Seeing the world through the eyes of love is a choice. To look at yourself and others through a lens of compassion with the energy of grace is what you and everyone needs. Michelle and Tara weave a tapestry of shared experiences to emphasize the profound impact of self-understanding and community support. As we compare our individuality to unique snowflakes, our conversation stirs a sense of wonder about the diverse energies that define us. We delve into the significance of embracing one's journey and the collective strength found in walking together, armed with love and empathy to navigate life's multifaceted challenges.
This episode is a heartfelt exploration of the human experience, examining the fluctuating spectrums of mental and emotional wellness, and the intricate ballet of relationships. By sharing personal stories of managing stress and practicing self-care, we illuminate paths to resilience and reveal how vulnerability can lead to authentic connections. Discover how being true to oneself can foster a supportive network, enabling us to lift each other up during life's inevitable ebbs and flows.
We conclude with an invitation to engage with our vibrant community on Instagram, where the conversation continues to blossom. Join us at Walk Together Fiercely to exchange dialogues, pose questions, and uncover additional insights. Whether you're looking to enhance your well-being or comprehend the unique paths others tread, this episode is a clarion call to celebrate the diversity and intrinsic beauty woven into our collective human fabric. Let's Walk Together Fiercely through The Art of Authentic Living and Compassionate Connection!
We would love for you to join us in our community! Find us on Instagram at: @walktogetherfiercely
Here you can be a part of the conversation! We love when you message us, when you tag us in your posts and stories, thank you so much for sharing!
For more information about Dr. Tara, you can find her on Instagram at: @drtaradrummond
For more information about Michelle, you can find her on her website: www.thebalancedsoul.com
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Seeing the world through the eyes of love is a choice. To look at yourself and others through a lens of compassion with the energy of grace is what you and everyone needs. Michelle and Tara weave a tapestry of shared experiences to emphasize the profound impact of self-understanding and community support. As we compare our individuality to unique snowflakes, our conversation stirs a sense of wonder about the diverse energies that define us. We delve into the significance of embracing one's journey and the collective strength found in walking together, armed with love and empathy to navigate life's multifaceted challenges.
This episode is a heartfelt exploration of the human experience, examining the fluctuating spectrums of mental and emotional wellness, and the intricate ballet of relationships. By sharing personal stories of managing stress and practicing self-care, we illuminate paths to resilience and reveal how vulnerability can lead to authentic connections. Discover how being true to oneself can foster a supportive network, enabling us to lift each other up during life's inevitable ebbs and flows.
We conclude with an invitation to engage with our vibrant community on Instagram, where the conversation continues to blossom. Join us at Walk Together Fiercely to exchange dialogues, pose questions, and uncover additional insights. Whether you're looking to enhance your well-being or comprehend the unique paths others tread, this episode is a clarion call to celebrate the diversity and intrinsic beauty woven into our collective human fabric. Let's Walk Together Fiercely through The Art of Authentic Living and Compassionate Connection!
We would love for you to join us in our community! Find us on Instagram at: @walktogetherfiercely
Here you can be a part of the conversation! We love when you message us, when you tag us in your posts and stories, thank you so much for sharing!
For more information about Dr. Tara, you can find her on Instagram at: @drtaradrummond
For more information about Michelle, you can find her on her website: www.thebalancedsoul.com
Instagram: @michellemorrisonmedium
Facebook: @Michelle Morrison Psychic Medium
Welcome to Walk Together Fiercely. We are just so glad to have you here. We invite and we also thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you for choosing to spend some of your precious time with us. We know how valuable it is. I am Michelle Morrison. I am a medium and an intuitive and I support people to make beautiful spiritual connections with loved ones on the other side, with angels and spirit guides, and I love helping people tune into their own amazing intuition.
Speaker 2:I am Dr Tara Drummond and I am a naturopathic doctor and I am passionate about empowering people in all aspects of health and well-being. Our intention is to create community and connection. We do that with open hearts, minds and a whole lot of love and laughter. The more we know ourselves, the deeper connection we can have within, which allows us to deepen connections around us.
