like, all sorts of

(13:45):
going on menopause. Like, it's all
the. It's all the craze these days. Our
bodies are changing, you know, like, everything
is happening, and it's like. But
you, I love, in the very beginning, you had said,
we create. Yeah, Our lives,
We create our realities. You may not be able to

(14:05):
control every single single thing around
you, but you have yourself.
And it's the into me I see.
Right. And. And that is such a. A powerful
question to even ask ourselves. What do you
see?

Oh, there's so many little Alanas inside.
there's probably like 20. Like, the. The ashamed Atlanta,
the insecure Atlanta, the badass Atlanta, the erotic
Alanna, the goofball Alana, the sexy Atlanta, the smart
Atlanta, the not so smart Atlanta. Like, there's so many Atlanta's inside.
And so my goal, if I have such a thing, but I never get
there. So it's more like the journey is, can I invite them all

(14:42):
to the table? Yeah. Even that one. Even that
one. Right. And not have one get the prize and the
crown and the other one, you know, get the booby prize?
Like, no. Everybody's equally loved. Can I learn? Can
I. Can I strive to actually be the
embodiment of unconditional love and
be home in myself? Home with God, home with the divine,

(15:03):
home with my cellulite, home with my video.

All the things.

Right. and that, to me, is a daily practice.
And I've created a structure where I get to
show up every day for my clients, and there's no way I'm
going to ask them to be or do something if I won't, you
know, do the same myself, you know, give myself the same challenge.
And I've got all my coaches because I can't see my blind spots to
save my life either. So it's a real

(15:27):
raw, intense, delicious,
heartfelt, way. Way to live.
And there's so many times, I don't know about you, how long you've been an
entrepreneur, but 2005 is when I first incorporated.
So there's many times I wanted to give up. But here's what
I've noticed, which is so delicious, with our day
and age of, like, the Internet and the rest of it. I can remember

(15:47):
one client flew me get this to Scotland to do
her vip. Oh, my God. So I said, well,
I'm gonna go all the way to Scotland. I'm gonna stay an extra week. So there I am, and I'm driving
around on the wrong side of the road, and. And these castles
and these little. So I go to this one Little Island. There's
125 people on the island. There's one place for dinner. Better make a
reservation. So I sit down. So. So, Ms. Pratt, what would you like for

(16:07):
dinner? I'm like, oh, how did you know my name? That's lovely. The
chef follows you on
YouTube. Stop it.
What? There's a little island in the middle of the ocean in
Scotland where somebody watches YouTube.
Oh, my God. And I
just stood there for a second going, holy crap. We really have
no idea the difference we make

(16:30):
when we show up. That smile at the
clerk at a grocery store can change someone's
life.

Right?

Right. Putting out a simple blog where you're like, who even read
this? You never, never
know. I was even just in Sedona last, fall,
with one of my coaches. I was at a coaching program. There were some of
the other participants. And we're leaving the little cafe, and this gentleman comes
up to me, goes, are you Alana Pratt? I go, oh, hi. Are you in
the group? There's, like, 60 of us. I think I was, like, embarrassed. I

(16:58):
didn't notice him. he's like, no, no. I've been following you since
2009. There's something about
the way the energy comes through your eyes
that just makes me feel better. It's a
frigging stranger out of nowhere.
So, it makes me go. Those are the moments that when I want
to give up. Being an entrepreneur is hard. Some months

(17:19):
are lean. Some months are, like, abundant. I've got a
global staff. Our YouTube channel was
hacked. Like, we go through all these, like, crazy things, right?
We got it back now, but it was. It was scary there for a little bit. But,
like, those are the moments where I'm like, no, no. You make a difference with
one. That's all. Just like that little statement they say, you know,
that. That thing about the starfish? You know, the person's

(17:40):
throwing the starfish back in the ocean. They're like, why are you doing it? You know, there's Just
so many. Well, I saved that one, right? Yeah,
you can love that one. Then I can rest
at night, at peace.

Yeah, that's a good motivational speech just for me right
now.

Well, good, good, good, good. Miss.

Yeah, M. No matter, like, whoever
is listening right now, it does. You don't have to have a YouTube
channel. You don't have to have a podcast. You don't have to be an author.

You.

You make such a difference in the
world with. No matter what you do.

Yeah.

just being a woman, period.
You make a huge difference in the world.
Right.

You are. You are love. You are
love.

And I think that all the more reason that you
have to awaken. You have to see
within yourself totally and
embrace all of you. Like what you were saying earlier.
Embrace all parts of you.

Yeah.

and I think that's the beauty of
midlife. I feel like when I
got to midlife, you know, it was like,
oh, shit, wait, what have I been doing? What am I
doing now? And what am I going to do?

Like, and why.

Yeah, exactly. Like, I wanted more
fulfillment.

Yeah. Yeah.

And I feel like that, Yeah. And it's. It's such a
beautiful time for a woman to truly
embrace all of her
magnificence and. And to do
something. It's not so much doing something great for the world, although
it. No matter what you do, it does. It does something great for the
world, no matter how small or how. How
big that you do something, you're making a

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difference for you, and it's fulfilling. Yeah.
And I think it's. It's.
I love. I love seeing a woman that
knows herself and loves herself.
There's something. There's nothing more beautiful than that.

