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Last week my wife shared a sensitive and emotional story, a transparent tale from childhood to adulthood, outlining abuse and addiction, the effects on oneself and family, with an all-too-familiar ending.
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Allie shared her heartbreaking story in hopes to make a difference.
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This week she's back to pick up the pieces and share a powerful alternative way to heal and build strength and peace.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be.
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What it do, what it hot, diddy-dee-doo.
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Good lo, almighty.
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Am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
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I'm excited to be back this week because, as you heard in the opener, I am not alone this week.
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I am yet again joined by my beautiful bride, but I'm also accompanied by my beautiful little daughter over there.
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Look at her going strong.
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She wanted to party.
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Babe, we thought it was bedtime for the little beautiful one, but she had another idea, didn't she?
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Dia?
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I think you had another idea.
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What are you talking about?
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She heard you.
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You had your headphones on and you were checking your mic and she heard you.
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Yeah, now she's ready to look.
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She's over there staring at me down now.
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It's okay, dia.
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Does Daddy look funny with a headset on, talking into a Mickey food?
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She has to be a part of everything.
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Our little girl has the greatest case of FOMO that there's ever been identified on record.
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Am I right?
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Oh yeah, For sure.
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Well, I want to say a couple of things before we get rocking and rolling today.
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Number one welcome back.
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Thank you.
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I feel like we're setting a streak here.
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We've been going for a few weeks now and it makes my job a lot easier.
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Other than talking to myself, this is quite a bit more enjoyable.
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Number two I want to say thank you for being bold enough to share stories that you might find embarrassing, difficult, heart-wrenching.
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To be so completely transparent and share everything that was happening to you raw and in real time, took an incredible amount of courage and strength.
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An incredible amount of courage and strength, and I'm so proud of you.
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I think that for anybody listening, it should be heard as encouragement that if you are bold enough to share the stuff that you're going through raw and as it happens, as opposed to bottling it up, suppressing your story and your emotions, it's going to speed up your ability to heal.
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It's also going to give you the ability to maybe help somebody else heal, and I know, after all, that we heard last week you absolutely helped other people heal.
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So I want to say thank you for being the courageous woman that you are and you were able to come on here and bare your soul, and it was a all gloves off, just story session that turned into two hours of a heartfelt emotion that I know made a difference, so great job thank you.
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It definitely wasn't, uh, easy turning on the microphone, um and just spilling my heart out, but it was time to just grip it and rip it and take the band-aid right off and share with the people the story, my story, and I think it's important for me to share that.
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That way I can hopefully one day help somebody else.
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And I want to start the podcast off by thanking everyone who took the time to reach out to me and share their condolences, but also open their hearts up and share with me some of their stories.
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I had a few people reach out saying you know, I listened to your podcast, never knew any of the things that you had gone through, because I, too, mask it.
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I don't want my past history to write the story for the rest of my life.
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I want to use it as a stepping stone and I want to move forward and grow bigger.
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But I also want it to be a stepping stone for other people as well, and it was rather brave of these people to reach out to me and share their story as well, and I'm forever grateful that they found comfort in me to reach out, because that's what this whole podcast is about is, hopefully, that we can touch the lives of someone, and I don't care if it's one person or 100 people.
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That one person is enough for me and it has definitely touched some people and I'm super grateful for that.
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Um.
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So that's where I wanted to start this podcast, um, and I know you mentioned that we were going to dig in a little bit deeper on, um, how I've started my healing journey.
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Yeah, I think it's.
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Yeah a few things need to be outlined.
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Number one, going over the fact that you were bold enough to come on here and and share your story.
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As we've said many times before, we can repeat it every single week.
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The name of this podcast is share the struggle.
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We would be hypocritical to not come on here and share the greatest struggle in our everyday lives and I, just like you, turned on record for a very different situation when my dad passed.
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But we did everything raw and in real time, because I feel like that is when the emotion is the most impactful.
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You don't have time to reframe it in your mind, you don't have time to rephrase it and some sugar-coated, filter-fueled just response it is absolutely how your heart feels.
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It's the combination of what your mind is thinking and what your heart is breaking, and you just put it out there, you speak it into existence.
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That, to me, is the first step in healing.
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It allows you to get your story told, to get things off your chest and it'll live on forever for you to always go back to.
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I think it's tremendous for anybody that's going through things, growing through things.
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I highly recommend you save them and get them off your chest immediately, otherwise we suppress our emotions and that's when people end up depressed.
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That's when people end up, you know, battling these things for years, because they didn't just speak it into existence, they didn't just get it out there.
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You know what I mean.
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People hide these emotions and it holds them back, and that's not what we want.
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So I encourage everybody and anybody to speak it as they feel it.