Speaker 1:We feel so passionately about this. You matter, that you are so important and that you belong, and we are creating and connecting to the hearts and wisdom of our bodies, mind and spirits, nurturing and growing compassion, empathy and community. We know that we are so much better together, and so let's walk together fiercely through this beautiful, sometimes really challenging life as light warriors of love. Together, with open minds and hearts, we can create a community where we celebrate, play and thrive. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2:Welcome back. Good morning. Oh, the sun is out, Michelle. I feel spring is starting to come.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know about spring yet, but we are sure having a lovely sunny week and when we get these high pressure systems and we get the blue sky, I don't think there's anything more beautiful. It's just. It is so uplifting, it's so good for the soul.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm like a sun goddess. I love the sun, so this just makes me happy.
Speaker 1:And your husband's outside flying right now, so how cool is that, yeah well, he gets to fly when it's blue sky days like this. So yeah, he's happy, that's for sure. We're flying high today.
Speaker 2:We were coming together today to discuss just a funny little topic, I guess that we've cultivated. The intention is to bring compassion oodles and oodles of compassion for ourselves, for each other, for strangers just to our world right now. I feel like there's a lot of divide, judgment, criticism, all these things that really are not conducive to building this more beautiful world that we're looking to build. So I think that if we can look at each other as just the most unique beings and have curiosity for each other's differences, like you did a talk last week comparing people to snowflakes, do you want to elaborate on that?
Speaker 1:Well, it's a really unique way to look at energy, and I guess it's an awareness I have, because an energy is something that I first noticed about a person. It's like there's an energy to every single person that you meet and some energies make you feel fantastic. Some are really great, some are not so great. Like we're going to talk today about a spectrum, and there's a spectrum of energies and I know you know exactly what I mean. You have encountered this in your life, everybody has. But what is really cool is that literally, your energetic, your own energy, is as unique as a thumbprint. It is as unique as a snowflake. There's no two that are exactly the same. That there's something really special about your brand of magic is a really great way to put it in. So it's like your energetic DNA.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that because we're going to talk today how everyone and everything is kind of on this spectrum, like this sliding scale, and it's not even static, like you're not even necessarily stuck on your one part of the spectrum. These things can slide with our environment, our stress levels, our diet, our everything is a contributing factor and I thought we'd come at this from a few different angles today and I'm not totally sure where to bounce off of and start because it's such a big topic. So I'll go to myself and I know in a previous episode I shared about that I've kind of done a health backslide and for me it's such a subtle thing that we only know ourselves right. So from the outside it might be like I'm healthy, my body's functioning well. I am not to the place of dis-ease in my body where I'm getting symptoms showing up, but I know it in myself that my daily habits have shifted out of this coping mechanism, of this pandemic that we've walked through, that my sleep could be a bit better.
Speaker 2:My diet could be a bit better. There's just been this slide in my habits and I'm aware that if we continue to slide, slide, slide, that's where we end up having this dis-ease within the body. And when I was in med school it was funny because you'd be learning the DSM. So this is like how you would psychologically diagnose a patient and you'd go, you'd read the signs and symptoms and how it presents and I'd go oh man, I'm bipolar, right.
Speaker 1:Or also you see yourself on every page.
Speaker 2:You see yourself on all the pages like shit. I have anxiety disorder, oh crap. I'm depressed, and I think that this is so true for all of us that we do sit somewhere on these spectrums, and when we are in our most healthy and vibrant state, we're not necessarily touching the level of being diagnosed. Right, we're not. We don't hit that cusp, although if stress gets really high, we're not well supported in our life, our diet goes for crap and our nervous system is having a really hard time.
Speaker 2:We may slide closer to these diagnoses, and last year, as I was finishing all of my continuing education hours and doing the pharmaceutical stuff, I'm listening to a lecture on ADHD and I keep pausing and doing other things and I'm like, oh my goodness, I have ADHD, because if I went for a diagnosis I would. I would tick off whatever, 80% of the signs and symptoms, although when I bring myself back to center, when I focus, when I'm doing meditation or all these therapies that can soothe my being, I can slide back and show less symptomatology. Do you know what I mean? So I think that we all sit on various spectrums, and the healthier we are in our being, the further away we are from a diagnosis, and so, even if we think of the body as having a physical pathology, let's say something just like eczema.
