August 12, 2025 • 25 mins
How do you maintain a positive mindset when the world feels like it's falling apart? This question, sent by a listener navigating global conflicts and political turmoil, opens the door to a profound spiritual perspective on processing collective tragedy without losing your inner peace.
The collective energy surrounding our planet absorbs the emotional responses of humanity, creating a shared energetic field that particularly affects empaths. When you wake feeling inexplicably sad or drained despite your personal circumstances being fine, you might be tapping into this collective consciousness. Learning to protect yourself isn't about disconnecting from world events, but rather implementing practical energetic boundaries through grounding practices, gratitude rituals, and conscious energy shielding that allows you to remain present without being consumed.
Beyond energy protection lies a more challenging spiritual perspective: the understanding that souls choose their experiences—even the difficult ones—for growth and evolution. While this view doesn't diminish suffering or suggest we shouldn't help others, it offers a framework for trusting that there's purpose behind even the most devastating circumstances. Our role becomes supporting others through their challenges rather than trying to rescue them from necessary lessons.
This generation stands at a pivotal point, tasked with healing generational trauma and toxic patterns passed through family lineages. The narcissistic parent who couldn't show love properly was likely raised without proper love themselves; the family tradition of silence may have begun generations ago when speaking freely was dangerous. Understanding this context allows us to break chains with compassion rather than perpetuating cycles of blame. By recognizing how our most painful experiences have shaped our strength and resilience, we can trust our soul's journey and find peace amidst chaos.
What challenges are you currently facing that might be part of your soul's greater plan? Share your thoughts in the comments and remember: you are capable of handling whatever comes your way.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We're going to go really deep today on empower
your soul, as there was anamazing question that somebody
sent me on Instagram about howdo I deal with the state of the
world right now, like how do Imaintain my positive mindset
with everything that's going on,and this really got me thinking
(00:21):
, and so I'm hoping that thisepisode allowed you an entirely
new perspective on the world, onyou, on your own healing, and I
am just going to give a PSA.
I am not going to say it amillion times, but I will likely
sound a little bit like anasshole in this session today.
(00:44):
In this I want to say thisreading I don't know why I want
to say this reading in thispodcast today, so advanced
apologies.
I realize that what I'm sayinghas a ton of complexity and
nuances to it, and so I'm justgoing to give that flat out
disclaimer that my intention forthis is positive and light and
loving.
However, it's probably notgoing to come out like this a
lot of the time, because thereality of earth is the reality
(01:06):
of earth and it's a painfulplace here, so let's talk about
it.
So, in particular, the questionthat was asked was related to,
you know, the situation withIsrael and Gaza, the situation
with the president, like allthese different things where the
world is, you know, going downlike a hell in a handbasket
right hell in a handbasket rightand so it was a really good,
(01:27):
genuine question about how do Ikeep my vibes high while I am
surrounded by things that areextremely depressing, that I
can't control, that we are inand feeling the energy of from a
collective, and it's a reallygood question, and so
energetically.
(01:47):
I guess there's two ways that Ican approach this, and when I
answer this question, I'm notgoing to just talk about the
situations that werespecifically asked in the
political climate right now, butalso, it is all right, I'll
shut off my ding.
Here we go.
But it is also this, anythingnegative or low vibration that
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happens to you.
Why did it happen to you?
Why me, why now?
Or, like the people that arearound you, why would it happen
to them?
And how do I maintain thisneutral perspective and all of
that?
And so, as we kind of talk intothis, I'm going to talk about
energy and vibration, but thenI'm going to also talk about
perspectives, because I thinkthere's two different ways to
look at this.
(02:30):
So, from an energy and avibration perspective, know that
we all exist as souls here onplanet Earth.
Planet Earth has its owncollective energy.
I know you've heard hopefullyyou have of the Schumann
resonance which is essentiallythe heartbeat of Mother Earth.
But also from a collectiveenergy perspective, there is
collective energy that we allput out, all of us as souls on
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this level, and think of it as,like it all goes up to this
energetic fog that kind ofcircles the planet and we all
kind of feel it.
I mean that's the really,really basic, rudimentary way of
explaining it, really basic,rudimentary way of explaining it
.
And so when there are horriblethings that happen in the world,
that collective vibration isgoing to reflect whether or not
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you know we're paying attentionto or what is going on in the
world.
Because if, because we are aglobal world, right with full
transparency, hopefully, intowhat's going on in the world and
there's news and there's TikTokand all world and there's news
and there's TikTok and all ofthese social media platforms
that are showcasing everythingthat's going on in the world, so
if you're tapped into what'sgoing on in the world, obviously
your energy and your reactionto that is going to impact the
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collective energy.
So, needless to say, thecollective energy is not that
great right now.
