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greetings hello good day everybody wherever you are in the world thank you so much for joining true Hope cast the

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official true hope Canada podcast I am Simon I am your host true hope Canada if

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forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on any other episodes but today we welcome registered holistic nutritionist

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certified raike practitioner and holistic Wellness Mentor Courtney katum to the show Courtney helps people

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mitigate their physical symptoms balance their energy and enhance their intuition

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to claim the lives that they deserve her company glow Holistics offers the space to release relax and fine Clarity

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Courtney creates customized health plans and offers intuitive guidance nutrient

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support and therapeutic energy work Courtney thank you so much for taking the time with us today how are you hi

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Simon I'm really good how are you doing I'm great thank you very much yeah it looks nice and sunny where you are

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but it's a valley so it's a little little foggy but patches of blue which is nice patches of blue that's great um

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well yeah again thanks so much for coming on why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and your journey into health and wellness I always find them

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that to be a very interesting story for most people yeah for sure uh so I always

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was a little bit uh nutritionally minded andit spiritual but it wasn't until I

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attended csnn the Canadian School of natural nutrition I went um there in

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2017 and that really catalyzed my H passion for nutrition and catalyzed my

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spiritual journey as well so yeah it was um it's been a bit of a road for sure

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there's so much to learn so many Avenues to go down but I'm kind of honing in on

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what my passions are now so that's what catalyzed it for me that's wonderful and can you tell us a little bit about glow

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Holistics why why why that name oh well um just glowing from the

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inside out you know the root of um our turmoil and it all comes with from

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within so I'm really obviously like you said very energy based and um that glow

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that people just exude that comes from within you know we try to attain it from

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different skin care products or you know food whatever it may be

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exfoliating but truly it's all coming from within so yeah it was just kind of a natural name for me to come up with it

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took a long time and of course once I let go of the pressure of it it just popped in the name came to you in the

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end it did too yeah that's awesome why don't you tell us a little bit more about your practice sure yeah so um I

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work oneon-one with clients eventually I'll do more group uh group work but

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right now the atmosphere of what's going on I just do one-on-one so um what I've

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created is called a glowup pack and it's become quite popular and it offers a

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chance to try true hope it offers uh the most powerful affordable supplement or

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probiotic on the market which is called the cultured coconut it's a liquid kefir and then a raiki session with me and

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then just some Consulting a little bit of um yeah just talking back and forth

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and sharing our experience or their experience and that's just kind of a

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culmination of IT addresses you know nutrition mind body and spirit in one so

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it's a very well-rounded package and I'm really proud of it and it's been quite

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successful wonderful in this package is um include you know you're including supplements to to help people kind of

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get right away get some really good nutrition into their bodies as well as you know like a a counseling coaching

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aspect as well absolutely yeah that's kind of the synopsis of it is it's an

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opportunity to be able to flood your system with the nutrients that's been missing which is then helping you to balance on that physical level and then

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of course sharing and counseling and with the raiki would just Excavating the

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um energetic sort of um those blockages Within by sharing and with the raike so

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yeah it's sort of like I said it's it's really it's a nice rounded package so they're getting they're getting a lot in

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that one session and it just gives them kind of the Baseline a foundation to move into you know go away with and then

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integrate for their own selves throughout yeah until our next session check in how they've been doing and

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tweak as we may need wonderful um can you tell us a little I'm not sure everyone's familiar with what raiki is

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so maybe you could give us a little bit of a an idea about what that is that goes into your practice Yeah it's

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exciting to see it getting a lot more attention here in the west um so raiki is it's essentially means life force

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energy and everything is energy you know they always say that but what that really means is if you were to break

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down everything in the universe our cells mountains the sky you know the

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microphone in front of you everything comes down it comes down to a subatomic

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particle you to break it down to its very most fundamental level and a subatomic particle is uh you're unable

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to isolate that so if you try to take one it'd be like pulling a string on a blanket so in that way that's how

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everything is connected and so what raiki is this life force energy

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it's constantly moving it's supposed to constantly move so what happens to us as

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we experience life we things come up say emotional pain or different experiences

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come up and it causes these energetic blockages within they often um compare

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it to like a river so if there's a dam in a river it's including the flow and it's causing a lot of issues up the

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river down the river and that's the same within our bodies maybe again another metaphor another example is like your

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circulatory system your blood flows it's supposed to flow unoccluded if you have a blood clot it's going to cause Maj

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major issues and that's the same with energy so we experience these particular say a breakup that's been causing this

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this blockage within us and raiki as a raiki practitioner I am just simply