Speaker 2:That's something so common. A person might be prone to getting eczema and if they have a nice, clean body they've, they're detox well, they eat clean food, they do all these things they may not actually show up and present with the symptom of eczema. Or, on the flip side, if they're very stressed out, filled with toxins, their body's having a hard time clearing it out. They're eating a ton of the foods that aggravate this condition. It's going to flare.
Speaker 2:And they're going to show their symptom on that spectrum that they sit on.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean. I do, so I think of this from a disease perspective. I also think of it on every other spectrum. I think of it as our personality, like some of us are a bit more hyper than others and some of us are more introverted, right, right. So any trait almost that a person can have. We sit on these various spectrums and when I think of people this way it gives me so much compassion. Like we all have different amounts of mental health or different amounts of physical health we have.
Speaker 2:we sit on a different spectrum with our finances Right Right With our lifestyle, with our tolerance, with our strength, with our absolutely every aspect of us. We're all just a bit different, that's right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I so see that and I, you know, I think sometimes, like in the work that I do with clients, you can see all kinds of different spectrums of you. Could have somebody who loses a loved one and be handle it differently than somebody else, which is right. Well, both it's just on a spectrum, like it's just. You know, there's a lot of differences. No, two people are the same. They're not going to handle a situation the same. They're going to, you know, handle things differently and they could be in different places in terms of you know, when it happened, right Like it, something might be more fresh and something might be a little bit further away, like it's just. There's so many ways and I think that you know. I love this chat, tara, because you can. One of the big questions that we can ask in the world is what do you think the world needs more of? My answer to that will always be compassion. I mean, of course, it's love, but like love is compassion, like when we can have compassion for another being and where they are and what they've maybe gone through, or maybe we don't understand what they've been through, we don't understand what their circumstances were like, and so having compassion for wherever they're at, I think, is honestly the way to peace right and it supports having compassion for someone else, supports them wherever they are on their spectrum, so that we can do better, be healthier, all these things like, because together we do this this is the Walk Together Fiercely podcast right, and I think having that compassion, knowing that everybody sits in a different place, takes us out of that judgment and that black and white thinking right All or nothing Like it's
Speaker 2:like oh, they're bad because of that one thing or they're I judge that in somebody else. They are wrong because they've done it that way. And I think when we try to make sense of the world in this very black and white way, it leads to a lot of suffering because it's just this rigidity, whereas when we can see that it's actually a spectrum, it brings us back to that thinking of both and like both are right, and there's space for that right, so it really it allows my heart to expand and have more tolerance and more acceptance, as well as maintaining those boundaries etc that protect myself.
Speaker 2:I've just, it's, found this softness in me and I can see people. I can see people in more accepting way. Yeah, and this was a big learning for me, actually when I was in med school, because I would like to turn this around also at looking at ourselves this way, because a lot of people that go to med school, they're those type A high achievers. They get the A's, they work hard, right, right. So I'm surrounded by all these people we're in this school and I'm completely this type. So, for myself, I've had to back off of that intensity, right, because I'm going like my best is like whatever a 90 or a 95 plus, right. And when you go through this system of med school, you get tired, you get over tested. You also have life happening Like this was a time when my brother in law was sick and I had that. I was missing home and my family and wanting to be here, and there's all these compounding factors.
Speaker 2:And to pass naturopathic medicine school you need to get a 70. So 70% is a pass. It's not a 50, like you would in university or something. So they would say 70 equals ND. Like you just get your 70s and move along and I'm like so afraid of failing, I'm like there's no chance. I'm touching a 70, like must be above an 80 at all times. And I could find this softness for myself going. My best isn't always this rigid perfection. Sometimes my best is an 80, because that's the capacity I have right now and to not feel that inadequacy or that judgment, but to have that softness that we don't always have to be striving for our best, because I think that our best is our best when we have all the supporting factors, when we're well rested when we've eaten well when we're right.