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Number two, to back up what you were just saying, you heard from a great deal of people and I did as well and it revealed stories of people and their background that we never knew, because your journey, your struggle, just as you said, you don't want that to define you, so you haven't shared that with everybody which there's many, many, many more layers to your story and the stuff that you went through.
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We didn't come on here and just pour out every chapter in the book of all the nonsense that you had to deal with in life.
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And that wasn't what the podcast episode was about.
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It was about me getting my story out there to share with you the loss of my mother.
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It was the way, the necessary way to paint the picture, to hopefully draw the emotion from the listener to understand the impact that addiction has.
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Yeah, and I also wanted to shed light on my story, because for me to come on here and just say to you real, raw and honest, my mom committed suicide due to addiction.
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Automatically, that's going to for me, if I was a listener, draw so many red flags and be like, well, why weren't you there for her, why didn't you support her?
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Why didn't you take her to rehab so for me to paint my picture and all that I attempted to do for her?
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You understand that I was there for her in ways that I offered help and support.
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So that was the main reason for me hopping on this podcast and sharing my story, because that's what we've done Anytime we've lost someone very close to us, because this is our way of healing, this is our therapy is hopping on the microphone and explaining to everybody in hopes that we can.
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We have a track record of doing this right in hopes that we can.
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We have a track record of doing this right, we're not singling out somebody's story.
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We have a track record of healing and hoping that people can learn from loss.
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As you were saying, we shared Meme's story on here.
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We shared your uncle's funeral that we went to right.
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I think that was your uncle right.
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Megan's father, so your cousin or I'm not sure how that family scenario breaks down, but we shared that story.
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My brother, Dennis, my father, we talked the entire time through that whole struggle and that journey.
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We talked about Nana.
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Exactly.
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We've talked about Nana, your Nana Peg.
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I shared stories of my grandmother my grandfather, one of my best friends and my brother dealing all those losses two of my brothers.
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We've talked about suicide on here before.
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I've had an episode where the local athletic director took his life.
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We've had conversations about a mutual friend of ours committing suicide.
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We've had multiple conversations, because these are things that we are going through, that we are growing through and that if we share our story through them, people shall find strength.
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If anybody has a problem with that, turn off the podcast, put on your big girl panties, big boy pants, and move the fuck on Like I don't have the patience for it, because this is your story, your struggle, our journey.
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These are the things we've always said and those are the things we will continue to say, even my little daughter's chiming in our little girl is putting her two cents in right now you
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tell us your story.
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But to get back on track here, we've heard from people that shared some of their struggles that we didn't even know they struggled with.
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But to make another layer of amazement on this, we've had people come to you and say, okay, I think I'm ready to share my story.
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Yeah, we've had a bunch of people actually reach out and say they want to be on the podcast.
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That's unbelievable.
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Just because of this one, episode, just because of this one episode.
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Yeah, we have so many people that are reaching out saying I think I need to share my story yeah, that's what this is about absolutely for any backlash dog, shit, bullshit.
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You know back riff you ever get from this.
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Please understand, there's people out there that were moved by your story so much so that they are willing to be transparent and share their stories, some people we've never even met before.
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I was just going to say one of these people we don't even know.
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She listened to the story because a friend of ours, who we only met through you selling merch, reached out to me A little layer of Loud Pod America and she wants to do something on the side as well as being on our podcast and explaining her her story.
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And then she went and shared it with a friend who lost, um, someone very close to her to addiction and it is truly amazing and heartfelt to me to hear these stories that they trust me to share them with me and that they want to share them with, with the listeners and hopes that they can.
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It's it's incredible, absolutely.
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This is all we've ever could have hoped for.
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We are only one week in as of the time that this episode drops.
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Yeah.
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One week has passed and we've already heard from so many people.
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Yep.
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That is what happens when you throw that positive pebble into the ocean, when you start getting that positive ripple, that positive effect that is all you ever hoped for.
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If sharing that story can cause that ripple effect of more people wanting to share their story and we can build some positive momentum more people wanted to share their story and we can build some positive momentum maybe somehow, some way it makes a difference and it changes the direction for someone, for somebody to understand the impact their addiction has, the trickle down effect it has on others and the the unfortunate ending that it has for so many.
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Maybe sharing these stories is a way to curb what's been happening in this country.
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I actually heard from someone who I call Grammy Gale out in Georgia and she's not my real grandma, as you guys know, but she was actually my mom's best friend's mom while we were down in Georgia, okay, and she had seen my post on Instagram and reached out, and she had a hard time reaching out because of reading my post on how I explained everything.
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She was very moved by it in her words and it took her a long time to find the words to write back to me.
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And she is now dealing with her daughter, who was my mom's best friend with addiction Bad in addiction and I asked her to uh please share uh with with her um the the story Um, and I shared with her, uh, my episode and I asked her to please share it, um, and she was going to do just that.