Thank you. I think it's magnetic.

Yeah.

It happens. Like. Like we are. Ultimately. When I said we
create our life at the beginning of the interview, I didn't mean
we create exactly the clients and
exactly. However. No, no, we're a vibration. We're
a vibration. We create the vibration. Now, how the universe
wants to play with us in that figure eight, when we send that vibration out.
And what comes back, like, that's a show. We have no clue what that's going to

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be, but it will be the vibration of, oh, woe
is me. I'm a victim, martyr. Or it'll be the
vibration of I'm a badass who's humble,
flawed, and fabulous. What you got? How can I play? Right?
Like, you're going to have a different kind of life with that.
And I think one of the things we underestimate
is the power and potency of our presence.

(20:16):
Like for, for. I'm sure you, you know, who you
can call at 3 in the morning and who will listen
and who won't pick up or if you did call, would make it all
about them. Wouldn't really, you know, like those special
people who have the capacity to not fix,
just listen, say thank you, Tell me more.
Where's the tequila? Come over. You know, like this person,

(20:38):
Presence is priceless. And we cannot give
that gift if we don't give it to ourselves. If we have
emotions that come up that we bypass, if we have
traumas that we're not willing to sit in the fire and do the work and
integrate, if we're doing fakey, fake face, you, you know, how
are you fine when we're really not.
Reads as, It actually reads like you don't

(20:59):
care, which is not the truth. But that's how it reads or
reads as arrogance or shallowness. When really
it's just a lack of intimacy with yourself.
So that to me is why I believe our intimate
relationships with ourselves, it's like the fundamental
core building block of all successful relationships. It
has to be our number one relationship. Can you

(21:20):
look in the mirror? I like you.
Love you. I see you. I'm
gonna slow down and breathe you. What do you need?
And not just to your eyes in the mirror with your soul, but
your body. Oh, tension in the shoulders. What am I
shouldering? Ooh, that situation gives me a bit of some
nauseousness. What is it about it? I can't stomach?
Hips not moving forward. Yeah. We're getting older. I

(21:43):
know, but like, what are we scared to step into and risk
our bodies? Talk. And I remember
interviewing, I've interviewed lots of lovely people over the years. Probably
over 800 at this point. It's just been. It's how I stay a student
and how I say humble.

Yes.

But When I interviewed Dr. Christiane Northrup, one of the
times, she said, I just cleared out my living room. There's
nothing in it because I tango. And I'm
like, oh, you're so hot right now.
Her priority as she was moving on.
So I, I get great inspiration from people that go against the
grain in their midlife and beyond. and

(22:19):
just live. Live full out. Yeah.

Live out loud.

Yeah. I even had people in their 70s come to my last retreat.
Susan came to me at 78, single,
and then, in one of the dyads with another member of the
community. It Was leaked out that she had some sort
of matchmaker thing. So we said, oh, you
better get on that. So she met Ed.
And then Ed and Susan came to the retreat. He's

(22:44):
75, a younger man, and, she's 79 now.
And they're still, like, showing up for
intimacy, right? It's never, ever too
late to. To blossom open. To
blossom.

Yeah. And, you know, too, I. I feel like a lot
of times with just. Okay. Intimacy,
we think of that as just sex or just the
physical act aspect of that. Right.
But intimacy is so much
more. And it's. Yeah. It's not just
like sex is like the. The. The bonus

(23:16):
out of the whole thing. Right.

Oh, my God.

If at all. Right. But, I mean,
intimacy is. It's such a big word,
really.

Yeah.

So what does intimacy mean to you?

Well, besides intimacy. I see. So it's this relationship
with yourself is when you are with another and you're.
You're finding things in. In common of where you
have shared values or shared perspectives or shared, you
know, these different aspects of your. Of your vision for
life. But to me, it's also where you drop your walls,
open your heart, and you're transparent and you're
vulnerable, and you're not looking to them to

(23:50):
complete you, make you happy, save you, approve of you, like
your whole. So you're like, here I am. The good, the bad,
the ugly. Hi. And then they're giving you the same.
And then it's not this transactional. You give me this.
I'll give you that tit for tat. It's this figure 8
that starts to happen where my vulnerable
share awakens something in you. And then

(24:10):
it's something that was. That was dormant before our
interaction. And then it wakes up, and then you shine it towards me
or communicate it or touch or sound or
movement or ideas or communication, however it is. And then
it awakens something in me. And then it's like this figure 8,
this infinity symbol where we're more together without
trying, without being attached to the result

(24:31):
completely in the unknown seen by
the other. And you can do that silent,
with breath. You can do that slowly, with
touch. You can do that with communication and
questions. You can do that with lovemaking.
Like, there's so many different ways you can
be. Is, authentic and real
and present back to presence again. Yeah.

(24:53):
Yeah.

And then just being able to be yourself in
a relationship.

Yeah.

I mean, in. I would say, my. One of my
marriages, I didn't feel like I could be myself.

Yeah.

