Self-Care For The Soul (Debra Graugnard)

Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle will focus on prayers for Mercy, Healing and Restoration for all who are suffering around the world – the people, animals, plants, water, air and earth – all of existence. We invite prayers for all who are suffering from fires or storms, from illness, from loss of loved ones, from loss of jobs or homes, from violence, for all who are hungry, from all who are in shock or in grief. Please join us and help to lift the hearts, anchor in trust and open to the knowledge of what the Divine is bringing into being.

Join Svava Brooks and Debra Graugnard for a an exploration into the meanings of Self-Compassion and Self-Love and tools to put them into practice. Specific tools for those who suffer from effects of trauma, abuse and PTSD. Interactive discussion with Q&A.

This week, we address Question #5 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “What is our role with animals in the new era of peace?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

• What was our intended relationship with animals?
• How has our role with animals changed?
• How can we open to higher forms of mercy as a guide to shift us into relationship based on peace, love and compassion?

Mercy takes many forms. There is mercy in everything. And when it is time for us to make a change, the form of mercy changes. 

Now is the time for change in our relationship with animals. The planet can no longer sustain our heedlessness. We can no longer turn a blind eye to the cruelty that has been so dominant in the status quo. Cruelty and heedlessness cannot coexist with Peace.

Today, we call on higher forms of Mercy to guide the transformation of humanity as we transition into the Era of Peace.  

Listen to and enjoy this experiential healing meditation.

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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There will be times of pain, but suffering is optional. This is what Rev. Dr. Anthousa Helena believes. Dr. Helena is a holistic psychotherapist and the Founder of SOLLITE Integrative Medicine, a holistic medical approach that addresses the entire being on physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual realms for healing and conscious awakening. Today, she joins Debra Graugnard to share a presentation and experiential healing process to transform your pain into gifts for the evolution of your soul and the realization of your purpose. Remember, your gifts and talents are needed and essential to humanity. Don’t miss this episode so you can start to come out and offer yourself and your gifts to the world.

Sunday, September 22, is our Fall Equinox of 2024. This is the time of perfect balance – day and night are equal. As we connect in with the cycles of time, we are given the opportunity to go within and give thought to the balance and flow within our daily lives.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, our friend, Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on an inner journey, a Reiki Journey to experience a ‘Return to Balance’ as reflected within our human energy body, specifically our chakra system. We are guided through balancing our chakra system for clear access to guidance, observing our ‘human guidance,’ ‘inner guidance,’ and ’divine guidance.’

Get your journal and be ready to release limiting beliefs and layers around any voices or stuck energy found within your chakras and equally important, bring in the gifts and talents that support your Next Step in your journey towards Balance and connectedness with All That Is.  

You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of this Day of Love, I have a special treat for you. Today we will follow 10 simple steps to clear the heart of clutter, release its constriction, rest into the heart and bathe in a waterfall of love.  Join us for an experiential healing meditation.

Food can be used to numb feelings. Many people who binge eat or restrict use it as a way to disconnect from the body. Food addiction specialist Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, thinks we don’t talk a lot about how we use food in our culture to help us deal with stress. That’s why we have the term “stress eating” to help us deal with the emotions that are uncomfortable. Carolyn says food is a regulator in a way because it helps you. Physiologically, eating comfort foods has a direct impact on the brain and they give a temporary sense of happiness, reward, peace, or comfort. Carolyn is a consultant for treatment centers around the US who want to include her unique integrative medicine approach to help clients recovering from eating disorders and addictions. She delves into the subject of food addiction and body image issues, and using integrative medicine for treating them.

An old, almost archaic, belief has centered around the female as the weaker sex. I’d like to believe this idea is in the past, but in reality, it is one we are still recovering from, and many of us are still suffering from.  In any case, the old patterning still lurks in the layers of subconscious. 

Regardless of what body you were born in or what gender you identify with, everyone has feminine and masculine energies, and there are stigmas associated with both genders.

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on the question: Was the female (or the feminine energies) created as the weaker gender (energy)?  We will clear old patterning and belief systems, and call forth the truth from within.

You are powerful beyond measure. You are worthy of Love, Honor, and Respect.

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation. 

You're invited and welcomed to join us LIVE every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT for the Community for Conscious Living Meditation & Healing Circle. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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We all have things that trigger us – a word or phrase, or a concept or a person that sparks a fire in us or shuts us down. What are your triggers? Words? Concepts? People? Groups? What reactions come up in you when you encounter them? Have your triggers cut you off from people you care about? Have they stopped you from opening your mind and heart to what may be a way forward toward your personal fulfillment and growth?

That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll take a look at the frames that house our triggers and seek to understand – to understand them by understanding our own inner reactions, and thereby more clearly understanding ourselves. You’re invited to join us.

Growing up is hard. Trying to find who you are. Trying to fit in. Wanting to be loved and accepted. Wanting to belong to a tribe that wants us to belong.

We take on personas and engage in activities that we hope will give us what we need. Undoubtedly, we later regret some of those actions. We feel embarrassed of who we tried to be and all the ways we were not true to ourselves. 

This was my path, and I know I was not alone.  In this episode I get emotional, something I don't do often on the podcast, in sharing a story from my past and present that came up for more clearing...

When we begin the journey of healing, it’s common to close the door on the old you as you uncover the truth that has been waiting inside you.

I’m not a huge fan of re-living the past, but I do believe in purging the old energies and energetic templates that once defined you. The old identities that you once clung to just to get along and be accepted can still hang out in certain parts of your body, and they need to be released.

The old patterns affect your physical posture and structure, your body’s functioning, and your subconscious behaviors and thought patterns, and what continues to show up in your life through others.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Those old personas that tried to be cool back in the day – we’re going to clean up and purge the residual energies so your total environment can be a reflection of the truth you carry now.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

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Some people say that moving beyond old wounds before they are healed is a spiritual bypass. They believe you cannot move beyond until you have healed. Yet, the life journey is a continual process of healing. So how can you be your authentic self while you're in the process?

We change our relationship to our past, our old wounds, and the pain they cause. Our movement is more of a dance - we learn to express ourselves and be ourselves as we are moving through the divine choreography. This is not inauthentic. It's real.

To heal means to make whole. With awareness and ever-evolving consciousness, we can continue to heal as we move. The important thing is that we accept ourselves in our perfect imperfections as we grow. We do not live from our old wounds, but we have awareness of our relationship to them as we evolve into more and more authentic and fulfilling aspects our ourselves.

So how do we dance this dance that allows us to move beyond old wounds with authenticity and wisdom?  Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle for a transformative healing experience.   

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How can we make the world a place we can feel safe to live in? What can we do when the world around us seems to be in turmoil? How can we bring a little more heaven onto earth? By aligning our reality with the Divine Knowing within and practicing kindness… In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we will bring presence and witnessing to the heart and the core of the body. Our focus is to bring more alignment between the pure Existence and our daily interactions in the world – to bring more Heaven to Earth.

Earlier in the week one of our beautiful Sufi teachers, Kabir Helminski, shared the lyrics of the classic rock song Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell and more famously sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.  

"We are stardust,

We are golden,

We are billion-year-old carbon,

And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."

From the time I read the post, the song continued to loop in my heart.  The song is a remembrance of who we are and a prayer for peace.

Later in the song it says:

"And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes

Riding shotgun in the sky

Turning into butterflies

Above our nation."

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to contemplate and reconnect with who we are - cosmic beings as conduits for consciousness to explore this earth journey and to come to know itself and return. Join in a prayer for peace - a visualization of all bomber jets and all weapons turning to butterflies, all hatred turning to love and compassion throughout our world. 

You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

In today's episode, we travel back to the womb and invite the developing embryo to rest into the security of the sacred womb space and receive the nourishment and provision that is transferred through the umbilical cord - on the physiological and spiritual levels.

The question of “Enoughness” - will there ever be enough, will I ever have enough, am I enough? Enough money, enough food, enough love, enough work. Can I do enough to earn enough to have enough to be secure? 