Okay, it's just not that great.
So, as a result, the vibrationof the collective energy is
probably a little more lowerthan normal, which would be more
negative than normal, which isfine, right.
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And so if you are an empath andyou're picking up on those
energies, you're going to beimpacted by it and you're going
to wake up feeling tired andfeeling groggy and feeling like
sad for no reason, or feelinglike depressed or sluggish for
no reason, even though in yourlife, when you look around,
there's nothing that would causethat.
But because you're an empathand you're clearly attuned to
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these collective energies, itmight drag you down.
Okay, and so for me, as a soul,I make sure to essentially
protect my energy and make surethat I'm keeping out the
collective energy, and I can forthe most part because I don't I
don't watch this, so it's, it'sout of sight, out of mind.
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If I don't watch the newsgenerally, I don't feel the
energy of it, right.
If I am waking up and I'mhaving a bad day, or if I'm not
feeling myself, then I will justground and center my energy and
put my protection on so thatI'm not tapped into that
collective energy.
I will purposely do things thatstep me out of and protect me
from that collective energy sothat I'm not influenced by it so
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energetically.
That's how I not let it affectme on a daily basis.
Is I purposely do things thatare in the present moment.
I bring my energy to thepresent moment.
I will spend time outside toground my energy.
I will be great gratitude right.
I will keep my vibration highenough and my energy protected
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enough that it doesn't influenceme.
That is essentially how Ienergetically like shield myself
, so to speak.
I don't again.
The caveat here is that I don'tactively need to constantly be
on the defensive because I'm onthe offensive.
Like I push out the energy thatdoesn't serve me.
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I don't let it in to begin with, and so I don't have to
consciously do that because myvibration is so high it doesn't
bother me.
Does that make sense?
I hope it does, as I talk tonobody but my face on the screen
.
Does that make sense To me?
It does so energetically.
That's how I did that.
I know I talked about energy acouple podcast episodes ago.
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I'm not going to go there, butthe other way that, I think, is
the more asshole perspective ofthis is, again perspective,
right, it is the perspective ofwhat I remind myself of, and
this is how I get to sleep atnight, every night is that,
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regardless of the situation andagain disclaimer I said up front
applies here we choose ourlives here.
We choose them knowing what'sgoing to happen, knowing certain
things are going to go downthat are not very pleasant.
We know that.
You know we choose lives thatare we're homeless, where we're
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hungry, where we're born intofamine right.
We choose lives where we areborn into war, where we know
we're going to go into the armyright, we choose our lives here.
We choose our parents, wechoose the paths, etc.
Okay, I haven't been convincedotherwise yet.
I'm sorry.
Maybe maybe you feel otherwise.
That's fine.
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I haven't been convincedotherwise yet.
Maybe that will change in thefuture.
But I do think that we chooseour lives here and we choose the
paths and we know what's goingto happen to us before we come
here.
Then that slate is wiped cleanand we don't know what's going
to happen to us, and so there'salways this perspective of why
me, why, why this?
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Why is there war in the middleeast?
Why are all these horriblethings happening?
Why would we choose to comehere and and live through the
reduction of female rights inthe united like?
Like?
I don't pretend to know why onearth these things happen, but I
trust that there is a biggerand deeper plan at play and I
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trust that our souls are sosmart and so bright and so
brilliant that I trust whateverthey have decided to walk into
in this meat suit, in thisphysical world.
I trust that they knowinglymade that decision and I trust
that they made the rightdecision for them.
Now, it doesn't mean that Idon't feel bad about the
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circumstances people have beenplaced in.
It doesn't mean that I don'tfeel sadness or want to help the
people that are going throughwar and genocide and famine,
because I absolutely do but also, at the same time, I have to
trust that these souls chosethis for a reason that I might
not understand.
Maybe and I'm just going totoss out some hypotheticals
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maybe they chose it becausetheir soul used to be the
aggressor that would kill people, and now they are choosing to
be on the Palestinian side ofthings, the Gaza side of things,
where they're deciding to playthe opposite role, because they
need to learn that perspective.
Maybe these are souls who knowthat this conflict may lead to
greater peace in the future andthey volunteered to help become
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victims, to help the greatergood of what's to come right.
Maybe they've chosen to come inas orphans I don't know why.
I want to say this, knowingthat they would be forever sad
about not knowing or being lovedby their birth parents, but
knowing that they've had abetter opportunity and they know
they need to overcome thatinternal struggle to begin with,
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that internal struggle of notfeeling loved, that being given
away right.
Maybe that's a lesson thatsomebody needs to learn to
progress the knowledge of theirsoul, the evolution of their
soul, of their soul, theevolution of their soul and so
like.
