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MARIA @THEFEMMECAST (00:00):
Hey guys,
what is up?
Welcome back to the show.
I'm so excited and grateful tohave you here.
Welcome if you're new.
A while ago, I did a specialseries on some of the tools and
techniques for, you know, movingthrough the storms in life,
right Weathering the storms,moving through difficult times,
moving through chaos, change,transformation, upheaval
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Sometimes that is way beyond ourcontrol.
I wanted to take that a littlebit deeper this time, because
I'm actually moving through astorm right now as we speak.
It is not my first storm.
It will not be my last.
Okay, I do believe that as wemove through our healing,
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evolution and transformation,the storms come.
They present themselves as anopportunity for us to evolve and
grow.
And I do believe that withoutthese storms that come into,
they shape us, they mold us,they help us to purge what we no
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longer need, they help us tosee what patterns, what
behaviors or beliefs we're readyto let go of.
They're literally transformingus at a DNA level when we move
through these storms, and theworst thing that we can do is,
you know, fight them, resistthem, fix and over process
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mentally.
You know, it's literally analchemist, an alchemical process
of feeling the experience,allowing it to move through you
and asking yourself how is thishere to help you evolve?
Who is it helping you to become?
What is it that you need toheal, let go of, learn, do
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differently, believe differently.
What's outdated, like there'sso many things that you know get
transformed from thesedifficult moments in our lives.
You know, a diamond is, youknow, created under enormous
pressure, and I do believe thatthat's what these storms that
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you know sometimes life justbrings to the table are here for
.
And I think one of the mosttoxic beliefs that I've actually
heard out in the spiritualcommunity and the personal
development community is oh well, you know, if it's happening to
you, then you know, obviouslyyou attracted it.
So if you attracted a negativeexperience sometime, then
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obviously you're feelingsomething negative.
Yes and no right.
Like, yes, there's something inyou that needs to be healed.
Like, yes, there's something inyou that needs to be healed,
and that's why this storm, thischaos, this upheaval, has kind
of shown up for you.
Of course, yes, like, I mean,that's a given.
But instead of making it meanthat you're bad or you're wrong,
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or you've done something wrongor you're not good enough, which
is oftentimes how a lot ofthese messages tend to land.
We get to look at this as okay.
Well, how is this here for me?
How is this asking me to evolve?
How is this asking me to healsomething within myself and come
out better, stronger, moreevolved on the other side and we
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don't always get it right, wedon't.
You know, sometimes it's hit ormiss.
Sometimes, you know, two stepsforward, 10 steps back.
There's no linear timeline whenit comes to your healing, but
it is important to move throughthese storms and see the
blessing in these.
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After I had gone through youknow my heartbreak era, which
I've talked about a lot, youknow a lot of lying, a lot of
cheating, a lot of manipulation,gaslighting, just a lot of
emotional abuse and toxicrelationship dynamics and I went
, you know, I started on my youknow whole self-love era and I
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went to Asia for six months andyou know the first few months I
was there.
Well, the first month I wasthere, I basically did nothing
because I was terrified.
So it took me a few weeks tojust kind of get acclimated.
So, you know, I spent my firstfew weeks in northern Thailand,
in Chiang Mai.
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My first few weeks in NorthernThailand and Chiang Mai, um
slowly got my sea legs and mytravel legs on and slowly
started to get out there and andand you know, live this
experience that I'd been, youknow, longing for for so long.
But you know, when I got there,I was literally like a hamster
and, like you know, when you letthe hamster you know that's
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experiment you keep a hamster ina cage long enough, then you
let it out of his cage and it'sstill walking within like like I
don't know, a 12 inch radius.
That was me right when I firstgot there.
But slowly and surely I startedto kind of step out of my
comfort zone and I started to goout and I started to do things
and then, a month after I hadarrived, I decided to go to Bali
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, where I had been before, andso I didn't have to do a lot of
sightseeing when I was therebecause I had kind of been there
, done that.