Speaker 2:So on some days our best might slide on that scale and you know that's okay. Yeah, absolutely Like you're okay to show up as that, as your imperfect self, right. And I think, if we did more of that.
Speaker 1:I think that you know it would allow people to see that that is actually more normal.
Speaker 1:And so this face that gets put forward on social media, particularly for young girls and young men, I mean it's just so inaccurate in terms of how it really is, and one of my favorite things to watch is like mom's, you know, just going through it and just, you know, having a hard time, and it's like thank you for sharing that, like thanks for sharing how it actually really is, like that is so much more true than this crazy ideal that we reach for and then shame ourselves when we don't get there and we don't, you know, add up to whatever we feel that that might be.
Speaker 1:And I think you know, from a personal perspective as well, like when you're not feeling great for one reason or another, like you know, there's so many reasons you might just have, you know, like you said, just a little bit less sleep that day, or you know something or any, any number of things that could be going on you might have an ache in a foot for some silly reason. You're going to feel that and you're going to react differently and to every single thing, um, and so I think that that's just again really normal, like it's okay.
Speaker 2:Yes. We can be so hard on ourselves though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. And I think that if we were just more honest and just said you know, I, you know, hey, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't get a ton of sleep last night, which is what I said to you this morning when you came, that it wasn't a great sleeping night and, um, and you're like, yes, I understand, I got you. This happened to me. You know, a couple of nights ago I had the same thing and you know, we can have a, we can laugh and have a real authentic conversation about that, and it just makes everything so much easier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it allows for connection and support. Yeah, right, whereas if I'm sitting here with this facade, that I am perfect and I'm so high on this spectrum of like perfection it's unrealistic.
Speaker 2:And then people don't actually get to know the true Tara to love me, I can't receive support, all these things right. So as we soften into just this complexity of humans, I think that we can see each other as all a little glimmer of the rainbow. And if we can look at each other this way, I think that we can have more acceptance for each other and our differences, and possibly even more like awe and reverence for people's differences. And you're a different snowflake than I am and your snowflake has unique gifts that are not mine, and I just can admire that and then also see that my snowflake has gifts, right.
Speaker 2:So that's my invitation today is as we walk through 2024, and we've done lots of episodes on this, whether it be through what you know to be coming intuitively, or we've had Sam Plovey on here talking about the Chinese astrology I think that what the world needs most now is to show up, in whatever version you are right now, because you're exactly where you're meant to be, you're right on the spectrum where you're meant to be, and let's show up and shine our unique light there, because there's a gift in that.
Speaker 1:So we can be on a spectrum with multiple different things. We can be on a spectrum with our emotional and mental well-being. We can be on a spectrum with our physical and health well-being. We can be on a spectrum for all kinds of different things where you are in a relationship, for example, how your career is going, or maybe you're learning something new, or maybe you're shifting or changing, and so there's all these different components in your life that are on a spectrum, and I think that what is important to acknowledge is that you're doing the very best that you can each and every day.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and so is everyone else.
Speaker 1:And so is everyone else, and they might be lower on their spectrum that day, and so what they show up and bring might not look like what you're able to show up and bring. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and to let go of the judgment of that as much as we can and have that nice acceptance for people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's just that reminder, too, that we're all walking a journey that others know nothing about, like truly like how we are feeling on the inside and all of those compounding factors that contribute to where I'm sitting on my spectrum that day, and that others are walking a journey that I know nothing about. So for me to make any snap judgments of what I see based on a moment with somebody that's all it is is a glimpse. You don't get to see the entirety of the weight they carry.
Speaker 2:So just having that compassion for others, and that's what I wanted to talk about today.
Speaker 1:So let's maybe do a check in with each of us, like, where are you on the spectrums for yourself, where am I on spectrums for me? Let's talk about, like real life, examples of where things are at. Let's go, yeah, let's do it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, ask me in a more specific way.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. How about your emotional, mental well being? Where are you on that spectrum as it sits in this moment?
