August 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Do you secretly dread the holidays? Howling at the Moon Podcast episode #3
In this heartfelt episode, Heather Leigh Strom opens up about the pain and anxiety that used to surface during family gatherings, and how the K9 Spirit Guides helped her heal what was buried beneath the surface.
If the holidays leave you feeling anxious, agitated, or like the odd one out… you’re not broken. You’re being shown what’s ready to heal.
✨ In this episode:
- • Why the holidays often trigger unresolved family wounds
- • The hidden emotional patterns behind holiday stress
- • How Heather Leigh learned to transform her pain into peace
- • A guided frequency from Anthea to help you reclaim joy here
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💫 More about Heather Leigh Strom & the K9 Spirit Guides
Lots of episodes coming up with riveting spiritual guests and healing frequencies from the K9 Spirit Guides!
recorded November 2023
Holiday stress got you feeling like you’d rather wrestle a bear than spend time with family? Well, you’re not alone! Tonight, we’re diving deep into the all-too-common struggle of navigating family tensions during the holidays and how it can leave us feeling like a turkey on Thanksgiving—overcooked and ready to be served up on a platter of anxiety. I’ll share my own story of holiday angst and how it all relates back to childhood experiences that can trigger those uncomfortable feelings. But don’t worry, we’re not just here to vent; we’ve got some powerful tools to help eliminate that stress! Tune in as we channel a special frequency from the K9 spirit guides designed to bring you peace and joy, so you can enjoy the holidays without feeling like you’re walking on eggshells. Grab your favorite snack and let’s turn this holiday season into a joyful romp instead of a stressful slog!
Takeaways:
- Holiday gatherings can be stressful, especially when family dynamics are involved, causing anxiety and discomfort.
- Understanding the deeper emotional triggers tied to family interactions can lead to healing and improved holiday experiences.
- A spiritual approach, including guidance from K9 spirit guides, can provide insights and healing frequencies for holiday stress relief.
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(00:01):
Hello.
Tonight we are talking abouteliminating holiday stress, especially
involving family tension and conflict.
Welcome to Howling at theMoon, where the mystical meets the
practical and the caninespirit guides lead the way.
(00:21):
I'm your host, Heather lee Strom.
In 2022, I experienced asudden, life changing spiritual awakening
after a lifetime of strugglingwith who am I and why am I here?
For five decades, the worldfelt cold and confusing.
(00:43):
Now I see the patterns, thepurpose and the bigger magical picture.
My mission, to help you findyour way through your own awakening
journey.
Here you'll discover limitlesspath possibilities for spiritual
growth, powerful healingfrequencies and extraordinary energetic
(01:06):
professionals, each designedto guide you into deeper healing
and remembrance.
Some episodes featureenlightening wisdom from spiritually
evolved guest healers,visionaries and authors.
Others are led by themultidimensional canine spirit guides
(01:27):
themselves, sharing theirunique intergalactic wisdom and frequency.
If you've been craving deepertruth, multi dimensional healing
and a little cosmic magic,you've just found your pack.
Listen and watch on Spotify orYouTube and bring the magic back
(01:50):
into your life.
Okay, so tonight we're goingto really get into why it is that
some of us have a really toughtime around the holidays and we feel
really uncomfortable beingaround our family.
We get agitated, startarguments and we just generally don't
(02:12):
have a good time and we reallydon't want to be around our family
on the holidays.
So we're going to talk aboutthat because it is quite common for
many of us to not enjoy ourfamily gatherings like other people
do.
(02:33):
I know a lot of families getalong and have a great time together
and that has just never beenme and my family and that's never
been my experience and.
And I know I am not alone out there.
The more I get out in theworld, the more I discover that there
(02:56):
are many people that feel theway I felt most of my life and just
dread the holidays coming upbecause they're forced to be around
people that are considered tobe their family, but they don't really
feel that comfortable beingaround them or they don't feel that
happy being around them.
(03:18):
And they're certainly notlooking forward to it.
So let's talk about that alittle bit first.
