February 21, 2025 • 61 mins
Missy is a 500-hour certified Kundalini Yoga teacher with credentials from the World Yoga Federation. After years as a medical freedom activist, she stepped away to integrate, heal, and transition from reaction to creation. She now helps others reclaim their energy and move from burnout to sovereignty through yoga, meditation, and holistic practices.
Missy’s yoga journey began as a way to relieve back pain, but in 2017, she felt a deep calling to study more seriously, even applying for a passport to train in Rishikesh, India. Life had other plans, and in 2020, during a transformative time, she enrolled in Yogamu Institute’s teacher training. A year later, she earned her 500-hour yoga and meditation certifications; 500 CYT and 500 CMT.
Rooted in the 8-limbed path of Patanjali, Missy’s practice is a living embodiment of non-violence, truthfulness, purity, and devotion—a path that ultimately leads to union with the Divine. She believes yoga is more than postures; it’s a way of being, a practice of aligning body, mind, and spirit with the energy of creation, the universe, and the God of one’s heart.
In 2023, Missy relocated from Indianapolis to rural North Carolina, where she now lives in a camper with her partner and two dogs. Together, they enjoy growing their own food, learning animal husbandry with their chickens, bunnies, and goats, and welcoming fellow travelers to the land. While they have electricity, satellite internet, and well water, they hope to incorporate solar, wind, and rainwater collection to enhance their sustainable lifestyle. Their goal is to expand accommodations for overlanders, camper vans, and tent campers, creating a sanctuary for those seeking simplicity and connection with nature.
By day, Missy and her partner fund their adventures by installing custom window treatments in some of the most stunning homes they’ve ever seen. At heart, she remains a dedicated yogini, teacher, and storyteller, committed to spreading love, joy, and wisdom wherever life takes her.
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Hello and welcome to RLP is Healing. I am your host Tammy, the owner of RLP
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Holistic Wellness LLC, the practice that is here to help women reclaim their
inner power and take their life back. Many of us are called to create change
in the world, but we don't talk enough about the personal cost. Today we are
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diving into what happens when burnout hits and how we can reclaim our energy,
our sovereignty, and our inner peace. In this episode you will hear Missy talk
about how she went from burnout to sovereignty. Take a moment to sit back
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and enjoy. Hello and welcome to RLP is Healing. It's your host Tammy and today
I am being joined by Missy. So guys, I met Missy on TikTok as you guys are
probably not surprised, but she made a comment that really hit home for me and I
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felt the connection. She's an activist turned yoga teacher and meditation
teacher, and guess what? She's also the creator of the 30-day path to
sovereignty. I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this interview, to join
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us as we talk about burnout to sovereignty. Hey Missy, how are you doing?
Hi Tammy, thank you for having me on. Such an honor. Oh I'm super excited to
have you on today. So I want to jump right into it because I believe that your
story is truly one that is amazing. Also guys, she has a blog and the blog is fire.
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I have read it twice already and I want to just jump into it. If you could
describe your journey in one word, what would it be? Multi-dimensional. Oh I like
that. We have so many lives in the one. Because I used to be a wife, I
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used to be a mom, now I'm a grandma, now my kids are grown, now you know I used to
work a nine-to-five. Those are all different lives. I used to be an
activist that had a nonprofit back in Indiana and now I live in North Carolina
on a 20-acre farm with some chickens and bunnies and dogs and goats and I
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grow my own food and I don't like to go to town. So it's multi-dimensional.
Many timelines, many dimensions, many versions of me. I love that. I feel like
you're living the dream. That is my dream. 20 acres, small house and a whole bunch
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of animals growing my own vegetables and just enjoying the peace. So we talk about
burnout and we talk about being here. We're wanting to create change in the
world and everything like that and I want to know what drew you to
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activism and advocacy? Well, it was having grandchildren. So as a parent, a very busy
parent, I was very busy with work and putting food on the table. They
love to keep you busy like that so that you're not really paying attention to
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what's going on out there. So I just pretty much was naive as a
parent. I did everything that was recommended, everything that everybody
said to do. Go to well child appointments, all of these things that
parents are supposed to do. Have a minivan, sign up for extracurriculars,
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go to church. We've got Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, whatever. Make sure
they're clean and help them with their homework, all of those things. So I
wasn't really aware of everything out in the world. I was very busy just being a
mom and going to work and doing all those things. But when I had kids, they would stay home and
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babysit them for my oldest daughter, I began to see that the more you learn, the
older you get, the more mistakes that you make against your gut instinct and
trusting people blindly because they would never do that. You know, I just, I
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learned some things and I heard about this little girl in my state who had a
seizure disorder and this was back before CBD was legal to use in a lot of
states and their little baby was two years old and she had seizures and they
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were treating her with a CBD, Charlotte's Web strain and the hospital,
actually the law was ambiguous. It wasn't illegal but it wasn't legal and
they just wanted to, they didn't like it. The hospital just didn't like it.
It was more of a holistic, it wasn't, you know, recognized as like best practice I
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would say. So this is kind of how I just got involved because the hospital
wanted to tell the parents what they had to do and they called DCS, CPS got
involved and they wanted to tell them that they had to give this child a
certain medication and then give their child, their baby blood draws every week
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to prove they were given the medication and it just overreached and it was just
too much and yeah, so what I established in Indiana was a nonprofit
organization called Indiana for Medical Freedom and we would advocate for medical
freedom in the state of Indiana, you know, free from coercion like you have to do
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this or you can't do that, you know, doctors saying, I mean, I myself, I
didn't really want to do a mammogram, I just wanted an ultrasound and they're
like, yeah, we'll give you an ultrasound if you get a mammogram. I mean, that's
like coercion. Oh wow. You know, have you ever been, yeah, and I don't really think
that a lot of people know about it but a lot of people do know about it and so I
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don't and a lot of it is controversial because a lot of people don't think
twice, they're just like, yeah, okay, let me go do what the doctor said. Let me
just go get in line and do that and I was more of the thought that my body, my
choice, you know, meant something, especially the bodies of my children,
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like are those not my children or the state, are those the state's children?
Yep and that's the problem in the US now, like still a problem in the US that
parents are facing, doctors are saying, I know what's best for your child and
you're never even with your child, maybe like what, 30 minutes once a month, once
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every two? And they're certainly not with your child if they were to have a
negative reaction to something that this doctor forced upon, you know, so
parental rights are really important so that's what I fought for. I fought for
the rights of parents to make medical decisions for their children that they
thought was best without threat of coercion, without threat of losing their
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children to DCS because they disagreed with their doctor, you know, we are
allowed to second, to ask for second and third opinions and so the, so that's how
I got involved in that to answer your question, it was that I was fighting for
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the voiceless, the little kids whose parents are busy at work and they don't,
you know, they, I would just, I was in that, that I was in a really angry energy
like how dare you people, how dare you, so I was all fired up, I didn't care who
I made mad, I went down to the state house because somebody had to and I'm
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like no, the answer is no, we are not doing that, that is overreach, they, you,
you wouldn't believe how many laws pass at our state houses just because there's
no one there to oppose. See and that's, now like this right here actually with
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hearing your story and hearing what you've gone through and pushing and
fighting the good fight, no wonder why the weight of burnout comes, so that's
where I'm going into next, when did you start to feel that weight of burnout?
