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The following podcast is part of the Mind Bodyspirit dot
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FM podcast network.
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Welcome to the Animal Communication Podcast, where we talk to animals.
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We're your hosts Karen Dandie.
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Smith, Meredith Tollison.
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And Julie Heart. Every week we'll share insights and stories
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from the animals.
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We'll also share.
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How animal communication is a huge part of our lives,
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influencing our own growth as well as deepening in the
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relationship with our animal family.
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We'll be weaving in special guests and animal communication readings,
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so join us as we discuss all things animal communication.
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Hello and welcome back everyone to the Animal Communication Podcast.
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I am Meredith Tollison and with me are my friends
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and co hosts.
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Paren Dundee Smith and Julie Heart.
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We are so excited I did to have friends and
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guests with us today. Jenny Weaver and Ronnie Tishner, known
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as the Heart and Soul Sisters. We've all known each
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other for a bunch of years. Kieren and I went
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through pretty much all of our course park at the
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Danielle McKennon School with Jenny and Ronnie. I think we
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all started out in animal communication together and that we
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went all the way through actually being sort of the
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flagship crew that created the sole level intuitive coaching program
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that we've talked about on a previous episode. We went
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through that start to finish and were certified and also
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helped by our experiences shape and create the program that
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other students are going through now.
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And it was a lot, wasn't it, ladies. I mean
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it was a lot.
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We came out of there connected to each other. We
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buried our souls and it was beautiful and wonderful and
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painful and creative and all of those things huge part
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of important part of my life. So we've been down
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a bunch of roads together. These roads have converged and
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forked off and come back together again in a lot
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of different ways. We all started with the animal communication piece,
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but it's interesting to me to see how each of
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the five of us has taken that experience and our
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gifts and our own personal experiences and created sort of
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our own way.
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Of doing things.
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So I have had the honor and pleasure of experiencing
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some of the work that Ronnie and Jenny are doing
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now that launched a little bit from our time together.
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They have a very unlikely relationship as super close sisters
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based on their own familial experience. They call themselves and
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I'm going to quote this, I think from your website, sisters, authors,
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cycle breakers, coaches. They are all of these things and
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so much more. They have taken a very long and
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hard journey to heal their relationship with each other, to
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raise their own families. They've created a podcast, They've published
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a book which I have right here on my desk
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beside me, and so many more things.
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So let me asculators, to introduce.
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Yourselves and tell us a little bit about who you are,
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how you got here, anything that you want to share
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with us about the amazing work that you're doing.
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Now, wow, that's a really open ended lead you just
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gave us there. I'm Ronnie and I'm the older sister,
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so I usually talk first. But yes, it's been a
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long journey to get where we are in terms of
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coming through the animal communication and the sole level coaching.
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I know we're going to talk a lot about that,
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but Jenny and I essentially grew up in a family
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with addiction, abuse, and untreated mental illness, childhood trauma, what
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some people refer to as adverse childhood experiences or aces,
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and those kind of dynamics put kids into specific roles,
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and in our family, I was the hero. I was
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the one who was supposed to be high achiever, so
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that the
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family could say, look, there's nothing wrong with us,
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look at this great kid and all the cool stuff
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she's doing. And Jenny was the scapegoat or the identified patient,
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and all the psychic trash garbage pain gets dumped on
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the scapegoat. And typically, historically scapegoats and heroes are not friends.
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They don't like each other. Usually the whole family joins
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the parents in dumping on the scapegoat. And I did
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as a younger person, as a kid growing up, and
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as a younger person do that. So we often say
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we're sisters who weren't supposed to be friends because of that. Now,
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how we pulled ourselves out of there? Since Jenny was
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the one that took the lead on that, I'll let
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her explain that part of our story.
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Okay, So I'm Jenny, the younger sister, and really, you know,
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growing up in our home with all of these adverse
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childhood experiences and being the identified patient and scapegoat and
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the family, it was my job to carry all the
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family pain. And you can imagine as a young child,
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it's really overwhelming. And so I, you know, in our
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dad's favorite quest and we talked about that in the book,
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was what the hell's the matter with you? And you
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know when you hear that over and over and over again,
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you start asking, well, what the hell is the matter
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with me? And so I have a very curious mind
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and vivid imagination, and so I tried to figure out
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what was the matter with me? And that started really
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in my late teens and progressed into my early twenties.