I'm going to share with you alittle bit about my story and hopefully
that will help you identifysimilarities within your story.
And then I'm going to share afrequency from the canine spirit
(03:39):
guides designed to eliminatethat stress and temporarily to help
you get through this holiday season.
So there is relief in sightfor you if you should fall into this
category.
Does that sound good?
So how many of you feel likeyou would rather be with your dogs
(04:01):
than to be with your own family?
And if you could pick yourfamily, your family would be full
of dogs and not people.
You know, if you read my book,you know how I feel about that.
You already know the answer tothat question for me, because my
life story talks about how Iwould rather be with dogs than with
(04:26):
people in general, butespecially with my own family.
I was a duck out of water withmy family, for sure.
But let's talk about thisholiday connection when November
turns the calendar.
I always tended to have thisbuildup of anxiety, this buildup
(04:47):
of stress that I couldn'texplain and I really didn't fully
understand for a long time.
The holidays would comecreeping in, even though I could
see them coming on the calendar.
I could see that November wascoming, December was coming, and
this buildup event anxietywould just.
Just kind of hit me.
(05:08):
And I wasn't really aware ofit except later in life.
I started to kind of track itand pay more attention to it.
And especially as I wentthrough my awakening and my healing,
I really understood it.
But what would happen was asNovember came around the corner,
I would start having morefights with my husband, coming up
(05:30):
with these really ridiculoustopics of discussion that ended in
a fight.
And I knew that they would,and they were really ridiculous things
just to get the agitation out.
So I was feeling agitated onthe inside because the holidays were
coming, all this anxiety wasbuilding up.
(05:53):
So in order to try and diffuseit, I would try and make him feel
as agitated as I did.
And it just would go on and onand on throughout the entire holiday
period until finally theholidays were over and I could take
a deep breath, step down fromthat antagonistic pedestal, and just
(06:17):
be done with it.
And it took me a long time tounderstand, number one, that I was
doing this, also why it washappening and also what to do about
it.
So that's what we're going totalk about here tonight.
But those of us who did nothave a happy upbringing or a happy
childhood are full of turmoil.
(06:41):
Sometimes, especially if itwas around the holidays, this turmoil,
even if we're not aware of it,can tend to come out around this
holiday period because this iswhen happy families get together.
And if you're not from a happyfamily, then it tends to trigger
(07:01):
you a little bit and you getagitated and you don't even know
why you're agitated.
It's triggering those memoriesinside of you that you may not even
know are uncomfortable orpainful or.
Or sad.
You may not even understandthat cognitively, but your subconscious,
(07:25):
your ego and your soul istrying to get your attention around
it and get you to heal it sothat you don't feel this way anymore.
But we don't typicallyunderstand that.
When it comes out to me, Idescribe it as an eczema on the inside
of my skin.
(07:45):
Doesn't that sound awful?
That's what it kind of felt like.
Like you could.
You can't scratch it, but it'sgot to be scratched because that's
the only way that makes itstop itching.
Right?
So it was this, this constantdigging from the inside that made
me feel so awful that it hadto come out.
(08:09):
And, and, and it wasn't happyunless it made other people around
me feel just as uncomfortable.
And I know there's some familymembers that would agree with that,
and my husband would probablyagree with that, maybe even some
friends of mine that wouldagree with that because they had
been the target of this purgeon one occasion or more.
(08:33):
But.
But the reason this happened, the.
The reason this was so deeplyingrained in me was because of my
childhood.
So I'm share a little bitabout that.
So you understand, becausesometimes our childhoods are not
something that we rememberclearly, Especially those who try
(08:54):
and remember only the good parts.
Like, I didn't have that luxury.
I remembered all of it.
But some of us have.
Are really good at blockingout those parts of our memory that
we don't like.
And so this can really sneakup on you.
And you may have this, thissense of overall anxiety around the
(09:16):
holidays, but you may notunderstand why.
So this might be helpful foryou to understand.
But my childhood was very strange.
And if you've read my book,you already know this, but my father
was a preacher, yet we had noholiday tradition whatsoever.