I, Wendy was either too loud or
too bright, or to this or to
that. So therefore, what did
Wendy do? She would not shine.
She would be quiet. She would do all
the things so that I don't get
abandoned and so that I'm
loved and blah, blah, blah. And then

(25:27):
one day, little Wendy wakes up and it's
like, girl cannot do this.
Like, I mean, like my soul was dying
totally parched. Yeah. Yeah. So,
I mean, I feel like. I mean, a lot of women might feel that way
of feeling, like they can't truly be
themselves.

Yeah.

And if you were to be yourself,
then that equals losing
either the relationship or other things in your
life. And. And I had to take that risk. I
mean, you had to take that risk.

Yeah.

Right. Like, shit. Like, but it.
For myself, like, I had to do it.

Yeah.

I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't have gone on.

Totally true or you'll get My. My mom died at
61. She. I think that just all ate away and
created cancer. So you don't be
brave. Some bankruptcies or cancers or
various other, things could happen to you. As a wake up call.
As a wake up call to go. This is not aligned with your soul.
Let's make a new choice. So back to the
source of that.

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Well, there's another source of that source. But. But to me, I
was still seeking my approval in the man.

Yes.

My safety in the man. My worth in the man. All these things. And,
like, I still hadn't learned how to cultivate wholeness
on the inside. So I was looking to him to complete me. So I have
complete compassion for that girl that did that.

Yeah.

As long as I did. Because I was looking outside in,
not inside out. And where did I learn that?
From parents who didn't do the coaching that I now
do. So they had the best that they did.
So they showed me an unhealthy relationship. Dad was drunk and
Stone and Mom was kind of, you know, checked out. Codependent.
Right. So I'm like, oh, that's love. Not.

Yeah.

So we go back to our core wounds. Not to blame our parents, but
to go, oh, I'm trying to fulfill that unmet,
m. Need in my current relationship. So let's
heal it in both directions, backwards and forwards, and become
not perfect, but whole. I'm the source of
my happiness, my safety, my worth.
And when we do that, to me, it feels like little

(27:30):
Russian dolls. Like, there's little Alana and then there's big Atlanta holding
little Atlanta. And then. Then there's big Like God,
divine goddess, God, whatever you want to call the divine,
holding all of us. And then so. So
we can exhale, we can soften, we can open because we're
resting into the divine and our little you inside.
When she pipes up and she's like, I scared it. It's a scary.
We're like, okay, you have every right to be scared. Tell me more.

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Not the old way of like, you're scared. Shut up.
Change. Gotta be happy. Gotta get the guy, gotta get the money. Like that's
the old way. I used to treat m myself like I used to hit little you
with a two by four of criticism. And now instead I
lean in and I. And I honor her. And I say,
hey, baby, every way that you've grown up, of course that's how you feel.
Your autonomic nervous system is freaking out right now.

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Here, let me help you. You know, at your pace.
Not my pace, your pace. And when you're ready. And my
autonomic nervous system goes back to zero. And I have this sense
of oneness inside along that is wisdom
and clarity and connection to the divine and
embodiment in connection to Mother Gaia and all
as well. And from that place, then we make a

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choice. Not from the desperate, scary place, because I've
made lots of quote unquote mistakes. Really, they were just choices
made when I was spinning like a maniac, terrified,
right? And I can. I can forgive her too.

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like, what, you know, you have to forgive, you know, not
that. What's the saying, you know, not that's what you do
or, you know, like you. It was like you were taught
you were doing the best that you. That you could with what you were
taught. Right. And I love that you said earlier,

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it's not like you have to go back to your childhood to
blame, but it's finding that common thread.
And you know, for me, I I was, I was
abandoned when I was a child. And then from
that. Yeah, and then from that,
it's like I became this really good
codependent, people

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pleasing, approval seeking, like, I
mean, a perfectionist. I was so good at
it to avoid
anyone leaving me, abandoning
me. And then sometimes at the point that I would abandon
first just so I would not be the one that was abandoned.
And then finally I wake up in my

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late 40s and I realize
all this time I was so. My greatest fear was being
abandoned, but really I was abandoning me.

Ringo, back to intimacy.
So that's, that's a little windy that we never were
so terrified. Well, here's the deal. We. I've learned so
much about trauma. I do psychedelic somatic integration work now.
I've been at this.

Oh, that's so awesome.

it has been like the magic piece for me. And my clients like to
catapult our results. So what I've discovered
is when we do the looking on the outside thing, we're
actually dissociated. We're not even in our
body. We're level four trauma. We're not in our body. We're
out there a million miles an hour, hyper vigilantly
seeking a solution to survive.