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After I got married and started to have children, I
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knew I had to do better. I had to have
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a better environment for my children. I wanted to be
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a totally different parent than the examples we had, and
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so it was really going through individual counseling. And also
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I was going through nursing school at the time. And
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when I sat through human development and lifespan class and
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the instructor started talking about the addicted family and all
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the roles that the children play, I was like, Oh God,
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that's Ronnie. Oh God, that's me, and then oh boy,
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that's my brother, our brother, And so there was no
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more denying. We had always said, well, dad drank a
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little bit, you know, he drank too much, or he
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was angry a lot, our mom was angry a lot.
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We didn't really we didn't really name it.
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And so it really was. My daughter was about a
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year old at the time, eighteen months old, our first child,
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and it was then that I said, you know, I
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got a I really need to start addressing this. And
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so it really kind of evolved reaching out to Ronnie,
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and we talk about it in the book, but it
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was it was. It kind of culminated for me in
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one weekend that Ronnie just insisted that I come up
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and visit her and bring my little baby with me.
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My husband was over in the Gulf War, and so
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I was alone in the same house with my parents.
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They had moved in with us, and so everything was
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really coming to a head for me, and Ronnie just
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kept pressuring me to go, and of course my mother,
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who was controlling everything, was pressuring me to not go alone.
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But I ended up going, and that weekend just ripped
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everything wide open. As soon as I walked in the door,
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Ronnie said to me, Jenny, what is what's wrong? Something
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is really wrong here? And she had her little toddler
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daughter and my little baby, and we just started talking
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and was it truly felt like a like the curtain
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was lifted and we finally broke through this huge veil
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of denial that we both had been living with. And
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Ronnie was the one who started naming it, started naming
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what was being done to me. I mean, my god,
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she was, as you know, a sociologist at this point
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and teaching this stuff, and she just stepped out of
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her role as the golden child, the hero and just
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started naming it. And there's a lot of tears, a
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lot of hugging and tremendous healing that weekend, and that's
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what really began this whole journey for the both of us.
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Yeah, I have an additional question about that, and I'm
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so glad that you went into the roles that you discussed,
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because that was something I wanted to ask you about.
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I've tried to kind of figure out how.
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To name that in my own family line, but I
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haven't quite gotten there. But it's interesting that Ronnie you
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went into to academia, but as a sociology professor, Jenny
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you became a family nurse practitioner. So you've both gone
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into these super amazing supportive healing roles. Is that cause
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or effect or is it part of the grand cycle?
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Who knows? Were you in communication with each other or
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were you completely estranged from each other prior to deciding
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to actually work on this relationship.
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So we were never completely estranged, but we once we
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grew to adulthood and moved out of the house, we
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never lived near each other, and I never lived near
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my parents after that time, Like I'm talking, you know,
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hundreds thousands of miles away. And we had this triangular
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communication pattern that had developed in our home. And for
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those who aren't familiar with that, that's when all communication
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runs through one person, so that the other nodes on
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the wheel, if you will, don't speak to each other directly.
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So that was our mother, and that gave her complete
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license to tell us. Like you get to remember, in
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these days, there was no email, There was no cell phone.
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It was long distance phone calls. We were poor, you know,
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so we would call on the weekend or after eleven
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o'clock at night when the rates dropped down to you know,
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twenty five fifty cents a minute, so we would all call.
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I would call my mother and I would get updates
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from her. On my sister and my brother, and so
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she was free to tell us whatever she wanted to.
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So she would out and out, lie, leave things out, bend, twist,
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spin right, anything to keep us loyal to her and
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at odds with each other. And so this is why
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in our work when we talk about healing sibling relationships,
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we say siblings are often at odds or estrange for
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reasons that are not their fault, and they don't understand
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it right because the people, the adults in their life,
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set them at odds in the very beginning, either through
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the roles they played or in other more direct ways
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through the triangular communication. So but the times we were together,
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beginning probably when after I went away to college and
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Jenny was still at home, we would see each other,
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you know, at various points, and we really did want
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a better relationship, and sometimes we talked about that openly
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and acknowledged it. And then it was when all of
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this blew up. It's like, oh my god, what is
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you know? It just it just turned our world upside
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down when we went from thinking we're a warm, close, loving,
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happy family to our parents are abusing us and that
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the weekend Jenny is talking about It took me another
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four years to say my dad was an alcoholic, but
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I did start to see that they were doing terrible
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things to her and to her children because she was
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close to them. They were already starting the dynamics in
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the next generation. They already picked out the next scapegoat,
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which was her second daughter when she came along. So, yeah,
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we were never estranged, and we sort of vaguely knew
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we wanted a better relationship. We had no idea how
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to do that, and it wasn't until that weekend Jenny
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described that we started to go, Okay, we have to
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start talking to each other. And then we had a
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plot when to do that because Jenny was in the
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house with her parents, with our parents, and so we
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had to think, Okay, when are they not there so
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I can call you and you are free to talk.
