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today's question we're going to tackle at the end of the show is going to be how can I begin a sematic approach

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towards my healing we're going to be discussing that and more with our guest today who is Susie Silva now Susie is a

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holistic mental health practitioner who offers holistic mental health support with a sematic approach that focuses on

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healing at the soul level she uses The Healing Arts of sematic movement trauma

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informed yoga chiong meditation breath work art making Forest bathing sound and

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energy healing as well as her personal experiences and practices to support her

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clients in clearing Trauma from the body regulating the nervous system and developing healthier habits to support

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their dreams Ambitions and souls calling today on the show we're going to be discussing a sematic approach towards

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your healing enjoy the show okay Susie welcome to True Hope cast thank you so much for being with us today how are you

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what is going well uh I'm doing really well uh what specifically I would say um taking this

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time to rest and enjoying rest and not feeling guilty about rest during the

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winter season um how are you I'm great thank you very much yeah I think those

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are very important things we need to be thinking about and doing we have a culture that is like rest what is this

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rest business we must stress not rest so yeah having a um a resting practice is

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absolutely essential and we're going to be talking about um a sematic approach to Healing today which you know for a

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lot of people that might be a new New Concept a new topic um I think that they will understand by the time that we're

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done that they actually have the capabilities within them to use their mind use their bodies in ways that can

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very much serve them so I'm excited to share that information and and gain your experience as well and at the end of the

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podcast we're going to be offering some solutions to today's question which is going to be how can I actually begin a

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sematic approach towards healing so I'm excited to get into that and um build up

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towards that at the end of the show but as an introduction would you mind just sharing a little bit about who you are

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and what it is that you do yeah my name is Susie um I offer holistic mental

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health support and this wasn't something that I grew up as a kid being like when

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I grow up I'm going to be a mental health supporter um I knew I would help

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people in some capacity thought I'd be a teacher um but this kind of fell upon me

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after um I experienced

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hospitalization um after bouts and waves of psychosis um or Altered States as I

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like to call them um and received a pretty serious mental health diagnosis

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type 1 bipolar disorder um and so I began a healing

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Journey after hospitalization because I wasn't given any tools to um cope with

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what had happened to understand what had happened to um have a game plan for how

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to heal I was just given really heavy quite toxic um and life-threatening

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medication to heal that was the only thing given to me um by doctors and that

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was it I'm at a follow-up appointment and um I knew I deserved better than

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that so I began to explore um and find

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healing modalities and other ways of healing that weren't reliant on

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medication solely and it was through that process so years of training and

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you know learning and trial and error and you know life experiences as well

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that were thrown at me um I developed all these skills um and decided to share

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my healing practices things that supported me with others um to offer them support and healing after receiving

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any kind of mental health diagnosis um or even just experience a life altering

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um challenge like divorce a death of a loved one

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Co um all these things that um are natural to being a human being and just

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giving them a space where they can really Thrive and give them tools to

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understand where they've been how their experiences have contributed to where

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they are now and how to move forward so in a nutshell beautiful well thank you

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so much for sharing that yeah um the bipolar disorder is something that our company has a very outstanding history

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with you know the company wouldn't exist with without the very devastating

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Tales of it within the within the Stefan family within the founders and it was the you know it was the Empower plus

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that we have now like the the first product that we actually produced was was born out of that diagnosis so we

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have a lot of experience with it and the um I don't know if there's an amazing book that Aon Stringham wrote she's one

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of the daughters of of Anthony it's um it's a really amazing book about her experience with her mother who had by

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disorder and growing up with a with with a mother with with with with it and then experiencing it herself within this

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family like it's a really I mean not only is it just a wild story but she writes so beautifully I'll actually

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share a link with that in in the description below because it's a really beautiful

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um kind of dive into the mind of somebody who is experiencing it with

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somebody that they love like they're one of their primary primary caregivers but also like beginning to experience those

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symptoms yourselves and then they're able to you know find a combination of vitamins and minerals from know very

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hard to get sources that they're able to find and literally reverse significant symptoms in in the matter of days it's a

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wild story but we'll get back to we'll get back to us right now um you spoke

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about your experience with um I think you said that you were given a diagnosis and medication on like session like one

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of seeing seeing a psychiatrist or a doctor why can you tell us a little bit more about your experience with that CU

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we we we've had our experiences you know within the Stefan family and within a lot of people who have you know opted

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for using broadspectrum micronutrients rather than you know

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lithium and these other medications and these cocktails that you know people are kind of just thrown on in a kind of