We went to everyone else'shouse for the holidays.
(09:38):
So for Thanksgiving, we wentto my mother's mother, my mother's
family.
For Christmas, we went to mydad's family.
So we didn't have our owntradition at all for the holidays
because we never spent timewith us over the holidays.
And the other complicatingfactor to that was that for some
(10:00):
reason, my father didn't wantme to be focused on receiving gifts.
So he wouldn't let me give anygifts, and he wouldn't let me receive
gifts.
So if I went to other people'sChristmas, I had to watch them open
their Christmas presents, andI didn't get any.
(10:22):
And I had to see how joyousand excited and happy they were and
embracing in each other's joy.
And I just had to sit thereand watch.
So that was very traumatic fora child.
And I guess I didn't actuallyrealize how deeply traumatic that
(10:44):
was until I was writing my book.
And I really didn't understandwhy that was his approach because
that made no sense to me.
I didn't learn how to give andI didn't learn how to receive.
So it's quite harmful for achild to not know how to do that.
So it.
That's what created so muchangst in me having to go forward
(11:09):
into my adulthood around theholidays, because that made me feel
so uncomfortable, number one,not having the skills and the tools
that I needed to fullyexperience the holidays with giving
and receiving, but also having.
Oh, shoot, was my other point.
I just lost it.
(11:31):
There was two points there.
Maybe it'll come back.
But anyway, so that.
That was kind of my story.
And it took me a long time tounderstand that I didn't get to experience
joy.
I had to watch everyone elseexperience their joy.
So that set up a lot ofresentment for my family.
(11:55):
And so naturally, I didn'twant to be with them for the holidays.
And when I got older, I beganto avoid the holidays.
So I didn't even want to hangout with them.
If I had a choice, I wouldjust take off or I would go be with
my friends and.
And watch them have abeautiful holiday.
Like.
Like I always wanted to, youknow, Kind of just made me a little
(12:16):
bit jealous, too.
But I began to rely on my dogswhen I could.
You know, if.
If I could use them as anexcuse to not interact during the
holidays, then that's what I did.
That's what they're good for, right?
I mean, because they love usno matter what.
In one year, I especiallyremember, I think I was 19, I was
(12:39):
in college, and I was supposedto spend Thanksgiving with my dad
and my stepmother and my stepsisters.
And I was going to make apiece of pump apple pie and I messed
it, the crust up horribly.
And I was so frustrated withmyself that having this frustration
(13:02):
on top of the normal angst ofthe holiday was just a little too
much.
And I just exploded.
I decided I didn't want to bethere at all for the holiday.
I packed up all.
All my things and I packed upmy dog.
And actually it was Christmas.
I don't know what holiday.
I said it was Christmas.
(13:24):
So it was really cold, and mydog and I went to the Ozark National
Forest and We spent three daysthere, camping in a tent in the cold,
and I woke up every nightbeing covered in frost, and my dog
was covered in frost, and hemust have thought I was crazy.
(13:46):
But I would rather be thatuncomfortable than to spend the holiday
with my family.
That's how bad it was.
So that's what I want to tryand avoid for you guys.
And what's.
(14:07):
What's important to understandbehind this is that there's always
a deeper meaning behind ourdiscomfort, our anger, our bitterness,
or our disgust.
You know, there's always adeeper meaning behind it, and that's
what I learned through myhealing and through my transition,
(14:28):
my transformation that thecanine guides helped me with.
And when you feel theseemotions, what they are, are invitations
to heal.
The emotions are attracting you.
They're showing you what needsto be healed so that you can feel
(14:52):
that joy.
And it's just a trigger.
All of these activities, theholidays, whatever it may be, it
may be a birthday, might besomething completely, completely
different from a celebration.
Whatever triggers you andbrings up these emotions, these lower
vibrational emotions, the.
The fear, the anger, thebitterness, the anxiety, anything
(15:19):
that makes you feeluncomfortable, anything that makes
you feel anything other thanlove and joy is a lower vibrational
frequency.
So anytime these frequenciesare activated in you, agitated, in
you, then it's an invitationto heal.