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People are afraid to speak out, I had moms that said my husband won't let me
come down, my husband won't let me come to the state house, we're afraid, you
know, we don't want that attention, we, you know, because retaliation, you know,
DCS retaliation or we don't, they, so anyway I would go down there for three
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years and say hi, I'm, you know, who, my missy and I represent 2000, who's your
families, 2000 Indiana families, but they're not behind me, you know, you gotta
come down here and you know, I keep telling them I represent over 2000
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families, but you know, they're gonna stop believing me if you don't show your
faces down here and I really think that people, for me and this is my personal
opinion, is that people would rather throw money, they're like here take some
money, but don't make me go down, don't, don't make me talk to the lawmaker,
don't make me call the switchboard, don't make me speak for myself, don't make me
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fight for myself, you go do it, well tell me what to say, you know, and I get that,
but it really got to be frustrating when I could not get people to go down and
fight for their own rights and we'll hear this now, we will hear a lot of
people complaining about the way things are, I have an idea, I have something
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they in support that we'll get to, I kind of talked to you about that before,
a call to action in a peaceful way that is compassionate, but I'm still kind of
the activist, but you know we can still do things to make a difference, but in a
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way that doesn't require us to not necessarily go down to the state house,
it just got to be to where I couldn't get people to go down and I thought,
well me and the co-founders thought about handing it over to other activists, we
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actually trained people, taught them what to do, showed them the ropes and
everything and it just came down to where we couldn't trust anybody because
of sabotage and infiltration and our names are forever tied to that nonprofit
and so we just dissolved it, we just dissolved it and I pretty much thought, well if you
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aren't gonna fight for your rights then you don't deserve to have them, I know
what my rights are, I know what to do, I know how to do that, I know how to call
my legislator, I know the way to the state house to go say hey no to this and
you know if people want to know how to do that I'm happy to help them, but the
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days of me going down and doing it all by myself, no I have a life, I burned out,
I mean I have a life too and I quite enjoy it now. And see I have noticed
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that there are, I feel that you're truly right, that people are, I don't know if
it's that they're scared of the lawmakers or if they are in a space of
where they're just like oh I'm just gonna lay down and take this. Yeah we
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have to go, you have to go scared. So I went to my state house the first time I
went there to my state house looking for my US congressman, like there your US
congressman is not at your state house, your state lawmakers are at your state
house and your US senators and congressmen they have a separate office
separate and it doesn't have anything to do with your state lawmakers, but you
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gotta go anyway I didn't care I'm like where is this man and they're like
you're in the wrong place, but you that's how you learn. You have, you cannot, you
can't change anything if you don't do something different. And see I've
actually called the Maryland State Lawmakers office like I swear they look
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they look at the phone and they just send me to voicemail. They knew me too, they do
have that caller ID, they do they would be like oh is it you again? I'm like yeah
it is. You're all finally you picked up. You know who I want to talk to. Right and
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so did you, did you have any resistance when you first started doing the
stepping away? Like what made you finally say I need to do something different?
It was a vibe, it was that I actually I kind of felt like that I knew the
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situation. Have you seen Cold Mountain? No I have not. Oh well there's that
there's a line in there where Renee Zellweger she just says that the Lord
won't let it stand this way for long and I just really felt that. I just really
felt like well this just can't go on that much longer these people are too
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aggressive they're gonna shoot themselves in the foot. I think I just
need to go on and declare victory because you know really I am declaring
victory because I know how to say no I know what my rights are I you know so
like I really what I did was I just declared victory and walked away. I
already won I already won because I learned what I needed to know I knew how
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to protect myself I knew that my my children and my grandchildren are fine
because we're you know a unit and we all you know I got my kids and my kids got
their kids and we're fine. So I was just able to just declare victory and it's
really transcending the mundane it's so yoga. Right I was like I feel that. But I
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didn't know that at the time I didn't I didn't know anything about yoga at the
time. You know and that's where that's where we're gonna go into next.
What was your first step towards toward healing? Walking away from activism
because it truly is a rigged system politics or and it's it's been going on
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a long time. We can go down there and we can tell them what we want but at the
end of the day they are going to do what they are paid to do by the lobbyists
that have special interests depending on what industry they work for. That's
what's gonna happen. Our lawmakers are bought by industry. I don't. You can pick
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an industry name an industry. You know they've got them and I actually think
that that's another thing that we need to ask for is that I don't I don't think
an industry ought to be able to lobby in our state houses. I don't think an
industry ought to be able to lobby in our state houses against citizens and I
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don't think that they ought to be able to have I don't think that they ought to
be able to donate to any campaign. I don't think they ought to be able to
donate to any politician. I don't think that they ought to be in any have any
influence over our departments any of our bureaucratic agencies. I just think
that any industry that has a lot of money can you know people can be bought
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and and and that is that has happened and so that's another reason why I
walked away because the system was rigged. Like you can go down there all
day long and tell them what you think and you may have people on your side but
it's politics. They if they don't vote for this guy over here then this guy
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over here is not gonna vote for what they want and so they're gonna put you
on the back burner and be like maybe next session or something like that and
I just realized that it I didn't it was just futile. I mean there's really just
so much that you can do so then my healing started with walking away from
that entirely being completely done with it and then COVID hit and so we were all
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on lockdown and I went positive vibes only. I and I signed up for yoga teacher
training because I saw that teachers school go then my school on Instagram
you know and I'm like is this legit because I couldn't believe because I
had actually gotten my passport to go and learn in India but that never
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happened and then COVID hit and all the prices dropped and you get online
training and stuff like that. So I signed up and I spent 15 months in
solitude. It was it was a it was it was the dark night of my soul. I lost my dad. I
went through a breakup and it was really really hard but I studied in 15 months I
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studied 1500 hours of yoga and I figured out what had happened to me in 2014. I
had had a out-of-body experience. I found out that was my Kundalini rising
and then after after that after that 2014 Kundalini rising I just completely
dismantled my life tore it all apart. I well I started being and I co-founded
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that nonprofit. I did that for a while then I filed for divorce from my husband
and then I
and you don't have a solid steady foundation and you're a wreck in your
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life is a wreck and nothing is then you just I what I did was I dismantled
everything that didn't wasn't in alignment and I just rebuilt and so
basically that's what I've been doing since you asked me when I started
following your blog your I started following you on TikTok that during that
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time during it must have been like 2020 2021 something like that and 2022 maybe
it was during that time that I was going through all of that I don't know why I
decided to sign up for TikTok but I did and then I then I deleted it now I'm
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back on it and it's been a journey but you know the one thing that I would like
to say with it being the journey I have found you know in the beginning I was
like oh this is just so rough and this is so hard and da da da but I found that
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when you're aligned in your purpose the journey doesn't feel so bad like I lost
no I was not aligned with my purpose I was just taking I don't know why I was
taking yoga this is mystical I don't know why I wanted to do one wanted to
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take I knew that if I could take I knew that I wanted to practice yoga but I
didn't want to go anywhere and be vulnerable in front of people mm-hmm and
I thought that if I could learn how to teach yoga I could teach it to myself see
and I love that love that and so that's what I did and so it wasn't like I was
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necessarily aligned I was just doing the work because my teacher was like do this
and I'm like okay I'm gonna do it I was literally hanging on for dear life I
mean you know when you lay down and you want to die but you don't die like your
heart just keeps beating and there's still doing this why are you still going
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through this process right it turns out you can't just lay down and die so I was
hanging on to every practice he gave me my teacher is phenomenal I can't even I
can't even compete with the classes that I took so I sell the classes that I take
on my website I mean you don't you don't have to you can cut this out of the
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whatever not plugging myself or anything it's just that I can you please I on my
website I do sell the very courses that I took through that time we are I was one
of the first 2,000 students and this man is a genius I don't know what happened
he must be in he is enlightened he but he went out to the I don't know where
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he got the idea to do this but he's a genius so he created this yoga school we
have now over 60,000 students it's it's the curriculum is so comprehensive I'm
learning so I'm still learning I'm still in classes I'm not done I'm still right
now I'm studying yoga therapy I'm studying Ayurveda I'm studying lots of
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things so and I sell the courses also because I can't do better I did create
the 30-day path to sovereignty yes and we see that talk about that yeah what
inspired inspired you to create this program well because you have to have a
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very strong daily in order to to stop doing a thing you have to not just stop
doing a thing but start doing another thing and the best way to do that is to
have a daily practice in yoga we call it a sadhana a daily sadhana and so just a
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daily practice every day and that and you get to create it but it and it is for you
for your for your self-development your self-improvement for we might my teacher
explain the Japanese art of kaizen which is just the practice of improving 1%
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just if today I can just do one thing to make things 1% better then that's what
I'm gonna do and so um that's what I do kind of I love that though I talk about
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when when I talk about doing like a meditation practice you know I tell
people I'm like I tell my students it's a practice it is something that develops
over time so when you first start it's not gonna be like this and you may not
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have this moment of oh my goodness the stars the skies everything moved in a
light and I talked to the universe well yeah you're you're me you're not getting
it guys you're not gonna have that right away but if you do like that's you my
everybody different everybody has their own their own experiences like and so my
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teacher wouldn't even let us talk about it he'd just be like that's great you
know you just be like okay because everybody is gonna see things
differently in their own inner yeah there inner you know I may see an angel
you may see a dragon so but he you know what I mean right and that's the thing
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it's the practice it and right yeah and so that's what you do you you put in the