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I haven't heard back, um, but for her to have somebody so close to her her best friend, um committing suicide, dealing with only pray, that that's right.
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Maybe something is that's a, that's such a direct, close layer for somebody to hear that and say, hey, this is my fate, unless I exactly.
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And I can only hope you're right.
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Um, my, my prayers go out to her family, because I know what she's dealing with.
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I know that Grammy Gale is sitting around waiting for that exact same phone call that I got, just like you were, exactly, and I know the pain that she's going through.
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Um, and I know that Grammy Gale has grandchildren, same as my brother.
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Uh, my brother and I, who have our mom, is addicted, uh, was addicted, so, um, I it's very close, like very close, uh, similarities yeah, they grew up together, so correct.
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I'm sure there's a lot of parallels there absolutely, absolutely.
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So.
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I can only hope that grammy gail will share um the story.
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She said she was um, you know, and uh, she explained to me that she is doing the same thing, that I am a very tough love um at a distance but um, you know, cares deeply um and wants to see nothing but the best.
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Um in the end result, uh, not being the same as ours Um, and you know her and I had that conversation where she asked me how I was doing Um, and it's always that question like how are you doing that?
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That comes up after after the loss.
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Um, it's always hard.
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How do you answer it?
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You know, how do you?
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How do you answer it without being disrespectful?
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And this loss is a little bit different for me and and I want to kind of dig into that a little bit I've had a ton of people reach out to me and ask me how I'm doing.
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It's really strange for me to explain this to you and to the listeners, but I'm good, I'm okay and, as hard as that may sound for a lot of people because I'm sure it is the hard part is over.
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The hard part of wondering if she's okay, the hard part of where she is the hard part of that gut-wrenching feeling when an unknown number comes up on your phone and you don't know if that's somebody asking you to come and identify the body.
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So, with those all behind me, I have the ability to heal.
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I have the ability to be free and grow and grow from here.
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I took the opportunity to take an appointment for Reiki shamanic healing on Wednesday, just a couple of days after my mom had taken her own life.
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I've trusted Missy, my Reiki instructor, for many different topics, and this appointment was more important to me.
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It was actually your suggestion.
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I've seen firsthand the power like the effect that it has on you, the ability that it has to help you heal.
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I had no clue what shamanic Reiki was.
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I actually had to Google it so if you're listening.
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Out there the desk Google, if you're listening and you're much like me and you have no clue what my wife's talking about.
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Shamanic Reiki combines the principles of Reiki and shamanism To enhance healing and well-being.
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It focuses on restoring balance, replacing negative energies with love and light and fostering connections with the self, others and the universe.
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Shamanic Reiki incorporates shamanic methods, including herbal remedies, extractions and soul retrievals, alongside Reiki life force energy healing.
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I guess Reiki is a Japanese healing technique that focuses on directing universal life force energy to promote healing and balance, and shamanism is a spiritual practice that taps into the power and wisdom of nature and expanded spiritual realities to support harmony and healing.
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It actually has a thing that breaks down the combination.
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Shamanic Reiki blends these two traditions, drawing upon the strengths of both to create a holistic healing approach.
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I've seen this work wonders for you and I've seen how much you believe in it.
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By the way, you share it with others or encourage people that are dealing with similar things to take advantage of Reiki.
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I have our cards in my car.
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I share with anybody and everyone.
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We've been at the saloon having drinks and I've heard you go on a tangent telling people about it.
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It always becomes an emotional conversation, but I knew that when you came home from work on that Monday, like the amount of hurt and pain that you had, yeah, that you needed to release that and just like you were saying, like the hard part is over, but it brought up that childhood, it brought up your adolescence, it brought up you know the abuse brought up your adolescence.
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It brought up the abuse and neglect.
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All those things came up and then you needed to release that.
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You can't just be walking around with all that.
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So that's why I suggested it, and I was excited that you were basically just all about going to do it.
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For sure, for sure.
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Yeah, no, I definitely am super grateful.
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It was definitely something that I was going to do at some point I didn't know how soon, but it just goes to show that our partnership is very in tune.
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For you to pick up on the fact that I needed that, I shared that with Missy and she was over the moon.
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She made you a whole loaf of sourdough bread homemade, delicious sourdough bread.
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That was a bonus.
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As her gratitude.
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Missy is phenomenal at what she does.
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She has helped me heal tons, tons.
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I can't even begin to explain to you how much healing she's done for me in the last four years that I've been working with her, the amount of work.
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I've explained it a little bit before that you know, going to one Reiki session can be the equivalent of a year or so of be the equivalent of a year or so of standard therapy.
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Um, because, as you were explaining um, shamanic Reiki focuses on uh energy and spirits.
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Um calls on uh animal spirit guides.