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So the narrative is, where's the next person who's going to leave me?
That's you. For me it was, where's the next person who's going to abuse me? Right?
So, like, that's the narrative. So what do you find those
kind of people? You're not in your body, so you can't feel
your heart, you can't hear your intuition, and you're going a million
miles an hour and your adrenals are shot. And you.
And level four trauma has that fakey, fake face. Oh,

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I'm fine. Right? And you're numb. You're absolutely numb.
So when I discovered, oh, that's been my whole life,
which has created a certain degree of success,
but it's all based on a house of cards. And then you come
back into the body. Level 3 trauma in no fun.
It's hopeless. what's the point? It's
really dealing with reality of what we've created

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without judgment. It actually, on a
physical level, has a lot of nauseousness because you're having to look at everything
you haven't been able to stomach, digest about
your choices. It's a gnarly stage. So without a
facilitator right with you, it can be a lot to
process. So I'm, I have this beautiful
blessing of Being able to be with my clients. I'm right here.
Take me with you. I got you. I got you. I'm m. Right here. I

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love you. Let's keep feeling. Not strategizing.
Pushing the old, you know, masculine energy
way. The feminine surrender. Being this way because the
body knows what it's doing. And if you get out of the way, get the
mind out of the way, get the. Try to get to the goal,
get that out of the way, and just be level three trauma will
go to level two trauma. More fun. Short

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30 seconds. 60 seconds. But this is where that pocket of
panic or rage,
something that you were never allowed to fully feel to completion
as a kid, it's still in there. And it's even in there from
past lives. There's a lot of shit that's in there. So when.
When that amount of energy comes with a client, they're like,
I'm gonna die. I'm like, I know. It feels like you're gonna die. Take me

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with you. Here's a pillow to hit. Here's something to
scream. Hold my hand. I got you. But we feel through
these previously thought to be unfeelable
emotions. No, they're not. They just. We're not meant to do it
alone. Trauma occurs in relationship
and healing. Trauma occurs in relationship. So I
become the. The surrogate parent, the divine
mother, the divine father, Whatever energy they need, and they get

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through that level two trauma of like, holy hell. And then they get to
level one relief. Oh, my God, I'm alive. Because the body
felt that as a little kid being abandoned, which would
mean, oh, if I don't have a roof over my head and food in my mouth, I will
die. So the body thinks it's gonna die, and that's
accurate. So when you get to level one. Oh, my God, I
made it. I made it. I made it. I go, yes, you did. Let's stay there. Let's

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just start to resource. Start to resource. The body knows what it's
doing. And if you don't go off and start thinking, if
you stay surrendered to the body, it'll go to zero.
Wendy. Zero is complete
oneness with all. And not. Not
getting rid of the fear. The fear's been integrated into
power or courage. The. The
shame, has maybe been integrated into

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more of an unapologetic expression. That's.
That's quiet power.
Silent power. Like there's wisdom,
integration, oneness with all.
It's almost like you can swim through the room. The energy is
so thick because they're back in their Body.
They're like, oh, this is what you mean by
embodiment. I'm like, yeah,

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yeah.

yeah.

And there. And it doesn't go away. It doesn't go away.
That it's called a wave. That wave has been
integrated in the nervous system
and everything makes sense. And there's no more blaming
and there's no more shaming. And it's so
exquisite.

and you feel so light.

Yes. While being.

Dropping all of that heavy baggage.

Light, but also totally connected and willing to be here.
Yeah.

So I had my. I didn't share this, but
I had my aha moment during a ketamine
journey. And
that was when I literally. And I was smiling the whole
time you were describing that because I was like, yep, yep. I could totally
relate because there was like a peak of
the darkness and then it started to kind

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of m. Change into the lightness. But
through all of that darkness, that was when I
realized, sorry, I'm in the desert. My
throat's like, so dry.

Oh, good.

But I realized that,
yeah, I can step aside. My soul has got
this. And I literally had this conversation
with my soul. My soul was like, Wendy,
you've. You've had these fears you're going to be abandoned
and all of that. Like, I got you, girl. You can
tell little Wendy, we got this. Let me

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like, step aside and let me handle it from
here on out. And it was just like, oh,
I don't need to have this, like, carry this heavy
armor and try to protect and try to
like. It was. It was so much
energy as, you know, like, carrying that through my
lifetime of like, always being on guard, always,

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like watching this. And my m. Mind was just
overwhelmed.

So get it.

Like, I couldn't. Yeah, I was like, constantly protecting, constantly
protecting. And I was like, oh, it's. I don't want. I don't
have to do that anymore.

What you just said was not only brilliant. I want to explain the science behind what
you just said. We're so. Yes. Very
truly talk to you. But we can't have our soul
in our body. When our body is
filled with unprocessed trauma, there's no room.
There's no room at the end. So when we integrate those very
difficult things, we clear space for our

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light body, our soul to literally come into
our body. And then we know
things that we ought not to know. It connects all the way up to the top of our head
in the center, our pineal, which is like connected to non local
intelligence. So you. You hear the whispers of
God you come down through a heart that's open and
brave. Maybe not thrilled with the circumstance,

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maybe not preferring what the circumstances, but able
to respond, not react, because your heart's open
down into your power where your soul lies down in your
hips. And then it's like a sense
of home and wholeness that I've
never experienced in all of my decades
on this planet. And now to be able to m. Give

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it to my clients,
fulfillment. And then results. Oh, my God,
like, drinking addiction's gone. Sex addiction's gone.
Single into your 60s, all of a sudden, meeting a great life
partner. all the different ways that it
supports people leaving a job because the
paycheck felt like if you left the paycheck, you were going to die. These
are all the different results that people get when we can

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go and it's subconscious. Like, we have a great. We have a pretty
much an idea of maybe what's going on in there because of the results. In our
life, a lot of times those
beliefs, those emotions, we didn't know they're
subconscious. It's like a,

It's like, yeah, totally. Exactly. That's the reason why they call it
subconscious. They're so far down in there. And that was one of
mine. Like. Like, once it
hit me, I was like, duh.
It was so obvious. But then it was so
hidden.