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channeling that energy that ever moving energy through my body through my hands

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and my hands placed upon the ient where some people do hands off raiki it's then

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transferring it's it's it's like a little bit of a shift of that energy within you so it's not me necessarily

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healing you but it is me acting as a conduit for the energy in order to shift

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those blockages within you or that stagnancy within you and then you're

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able to now uh receive that natural flow of energy so a lot of the time uh people

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notice that they become quite emo in a raiki session and or they'll experience like muscle twitches or your stomach

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will become active we get off the table and you know their knee pain feels much

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better simply from one session and it's like I said just simply because we have

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shifted a stagnant block that has been there so pain um disease emotional

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overwhelm it's simply trapped energy within your body so for it it's like um

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just to give a little example your heart is your physical organ and then your chakra is your energetic organ

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it holds a ton of energy there so if we say have neck pain that's often associated with the literal inability

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feeling like you have um um the weight of the world on you so all our pain and

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all our disease has this metaphysical or experiential component um attached to it

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at the root of it so raiki is helping to shift that and then things really open up as a

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result wow that's a really beautiful explanation and I've been so lucky over

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the last couple of months to to speak with so many energy workers who you know using as I say

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like energy and our physical bodies and how people understand those Concepts I

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think I feel like I've repeated myself on this show many times but it's such an important concept for us to wrap our our

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head around because we usually like like to make our beliefs and opinions about

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the outside world and things like energy and physical matter with with our own

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senses are really limited senses but to get the idea wrapped around about like

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energy and frequency and the majority of the matter that we see is predominantly energy things that we can't see it

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doesn't mean it's not there how do you just a question for somebody who who

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works with energy and raiki in this you know really ancient physical incredible practice do you get a do do you get some

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like funny looks from people when you start talking about energy in the body and you know when you when you're

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talking about things like that like how do you help explain it a little bit because it's a really foreign concept

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for a lot of people well I think that's really helpful is to I've heard this uh that

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and it was really made a lot of sense to me that we our nervous systems only register 1% of what's going on so we're

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only seeing 1% of what's actually physically happen happening in the universe which is that leaves a lot of

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room for a lot of magic to be happening so I think that helps people kind of

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like understand a little bit and then you know just giving examples like um

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the talking about how you know it's this blanket of energy we're all attached and

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when we think about you know walking into a room when two people are fighting and suddenly you feel that tension as

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well that helps people really you know gives them a tangible sort of experience uh yeah that does happen to me or you

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know somebody walks into a room and they just absolutely light it up it's because we are literally attached to them so

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talking about that uh you know on a very Quantum level that subatomic particle idea that we are all attached string on

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a blanket those kind of Concepts those visual concepts really let people allow people to kind of like picture it in a

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tangible way so I don't get a lot of I get a lot of wow that makes sense you

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know which is great and of course we attract the people who are meant to be in our experience so I think people who

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are coming to me they're ready to hear this absolutely yeah had a really really beautiful um image you create with that

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explanation I think I might steal that if that's okay um and yeah please do and

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you know another thing too Simon is that um as a spirit those we are we're the

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spirit that's what we are essentially our Spirits are true inner selves or higher selves whatever you want to call

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it recognizes that like we know it to be true so yeah it really it just um it

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perks people up to sort of like oh you know what that does make sense it's our egos that are like I don't know about

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yeah yeah it's our OS know certainly our egos that that get predominantly created

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from like the outside world and we end up creating these personalities of people who we think that we are but you

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you got this like Divine internal spiritual foundational element that we are that's pure light and pure energy um

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can sometimes be incredibly different to the yeah to the individual that I

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sometimes think that I am but at the root of it yeah it's uh using energy to

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to create balance in in an incoherent system can be really powerful

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for a lot of people who have experienced that type of Disconnect for so long

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totally it's like a relief to hear that you know and it normalizes us as well I

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feel you know we're all we all experience the same thing on a foundational level as far as that dis

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disassociation with who we are so yeah just speaking about this especially in this time so many people are coming into

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this awareness the more we learn the more we understand ourselves

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more uh it just becomes a lot easier for people to grasp those Concepts the more we talk about it absolutely how um how

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have you seen raiki support people mental

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health massively massively yeah it's you know like counseling is just again

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everything is energy so when we're talking we feel that weight come off of it us um when we Journal it's literally

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a transfer of that emotion the energy in motion as what that translates to uh so

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when we Journal we're literally transferring it from our arm into our uh into the

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page um and yeah just moving it out so when I'm offering raiki it's you don't

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even need to do anything you're just literally laying back and I'm helping you to just excavate what has been

