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Hello everybody, so I have a carjourney ahead of me, and having
just left a yoga class, feelingnice and high vibe I thought I
would record and I wanted totalk today about, How to make
spiritual friends is a bigsubject.
And I have a few things thatimmediately popped into my mind
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that reflect my own experiencewith this.
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So I'm always going to try andaccommodate.
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Yeah subject, how do we makespiritual friends?
It can feel really lonely whenyou embark on a spiritual path
and also I would say the type oflike spiritual awakening, let's
call it that sounds a bitgrandiose that though, doesn't
it?
Oh, I've had a spiritualawakening.
But just becoming aware ofspirituality, and like it enters
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your consciousness, you start tobecome more conscious, more
aware, thinking about the soul,thinking about different
elements of spirituality, youstart to be drawn, maybe you go
see an energy healer, maybeyou've been going to yoga.
Although I will say this,there's a little sidestep here.
I was just talking to theincredible gorgeousness that is
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the teacher who just taught theclass.
And afterwards I was chatting toher and we've connected on
Insta.
And I'm gonna hopefullyinterview her for this podcast.
But we were just talking aboutlike how so many yoga classes
are.
Like yoga for exercise so don'tnecessarily think that you're
gonna meet other kind ofspiritual sisters there, because
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it really depends on the classthat you go to, the studio that
you go to.
So that, I just wanted to caveatthat there,'cause that is an
obvious one, but it reallydepends on where you go.
So how to make spiritualfriends.
Yeah, so it normally.
The kind of spiritual awakening,let's call it that, for brevity
and ease of understanding.
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And just yeah.
So it often happens after atricky time.
And so the tricky time could bevery personal to you.
So it could be a struggle withaddiction, it could be the death
of a loved one, it could besomething massive happening to
you.
And that's happening to you,right?
It's not happening to yourcircle of friends, it's a
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collective, it's happening toyou.
You might have gone through theother side of cancer or
something as I know my spiritualcoach had cancer twice and that
really I think she was alreadyspiritual but I think that was
like that next level to herspiritual awakening if that
makes sense.
So I think it's happening to youfirst and foremost.
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And so it's you that's going togo through this.
And unless your friends happento have been through similar
things, then they're probablynot going to be in the same spot
as you where this is happening.
So often we feel quite, we canfeel quite lonely in our
spiritual path.
Now this is slightly differentto if you were raised in the
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church and you go and the churchis part of your community.
And I'm talking about somethingslightly different here.
I'm talking about maybe a nonreligious spiritual awakening.
Although I don't want to be toogranular about it.
Everyone's experiences are sodifferent.
But I'm thinking more along thelines of what happened to me.
Which is I grew up, I had to Myfriends who all went to Catholic
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school, and maybe if you askedone or two of them to believe in
God, they'd give slightlydifferent answers.
But spirituality wasn't a sharedinterest of ours.
It wasn't something we evertalked about.
It's something I'm very muchgoing through.
And that's okay, but it can feelquite lonely.
And so I have naturally made newfriends in this kind of And
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that's come through gettingsober and becoming part of a
sober yoga community.
And then also through doing,through things like training in
Reiki being attuned to the Reikienergy.
I've done that several times andI've met people through that.
I also sought out coaches whowere spiritual coaches.
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And so I've got to Excuse me.
And I've met people so throughjoining the spiritual coaches
that I've got and I'veinteracted with, through joining
their other offerings, theirgroup offerings, I've met people
through that.
And then I've vibed with thatperson and they've offered
something and then I've gone ontheir event and I've met them.
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So yeah, that's where thisthought process is coming from.
And it's like, how do you, wheredo you go to look for these
people?
So I've got some.
Practical ideas.
And there was one for youalready.
So it's like work with aspiritual coach, access group
programs or group offerings.
Maybe for example, I don't know,like an embodiment experience or
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group experience or reparentingexperience, or again, training
in Reiki, something like that.
Go towards a group program andthat is spiritual in nature.
You don't have to understand whyyou're going towards it.
Like for me, the follow thebreadcrumbs is really important.
And they say that sometimes it'sin spirituality and in sobriety.
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It's like just keep followingthe breadcrumbs.
you wrong, that the universewill just drop breadcrumbs.
I keep hearing about Reiki.
What's that about?
I keep, I keep seeing signs forthis thing.
What's that about?
Just don't question it.
Just follow it.
You don't have to have a plan.
A lot of people are tuned inReiki or do yoga trainings and
go I actually don't even knowwhy I'm here.
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I don't even want to be a yogateacher.
I don't want to be a Reikipractitioner.
I'm just Following the callingor maybe you'll train in like
crystals or something like that.
If it appeals to you and it'sstarting to speak to your heart,
then follow that because youwill meet like minded Queens in
those spaces.
Go to cacao ceremonies.
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So I've noticed I put my retreaton Eventbrite the other day.
Oh, I've not got anything fromit at all and maybe I just
didn't do a very good listing.
But I find a lot of, There's alot of stuff on those things, on
those I think there's a lot ofthose like event listing
websites, also on Facebook, likeFacebook events.
Just like search, cacaoceremonies, women's circle,
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crystals anything that you arebeing drawn towards, start to go
to those places.
And also if you are sober, don'trule out meeting spiritual
friends in AA as well becauseI've spoke to quite a few women
recently in my sober circle thatwere Very resistant to AA and
they're giving it a try andthey're actually meeting people
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at those places.