Yes, yes.

And it wasn't like, even if someone had said
it told me, I still wouldn't have really
gotten. It had to been felt. It had.
Like, I'm the one that had to dig that
up, to bring it to the surface and go,
okay, I got it.

Totally.

Oh, it's such a freaking release, you know? And I want to say
too, like, one of the. The. The other thing that I experienced
during that journey was in
the very beginning, it got super dark and super scary.
And that was actually one of my fears in doing the whole thing to begin
with. And then
it was so crazy because it was like this.

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I don't know if I just felt like it was in the scary movie.
And then all of a sudden I was just like, I don't.
I literally, in my mind was saying, I don't
like this darkness. Like, it's. I'm over it. And I. I
was so frustrated. I was like, I'm over this. I am so over
it. Which really, the deeper meaning of that I was over my own
darkness. I was like, I'm done with this. Like, I.

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I want to be able to live my life in peace. Like, I'm Done
with it. And literally, like, it just would.
Like, just all of the darkness just turned. I was
like. And, like, this light comes in.
And what I got from that tiny little
experience, which became a big experience, was that I
have the power in myself

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to change that darkness. I don't have to cling to
the darkness. I don't. I have the power
to create more light in my life.

Yeah. And, not. Not. But. But.
And the only way through to the light is through
the shadow. You can't just go,
yes, life is good. Everything's, you know,
spiritual. It doesn't work like that. You actually have to
go through hell to get to heaven, through the
darkness and the shadow and be able to be with it. with your
wits about you, your presence, your heart open

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and really look the dragon in the face and go,
okay, all right, I got this. I got this.

Yeah. I mean, you and I would not be having this
conversation if we have not experienced our own dark
night of the soul. Right?

Many, many, many times.

I mean, that's why sometimes, like, if there's. That I'm,
welcoming shitty stuff in my life, but if
something dark comes my way, I'm like,
okay, okay. What you got? What you got for me?
What can I learn from this? Like, there's something.

Yeah.

And it doesn't mean that anything that bad that
happens in your life, it has to totally take you down.
Those. I feel like the stronger you get, the more that you
shine your light, the darkness isn't as
heavy and creepy. And you.
You. It's almost like you trust in it. You embrace it. Right?
Like, embracing all parts of us, we embrace the darkness that

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can come our way.

Yeah. I think that's one of the favorite things about,
like, I. My ass doesn't look like it did when I was a
dancer in my twenties, I will admit. but I feel
sexier than I did.

Yes.

one of the things I love about midlife, if you do the
work, you feel sexier maybe than you actually
ought to, but who cares, because you're so
alive and free.
and I see, like, I have, a client. She just renewed for another
year. When she came to me, she was quite jacked up on,
antidepressants, medications.
No one had ever taught her that anxiety is.

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There's not a problem. It's called an emotion.
And then we learn how to integrate it, and then we're. Then we're brave.
No one had ever taught her that. She's like, oh, anything other than happy
place, let's Take more drugs or drink or do whatever we're going to
do. So if she'd been on them for 40 years,
oh, gosh. So she weaned off. And
she had to learn what it is to actually be in her body, be

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present, be with her emotions. She had to learn to love like
the little Alana's, little Wendy's inside as
much when they're scared as when they're happy. And
people's reflection back to her is, you're more present, you're more here,
you're more authentic, you're more alive. But this
is hard. I go, yeah, welcome to life. Welcome to life.
Then after you get the hang of it, just
like going to the gym. The first couple times going to the gym, you're like, oh, my

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God, I'm in so much pain, I can barely get down to the toilet. You know, my
butt hurts so bad from all these spots. But then after a while,
you're strong, you feel great. You go out for hikes,
you're feeling amazing. You put on that new pair of jeans. Like,
you get the results, but you got to do the work.
So to me, midlife, it's a very clear
demarcation of who's checking out and who's checking

(42:28):
in, who's bypassing and who's sitting in the fire.
Who's. And then you can tell by their radiance or their lack
thereof. You can tell if their m. Marriage is having
affairs or their kids are checked out. Yeah. Or they're like. They
look like they just fell in love and they've been married for 30 years. Like, you can
tell.

Yes.

And it's each. And it's right back to the beginning. It's each our own
intimate relationship with ourself. That's what it comes down to. And
if we're not willing to look inside and do the
work, I'm sorry, I think we're just going to bypass and die.
So midlife can be the best ever. Because. Because
you've got, like, this new sense of youthfulness and aliveness,
but you got a shitload of wisdom. Nobody can

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with you. You're not attached to the results anymore.
You're just. You're free. and you're bold
and you're willing to risk. Because your worth isn't because of the
outcome anymore. Your worth isn't accomplishments
anymore. Your worth is your worth.