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laying stagnant in your body for so long so people often come off of the table and they just feel Bliss and light and

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um and then of course to follow up and you know do your meditation your morning practice and a little bit of like

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recommendation I give afterwards um it's been it's been so helpful it's really uh

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inspiring and beautiful to see how it helps people's mental health yeah when

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you're actually giving a treatment as the practitioner what type is there um do

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you experience a similar thing every time is it different per person how how does that feel for you

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energetically often I experience so it it's both it's both so um typical things

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that people experience like I said are muscle twitching um active stomachs um

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yeah like muscle spasms and jumping limbs things like that emotion uh for me

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um and also you know they'll see colors they'll see lights um so there are there

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are a lot of things that people are experiencing that are quite a common theme um and then for me my and you know

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sometimes I will I'll pick up uh what there I'll start to get you know this

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anxious feeling in my chest and I know that's not mine it's there so some practitioners you know the it just it

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depends on what kind of in intuitive you are how you are picking up um what you're picking up for them and what

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you're seeing so it's always it's a progression you know like I'm always like oh I just want to see more and I want to know more because I'll hear

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messages for them but I know that it's just it takes time and so um

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yeah yeah do you like go just before you go into a session because this this sounds like as a practitioner that you

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going into a raiki practice with somebody obviously to honor that person's experience do you take like a

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certain amount of time before you do that session to really make sure that you know the things going on for you in

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your life in your mind are not distracting you from you know that

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therapy absolutely yeah for sure your energy has to you have to be quite grounded and make sure you don't bring

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it in and obviously that it's not always possible sometimes you know I have had

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sessions where I feel off my energy feels off and it it's very interesting

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to see that they they usually are in the same space as well so it's important for

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me to take time in between them and ground myself and then I call in you know I I have my intention I call in the

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raiki energy um and ask on behalf of the

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recipient to um I just have a little thing that I say you know that's for their highest it's

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going to the places they need at most and that it be for the best for them and for the collective so yeah there is a

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ritual that I do beforehand and um it holds me accountable too because you

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know if I am everything that we do we look at even or think about or ingest is

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affecting our energy field so it really holds me accountable to make sure that I am you know doing my morning practice

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and I'm nourishing my s w which is not always the case that I certainly notice that it impacts my my practice Yeah Yeah

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I think that it's it could be really beneficial for anybody to have a a kind of um a transitional routine like you

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mention when you know coming home from work and going into the home life to just to be able to like separate

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that so you're not kind of taking in the stresses or your past experiences of that day into that present moment where

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you're going to be with you know your family and your kids Etc I think I think taking that five or 10 minutes just to

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yeah get get grounded get rooted and um try and put some of those past things

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behind you can really help you to become conscious and aware and engaged in

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present situations so true because yeah like we were saying everything being connected

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we are all empathic they talk about you know some people being um empaths but

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truly we all are some of us are just more sensitive more aware of others so it's really important for it's really

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important for everybody to to know that you know wherever you're putting your energy wherever you're looking and

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whatever you're thinking about it becomes your experience so yeah to really put like you said have a a little

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practice where you're able to one protect your energy from the environment around you and also know that nothing is

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personal that often is not even your stuff um and then not bringing it and

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projecting it onto other people people as well it's a practice for sure sure and another example of how you know the

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the energies and the frequencies that we're experience are obviously just such a real thing and to explain that again

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people people have experienced when someone walks into a room and they are carrying a certain energy with them

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whether that's frustration or anger or rage or sadness or on the other hand Joy

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love gratitude these things you can you can feel you know like we are so inter we are so interconnected with everything

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and everybody that if people were to really sit down with that experience they can probably remember when they

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walked into a room and there was one person there that was you know feeling a certain way and everyone could feel it

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yeah we really do have a responsibility for other you know the way that we are carrying or bringing ourselves into

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other people's spaces and you know that's why we feel so wonderful when we go into the woods or we're near the

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ocean because it's such a high vibratory uh high frequency experience those trees

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that ocean is it's authentic self it is nothing but its pure highest um energy

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and so then we are absorbing that so that's it's just one of the reasons so important to put ourselves in those

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those situations where we're able to absorb the energy of other other things and experiences around us and avoid

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toxic stuff yeah one real quick way to change your energy is to change your environment and if you're able to step

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in into the step into the trees into nature into the forest by water then your your energy and your mood can

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change pretty pretty much instantaneously um that's really great

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you you've got a really cool section on your website about energy management can

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you tell us a bit more about that sure yeah um again same obviously theme