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gamble to see what works what's been your experience with um like the inadequacies of like the the mental the

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conventional Mental Health Care System MH um it was quite traumatic to be

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completely honest um first just experiencing Altered States and the

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confusion of that but then um being forced into

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hospitalization um and locked up it's essentially like going to prison um

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you're locked away you're not allowed to go outside or at least I wasn't because I didn't smoke so I wasn't allowed to get any fresh air which seems um counter

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smokers were allowed to go outside uh so I regret saying that but yeah so you're

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locked up Cano outside um medication is forced upon you there's no consent um

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there I was you know strapped to a bed at one point tranquilized with I no idea

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um and um yeah witnessing how other people are

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being treated within it the foods that you receive as well like while you're in hospital they're feeding you but it's

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garbage um food that has no nutrients at all um for those that you know have been

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listening to this podcast for some time like understand the importance of eating well and making sure that we're getting

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the right nutrients none of that was covered um essentially I think all of it

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is bad I do not support any um psychiatric hospitals at all all the

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support that I put into are alternative Grassroots companies um like true hope

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that are really trying to make a impact and change in the mental health care

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system because right now there is zero care um I would like to see a future

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where um we can weave in holistic practices new nutrition good food um you

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know these sematic approaches that we'll get into as well and actually have a

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system of care right now that doesn't exist it's this archaic

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medieval system that we're still using and there's so much research coming out

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now explaining how the biomed model is flawed when it comes to um mental health

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and Psychiatry and that it really is doing more harm than more good so that

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is why I do what I do going through the system seeing how broken it is and um

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the inadequacies is really what inspired um the work that I

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do yeah I mean your story is not too dissimilar to ones I've heard before of

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people who who going into these institutions and yeah like you you you during your story there you're talking

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about vitamin deficiency hypoxia you're talking about significant nutrient

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deficiency and stressful trauma on a probably minute basis like how on Earth

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could that be a care setting made me start thinking about the word Healthcare and how kind of laughable that is that

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that's actually that that's the actual terminology that they that they would use to be in a health care setting and I

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think that I I honestly think that if you've not heard the stories like your story and the other stories that we read actually had on the show you wouldn't

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actually believe that that was the that was the situation and it's happening like right now in not in Canada in lots

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of lots of Western established Nations that this is this is the the care that

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people are getting and this is like the lack of understanding and knowledge is quite pitiful in regards to like what we

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do now know about the significant role of community nutrition exercise Sunshine

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all these things are so Paramount so it's actually quite yeah like it's such an an

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medieval Health Care model that is um yeah we we should be embarrassed to

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actually have that as part of our culture but it is but we do have uh we do have companies like ourselves we have

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practicians like yourselves that have been through that experience and who are trying

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to create an alternative for people to be able to to to comea become part of a

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community and learn in an actual caring environment which is very much the opposite of like

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you know what you've experienced and what a lot of other people have experienced as well what do you think like do you think there's anything that

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that conventional setting could do to do like better easily like I think I mean

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to fundamentally change it and to do better we'd have to strip the whole thing down from scratch but in your

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experience of actually being in the facility like is there anything that you think could be done like tomorrow that

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could actually start benefiting those individuals there absolutely I think food nutrition is

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like an easy quick change um implementing um programs within the

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hospital where people can move their bodies where they can go for walks in

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nature um those two are like the first that come to mind that are an easy thing

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that they can start to do um I did have like some of that I guess like movement it

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was one session I was in the hospital for a week and they offered one session and it was like just neck stretches so

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it really didn't do much um it was quite bizarre actually it was like a five

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minute neck stretch and I was like okay that was interesting and being an active

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person I was you know just craving for movement like there wasn't even a gym like you know there could have been a

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gym but you know I guess people can hurt themselves in those areas so maybe that's not the best but like having you

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know yoga or other um body movement practices that would be

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supportive music they just played TV like cable television Non-Stop and it

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was like okay this was part of my paranoia was I thought people were talking to me through a TV and now

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there's just like TVs everywhere that were super loud and just like yeah just

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more disorienting than supportive yeah it sounds like it's it's

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what part of that experience or that story is is healing it's absolutely it's absolutely apart from what getting you

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on Pharmaceuticals which is in my opinion probably one of the the main goals of our healthc care system is to

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get as many people on drugs as possible you know that's a big win for them I guess um and then there's nothing else

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in that What What In There is serving that individual in a long-term basis and I know that there are significant

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financial um restraints let's just say on our