And once I figured that outand I began to heal everything that
(15:41):
triggered that response, Ididn't have that response anymore,
and I didn't feel that way anymore.
And all of those memories werehealed, and it didn't matter.
I could go to the holidays,and I could feel joy, and I could
give and I could receive.
Despite my training inchildhood, I was able to do it now
(16:03):
as an adult.
So there is hope, There is anability for you to reclaim your holidays.
And that's what the canineguides want to teach you tonight.
That's what they want to offeryou tonight.
Anybody interested inparticipating in receiving.
(16:27):
A.
Downloaded frequency that willhelp you let all that go, not feel
it anymore, and just be ableto tune in to that higher frequency
of joy.
How's that sound?
So the biggest part for methrough my transition was being able
(16:51):
to understand the bigger picture.
And now I understand why Ifelt the way I felt.
I understand where Iunderstood where it came from, and
I understood what to do about it.
And that's what I got out ofthe healing with the canine spirit
(17:13):
guides.
And if you're interested indoing your own healing, I'll give
you some information in alittle bit.
Okay?
But this because this is agroup event, we're going to be channeling
in a.
What they call a patchwork.
That's what they called it.
Some.
(17:33):
We're going to do somepatchwork because we're not going
to be full on healing youtonight because there's just not
enough opportunity with thisbeing a group event.
What the guides are going todo is a.
Is a patchwork to help yourise above it and forget about it
(17:57):
and just enjoy sharing thespace with your family.
Regardless of the history,regardless of what you have to learn
from it, regardless of whatyou need to heal, they're going to
give you a patch so that youcan experience just the joy of the
holiday, despite all the other stuff.
(18:19):
Okay, so it's kind of likelast time we offered a hall pass.
Well, this time they're goingto give you a patch, so that's kind
of cool.
So this is what they're saying.
This, this.
They're going to gift you ashield that will temporarily prevent
you from being affected byothers or hurt by other people's
(18:42):
presence, memories, comments,or actions.
Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?
And it will allow you to feelmore joy about the holidays and show
you how you would feel if you are.
(19:02):
If you healed this part of yourself.
So if you actually healed theparts of you that are calling to
you through these negativeexperiences or negative emotions,
then this is how you would feel.
So it's kind of like givingyou a preview.
Yeah, like a.
(19:22):
Like letting you taste thedessert before you have your meal.
That would be kind of cool,wouldn't it?
That's pretty exciting, isn't it?
Anybody here have issues withtheir family that they would love
to just leapfrog over and justlike it never even existed and just
(19:42):
have like a perfect familyscenario for the holidays?
That would be pretty exciting,wouldn't it?
I know a couple years ago thatwould have been exciting for me.
And just remember that this isa group event.
So this isn't.
This isn't geared specificallyto anyone in the group.
(20:04):
It's kind of a.
An overall effect.
If we were doing this one onone, obviously it would be more specific
to.
In your individual needs.
So if you're interested inthat type of healing, then that would
be something that we could doin a private session.
But we can talk about thatafter on the other side.
(20:28):
Thank you for joining me today.
The healing session for thisepisode with the canine spirit guides
is now available exclusivelythrough my subscriber portal on substack.
These energetic downloads aresacred transmissions.
And by Moving them to adedicated space, I can connect more
intentionally with those ofyou who feel called to receive them.
(20:52):
It also helps helps me get toknow you a little better so that
I can more effectively serveand support this growing community.
If you'd like to access thehealing frequencies of this episode's
Canine Spirit Guide and futuretransmissions, just head over to
mysubstack@heatherleestrom.substack.com and
(21:13):
become a subscriber.
Whether you join us there orsimply tune in here, the Canine Spirit
Guides and I are so gratefulto share this path with you.
And be sure to stay putbecause there might be more coming
on this podcast.
That was quick and easy.
Wow, that was really cool.
Did anybody feel that?
(21:35):
Can anybody see their shields?
That's really cool.
How they went downward.