I just wanted to go and kind ofloaf by the beach in my
favorite spot in Bali, and justkind of loaf for as long as I
could.
And I kid you not, like I wasthere for four weeks, I would
have been there longer but theuniverse kind of stepped in and
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said no, you're leaving.
And the reason why I think thatthis, this was, it was all just
such a divine design, you know,and this was really, it was
really the birthplace ofemotional energetics was this
trip.
And so, like I really want toillustrate how important
sometimes, these difficultmoments and periods and seasons
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in our lives can shape us andmold us in ways that we've never
dreamed possible.
So, like I said before in aprevious episode and I've said
it a thousand times I knew I wasmeant to go on this trip.
I didn't know why and I didn'tknow what was waiting for me on
the other side.
I just knew it was importantfor me to go and so, anyway.
So I get to Bali, and you know,suddenly, like I'm making all
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these new friends, we'repartying till dawn, I've met all
these amazing people, I'mdating a shit ton of guys again,
even though I promised myself Iwasn't going to do this.
And you know, like it just felt, like you know, it was on for
like four weeks that I was thereand I was like, oh my God,
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that's it.
I'm going to stay, I'm going tospend the rest of my like five
months here, or six, four months, however, months.
I had left at that time.
I'm like, I'm not leaving, I'mjust going to stay in Bali.
Sure enough, my visa.
There was apparently twodifferent kinds of visas that
you can get when you land.
One of them is easilyextendable, the other one is not
.
I had the one that was noteasily extendable, so I was
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basically forced to leave Baliand then, and then, you know, I
had the option to come back andget another visa when I returned
.
So a lot of people would dothat they would go away for the
weekend and then they would kindof come back and they would
extend their visas.
But for whatever reason, I kindof felt like my time there was
done, even though I didn't wantit to be done, and I was crying
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as I was leaving and I was justhaving like the biggest freaking
tantrum because I was havingsuch a good time there.
But you know, there I was backon a five-hour flight back to
Thailand, but this time I wasgoing to stay in the South and I
guess maybe the reason why Ididn't go back is because there
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was so much for me to see and doin the South and you know, all
these beautiful beaches andamazing food.
And I was like, okay, you knowall these beautiful beaches and
amazing food.
And I was like, hey, you knowwhat?
Let me just see what this hasfor me.
Um, and I did meet some amazingpeople and I started to meet
some amazing friends and I did ameditation retreat, my second
one, while I was there.
Um, it was actually a shit show.
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That's actually a story for awhole other day.
But anyway, we ended up runningaway from that meditation
retreat.
Um, it was bad.
It was so bad.
It was not the Land of Smilesmeditation retreat that you read
about online, that's for sure.
So, you know, long story short,you know, I was kind of like
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bumping through the South andkind of going, you know, hopping
from island to island andhomestay to homestay.
And then I met up with theseamazing friends when we left the
meditation retreat and wereally clicked.
And it was so funny because inthe meditation retreat we were
like, you know, we were forcedto be silent, obviously, for the
nine days or 10 days that wewere there.
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Again, we didn't stay for thefull duration of the meditation
stay, but the whole time.
We're like passing notes to oneanother, right, so we had
actually, and then we would goback to our rooms and we would
kind of, like you know, whisperand share snacks because we
weren't supposed to eat after,like I think it was 11 am in the
morning every day.
Anyway, long story short, webecame really close and then we
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all ran away together and wejust started beach hopping
together.
So we went to this amazing beach, just kind of on the I think it
was the east coast of KohPhangan, and you know, I always
my rule for travel is alwaysthis always ask the locals where
to go, because they know thespots that the you know, the
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tour guides and the LonelyPlanet sometimes just don't know
right.
So we went to this amazingbeach that this local family
recommended for us.
We had the best time.
It was, it was, it was a bit itwas, it was.
It was really really reallyremote.