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Healthcare System I don't think that the money that the government's given is distributed in in a responsible manner

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whatsoever it's actually laughable that we have to give them all this tax money and the these Jokers have they get to

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distribute it and put it wherever they want it's absolutely mind-blowing so there's obviously Financial restrictions within that type of a setting but the

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money is not being used properly so yeah it's sound like sound like a very stressful environment the last place

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literally that someone would need to go once they kind hit that Tipping Point where they need to actually you know

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they're needing 24 hours support absolutely I 100% agree with you

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it really is laughable and like I said before like I don't donate to it because

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I don't see it being put to good use um you know there's lots of large campaigns

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um throughout Canada for different mental health hospitals and it's just you know it's just creating more harm so

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I I personally can't support and fund organizations like

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that yeah I'm sure there are places around the world that we don't hear about that are doing things like a lot

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better I I I don't know maybe maybe you know do you know some examples of where of where they're taking an alternative

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route to this or trying things differently I know that's not really a it's not really a thing that happens in

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in a country like Canada or America or even in the UK where I'm from they don't really like to change things up and try

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things differently they don't really like to make the effort or to spend the money to do that also they don't like to

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be like wrong so you got some examples for us yeah there's a place in Florida

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um that has recently opened I don't remember the name of it I saw it on social media and it's a r fight for

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people that are needing to just get away from their life because they're feeling

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overwhelmed and it's a place where they can rest and they can talk to qualified

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um practitioners they can talk to people with lived experience they can um engage in um

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Wellness activities there's you know space for them to just be and to ground and kind

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of find themselves again and that's mostly what people need when they are

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experiencing um Altered States they need somewhere where they can express

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themselves without judgment without um you know without Force without

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confinement um and you know a place where they are actually being taken care

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of fed well um listen to that's what all of us want I honestly feel like a spa day like

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does wonders and obviously that's not accessible for everyone but like the last time I was at a spa I had this

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moment where I looked at my partner I'm like this should be a mental health care

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facility we should bring people here and just get them to relax and regulate their nervous

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systems and then maybe have someone to talk to where they can share what they're going through and maybe find um

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some ways to connect the dots of their experiences because these things that happen don't just happen by accident

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um a lot of things that are left unsaid in the mental health world is how

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much um it's not our fault people who have experienced Altered States

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depression bipolar whatever label they've been given um the label is just a way for people to medicate you it has

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nothing to do with who you are you're not broken um it's our systems that are

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broken we live a lot of people are living with oppression um

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poverty climate crisis um racial Injustice there's so

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many things that are contributing to our um disease

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our overwhelm our Cry for Help um it's

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because things are broken it's not because we're broken we're just sensitive and we take it on and it

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creates this weird mesh of things um so if we don't have the tools to dissect that to look

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at it um objectively and see the big picture then

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it comes out in aggressive ways it comes out in unsupportive ways um and can hurt

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the people around us yeah I really I've really s to come to the conclusion over the last couple of years that the way

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that we conventionally look at pathology disease

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symptoms whatever you want to look at it and then you group that into a box that's a disease

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State um it's really lazy science it's really really lazy um and to try and you

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know you talked about one session diagnosis drugs boom like couldn't like

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the the idea that that's an investigative exploratory experience is just again laughable so I think that

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yeah we've got so many things absolutely so horrifically wrong when it comes to when it comes to medicine and the human

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body and and understanding things I mean you know it's 2024 you think that after you know couple hundred years

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of of you know Medical Practice that we would be pretty healthy and we'd have an

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understanding about like what we should actually do with somebody who's depressed somebody who's anxious somebody who has got like something a

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bit more more serious like you think we kind of had not I don't want to say we figured all these things out but I think

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we' we'd have like a little bit more of an idea than you know getting them getting people on drugs and putting them

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in straight jackets and locking them in doors and you know showing them TV which drives me mad just having it on when I

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go and like I'm trying to go and have a meal with my wife at the pub and there's a sports there sports on there's always

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North American Sports which are rubbish anyway no offense but the distraction is just there yeah it's pretty wild that we

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are so um we're so disabled in regards to like our fundamental structure

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structures that we we pay so much money for every single year to be better and

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to actually flourish our communities and I've got two young kids and it's like it's not it's not going to be any better

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in 30 40 years and if there's an MP that wants to start subsidizing for spa days like I'm totally up for that but yeah

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we'll see but I want to I want to talk about sematics um as a sematic practitioner can you just like maybe

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just give us a little bit of an idea about what does sematic mean yeah sematic just means um of the body or