For me, this is a really simpleanswer of I don't understand it
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, but I trust that spirit andsouls make the right decisions
when they come here and theyknow what they are walking into.
And this is partnered up withwhat I have said repeatedly to
people in the past week thatit's not my job to take away
people's lessons.
So, even though I feel freakinghorrible for some of these
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people right, for populations ofpeople, for individuals in my
life that have gone through helland back.
Even though I feel for them andI want to help them, I also
know that they chose that for areason and that they need to go
through that and they need tolearn from it and overcome it
ding for a reason, and so I'llbe there to support them.
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And I'll be there to help themwhen they need help.
And if they reach out and say Ineed someone to lift me up, I
need kindness, I need love, youknow, if someone's going through
a tough time from the loss of asibling, I'll, you know, show
up with some wine and somecheese and say let's talk.
Right, but they're still theones that have to go through and
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process it and I can be thereto support them in whatever way
they need help with.
But they have to do the work andso I've learned I can't take
away people's lessons, but Iknow what I do as a soul here in
this world is that I providethose different perspectives for
people.
I remind people that your soulchose this, knowing you would be
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successful, knowing you wouldovercome this.
So let's talk about what you'regoing through and why.
That is a blessing and not acurse, and I know that sounds
like spiritual sugarcoating,maybe it's like spiritual
psychosis to think that there'sa positive silver lining for
everything that horrible thathappens in the world.
But again, there's so much wedon't know.
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There's so much we don't knowhere in the physical world.
So I will not pretend or judgepeople's choices, but I will be
there to support them inwhatever choices they've made
and help them in whatever waysthey're asking for help to move
through it, but I will not dothe work for them.
And so, when this comes topersonal growth and spirit wants
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me to go to the personal growthperspective this means that you
have been born.
Maybe you have been born withintoxic family lineages.
Okay, like I'm sorry.
Who hasn't born within toxicfamily lineages?
Okay, like I'm sorry.
Who hasn't right?
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We all have bones in ourclosets, every single one of us,
right, and they're nothing tobe ashamed of.
But we are born with our ownhorrible experiences and or born
to families that have impartedhorrible experiences or energies
or patterns or beliefs onto us.
And so I fully believe that thisgeneration that exists today
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you, me, our kids, right?
Other people who are slowlywaking up, one at a time, slowly
waking up one at a time we arehere to hit the proverbial reset
button, to heal what's brokenand release the chains of the
burdens that came before us,whether it is past lives,
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whether it's family lineage,whether it's current lives and
things that have happened, andcome into further alignment with
our souls.
Because if we think that we'regoing to ascend the earth to 5D
if you believe that or not,right if you think that we're
going to ascend the earth to 5Din the same patterns and beliefs
that exist in 3D, you'rekidding yourself, right, like
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you got another thing coming toyou.
It doesn't make sense.
And so for us to embrace thenext level of human evolution,
the next level of, you know,unconditional love and hopefully
, healing and community andhelping one another and like all
of, probably the socialistideals, without the government
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bullshit that goes along with it, you know, like being a true
village and a true communityacross the world that is helpful
and kind and loving.
We have to become helpful andkind and loving ourselves.
We have to live that ideal tobecome that ideal.
And I'll tell you what none ofthe generations before us, or at
least none of that I've known.
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I'm jealous.
If you've had it, oh, it's inmy husband's family.
Most of them are loving andgenerous and kind.
My personal family I have a lotto undo right.
They didn't know how tofunction that way.
They were brought up undertoxic dynamics that have gone
back for generations, and so alot of this is stopping the
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blame and stopping thesepatterns.
But you can't stop thesepatterns by coming at them
angrily and fighting them anddoing the opposite of what the
generation before us has done.
You have to come into lovingacceptance with the patterns,
behaviors, beliefs, activitiesthat have allowed you and your
ancestors to thrive in thecircumstances they grew up in,
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because at some point beingvulnerable would get you killed.
Right, world War II, germany.
You can't be vulnerable.
You can't talk, right.
I've had clients where we'vetalked about.
Their family from generationsago were bootleggers and it was
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their livelihood and that's whatallowed the bills to get paid
and money in the pockets andallowed the survival of the
family.
But as a result, the familylearned not to talk Don't talk
to anybody.
The family learned to isolateand these are the patterns that
have been sent down through thegenerations to the current
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client that I had that didn'tfeel safe to talk, that didn't
feel safe to be vulnerable andI'm like well, it didn't start
with you.
Here's where it started and atthe time it was really valuable
for the family and it was verybeneficial for the family.
But you don't need to carrythat burden anymore.
You don't need to live likethat anymore.
You don't need to be quiet tobe safe.
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But we can't get mad at thesepatterns.