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Um also will call on, like your ancestors, uh anyone who can, really who's in the upper world.
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Uh, they can come down and help you and guide you through what you're going through.
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Um, and you have been, uh, you've listened to my sessions.
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I've come home and told you about them and had some some of the things that you brought home and we've talked about them on previous episodes.
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But you would bring up like um, something random and I'd be like, oh my god, that's your grandma's best friend, my grandma's best friend, that's my aunt terry yeah you just talked about, or these little random things and you're.
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We're gonna identify a few of them as you get going here but, there's always something that, like you might pick up on one part of it and then I'll hear something else in it, or you'll come home and be like who's this person?
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Like my mother will know, or like you do some research, and then you're like it's another family member that after some digging you figure out who she is, like what big nana or whatever it was.
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Yeah, people right so um, it's crazy.
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This stuff's definitely not um not made up.
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It's impossible.
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Yeah, there, stuff's definitely not made up.
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It's impossible.
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Yeah, there's definitely been some validations on a ton of opportunities that I've shared with Missy during my healing journey, and that's how I look at this.
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No matter whether it is the death of my mom, my meme, just going through some trauma of my own, mma, just going through some trauma of my own, missy has been there for me, in my corner, always there to guide me in the right direction.
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We go in and we, you know, work on.
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I go in there and I set some intentions and that's what we work on and that's exactly what happened when I reached out to her on Tuesday I think it was tuesday, it was either monday or tuesday, I think tuesday.
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You said it to me and I reached out to her because I went yes, because I went to work I see, yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
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You went to work the next day and then you, then you came home, yeah and you've had two appointments correct.
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But to let this breathe for everybody to understand, I think tonight we just focus on appointment one.
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Yeah, that's fine, and let people think about that and we can kind of set the expectation for appointment number two, so people can kind of digest all of it so that you know we don't.
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Word vomit on you.
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Yeah well, we could talk, for I don't want us to do another two hours, no, so we could talk for a long time on you.
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Yeah Well, we could talk, for I don't want us to do another two hours, so we could talk for a long time, but I think it's super powerful.
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Let's just focus on your first appointment and like your objectives going into that appointment.
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Yeah, absolutely so.
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Going in, I reached out to Missy and I just said listen, I need you more now than ever.
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This is what happened.
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My husband suggested that I make an appointment and I am 110% on board.
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I think now I need you.
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The amount of anger, hurt, disappointment that stemmed from finding out the news of her taking her own life brought back a lot of trauma from my childhood, but I also realized that it brought up trauma from when I lost my grandma who raised me.
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That brought up a lot.
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So I went into my appointment and explained to Missy this is what I'm dealing with.
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I'm dealing with a lot of hurt, I'm dealing with a lot of anger and I want to release this.
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Therefore, I can start the healing process and I can move forward.
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I need to be the best mom that I can be and I can't do that by holding on to this hurt.
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And when you walk into your appointment, that is the stepping stone.
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So you walk in there and you're like, all right, I word vomit on Missy and tell her this is what I'm dealing with, this is what I need to work on.
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These are the harsh words that we need to put on the plate and then at the end we need to come up with new words to rewrite the story, and that's the way that we look at it.
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So anger, hurt and disappointment were the three words, and then you find a statement or a reasoning why those are coming up and the reason for all three of those was I was never good enough and that hurts, that brings up trauma.
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Missy knows my story and she explains to me.
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I think this is going to be us going back to one of your first sessions and we're going to bring up the same topic, and this happens in Reiki a lot.
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You'll see those categories come up in different avenues because you're healing over the time, and so that was the intention was to remove that, remove that story of anger, hurt and that you are not good enough.
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So after we set those, we will.
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She'll lay out some stones and I pick a stone and you just gravitate at least I do to one specific stone and it's that stone that you just look at and it means something to you, like it, doesn't?
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You look at it and you're like that one catches my eye.
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There's a reason for it, reason for it.
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So you just point that out, you hand it to Missy, and then you hold onto the rock and you blow into the rock those hurtful words and that intention, and then what she'll do is you'll lay on the table and she'll start to basically just cleanse the room.
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She asks for the spirits and guides to come in and join us, she opens up the space and then she'll explain what the rock is.
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They don't have labels, they don't mean anything to anyone except for her.
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It's rather interesting because every time I pick a different one, she knows what that rock means and what it's for.
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So the rock that I had chosen was actually for my root chakra, which is located in your stomach area.
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And it's funny because when I chose that rock for this reason and she explains that to me I start to think back.
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All right, this makes sense, because anytime something would come up pertaining to angel, the wonder, the worry, anything like that, I would get an upset stomach, I would get sick, I would get nauseous, that sort of thing.
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That's where you carry it, that's where I'm carrying it.
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So rather interesting that that is how this happens.