And the reasoning behind thatwas to drive your own inner thoughts,
your own negativity downwardinto Mother Earth.
She's going to hold that for you.
Isn't that nice?
(21:55):
That's really cool.
Oh, I forgot to show you apicture of my dog that I escaped
to the Ozark National Forest with.
This is Nick.
He's in my book.
He.
Oscar worked with him to tryand help me through many, many, many
years of my life.
(22:16):
He has a very long andcomplicated story, so if you've read
my book, you know what hisstory is.
But he is just such a special dog.
I could not have done itwithout him.
No way.
You'll have to see what kindof impact that shield serves you.
(22:37):
If you don't have issues withyour family, it might help you in
other ways.
Like the whole mass transitthing that, that they just told me
right before we got done.
That was really cool.
Okay.
It's been wonderful.
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(23:01):
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(23:25):
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today and begin your journey.
Hello.
Tonight we are talking abouteliminating holiday stress, especially
involving family tension and conflict.
Welcome to Howling at theMoon, where the mystical meets the
practical and the caninespirit guides lead the way.
(00:21):
I'm your host, Heather lee Strom.
In 2022, I experienced asudden, life changing spiritual awakening
after a lifetime of strugglingwith who am I and why am I here?
For five decades, the worldfelt cold and confusing.
(00:43):
Now I see the patterns, thepurpose and the bigger magical picture.
My mission, to help you findyour way through your own awakening
journey.
Here you'll discover limitlesspath possibilities for spiritual
growth, powerful healingfrequencies and extraordinary energetic
(01:06):
professionals, each designedto guide you into deeper healing
and remembrance.
Some episodes featureenlightening wisdom from spiritually
evolved guest healers,visionaries and authors.
Others are led by themultidimensional canine spirit guides
(01:27):
themselves, sharing theirunique intergalactic wisdom and frequency.
If you've been craving deepertruth, multi dimensional healing
and a little cosmic magic,you've just found your pack.
Listen and watch on Spotify orYouTube and bring the magic back
(01:50):
into your life.
Okay, so tonight we're goingto really get into why it is that
some of us have a really toughtime around the holidays and we feel
really uncomfortable beingaround our family.
We get agitated, startarguments and we just generally don't
(02:12):
have a good time and we reallydon't want to be around our family
on the holidays.
So we're going to talk aboutthat because it is quite common for
many of us to not enjoy ourfamily gatherings like other people
do.
(02:33):
I know a lot of families getalong and have a great time together
and that has just never beenme and my family and that's never
been my experience and.
And I know I am not alone out there.
The more I get out in theworld, the more I discover that there
(02:56):
are many people that feel theway I felt most of my life and just
dread the holidays coming upbecause they're forced to be around
people that are considered tobe their family, but they don't really
feel that comfortable beingaround them or they don't feel that
happy being around them.
(03:18):
And they're certainly notlooking forward to it.
So let's talk about that alittle bit first.
I'm going to share with you alittle bit about my story and hopefully
that will help you identifysimilarities within your story.
And then I'm going to share afrequency from the canine spirit
(03:39):
guides designed to eliminatethat stress and temporarily to help
you get through this holiday season.
So there is relief in sightfor you if you should fall into this
category.
Does that sound good?
So how many of you feel likeyou would rather be with your dogs
(04:01):
than to be with your own family?
And if you could pick yourfamily, your family would be full
of dogs and not people.
You know, if you read my book,you know how I feel about that.
You already know the answer tothat question for me, because my
life story talks about how Iwould rather be with dogs than with
(04:26):
people in general, butespecially with my own family.
I was a duck out of water withmy family, for sure.
But let's talk about thisholiday connection when November
turns the calendar.
I always tended to have thisbuildup of anxiety, this buildup
(04:47):
of stress that I couldn'texplain and I really didn't fully
understand for a long time.
The holidays would comecreeping in, even though I could
see them coming on the calendar.
I could see that November wascoming, December was coming, and
this buildup event anxietywould just.
Just kind of hit me.
(05:08):
And I wasn't really aware ofit except later in life.