We can't say they're bad, wecan't say they're negative, we
can't.
We can't, like point the fingerat our ancestors and say shame,
shame, ancestors.
We can't do that because theydid the best with what they had.
And instead it's rewriting thenarrative, I want to say from a
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Christ consciousness perspective, because that's popping up in
my head, but truly from anunconditional, loving
perspective that allows us tosay you tried your best.
I'm going to release thosechains from you for you, because
I know you had no other choiceand you did exactly what you
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needed to to survive.
And some of the most horriblethings that people do on this
planet are because they lacklove, because they lack being
seen, because they lack theability to use their voice, to
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speak up, to feel love, theylack the ability to let love in
Right, and so a lot of thedysfunction that exists in the
world.
How many male?
I'm going to go there.
I'm going to go there.
Oh, how many male leaders arethere in the world right now?
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And how are they solving it?
From a male perspective?
With guns and war and fightingand black and white and your
side versus my side, and I'mright and you're wrong, right,
and where does that come from?
That comes from not beingfucking loved as a child, right?
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Like, why would we need to putdown other people if we weren't
stable and secure in ourselves?
Like, think about bullies inhigh school.
Right, think about bullies.
These were always the kids atleast in my experience that came
from broken, fucking homes thatdidn't have love, that had to
get out that feeling of feelingbetter, because that's how they
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showed themselves love.
Right?
Maybe that's how theirdysfunctional parent showed them
love, as if they were the bestof the best.
Then they would shower themwith love.
So you've learned to equatebehaviors with love.
I know I could go on and on andgive so many different examples
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I won't, so really, the wayforward is to meet every
dysfunction, every shitty asssituation, and look at it and
say where was love missing?
What was missing here?
Why was this a blessing and nota curse?
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How can we take this negativeand honest to God like, turn it
into a positive story from ourancestors, from our parents?
Because as much as I talk aboutmy narcissistic mom on here I
love you, mom, if you'relistening You're still a pain in
my ass, though my narcissisticmom on here I love you, mom, if
you're listening You're still apain in my ass, though.
She wasn't shown the love sheneeded as a child from her
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mother, who was alsonarcissistic, and so she coped
the best way that she knew how,and in turn, she showed me love
the way that she knew how togive love.
Could she have learned adifferent way?
Sure, but her nervous systemwas completely fucking shot, so
she couldn't find a differentway to show love because she had
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never been shown what emotionalor love maturity looks like,
and so she did the best withwhat she could.
Right, and this is what I'mtalking about.
It doesn't mean that I have toright, and this is what I'm
talking about.
It doesn't mean that I have to.
I love you, mom, accept thebehaviors and the things that
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she said to me or done to me,but I also know that she didn't
make those choices from a lovingperspective, and I know from
her soul she would have chosendifferently if she had the
ability to in this life, and shejust didn't have the ability to
.
And so I have to love her forwho she is and I have to love
her for that path that she hasinstilled on me, because it's
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made me who I am today.
I wouldn't be who I am todaywithout my mother being that way
.
I wouldn't have pushed againstthe grain of literally
everything in my life and proveneverybody wrong my entire life
to show up here and tell youthat you're fucking awesome and
that you don't need anyone else,because I've done it myself.
And if my mom wasn't the way shewas, I wouldn't be the way that
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.
I am telling you that you canbe the same way.
You can be bulletproof too.
You can be Teflon.
Nothing can bother you.
You are complete and whole asyou are.
You don't need that externalvalidation or love or worthiness
, because it's all in you.
And so, again, it's taking thefucking lemons that life gives
us and figuring out what was thelesson in that, where was the
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silver lining and how has thishelped me on the path that my
soul has chosen for me in thislifetime, knowing that my soul
chose this lifetime for a reasonand that exactly what I should
be going through and learning isexactly what I'm going through
and learning, no more, no less.
I trust my soul and myspiritual team inherently that
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whatever comes my way, I will beable to handle it and it is
always for my highest and bestgood, even if it doesn't feel
like it here in the physicalworld.
So, yeah, I guess that's myreally long answer to how do I
sleep at night is I trust thereis such a bigger plan that I
cannot even begin to understandand I will help people who
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spirit sends my way to help Givethat perspective, and then I
will push them out of the nestand say go forth and be so.
Yeah, I don't know.
Hopefully that gives youinsight into my crazy mind and
why I think the way that I thinkand why sometimes I sound like
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an insensitive asshole a lot ofthe times, because I don't
pretend to know any better.
I don't pretend to know theintricacies of the universe and
the web and how things impacteach other, and I'm not going to
pretend that I think that Iknow better than your guides or
your soul's plan, because whereyou're supposed to be is exactly
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where you're supposed to be.
So there you go.