little elements into your daily practice that are gonna get you to where you want
to be so if it's like okay I'm gonna do 12 rounds of the Sun salutations and I'm
gonna do 20 minutes of breath work and then I'm gonna meditate for 15 minutes
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or I'm just gonna count my breath or I'm just gonna so the 30 days to sovereign
I've actually got lots of courses up here and it's always gonna be 30 days to
whatever because that's how you create new neural pathways you by doing a thing
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for 30 days or so 30 45 days if you do this every single day it becomes a habit
mm-hmm so that's why I thought 30 days to sovereignty if people dedicate time
each day for 30 days to get themselves out of the burnout and into the the
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contented peacefulness of their own inner stillness then you know they will
be much happier at the end of those 30 days and they may be able to you know go
fight another day I love that so how does it help people step into serve to
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sovereignty and prevent burnout tell us a little bit of a breakdown of the
program well every day you just you take control of you there's certain practices
that you that you take advantage of every single day to take control like
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for example you're one of the practices 24-day detox so no fighting with people
on social media about your cause no news no news consumption you know so I mean
how many times can we fast in a month from doing that how many 24-hour you
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know increments can we work in can we do that once how many times a week how many
24-hour periods can we do in a month where we do not take in we do not
consume social media news outlets we do not engage in the fight you know so for
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24 hours what could you be doing you could be journaling how you feel after
six hours of no social media you know how do you know and then as you go
through the program and you're journaling all along you get to go
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through and you get to see you know how do I feel after this these three weeks
you know you can write about where you are at the beginning and then you do all
the practices whether it's just up I did record a yoga nidra and I put that in
there and that you can just lie down and listen and and be guided to just let it
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go and it's a practice it is a practice of letting it go yes I love that yeah
there's 30 days of letting it go I and you know what I think that that's you
know stepping into that place of being able to truly release and not just
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release the emotions but also like release the limiting beliefs release
the outside the outside world and you know one thing that I do a challenge
every so often to anyone and everyone that will take the challenge where I
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say within within the first three hours of you getting up do not go on social
media don't do anything that comes to your phone because like I'm one of those
people I'm the I'm the woman that's up at four in the morning in the quiet and
just like enjoying that personal time for meditation for gratitude for breath
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work for you know doing some yin and getting some stretching and opening up
the hips you know what I mean yeah because you're like don't worry to you
Tammy I'm right there with you I'm doing it too yeah I'm 52 and I'm post
menopausal so and I kind of I I don't know if it's insomnia or if I'm just
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like ascending I don't need as much sleep anymore but like if I get up it
like I'm looking at this like is it time to get up is it time to you know light
my candle but it's like no it's only 2 a.m. no you can't get up yet like I'll
look at the clock what time is it it's all friggin 245 and I'm like okay I'll
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try to sleep for a few more minutes and I'll do that oh I'm just gonna close my
eyes and meditate and doing the green stuff but I think that's because we
have the daily practice you see so we have transcended the burnout we are not
exhausted anymore and that's the thing that when you practice yoga you realize
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that you are not the body you are not the mind you are a separate consciousness
and you tell the body you tell the mind what to do and so that's how you're able
to we can I can give you a 30-day practice to anything and you will be
sovereign because you have taken control of your avatar you've taken control yeah
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I love that I have not met anyone else that has agreed with me on that like I
tell people you know like my meat suit my avatar is 42 years old but my soul all
of our souls have been here for hundreds and thousands of years taking on
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different different avatars so to speak moving in different ways and I've been
down on that I've been on this on this cake kick lately and listening to some
videos I'm going to talk about them in on tik-tok today there's this one that
I've been listening to you be that you are not you and it's like when you close
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your eyes and close your mouth and then on the count of three say happiness
without moving your lips and just in your mind who said that and that's KRS 1
KRS 1 that man is a brilliant brilliant man I was like no I mean who said
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who said happiness right and there's that thing we are the soul watching our
avatar we tell our avatar we tell it what hey you know it's like that thing
of you're gonna move your hand well you already knew you were going your body
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your soul already knew you were going to move your hand before you decided to do
it we are ones that are in control but yet we are in this space of like we feel
that we control everything and that was gosh it is so not only that not only do
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we think we have so much control but we also think we know everything we think
we have it on lock and we don't know the more I learn the less I know and I will
just say that like I don't know I love saying I don't know I don't know I don't
know because we don't know we like the comment like you said like I said I was
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a poor white girl that went to inner city schools in Indianapolis in the you
know public schools in Indianapolis in the 80s a poor white girl you can't tell
me it's not a class war a lot of what I hear people when they're saying that it
when they were saying it's a racism a lot of what people describe as racism I
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felt it's it's a class war it's against the poor it's a it's it's not because
yes I'm it might be because the color of your skin and your poor but it could be
because I have blonde hair and I'm poor you know what I mean I also was I also
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felt like that I feel a lot of the ways that people say they felt and that's
but I'm like but I'm not black but I'm not black but I felt that way so it had
to be because I was poor and that's why I say you you can't tell me it's a class
war but then I will tell you also I don't know because you know if anybody's
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read the four agreements how it says that everybody is everybody is having
their own experience and everybody is looking through their own lenses and so
that's why I will never die on a hill again because like all things are true
everybody's validated everybody yes I agree with you I also read the four
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agreements love love love the author love the author love his son they've
written some amazing books guys if you ever get a chance read the four
agreements one of my favorite of the four agreements is don't take anything
personally well you know I truly for myself and I feel like like what you
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said going back to the four agreements in that sense of that everybody's
experience is their experience everybody's experience is valid
everybody has that this is we are we are one we are all we are one we are one
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universe and nobody escapes suffering none of us it's like we are all here we
are all suffering and it's really not a competition it's not nobody is I mean
suffering is suffering and and I would never say that mine was more
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important than anyone else's same that's how I feel I feel that we are all
suffering and what I can do that I don't really even know what I can do
other than offer a loving-kindness compassion yeah and offer you know joy
and inner standing yeah judgment yeah and plant seeds and and offer you know
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so my blog my blog you read one of my blog posts but I've got lots of
different things out there to read that I've written about and my intention with
that was just to put it out there because I mean nobody's knocking on my
door going hey missy what do you got to teach me today so I figured well let me
just let me just put as it comes to me I'm gonna write about it I'm gonna put
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it out there on my blog for whoever it'll be like timeless you know like the
terror readers terror readers gonna take talk of it was a timeless message well
this is a timeless I have a timeless lesson for you and it's out on my blog
post just pick any one of them I love that I love that I you know what that
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one in particular hit me and I'm gonna tell the listeners why it hit me in just
a second because I want to ask you what is something the listeners can do to
begin reclaiming their energy take set a timer on your phone get your timer or
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you're a you know everybody has a timer on their phone or on their wrist or or
whatever and set it for any time that pick pick 1111 or 222 or 333 pick any old
time you want and when that goes off you stop what you're doing and you sit
yourself down and you count your breath and it would be inhale and exhale would
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be one and when you get to ten you can start over at one and if you forget
where you are you can start over at one and then do this for five minutes and
you can do this for seven days and I would say that if you can stop yourself
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from doing whatever it is that you're doing and sit yourself down for five
minutes and count your breaths then you are home free you're well on your way
dude I have to tell you missy I love it when I get to talk to someone that does
similar similar similar I I don't know similar well we we must have had good
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teachers yes you know what I had some amazing amazing instructors and I
couldn't ask for better teachers better and I don't even like to call them
teachers they were my mentors my guides yeah to working on self and all nice
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wholeness yes they shine the light on the path they and that's what I want to
do all that is what has been put on me to do like I cannot walk the path I
can't be going to the state house and talking to your rep and saying hey now
you know Mrs. so-and-so wants this that and the other but I could shine that
light on the path and tell you go that way yep and I can show you where to go
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it's that it's that thing that they always say you can take a horse to water
but you can't make a drink that's right I can teach the man to fish but I cannot
fish for the man that's right that's right or you can give him a fish or
teach him to fish or but yeah so just very simple basic stuff like counting
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your breath or or if they just can't see themselves sitting there for five
minutes counting their breath you can draw a dot on the wall and stare at it
for five minutes yeah yeah or candle flame like light light yeah just gaze
into the flame of your candle for five minutes and try not to blink it's about
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increasing your focus see how many times you think about whether or not you turned
back your dryer when you're staring at that candle flame because everything
comes to mind it's the greatest test ever but you're gonna sit there and
you're gonna stare at the candle flame and you're not gonna go check you're all
just watch how your thoughts come watch your thoughts it'd be like oh did I turn
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back the dryer oh what time is it oh how long have I been doing this but yeah but
and that's the one thing you know listeners I want to debunk the one thing
that everybody hears when it comes to practicing meditation by the way it is
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okay for you to have thoughts it is part of the process your mind is gonna ask
you questions it's gonna tell you stuff guess what think of a two-year-old and
smile and come back to the breath your mind's gonna do that and you know what
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it takes it takes time because this is a practice these are practices to help you
with reconnecting with your mind your body and your nervous system and
bringing you to present moment now let me tell you guys so missy and this blog
I'm gonna tell you guys and I'm gonna have her explain to you this comparison
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of Callie and kind of transforming I don't even know the best way to even put
it guess what missy you tell them all about it let them know because this is
