Her Intuition Saved His Life

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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

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if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be like? What

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would that be worth to you? What is your health worth to you?

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Think about it. Your health isn't everything. But without

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it, everything else is nothing. And yet too many of us are

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taking it for granted until something goes wrong. No one

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wakes up hoping to be diagnosed with a disease or chronic

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illness. And yet we've never been taught how to be proactive

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wake up call

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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I

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am your host Melissa dealey. And this month my phim is intuition

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something we all have, but do we listen to it? Firstly, I'd love

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to share a testimonial I received recently from someone

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who listened to her intuition that her stomach issues were

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caused by being on a prescription drug for way too

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long. And now she needed to heal her gut. After doing some

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research she found Dr. coveralls CBO protocol and purchased it

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but found following it was difficult. She didn't know if

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she was doing it right or where to turn to for support. So she

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put a comment in the group on Facebook which I was alerted to

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and reached out to her to offer the support she was looking for.

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And here is her testimonial. Melissa found me last fall

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thanks to the natural healing of echolife and since then, she has

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been a godsend. In June of 2021. I was having all kinds of

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stomach issues due to being told to stay on Pilocytic for way too

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long, following a stomach ulcer diagnosis. Fast forward to the

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fall of 2021. I had developed food intolerances and had

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constant indigestion type pain under my ribs. I was on my path

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to healing while doing the CVO protocol from Dr. Cabral. When

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Melissa took me under her wings and guided me to healing, it was

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a very long, hard struggle with many frustrations and tears.

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Melissa was with me every step of the way, her support and kind

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uplifting words are something I will forever be grateful for.

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Fast forward to 2022, my gut has healed, I no longer have food

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intolerances and have never felt healthier or better. Not only

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did Melissa teach me about gut health, she also taught me it

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was okay to not be okay. And to make time for me. I have learned

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stress relief techniques to calm the nervous system that I have

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also used in my feisty toddler. Melissa is a wealth of knowledge

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and truly cares about her clients, she goes above and

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beyond, she truly cares. Thank you, Melissa for all you have

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done for me and taught me. And that is from Jamie Mackiewicz in

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Pennsylvania. So thank you for sending that in Jamie, I've

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truly loved guiding you and your gut back to full health and love

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the progress you have made. So let's get back to talking about

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intuition. And what is the definition of intuition? I

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looked it up. And it is the ability to understand something

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immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. That last

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bit is key without the need for conscious reasoning. In other

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words, it is driven by our unconscious mind, that part of

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us that keeps us alive by keeping us breathing or heart

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pumping our digestive system working and breaking down our

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food, and so much more without us ever giving it a second

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thought. In fact, our unconscious preserves the body

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despite the lifestyle choices we make and what we put in it. Just

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stop and think about that for a minute. Do you ever stop and

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think about breaking down the food that you put into your

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body? You know, do you ever stop and think about your heart

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pumping and choosing to keep it pumping, you might notice it if

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you're doing a workout and you get your heart rate up. You

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might consciously slow down and think about your breath. But

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there's so much happening inside our body thanks to our

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unconscious mind that happens despite what we do and what we

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put inside our body because that is all part of the

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responsibility of our brain which is to keep us safe and

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keep us alive. So our unconscious mind is responsible

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for 90% of our brain function, whereas our conscious mind is

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only responsible for 10 percent, which is where you hear that

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saying that we only use 10% of our brain, we're actually using

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it all. But we are only consciously aware of the part

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that is 10%, right. But we can tap into the other 90%. And one

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way of doing that is to learn to tap into your intuition. We all

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have intuition, but for some, it's stronger than others. And

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there are several reasons for this. Those people who have a

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stronger intuition or opening too, are open to listening to

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their intuition. They slow down enough to listen to their

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intuition, or intuition. When we're in a Go, go go doo doo

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doo, rush, rush rush mode, we are not hearing our intuition,

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we're in a state that is far too consciously driven at that

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point. They also practice listening to their intuition, it

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is like a muscle and the more you slow down and allow yourself

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to be guided by your intuition, the more you can be as your

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awareness of it increases. And of course, it's not just humans

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that have intuitive intuition. Look at the entire animal

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kingdom. I mean, they put so much of what animals do is run

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on intuition. You just need to look at the pets in your own

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house to see that right. And animals in the wild too. They

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intuitively know which food may not be good for them, and which

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food may be good for them, right. And we even know that as

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young children when we listen to our bodies, but sometimes that

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gets overwritten by parents who meant well. And we're

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encouraging us to eat everything on our plate because there's

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children starving in Africa, etc. And we're not allowed to

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not eat the food that intuitively our body is

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suggesting, doesn't want. And as young children, we don't

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necessarily have the vocabulary, or even the gumption to stand up

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against those well meaning parents telling us we can't

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leave the table until we've eaten everything on our plate.