I mean, and, you know, for all the. The people
pleasers out there and the approval seekers and
the codependents, like, like I shared earlier,
I was one of Them. It gets
exhausting after a while. And I
think that's why, like, maybe you know, your 40s or 50s, you're
like, oh, for crying out loud. Like. And I
mean, for me, I realized I was like, well, all of

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this work I'd been doing and there no one seems to give a.
Anyways. I'm like, they're all. You know what I mean? I'm like, they're
all doing their thing. I'm like, it didn't matter, like,
if I was trying, you know?
And I think you had a real
earlier on Instagram. maybe it might have
been today or yesterday.

What did I say?

And it's about one of your clients, and I think he had kind of
a similar thing. Like, the approval
seeker forgot the appoint.
The point I was gonna freaking make. Damn it.
And it was gonna be so good.

I'll just say something.

I'm gonna blame that on menopause right there. Like, I'm gonna
brilliant every brain for fart on menopause.

Don't worry. But I remember, I just. I just had a PSI with
this. He was young. he was young, only
22. And his eyes were permanently dilated
because he was so hyper vigilant. And after day one, we
do two days of psi. after day one, his eyes were back to
normal because we felt through the terror
that literally made his eyes. His eyeballs and his face
be, like, on guard all the time because he had

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misconstrued. It was his job to keep the family
together.

That's what it was. Okay. That's what it was. Thank you. It was. It was
about being the peacemaker.

Yes.

And then you realize you wake up one day.
I, for me, I did. And I was like, wait a minute. I
cannot make peace with these people.
Like, my own family, you know? Like, I mean, I.
The. The day my brother died was like,
whoa. Like, that's. I woke up myself,
actually, because I was like, I could not save

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him. I can't save my mom. I can't save my dad. I
can't make them all happy. I was like, oh. And at
the same time, I was like, oh, thank God I'm not
responsible for everybody. I can't do it.
Like, I cannot. Like, I mean, I haven't heard enough time
just taking care of this woman right here. I
cannot take care of everybody. But I
felt so relieved.

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As opposed to the guilt
that I used to carry for so long that I
could not help everybody.

Yeah.

And I was like, oh, I don't have to carry this
anymore. I mean I didn't have
just a suitcase. I had a U haul truck of I
was carrying around. And it was just so nice
to put that down.

Yes.

And to be like, you know what? And it's like a lot.
It's acceptance.

Yeah.

They are who they are. People are going to be. They
do what they do. Let them. Even for like
my own children. Right. I have three boys.
Even when I. Right. Like you see them fall. Yep.
Yep. You fell. You figure out how to get back up.
It is not my responsibility to pick you up.

It's so beautiful. You know M. Because there's many. In my
case anyways, there's been many layers. Like there's the awareness that I'm
being responsible for them versus to them.
And then I can, I can forgive myself. I can do the processing
in the top. Top of the iceberg. Right. The little ticket at Tippy Top. But then
there's the iceberg under the water where it's still lodged in my body.
And literally this morning when I was dancing around, I have this

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big faux fake sheep skin 8 by 10 rug in the
living room. And it's there on purpose.
And I walk past it a lot because I just stay in my head
and I just push forward. But on a, on a really brave day, I
get down on my ass and I put on the recording and I
move it through my body and it's
my right shoulder, Wendy, my right shoulder. My

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masculine shoulders. Responsible for others.
And as I was rolling around this morning, I just had another wave
of tears about my son this morning. and, and
my, my, my arm that just. I don't know what happened for you on
ketamine, but on the psychedelic somatic integration
work, when, when it leaves the body, it'll often shake. It'll be
heat or it'll like shake, discharge.

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And so my arm this morning, my shoulder, it was like aching. I just
felt like there was a death in there. Like an ego death. It felt just
like if you can imagine feeling nauseous in your shoulder, that's what it
felt like. And then my arm started to shake and I
just let it go and I just said, I can't be responsible for him.
Yeah. I can't punish myself that he's not talking to
me any longer. Can't do it.

I know it. I can't.

I need to be able to move on. And it's. I had this
mixed up belief that it was a betrayal of him if
I just moved on and was happy or betrayal of me. I should wait around and
be the martyr. And, And I'm just like, no, neither of those are working. I
gotta let go. I gotta take care of mama
and have a sexy, fantastic life.
And then the arm and the shoulder let go, and the tears

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came through. And then I felt more
flow of home in my body. So it's important
in the brain, but we can't let go of the body.
Also holding on to these traumas
over time. We want to take care of the whole
enchilada to be.

Because it will cripple, it will cripple you. Right. Mentally,
emotionally, physically, and, you know, back
to emotion. I always think of
emotion as energy in
motion. E equals motion. Like, and I.
And when once I really got that, I wasn't
so scared of my emotions. Right? We're human beings being
human. We, we were, thank God we

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were built with all of these emotions. It
teaches us something. If you will stop and
listen, like you said, and learn,
Learn from the emotions. What are they teaching you? And
if there's something that keeps coming back over and over and
over again, it's time to stop and ask
yourself, like, what, what, what you got? Like, what,

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what's underneath this? I mean, sometimes
it's again, like taking that shovel and really
getting underneath there. There's something there. And sometimes it
doesn't.