Speaker 2:I'm feeling excited because I'm climbing out of this hole and I can see the light. Yes, the winter can be harder for me. I can just be a little moodier, a little bit more introverted, which I've really allowed this winter for so much to move through me, and I feel like I've gone through, even in the last six weeks, some sort of internal turning over. I can't quite put my finger on it because I'm still just sifting through the end pieces of it. There's a lightness coming through me, there's a new sense of self-esteem, and then the spring energy just always lifts me.
Speaker 2:So I'm feeling excited and hopeful of what's to come, opposed to like kind of in the schlog which I've maybe been in for a little bit.
Speaker 1:So I'm feeling.
Speaker 2:I'm still not. I'm not soaring on that spectrum, but I can see where I'm going. Yeah, yeah, yeah For sure, really good.
Speaker 1:Mental and emotional. I mean mostly pretty great, like where it suffers is when I don't sleep, like when I struggle with sleep. I definitely it definitely goes down. But overall I'd say pretty great, like I feel like right now anyway, that I've got a lot of momentum going and a lot of like I feel really good about life. I am enjoying my life. You know all of those things.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I am aware of is in our household, where I'm in need of more support in just in terms of some of our household chores and duties, and I think that that my husband and I need to have a little bit of a chit chat and a reminder of you know who's doing what and how we're supporting each other in those ways. That's one area I could use some help, and the other part of my for me anyway, for my emotional well-being is always, you know, my own, my spirituality, like my spiritual connection, and right now that's extremely high, like it's just, like I'm just. I don't know how that works, I really couldn't tell you what has triggered it or what have you, but I'm feeling so unbelievably intuitively connected and aware and I'm not afraid, you know even, of things that I understand that are happening in the world and energies that are at play. I'm very at peace with it all and I am absolutely feeling like I am really in receipt of just a lot of intuitive understanding or knowing. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:Absolutely and it's it's funny because I can see it in your eyes today.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Well, your eyes, they look above me, they look below, they're reading and I'm like yeah, what? The shit is she seeing around? Me so your eyes are darting a lot today. I'm like, okay, she's totally reading whatever's pinging around in me and I used to be feeling so insecure I'd be like, oh shit, oh shit, what do you see in? But now I'm like, no, you're just on fire. Is what you're doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So well. It makes it harder for you to sleep, too, when angels are chiming in at you at night. So since you're feeling so inspired right now, before we do wrap this up, is there anything that Spirit would want us to know in relation to this episode?
Speaker 1:I, yeah, absolutely, and all I say, well, there's little legs having to sneeze. What I would say to that is that it's absolutely imperative that you be authentic to where you are and that if you're having a feeling and you're having a day where maybe something isn't quite as easy, like one of the things I was kind of giggling about I'll just sidetrack for one second here, but one of the things I was kind of giggling about as you were speaking about Tara, was like ADD, and I'm like, oh God, this is so me. Like I'm like I get up from my desk and I go into the kitchen and I'm looking through recipe books and deciding what I'm going to make, and then it's like, oh, I want to paint my kitchen and then I'm pulling out paint chips. Like it's ridiculous, like. Or you know, I go from the kitchen to the laundry room to switch the, you know, to turn over the clothes, and then you're there and you I'm like, oh, and you grab the cleaner and you wipe something down and then you carry something somewhere else and it's like, oh, my God, michelle, you were making dinner.
Speaker 1:Like the attention thing is quite a spectrum for me. So Spirit would say to that you know it's all good, like it's, it's okay, like you know. So, whatever your feelings are. So, instead of having shame about that, it's like well, you're, you're a great little multitasker there, honey, like good for you, and so you know. But, but you know, if it's feelings and emotions, to allow the feeling or the emotion to come up, to acknowledge it and to have it, and quite often Tara, that's all a feeling wants is acknowledgement. And so for me, like I said to you, like my husband, I need to sit down and just have and we need that every, every couple needs that every now and then just a revamp and a revisit of you know. Hey, I'm gonna. You know, I really need some help in this area, or support in this area, and he needs this, or you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:So we need one of those. So, leading up to that, what's going to bring that chat forward is some uncomfortable feelings that you're having about what might not be working or what you, and so I love allowing those feelings to come forward. Okay, so there's some frustration coming forward. Let it come forward. Where is it coming from?