I'm going to leave it there.
Hopefully this episode madesense and I didn't go too far
down the rabbit hole, but yeah,that's kind of how I sleep at
night.
If you have questions orthoughts or reactions to this, I
would love.
I would love it, because Iliterally put my whole heart on
my sleeve for you all here.
But I am sending you all thelove and I want you to know that
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you are one resilient, badassbitch or person.
If you're a male or be bitch,that's fine too, and I know that
you are capable of anything andeverything that you set your
mind to, and I believe thateverything that you've gone
through has made you yoursuperhero self that you are
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today, and it will continue toserve you as you go forward into
this amazing journey in yourepics meat suit here on planet
earth.
All right, I love you, takecare.
We're going to go really deep today on empower
your soul, as there was anamazing question that somebody
sent me on Instagram about howdo I deal with the state of the
world right now, like how do Imaintain my positive mindset
with everything that's going on,and this really got me thinking
(00:21):
, and so I'm hoping that thisepisode allowed you an entirely
new perspective on the world, onyou, on your own healing, and I
am just going to give a PSA.
I am not going to say it amillion times, but I will likely
sound a little bit like anasshole in this session today.
(00:44):
In this I want to say thisreading I don't know why I want
to say this reading in thispodcast today, so advanced
apologies.
I realize that what I'm sayinghas a ton of complexity and
nuances to it, and so I'm justgoing to give that flat out
disclaimer that my intention forthis is positive and light and
loving.
However, it's probably notgoing to come out like this a
lot of the time, because thereality of earth is the reality
(01:06):
of earth and it's a painfulplace here, so let's talk about
it.
So, in particular, the questionthat was asked was related to,
you know, the situation withIsrael and Gaza, the situation
with the president, like allthese different things where the
world is, you know, going downlike a hell in a handbasket
right hell in a handbasket rightand so it was a really good,
(01:27):
genuine question about how do Ikeep my vibes high while I am
surrounded by things that areextremely depressing, that I
can't control, that we are inand feeling the energy of from a
collective, and it's a reallygood question, and so
energetically.
(01:47):
I guess there's two ways that Ican approach this, and when I
answer this question, I'm notgoing to just talk about the
situations that werespecifically asked in the
political climate right now, butalso, it is all right, I'll
shut off my ding.
Here we go.
But it is also this, anythingnegative or low vibration that
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happens to you.
Why did it happen to you?
Why me, why now?
Or, like the people that arearound you, why would it happen
to them?
And how do I maintain thisneutral perspective and all of
that?
And so, as we kind of talk intothis, I'm going to talk about
energy and vibration, but thenI'm going to also talk about
perspectives, because I thinkthere's two different ways to
look at this.
(02:30):
So, from an energy and avibration perspective, know that
we all exist as souls here onplanet Earth.
Planet Earth has its owncollective energy.
I know you've heard hopefullyyou have of the Schumann
resonance which is essentiallythe heartbeat of Mother Earth.
But also from a collectiveenergy perspective, there is
collective energy that we allput out, all of us as souls on
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this level, and think of it as,like it all goes up to this
energetic fog that kind ofcircles the planet and we all
kind of feel it.
I mean that's the really,really basic, rudimentary way of
explaining it, really basic,rudimentary way of explaining it
.
And so when there are horriblethings that happen in the world,
that collective vibration isgoing to reflect whether or not
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you know we're paying attentionto or what is going on in the
world.
Because if, because we are aglobal world, right with full
transparency, hopefully, intowhat's going on in the world and
there's news and there's TikTokand all world and there's news
and there's TikTok and all ofthese social media platforms
that are showcasing everythingthat's going on in the world, so
if you're tapped into what'sgoing on in the world, obviously
your energy and your reactionto that is going to impact the
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collective energy.
So, needless to say, thecollective energy is not that
great right now.
Okay, it's just not that great.
So, as a result, the vibrationof the collective energy is
probably a little more lowerthan normal, which would be more
negative than normal, which isfine, right.
(03:57):
And so if you are an empath andyou're picking up on those
energies, you're going to beimpacted by it and you're going
to wake up feeling tired andfeeling groggy and feeling like
sad for no reason, or feelinglike depressed or sluggish for
no reason, even though in yourlife, when you look around,
there's nothing that would causethat.
But because you're an empathand you're clearly attuned to
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these collective energies, itmight drag you down.
Okay, and so for me, as a soul,I make sure to essentially
protect my energy and make surethat I'm keeping out the
collective energy, and I can forthe most part because I don't I
don't watch this, so it's, it'sout of sight, out of mind.
(04:39):
If I don't watch the newsgenerally, I don't feel the
energy of it, right.