the part that like drew me back again so I'm not sure how many people listening
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are familiar with Kundalini but in Kundalini yoga and in Hindu philosophy
or that yoga philosophy there are these two energies and they they came from two
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two different goddess aspects so the one is Kali and Kali is an angry energy
destructive and protective but destructive and she will burn it down
burn down the lies she will take on all of the bad guys all of the demons all
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of the destruction she'll she'll destroy herself destroying them if she will if
she's not careful she'll destroy the ones that she loves and destroy herself
this energy is wrong and it is necessary because we do need those warrior
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goddesses out there that are willing to burn it to the ground but we have to
save ourselves and that's where the Durga energy comes in she's just as wild
I mean she swung the sword she did the destruction but she transcended it and
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she more calmly now instead of wildly wielding the sword she she just has to
hold it now or maybe she just carries it sheathed on her hip to pull out whenever
she needs it you know she's been there she's done the fighting and she's moved
beyond it because she knows she doesn't need to be destructive anymore and she
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has moved on into she's given up the fight and moved on to creation and now
she's creating something new to replace what or to just create something new to
be better sometimes we don't have control over the powers that be are
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doing and that is where instead of reacting in anger we need to be a calm
creative presence that can build something brand new right alongside the
old I'm multi-dimensional you know like I said it's been multi-dimensional we
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can build new things that run right alongside of the old a lot of there are
hundreds of paths up the mountain I mean there's a lot of Dolores Cannon people
out there where they talk about new earth new earth that is what it is it's
creating something new that runs right alongside the old something better
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something new something you know that it's not necessarily like a whole new
brand new earth it's just a new way of being it's a new it's another layer it's
another dimension and instead of being destructive instead of fighting we are
going to own that we can control ourselves and we are going to create
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something wonderful and beautiful with you know loving kindness intentions and
we are going to build something that fosters compassion for all recognizes
all suffering recognizes all humans as valid I had a quote I was the Desmond
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tutu quote you know it is that we can be human the only thing that we can do is
be human together yes like my destiny is bound up in yours and that we can only
we can only just be human together and so we've all seen what you know war does
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and we've all seen what fighting does and it just I really believe that the
answer is love I really believe that the answer is peace and I know that a lot of
other people believe that to you and so I just want to offer an idea or solution
and we talked about that solution or and talked about this offering of
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information can you tell you know I feel this is a wisdom that you're about to
share so I asked you to share this with the you know activists of the world the
healers of the world the impacts of the world who give so much yeah I mean we
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try to be a quantum is right and we try to rise above and transcend the mundane
and we really don't want to be involved in the material problems of the world
but we have to live here we have to live here and we have a job to do here and we
have to we have to leave it better for our children and our grandchildren and
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so I I have moved from the destructive like I'm not storming the state house
going hey no you know not joining rallies it's more of a just them but I
realized when I thought of this idea I thought oh look you're still an activist
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you really didn't walk away did you well I mean I kind of did but this is still a
really good idea I don't really want to be a leader I don't want to lead a
movement I'm not gonna do another I'm not doing that but this is a good idea
and if people want to support it they can they can support it so I have I was
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made aware of an open source forum called policies for the people it's
policies for the people dot org I believe and anybody can go out there and
write down an idea that they have for different different like I can if they
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have an idea about economics if they've got an idea about any anything that you
have an idea about you can just float your idea so that's what I did I went
out there to this open forum and I wrote an idea for a policy and the idea is
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this sorry I had the idea that we needed a United States Department of
Compassion because we have a Department of Defense but we we don't have a
Department of Healing we fund war but we don't fund peace and it's really not
about politics so much as it is about humanity so what what is the Department
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of Compassion it would be a government institution dedicated to unity ethics
and human dignity and why that matters is because if we if policies shape the
culture then we need policies that reflect compassionate governance and I
have offered three core pillars the first one being loving kindness policies
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policies rooted in human dignity and well-being I mean we're talking about
ideas that like Mother Teresa had ideas that Gandhi had or the teachings of
Jesus you know it would be great the other pillar would be youth-led
innovation like engaging young leaders and policymaking and bridging divides
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initiatives that unite people rather than divide them because the world is
hurting and it's not just one group it's not just one issue all of us are
carrying wounds whether it's the survivors of abuse I mean we have people
that are survivors of human trafficking we have we have people that are war
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refugees that have fled their countries from war and we have children here who
are in poverty that the only time they eat is at school and it's not just about
it's everybody everybody is suffering and and so again it's about human
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dignity it's not really about politics but we all have a job to do here right
so kind of we got to get into politics and it would be a really good idea if we
could all just take our kind loving kind peaceful voices and said hey you know
will somebody in charge look at us because this is what the people want so
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I have a link that I'll be providing to you where listeners can go out to the
policies for the people and actually sign up to write their own ideas or they
can support my idea I also have a link where people can look up who their
lawmakers are in case they would like to contact their lawmakers for any reason
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and say hey you know this girl has a good idea about this Department of
Compassion and maybe we need to look at that lawmakers really like it when you
take the time to call them and tell them what's important to you they really
do I know that at the state level but I think things are I think that people are
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listening right now at the federal level too so I think it's pretty important
that you call all of your representatives and let them know what's
important to you everything that's important to you that's why they are
there they want to hear from you they love your homemade signs they love it
when you take your kids out of school and go to the State House to talk to
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your lawmakers and to meet with them I'm not trying to rally the troops or
anything like that or full-blown activism again but there are people that
are listening that might want to know what that's like and like I said I did
it scared I went to the wrong place looking for the wrong the wrong guy but
you know you learn that is so true I really missy this has been an amazing
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experience to talk with you and actually get to connect with you and people this
is listeners this is one thing that I try to recommend and I try to put out
there that if you feel there's no reason to react in anger you know I will tell
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you that the old me the old version of me would have read missy's comment and
been like what are you talking about but then I realized in in when I read it and
I was like oh maybe I'm gonna need to make a response video so I made a
response video and that video expanded to something even more to where I was
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finally able to talk about a view that I have which is that we all have been
stripped of our culture in the United States if you are on kick-talk you can go
check out RLP healing Tammy or Tammy RLP and also to missy where can they find
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you social wise where can you be found on social media okay well first of all
Tammy thank you for having me on it has been an extreme honor I mean you say
it's been a privilege but I feel privileged so thank you yes thank you so
much and just to be heard is nice it's so thank you but anybody can find my
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website it's me yogini dot yoga and me yogini is a sutra it's me mi for missy
and then yogini which is just a female yogi so it's me yogini dot yoga and so
that's my website you can buy courses there's teacher training out there of
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all kinds I've got lots of courses through my school it's they're not my
courses and then under the news tab is all of the blog posts that I've ever
written and then you can always leave a comment on any one of them if you would
like to contact me or I have a Facebook it's me yogini me yogini on Facebook and
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then on tick-tock I'm me yogini on tick-tock as well and so yeah I'm pretty
easy to get a hold of and I would be happy to answer any questions about
anything it's not not just activism because like I kind of did give that up
but then I thought about there's just a lot going on in the world and I thought
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well somebody needs to say something so let me just you know give this idea but
it's not you know if you want to transcend activism then you can
transcend activism and and be on the path to peace with my 30-day course that
I just I offer there for free I mean because it's it's just it's just it's
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just an idea I mean it's an idea you can tailor it however you want to but yeah
that's out there and yeah I I'm pretty easy to get a hold of I like to answer
questions we didn't get to talk about my Kundalini I had an out-of-body
experience I had an out-of-body experience and I floated up above
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myself so we'll have to talk I mean so I can answer questions about that like it
took me almost it took me seven years to figure out what happened to me oh it
took me yeah so like I love to answer questions about self-realization I love
to answer questions about Kundalini or meditation just ask all you got to do is
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go to me you can find her on like she was telling you and guess what all you
got to do is look at the little bloop in on this yoga post and you'll get to see
all of her information and I just want to say this sovereignty isn't about
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disconnecting it's about choosing where your energy flows yes what's one way you
can reclaim your energy today and you know what I encourage you if you are
listening on YouTube or any of the other platforms that this is on share your
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thoughts and reflect so again thank you guys for being here this is Tammy from
RLP is healing have a beautiful day and happy healing
Hello and welcome to RLP is Healing. I am your host Tammy, the owner of RLP
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Holistic Wellness LLC, the practice that is here to help women reclaim their
inner power and take their life back. Many of us are called to create change
in the world, but we don't talk enough about the personal cost. Today we are
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diving into what happens when burnout hits and how we can reclaim our energy,
our sovereignty, and our inner peace. In this episode you will hear Missy talk
about how she went from burnout to sovereignty. Take a moment to sit back
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and enjoy. Hello and welcome to RLP is Healing. It's your host Tammy and today
I am being joined by Missy. So guys, I met Missy on TikTok as you guys are
probably not surprised, but she made a comment that really hit home for me and I
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felt the connection. She's an activist turned yoga teacher and meditation
teacher, and guess what? She's also the creator of the 30-day path to
sovereignty. I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this interview, to join
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us as we talk about burnout to sovereignty. Hey Missy, how are you doing?