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relating to the body um the root of Soma so somatic movement really is or

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somatics is just about feeling into the body connecting with Sensations in the

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body um and working with the body to

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heal beautiful yeah I think that um just think a lot of I mean I I I haven't

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practiced in a couple of years but I know I'm actually moved to Canada to to study nutrition and I had a practice for

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5 years and the lack of people's I want to say awareness of their own body was

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quite remarkable even to the point where they were dealing with like de debilitating digestive pain every single

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day and their brain had the ability to kind of like SE sever them here and they

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wouldn't experience any of this and they wouldn't want to have to take the actions to deal with it so the idea that

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we kind of have to re-educate ourselves in regard like what it is to actually have a body and to feel different parts

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of it and to check in with different parts of it and actually have the ability to you know you know I've done

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this meditated a a migraine away meditated pain away in my lower back by actually putting my Awareness on it and

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practicing that and and working through that um so quite clearly the fact that

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we have a very misunderstanding about like what what what sematics is and how

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our mind and our body are are so beautifully and viciously connected that education is very very important so what

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you know when you're talking know as a sematic practitioner what are the like the what's the introductory conversation you

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might have with somebody when they come to see you and you're kind of introd introducing the idea of sematic

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work yeah like like you mentioned so many people are disconnected from their

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body we give so much hierarchy to our heads to our brains and our bodies are

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just as wise hold just as much information and knowledge as our minds

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do um our bodies hold on to a lot of trauma and past

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experiences most of the time when we have pain in the body aches and pains

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they can be tied to an emotion um to a stressor to even something we've been

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thinking about and like you said you've been able to meditate away a headache and it's like where we focus our

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attention that's where the energy goes so using the body using um what the body

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is telling us and creating this dialogue with our body can have

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incredible um effects on us it's a lot of the time the work that I do is around

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nervous system regulation most of us are in disregulation most of us are stuck in

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stress mode we're chronically stressed out um we're locked in the sympathetic

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nervous system that fight ORF flight mode because we don't know how to get

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ourselves back into the parasympathetic that rest digest love and connect mode

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of being when we're locked in the sympathetic we can't connect with others we can't think clearly it's really hard

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for us to um harness creativity and inspiration so stress isn't a bad thing

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I want to you know highlight that as well um we want to be able to experience

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stress but when we're locked in stress we can't regulate it um we can't um

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we're not as adaptable we're not able to make the right Maneuvers we are better

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at stress when we move from the parasympathetic that rest State and then

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know something happens we can go into action mode we can deal with it but then we have to be able to be able to come

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back into um equinity into harmony into

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that rest state of being um and yeah sematics is a way of yeah like I said

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just kind of processing through the body and and a lot of the work that I do we

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do different types of movements specific movements usually repetitive types of

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movements depending on what area of the body we are looking at or wanting to release where there might be a blockage

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it could be emotional blockage that we're moving through it could also be through sound and voice and vocal toning

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using different um sounds that we make and expressions through our voice to

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kind of heal the body from the inside The Voice using our voice creates healing vibrations like our body is like

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an instrument and we can tune our bodies to Whatever frequency we would like um and even with

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voice again The Power of Words and what we're saying and what we're repeating to ourselves um there's so many ways to

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heal the body um and through healing the body we will heal the mind and the mind

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can just take a backseat the mind isn't here to lead the mind is the processor

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of information and traditional Chinese medicine in dawis philosophy there's a

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universal law known as Shan Jing and it shares how the soul is what holds on

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to um information it has the information from

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our past experiences through things that we've witnessed um through our senses

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our heart receives the messages from our soul and then our minds process the

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message from our heart and our heart is in our body um and and with that we can

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then put what our hearts desire we can process it and then we can put it into

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action to move forward in our lives and create um a beautiful world so the mind isn't meant

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to to do really it's just there to process the information we do too much with our mind

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oh for sure and it's um it's so much of our unconscious mind that is really like so significantly in control you are

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talking about you know where where where you put your focus is where you put your energy and I think that so much of our F

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I think we have a significant lack of focus I think so much of so many of us are unconscious for the majority of our

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like conscious day and it actually leads us very quickly to a path of stress or

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fight or flight you know it's like get up check my phone get to work traffic

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all these things are our thoughts our feelings and the things that we do very much leading us very quickly to fight or

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flight rather than you know taking us into a rest and digest state which where we should be for the majority of our day

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we've can totally flipped that on its head and we have a very difficult time being in the present moment I just spoke