If I am waking up and I'mhaving a bad day, or if I'm not
feeling myself, then I will justground and center my energy and
put my protection on so thatI'm not tapped into that
collective energy.
I will purposely do things thatstep me out of and protect me
from that collective energy sothat I'm not influenced by it so
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energetically.
That's how I not let it affectme on a daily basis.
Is I purposely do things thatare in the present moment.
I bring my energy to thepresent moment.
I will spend time outside toground my energy.
I will be great gratitude right.
I will keep my vibration highenough and my energy protected
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enough that it doesn't influenceme.
That is essentially how Ienergetically like shield myself
, so to speak.
I don't again.
The caveat here is that I don'tactively need to constantly be
on the defensive because I'm onthe offensive.
Like I push out the energy thatdoesn't serve me.
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I don't let it in to begin with, and so I don't have to
consciously do that because myvibration is so high it doesn't
bother me.
Does that make sense?
I hope it does, as I talk tonobody but my face on the screen
.
Does that make sense To me?
It does so energetically.
That's how I did that.
I know I talked about energy acouple podcast episodes ago.
(06:07):
I'm not going to go there, butthe other way that, I think, is
the more asshole perspective ofthis is, again perspective,
right, it is the perspective ofwhat I remind myself of, and
this is how I get to sleep atnight, every night is that,
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regardless of the situation andagain disclaimer I said up front
applies here we choose ourlives here.
We choose them knowing what'sgoing to happen, knowing certain
things are going to go downthat are not very pleasant.
We know that.
You know we choose lives thatare we're homeless, where we're
(06:51):
hungry, where we're born intofamine right.
We choose lives where we areborn into war, where we know
we're going to go into the armyright, we choose our lives here.
We choose our parents, wechoose the paths, etc.
Okay, I haven't been convincedotherwise yet.
I'm sorry.
Maybe maybe you feel otherwise.
That's fine.
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I haven't been convincedotherwise yet.
Maybe that will change in thefuture.
But I do think that we chooseour lives here and we choose the
paths and we know what's goingto happen to us before we come
here.
Then that slate is wiped cleanand we don't know what's going
to happen to us, and so there'salways this perspective of why
me, why, why this?
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Why is there war in the middleeast?
Why are all these horriblethings happening?
Why would we choose to comehere and and live through the
reduction of female rights inthe united like?
Like?
I don't pretend to know why onearth these things happen, but I
trust that there is a biggerand deeper plan at play and I
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trust that our souls are sosmart and so bright and so
brilliant that I trust whateverthey have decided to walk into
in this meat suit, in thisphysical world.
I trust that they knowinglymade that decision and I trust
that they made the rightdecision for them.
Now, it doesn't mean that Idon't feel bad about the
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circumstances people have beenplaced in.
It doesn't mean that I don'tfeel sadness or want to help the
people that are going throughwar and genocide and famine,
because I absolutely do but also, at the same time, I have to
trust that these souls chosethis for a reason that I might
not understand.
Maybe and I'm just going totoss out some hypotheticals
(08:38):
maybe they chose it becausetheir soul used to be the
aggressor that would kill people, and now they are choosing to
be on the Palestinian side ofthings, the Gaza side of things,
where they're deciding to playthe opposite role, because they
need to learn that perspective.
Maybe these are souls who knowthat this conflict may lead to
greater peace in the future andthey volunteered to help become
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victims, to help the greatergood of what's to come right.
Maybe they've chosen to come inas orphans I don't know why.
I want to say this, knowingthat they would be forever sad
about not knowing or being lovedby their birth parents, but
knowing that they've had abetter opportunity and they know
they need to overcome thatinternal struggle to begin with,
(09:22):
that internal struggle of notfeeling loved, that being given
away right.
Maybe that's a lesson thatsomebody needs to learn to
progress the knowledge of theirsoul, the evolution of their
soul, of their soul, theevolution of their soul and so
like.
For me, this is a really simpleanswer of I don't understand it
(09:43):
, but I trust that spirit andsouls make the right decisions
when they come here and theyknow what they are walking into.
And this is partnered up withwhat I have said repeatedly to
people in the past week thatit's not my job to take away
people's lessons.
So, even though I feel freakinghorrible for some of these
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people right, for populations ofpeople, for individuals in my
life that have gone through helland back.
Even though I feel for them andI want to help them, I also
know that they chose that for areason and that they need to go
through that and they need tolearn from it and overcome it
ding for a reason, and so I'llbe there to support them.
(10:30):
And I'll be there to help themwhen they need help.
And if they reach out and say Ineed someone to lift me up, I
need kindness, I need love, youknow, if someone's going through
a tough time from the loss of asibling, I'll, you know, show
up with some wine and somecheese and say let's talk.