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whatever we're looking at whatever we um whatever we're interacting with becomes

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our energetic field so it's up to us to ensure that we're managing that in a

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good way being self-aware of our you know of our energy and and where we're

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focusing um It ultimately determines our life experience so uh even just you know

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the the food that we eat the well not even just the food we eat um the content

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that we we absorb absolutely everything it becomes a part of our our energetic

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field so yeah it's it's important that we're making making an effort to really

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look at what it is that we are we're looking at we're thinking about and we're absorbing because it becomes a

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part of us you know they say you are what you eat you are with you everything yeah yeah and you mentioned a really

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important thing at the beginning about how you know we are experiencing whether we're aware of it

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or not everything and we might be conscious of that 1% of what we're experiencing but there's so much that

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comes into our body that our body has to take in digest and

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hopefully eliminate as well because you know an overwhelming an overwhelmed

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brain an overwhelmed body will at some point potentially Manifest this disease

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or trauma so it's even more beneficial to become aware of those the the the

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food that we are consuming the content we're consuming the things that the the people that we're consuming you know

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that we have around us and we're experiencing those people and their thoughts and their feelings and their behaviors we do have a big

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responsibility to to ourselves and others to make sure we're keeping all of those things aligned with you know kind

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of our true authentic self absolutely yeah and in that too it's so empowering

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to know that that we have every ability to heal our bodies and heal our lives

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and have the the experiences that we dream of you know we come here with in my

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belief in my learnings with a A Life Plan you know if you have a dream in your heart you didn't just make that up

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we're not that smart we we literally it's ingrained within us and so what we

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what we need to do if we want to experience those things and have those dreams is literally just line yourself

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up to it it's all about alignment and what that means is like it's you know you've got um say you have you you want

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to for me I wanted to own this business I I pictured this place now here I am

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and it's because of how I managed my energy you know and now I am a vibrational match to that experience

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because I raised my vibration I believed in it so much and because of that you know the power of manifestation it's

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just we are literally just magnets for everything so um or we can on the other

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hand you know feel bad about our lives and feel bad about our circumstances and not see things happening for us but to

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us and then staying in that low vibration that low frequency will ultimately attract all of those lower

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vibratory experiences that bad luck that reoccurring you know just storm of

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a of luck per se so absolutely yeah if you if you have a clear intention and

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you you can match that intention with a with with a with with a high emotional state like Joy or happiness or gratitude

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yeah you can you can create some really wonderful things in your life it's I've I've seen it happen I've seen I've seen

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miracles happen at meditation Retreats and I've done it myself in regards to you know there's a big difference

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between wanting something through jealousy or frustration or rage

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or anger or wanting something and Desiring something a really clear picture of that but you're holding a

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different frequency of of Joy gratitude happiness love all those emotions carry a very

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very different frequency each of those and again yeah as you say we attract we attract what we put out there but we

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have to be conscious of our thoughts our feelings and our behaviors to make sure that they are aligning with those types

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of emotions that will attract the things that we really want exactly yeah yeah

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great um I'd love to hear about your experience with true hope Canada because you know this package that was that

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you're talking about encompasses Reiki and it encompasses um

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counseling coaching as well as supplement ation with um probiotics and

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EMP Power Plus which is our broad spectrum Spectrum micronutrient supplements so could you tell us a little bit about your experience is true

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he absolutely it it's been like everything it's just breadcrumbs and I was just following it along when I was

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in school I met Celeste um a Founder's daughter and she's such a lovely person

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and she had brought in um a sample for us and I was Keen to try it and I was

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very surprised it how it made me feel I felt much clearer I was able to concentrate much better and it gave me

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more energy so I of course started taking it and then years later you know I kind of like

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dipped in dipped out with it and then of course years later I uh started to

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formulate my practice and I knew I wanted to you know I was talking about it all the time to other people and

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sharing it and then you know why not carry it for myself s so

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um yeah it's been it's been amazing it's no exaggeration to say it's a magic pill

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um I have such good outcome it's you know you do the research and you see the

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testimonials and and it's exciting to see that but to actually have people I

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know come in and people in tears at their the way that they feel

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you know this the testimonials you get personally it's just it brings me to tears it's so exciting to to share it

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with other people the difference it makes in your lives yeah that's wonderful yeah we've you know I've also

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been blessed to experience you know doing videos at um different Health shows of testimonials of people who

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they're essentially taking the same broads Spectrum micronutrient supplement but some everyone's story is so

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incredibly different everyone's journey is so different but when you are consuming a product that is so

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bioavailable and taking care of the majority of the nutrition that you that that's kind of missing in our diet then