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And over time, we learned to tune out our intuition. Because

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that must be important when we have to listen to what our

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parents are telling us, right. So the way we listen to our

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intuition can also vary. For some it might be a feeling in

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their gut, hence the saying listen to your gut, for some

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maybe felt more in the heart area. For others, it might be a

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random idea that just pops into your head. It can be felt in

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different ways in the same person. I know for me, I feel my

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intuition in my gut. But I do also get those random messages,

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ideas, thoughts popping into my head. And sometimes it's a

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little bit of the butterflies in our gut, that can be a sign of

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nerves as well. And our our nervous system kind of turned on

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because we're stepping outside our comfort zone. Like if we've

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got a big race or a piano recital or settlers speech.

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We can feel those butterflies. But we do have a knowing in our

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gut it is, after all, our second brain. So now I am definitely

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not an expert in the field of intuition. But I am learning and

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I'm excited to bring you two ladies who are experts in

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intuition to my show this month in episode number 70 and 72.

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Cheryl Brewster who is an intuitive coach who I've worked

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with myself, as well as Laura Powers, who is an entertainer,

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celebrity psychic actress, model host of her own podcast, healing

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powers, podcasts and TV show behind the scenes with Laura

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powers. So I'm super excited to have both of these wonderful

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ladies on the show this month to share their expertise on the

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topic. But today, I just want to share with you a few of my

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experiences with intuition, as you may relate. And it may

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encourage you to or spark an interest to, you know, start

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digging into your own intuition again, and figuring it out and

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learning how to listen to it and interpret what it's trying to

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tell you. Right. So whether this is all brand new to you or you

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are possibly afraid of your intuition as I was. Or you might

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be dipping your toes into working with your intuition and

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looking for guidance to learn more. Stick with me these four

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weeks and I promise you will learn a lot. If you're enjoying

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my content and someone that wants to step into being

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proactive in your health and learning more, I would love to

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invite you to join my membership community. There's a link in the

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show notes for only 1999 a month you get access to all of my

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content, and there's a lot as well as weekly calls that you

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can come and get your health questions answered. It's truly

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priceless. I'd love to see you join the community. Check out

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the link in the show notes.

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So when I was a very young child, probably three to four

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years old, I have a memory of my mom telling me in the morning

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one morning that she'd woken in the night and knew that my dad

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had been in a car accident. We lived in Australia at the time,

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and he had driven down to Thredbo, a ski resort. And as I

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said, she knew he had been in an accident. And that kind of

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frightened me. But soon after he had called, and told her that he

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had been in an accident and that he was okay. And so she was able

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to go back to sleep. So all's well that ends well, right. But

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as a four year old, or three year old, however old I was this

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whole conversation frighten me. Firstly, the thought of my dad

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being in a car accident was scary. But I was also confused

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as to how my mum knew that before he even called her and I

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decided, I didn't want to know stuff ahead of time like that.

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And honestly, I don't remember if I had the cognitive ability

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to make that decision at age four. Or if I made it at an

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older age when I heard my mom retelling that story, because

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that is a very conscious mind decision. Regardless, I didn't

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want to know bad things. And so I unconsciously spent a lot of

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time blocking my intuition, as that felt safer to me. But

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ironically, our intuition of course, can also keep us safe.

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And another event occurred when I was four, that I remember

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clear as day. And we do tend to remember traumatic incidents

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that occurred before age six, even though we don't remember a

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lot of what happened in our life before age six, our unconscious

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mind remembers all of it, but our conscious mind doesn't

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remember it. But this was traumatic. And that is why I

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remember this particular event. So well. I was baking in the

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kitchen with my mom and her intuition kicked in, she told me

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to run to check to see if my two year old brother was with my

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dad, who was in the garage, I ran to the garage, and he did

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not have my brother. So I ran back and reported to mom that my

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brother was not with dad, she took off ran out of the kitchen

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outside to our pool that we had literally just had built and

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gated, and she looked over the fence at the pool, couldn't see

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him in the pool or any or anywhere around the pool area.