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about this on another podcast today actually which is really fascinating that we are so stuck in our subconscious

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past and it's very difficult for us to become present which almost makes it

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impossible for us to Envision and create like a new future where things are unfamiliar it's it's it's territory

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where it's unknown where you can actually create and manifest anything that you want to do whether that's like

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material or not so it's very very interesting that that you bring that up and yeah the the the more that we're

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able to step into that rest and digest nervous system where we're able to connect our mind and our

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body balance everything especially our immune system which is just like getting pumped every single minute of every

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single day with external stimuli that was just the body was never intended to

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engage in and we have to in 2024 we have to make a very conscious deliberate

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present aware effort to get ourselves into that

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rest and digest and that's where like practicians like you come in who are so valuable so important to help people

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relearn an innate skill that we've just like lost to be able to get into that

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mode and you know what's the beauty about it it's free you can do it anywhere and it doesn't take a whole lot

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of time to be able to very much rewire Decades of unhelpful

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unconscious patterns that lead people to a to a to a lifetime of pain and

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suffering and it doesn't doesn't need to be like that yeah beautifully said thanks yeah I

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ramed on a bit there but you you hit when when I hear the when I hear the phrase where you where you put your

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focuses where you put your energy I think Dr Joe and I just get all jacked up and fired up and I love when I love when he gets brought up into the show

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but um can you tell us a little one of your services is trauma informed yoga

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which sounds really interesting so I'd love to learn a little bit more about that and who that

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supports trauma informed yoga supports everyone and anyone just like yoga is supportive for anyone and everyone um

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often when we think of yoga in the west we're like down dog and a yoga flow and

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you know tight pants um but yoga is so much more than that um

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there's like this ancient uh yogic text called The Yoga sutras of panel and pan

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was this teacher and um it's there's eight limbs to yoga um Asana the Fig the

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postures and the physical practice is only one out of the eight limbs and there's other parts to it so there's

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like ethical principles self-discipline meditation um breath

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control um Sade reaching that Union with the Divine and really yoga is Yoga is the

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best Mental Health Care tool there is it is what was my first medicine um natural

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medicine I can say after um being diagnosed and hospitalized I began my

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yoga teacher training and that opened a whole new world for me um yoga really

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helps to unify that connection from mind to body like we talked about with

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sematics getting back into the body but then also connecting soul and that's a

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huge piece that a lot of us are missing is um that connection to something that

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is larger than yourself um it is you you know we are nature I look at it through

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nature I have an earth-based um spiritual uh practice and for me it

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really is about understanding that there is something more and something that is working with

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us not against us and um we just have to be able to tap into it trauma informed

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yoga more specifically is about using the principles of yoga so these eight limbs of yoga and um supporting someone

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who has experienced trauma so again using these practices either it's the

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movements or like breath work uh visualization

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meditations understanding um daily habits and practices that we can be doing um different Health practices

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aretta which is like the sister science of yoga um which is different holistic

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practices like lymphatic drainage dry brushing things like that that can be

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really supportive as well so it's about weaving that in um and and understanding

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how to teach people um these practices who have undergone trauma and how trauma

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is stored in the body so that's more where the um specifity of common formed

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comes into play It's kind of understanding like poly vagal Theory um which is learning how to tone the vegus

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nerve the vus nerve is the longest nerve in the body it um branches out into many

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of our organ systems connected to our diaphragm to our lungs um and how to use

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um yogic practices to help tonify uh the vegus nerve once our vus nerve is well

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nourished and toned you almost look at this nerve like a muscle um so when we have a nice toned Vegas nerve we're much

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more resilient and much more adaptable when it comes to um different stressors

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in our lives and stress and challenges that we're face with so for me having all of this stuff under my belt when

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covid hit I was okay I could adapt really easily um to the changes and I

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was in a terrible relationship at the time so I had lots going on but I was

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able to remain calm essentially and um be quick and sharp with my thinking in

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how to navigate and how to keep going and move forward in life so know that

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these challenges and stressors are going to continue to hit us that's what life

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you know it is I can't you know spiritually bypass and just love and

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light everything to death and there are going to be challenges throughout our lives that we don't see

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coming so having these practices and building ourselves up so we can become

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resilient when things do come our way yeah Yoga Yoga is I mean it's a

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traditional medicine without question it's a medicine we can use today there's absolutely no question about that thousand year old thousands and

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thousands year old practice that um comes from a place of yeah connecting our spirituality our mind our body all

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of it without question somebody who's not done it highly recommend getting into yoga just as