This is a stream of consciousness that plagues our societies. It flavors the soup we have been marinating in for most of our lives. 

Yet the nourishment is available, the sustenance is available, the provision is available. Where does our sense of nourishment begin? Where does our relationship to enoughness and security begin to develop?

Today we are traveling way back to the embryonic stage to connect with the nourishment that is available in utero on the physiological and spiritual levels. 

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we’ll go on a journey to focus on the security of sustenance that we receive in the womb. 

Even if your actual experience was “not enough”, this meditation will invite your developing nervous system and somatic memory to receive and rest into a sense of safety and nourishment that your being seeks.

Listen to this episode for this nurturing healing experience. 

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I've been living with my father for 7 years now. He is 101 years young, nearing 102. This has been the most special time of my life. I've received many blessings and learned many lessons that can help us in our relationships with our parents, honoring our elderly, and in our personal growth.

In this episode, Part 1, we explore:

• Letting Go of our Attachment to Outcome, and
• Finding a New Relationship with Time

In recognition of Father’s Day, throughout the month of June I’ll be sharing keys that help us heal our hearts and find more peace in our daily lives.

Join us for inner exploration and heart-centered healing.

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Do you ever wonder how a wormy-looking caterpillar becomes a beautiful winged butterfly? It’s a mysterious process that even scientists don’t understand fully – a mystical experience with many analogies that help us understand and appreciate our human journey and soul evolution. Join me in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle to explore the journey of the monarch butterfly and presence yourself to your own evolution. How might your current life circumstances be supporting your evolution?

When you start hitting those roadblocks in life, you may be asking yourself the question, “Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing? Should I be going in this direction and put this much energy into this?” Knowing your gift marks, your soul purpose, and what your life lessons are can give you that motivation and that encouragement to keep going and to stay on course. Mary Halima Fleming is a soul purpose acceleration coach. She left a successful corporate career in 2001 to live her soul purpose as a leader, healer, and growth catalyst through love. Mary Halima has offered thousands an opportunity to discover their purpose, passion, and power. Her purpose and passion is helping you know the healing power of purpose and embrace your soul’s purpose and gifts. Learn how you can stay on course and hold the highest vision of your purpose and your soul’s divine destiny.

Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of this special day, I’ll be sharing some Sufi teachings about honoring moms as well as a reading from my upcoming book.

Bring the mom in you and all your intentions and prayers for the moms in your life as we honor the truth and sacredness of the feminine soul.  This episode includes an ancestral lineage healing for all the moms who have come before you.

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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Does the caterpillar know what it will feel like to fly? I don't know, but we are in a time of transition, moving into an era of peace. It will look different from now in many ways, beyond what our minds can imagine. Much of our current existence and dependencies will fall away.  

We can visualize what life will be like.  We can take steps to make ourselves ready.  But for this change, it will be challenging to manage every detail using our logical planning minds. 

What can we do to make ourselves ready?  That is the topic and practice of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.   

These same principles can be used for individual changes you may be going through as well as the collective changes we are going through as our humanity and world are evolving.

Listen to today's Meditation & Healing Circle for an exploration and building of faith and trust for the transition into the new era. 

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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What is it that keeps us from releasing the veils that keep our light from shining? Human beings were given freewill. In order to exercise freewill, we have to forget our connection with that all that is that is so much greater than what we are. We are one with that all that is, but we forget that as we get squeezed into this bodysuit of consciousness that we live in. We’ve squeezed ourselves into this constrictive body and forget that we are one with that all that is and that we are so expansive and so bright. Yet the consciousness is so much bigger. Human beings exist in the atmosphere of this planet earth. We know what we know based on what we’re able to reach and experience from here. What do we know of what’s outside of our ocean? Discover how you can explore beyond the atmosphere of planet earth and into the greater depths of the universe while still living in an ocean.

• Here’s How »

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The Hu breath is a significant breath for connecting with the Divine, the cosmic realms, the regenerative life forces of creation, an inner awakening to the truth of your existence, and more.

In this episode, we anchor in the body for an embodied grounded experience of the Hu breath meditation, as you are created to be a marriage of heaven and earth in form, on a journey of evolution of the soul and elevation of consciousness.

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing, awakening, aligning experience.

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It is said that when we heal ourselves, we heal seven generations back and seven generations forward. Yet when we pass on from this life, we return to a state of expansive consciousness and connection that does not carry the same constrictions and limitations that we hold while in body. So when we heal our past generations, what are we healing? Do our individual ancestors need our healing? Perhaps. But more effectively we are healing our relationships with the past. We are healing and releasing the cords that are woven through our family lineage that affect our current belief systems and behavior patterns. And our ancestors are a product of the culture of their time, a part of the past collective consciousness. With ancestral healing, we are healing the younger years of the collective – an inner child healing for the collective consciousness of humanity.

What are the patterns that have shown up in your life that you would like to change?
What have you and your family gone through that you are ready to heal?

Chances are, you can find the same patterns in the collective of humanity. Look at the dynamics that play out in our world leadership. Between countries, in politics, in corporations, in religious organizations, in social services, in communities. We are all part of one tapestry. The healing path of the collective is the same as the path of the individual. This will be the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – to heal the family lineage and the inner child of the collective consciousness – to unify the splintered parts of ourselves and humanity so that we may return to wholeness, to oneness with a core light.

As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

Do you struggle with wanting to live your life aligned with the divine plan for you, yet you question the role of your own will? It's a common conundrum. Yet the two are not mutually exclusive. They actually have a beautiful relationship that can guide us through our journey. 

So where does free will intersect with the divine plan? How can we navigate our choices to align with greater spiritual truths and ensure a sustainable future? 

This is the topic of this Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a healing meditation to gain clarity and guidance. 

You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

Forgiveness is best used as a daily elixir. It can be subtle like a multi-vitamin or strong like a powerful healing tonic, depending on the needs of the day. Even if you don’t know what your needs are, forgiveness knows how to heal your discomfort and return you to connection with your true self.

You don’t always need to analyze why you feel uncomfortable. You don’t have to know whom to ask forgiveness from or who to forgive. This is a time to call on your Source, your angels and guides, and ask them for help to forgive your separations and return you to unity with yourself and the One Universal Love. That’s what we’ll be working with in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll call on some of the Divine Attributes for forgiveness:

Al-Ghaffar, the One Who forgives again and again
Al-Ghafur, for forgiveness that heals the deep hurts
Astagfiru’llah, to return from the separation back to Unity

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Happy Easter Sunday! Today is a day when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus three days after he was crucified and buried in a tomb. It represents rebirth, renewal and restored faith.

Truly we are opening to a new time, to new beginnings – and every day is a new beginning. It’s a time to break free from the tomb we’ve been living in and step into a life beyond our illusions. It’s a time for awakening and for realizing an even brighter future.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together to celebrate a time of rebirth and to strengthen and renew faith in the expansion that follows constriction and in the awakening that follows deep sleep.

Pain, pain, go away! And don’t come back another day! Isn’t that how we speak to our pain? “I can’t wait until this pain goes away!” “Why won’t you just go away?” Whether it’s physical, mental or emotional pain, we just want to be out of the pain.

As a bodyworker, I was trained to tune in to the pain, to be present with it, to listen to it and allow it to direct me to what it needed to be able to open and unfold and release. It’s a very effective technique for restoring the body to a pain-free functional state. The same process works for healing the energy body and the emotions. It’s not comfortable to be present with the discomfort, but great benefit can come from it.

Our bodies are speaking to us all the time. When we don’t listen, it speaks louder. Something inside wants to be heard, to be known, to be understood. Just like us. This will be the focus of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – to take the time to be present with the discomfort, to listen to what it has to say, to make space for it to unfold, to unify the disconnected parts of ourselves with the whole. This is a key to loving and accepting ourselves completely.

You’re invited to join us.