Speaker 1:And then asking some deeper questions what do I really need here, like what is really at the heart of this conversation, of this thought that's coming forward and it's like, okay, I'm overwhelmed in this area and all I need to do is is speak, help, and quite often what we do is just continue on, overwhelmed, without speaking to somebody or saying help, or when we do, it comes out as volcanic energy, right, that it's just like you never help or you know stuff like that, and so it ends differently, whereas if we can just allow the feeling to be acknowledged, if we can go in a little bit to that, ask some deeper questions, what we'll find is that there's always solutions in that, and that's what Spirit would say. There's always solutions in when you bring something into the light, and what that means is, once you allow it, you're bringing it to the light, and that's where everything gets healed. Nothing gets healed by keeping in the dark.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I like that. So some new agreements coming forward for you guys.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just not the end of the world, but definitely just some check in.
Speaker 2:And we need that every few months.
Speaker 1:Every six months we go through this and it just is like we slide back into old habits. And I do love to cook, it's really true but sometimes I'll come out at the end of a long day and, no, I want, I want to be cared for, right so. But if I ask for that, then you get it.
Speaker 2:I am yes.
Speaker 1:But why do we stumble over the asking, like, why do we find it hard to get to that point, like why do we put up and shut up? I don't know that. But if I figure out the secret to answer to that one. So it's just the letting it come forward asking deeper questions and then you know navigating the solutions, because there always is a solution, always.
Speaker 2:I like that. And I'm hearing to be vulnerable and authentic. Right To bring your true self forward, because if you, hide it then nobody knows. Like nobody can help you, and I think that our loved ones. They want to know us and love us, and support us.
Speaker 1:So I think that you can find people in the world on a spectrum of their emotional responses as well, and so it can be really interesting where one person is presented with a problem or a challenge and they're like, all right, we're going to, you know, bring a team together, we're going to sort through this, we're going to figure this out where, as somebody else, would go completely off the rails and jump up and down and yell and scream. And you know, you may have family members in your life that are different on a spectrum, like even our children are different on their reactions to things, and and so it's just again allowing for differences in people and understanding, and for some of it, you just don't need to play in it. If it's not your energy and not your thing, you can acknowledge it, you can witness it, you can have compassion for that person, because you might not understand where they're coming from or what's going on exactly, but you can maybe see something you're like, all right, got it, thank you very much, and then move yourself in a different direction.
Speaker 2:Like to not engage with it. Do not engage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, and engaging with somebody who's in a volcanic place is never really that productive, right? Yeah, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I think it's so beautiful to see the unique spectrum of an individual and this is what I've loved about being a practitioner is it makes me so curious. It makes me so curious like, why did they think that way? Like what in their history is programmed them or patterned them Right, or how is their nervous system wired and what are their triggers, or what like the curiosity that just spurs in me when I meet people and really get to know them and know them on a deeper level and all the intricacies of them, and I think, from that place of curiosity, that's where my compassion just bruised, like I love the uniqueness that makes like individuals themselves and I love getting to know all those different sides of it, and that's what brings me to such a loving place for people.
Speaker 2:Even if I don't necessarily agree with their perspective or their way of being or doing things, I can have an appreciation for why they are who they are and how they got there.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And it's just so darn interesting, Tara, Like, why have we gotten to this place where we only want to hear our opinion coming out of somebody else's mouth? Yes, Like, why do we have to have people agree with us? Like, I love the different perspectives. I'm so fascinated by it. How did you come to that knowing, Like you know, that's a really interesting way to look at that.