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a just as a way to create a a little bit more of a Sacred Space for yourself to actually create the space to be able to

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start engaging more in that parasympathetic rest or digest nervous system think of it as like a a very

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cheap and easy training way that you're able to actually do that it's very rare that we set aside 5 to 10 minutes for

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ourselves to actually quiet and down and check in with our mind in our body very rarely happens for people even even

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people who are aware that this is even something they can do that can really benefit them you know trying to find the time for that can be difficult for a lot

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of people but once you're able to do it I remember when I started doing yoga and I moved to Victoria and my initial

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thoughts on yoga was like yeah tight pants Lululemon and tight enclosed spaces of

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loads of people like I didn't want to do it but then I did some classes at home I

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just watched some YouTube videos and St myself I was like and the the practice of getting down on the

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mat and moving my body in very deliberate ways it it it brought me into the present moment immediately and it

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got me connected to my to my body so my my brain is thinking about the movements and my body is engaging those movements

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so immediately there I'm starting to connect and then once you get a bit more experienced and I did start go to some

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smaller classes as well to um make sure my form was good and I wanted to you know learn a little bit more and then

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you then you're able to your mind and body gets used to the movements and you can kind of automatically do them I don't know what I'm doing there that's

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like CH but anyway um then you then you can start bringing very deliberate

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breath work into it and then you start like completely reestablishing your like primary and secondary breath muscles and

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you start breathing properly for the first time and then you then it like kind of then it just turns into this

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beautiful meditation and you're talking about the did you say it was eight or nine like type pillars of of yoga

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eight yeah eight um and then you start and they they just they start building on each other and you're just like

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creating this skill set that you're able to engage in kind of like at any point you can get to the mat and you can

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completely change your energy in a matter of minutes and once you kind of

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get once you get to that point where you know it's literally like a a medicine or a supplement that you can take that you

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know is going to affect you oh there's no product out there like it

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absolutely absolutely it really is and like that's one of the pillars is like

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self-discipline um and just showing up for ourselves every day that's when we

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really start to build our soul when we actually are listening to our hearts

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again the messages received from our soul are rely lie in our hearts or rest in our hearts when we are able to

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connect and give space so we can listen to that and then take action on what we

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receive um our life just comes into alignment and again not that

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everything's going to be like rainbows and unicorns but things are going to get easier and things are going to get

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clearer for you um and it it really is a beautiful practice that I hope everyone

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um can explore or at least start reading maybe some yogic text as well just to understand the philosophy behind it if

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you're not ready to move your body or if you are unable to move your body there's

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other ways to practice yeah there's some really cool I've got a 2-year-old and a four-year-old and my four-year-old wakes

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up at like 5:30 6: a.m. ready to climb mountains and and I'm not so one way

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that we we help to kind of tackle that real big burst of energy early in the

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morning is like we will do like a we unfortunately we have to put the TV on but we follow like one of these kids

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Yoga practices it's really really great he gets right right into it he listens

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he's engaged and by the end of it he's like lying like lying down breathing with his eyes closed he wouldn't do that

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if I told him to do it but he'll listen to the colorful picture on the TV but

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it's uh not a perfect environment but it's I think it's a really good way for kids to learn to be able to do that and

40:16

it's clearly works in a very very quick period of time I I'd love to know more

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about your program no more Mind Games would you mind telling us about that M

40:27

yeah so no more Mind Games is a three-month onetoone uh mentorship

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program where I me mentoring individuals who um like I mentioned earlier have

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experienced some kind of lifechanging event that could be a mental health

40:44

crisis Spiritual Awakening spiritual emergency um divorce the death of a

40:51

loved one a career change moving um relocating um anything that is

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challenging um I'm here to support people through it the program itself um

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there's a workbook component to it so we do meet weekly um once a week for 2our

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sessions and with the workbook each week There's a different theme I give I call

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it Soul work so it's instead of homework Soul work for the time between our sessions um so these are different

41:23

activities sometimes they're Journal prompts um things to kind of like consider um the different themes that we

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explore each week are navigating negative selft talk um positive

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cognitive reframing um forgiveness practices radical self

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love ancestral healing inner child healing future self-work um so these are all the

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aspects that so how this sorry let me step back how this program kind of came

41:54

together is I was ready um Spirit actually during one of my own personal

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practices and meditations uh Spirit came to me and was like show people the way

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show people how you healed yourself and I was like I don't know how to do this like yes I have all these tools yes I've

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been teaching yoga and sematics meditation for a long time yes I have my