We’re going through intense times on a global scale right now. At the same time, astrologically and cosmically there is great potential for healing, transformation and transcendence. It’s a good time to center in on the heart’s desires for the kind of world we want to live in. Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, as we come together in peaceful meditation to listen to the heart and allow the deep heart’s yearning to come forth. We make our intentions and allow our minds, bodies and actions to align with what Source calls the heart to bring into manifestation. As Gandhi said, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

The coronavirus has come as a powerful force. Our bodies need healing and protection, and we are being called to make drastic changes in the way we are living right now. We’ve been living for a long time on a trajectory that is not sustainable, that is killing our planet. We have needed to make drastic changes for some time, but we have been conditioned for our conveniences – they are part of a larger system that has been near impossible to unravel. Now we have an opportunity to unplug and examine what is working and what is not, as well as what is in alignment with our highest values. Meanwhile, our bodies need healing, strengthening and protection. Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle will be a healing session to cleanse and purify our minds, energy bodies, hearts and spirits. We will be addressing symptoms of disease, cleansing and strengthening ourselves energetically and spiritually. We’ll also examine some of the changes we are being asked to make and the messages and teachings this brings so we can bring ourselves into alignment with our inner wisdom and hearts, and with what Source is asking of us through this challenge. We’ll call on Source to increase our trust, give us protection and align us with truth.

The healing journey can get pretty intense at times. If your nervous system becomes too highly activated or you become uncomfortable and need a reprieve, call on your resources to provide a sense of comfort and help you come to a resting place. Today we are going to explore the resources we have available to us as we are moving through the healing process. Again, this is relevant to anyone on a healing path, not only for those who have experienced severe trauma.

Last week we completed the section on Sustainability & World Peace. Before we move on to Part 2, I want to recap with 7 Key Takeaways from this section, and also offer a heart-centered meditation to deepen, expand, and strengthen the heart.

It’s okay if you missed any or all of the first section. You can still receive benefit from today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

Please join us for an experiential healing meditation to release us from the confines of the ego-driven cultures and expand our consciousness to harmonize with Peace.

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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What internal conversations do you have with yourself around money? What beliefs guide your financial decisions? Discover the role GUILT plays in your financial health, and how loyalty to your family and friends can be holding back your wealth creation. 

Our special guest, Jean Border, guides us through the fascinating world of the Emotional Freedom Technique, a gentle technique to help you move easily from experiences of the past into a calmer, exciting life.

Experience for yourself these powerful protocols to help you discover and let go of baggage (and beliefs) from your past that has been weighing you down, and keeping you stuck in old patterns.

Jean Border is a holistic intuitive healer who loves helping small business owners break through the limiting beliefs that hold them back in their businesses. However, you do not need to be a business owner of any kind to benefit from this one! Guilt is an equal opportunity employer!  

You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

That person in your life who can’t quite get it together. Everybody has one. It might even be you. They frustrate the heck out of you. You try to reason with them, plead with them, support them, challenge them, and maybe even enable them. To no avail.  

But what do they really need? Deep down? What does the soul need? What do you need to be holding people in love? In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we offer a special prayer and hold them (and all who are enfolded in their life circumstances) in love and compassion. 

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If you could speak with your future self, what conversation would you want to have? What do you want to say about the world you helped to create that your future self is living in? What do you want to hear from your future self about the impact your decisions and lifestyle choices made? 

This is a critical time in our history in the making. Not just politically, but culturally, morally, spiritually. What side of history do you want to be on? 

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we journey forward to connect with our future selves to listen to what wants to be revealed. 

Listen to this episode to receive guidance for choices you can make today to create a peaceful, compassionate, and sustainable future that your future self will want to live in. 

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In these challenging times, your health and well-being need extra attention and support. In this interview with Debra Graugnard, Compassionate Healthcare specialist, Dr. Rabia J. Goodban, teaches you how to allow compassion to flow through your systems and carry you to a true transformation journey. Offering transformative healing for almost two decades, Dr. Rabia combines different alternative healing modalities in her practice, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, Sufi healing, shiatsu, Chinese medicine, and environmental medicine. With these tips that she shares to us, learn how to stay connected, grounded, and keep your breath and heart rate flowing steadily and fully to support your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

Do you ever feel nervous about seeing people you grew up with, people from your past? Do you worry about the memories of who you were? Do the old friends and family still expect you to show up as that old self? 

The hooks that tie you to your past can be strong. However, they can be released and the old patterns can be transformed.

You've grown and evolved. You don't have to regress to that old version of yourself. You have the power to be YOU in any circumstance.

That is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

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We are all connected. There is no separation. If you’re ever confused about what’s best for you, then look at what’s best for the planet because be assured it’s the same thing. The intelligence of the universal oneness would have it no other way. This is Self-Care For the Soul and we’ll be sharing with you a passion for exploring how our belief systems and our daily habits affect our physical health, mental health, emotional health, as well as our connection with spirit and are caring for the planet. We’ll also be exploring approaches to personal growth through changing your outer habits like food and lifestyle.

Do you have a story to tell? Do you wonder if your story is worth telling? Do you question whether anyone would read it? Wondering where to begin? Then please listen to this inspiring interview with Daria Anne DiGiovanni, author, ghostwriter, editor, copywriter and independent publishing consultant.

What impresses me most about Daria is how she connects with her clients to draw out their stories, how she creates safety for them, how passionate she becomes about the story she is telling and the characters. I could feel how deeply heard and held her clients were. Her methods are healing. Her practice is a healing art.

I’m excited for you to hear her stories and learn about how she has helped others. If you have a story to tell, even if you decide not to publish or only to share it with your closest friends, consider Daria Anne Media for your projects. http://dariaannemedia.com.

Last week we explored the metaphysical meaning of "human" and explored the breath of spirit and divine existence within the heart. This is your true essence - your deepest inner truth that you ultimately feel brings you into harmony and fulfillment.

Today, we'll explore how to bring your thoughts and habits into alignment with the divine essence within your heart - how to know God in your heart.

When you are in alignment with your deepest knowledge and truth, you are raising your vibration. As we are nearing the time of ascension, this becomes increasingly important to help you make a smooth transition. So please tune in today and join us in preparing for the transition into the era of peace!

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You’ve probably heard this quote before, but what does it mean? Perhaps it is meant to encourage us to view our lives through the eyes of the spirit rather than the eyes of humanity.

Through the eyes of humanity, we can view this life as what is real, with all its ups and downs, while the unseen spirit world is distant – something we may or may not know after we die.

Through the eyes of the spirit, we can view this life as a journey through a divinely orchestrated illusion that is intentioned for our souls to learn and evolve – the human experience insignificant while the spiritual experience is the goal.

I tend toward the second vantage point – I prefer to view life through the eyes of the spirit. Yet, the human experience plays significant roles in the spiritual experience, and we cannot bypass the human experiences. In fact, we can have a lot of fun here. Nor can we discount the wisdom that comes from the Nature of Being Human.

Is there a way to have both the humanity eyes and spiritual eyes open and integrate life’s experiences into a comprehensive harmonious event? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll engage in a practice to integrate the human and spirit experience – to bring more harmony and joy to life.

Have you ever had the experience of

• Knowing you’ve done a good job, but then receiving criticism?
• Showing up to be a good friend, and then being rejected?
• Doing you best to get along, but it wasn’t quite enough?

This one has been a big life/soul lesson for me, and it has come up with clients 3 times in the past week. Going through it with clients reminds me of how far I’ve come, and seeing it 3 times in one week is a sign to bring it to you.

The disapproval can leave you deflated, questioning your own value, wondering what you did wrong. 

But you are still the same person before and after another person’s approval or disapproval. You are the same regardless of recognition or reward. 

No one else’s opinions of you can change who you are.

You might have been left with a few wounds and scars, and that is where we will bring healing in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. 

In today’s practice, you will

• Unhook from the cords that have tied you to someone else’s approval.
• Reclaim your own authority and self-worth.
• Acknowledge your value and anchor the knowledge within you.
• Use powerful healing prayers to transform your inner patterning and vibration to align with your core truth.