Speaker 1:Tell me more about it. Like you know, why do we have to shut people down immediately if we think that there's something there that, like that's what I don't love about our bubble wrap society. Right? Like it's like we must only be comfortable, we must only hear opinions that match our own, we must only like we all must look like this and think like that. It's ridiculous, and I think it's why we are seeing so much disruption in our culture and society, because it is actually going against our grain, and I think the true nature of us is to be very harmonious and to allow it all. And if we stop fighting that and stop feeling, like you know, the insecurity in the things that we think and feel, that, oh my gosh, and that's why it's like I need to hear somebody else say what I think coming out of their mouth. Like I think that's why it feels so comfortable, because you might be unsure inside your own self instead of just being curious and allowing yourself to explore. And so, like you know, there's so many examples of this.
Speaker 1:Like, if I was to listen to two scientists explain a cell, they might explain it each differently, in their own ways, like in the ways that they understand it. That's really really cool. We're listening to people speak about space and you know how there are new galaxies being born. People might explain that differently. Good, I want to hear it differently. If you are studying spirituality, you might come from a shamanic approach, you might come from an indigenous approach. You might actually even come from a religious approach. Like it doesn't matter, it's all. Like if it gets you where you want to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, and I think that that's what's really highlighted the last few years is, if we're not having that curiosity for each other, we're really losing tolerance, like for the dissonance and differences of people. And then I think the alternative like imagine if our whole world was just one color and we didn't have the whole rainbow, like if it was black and white.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, if everybody saw the world exactly how I do. That would be a fucked up world, michelle. It would be. I don't actually think so, but no, we would. We'd have zero technology, because that's not my forte, right, right there would. We would be lacking a lot of things in the world if everyone is was exactly like me. Right, like, we need all the colors to add to make this beautiful world. So I think, bringing in that curiosity and that expands our tolerance to see different perspectives to hear different things.
Speaker 2:it allows our minds to be open to learning.
Speaker 1:Yes, we get new things right In my world. If we had my world, we wouldn't do algebra or math. So you're right, there you go. Now. That's perfect.
Speaker 2:No, no, thank you. There'd be no lines painted on the road keeping people in line. Oh no, I like lines on the road, oh do you.
Speaker 1:But well, I'm a very careful driver, but I'm like you, just be like.
Speaker 2:I trust that I'll get where I'm going. Spirit knows. But, yeah, no, we need each other, we need differences, we need to bring back that tolerance. Yes, and I think I would like to finish this on the note of forgiveness. Nice, because when we're in that place of black and white thinking and we're judging, it's just such a rigid place and it's so filled with fear and guilt and shame. And I think that if we can bring a softness for what has been personally and globally, if I can forgive myself for my mistakes and my not knowing any better, I can move forward with a softness that has this tenderness and allows for all the versions of me.
Speaker 2:And I think it's funny because in our couples episode we did in the fall with our husbands. I joked. I go oh, Reese has two kinds of wives. He's got this one that dresses up once in a while and goes out and looks all put together, and then he's got this garden grubby wife with dirt under her nails and bare feet. And I laughed after because I'm like he doesn't have two wives, he's got 50 shades of Tara, Right? He's like, isn't that the truth?
Speaker 1:Isn't that the truth?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the truth, absolutely All these versions, all these colors, even within ourselves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, having forgiveness for our imperfections and others imperfections, because really it's these imperfections and quirks, I think, that make us so beautiful 100%.
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Speaker 1:Let's take a moment for a breath of peace and check in on where you are at. I'd like to invite you to get as comfortable as you can Wherever you are and, if you're able, you can close your eyes and take your left hand and put it on your heart chakra. And I want to invite you to just start taking some beautiful, nice, deep breaths and just allow for this few minutes of peace and relaxation, relaxation. Let's come more into your body and be a little bit more present with your body through your breathing, breathing in and releasing long and slow. Where are you in your emotions right now? Without any judgment, just allow it to be what it is. What emotions are speaking to you in this moment? Where are you in your well-being? How are you feeling in your body? Just allow it to be just acknowledging what is, accepting what is. What is one thing that you are in need of right now. Take another beautiful, deep breath in releasing long and slow, and we are wishing you so much peace in your day and love and forgiveness and grace in your heart. Until next time, only love and light to you and only love and light from you.
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