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own practices that I do for myself but I was like I don't know if I'm ready I don't I don't know what this means like

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what do you mean show people the way and I just kept on getting that call over and over again so this program came

42:30

together and I really took all of the steps and the big aha moments in my

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healing journey I put into this program so that's why we start with navigating negative selft talk was like the very

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first thing that I had to overcome in order to heal um again just

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realizing how much the mind takes over how many things we're doing that are

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unconscious that we've just picked up because we've witnessed it we've heard it we were taught it um that just aren't

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serving us and understanding the ego and and aspects of that so yeah the program

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is a beautiful journey into yourself um and beautiful doesn't necessarily mean

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it's not difficult or challenging because sometimes when we look at these aspects of ourselves a lot can come up

43:23

especially when we're reflecting on past hurts Old Wounds old stories um

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ancestral karmas baggage um these things can yeah they they can be challenging to

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go through but it's worth moving through it in a supportive space um with someone

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who's been through it too and I'm very real with everything that I do things

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that I share um with my community Through My newsletter um on social media

43:53

on um in my programs you know I go through it too I'm not this perfect

43:59

person like I said I've had these lived experiences as well um but I have the tools and this whole program is designed

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to show people that they can heal themselves truly I'm not here to be this

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Guru Master healer um that holds the power because we each as individuals

44:18

hold the power for our own healing for our own well-being for our own um dreams

44:25

to come true really like like you said like we can manifest the life that we

44:30

want to live we have to be able to get a lot of stuff out of the way we have to

44:36

be regulated in our nervous system we have to clear the traum traumatic baggage that we're carrying with us um

44:43

we have to clear it out of our tissues in our body um and it's totally possible

44:50

and yeah this program is is just an empowerment program showing people um how to heal themselves the end of the

44:56

program the last week um the client or whoever is in it is designs their own

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road map based on all of the tools and techniques that they learned throughout the course so when the program ends I

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don't just say bye see you later yeah I get you to have a plan I get the

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individual to create their own healing plan for growth transformation for where

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they want to go in the future um and then you always have the option I offer one-off session as well uh to work with

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me um but yeah going through the program is really where you get to unlock a lot

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of things that you have been holding on to and blocked by that sounds awesome where what

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where's the best place for people to find more information about that and connect with you yeah my website sua.com Susie

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spells silvas sv.com um and I'm sure you'll have it in the show notes as well

45:55

um but yeah my website's the best way you can um on my website you can join my newsletter just to stay in touch with

46:02

upcoming events I offer uh classes workshops um and other types of sessions

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as well I do energetic attachment sessions oneon-one sessions so I'm also on Instagram but to be honest I'm I've

46:16

deleted it off my phone because yeah it wasn't serving me

46:22

and I honestly feel like there are better ways to connect with people um

46:28

and I prefer in person I prefer conversations like these um and yeah I'm

46:33

just kind of recalibrating what Instagram means to me and how or if I want to continue using it going forward

46:39

so you can find me on Instagram feel free to follow me again it's just my name so you can see what I've shared

46:45

there there's lots of great valuable information there if you want to learn more about me and the types of practices

46:50

that I do but I'm just not on it so you won't get any stories or engagement all right wonderful yeah I'll

46:56

make sure the website is in the show note so people can check out more about you and check out your course as well um

47:01

but I'd love to finish off with um discussing the question we asked at

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the top of the show which was how can I begin a um a sematic approach towards my

47:12

healing Journey so do you have any like practical tips that people can take from the show right away that they can

47:18

literally take into their day um yeah I'll share like two

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techniques that are a great thing that you can do at any point throughout your

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day when you need a moment to reset um and just come into presence

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so a fun one that involves the whole body but you can also just do it seated um is shaking so shaking is something

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that you see all the time in nature with animals if uh an animal is being hunted

47:53

and chased down but it doesn't get attacked act or eaten it will run off to a safe space in a bush somewhere and

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just shake and it'll shake off whatever um the stressful charge that they got

48:06

from that experience which put them into fight or flight um and they're safe so now they know they can just shake that

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off and they shake their bodies physically shaking their bodies discharges the stress from the body so

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we can do this as humans um when I teach this in my classes usually it's just like kind of like a bounce and I call it

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a happy baby day cuz yeah just like that you know when like people or like babies hear their favorite songs and they're

48:31

just like oh yeah this song and they just naturally do it they're just like yeah this feels good to my body they just do this like natural little bounce

48:37

so it can be small you can jump around you can shake out your hands you can shake out your head you can create