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience. 

This healing process is outlined in my book, Bridging the Gaps: A Journey to the Center of Your Self. Find it at http://bridgingthegapsworkbook.com

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Every pain or block that we carry today can be traced to an earlier time – an experience of a younger self that is still present inside, still holding on to the experience, still unsure what to do with it.

Sometimes we are that person, and sometimes we barely recognize or relate to him/her because we’ve buried the past and moved on.

However, what is held inside is still with us, and in subconscious and conscious ways, we’re navigating around it.

The poet Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers you have built against it.”

The Love is inside at your core. When we find and release the barriers, you are left with Love. You are the Love.

One way we release the barriers is through the Ho’Oponopono practice, which brings acknowledgement, forgiveness and gratitude.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll invite the inner children to join us. We’ll offer them acknowledgement, forgiveness and gratitude to release their blocks and barriers and return to love.

You’re invited to join us. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are and receive.

There will be space for your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet.

If you could be an instrument of pure divine will, what kind of instrument would you be? Most importantly, how would you want to be used in this world?

We are all instruments of divine will, and we have free will so we can choose what we do and be.

As an instrument of divine will, how do you want your life to be used?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle to lean in to your divine connection and explore how the instrument of your soul longs to be used. 

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Do you ever feel like you wished the people closest to you liked you? Like, you know your family loves you, but you feel like they do not LIKE you. Chances are you heard things growing up that made you feel you were not enough or you were defective or you never got it right.  This leaves an imprint on the developing psyche that says "I'm not likable" or "People don't like me."

I have a very personal experience with this lingering subconscious belief pattern. After several years of healing, I became aware of this voice and how it was shaping my experiences. Of course, I brought it into healing and the evolution was exquisite.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I guide you through a process of healing layers of your subconscious template and filling the space with the person you were created to be and like. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

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Several people have asked me to create a simple 15-minute meditation. I got it in 16! No intro or outro. You're welcome to download it and use it as a daily meditation practice.

This week, we address Question #8 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “Are humans capable of creating a sustainable environment where all elements of creation can thrive?”

My teacher used to say, “You think you are a small star, when in fact you contain the whole universe.”

Rumi said, “You are not a drop in the ocean.  You are the ocean in a drop.”

Everything we see outside of ourselves is a reflection of what we contain within us. Likewise, everything contained within us is reflected in how we relate to what is outside of us.

We cannot separate ourselves from the rest of creation – AND the inner work we do to bring inner peace and wholeness does affect the collective consciousness as well as the global and cosmic vibrations.

As I sat in meditation reflecting on this question/answer today, I see how evident this is. There are many pathways we can travel to approach this topic:

 * Healing our own bodies,

 * Healing our relationships with others,

 * Praying for healing of the collective consciousness,

 * Praying for healing for the planet, all her inhabitants and her environment,

 * Healing mantras to bring all vibrations closer to the vibrations of Divine Peace and Unity.

The approach we take today will depend on who shows up and what is needed. All the doorways are open.

Are we capable of living in sustainability and peace? Yes. Will we? It depends on us – each one of us.

Listen to this meditation to bring healing and alignment for yourself, your relationships, the collectives, our planet, our environment. 

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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If our planet were human – a body with a spirit traveling a pathway of evolution – we could easily recognize that it has experienced severe trauma and is in deep need of healing. 

Effects of trauma leave the body’s nervous system on alert, hyperarousal, waiting for the next proverbial shoe to drop. 

The body’s electrical pathways are overstimulated, in need of settling into its natural rhythms, in need of returning to peace. 

Our planet’s environment is covered in systemic trauma – social, political, financial, food system, communication systems (radio waves, satellites, 5G) soil, plants, animals, water, air – all out of harmony and in need of balancing. 

For the wars, natural disasters, effects of climate change, effects of human “progress”, we offer special prayers for peace today to help settle the energetic pathways on our planet, to release patterns of fear and distrust, to relax into natural rhythms, to connect with love and compassion and kindness – to prepare for the restoration of peace on earth.  

This is the topic and practice of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We set our intention to surround the earth and its environment with peace, to calm its electrical pathways and nervous system, and to reconnect with the inherent love and beauty of our planet. 

God willing, it will bring healing to you individually as well, as to bring healing to the whole is to bring wholeness to all of its parts.

Listen to this episode for a much-needed collective healing experience.

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Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle focuses on Moving Beyond Trauma in a way that honors the wisdom of your body and respects the needs of your nervous system, muscle memory, cellular consciousness and of course your heart. Regardless of whether you consider your life events to be trauma, we all have past events that have shaped our self-identity. However, our past does not define us. Past events do not make us who we are. They give us pathways to discover who we are – the resilience, strength, love and all the beautiful attributes we find inside ourselves in challenging times. But the past does not create these qualities. They are in you now and have been in you all along. Your first life-defining event was when your pure spirit was breathed into your physical existence. This is the truth of who you are. Please join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle. We’ll practice some practical techniques for settling the nervous system and grounding into your body. We’ll call on the light of your pure existence to hold you and remind you of your Divine truth. Our Divine Attribute for today is Al-Mu’id, The Restorer.

You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

Do you ever wish you had a crystal ball that would clearly guide you at each step along your life journey, and then rally all your inner voices to hop on the faith-and-trust train to follow the guidance?

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the Divine Name, ar-Rashid – the One Who Illuminates the Path of Growth – to light the path forward and help us align all the inner selves to join us on the path of growth. 

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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Sometimes we just need to stop, take a deep breath and allow ourselves to be filled with Mercy. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we empty our cups and expand our capacity to receive, and fill the cup with the healing power of the love of the Divine.  Join us in this healing meditation.

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Domination & Greed & Unconditional Love... Hmmmm.... One of these things is not like the other... or is it?

This week, we are continuing with the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question for this week is: “How can we embrace love when the world appears to be dominated by people who enslave others – human and non-human – for domination, control, and money?”

• How has this power structure grown out of Unconditional Love?
• How can we find and embrace Unconditional Love within it?
• As the world is evolving into an Era of Peace, what will happen to the attributes of domination, control, and greed?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle for a heart-centered inquiry into these questions. Release the conditioning from your subconscious that keeps you locked in the patterns established by these old structures. Bring healing and peace to your heart. 

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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We have been in the midst of an evolution into an era of Peace, Unconditional Love and Universal Harmony. In this episode we seek to bring our perception of spirit and body into a unified state within us.

This evolution of consciousness has moved us away from clinging to the past for our identities, even for healing. That wave crested, we are now on the other side of it rolling forward onto a new shore.

We can now embrace that momentum and move toward who we are called to be in a new era of Universal Harmony. We can receive the vibrational templates of this cosmological evolution and say yes to the shifts.

We are all cells of One Body. The One Body is shifting whether our individually-minded selves like it or not. We can choose to say yes and proactively evolve with it, or we can resist and fight it and remain in disharmony and discontent.

This time thru March 2023 is a time to choose. Our world has been illuminating long-held stark contrasts in belief systems and lifestyles. We can see more clearly and no longer deny the effects of these growing dichotomies. We can examine our values and choose how to align ourselves moving forward.

Which path of evolution do you want to take? What values do you align with? What is the Spirit consciousness wanting to BE and express through your human existence?

Are you ready to fully merge with Spirit consciousness that exists within you to BE the expression of Spirit in your human existence?

In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we focus on merging of the Spirit that lives through you – to merge with the physical body so you know Who breathes you and you breathe in synch with total trust. 

Listen to this episode for a transformational healing experience.

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Are you seeking purpose and fulfillment? It doesn’t help to look for the world to bring it to you. You can find it inside yourself. – this is the key to unlocking your potential and living your purpose. To be true to yourself, you must be present in yourself. To utilize your gifts, you must be grounded in your gifts. To fulfill your passion, you must be filled with your passion. This is what we practice in today’s Prayer & Healing Circle – being Present inside ourselves to access the inner spark and ground into our gifts and fill ourselves up with the passion for what we have to bring to the world.