Like the only two ways to getthere were jungle Jeep or, sorry
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, mountain side jungle Jeep orwhat's it called, um long tail
boat from the Harbor.
So there's no, like there's noregular roads to actually get to
the spot that we were in.
So, anyways, um, we stayedthere for a few days.
It was great, we were having agreat time.
But then, um, the other twogirls that I was with had to
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kind of make their way back tothe Harbor because they were um
kind of going to like the Northof the island, I think, or they
were going across to anotherisland.
I needed to get back to themainland but I couldn't because
the boats in the mainland hadbeen cut off due to rough waters
.
There was like a storm thatcame in a couple of weeks prior.
So you can only kind of staylike you can only move around
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between these like two or threeislands that were really close
to one another.
There was no boats going backto the mainland at this point.
So we were kind of stuck right,we couldn't go anywhere, and so
I didn't want to go to theisland that they were going to
and I didn't want to stay kindof in town in the resort that we
were staying at.
It was just, it was too, it wasjust too touristy for me and I
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just kind of wanted to.
You know, I kind of wanted tobe with the beach bums, right.
So we went there, we spent anight or two there and then I
ended up going back to where wewere staying.
I we had met some friends therethat were amazing.
I totally was crushing on thisguy who I was hoping was still
there.
Anyway, I get back to this placeguys gone, friends are gone.
Suddenly I'm here on thisremote beach in the middle of
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fucking nowhere, I know, no one.
I am trying to make friends butfor some reason this time
around it's feeling a littletricky, so I'm feeling very
isolated on this beach.
The sea has, you know, gonefrom.
You know, maybe like three orfour foot waves, to now what
we're looking at is like six oreight foot waves.
I mean, it's now.
It's now like like full onstormy waters and at night they
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would get really high.
We're talking like maybe like12 or 12 foot waves, which is
really high for Thailand.
Um, bali, okay, yeah, you seethis, but not in Thailand and
certainly not at the place whereI was staying.
Um, so we're kind of stuck onthis beach.
Um, it's been raining, so thethe jungle Jeep is it's hard to
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get onto, the boats are notcoming, um, and so I'm stuck and
, you know, the harder I try tomake friends, the more awkward
it starts to feel, the morealone I actually start to
believe that I am and the roomthat I was staying at was no
longer available, so I had tostay at this other room, which
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was crazy expensive.
It was actually a cabin for afamily, not just like one person
, but it was this beautifulcabin and I still remember it
had.
It was so, if you can imagine,it was like a long, it was a
sandy beach cove, but then therewas rocks and cliffs on either
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side.
So this cabin and these rocksare like I'm talking like
ginormous boulders, okay, likeliterally like lining the
coastline.
This cabin was built on one ofthese boulders so you can
actually see the formation ofthe boulder and the and the
cliffs within the cabin.
They kind of built it aroundthe boulder and the cabin cabin,
uh, the, the cliffs, um, sothere's like trees in my cabin,
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there's like the side of a rockin my cabin and the cabin's kind
of built around it and it'sbeautiful, breathtaking bathroom
, beautiful like wooden terracewith like a hammock right over
the boulder and then the sea isliterally crashing into, like on
the rocks where the cabin isbuilt on.
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So it was beautiful during theday.
So I kind of spent some timethere and I was just kind of
journaling and meditating.
You know I was, I was, I wasbecause I had just left a
meditation retreat.
It's funny, like everything wasthis perfect storm Because, you
know, I had run away from mylife and all the pain that was
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there.
I, you know, I had run awayfrom my life and and all the
pain that was there.
I, you know, tried to numb mypain in Bali.
But also, what was unique aboutBali was the toxic patterns
that I was perpetuating and how,uh, you know, didn't matter
where you went or what you didor how far you traveled.
You know your shit comes withyou, your patterns come with you
, your beliefs come with you andthat was really shown to me on
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that trip.
So I had, you know, just ranaway from my life.