Hi Tammy, thank you for having me on. Such an honor. Oh I'm super excited to
have you on today. So I want to jump right into it because I believe that your
story is truly one that is amazing. Also guys, she has a blog and the blog is fire.
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I have read it twice already and I want to just jump into it. If you could
describe your journey in one word, what would it be? Multi-dimensional. Oh I like
that. We have so many lives in the one. Because I used to be a wife, I
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used to be a mom, now I'm a grandma, now my kids are grown, now you know I used to
work a nine-to-five. Those are all different lives. I used to be an
activist that had a nonprofit back in Indiana and now I live in North Carolina
on a 20-acre farm with some chickens and bunnies and dogs and goats and I
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grow my own food and I don't like to go to town. So it's multi-dimensional.
Many timelines, many dimensions, many versions of me. I love that. I feel like
you're living the dream. That is my dream. 20 acres, small house and a whole bunch
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of animals growing my own vegetables and just enjoying the peace. So we talk about
burnout and we talk about being here. We're wanting to create change in the
world and everything like that and I want to know what drew you to
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activism and advocacy? Well, it was having grandchildren. So as a parent, a very busy
parent, I was very busy with work and putting food on the table. They
love to keep you busy like that so that you're not really paying attention to
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what's going on out there. So I just pretty much was naive as a
parent. I did everything that was recommended, everything that everybody
said to do. Go to well child appointments, all of these things that
parents are supposed to do. Have a minivan, sign up for extracurriculars,
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go to church. We've got Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, whatever. Make sure
they're clean and help them with their homework, all of those things. So I
wasn't really aware of everything out in the world. I was very busy just being a
mom and going to work and doing all those things. But when I had kids, they would stay home and
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babysit them for my oldest daughter, I began to see that the more you learn, the
older you get, the more mistakes that you make against your gut instinct and
trusting people blindly because they would never do that. You know, I just, I
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learned some things and I heard about this little girl in my state who had a
seizure disorder and this was back before CBD was legal to use in a lot of
states and their little baby was two years old and she had seizures and they
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were treating her with a CBD, Charlotte's Web strain and the hospital,
actually the law was ambiguous. It wasn't illegal but it wasn't legal and
they just wanted to, they didn't like it. The hospital just didn't like it.
It was more of a holistic, it wasn't, you know, recognized as like best practice I
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would say. So this is kind of how I just got involved because the hospital
wanted to tell the parents what they had to do and they called DCS, CPS got
involved and they wanted to tell them that they had to give this child a
certain medication and then give their child, their baby blood draws every week
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to prove they were given the medication and it just overreached and it was just
too much and yeah, so what I established in Indiana was a nonprofit
organization called Indiana for Medical Freedom and we would advocate for medical
freedom in the state of Indiana, you know, free from coercion like you have to do
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this or you can't do that, you know, doctors saying, I mean, I myself, I
didn't really want to do a mammogram, I just wanted an ultrasound and they're
like, yeah, we'll give you an ultrasound if you get a mammogram. I mean, that's
like coercion. Oh wow. You know, have you ever been, yeah, and I don't really think
that a lot of people know about it but a lot of people do know about it and so I
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don't and a lot of it is controversial because a lot of people don't think
twice, they're just like, yeah, okay, let me go do what the doctor said. Let me
just go get in line and do that and I was more of the thought that my body, my
choice, you know, meant something, especially the bodies of my children,
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like are those not my children or the state, are those the state's children?
Yep and that's the problem in the US now, like still a problem in the US that
parents are facing, doctors are saying, I know what's best for your child and
you're never even with your child, maybe like what, 30 minutes once a month, once
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every two? And they're certainly not with your child if they were to have a
negative reaction to something that this doctor forced upon, you know, so
parental rights are really important so that's what I fought for. I fought for
the rights of parents to make medical decisions for their children that they
thought was best without threat of coercion, without threat of losing their
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children to DCS because they disagreed with their doctor, you know, we are
allowed to second, to ask for second and third opinions and so the, so that's how
I got involved in that to answer your question, it was that I was fighting for
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the voiceless, the little kids whose parents are busy at work and they don't,
you know, they, I would just, I was in that, that I was in a really angry energy
like how dare you people, how dare you, so I was all fired up, I didn't care who
I made mad, I went down to the state house because somebody had to and I'm
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like no, the answer is no, we are not doing that, that is overreach, they, you,
you wouldn't believe how many laws pass at our state houses just because there's
no one there to oppose. See and that's, now like this right here actually with
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hearing your story and hearing what you've gone through and pushing and
fighting the good fight, no wonder why the weight of burnout comes, so that's
where I'm going into next, when did you start to feel that weight of burnout?
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People are afraid to speak out, I had moms that said my husband won't let me
come down, my husband won't let me come to the state house, we're afraid, you
know, we don't want that attention, we, you know, because retaliation, you know,
DCS retaliation or we don't, they, so anyway I would go down there for three
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years and say hi, I'm, you know, who, my missy and I represent 2000, who's your
families, 2000 Indiana families, but they're not behind me, you know, you gotta
come down here and you know, I keep telling them I represent over 2000
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families, but you know, they're gonna stop believing me if you don't show your
faces down here and I really think that people, for me and this is my personal
opinion, is that people would rather throw money, they're like here take some
money, but don't make me go down, don't, don't make me talk to the lawmaker,
don't make me call the switchboard, don't make me speak for myself, don't make me
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fight for myself, you go do it, well tell me what to say, you know, and I get that,
but it really got to be frustrating when I could not get people to go down and
fight for their own rights and we'll hear this now, we will hear a lot of
people complaining about the way things are, I have an idea, I have something
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they in support that we'll get to, I kind of talked to you about that before,
a call to action in a peaceful way that is compassionate, but I'm still kind of
the activist, but you know we can still do things to make a difference, but in a
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way that doesn't require us to not necessarily go down to the state house,
it just got to be to where I couldn't get people to go down and I thought,
well me and the co-founders thought about handing it over to other activists, we
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actually trained people, taught them what to do, showed them the ropes and
everything and it just came down to where we couldn't trust anybody because
of sabotage and infiltration and our names are forever tied to that nonprofit
and so we just dissolved it, we just dissolved it and I pretty much thought, well if you
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aren't gonna fight for your rights then you don't deserve to have them, I know
what my rights are, I know what to do, I know how to do that, I know how to call
my legislator, I know the way to the state house to go say hey no to this and
you know if people want to know how to do that I'm happy to help them, but the
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days of me going down and doing it all by myself, no I have a life, I burned out,
I mean I have a life too and I quite enjoy it now. And see I have noticed
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that there are, I feel that you're truly right, that people are, I don't know if
it's that they're scared of the lawmakers or if they are in a space of
where they're just like oh I'm just gonna lay down and take this. Yeah we
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have to go, you have to go scared. So I went to my state house the first time I
went there to my state house looking for my US congressman, like there your US
congressman is not at your state house, your state lawmakers are at your state
house and your US senators and congressmen they have a separate office
separate and it doesn't have anything to do with your state lawmakers, but you
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gotta go anyway I didn't care I'm like where is this man and they're like
you're in the wrong place, but you that's how you learn. You have, you cannot, you
can't change anything if you don't do something different. And see I've
actually called the Maryland State Lawmakers office like I swear they look
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they look at the phone and they just send me to voicemail. They knew me too, they do
have that caller ID, they do they would be like oh is it you again? I'm like yeah
it is. You're all finally you picked up. You know who I want to talk to. Right and
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so did you, did you have any resistance when you first started doing the
stepping away? Like what made you finally say I need to do something different?