You might be older, wiser, and a bit more mature than this, but you can probably recognize it as the battle cry of the teenager:

“You cannot tell me what to do, and more you try, the harder I will fight to do what I want, and if you push I’ll do the opposite just to spite you!”

I might not have been aware of it at the time, but my teenage self certainly sang that song a time or twenty. And “the opposite” was not always in my best interests. OK, maybe it was never in my best interest. And the mistakes that followed became the fodder for many of the healing sessions I’ve needed as I got older.

No one wants to feel controlled or dominated. We all need autonomy. But we also need to understand our needs and our strengths so that the rebellion against what feels like a controlling authority actually honors our true needs and does not lead us into potentially harmful situations.

As parents, when our children make choices that frighten us, we end up blaming ourselves and questioning what we did wrong to create this situation. Yet, this is a part of the dance of the souls, as painful as it may be.

Whether you are in the parent role, or you are or once were in the young adult role, this dance leaves scars that need love, understanding, and forgiveness to heal.

This is the topic of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience.

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Today’s interview features Svava Brooks. Having suffered sexual abuse, Svava’s early response to childhood sexual abuse was to become “Little Miss Perfect,” feeling responsible for everything happening in her environment, and attempting to hide any evidence that something could be wrong. She struggled as a young person to make sense of becoming a grown up while feeling so much self-loathing and shame. About 10 years into her healing journey, she realized that if someone had given her the words and language to speak up and ask for help, she probably would not have suffered into her adulthood. Now Svava is Abuse Survivor Coach, a Certified TRE® Provider, blogger & Author of best seller Journey to the Heart, 365-Day Guide to Thriving after Trauma. She is passionate about helping responsible adults learn how to talk about child sexual abuse in a direct and empowering way that creates awareness and confidence for adults that there is something they can do to keep kids safe.

Do you ever feel like daily life is an adverse experience? We often discuss childhood trauma and the ACE study that was done to track the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences. The study showed a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, suicide, high-risk sexual behaviors, disease and early death rate in people who had experienced childhood trauma. But what about the stresses of everyday life? These days they can be pretty intense, too.

Here’s the inconvenient truth. Oftentimes, it feels like daily life is an adverse experience, especially if you’re a person who has experienced trauma and is still under the effects of the ordeal. If you’re a caretaker of children who have experienced trauma, in which the patterns can play out on a daily basis, then buckle up for brand-new ways to reset and recharge effectively.

The experiences of daily life for parents and children can be quite trying. Everything from the foods we eat, the jobs, the finances, the relationships, the parenting struggles, bullying and harassment, the news of world events, the pressures of video games and movies. Let’s take a breath…

This week's Meditation & Healing Circle focuses on the topic of Sexual Intimacy in the Era of Peace and Unconditional Love. What is a healthy sex life in the realm where we identify primarily with consciousness and secondarily with the physical/material? And how can we have that soul-level experience now?

This is the next question in the series, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. The question is: How can I have a healthy sex life that honors the sacredness of my body and spirit?

In this meditation practice, we call on 2 Divine Names to help us awaken to the Divine forces of Sacredness (Al-Quddus) and Divine Intimacy (Al-Waliy).

The Meditation & Healing Circle is LIVE every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're invited to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the recording ends for Q&A, support, and discussion.

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Yesterday a group of us kids who went to elementary school together – yes, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – got together for a reunion along with our 6^th grade teacher!  It's been a while - 45 years!

One of our classmates brought along a collection of photos, booklets, and newspaper clippings that his mother had perfectly preserved – and the classic graduation booklet which contained the answers to the questions:

• What do you aspire to be when you grow up?
• What will you be most remembered for?

Oh boy! It was a hoot! Only one person was actually somewhat aligned with her 6^th grade aspirations. We talked about what influenced us and led us to where we’ve ended up at this point – and also, what’s next?

This past 2 years has changed much about our world and the way we perceive and relate to our world. Many of my classmates have retired or semi-retired. Personally, I’m on my 3^rd career, and it continues to evolve.

We change. Life changes. The questions come around again and again:

• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• What do you want to be most remembered for?

So, I thought this would be a great topic for us all to revisit today – especially as our world is evolving so rapidly at this time. Who do you want to be in the next phase of your life? What role do you want to play as we evolve into a new era of peace?

Join us today for an experiential healing meditation as we explore and open to what’s next. 

The Meditation & Healing Circle is live every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. You're welcome to join us. If you join live, you can stay on after the meditation for Q&A, support and discussion.

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There are parts of ourselves we innately hide – the parts that have been humiliated and shamed. They covertly direct our paths to avoid repeating a humiliating shaming experience, while also avoiding being seen and heard even when we have something vitally important to express.

These parts of us need Light and Love to be healed. The Light illuminates truth, which illuminates the underlying need of the heart and soul. The Love fills the need and heals at the deepest layers of your being. The Love restores you to the truth of who you are created to be.

This is the focus of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We continue with the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. This is the question for today is “How can I recover from humiliation and shame?”

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing that reaches to the deep heart and soul.

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How is your heart today? Does it feel like a Sacred Garden or more like a sack of heavy rocks? I have to admit, mine was feeling more like a sack of rocks this morning. Very heavy from busy, hectic, crowded events of the past few weeks. Yet the memory of the garden and the yearning to feel it again is still in there, and very strong. The heart is a garden, and like every garden, it needs constant tending or else the weeds will overtake it and choke out the fruit-bearing plants.

As I was weeding my heart-garden with my morning meditation practice, the song “Just Give Me a Reason” by Pink came to mind.

“Just give me a reason
Just a little bit’s enough
Just a second we’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

It’s in the stars
It’s been written in the scars on our hearts
We’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again”

It’s in the stars, and we are literally stardust. The pathway we travel leaves the scars on our hearts and these can lead us home. We’re not broken, just best. The love is still inside us. We just need to clear the pathways to find the way back home – home to the garden of love inside. In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll come together to tend our gardens and clear the pathway to the love inside. We’ll open the passageway for the love to flow again. You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

You are AWESOME! You were born awesome! And - the human journey includes the process of separating from our awesome selves. Somewhere along the way, some experience tells us that it’s not okay or not safe to let the light shine, and that innate permission to be awesome gets taken away or buried deep inside. 

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we reclaim that permission, let go of concerns about what others think or fears about what they might say or do. Permission granted to BE AWESOME! 

Listen for an experiential meditation and healing circle to tap into and embody your innate awesome self. Join us live on Sundays at 10am US ET / 7am US PT at http://JoyfullyLivingWellness.com/the-community-calls

Today’s topic comes in response to learning that the song “WAP” was named 2020 Song of the Year by several media outlets and reading reviews calling it a “sex-positive expression of feminine power.” Today we're exploring what Female Empowerment is in terms of sexual expression.

When I was a young teen, I was aware that song lyrics shaped what was expected of the girls and boys in my small town. I didn’t like it, but as someone who wanted to fit in, I conformed. And I ended up carrying a lot of regret and shame into my adulthood.

My main concern now is for the audience this music reaches. What does it do to the minds of our youth and how does it shape the culture they are living in? What do they believe they have to do to fit in and be accepted?

Please join us (via replay) for a personal exploration – males and females welcomed. We’ll use a healing mantra to wash sexual shame and recover the beauty and dignity of a sexually empowered life.

Join us LIVE on Sundays at 10am US ET / 7am US PT, and stay on after the recording has ended for discussion, Q&A and support.

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People are innately attuned to music, either to the sounds of nature or the songs of the most popular artists. Author, researcher, and speaker Eric Rankin dug deeper into this art form to discover a new connection in the form of sonic geometry. Joining Debra Graugnard and her co-host Amany Shalaby, he shares his exploration of the harmonics of sacred geometry that make up the shapes found in creation. Citing the works of other scholars, Eric explains how shapes, numbers, music coming together in various cultures can help us understand the universe and its many mysteries. He also talks about the possible role of extraterrestrials or higher beings in deciphering this complex subject while navigating vibrations and frequencies that harmoniously flow around us.