I started to kind of track itand pay more attention to it.
And especially as I wentthrough my awakening and my healing,
I really understood it.
But what would happen was asNovember came around the corner,
I would start having morefights with my husband, coming up
(05:30):
with these really ridiculoustopics of discussion that ended in
a fight.
And I knew that they would,and they were really ridiculous things
just to get the agitation out.
So I was feeling agitated onthe inside because the holidays were
coming, all this anxiety wasbuilding up.
(05:53):
So in order to try and diffuseit, I would try and make him feel
as agitated as I did.
And it just would go on and onand on throughout the entire holiday
period until finally theholidays were over and I could take
a deep breath, step down fromthat antagonistic pedestal, and just
(06:17):
be done with it.
And it took me a long time tounderstand, number one, that I was
doing this, also why it washappening and also what to do about
it.
So that's what we're going totalk about here tonight.
But those of us who did nothave a happy upbringing or a happy
childhood are full of turmoil.
(06:41):
Sometimes, especially if itwas around the holidays, this turmoil,
even if we're not aware of it,can tend to come out around this
holiday period because this iswhen happy families get together.
And if you're not from a happyfamily, then it tends to trigger
(07:01):
you a little bit and you getagitated and you don't even know
why you're agitated.
It's triggering those memoriesinside of you that you may not even
know are uncomfortable orpainful or.
Or sad.
You may not even understandthat cognitively, but your subconscious,
(07:25):
your ego and your soul istrying to get your attention around
it and get you to heal it sothat you don't feel this way anymore.
But we don't typicallyunderstand that.
When it comes out to me, Idescribe it as an eczema on the inside
of my skin.
(07:45):
Doesn't that sound awful?
That's what it kind of felt like.
Like you could.
You can't scratch it, but it'sgot to be scratched because that's
the only way that makes itstop itching.
Right?
So it was this, this constantdigging from the inside that made
me feel so awful that it hadto come out.
(08:09):
And, and, and it wasn't happyunless it made other people around
me feel just as uncomfortable.
And I know there's some familymembers that would agree with that,
and my husband would probablyagree with that, maybe even some
friends of mine that wouldagree with that because they had
been the target of this purgeon one occasion or more.
(08:33):
But.
But the reason this happened, the.
The reason this was so deeplyingrained in me was because of my
childhood.
So I'm share a little bitabout that.
So you understand, becausesometimes our childhoods are not
something that we rememberclearly, Especially those who try
(08:54):
and remember only the good parts.
Like, I didn't have that luxury.
I remembered all of it.
But some of us have.
Are really good at blockingout those parts of our memory that
we don't like.
And so this can really sneakup on you.
And you may have this, thissense of overall anxiety around the
(09:16):
holidays, but you may notunderstand why.
So this might be helpful foryou to understand.
But my childhood was very strange.
And if you've read my book,you already know this, but my father
was a preacher, yet we had noholiday tradition whatsoever.
We went to everyone else'shouse for the holidays.
(09:38):
So for Thanksgiving, we wentto my mother's mother, my mother's
family.
For Christmas, we went to mydad's family.
So we didn't have our owntradition at all for the holidays
because we never spent timewith us over the holidays.
And the other complicatingfactor to that was that for some
(10:00):
reason, my father didn't wantme to be focused on receiving gifts.
So he wouldn't let me give anygifts, and he wouldn't let me receive
gifts.
So if I went to other people'sChristmas, I had to watch them open
their Christmas presents, andI didn't get any.
(10:22):
And I had to see how joyousand excited and happy they were and
embracing in each other's joy.
And I just had to sit thereand watch.
So that was very traumatic fora child.
And I guess I didn't actuallyrealize how deeply traumatic that
(10:44):
was until I was writing my book.
And I really didn't understandwhy that was his approach because
that made no sense to me.
I didn't learn how to give andI didn't learn how to receive.
So it's quite harmful for achild to not know how to do that.
So it.
That's what created so muchangst in me having to go forward
(11:09):
into my adulthood around theholidays, because that made me feel
so uncomfortable, number one,not having the skills and the tools
that I needed to fullyexperience the holidays with giving
and receiving, but also having.