It was a vibe, it was that I actually I kind of felt like that I knew the
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situation. Have you seen Cold Mountain? No I have not. Oh well there's that
there's a line in there where Renee Zellweger she just says that the Lord
won't let it stand this way for long and I just really felt that. I just really
felt like well this just can't go on that much longer these people are too
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aggressive they're gonna shoot themselves in the foot. I think I just
need to go on and declare victory because you know really I am declaring
victory because I know how to say no I know what my rights are I you know so
like I really what I did was I just declared victory and walked away. I
already won I already won because I learned what I needed to know I knew how
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to protect myself I knew that my my children and my grandchildren are fine
because we're you know a unit and we all you know I got my kids and my kids got
their kids and we're fine. So I was just able to just declare victory and it's
really transcending the mundane it's so yoga. Right I was like I feel that. But I
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didn't know that at the time I didn't I didn't know anything about yoga at the
time. You know and that's where that's where we're gonna go into next.
What was your first step towards toward healing? Walking away from activism
because it truly is a rigged system politics or and it's it's been going on
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a long time. We can go down there and we can tell them what we want but at the
end of the day they are going to do what they are paid to do by the lobbyists
that have special interests depending on what industry they work for. That's
what's gonna happen. Our lawmakers are bought by industry. I don't. You can pick
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an industry name an industry. You know they've got them and I actually think
that that's another thing that we need to ask for is that I don't I don't think
an industry ought to be able to lobby in our state houses. I don't think an
industry ought to be able to lobby in our state houses against citizens and I
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don't think that they ought to be able to have I don't think that they ought to
be able to donate to any campaign. I don't think they ought to be able to
donate to any politician. I don't think that they ought to be in any have any
influence over our departments any of our bureaucratic agencies. I just think
that any industry that has a lot of money can you know people can be bought
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and and and that is that has happened and so that's another reason why I
walked away because the system was rigged. Like you can go down there all
day long and tell them what you think and you may have people on your side but
it's politics. They if they don't vote for this guy over here then this guy
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over here is not gonna vote for what they want and so they're gonna put you
on the back burner and be like maybe next session or something like that and
I just realized that it I didn't it was just futile. I mean there's really just
so much that you can do so then my healing started with walking away from
that entirely being completely done with it and then COVID hit and so we were all
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on lockdown and I went positive vibes only. I and I signed up for yoga teacher
training because I saw that teachers school go then my school on Instagram
you know and I'm like is this legit because I couldn't believe because I
had actually gotten my passport to go and learn in India but that never
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happened and then COVID hit and all the prices dropped and you get online
training and stuff like that. So I signed up and I spent 15 months in
solitude. It was it was a it was it was the dark night of my soul. I lost my dad. I
went through a breakup and it was really really hard but I studied in 15 months I
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studied 1500 hours of yoga and I figured out what had happened to me in 2014. I
had had a out-of-body experience. I found out that was my Kundalini rising
and then after after that after that 2014 Kundalini rising I just completely
dismantled my life tore it all apart. I well I started being and I co-founded
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that nonprofit. I did that for a while then I filed for divorce from my husband
and then I
and you don't have a solid steady foundation and you're a wreck in your
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life is a wreck and nothing is then you just I what I did was I dismantled
everything that didn't wasn't in alignment and I just rebuilt and so
basically that's what I've been doing since you asked me when I started
following your blog your I started following you on TikTok that during that
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time during it must have been like 2020 2021 something like that and 2022 maybe
it was during that time that I was going through all of that I don't know why I
decided to sign up for TikTok but I did and then I then I deleted it now I'm
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back on it and it's been a journey but you know the one thing that I would like
to say with it being the journey I have found you know in the beginning I was
like oh this is just so rough and this is so hard and da da da but I found that
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when you're aligned in your purpose the journey doesn't feel so bad like I lost
no I was not aligned with my purpose I was just taking I don't know why I was
taking yoga this is mystical I don't know why I wanted to do one wanted to
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take I knew that if I could take I knew that I wanted to practice yoga but I
didn't want to go anywhere and be vulnerable in front of people mm-hmm and
I thought that if I could learn how to teach yoga I could teach it to myself see
and I love that love that and so that's what I did and so it wasn't like I was
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necessarily aligned I was just doing the work because my teacher was like do this
and I'm like okay I'm gonna do it I was literally hanging on for dear life I
mean you know when you lay down and you want to die but you don't die like your
heart just keeps beating and there's still doing this why are you still going
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through this process right it turns out you can't just lay down and die so I was
hanging on to every practice he gave me my teacher is phenomenal I can't even I
can't even compete with the classes that I took so I sell the classes that I take
on my website I mean you don't you don't have to you can cut this out of the
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whatever not plugging myself or anything it's just that I can you please I on my
website I do sell the very courses that I took through that time we are I was one
of the first 2,000 students and this man is a genius I don't know what happened
he must be in he is enlightened he but he went out to the I don't know where
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he got the idea to do this but he's a genius so he created this yoga school we
have now over 60,000 students it's it's the curriculum is so comprehensive I'm
learning so I'm still learning I'm still in classes I'm not done I'm still right
now I'm studying yoga therapy I'm studying Ayurveda I'm studying lots of
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things so and I sell the courses also because I can't do better I did create
the 30-day path to sovereignty yes and we see that talk about that yeah what
inspired inspired you to create this program well because you have to have a
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very strong daily in order to to stop doing a thing you have to not just stop
doing a thing but start doing another thing and the best way to do that is to
have a daily practice in yoga we call it a sadhana a daily sadhana and so just a
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daily practice every day and that and you get to create it but it and it is for you
for your for your self-development your self-improvement for we might my teacher
explain the Japanese art of kaizen which is just the practice of improving 1%
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just if today I can just do one thing to make things 1% better then that's what
I'm gonna do and so um that's what I do kind of I love that though I talk about
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when when I talk about doing like a meditation practice you know I tell
people I'm like I tell my students it's a practice it is something that develops
over time so when you first start it's not gonna be like this and you may not
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have this moment of oh my goodness the stars the skies everything moved in a
light and I talked to the universe well yeah you're you're me you're not getting
it guys you're not gonna have that right away but if you do like that's you my
everybody different everybody has their own their own experiences like and so my
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teacher wouldn't even let us talk about it he'd just be like that's great you
know you just be like okay because everybody is gonna see things
differently in their own inner yeah there inner you know I may see an angel
you may see a dragon so but he you know what I mean right and that's the thing
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it's the practice it and right yeah and so that's what you do you you put in the
little elements into your daily practice that are gonna get you to where you want
to be so if it's like okay I'm gonna do 12 rounds of the Sun salutations and I'm
gonna do 20 minutes of breath work and then I'm gonna meditate for 15 minutes
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or I'm just gonna count my breath or I'm just gonna so the 30 days to sovereign
I've actually got lots of courses up here and it's always gonna be 30 days to
whatever because that's how you create new neural pathways you by doing a thing
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for 30 days or so 30 45 days if you do this every single day it becomes a habit
mm-hmm so that's why I thought 30 days to sovereignty if people dedicate time
each day for 30 days to get themselves out of the burnout and into the the
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contented peacefulness of their own inner stillness then you know they will
be much happier at the end of those 30 days and they may be able to you know go
fight another day I love that so how does it help people step into serve to
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sovereignty and prevent burnout tell us a little bit of a breakdown of the
program well every day you just you take control of you there's certain practices
that you that you take advantage of every single day to take control like
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for example you're one of the practices 24-day detox so no fighting with people
on social media about your cause no news no news consumption you know so I mean
how many times can we fast in a month from doing that how many 24-hour you
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know increments can we work in can we do that once how many times a week how many
24-hour periods can we do in a month where we do not take in we do not
consume social media news outlets we do not engage in the fight you know so for
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24 hours what could you be doing you could be journaling how you feel after
six hours of no social media you know how do you know and then as you go
through the program and you're journaling all along you get to go