When you see yourself, do you see beauty? Or do you judge yourself? What does your self-talk say?

Listen to this episode for a self-talk check and some words that I hope will change your perspective so you see yourself as a reflection of Pure Light that radiates beauty, no matter what.

By now we know that uncomfortable emotions influence our food choices, eating habits, and ability to digest and absorb nutrients.  In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we will look specifically at how fear might be influencing our eating habits. 

By fear I mean a disruption in your base chakra and belly energy centers that disturbs your primal sense of safety and security.  Whether the disruption was caused by something in this lifetime or something from a past life you brought with you to heal, we want to bring healing to those underlying agitations so you can feel more trust, security, and peace.   

Listen to this episode for a gentle, compassionate healing experience.    

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Do you feel like you've done a lot of work to leave your past hurts behind, but there is still a part of you that can't break free from your identification with the old traumas? 

Your past does not make you who you are. It just helps you discover the truth at the core of your being. 

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the divine power of The Invincible, a power within your life force that anchors you to your core light no matter what happens to you in this earth journey. It purges out the old wounds and connects you to your primordial nature.

Listen to this episode to purge identification with old wounds from your cellular consciousness and be embodied with your core light.  

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Do you ever feel so passionate about your beliefs that you want everyone to understand - and then when they don't get how important your message is, you want to beat them over the head with your knowledge! 

It's really hard to see people living in ways that cause harm to themselves, each other, the animals, the earth. Why can't they see??? 

But then you remember, the basis of your beliefs includes compassion, love, and acceptance. But how can you have acceptance for those who are so blind to the ways of peace and love? 

As a person of love and compassion, you’ve probably ridden the teeter totter of your desire for change versus the acceptance of what is.  Is there a way to hold these two sides in balance?

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we tease out our passions, purpose, and feelings so we can find a way forward through the frustrations to hold ALL of our values as we desire to make the world a more peaceful and sustainable home for all.

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We move into the new decade faced with many problems that threaten the collective of our humanity and the planet. AND this is a time when we can make powerful changes that will tip the scales for the higher good. To help us understand how to access our own inner wisdom and participate in evolution for the higher good of the collective, Dharmendra Gordon offered us a LIVE webinar event.

Dharmendra Gordon is creator of Accelerated Collective Evolution. He teaches and guides us through a process for reaching higher solutions to problems facing our collective as we move forward into this new decade – which brings with it opportunity for positive unifying change in the midst of our divided world. Join us to expand the potential of the collective superconsciousness to discover innovative solutions to any and all of the problems that humanity is facing at this time.

Our society has taught us to squelch our emotions – it’s not okay to feel, or at least it’s not okay to show your emotions. But the emotions have the power to heal beyond what the mind can reach.

Emotions play an important role in the human journey. They provide a doorway to understand what is most important to you – your core values and your deepest inner knowing. They are vital to healing and returning to wholeness.

This is the focus of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. Today’s meditation provides you a safe space to be present with what is in your heart, to listen to its messages and embrace your core truth. 

Listen to this episode for a heart-centered healing experience. 

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The words “touch” and “online” might sound like two very incompatible terms for obvious reasons. They may not be that incompatible, though, as this episode shows. Are you a healer or bodyworker? Has your business been affected by the pandemic? It turns out you do not have to give up your purpose or passion for serving. Join Debra Graugnard in this interview with Joan Brooks, CRS (Certified Rubenfeld Synergist), as she talks about how to integrate touch and dialog into online sessions to accelerate your clients’ growth. Joan serves as Training Director and Faculty at Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute.

Did you ever have those times as a child when you wished someone would have been there to protect you, to take up for you when someone was hurting you or making fun of you or bullying you?

This child and her needs still live inside you, and you can give that to her now. You can give her the protection she needed and be her advocate to bring healing to the memories and energies that are stored with her inside you. 

Listen to this experiential healing to bring her the momma tiger energy and let her know she is protected. Instill a sense of safety and worthiness in her, and in yourself. 

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This morning as I sat in reflection and meditation around this chapter, the process that unfolded was deeply healing, revealing, and transformative. I want to share this with you today in hope that it will be for you too.



This is Question #7 of the series: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

The question is: “Can we survive Climate Change?”

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore:

* What are the greatest shifts we can make within ourselves?

* What shifts can we make in our daily lives to become part of the solution?

* Prayers for awakening of humanity and protection of the planet and all life she sustains?

In our meditation today, we release our personal sense of separation and unworthiness for the knowing of “enoughness.” You have enough, you ARE enough, and you are worthy of the deepest, purest Love – True LOVE.  

On the global scale, we explore the Divine Unity that can be found in what appears as opposites – evil and good, harmful and beneficial, etc. 

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People who have suffered trauma at such young ages put up this frozen wall of trauma and hide behind their silence. Dalzenia Sams, author, painter and artist for peace, had suffered such trauma as well, having been a victim of sexual violation. Dalzenia’s story of abuse includes three separate cases of rape. After the third instance, she felt completely broken and was ready to take her life. Fortunately, Dalzenia was in a program with a few women who were therapists of trauma release work. They recognized she was in shock and were able to support her until she was able to open up. In Dalzenia’s words, “They saved my life.” As her healing journey continued, Dalzenia found it was her artwork that brought through her healing power. The first painting she ever did for herself was called Ultimate Freedom, symbolizing a prayer for world peace, a prayer for personal peace, attaining absolute happiness, and connecting to the mystic law of the universe.

This past week, hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Cat 5, claiming the lives of 43 people and leaving 70,000 people homeless. Fires burning in the Amazon continue to threaten the lives and homes of indigenous tribes who have been defenders of this precious land against deforestation for logging, gold mining, farming and cattle ranching.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle as we offer prayers for those who have been affected by these recent disasters, natural and human-made. We also offer prayers for our planet and all that affects the conditions that increase severity and frequency of storms, flooding, fires and drought. You’re invited to join us.

We did it! We have just completed all 37 questions in all 5 sections from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Each of the 5 sections outlined a core teaching to living in Peace and Universal Harmony. Together they form a beautiful pathway of the human journey to return from our perceived separation to the reality of Truth and Unity. Today we review the 5 Core teachings and the overview of the pathway of return.

Ram Dass said, “We’re all just walking each other home.” 

Listen to this episode to explore the pathway home and receive guided healing and inspiration for your journey.

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It might seem hard to think about living with meaning when there is so much unrest in the world. However, consciously or subconsciously, we are all trying to understand what's going on. Why is this happening? What are we supposed to do about it? What happens to our lives meanwhile? What can we do to stay positive and hold hope?

The truth is, we are not alone. This world is an illusion. There is a higher reality that we are a part of. And the veils are not that thick. Our guides are right with us. They are accessible. They can help us get through this and understand. They can help us live with meaning and contribute to the greater good.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, I share Three Simple Steps to Give Meaning to Your Life. We focus on aligning with our hearts and asking for help from our guides and Source. We practice setting an aligned intention, and then reflecting on events to glean a higher meaning. And a third step not to be forgotten... 

Listen to this episode to learn Three Steps to Add Meaning to Your Life and stay aligned with your highest connection and deepest integrity.

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My spiritual teacher used to say, “Do not stop with any outside pictures. See the Face of God in everything.” 

"Everything?" "Yes, everything." "But what about..."

This includes everything outside ourselves and everything inside ourselves. And everything is One.

This means no separation, no you versus me, no judgment of better-worse, higher-lower, worthy-unworthy, right-wrong.

The poet Rumi wrote:

“Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about

ideas and language.

Even the phrase ‘each other’

doesn’t make any sense.”