Re.

It'll reveal itself in the oddest of times,
and whatever it comes, it'll come. But if you keep asking,
eventually it will come.
I wanted to share that, I love on your
website, you guys have got, after you get done listening to
Atlanta and I, you've got to go to her website and you have
this testimonial video. It's like
several of your clients leaving

(49:32):
testimonials. It's very, very powerful. Like, there were so
many. I was just like, oh, I could relate to, like, almost every single
person. And it was interesting. you
know what I was saying earlier about the sex? It was like, okay, you're
expecting everyone just to be on there talking about. No, it
all had to do with how they felt
about themselves.

Totally, totally.

And there was one lady in particular. She was talking
about the unraveling,
and she's like, I'm, she's like, I found that, like, I, I,
I don't really grasp it until I have to unravel
first. And I've thought about that too. Right. Like,
sometimes you have to deconstruct
and then reconstruct. Like, you have to unravel. And

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I think she called it, like, just Rebuilding.
And. And that's okay. That's kind of back to the dark
night of the soul chat of, like, it's okay.
Let the unravel.

That's not.

You deconstruct it. Tear it. Yeah. Either tear it down
by, like, you either proactively tear
it down, or it gets teared down. Right.

And then you rebuild.

And. And what's nice is, like, you'll. You can start with
a clean slate. And. And then you go,
okay, what do I want?

Yes.

What. Who do. And most importantly, who do I want to be?
What is. Who is the woman that I want to be as I move
forward in this life? It's not up to
mom and dad and the. The
exes and the society.
society and Instagram, who.

Or even the kids, what the kids want. Right. No.

Oh, I know. And that's tough. I feel like,
you know, again, being in midlife, and most of
us are, you know, with empty nesters or we have
children. We have adult children.

Yes.

Children that are having children already. Right. Like,
so it's this kind of. It's a different
dynamic, and it's like you're
there, but you're not there. You're kind of
a friend. You're kind of a parent. You're kind of like,
you know, it's this weird spot.

Yeah.

you don't want to be you. Like, the helicopter moms are probably like,
oh, like, I can't hover anymore.

So then who am I? Why am I still here? The
way I see it, I like this unraveling and, you know, peeling
away the layers. Since I've been starting to do the psychedelic
somatic integration work, it's very clear. The body
holds all these traumas, and as it gets cleaned out, what I
tend to notice is the identity that was
created to survive the traumas. It doesn't have anything

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to stand on anymore because the traumas aren't there. So this way
of thinking, this way of being, this shtick that we
used to do, this priority. We thought we valued this. We thought
this was who we were. It starts to crumple as well, which is very
destabilizing, quite disorienting, because you think you know
who you are. My God, I've been at this for 40, 50 years. Like,
no, but you. But then it goes away, too. But here's what

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happens if. And that's why all my clients work with me for a year. I think it's
irresponsible just to give them a little bit of a breakthrough, and then they
destabilize all by themselves and have a nervous breakdown. No, you're going to be in
community. I got you the whole thing. So once this
second layer, this identity starts to dissolve, what I discover
is, like I said earlier, the soul that spoke to you in your
journey is now speaking to us not from up,

(52:38):
up there, but from inside. Because we've created
this room, especially in our hips, for that soul
to turn on and speak to us. So what
we decide to do and who we are and what all these choices we
decide aren't ego shtick
identities to survive and look good and be happy and you know,
that's not the motivation anymore. It's really your
soul's contract. Maybe before it was

(53:00):
karmic contracts, right? Now it's soul
contracts. Now it's soul, joy, truth.
We don't give a if people agree or not. And it's,
there's. It's quieter. It's quieter because there's nothing to
prove. There's not so much attachment. It's more of a day to
day basis because we don't need to have like three, three years
figured out in order to feel safe today. Like we can just take it

(53:21):
day by day. And I'm, and I'm still a newbie at
this, I'm still still a student of
consciousness, I guess we could call it. But I've got
to say, I love myself more than I ever have.
Especially the parts that I used to hate when I meet
a part that I haven't brought home. Even though we
might have a bit of a standoff for a little bit, I'm like, fine, come here.

(53:42):
I love you. Sorry, please forgive me. Hooponopono, right? I let you
know the whole thing, it's quicker integrations
and then the reflection I get from others is it's safer to
be around me. Safer and safer to be around me. Safer
to share that taboo thing they haven't shared with
anybody because as I don't judge myself, they know
that I won't judge them. And we can just be in truth

(54:02):
and sit in the fire, sit in the muck and just in
its own time, allow a new flower of your soul
to blossom and grow. And I don't know about you,
but I just feel like I'm just getting started. Like I'm 55. Like,
ah, what else is possible for the next 50, right?

I know, Yeah, I like there's
Jody Wellman, she's the author of 4000
Mondays and she was on the show not too long ago. She's
so cool. She's such a trip. But
4,000 Mondays, meaning, like, on
average, I think it's like, if, we get to
live until, like, 75, 70, whatever

(54:37):
it is, that we'll have 4, 000 Mondays. 4,000
Mondays is nothing. And now I'm kind of
like, just like you. Like, I'm just getting started. I'm like,
like, I hope I get. I'm gonna take advantage of
every Monday through Sunday. Like,
every freaky. You know what I mean? Like, I.
I love life even more. I'm so

(54:58):
grateful to have life, to be able
to express myself to. To
finally be Windy and.