Right, but they're still theones that have to go through and
(10:50):
process it and I can be thereto support them in whatever way
they need help with.
But they have to do the work andso I've learned I can't take
away people's lessons, but Iknow what I do as a soul here in
this world is that I providethose different perspectives for
people.
I remind people that your soulchose this, knowing you would be
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successful, knowing you wouldovercome this.
So let's talk about what you'regoing through and why.
That is a blessing and not acurse, and I know that sounds
like spiritual sugarcoating,maybe it's like spiritual
psychosis to think that there'sa positive silver lining for
everything that horrible thathappens in the world.
But again, there's so much wedon't know.
(11:35):
There's so much we don't knowhere in the physical world.
So I will not pretend or judgepeople's choices, but I will be
there to support them inwhatever choices they've made
and help them in whatever waysthey're asking for help to move
through it, but I will not dothe work for them.
And so, when this comes topersonal growth and spirit wants
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me to go to the personal growthperspective this means that you
have been born.
Maybe you have been born withintoxic family lineages.
Okay, like I'm sorry.
Who hasn't born within toxicfamily lineages?
Okay, like I'm sorry.
Who hasn't right?
(12:21):
We all have bones in ourclosets, every single one of us,
right, and they're nothing tobe ashamed of.
But we are born with our ownhorrible experiences and or born
to families that have impartedhorrible experiences or energies
or patterns or beliefs onto us.
And so I fully believe that thisgeneration that exists today
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you, me, our kids, right?
Other people who are slowlywaking up, one at a time, slowly
waking up one at a time we arehere to hit the proverbial reset
button, to heal what's brokenand release the chains of the
burdens that came before us,whether it is past lives,
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whether it's family lineage,whether it's current lives and
things that have happened, andcome into further alignment with
our souls.
Because if we think that we'regoing to ascend the earth to 5D
if you believe that or not,right if you think that we're
going to ascend the earth to 5Din the same patterns and beliefs
that exist in 3D, you'rekidding yourself, right, like
(13:34):
you got another thing coming toyou.
It doesn't make sense.
And so for us to embrace thenext level of human evolution,
the next level of, you know,unconditional love and hopefully
, healing and community andhelping one another and like all
of, probably the socialistideals, without the government
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bullshit that goes along with it, you know, like being a true
village and a true communityacross the world that is helpful
and kind and loving.
We have to become helpful andkind and loving ourselves.
We have to live that ideal tobecome that ideal.
And I'll tell you what none ofthe generations before us, or at
least none of that I've known.
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I'm jealous.
If you've had it, oh, it's inmy husband's family.
Most of them are loving andgenerous and kind.
My personal family I have a lotto undo right.
They didn't know how tofunction that way.
They were brought up undertoxic dynamics that have gone
back for generations, and so alot of this is stopping the
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blame and stopping thesepatterns.
But you can't stop thesepatterns by coming at them
angrily and fighting them anddoing the opposite of what the
generation before us has done.
You have to come into lovingacceptance with the patterns,
behaviors, beliefs, activitiesthat have allowed you and your
ancestors to thrive in thecircumstances they grew up in,
(15:07):
because at some point beingvulnerable would get you killed.
Right, world War II, germany.
You can't be vulnerable.
You can't talk, right.
I've had clients where we'vetalked about.
Their family from generationsago were bootleggers and it was
(15:28):
their livelihood and that's whatallowed the bills to get paid
and money in the pockets andallowed the survival of the
family.
But as a result, the familylearned not to talk Don't talk
to anybody.
The family learned to isolateand these are the patterns that
have been sent down through thegenerations to the current
(15:48):
client that I had that didn'tfeel safe to talk, that didn't
feel safe to be vulnerable andI'm like well, it didn't start
with you.
Here's where it started and atthe time it was really valuable
for the family and it was verybeneficial for the family.
But you don't need to carrythat burden anymore.
You don't need to live likethat anymore.
You don't need to be quiet tobe safe.
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But we can't get mad at thesepatterns.
We can't say they're bad, wecan't say they're negative, we
can't.
We can't, like point the fingerat our ancestors and say shame,
shame, ancestors.
We can't do that because theydid the best with what they had.
And instead it's rewriting thenarrative, I want to say from a
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Christ consciousness perspective, because that's popping up in
my head, but truly from anunconditional, loving
perspective that allows us tosay you tried your best.
I'm going to release thosechains from you for you, because
I know you had no other choiceand you did exactly what you
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needed to to survive.
And some of the most horriblethings that people do on this
planet are because they lacklove, because they lack being
seen, because they lack theability to use their voice, to
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speak up, to feel love, theylack the ability to let love in
Right, and so a lot of thedysfunction that exists in the
world.
How many male?