I had just seen all my worstpatterns and shadows and demons
and experienced them in Bali,either trying to numb them or
perpetuating them.
Then I go on this meditationretreat and, you know, get
triggered as fuck because it waslike it was just so crazy.
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I have to tell that story onanother episode.
But, you know, because I hadbeen meditating for so many days
, from morning till night, and,you know, eating a really like,
really, really, really cleanplant based diet.
For so long, you know, mychannels were really clear, um,
and my connection to myintuition was like it had never
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been stronger than than thoseweeks following that meditation
retreat.
Um, because, you know,meditating a lot, resting a lot,
um, quieting your thoughts andand not talking too much.
And you know, not beingdistracted by social media and
computers and all these things,right, not being distracted by
social media and computers andall these things, right, because
they took our gadgets away assoon as we arrived and really
only having like a journal toyou know, communicate with
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yourself, right, and then eatingthe super clean plant-based
diet while you're there andactually going through these
long, long drawn out periods ofintermittent fasting.
My channels had never been more, like, more amplified than they
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were in that period where Ifound myself in that cabin.
And then there was that, youknow, there was that perfect
storm of the storm outside andthen the storm of, you know,
wanting to latch on tofriendships or this guy that I
was crushing on, and suddenlyeverybody was gone and I was
just left in that dark cabinalone with the storm going on
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outside, and I couldn't reallygo outside when it got late
because the wave started toliterally crash over the path.
So I was kind of stuck thereLike I couldn't leave.
I couldn't leave my cabin.
It was, you know, quite a waysfrom the cabin next to me and
you know, wi-fi was down at thispoint because the storm was
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getting so bad outside andbecause the waves were getting
so high and this cabin was builton these boulders.
The waves are now crashing onthe boulder and it's sounding
like a bomb is going off.
Every time one of these wavescrashes.
I am petrified, I am starting topanic, I am starting to feel
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all of this stuff out of nowherethat I couldn't explain what
was happening to me and suddenlyI was alone with my thoughts
and my feelings, and I literallyhad no escape.
Not only did I not have anescape, all I had left was the
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memory or the experience of allthe triggers that happened to me
in the days leading up to thistrip and where I found myself in
that moment, and even themonths before I even took this
trip.
Suddenly everything started tobubble to the surface and
everything that I had beenholding beneath the surface for
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so long started to bubble.
And suddenly I start to feelall these emotions that are not
part of this experience that I'mhaving right now, like
physically, right now, in thiscabin.
I could understand fear.
Where was the rage coming from?
Where was the anger coming from?
Where was the anger coming from?
Where was the resentment comingfrom?
Where was all these feelingsthat had nothing to do with this
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moment coming from?
And I had nothing left tosoothe them?
Nothing, there was nothing.
There wasn't a wifi signal,there wasn't um, there wasn't
anybody to communicate to, therewasn't anybody to reach out to,
there wasn't any like substanceto take that would numb it at
this point, other than mycigarettes that I had with me at
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the time, um, which reallyweren't cutting it at this point
, um, and so there I was, and,and every time one of those
waves hit the boulder and I feltthat I heard that explosive
sound of the wave crashing andmy cabin shaking, every emotion
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I felt in my body suddenlyintensified and I was just as a
ball of anger, hate and rage andresentment, and I didn't even
know where it was coming from,and all I could do now was
scream.
I rage screamed for what feltlike hours.
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For hours I screamed, I cried,I sobbed, I tried to get into a
bath.
I screamed and sobbed harder,to the point where I started to
lose my voice and I knew nobodycould hear me and for the first
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time there was this freedom.
Because I think, you know, evenwhen we do this rage work,
sometimes you know and I alwayssay, you know, scream into a
pillow or, you know, let it outlike rage on a page, let it out
and, you know, let it out of you.
But you know, there's alwaysthat part of you that's always
afraid that someone's going tohear you.
There's always that part of youthat's afraid that someone's
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going to pick up and read yourjournal.