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Yeah, the control was a really deep thing. And you're
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so indoctrinated in this. You know, people I'm sure on
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the outside that have never had that experience with abuse,
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mental illness, addiction don't understand it. But you know it's
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like slow boiling a frog, right, I mean, from toddlerhood on,
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this is what you know. You know, you learn the rules,
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and the rules change every day, but you try to
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follow whatever rules of the day are and you don't
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talk to each other. And that was just that was
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just something that was ingrained in us.
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Yeah, you isolate to try to manage your own pain
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on your own and just keep safe, right hide out
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in your room or whatever safe space you can find.
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And so you're not I mean in some families it
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might be that the children draw together to try to
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protect each other. We didn't do that. We were in
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a space where we each had our own room, and
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we would retreat to our rooms and try to keep
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ourselves safe the best we knew. How separately, we were
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taught to isolate from other people outside the family, and
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we brought that lesson into the family. We isolated from
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each other as well.
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Wow, that's incredible. And I have to say I did
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read your book cover to cover and I've made notes
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all over it.
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It's been like a work book for me.
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Now.
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I'm so glad.
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It was very enlightening. And I have to say to
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every you know, people who are listening, is even if
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your parents, even if your construct isn't exactly like what
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you described, there's so much commonality and parents pitting children
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against each other, parents pitting children against the other parent,
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which is what I went through, and then making the
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children feel like victims or ping pong balls between right,
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could count on to be stable and respectful of the
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other parent, and the destructuring of safety that that causes,
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you know, that going through life not feeling safe, support
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and protected, which is what we learned about when we
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went through the soul coaching work together. But also I
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want to bring this back into animal communication in a
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way because that's where you guys did your first class together.
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only respite for me was see going and sitting with
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my dog and because no one would no one would
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bind me or bother me. Or sitting outside and watching
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the birds lie around the wires of the you know,
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because that's where I wasn't being told what to do,
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worrying how I was going to fit in all that
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stuff kind of one way with the animals, yes, and
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being the oldest child for me, I totally resonate Ronnie
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with the hero position that I was put in, and
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my sister being put in the secondary position, and then
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my brother being the golden child because he was the
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you know, like the one that it's on, you know,
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little star who could do no wrong. So let's talk
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more about how the animals helped you with your because
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the animals absolutely helped me heal me.
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Read back through your book about all the things that
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the animals helped me finally be gentler with myself about
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and forgive and to reconstitute better boundaries and all of that.
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early on, I connected very strongly with animals. I think,
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to take when her parents were my godparents, and they
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would take me for the weekends and sometimes when I
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was like three four, I was little, and she would
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take me riding on her horse, Sex and I was
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in love with that horse, and he was so gentle
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and so kind, and I you know, I think that
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was such a strong bonding experience. Of feeling loved and supported.
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with him or with my cousin Patty, of course. And
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so I definitely looked to animals from a very early
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age for comfort, for love, for acceptance, because you know,
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I felt very safe with animals, and I imagined, you know,
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as a very young child, that I was talking with
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the animals and that they understood me.
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version of Saint Francis because animals, you.
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oftentimes from school, walking home from school or whatever, a
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cat or a dog would follow me home, and my
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mom and debor get so mad at me. They're like,
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what do you do?
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I said, no, I didn't pet it, but I didn't
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mean in my mind, I'm like, well, I was talking
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to it, but I'm not going to tell them that.
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ask can I keep it? Because you know, these animals
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would be cudd you know, cuddling, rubbing up against me,
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wanting me to pet them, you know, and I just
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felt so I think those are the only times that
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I really felt grounded and present and connected in my body.
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from my body very early on, and and to try
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and dissociate from the physical pain. And so being with
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the animals, I feel like I'm going to cry, felt
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so so amazing, truly felt loved and safe and supported
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with the animals, and I still feel that way. And
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so as Ronnie said, you know, being alone and being
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isolated was was very difficult for me as a very sensitive, intuitive,
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empathic kid, and I think that was partly a fence,
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you know, I'm sure my my intune ability, psychic abilities,
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you know, empathic abilities just became really heightened as part
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of a defense and protection mode. But also it was
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just part of who I was. And the animals absolutely
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were a lifeline for me, and in many ways still
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are I you know, I just sadly, you know, our
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beautiful rottweiler Poe had cancer and we had to put
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him down, and you know, I still feel his presence.