And also, go to Sober Circlesonline if you're sober curious,
you know there's so many greatsober communities, oh there's so
many, I'll list them in the shownotes below because there's so
many, and I've dipped in and outof them and sometimes I don't
Necessarily stay in thecommunity.
It's not,'cause I didn't, Daltondidn't like it.
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We only have so many hours inthe day.
So go to one way.
You feel the vibe is most suitedto you and that tends to be for
me, the ones like that arearound yoga and things like
that.
So yoga, I think if you can finda real yoga studio in your area,
you're very lucky.
And if you can't then go onlineand find a yoga teacher that you
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resonate with, that's doing thereal yoga the full spectrum yoga
that talks.
about yoga philosophy, but isn'tjust about the asana practice.
The asana practice is reallyimportant and I love it.
I don't want to do it down, butthere is so much more to yoga
than that.
That is a preparatory practiceto get into the state of yoga.
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And so find yoga communities.
Even if you don't know what halfthe things are on their
schedule, like just show up withan open heart and an open mind.
Don't be afraid to talk topeople.
I think often in yoga studios,I'm really chatty, even though
I'm an introvert.
I'm a complete paradox.
But what I've found is I go to acity center yoga studio and
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sometimes people don't talk andI'm like, Oh no, we should talk.
Because that's the whole point.
One of the thing, points of yogais like connection.
So in my classes, I make surethat, if you come to my in
person class or on online class,we always do a check in.
I try and establish that forcommunity connection.
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So where else can you meetspiritually like minded
individuals?
So there are quite a few famousbig spiritual thought leaders.
Gabby Bernstein, Sahara Rose,they're two that I really vibe
with.
And there are so many more is itRebecca Campbell?
Kyle Gray, the angels guy.
Oh, I had tickets to go and seehim in London and then I was
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sick.
So my next suggestion is followthe big hitters and then see
what events they're doing.
Go to the events and sit next topeople and just like talk to
people because it is lonelybeing spiritual sometimes.
If your whole family and yourwhole friendship group, as much
as you love them and adore them,they might, they're not on the
same journey as you necessarily,maybe they are, but for a lot of
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people they might not be.
It's okay to start talking tosomeone who's sitting next to
you and say can we swap numbers?
Or are you on Instagram?
Or I think a lot of the timewhen one light worker or when
one like spiritual soul meetsanother, they can be super
excited and happy to meetsomeone else on the path.
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That's been my experience.
And if you don't get that vibe,like it's not the end of the
world.
Don't take it personally.
Don't be too upset or hurt.
Another way I've just thought ofactually.
There's like dating apps andstuff where you know, you can
actually go on them to meetfriends.
I've done that before.
I've gone on and I and actuallythe person I met wasn't
particularly spiritual, but likewe really hit it off.
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And so you could absolutely goon Bumble, set it to the friend
setting and put in I'mspiritual.
I'm like, I want to go to yogaclasses with people.
I want to do women's circles andwhatever put it on there and go.
Sober not sober, don't have tobe sober spiritual women.
Because the likelihood isthey're looking for friendship
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and sisterhood too.
The other things you can do isbe more proactive in your
spirituality.
Explore it in a creative way.
Maybe start a sub stack.
Maybe start a podcast.
It's so easy to start a podcast.
Maybe start a YouTube channel.
Maybe post more stuff about iton your socials.
If you've been hiding it alittle bit, maybe I to be more
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open about it because then maybeyour friendship circle that
already exists will be likeactually I want to come to that
too, like I feel drawn to thattoo because I really feel like
there is a collective awakeninghappening at the minute.
I feel like we all miss elementsthat the more like church based
communities and things like thatused to offer.
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We, as we head towards this moreapparently more secular society,
I still feel, I feel like it'sthe missing piece.
It's We need to sit in circle.
We need to go on nature walkstogether.
We need to do these things.
We need to take cold dips at thebeach, it's no wonder that these
things are getting more popular.
Like the pubs are closing, thechurches are closing.
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We need places to gather.
That's another great oneactually.
Even if you don't live near thesea, get in your car or get on
the train, go to the coast.
Google like cold dip groups.
They are the friendliest groups.
I was once walking on the beachin Abersoch.
I love that part of Wales.
And I wasn't really into my colddipping then.
I'd done it a couple of times.
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I was like a cold dip baby.
And the Abersoch cold dippinggroup was there.
That's not what they're called,but.
And they were like, Oh, whydon't you join us tomorrow?
Yeah.
Come and join us.
They're always like a bunch ofeccentric women with bobble hats
and like red raw legs, flasks ofcoffee.
And they're always like.
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Is a bit mad, aren't they?
People that jump in the oceanwhen it's freezing, but they're
the type of people that you wantto meet join walking clubs and
things like that.
Not every activity has to be aspiritual activity as such, but
you're going to you're morelikely to meet those types of
people in those environments, Ithink, rather than the pub or
the club, just my opinion.
So I'm gonna leave it there.
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I'm probably gonna think of 10other places that you can meet
spiritual people now, But I justwanted to, after like just
chatting to the teacher.
for the first time after theclass then and it really made me
think gosh it's so nice to meetanother high vibing sister and
be like yay exciting and they'realways really open hearted
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people as well and it'svalentine's day as well today so
that just that reminder thatlike it always doesn't always
have to be romantic love rightit can be like sisterly love and
we can love on each otherbecause relationship love like
romantic love can be complicatedand have and it's sisterhood,
and especially in spirituality,spiritual sisterhood can be the
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most beautiful thing.
So let's all go out there andget some more of that.
Okay, I'm going to leave itthere.
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