I'm going to go there.
I'm going to go there.
Oh, how many male leaders arethere in the world right now?
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And how are they solving it?
From a male perspective?
With guns and war and fightingand black and white and your
side versus my side, and I'mright and you're wrong, right,
and where does that come from?
That comes from not beingfucking loved as a child, right?
(18:00):
Like, why would we need to putdown other people if we weren't
stable and secure in ourselves?
Like, think about bullies inhigh school.
Right, think about bullies.
These were always the kids atleast in my experience that came
from broken, fucking homes thatdidn't have love, that had to
get out that feeling of feelingbetter, because that's how they
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showed themselves love.
Right?
Maybe that's how theirdysfunctional parent showed them
love, as if they were the bestof the best.
Then they would shower themwith love.
So you've learned to equatebehaviors with love.
I know I could go on and on andgive so many different examples
(18:44):
I won't, so really, the wayforward is to meet every
dysfunction, every shitty asssituation, and look at it and
say where was love missing?
What was missing here?
Why was this a blessing and nota curse?
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How can we take this negativeand honest to God like, turn it
into a positive story from ourancestors, from our parents?
Because as much as I talk aboutmy narcissistic mom on here I
love you, mom, if you'relistening You're still a pain in
my ass, though my narcissisticmom on here I love you, mom, if
you're listening You're still apain in my ass, though.
She wasn't shown the love sheneeded as a child from her
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mother, who was alsonarcissistic, and so she coped
the best way that she knew how,and in turn, she showed me love
the way that she knew how togive love.
Could she have learned adifferent way?
Sure, but her nervous systemwas completely fucking shot, so
she couldn't find a differentway to show love because she had
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never been shown what emotionalor love maturity looks like,
and so she did the best withwhat she could.
Right, and this is what I'mtalking about.
It doesn't mean that I have toright, and this is what I'm
talking about.
It doesn't mean that I have to.
I love you, mom, accept thebehaviors and the things that
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she said to me or done to me,but I also know that she didn't
make those choices from a lovingperspective, and I know from
her soul she would have chosendifferently if she had the
ability to in this life, and shejust didn't have the ability to
.
And so I have to love her forwho she is and I have to love
her for that path that she hasinstilled on me, because it's
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made me who I am today.
I wouldn't be who I am todaywithout my mother being that way
.
I wouldn't have pushed againstthe grain of literally
everything in my life and proveneverybody wrong my entire life
to show up here and tell youthat you're fucking awesome and
that you don't need anyone else,because I've done it myself.
And if my mom wasn't the way shewas, I wouldn't be the way that
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.
I am telling you that you canbe the same way.
You can be bulletproof too.
You can be Teflon.
Nothing can bother you.
You are complete and whole asyou are.
You don't need that externalvalidation or love or worthiness
, because it's all in you.
And so, again, it's taking thefucking lemons that life gives
us and figuring out what was thelesson in that, where was the
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silver lining and how has thishelped me on the path that my
soul has chosen for me in thislifetime, knowing that my soul
chose this lifetime for a reasonand that exactly what I should
be going through and learning isexactly what I'm going through
and learning, no more, no less.
I trust my soul and myspiritual team inherently that
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whatever comes my way, I will beable to handle it and it is
always for my highest and bestgood, even if it doesn't feel
like it here in the physicalworld.
So, yeah, I guess that's myreally long answer to how do I
sleep at night is I trust thereis such a bigger plan that I
cannot even begin to understandand I will help people who
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spirit sends my way to help Givethat perspective, and then I
will push them out of the nestand say go forth and be so.
Yeah, I don't know.
Hopefully that gives youinsight into my crazy mind and
why I think the way that I thinkand why sometimes I sound like
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an insensitive asshole a lot ofthe times, because I don't
pretend to know any better.
I don't pretend to know theintricacies of the universe and
the web and how things impacteach other, and I'm not going to
pretend that I think that Iknow better than your guides or
your soul's plan, because whereyou're supposed to be is exactly
(22:55):
where you're supposed to be.
So there you go.
I'm going to leave it there.
Hopefully this episode madesense and I didn't go too far
down the rabbit hole, but yeah,that's kind of how I sleep at
night.
If you have questions orthoughts or reactions to this, I
would love.
I would love it, because Iliterally put my whole heart on
my sleeve for you all here.
But I am sending you all thelove and I want you to know that
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you are one resilient, badassbitch or person.
If you're a male or be bitch,that's fine too, and I know that
you are capable of anything andeverything that you set your
mind to, and I believe thateverything that you've gone
through has made you yoursuperhero self that you are
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today, and it will continue toserve you as you go forward into
this amazing journey in yourepics meat suit here on planet
earth.
All right, I love you, takecare.
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