One day you don't think whatkind of fucked up person are you
?
But I didn't have that.
It was just no one could hearme and I felt both the danger of
where I was, the trigger ofwhere I was, but also the
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immense freedom to just finallyfucking let it all out and not
have to worry about somebodyhearing me or judging me or
wondering what the fuck is goingon in the room next to them.
You know, because no one couldhear me and there was a
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beautiful fear in that, becauseit's like something happens to
me now nobody would ever know.
I'm like on my own here, butthere was also a deep, sacred
liberation that took place inthat moment, because I had never
been able to just do that, tojust let it out like that and
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not have to worry about scaringsomebody or somebody thinking
that I'm crazy, or you knowfinally being able and I'm
crying now as I think about thismoment, because it's very, it's
now that, as I'm talking aboutit, it's now very visceral in my
body and I can feel it tofinally be able to let out
everything that I had beenholding on to for so long, from
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years of abuse, from years ofemotional manipulation, from
years of, you know, beingfeeling disempowered in all of
my relationships, not being ableto speak my truth, to stand up
for myself, to fully be myself,and to constantly be waiting for
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other people's approval anddoing everything I felt I needed
in order to get that approval,and then only becoming angry and
resentful when I was met withthe exact opposite, always
feeling like I wasn't enough,always feeling like I was being
taken advantage of, alwaysfeeling like I was.
You know and I remember sayingthis so many times you know,
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being treated like I wassomething that someone stepped
in on the way into work one day.
You know it was that kind offeeling and that deep level of
just unworthiness.
All the times that I lovedsomeone and they ghosted me
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without a second thought.
All the times that I gave myheart to somebody only to have
them like, throw, like, justbreak it into a million pieces
by, you know, nonchalantly, justyou know, cheating on me with
someone else, like and and and,literally like blindsiding me
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after all the love and trustthat I put in this person bosses
and and and, and.
You know people at worksexually harassing me and
getting away with it becausethey were in position of power
and I couldn't do anything aboutit, you know, and always
feeling silenced, always feelinglike I didn't have a voice to
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stand up for myself, to say youdon't get to treat me that way.
You know, and every time that Idid do that, the only thing I
was met with was, you know,pushback or retaliation or just
being.
You know being made to feellike.
You know my rage, my anger, mywanting to stand up for myself
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and and set a boundary and andsay, no, you don't get to treat
me that way, was now somehowworse than how they hurt me.
You know there was always thatperception of.
You know I was the bad guy forstanding up for myself.
I was the bad guy for settingthe boundary.
I was the bad guy for saying no, no, no, you don't get to treat
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me this way.
Setting the boundary.
I was the bad guy for saying no, no, no, you don't get to treat
me this way.
You know, rather than lookingat the, you know the emotional
abuse, the cheating, thetwo-timing, the.
You know emotional neglect, oryou know the ghosting, or the
breadcrumbing that I was sayingno to, and even stuff you know
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from childhood, from abuse thatI experienced in daycare to
later.
You know when I was, you know,a teen.
You know all the struggles thatyou know I experienced during
that time, which was verytumultuous time for me.
All of it was now here atpresent and in the room, and now
all these unhealed parts ofmyself are screaming and crying.
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And in that moment was when Idiscovered emotional energetics
and what became evidently clearto me is because I was a people
pleaser and, you know, overgiver, and you know constantly
self-abandoning and, um, youknow, suppressing how, what I
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needed and what I was feeling,um, in order to do the right
thing, do the nice thing, dowhat I think that people needed
me or wanted me to do, or what Ihad to do in order to be loved.
You know I suppressed a lot ofemotion.
A ton of emotion was.
You know, you think it's goneand you laugh throughout your
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day and you giggle and you makejokes and people think that
you're this like, you know, youknow fun person to be around,
but what they don't realize iseverything that you're carrying
beneath the surface of all thatand a lot of.