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through and you get to see you know how do I feel after this these three weeks
you know you can write about where you are at the beginning and then you do all
the practices whether it's just up I did record a yoga nidra and I put that in
there and that you can just lie down and listen and and be guided to just let it
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go and it's a practice it is a practice of letting it go yes I love that yeah
there's 30 days of letting it go I and you know what I think that that's you
know stepping into that place of being able to truly release and not just
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release the emotions but also like release the limiting beliefs release
the outside the outside world and you know one thing that I do a challenge
every so often to anyone and everyone that will take the challenge where I
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say within within the first three hours of you getting up do not go on social
media don't do anything that comes to your phone because like I'm one of those
people I'm the I'm the woman that's up at four in the morning in the quiet and
just like enjoying that personal time for meditation for gratitude for breath
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work for you know doing some yin and getting some stretching and opening up
the hips you know what I mean yeah because you're like don't worry to you
Tammy I'm right there with you I'm doing it too yeah I'm 52 and I'm post
menopausal so and I kind of I I don't know if it's insomnia or if I'm just
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like ascending I don't need as much sleep anymore but like if I get up it
like I'm looking at this like is it time to get up is it time to you know light
my candle but it's like no it's only 2 a.m. no you can't get up yet like I'll
look at the clock what time is it it's all friggin 245 and I'm like okay I'll
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try to sleep for a few more minutes and I'll do that oh I'm just gonna close my
eyes and meditate and doing the green stuff but I think that's because we
have the daily practice you see so we have transcended the burnout we are not
exhausted anymore and that's the thing that when you practice yoga you realize
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that you are not the body you are not the mind you are a separate consciousness
and you tell the body you tell the mind what to do and so that's how you're able
to we can I can give you a 30-day practice to anything and you will be
sovereign because you have taken control of your avatar you've taken control yeah
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I love that I have not met anyone else that has agreed with me on that like I
tell people you know like my meat suit my avatar is 42 years old but my soul all
of our souls have been here for hundreds and thousands of years taking on
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different different avatars so to speak moving in different ways and I've been
down on that I've been on this on this cake kick lately and listening to some
videos I'm going to talk about them in on tik-tok today there's this one that
I've been listening to you be that you are not you and it's like when you close
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your eyes and close your mouth and then on the count of three say happiness
without moving your lips and just in your mind who said that and that's KRS 1
KRS 1 that man is a brilliant brilliant man I was like no I mean who said
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who said happiness right and there's that thing we are the soul watching our
avatar we tell our avatar we tell it what hey you know it's like that thing
of you're gonna move your hand well you already knew you were going your body
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your soul already knew you were going to move your hand before you decided to do
it we are ones that are in control but yet we are in this space of like we feel
that we control everything and that was gosh it is so not only that not only do
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we think we have so much control but we also think we know everything we think
we have it on lock and we don't know the more I learn the less I know and I will
just say that like I don't know I love saying I don't know I don't know I don't
know because we don't know we like the comment like you said like I said I was
(35:03):
a poor white girl that went to inner city schools in Indianapolis in the you
know public schools in Indianapolis in the 80s a poor white girl you can't tell
me it's not a class war a lot of what I hear people when they're saying that it
when they were saying it's a racism a lot of what people describe as racism I
(35:33):
felt it's it's a class war it's against the poor it's a it's it's not because
yes I'm it might be because the color of your skin and your poor but it could be
because I have blonde hair and I'm poor you know what I mean I also was I also
(35:53):
felt like that I feel a lot of the ways that people say they felt and that's
but I'm like but I'm not black but I'm not black but I felt that way so it had
to be because I was poor and that's why I say you you can't tell me it's a class
war but then I will tell you also I don't know because you know if anybody's
(36:15):
read the four agreements how it says that everybody is everybody is having
their own experience and everybody is looking through their own lenses and so
that's why I will never die on a hill again because like all things are true
everybody's validated everybody yes I agree with you I also read the four
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agreements love love love the author love the author love his son they've
written some amazing books guys if you ever get a chance read the four
agreements one of my favorite of the four agreements is don't take anything
personally well you know I truly for myself and I feel like like what you
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said going back to the four agreements in that sense of that everybody's
experience is their experience everybody's experience is valid
everybody has that this is we are we are one we are all we are one we are one
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universe and nobody escapes suffering none of us it's like we are all here we
are all suffering and it's really not a competition it's not nobody is I mean
suffering is suffering and and I would never say that mine was more
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important than anyone else's same that's how I feel I feel that we are all
suffering and what I can do that I don't really even know what I can do
other than offer a loving-kindness compassion yeah and offer you know joy
and inner standing yeah judgment yeah and plant seeds and and offer you know
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so my blog my blog you read one of my blog posts but I've got lots of
different things out there to read that I've written about and my intention with
that was just to put it out there because I mean nobody's knocking on my
door going hey missy what do you got to teach me today so I figured well let me
just let me just put as it comes to me I'm gonna write about it I'm gonna put
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it out there on my blog for whoever it'll be like timeless you know like the
terror readers terror readers gonna take talk of it was a timeless message well
this is a timeless I have a timeless lesson for you and it's out on my blog
post just pick any one of them I love that I love that I you know what that
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one in particular hit me and I'm gonna tell the listeners why it hit me in just
a second because I want to ask you what is something the listeners can do to
begin reclaiming their energy take set a timer on your phone get your timer or
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you're a you know everybody has a timer on their phone or on their wrist or or
whatever and set it for any time that pick pick 1111 or 222 or 333 pick any old
time you want and when that goes off you stop what you're doing and you sit
yourself down and you count your breath and it would be inhale and exhale would
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be one and when you get to ten you can start over at one and if you forget
where you are you can start over at one and then do this for five minutes and
you can do this for seven days and I would say that if you can stop yourself
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from doing whatever it is that you're doing and sit yourself down for five
minutes and count your breaths then you are home free you're well on your way
dude I have to tell you missy I love it when I get to talk to someone that does
similar similar similar I I don't know similar well we we must have had good
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teachers yes you know what I had some amazing amazing instructors and I
couldn't ask for better teachers better and I don't even like to call them
teachers they were my mentors my guides yeah to working on self and all nice
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wholeness yes they shine the light on the path they and that's what I want to
do all that is what has been put on me to do like I cannot walk the path I
can't be going to the state house and talking to your rep and saying hey now
you know Mrs. so-and-so wants this that and the other but I could shine that
light on the path and tell you go that way yep and I can show you where to go
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it's that it's that thing that they always say you can take a horse to water
but you can't make a drink that's right I can teach the man to fish but I cannot
fish for the man that's right that's right or you can give him a fish or
teach him to fish or but yeah so just very simple basic stuff like counting
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your breath or or if they just can't see themselves sitting there for five
minutes counting their breath you can draw a dot on the wall and stare at it
for five minutes yeah yeah or candle flame like light light yeah just gaze
into the flame of your candle for five minutes and try not to blink it's about
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increasing your focus see how many times you think about whether or not you turned
back your dryer when you're staring at that candle flame because everything
comes to mind it's the greatest test ever but you're gonna sit there and
you're gonna stare at the candle flame and you're not gonna go check you're all
just watch how your thoughts come watch your thoughts it'd be like oh did I turn
(42:56):
back the dryer oh what time is it oh how long have I been doing this but yeah but
and that's the one thing you know listeners I want to debunk the one thing
that everybody hears when it comes to practicing meditation by the way it is
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okay for you to have thoughts it is part of the process your mind is gonna ask
you questions it's gonna tell you stuff guess what think of a two-year-old and
smile and come back to the breath your mind's gonna do that and you know what
(43:37):
it takes it takes time because this is a practice these are practices to help you
with reconnecting with your mind your body and your nervous system and
bringing you to present moment now let me tell you guys so missy and this blog
I'm gonna tell you guys and I'm gonna have her explain to you this comparison
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of Callie and kind of transforming I don't even know the best way to even put
it guess what missy you tell them all about it let them know because this is
the part that like drew me back again so I'm not sure how many people listening
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are familiar with Kundalini but in Kundalini yoga and in Hindu philosophy