And. Yeah.

And all parts of this wild woman that I
am. Like, I don't. And, you know, it's funny, too,
especially on, you know, Instagram and everyone's happy,
and people look at me like, oh, I'm so happy all the
time. I'm like, no, I'm not.

Yeah.

I was pissed off yesterday. Like, or the first day.
Like, we were. You and I were supposed to. To have our
interview. I wasn't feeling good. I was off. You know, I was
like, no, we're not meant to be
perfect. like, you're just supposed to live
and. And. And live and love and laugh and
enjoy and. And. And not. Not.

(55:42):
Not criticize. Criticize yourself and judge
yourself for whoever you are.

Yeah, that's. And back to intimacy again. Into me. I
see. Do we see these parts of ourselves and
judge them? You know, I'm good if I'm happy, and I'm bad
if I'm angry. Like. Or can we go high anger?
What if anger is another form of fierce love? What are you telling
me? Anger, Right? So, like, welcoming all these parts and
then with intimacy, even though we might, you know, we're on the

(56:06):
other half of the 50 years or 40 years or whatever.
one moment is eternity. When you're present,
everything is so rich and yummy.
But when I was in my head, you know, three steps ahead in hyper
vigilance, I was missing my whole life. So
I find, yes, there's like, I want to do this, and I want
to go there. Like, there's an excitement and an enthusiasm, and

(56:29):
one little tiny moment is everything. When
you're present with the butterfly or with
my kitty cat or now with you on this
podcast. Right. Like, there's so much here,
and it makes that fulfillment that I was seeking or that
satisfaction that I was seeking so many times, it was out there
when it was really inside all along. Yeah.

You're such a bright light.

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope you drive
your RV by my house and we can hang out.

I know, yes. I think probably
August. August I'll be, August. September
I'll be cruising.

Sounds amazing. Sounds amazing.

We'll have a little fireside chat.

I love that. I'd love that.

Yes.

Yes.

So where can we find you? And what. What all do you.

Oh, yeah. So my name is pretty much everywhere, so my site
is alana pratt.com. instagram is forward
slash Alana Pratt. YouTube, forward slash Alana Pratt, all of
that. The podcast, Intimate Conversations. You know,
hundreds and hundreds of episodes. Website has over
800 pieces of resource, like videos and
podcasts and articles. So huge resource on my website.

(57:34):
we just finished our retreat. We're not doing another one till February next
year. But, the community that I coach,
is an extraordinary group of people who really do the work.
Sometimes they find their beloved there. I'm not a matchmaker, but, you know,
like birds of feather, you know, together. But mostly
it's like, wow. A place to go every single week where I can be real
right away, drop in right away, open up

(57:55):
right away. If I'm a hot mess, I'm loved. If I'm
celebrating something everyone else says, you know, don't get too excited. You know,
we get excited. Like, we can do, like, all ends of the skin
scale. So if it's a, fit, there's. There's something called an
intimacy breakthrough experience. Call on my website so
you can sign up and we can connect one on one. So
those are. Those are all the ways you can play. And then
lastly, we are launching Patreon, my very first

(58:18):
patreon channel, starting April 1st. I don't know when this is going
to air, but this is my structure.
Permission, really, to give myself to play.
To play. This year, I. I have some clients
who I've never met for 13 years. They're still in my
organization, but I've only met them on Zoom. So
I want an excuse to go visit the clients, the

(58:38):
colleagues, the mentors, the friends, and just
travel around. Here's my cat. Yes, you may come up and say hello.
Yes, this is my van.

Oh, look at that.

Kitty Gay. So this is my gift to
myself and gift to humanity to.
To play, to travel, to explore, and to share
more. things that get censored, I guess you could say,
on other platforms. I'll put them on Patreon
so we can embrace. Embrace our sensuality, our
bodies, those ugly cries, and. And

(59:09):
all the things, so that's. That's something we're really excited about.

Patreon, sounds like you need an rv.

You never know. Muffin, would you like that?

Oh, my God, I love it. I love it. I love it. Well,
thank you so much, Alana. I. I've learned a ton,
and I don't always get to listen back to
my own shows, but this one, I.

Back to you. Thank you. Well, I look forward to
we get to meet in person. Thank you for the gift that you are to this world
as well. Yeah.

Thank you, everyone. Have a great day.
A beautiful day.
Did this podcast inspire you? Challenge
you? Trigger you to make a change, or spit out your coffee
laughing? Good. Then there are three ways you can
thank me. Number one, you can leave a written review
of this podcast on Apple iTunes. Number

(59:59):
two, you can take a screenshot of the episode
and share it on the social media and tag me
Wendy Valentine. Number three, share
it with another midlifer that needs a makeover. You
know who I'm talking about. Thank you so much for
listening to the show. Get out there and be bold.
Be free. Be you.

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