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the brain and the body can start functioning functioning in a way that is

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a lot more in tune to to balance to prosperity

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and to ultimately making us feel feel great and then once we feel great the

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our experiences completely change and we are able to see see the world in a very very different way do you have any

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particular um stories or or testimonial of or success story that you've seen

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with with this with this product a lot yeah now that I'm you know practicing

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and and sharing it so much I have a lot of testimonials um one

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I'm it's very close to my heart is my mom my mom has been on anti-depressants

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for the last oh gosh probably 16 years

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and the highest dose of the particular one she was taking and she just this last week she had been weaning herself

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off slowly with the support of her doctor and um started taking True hope

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uh to help her of course Philip restores as she is weaning and now she's just

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taking it oh I've just got like full body Shivers talking about it amazing just my spirit just

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tingling um and she is so productive she's you know like to be in a depressed

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place in a lower place you just don't have the energy or the gumption to do a

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lot and so it was it it was it was obvious you know you can go into her

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house and it just it felt low vibration and she's not that person you know we

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aren't that person we are this briming excited Spirit we're here to experience joy and and just experience life and

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she's doing that now and she just I mean it's yes about energy management and yes

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about having those those beautiful practices for yourself and the selfawareness and all of that but when we are nutritionally deficient devoid of

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these you know key nutrients like you said we can't make the connections in our brain we just are not uh we just

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don't have those the nutrients to be able to support uh even just getting out

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of bed you know like putting on a meditation in the morning so that together uh the combination of that the

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true hope has just been miraculous for her and she's a brand new person and I I

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mean I just could go on and on I had a girl text me and she was in tears after four days she had no idea she could feel

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this good um that's so common here so yeah remarkable thank you so much for

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sharing that and um obviously it's super important that if you're looking to um

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taper off or come off any pharmaceutical medication that you know you should be Consulting and working with your doctor doctor and we have a really incredible

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micronutrient support team that you that you can connect with at trueu hope you can go to Tru hopec canada.com to to

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find out that that link but yeah it's um yeah just just wonderful just to hear

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that even in just a 4-day period somebody can radically start changing

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even less than that my gosh my um wow not sure if I should say this I'm sure

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they won't listen so my gr started giving it to my papa just dragging him

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uh just giving him one a day instead of his other vitamin and uh she cannot

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believe the change in him sorry is this your grand your grandmother giving your

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grandfather yes yeah yeah which is super because he's just he's such a Teddy he's

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a loving guy but he's grumpy yeah he could be a little grumpy okay and you

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can just tell like I go over there now and he's just got that glimp in his eye

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and he's more joyous and yeah she she's just so elated by it said you saved Papa

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that's incredibly adorable so your after your mother had a

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really positive experience she she so you after your grandmother experienced experienced this she she passed this

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on actually my grandma did it first and my my mom was on her medication so she

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just wasn't quite sure and then yeah after talking to a doctor and kind of

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thinking about it and then my auntie as well everybody's just got of little bit of trickle it's nice to see other people

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it's difficult as the person selling it you know like people take it with a grain of salt but when other yeah so

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it's been really really helpful That Word of Mouth for yeah when you see somebody who you've known for a while and then

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you see them change and they start to Glow people people want a piece of the

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action so that's without question going to be the best type of testimonial that um somebody is going to see that with

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their own eyes see somebody change and you know what are you what are you doing differently what's going on and then

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that's one of the best ways that they this trickle effect of taking something or doing something really positive

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towards you is you know gets gets around

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absolutely well Corney thank you so much um how can people connect with you

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uh well I am on Facebook and Instagram I'm much more active on Instagram I should share stories over there and a

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lot of posts um so yeah you can absolutely connect with me on either of those platforms I do have my website and

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it's you know under construction has so many wees are I don't really pay attention too much to it but um yeah you

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can check that out too it like I said needs some updating but uh social media is where you can find me the most

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perfect well and I'm also sorry I'm located in Port alurn so we're

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just on the main strip of Johnson here if anybody's local to the island I do distance raike and do of course true

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hope is available everywhere but um yeah despite whether or not you're local I am

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available to speak with and yeah have the GL package available wonderful well

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we'll make sure that um we include all of those contact details in the show notes um but thank you so much for

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joining us today Courtney wonderful stories and you do have this incredible glow energy about you as well which is I

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really appreciate you bringing to the show today thank you so much it was a

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pleasure Simon great well thank you so much for listening everybody this is true Hope cast the official podcast of

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true hope Canada um I hope you enjoyed the show we will see you next week goodbye

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