or that yoga philosophy there are these two energies and they they came from two
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two different goddess aspects so the one is Kali and Kali is an angry energy
destructive and protective but destructive and she will burn it down
burn down the lies she will take on all of the bad guys all of the demons all
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of the destruction she'll she'll destroy herself destroying them if she will if
she's not careful she'll destroy the ones that she loves and destroy herself
this energy is wrong and it is necessary because we do need those warrior
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goddesses out there that are willing to burn it to the ground but we have to
save ourselves and that's where the Durga energy comes in she's just as wild
I mean she swung the sword she did the destruction but she transcended it and
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she more calmly now instead of wildly wielding the sword she she just has to
hold it now or maybe she just carries it sheathed on her hip to pull out whenever
she needs it you know she's been there she's done the fighting and she's moved
beyond it because she knows she doesn't need to be destructive anymore and she
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has moved on into she's given up the fight and moved on to creation and now
she's creating something new to replace what or to just create something new to
be better sometimes we don't have control over the powers that be are
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doing and that is where instead of reacting in anger we need to be a calm
creative presence that can build something brand new right alongside the
old I'm multi-dimensional you know like I said it's been multi-dimensional we
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can build new things that run right alongside of the old a lot of there are
hundreds of paths up the mountain I mean there's a lot of Dolores Cannon people
out there where they talk about new earth new earth that is what it is it's
creating something new that runs right alongside the old something better
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something new something you know that it's not necessarily like a whole new
brand new earth it's just a new way of being it's a new it's another layer it's
another dimension and instead of being destructive instead of fighting we are
going to own that we can control ourselves and we are going to create
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something wonderful and beautiful with you know loving kindness intentions and
we are going to build something that fosters compassion for all recognizes
all suffering recognizes all humans as valid I had a quote I was the Desmond
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tutu quote you know it is that we can be human the only thing that we can do is
be human together yes like my destiny is bound up in yours and that we can only
we can only just be human together and so we've all seen what you know war does
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and we've all seen what fighting does and it just I really believe that the
answer is love I really believe that the answer is peace and I know that a lot of
other people believe that to you and so I just want to offer an idea or solution
and we talked about that solution or and talked about this offering of
(49:30):
information can you tell you know I feel this is a wisdom that you're about to
share so I asked you to share this with the you know activists of the world the
healers of the world the impacts of the world who give so much yeah I mean we
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try to be a quantum is right and we try to rise above and transcend the mundane
and we really don't want to be involved in the material problems of the world
but we have to live here we have to live here and we have a job to do here and we
have to we have to leave it better for our children and our grandchildren and
(50:21):
so I I have moved from the destructive like I'm not storming the state house
going hey no you know not joining rallies it's more of a just them but I
realized when I thought of this idea I thought oh look you're still an activist
(50:44):
you really didn't walk away did you well I mean I kind of did but this is still a
really good idea I don't really want to be a leader I don't want to lead a
movement I'm not gonna do another I'm not doing that but this is a good idea
and if people want to support it they can they can support it so I have I was
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made aware of an open source forum called policies for the people it's
policies for the people dot org I believe and anybody can go out there and
write down an idea that they have for different different like I can if they
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have an idea about economics if they've got an idea about any anything that you
have an idea about you can just float your idea so that's what I did I went
out there to this open forum and I wrote an idea for a policy and the idea is
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this sorry I had the idea that we needed a United States Department of
Compassion because we have a Department of Defense but we we don't have a
Department of Healing we fund war but we don't fund peace and it's really not
about politics so much as it is about humanity so what what is the Department
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of Compassion it would be a government institution dedicated to unity ethics
and human dignity and why that matters is because if we if policies shape the
culture then we need policies that reflect compassionate governance and I
have offered three core pillars the first one being loving kindness policies
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policies rooted in human dignity and well-being I mean we're talking about
ideas that like Mother Teresa had ideas that Gandhi had or the teachings of
Jesus you know it would be great the other pillar would be youth-led
innovation like engaging young leaders and policymaking and bridging divides
(53:06):
initiatives that unite people rather than divide them because the world is
hurting and it's not just one group it's not just one issue all of us are
carrying wounds whether it's the survivors of abuse I mean we have people
that are survivors of human trafficking we have we have people that are war
(53:30):
refugees that have fled their countries from war and we have children here who
are in poverty that the only time they eat is at school and it's not just about
it's everybody everybody is suffering and and so again it's about human
(53:54):
dignity it's not really about politics but we all have a job to do here right
so kind of we got to get into politics and it would be a really good idea if we
could all just take our kind loving kind peaceful voices and said hey you know
will somebody in charge look at us because this is what the people want so
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I have a link that I'll be providing to you where listeners can go out to the
policies for the people and actually sign up to write their own ideas or they
can support my idea I also have a link where people can look up who their
lawmakers are in case they would like to contact their lawmakers for any reason
(54:39):
and say hey you know this girl has a good idea about this Department of
Compassion and maybe we need to look at that lawmakers really like it when you
take the time to call them and tell them what's important to you they really
do I know that at the state level but I think things are I think that people are
(55:04):
listening right now at the federal level too so I think it's pretty important
that you call all of your representatives and let them know what's
important to you everything that's important to you that's why they are
there they want to hear from you they love your homemade signs they love it
when you take your kids out of school and go to the State House to talk to
(55:25):
your lawmakers and to meet with them I'm not trying to rally the troops or
anything like that or full-blown activism again but there are people that
are listening that might want to know what that's like and like I said I did
it scared I went to the wrong place looking for the wrong the wrong guy but
you know you learn that is so true I really missy this has been an amazing
(55:51):
experience to talk with you and actually get to connect with you and people this
is listeners this is one thing that I try to recommend and I try to put out
there that if you feel there's no reason to react in anger you know I will tell
(56:17):
you that the old me the old version of me would have read missy's comment and
been like what are you talking about but then I realized in in when I read it and
I was like oh maybe I'm gonna need to make a response video so I made a
response video and that video expanded to something even more to where I was
(56:41):
finally able to talk about a view that I have which is that we all have been
stripped of our culture in the United States if you are on kick-talk you can go
check out RLP healing Tammy or Tammy RLP and also to missy where can they find
(57:03):
you social wise where can you be found on social media okay well first of all
Tammy thank you for having me on it has been an extreme honor I mean you say
it's been a privilege but I feel privileged so thank you yes thank you so
much and just to be heard is nice it's so thank you but anybody can find my
(57:32):
website it's me yogini dot yoga and me yogini is a sutra it's me mi for missy
and then yogini which is just a female yogi so it's me yogini dot yoga and so
that's my website you can buy courses there's teacher training out there of
(57:55):
all kinds I've got lots of courses through my school it's they're not my
courses and then under the news tab is all of the blog posts that I've ever
written and then you can always leave a comment on any one of them if you would
like to contact me or I have a Facebook it's me yogini me yogini on Facebook and
(58:17):
then on tick-tock I'm me yogini on tick-tock as well and so yeah I'm pretty
easy to get a hold of and I would be happy to answer any questions about
anything it's not not just activism because like I kind of did give that up
but then I thought about there's just a lot going on in the world and I thought
(58:39):
well somebody needs to say something so let me just you know give this idea but
it's not you know if you want to transcend activism then you can
transcend activism and and be on the path to peace with my 30-day course that
I just I offer there for free I mean because it's it's just it's just it's
(59:03):
just an idea I mean it's an idea you can tailor it however you want to but yeah
that's out there and yeah I I'm pretty easy to get a hold of I like to answer
questions we didn't get to talk about my Kundalini I had an out-of-body
experience I had an out-of-body experience and I floated up above
(59:28):
myself so we'll have to talk I mean so I can answer questions about that like it
took me almost it took me seven years to figure out what happened to me oh it
took me yeah so like I love to answer questions about self-realization I love
to answer questions about Kundalini or meditation just ask all you got to do is
(59:54):
go to me you can find her on like she was telling you and guess what all you
got to do is look at the little bloop in on this yoga post and you'll get to see
all of her information and I just want to say this sovereignty isn't about
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disconnecting it's about choosing where your energy flows yes what's one way you
can reclaim your energy today and you know what I encourage you if you are
listening on YouTube or any of the other platforms that this is on share your
(01:00:37):
thoughts and reflect so again thank you guys for being here this is Tammy from
RLP is healing have a beautiful day and happy healing
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