One key to the question, “How can I know You?” is to never assume you do, to approach everything with the eye of wonder which originates in the heart of the seeker – and then ask, “Who seeks? Who sees? What is here to be revealed?”

In this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we explore this question which is perhaps unanswerable in any complete form, but a beautiful guide for the Life journey.

In a world that values presence, certainty, courage, and confidence, where is the place for humility and surrender? We will include this delicate dance in our exploration as well. 

Listen to this episode for an experiential healing meditation.

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Do you have a tendency to soothe your nerves with comfort food? Then you eat a bunch of junk and feel sluggish or just plain yucky?  Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle to learn techniques to settle your nervous system and soothe yourself without using food.  

I dove into the Spiritual Healing right away. Please absorb that. And stay on until the end for tips on how to divert your attention and release your energy when the urges come up and you can't drop into a healing session in the moment.

That said, use these meditations regularly and repeatedly to retrain your nervous system and reestablish neurological pathways and habits.

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One thing our US election showed clearly is that the feminine and masculine dynamics are really skewed. The truth of feminine and masculine power is not understood. Until we recognize the highest potential of the feminine and masculine, we cannot have a world of peace or unity.

In this powerful Meditation & Healing Circle, we purge the old conditioning that has us still agreeing to live in archaic behaviors and beliefs, tap into the highest potential of feminine and masculine, and bring our energies into a synergistic relationship that can create true strength that can move our humanity and our planet forward into living in harmony, unity, and peace.

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There is a holy saying, a Hadith Qudsi, that says:

God said,

“I was a Hidden Treasure and I desired to be known,

so I created the creation and made them to know Me.”

Do you every wonder why when you see signs of beauty, your heart expands or softens or melts, and you feel a sense of euphoria or awe or wonder? The signs of beauty bring about an instant response of “WOW!”

Today we will elevate our spirits by recalling signs of beauty and exploring the mysteries of sound, vibration, and beauty. We tap into the teaching on Cosmology of Letters and Sound from the Sufi mystic and scholar, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, particularly the hidden meanings within the sound of “wow” and the Arabic letter, Waw. 

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we swim in the Ocean of Sound to explore the connections and meanings within the body, heart, spirit, and nature.

Listen to this episode for a transformational awakening experience. 

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As we close out the month of June and this series on Lessons and Blessings from Living with My Father, today we tap into compassionate listening with an inquiry into the questions: "Why have our souls traveled this earth together at this time? What are we here to learn from each other, to give and receive. to share?" 

Listen to this episode to explore heart-centered connection with a deep desire to learn about your own personal soul journey.

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From the time we are born, we begin forgetting our beautiful sacred connected self. We begin to perceive ourselves as separate from Source, and a lot of pain and wounding follows as a result. We live the lie of the individual in survival mode.

In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, my friend and our community member, Cathy Delwiche, leads us through a process to heal our wounds of separation. Her process guides us to realize our True Self as reflected in our Oneness with All That Is.

I've been receiving healings from Cathy for a while now. She is a beautiful and powerful healer. Her healing modality is called Holy Fire Karuna Reiki (R). I'm excited to share this experience with you.

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Water is the carrier of life force, and your body is composed of mostly water in a structured fluid state. The water within you is alive!

When inundated in modern manmade physical structures, water can become stagnant and murky. When immersed in the ego-based culture, it can become infused with vibrations that disconnect it from the resonance of the natural world and the spiritual realms.  

In these states, life force is depleted and our whole system loses its immune functions and takes on disease. 

But the water has intelligence and the life force can be restored. We must use our intention to connect with the higher realms of consciousness and the basic rhythms of the natural world to restore life force and return to health. 

This is the focus and practice of this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle. We use some of the Divine Names to invoke the life force from the higher realms, the Divine Powers, to rejuvenate the life and flow of the water within our bodies.

For reference, the Divine Names include:

• Al-Muhyi: the Giver of Life
• Al-Mumit: the Giver of Death
• Al-Hayy: the One Who Lives Forever

Listen to this episode for a rejuvenating healing experience.

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When a pure beautiful spirit is born into this world, ideally it is delivered into the hands of parents who love and care for it, who want the best life possible. The love is immense, as is the innate drive to guide and protect.

However, as we travel through life and grow into adults, we become wounded, tough and/or fragile, and we take on beliefs about the world that are not always based in the Divine Reality of the pure spirit. The lenses through which we view the world are colored by our experiences and wounds, and by the beliefs and personas we’ve adopted that help us survive. The guidance that gets passed on from generation to generation – even with the intention to protect and prosper – carries shades of the lives we’ve lived. We all do our best, and as long as we are in physical bodies, we are human.

Have you recognized a word of wisdom that was passed to you that is now holding you back from living your most fulfilling life? No doubt by now you have. It may have been well-intentioned, expressed with extreme passion as if life-threatening, and you probably took it to heart. But the advice is the warning based on the advisor’s deep wound. For you, it only serves to constrict your breath and keep you from living into some part of life that is destined to be a part of your journey.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll take the opportunity to release these words of misguided guidance with all the energies we’ve embodied and beliefs we’ve incorporated that are now holding us back.

A quote from Virginia Satir goes, “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is, but how you cope with it is what makes the difference.” ALANI struggled with abuse at home at a young age and with divorce from her best friend after 22 years of courtship and marriage. Her healing from both of these very tragic events in her life and her life work came through a strong spiritual connection. ALANI is called the Freedom Igniter as her passion and her work are designed to help people find and live in true inner freedom. ALANI says when we get to a place where we really and truly understand what love is all about, and we truly begin to operate in love, something releases on the inside of us. When we can operate in love, then compassion is easy. Find an opening for true inner freedom from within yourself as ALANI takes us through her story of tragedy to triumphancy.

There is an amazing underground network that connects all plant life. It is the mycelial network, the communications system through which plants support each other, warn each other, and collaborate.

As we walk this earth, we connect with the incredible wisdom of this interwoven support system. As Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi said, we are not on this earth, we are in this earth. Our bodies are from the earth, and we are an integral part of the earth ecosystem, not separate from anything. We can tap into our connection with all of nature and the All That Is.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we tap into this network energetically to feel our oneness with everything on this sacred Earth. Connecting in vibrationally with prayer and intention, we glean the wisdom of an interconnected supportive system, to entrain our nervous systems and subconscious programming to harmonize with compassion and collaboration to create a sustainable environment and a peaceful world.

This is healing, and it is key to aligning our subconscious with our oneness with all. This is a beautiful way to increase our conscious connection and inform our subconscious patterns and programming so we can live in greater harmony with the planet.

Listen to this episode for an enlightening meditation to connect with and learn from the wisdom of nature. 

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A famous picture in the Sistine Chapel is of God in the heavenly realm reaching down to Adam’s extended index finger. Looking at it now, Amina Deb Lewis realized that they’re not in contact anymore. Amina Deb Lewis has been a seeker and student in esoteric, spiritual and scientific studies for over 40 years. She saw that God is no longer is reaching down towards Adam, and Adam is no longer striving and struggling to reach. God is just there and open in a receiving type of way. Whenever we have major shifts, whenever we have crossed a point in our collective consciousness, what is available to us has changed and we see that picture in the outer realms somewhere. For Amina, this is a sign that we are no longer reaching outside of ourselves to find fulfillment, to define God, and to look for something that is beyond. We have collectively reached a point where we’re connecting with God through the power within us, within our hearts.

Muhyiddin Ibn Al-‘Arabi said, “You don’t receive your blessings until you have counted them.” This means to truly take account of the blessings, to acknowledge the positive signs that the Universe is conspiring to support you in your efforts to be the person you came here to be.   

This means to really allow the blessings into all layers of your consciousness, to receive deeply into your cellular consciousness so that you become – the blessings carry you and transform you to be and to actualize the gifts in your life.

Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for a journey to Make Gratitude Work for You – to embody the blessings and gifts that you receive every day. 