Oh, shoot, was my other point.
I just lost it.
(11:31):
There was two points there.
Maybe it'll come back.
But anyway, so that.
That was kind of my story.
And it took me a long time tounderstand that I didn't get to experience
joy.
I had to watch everyone elseexperience their joy.
So that set up a lot ofresentment for my family.
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And so naturally, I didn'twant to be with them for the holidays.
And when I got older, I beganto avoid the holidays.
So I didn't even want to hangout with them.
If I had a choice, I wouldjust take off or I would go be with
my friends and.
And watch them have abeautiful holiday.
Like.
Like I always wanted to, youknow, Kind of just made me a little
(12:16):
bit jealous, too.
But I began to rely on my dogswhen I could.
You know, if.
If I could use them as anexcuse to not interact during the
holidays, then that's what I did.
That's what they're good for, right?
I mean, because they love usno matter what.
In one year, I especiallyremember, I think I was 19, I was
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in college, and I was supposedto spend Thanksgiving with my dad
and my stepmother and my stepsisters.
And I was going to make apiece of pump apple pie and I messed
it, the crust up horribly.
And I was so frustrated withmyself that having this frustration
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on top of the normal angst ofthe holiday was just a little too
much.
And I just exploded.
I decided I didn't want to bethere at all for the holiday.
I packed up all.
All my things and I packed upmy dog.
And actually it was Christmas.
I don't know what holiday.
I said it was Christmas.
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So it was really cold, and mydog and I went to the Ozark National
Forest and We spent three daysthere, camping in a tent in the cold,
and I woke up every nightbeing covered in frost, and my dog
was covered in frost, and hemust have thought I was crazy.
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But I would rather be thatuncomfortable than to spend the holiday
with my family.
That's how bad it was.
So that's what I want to tryand avoid for you guys.
And what's.
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What's important to understandbehind this is that there's always
a deeper meaning behind ourdiscomfort, our anger, our bitterness,
or our disgust.
You know, there's always adeeper meaning behind it, and that's
what I learned through myhealing and through my transition,
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my transformation that thecanine guides helped me with.
And when you feel theseemotions, what they are, are invitations
to heal.
The emotions are attracting you.
They're showing you what needsto be healed so that you can feel
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that joy.
And it's just a trigger.
All of these activities, theholidays, whatever it may be, it
may be a birthday, might besomething completely, completely
different from a celebration.
Whatever triggers you andbrings up these emotions, these lower
vibrational emotions, the.
The fear, the anger, thebitterness, the anxiety, anything
(15:19):
that makes you feeluncomfortable, anything that makes
you feel anything other thanlove and joy is a lower vibrational
frequency.
So anytime these frequenciesare activated in you, agitated, in
you, then it's an invitationto heal.
And once I figured that outand I began to heal everything that
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triggered that response, Ididn't have that response anymore,
and I didn't feel that way anymore.
And all of those memories werehealed, and it didn't matter.
I could go to the holidays,and I could feel joy, and I could
give and I could receive.
Despite my training inchildhood, I was able to do it now
(16:03):
as an adult.
So there is hope, There is anability for you to reclaim your holidays.
And that's what the canineguides want to teach you tonight.
That's what they want to offeryou tonight.
Anybody interested inparticipating in receiving.
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A.
Downloaded frequency that willhelp you let all that go, not feel
it anymore, and just be ableto tune in to that higher frequency
of joy.
How's that sound?
So the biggest part for methrough my transition was being able
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to understand the bigger picture.
And now I understand why Ifelt the way I felt.
I understand where Iunderstood where it came from, and
I understood what to do about it.
And that's what I got out ofthe healing with the canine spirit
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guides.
And if you're interested indoing your own healing, I'll give
you some information in alittle bit.
Okay?
But this because this is agroup event, we're going to be channeling
in a.
What they call a patchwork.
That's what they called it.
Some.