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So we ran around the house looking for him. And then she

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ran back to the pool. And this time, she saw him floating on

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the surface of the water. And he's very, very fair. And the

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first time she looks, she thinks that just the way the sun was

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coming in to shining on the pool that he might have been in the

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sunlight and because he's like literally white blond hair white

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skin, that she hadn't seen him in the sunlight. But now he

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floated into the shade, and she could see him. So she ran

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through the gate and dove into the pool fully clothed with her

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shoes on to get him out after telling me to run and get my

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dad, I watched in horror thinking my mum was going to die

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because my little four year old brain was telling me, you don't

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go into a pool fully clothed with shoes on that's just gonna

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make you sink to the bottom. But I ran and got my dad. And by the

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time my dad got there, and I got back to the pool, my brother was

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out of the pool and my dad started giving him mouth to

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mouth. And I was told to run next door to the neighbor who

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was a doctor. Fortunately, he was home and call for an

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ambulance. And he came running over and my brother was taken

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away in the ambulance. He spent two days in hospital while they

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monitored his symptoms and watch for possible pneumonia. And then

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came home. And the great news is that he survived falling in the

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pool with absolutely no negative side effects, all because of my

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mom's intuition kicking in, and her knowing something was wrong.

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And we had to find him. Now. Imagine how easy it would have

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been to think. I wonder what he's doing. Oh, he's probably

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fine. I'll just get the cookies in the oven and then look for

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him. Right. But my mom's intuition is so strong, she knew

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she had to look for him now or that we had to look for him now.

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So it turns out our dog had dug a hole under the fence, which

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was big enough for my two year old brother to follow him

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through. And my brother had a matchbox harvester truck. Some

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of you listening probably remember Matchbox cars and

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trucks. And he decided to throw that in the pool for whatever

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reason. And of course, once he did that he wanted to have it

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back. And so he jumped in after it to get it. And guess what

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that entire incident was the start of our swimming lessons

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and a long high level swimming career for both of us. And in

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fact, my brother still swims as a World Cup champion at a World

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Cup champions master's level. So yes, thank goodness for

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intuition, when it can save us from danger. You're and save

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lives is the same intuition that might stop you from, you know,

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stepping out in front of a car, you

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look left, you look right, you look, you know, and then it's

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just like, Wait,

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there's something there. I thought I checked, but something

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has was in my blind spot. And I caught it, you know that

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intuition tells you to do that double check, right? It's the

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same thing. So fast forward to when I was 13. My father passed

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away suddenly after surgery, and then blood clots in the

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hospital. And yes, it was a shock. And yes, we were

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grieving. But I think I started tapping into my intuition, then,

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because somehow I knew he was still with me. I couldn't see

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his physical form anymore. But I felt like he was with me as if

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perched on my shoulder. And whenever I had a difficult

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decision to make, I could consult with him and get an

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answer. Is this intuition? Is this my spirituality? Is it a

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blending of the two? I'm not sure. But I know that my

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conscious mind wasn't involved in the answers that I was

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receiving. So I know, this helped me make some tough

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decisions over the years and feel confident in the choices

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I'd made, or rather was guided to making. So what about you is

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your intuition something you turn to often for guidance, or

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something that guides you to safety or the safety of loved

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ones, like my mom's did, or something you haven't really

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tapped into yet? Intuition can absolutely guide us with our

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health as well. And in rewriting my bio, recently, as I went

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through the process, I was reminded of a story where I use

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my intuition, when it came to my own health. This time, my

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intuition told me not to panic, but instead get a second

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opinion. And with the knowledge I have today, I'm very glad I

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did, because when we panic, we set off our sympathetic nervous

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system, our fight or flight system, and this shuts down

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other systems in our body in order to give us the energy

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needed to fight or flee. And one of the other systems that shuts

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down is our immune system, not something you want to have shut

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down when dealing with a diagnosis of melanoma. Melanoma

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was what had landed my dad in hospital for surgery. In my

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case, when I was given the diagnosis, the doctor was

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panicked. It was a Thursday, she wanted me to book in for surgery

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on Monday morning, she was going to do the surgery herself at our

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local clinic. I was supposed to go on a business trip on the

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Saturday and she told me Nope, there was no way I could do that

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I had to cancel, I must have this surgery immediately. That's

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just what I had to do. But in my gut, I felt this was wrong, that

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I needed some time to assess my options, and not take months and

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months to do so. But, you know, take a week to just assess my

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options. And I felt that while I was on my business trip, I

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couldn't be doing that. And it felt right to not cancel that

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business trip. And so I thought, well, I should get a second

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opinion on all of this. And this is what felt right in my gut.