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sounds like take a breath in like sigh s's good again the

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vibrations are kind of shaking us from the inside and spend about a minute like you can even just set a timer and just

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shake for a minute and then notice how you feel afterwards it's a really great way to quickly discharge stress from the

49:03

body and recalibrate the nervous system awesome um you might bounce straight

49:09

back into the stress mode if you know that's where you're used to um

49:15

functioning so it might take some time to like just be in that parasynthetic more often but try to incorporate some

49:21

shaking into your day maybe first thing in the morning maybe before going to bed

49:26

um another one is just a breathing technique called release breath so this

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is a good way to find pres and just to allow any scattered anxious fearful

49:37

energies just to kind of settle in the body and then ground down into um the

49:43

floor so you can kind of practice along with me we're going to take a full breath in for a count of five through

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the nose hold the breath at the top of the

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inhalation for about a count of five or as long as it's comfortable for

50:00

you and then when you're ready exhale out through the mouth you can let out a sigh or a sound or just

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exhale and do that a few more times deep breath

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in holding the breath as you're holding the breath just feeling the energy coalescing in the heart space all that

50:23

scattered energy is just slowly Gathering all those pieces coming together to create a beautiful

50:30

Mosaic and then as you exhale just feel the energy grounding down moving down

50:35

through the legs down through your feet sending any uncomfortable anxious stressful energies

50:43

down into the ground imagining that you're giving it to Mother Earth she can transmute that energy inhale again deep

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breath in holding the breath breath pausing in

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this linal space the void noticing how you

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feel in the body and then exhale notice how it feels to

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Exhale and you can do that for as long as you like but even just those yeah just I see it in your face you're just

51:19

like well yeah I went I went some much for a breath yeah they just really help to breing bring us back into our Center

51:28

really so it's like focusing in on that heart space allowing any energies that

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just aren't serving us to dissolve away with the exhale move away from the body with the exhale yeah even even just

51:40

shutting your eyes for that like five minutes and just cutting off like a significant stimuli and listening to you

51:47

guide me through that was just just nice and then I open my eyes obviously I've got Bright Lights here but it's just

51:52

like well there's a lot there's a lot of information coming at me right now that I'm not even aware of absolutely yeah so

51:59

that's awesome so we we just shake it up and breathe yeah I have another one

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because you mentioned the eyes and that's a good reminder because so many of us spend so much time on screen so

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I'm going to share another quick one that's really great for relaxing the um optical nerve the eye so it's just

52:17

rubbing your hands together creating friction warming the hands and then just cupping your eyes

52:24

not putting in pressure on the eyes you're just covering the eyes closing your

52:31

eyes and just again take a couple breaths here you can even weave in

52:37

release breath here and just creating that bit of

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Darkness for the eyes the warmth from the hands helps to relax the eyes so this is

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a really good one to do when we spend a lot of time on screens um also taking

53:01

time to look really far in the distance um so if you have a window or somewhere where you're working where you can just

53:06

find a spot where you're looking as far as you possibly can um and take breaks to do that so we're not just activating

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um our nerves all the time for things that are close to us amazing practical skills thank you so much that's uh

53:21

really helpful I think especially the shaking it up while I think there's a lot of people that could just like benefit from just literally like shaking

53:28

things up moving their energy and play your tail or Swift and just shake it off

53:33

yeah and being a bit more playful with yourself as well like so serious all the time just like moving around you just

53:39

watch a kid when the the music hits them they're not thinking they don't think oh music's playing I should probably Dance

53:45

Now and Then dance no no no no it's innate it's their body just like connecting with the vibrations of the

53:50

sounds that are coming into their ears and they just do it it's automatic it's great absolutely a lot of the stuff that

53:56

I end up teaching I'm just like remember doing this as a kid remember doing this as a kid or like have you seen a child

54:02

doing this and yeah kids are like they're so fresh they haven't been told

54:07

that they're idiots or that they look stupid uh for what they're doing you

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know they haven't had that conditioning yet that has stopped them from doing the

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things that is soothing to their body that is nourishing for their body they

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already know the body is a brilliant intelligent um part of us and it knows

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we've just talked it out of it yeah wonderful well thank you so much for

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coming on and sharing up sharing some really amazing experiences that you've had and the education that you've had

54:40

and and how you practice and also with those practical um Solutions at the end there I really appreciate it Susie thank

54:47

you you're welcome thank you for having me on and and true hope for creating the

54:52

products that they have they're incredible thank you very much I really appreciate that well that is it for this

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55:04

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