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In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we use a combination of practices to take a journey into and through the anatomical heart, but with a Spiritual medium and intention. We combine Continuum Movement practices with ancient Sufi practices. Continuum Movement uses sound, breath and movement to activate the fluid systems of the body. Sufi practices affect the emotional and spiritual systems, softening the heart which can be guarded and hold tension, and traveling through the heart as a portal to the Divine realms. It’s an exquisite journey!

Today’s call is another request from the Facebook community: How can we not let life’s debris get in the way of transformation and life purpose? There is a Sufi saying: “Everything in your life is from you and it is for you, but it’s not about you.” Everything is a part of your Divinely orchestrated plan. It is a part of your path. The question is: what are you to do with it and what are you to learn from it?

Aaaahhhh, the Universe is generous when it comes to opportunity to find our way! Some events arise to help us learn how to embrace ourselves and others in times of struggle. Some teach us how to set boundaries. Some teach us compassion and forgiveness. Some teach us strength and responsibility. How do you know which ones to embrace and which to cast aside? How do you recognize the Divine gifts in life’s debris, especially the mundane stuff? That’s the topic of today’s Prayer & Healing Circle.

Our mantra for today is: La illaha illa‘llah, which means There is no other, there is only The One.

You’re invited to join us. As always, you are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care about, for peace, for fulfillment, and for the health and sustainability of our planet. Bring whatever is on your heart. Come as you are, receive, heal and grow. Please invite your friends to join us, too.

For years I’ve taught that the mind is not the healer – it does not have the power to heal you. Yesterday I sat through a presentation that offered evidence for the mind’s power to heal. It was a good presentation, and I understand why this is so widely believed. Yet there's still something missing - at least for those seeking true lasting transformation. 

In this episode I explain the role of the mind in healing and where the healing comes from.  Enjoy this replay for an experiential healing meditation to align the mind with the wisdom and source of true healing so you can realize transformation.  

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In these times leading up to the Era of Peace, energies are polarizing, opposite extremes are intensifying, options are becoming more distinct. Hopefully, we are able to see more clearly and make clearer choices, but this is not always the case.

There are strong worldly influences and pressures today, especially on our children. There are also many fears. When I was a child, there was fear of nuclear attack. We even practiced those drills in school where we took shelter under our desks. Really???

Now children face fears of school shootings, pandemics, and facing their own extinction as the climate crisis looms. These fears along with the need for security, belonging, and pleasing others can steer them onto challenging paths.

Yet, our children are innately wired for this time. Our role is to help them maintain connection to their inner knowing, to know themselves, and to trust themselves. When they are clear and strong in their inner knowing, they can make better choices for themselves.

So how do we help them connect with their inner knowing, trust it, and stay strong in it? 

That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healing Circle. It's Question 14 in the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace. 

Children learn through the example we set, so we’ll begin with a healing meditation for our inner children, and we’ll offer an invitation for all the children in our sphere of influence.  

Listen to this replay for an experiential healing meditation. 

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Last week, I shared with you an overview of a book that came through in a writing retreat I attended earlier this year. The book is about Love and questions to explore as we transition into an era of peace.

Today we’re going to explore the first question: “If God is a god of love, why is there so much cruelty in the world? Why the pain, hatred, and fighting?”

• How can cruelty co-exist with unconditional love? 
• What can we expect as the frequencies on our planet are increasing and we are moving into an era of peace? 
• How can we be the change NOW and help to usher in the era of peace?

Listen to this week’s Meditation & Healing Circle for a heart-centered inquiry and healing meditation. 

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What is the success you seek in your life? Does it bring you fulfillment? Are you looking forward to a fulfillment success might bring when you reach it? Or are you fulfilled in the pathway you are traveling to reach the success you seek? In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we’ll explore the relationship between seeking success and finding fulfillment. We’ll invite balance and harmony between them and look at how you might increase your personal sustainability in the process.

This past week, I was in a City Council meeting defending my father’s home from encroachment of a new development – the home where I grew up and lived my entire childhood. At the same time, my spiritual home – the spiritual retreat center and community center where I lived and worked for many years, where I grew up spiritually – was burning to the ground.

I had to ask, “What is the message You are sending” As I sat in meditation with this question, I felt a deep letting go – a release. I felt a sense of detachment and was filled with a sense of expansion as if I could fly.

When God wants to elevate us, we have to let go of the things we cling to for security. True security is only found in God. Everything else is only temporary, and the security it provides can be fleeting.

In today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, we offer prayers for all who have lost their possessions and dear loved ones in the fires; we pray for all who have lost loved ones and their means of security through the virus pandemic; we pray for all who are facing storms and disasters of any kind whose security on this planet are at risk.

We pray for their hearts to be healed, for their physical and materials needs to be met, for their memories to be cherished, their trust to be strengthened, and for them to soar higher than before into the future that awaits.

Last week we focused on holding others in love even when they might be challenging our patience or hurting our hearts. This week it’s your turn to receive the love you need for your heart.

Do you notice places of constriction in your body? This meditation will help you to receive love – as you are. Just be, witness and open to receive.

You’ll be guided to use your breath to breathe into spaces on constriction in your body. Invite the healing love energy to penetrate into the places that have been closed or shut down.

You’ll be guided to use sound to create vibration to ripple through your fluid body and release stuck energies so the love energy can flow through you more freely.

Allow yourself to receive, release the energies of constriction and fill with love.

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Your living, breathing human body is a home of divine light. This divine light contains the knowledge and wisdom you seek. Yes, the answers are within you.

Your heart is the seat of the light of this knowledge. You can find the knowledge through connecting with the love in your heart.

There are many divine secrets waiting to be explored.  In today’s Meditation & Healing Circle, we use the sacred sound codes that make up the word “human” (Hu-M-N) as we travel through the helical heart and explore the secrets of what it means to be divinely human.  

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I received a call from a beloved of our community the other day. He and his father were both ill with the virus. He was recovering, while his father appeared to be physically declining.

There were a lot of questions, and one particular area that comes up for many of us - questions about the this existence and afterlife. Why are we here, and what happens after this? What is the Ultimate Purpose of the Soul?

In today's Meditation & Healing Circle, I want to share with you the Sufi perspectives and my beliefs about this existence and the afterlife. I share with you my favorite meditation, which is designed to lift the veils of separation now to experience what we can of the Ultimate Reality while we are present in body in this material realm.

Listen to the replay for an experiential healing meditation. 

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Part of practicing spirituality is finding that connection. For most, you can only do that by understanding the religion or philosophy, especially when they go back to ancient languages. This episode’s guest, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D., is someone known for the translation and interpretation of the ancient Semitic languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. He is also a renowned writer, teacher and artist in the fields of Middle Eastern spirituality. In this interview from the Ocean of Sound Summit, Neil speaks on Middle Eastern Spirituality. He helps us gain a deeper understanding of spiritual teachings through the interpretation of ancient Semitic languages. Follow along to this insightful conversation and learn more about Sufism, what is often lost in translation, and the connection with sounds and breath work.  

Do you wonder what keeps some people sharp, active, and happy into their elder years? When I first moved in with my dad (now 101), I was surprised at some of the habits he had developed that filled his time. But then as I observed how he was living his life, I realized how he had masterfully embraced what he was still physically and mentally able to do. He was aging gracefully in his own way, keeping his mind sharp and his spirit joyful. 

It was a beautiful teaching. I soon dropped my judgments and found that when I joined him in this stream, my life became more joyful as well.

In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we'll do a healing process that I hope will help us see, appreciate, and embrace some supportive changes for our aging loved ones - and our aging selves - for a more peaceful and joyful longevity.

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For many of us, the Passion and Purpose we feel called to serve is to awaken others as we have been awakened. Is this possible? To what extent can we influence people or guide them? How can we best align with this burning passion to serve? 

These are questions we explore in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.

This is from Section 4: Passion and Purpose from the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.

Listen to this episode to tap into your purpose and align with your passion in a way that holds space for those you are here to serve and for those who are in your life but not yet ready for your message. 

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