You know what I was carryingbeneath the surface was a lot of
fucking rage, a lot of rage, alot of hate, anger, resentment
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and pain.
And that stuff doesn't go away.
We think it does because wethink if we're laughing and
we're having a good day and wewake up feeling happy or
grateful that we've somehow letgo of that stuff, and people
always say, you know, you justgot to let it go, you just got
to move past it, you just got tothink positive.
That is actually the worstfucking advice you can give
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somebody who's holding ontoemotional, unprocessed pain,
because the reality is thatstuff just lives inside of you
and it stores up in your bodyand it creates, you know,
there's this, there's, um,there's this thing that we, you
know, we call them the spiritual, spiritual community.
It's called the soul fragment,right, and whenever we
experience something verydifficult and very painful, it
creates a soul fragment which isbasically you know, it's
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basically like a trauma response.
It's like there's a part of youthat's frozen in that
experience.
There's a part of you that'sfrozen in that emotion and is
stuck there.
And what's happening is becauseyour soul, your soul is
hardwired to heal, your soul ishardwired to evolve.
So, when you have these soulfragments that are holding on to
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rage, pain, anger, resentment,hate, hurt, sadness, grief, what
ends up happening is you end upthese soul fragments within you
.
They're all a part of you,they're all a part of who you
are.
What they start to do is theystart to attract people, places
and things into your realitythat are going to trigger them,
so that you can feel them.
Your emotions want to be felt.
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This is a power that has beenhidden from us for centuries.
You guys, your emotions weremeant to be felt.
They were meant to be fullyexperienced and almost birthed
into, into existence, but not uh, how do I put this Like you
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know it's it's not a, it's notsomething that you get, it's not
something that you're creating,it's not something that you're
creating or perpetuating.
I want to make this clearthere's a, there's a.
There's a very powerful whoops,hit my mic.
There's a very powerfuldistinction between feeling your
emotions and allowing them tomove through you and
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perpetuating them.
You know, when we get stuck,sometimes in the discomfort or
we get into the feeling of theemotion, suddenly we make a
story around it, we makeourselves the victim around it,
we start to play the blame gamearound it, we start to make it
believe something, makeourselves believe that, make it
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make believe something, makeourselves believe, make it make
I can't find my words make thatexperience mean something about
who we are and assign a story toit.
Right, and so that's the partthat we want to try and avoid,
right?
That's where we get stuck.
So we're either completelyrepressing it and ignoring it,
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or bypassing it by trying tothink positive, smile and
practice our gratitude, or we'recompletely, um, you know,
raging out, holding onto it,spewing it on our relationships
and our experience around us,making everyone else like,
bleeding over everyone else whodidn't cause that pain, um, and
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creating all this toxicity andturmoil in our lives and in our
relationships.
The path to healing is infeeling these emotions fully and
allowing them to be there andallowing yourself to cry and
move through them andacknowledge them and love them
and appreciate them and thenunderstand why they're present.
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What is it that they're tryingto help you see?
How is it that they're tryingto help you evolve?
What do they wish you wouldhave done differently in that
moment?
And how can you apply that toyour life today?
That's what the emotions arethere for.
And then, once you feel them,and you feel them fully, and you
feel like you have nothing leftto feel, like you've done your
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feeling and you feel complete,then you look at the lesson,
then you look at what they'retrying to teach you.
Then you start to think, okay,how can I apply this to my life
today?
And then you can start to moveinto love and gratitude.
The problem is, we try tobypass all of that emotional
feeling and processing and moveinto love and gratitude, and
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that only ends up storing theemotion somewhere within us
until we get so full that we endup exploding over the people
that we love, and that is notwhat we want and this and we're
going to talk more about this inepisodes to come but when we do
this process, there's analchemical process that happens
at a DNA level that shifts yourvibration and actually creates
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miracles in your life.
But you have to have thecourage to go into the trenches
with everything that you've beenavoiding, so I'm going to leave
that here.
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