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We're going to do somepatchwork because we're not going
to be full on healing youtonight because there's just not
enough opportunity with thisbeing a group event.
What the guides are going todo is a.
Is a patchwork to help yourise above it and forget about it
(17:57):
and just enjoy sharing thespace with your family.
Regardless of the history,regardless of what you have to learn
from it, regardless of whatyou need to heal, they're going to
give you a patch so that youcan experience just the joy of the
holiday, despite all the other stuff.
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Okay, so it's kind of likelast time we offered a hall pass.
Well, this time they're goingto give you a patch, so that's kind
of cool.
So this is what they're saying.
This, this.
They're going to gift you ashield that will temporarily prevent
you from being affected byothers or hurt by other people's
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presence, memories, comments,or actions.
Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?
And it will allow you to feelmore joy about the holidays and show
you how you would feel if you are.
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If you healed this part of yourself.
So if you actually healed theparts of you that are calling to
you through these negativeexperiences or negative emotions,
then this is how you would feel.
So it's kind of like givingyou a preview.
Yeah, like a.
(19:22):
Like letting you taste thedessert before you have your meal.
That would be kind of cool,wouldn't it?
That's pretty exciting, isn't it?
Anybody here have issues withtheir family that they would love
to just leapfrog over and justlike it never even existed and just
(19:42):
have like a perfect familyscenario for the holidays?
That would be pretty exciting,wouldn't it?
I know a couple years ago thatwould have been exciting for me.
And just remember that this isa group event.
So this isn't.
This isn't geared specificallyto anyone in the group.
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It's kind of a.
An overall effect.
If we were doing this one onone, obviously it would be more specific
to.
In your individual needs.
So if you're interested inthat type of healing, then that would
be something that we could doin a private session.
But we can talk about thatafter on the other side.
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Thank you for joining me today.
The healing session for thisepisode with the canine spirit guides
is now available exclusivelythrough my subscriber portal on substack.
These energetic downloads aresacred transmissions.
And by Moving them to adedicated space, I can connect more
intentionally with those ofyou who feel called to receive them.
(20:52):
It also helps helps me get toknow you a little better so that
I can more effectively serveand support this growing community.
If you'd like to access thehealing frequencies of this episode's
Canine Spirit Guide and futuretransmissions, just head over to
mysubstack@heatherleestrom.substack.com and
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become a subscriber.
Whether you join us there orsimply tune in here, the Canine Spirit
Guides and I are so gratefulto share this path with you.
And be sure to stay putbecause there might be more coming
on this podcast.
That was quick and easy.
Wow, that was really cool.
Did anybody feel that?
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Can anybody see their shields?
That's really cool.
How they went downward.
And the reasoning behind thatwas to drive your own inner thoughts,
your own negativity downwardinto Mother Earth.
She's going to hold that for you.
Isn't that nice?
(21:55):
That's really cool.
Oh, I forgot to show you apicture of my dog that I escaped
to the Ozark National Forest with.
This is Nick.
He's in my book.
He.
Oscar worked with him to tryand help me through many, many, many
years of my life.
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He has a very long andcomplicated story, so if you've read
my book, you know what hisstory is.
But he is just such a special dog.
I could not have done itwithout him.
No way.
You'll have to see what kindof impact that shield serves you.
(22:37):
If you don't have issues withyour family, it might help you in
other ways.
Like the whole mass transitthing that, that they just told me
right before we got done.
That was really cool.
Okay.
It's been wonderful.
Thank you for joining me andCanine Spirit Guides.
The Healing Power of Man'sBest Friend by Heather Lee Strom.
(23:01):
We've always suspected dogsare magical angels from from God.
In this groundbreaking book,you'll discover the specific divine
gifts our canine companionsreally possess as they facilitate
our healing, elevate ourawareness and expand our consciousness.
Man's Best Friend has theirown spirit guides, which is why they
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appear in our lives just whenwe need them most.
This award winning book,Canine Spirit Guides the Healing
Power of Man's Best Friend byHeather Lee Strom is available on
Amazon.com andheatherleestrom.com get your copy
today and begin your journey.
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