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And so I didn't book that surgery. And even the people in

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the clinic at the front desk, were telling me no, you're

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wrong. You have to do this. You've got we've got to get you

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booked in it's very, very urgent. So I was feeling very

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pressured. But I listened to my gut. And I came home. And what I

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did is I called the doctor, this skin cancer specialist who was

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the one who had actually taken the biopsy of the mole that had

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now come back as melanoma. And he called me back later that

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evening, and I was able to ask him if he felt I needed to

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immediately have surgery on Monday morning, or would it be

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okay if I go on my business trip, and have surgery when I'm

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back. And he replied, was something I hadn't even thought

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of. He said, This will be a very large incision to ensure we get

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it all it needs to be done by a plastic surgeon, not your family

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doctor, I will submit a referral for you. So and you will be

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close to the top of the list because we do take melanoma

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seriously. And we do want to get it out that more out of you very

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quickly. But it's not going to happen for a couple of weeks. So

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go on your business trip, we'll get your surgery day booked, and

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you'll have the surgery once you're back. And so my intuition

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had told me that option one of immediate surgery by my family

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doctor wasn't the right path. And that made me seek out a

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second opinion, which gave me an option that simply made much

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more sense to me and allowed me to stay out of panic mode and

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not weakened my immune system. And the great news is that the

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melanoma was fully excised, and it's been nine years and I've

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embarked on a path of health, health and wellness ever since.

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Including detoxing which how Oops, ensure that I haven't had

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any further health problems since that time when I teach my

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health, kickstart, and detox program to others, because as

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humans, when we find something that works and is highly

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effective, we want to share it with others, right. So that

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wasn't the immediate start of my health journey. But over, you

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know, the next few years, I was definitely guided into this. But

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I did start detoxing

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after my melanoma because I really wanted to ensure that

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cancer wasn't coming back. And so now when I teach my health,

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kickstart, and detox program, one of the greatest benefits my

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students talk about is the new awareness they have around how

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their body feels in relation to the food they're putting into

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their body, their sleep, their exercise, as they learn how to

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tune into their body. And in this process, they are tapping

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into their intuition to working as one with their body instead

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of just being in their conscious mind and ignoring symptoms and

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intuition that can come with those symptoms, suggesting you

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should take action steps to reverse the imbalances causing

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those symptoms, right? How often do we ignore symptoms, which

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again, is another way of our body talking to us. And we

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simply ignore them because we're in that gogogo, rush, rush,

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rush, rush mode, and we're not tapping in and listening to our

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body. So as you can see, I've learned to listen to my

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intuition. And as I said, I'm no expert. So it's still definitely

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a work in progress. But this is such powerful information that

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you can learn from your body, when you allow yourself to be

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guided by your intuition, even the signal of being full, so

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that you aren't over eating, even if your plate is an empty

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can be considered intuition. It is the result of hormones

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sending the signal. But when you understand the message without

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any conscious thought, it is also intuition, right? If we

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wolf our entire meal down, because we're really hungry, our

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body doesn't have time to release our satiety hormone and

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give that signal. And if we're rushing through, we're not

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listening for it anyway, right? When we slow down and we give

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our body a chance, our body will talk to us, and you can then

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take the appropriate action. So I did learn something a few

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years ago, because remember, I said that I was afraid of my

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intuition more, I was afraid of my mom's intuition. And she's

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highly intuitive. And it just frightened me, how does she know

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all this stuff. But I learned that you can also ask that your

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intuition be sharing with you what you need to know, and not

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sharing with you, you know, the negative or the scary things,

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right. And so that's how I felt safe to start tapping into my

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intuition and using it, which is what I've been, you know,

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developing that myself, because as I said, it's a muscle, you

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have to strengthen it. So I am literally just touching the

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surface here on the topic of intuition as I share my stories.

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And I hope that you relate to one of the stories or it sparked

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an interest maybe in working with your own intuition at a

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deeper level. So that you can be more guided in whatever it is

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that you're doing, instead of just, you know, trying to figure

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it all out on your own and pushing through in your

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conscious mind. When we're guided, we know that we're

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actually on the right path, right. And so please join me

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again next week when I have Cheryl Brewster on the show. And

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we'll be diving in and talking about the ABCs of intuition. And

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she is a real expert in this topic, her business is called

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the intuitive life. So until then, have a great week, start

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thinking about your intuition getting you know, dipping your

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toe in coming back to your intuition if it's something that

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maybe you worked with before, and you've kind of moved away

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from I know when I was in the corporate world for many years.

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It wasn't something that we ever talked about thought about. And

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I felt like it was kind of pushed out of me. And ever since

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getting out of the corporate world is when I've been coming

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back to that intuition and using it and maybe you relate to that

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as well. It's something you've used before. Let go of and now

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you're coming back to So join me next week. Have a wonderful week

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in between and thank you for listening to the don't wait for

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