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that twilight, you know I call for him because he
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was always on my side of the bed, and I
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feel his presence. He's still, you know, he's on the
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other side, supporting and loving me. And I just don't
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think I can ever be without animals because they their
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unconditional love and the way they helped me be present
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and ground is just such a gift in my life.
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emphasize the role animals have played in helping me heal
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in terms of developing my intuitive gifts and abilities, because
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I have spent most of my life in the rational mind, right,
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especially as an academic trained as a scientist, and I
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told myself my whole life, I'm not very intuitive. And
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I actually I got into the animal communication cause I
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saw it once in a cripalu the weekend in right,
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and I thought, well, that sounds kind of cool, and
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I thought, well, I should do that. And Jenny at
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this point, Jenny and I were close and always dragging
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each other to different workshops and healing things and trading
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books
and all that. And I kept looking for and
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it didn't come again. Then it came back around to
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Omega and it happened to be Jenny's birthday weekend, and
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the description said, you know, anybody can learn how to
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do this, and I said, challenge acceptedly, because you're going
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to have your work cut out with me. And so
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we went, and you know, it was the beginning of
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the journey, as you said, going through the animal communication
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and the soul level coaching. And I've come to realize
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along the way, in working with the animals and in
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going through this process that it was a challenge for
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me because I had you know, when you're in an
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environment where you feel under threat all the time and
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you're told that what you're experiencing isn't really happening to you, right,
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There isn't abuse in this home, there isn't addiction in
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this home. There's you know, there's nothing wrong with us,
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there's something wrong with you. You learn not to trust
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yourself and developing your intuitive gifts is all about trusting
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what comes through. And in particular, the way I get
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information is usually a sense of knowing, and of all
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the ways to get that, that's the easiest one for
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me to go, oh, no, you just made that up.
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That's not real. You just made that up, right, But
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that's most of what I get and so so you know,
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for me, the work with the animals was really about
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about finding that trust in myself. That and that, as
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Jenny said, you just kind of disconnect from what you
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really know because you're trying to survive. You're trying to
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cope with what's being thrown in front of you. You're
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trying to deal with the dissonance of I feel this pain,
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but you're telling me you're not hurting me, right, or
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whatever else happens to be going on in that environment.
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for me to reconnect with myself and to learn to
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trust
myself right, trust what I know and not push
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it aside, recognize it's not a threat to know what
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I know, and to claim it.
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Beautiful.
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Wow, what I'm hearing both of you say is there's
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these nuggets everywhere or you know, droplets or whatnot, the
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little pebble on the path, if you will, the like
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picking it up, and then how can you integrate it
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and then use it for your own self? But then
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ultimately it feels like for the greater and higher good.
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Much of what's happened with your the what you've gone
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through from a family channel, you know, family situation, the abuse,
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all of that, and then learning the intuition. I'm just curious,
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you know, how do you see all the things you
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guys have done? This might be a really big question,
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but how do you see all the things you both
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have done and being able to take that and help
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others through their own challenges and situations.
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And I'm even curious, I know you do things together.
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Do you also do still intuitive work with people too?
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Is at all kinds of play? Okay, I see you nodding,
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so I'll let you.
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I'll let you guys go Yeah, go ahead, Jed, Yeah, absolutely.
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I still I still do some animal communication readings, and
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it's really more for my children or their friends word
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of mouth. And you would think, all, but they're your kids,
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you know, you know them. But it's it's a maze
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when things are going on with one of their animals
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or that they're concerned about the stuff. The information that
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comes through, you know, the helpies say that is spot on,
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and I couldn't possibly know everything that's going on with
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them or in their relationships or whatever. And so I
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love I still love doing it. I still absolutely love
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doing animal communication and I find it very rewarding. It's
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also very humbling as well as working with our soul guides.
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I feel that, you know, nobody deserves to be abused
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or traumatized, but it's very humbling, and I feel very
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honored when through our book, our podcast, or working with someone,
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we have been able to help them in some small
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way on their healing path, because you know, I wanted
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to end my life, you know, so many times as
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a child. I mean, my earliest recollection was at the
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age of eight. And and the the level of pain
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that I have carried, psychological, emotional from our family is
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has been at times just overwhelming and going through all
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of these all of these paths leading leading me to
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the next thing, the next you know, and it's totally
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been intuitive guiding us. Our soul guides would however you
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want to frame that, but Ronnie and I have absolutely
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followed our intuition as to what's the next step, what's
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the next the next thing that will help me to
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help myself and to help others, And that has been
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just a very rewarding path. And the one thing I
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say every time that we talk to anybody is that
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you know, yes, you know, acknowledging and experiencing and sitting
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with those feelings as you're working through counseling or or
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your healing process, and whatever path you're taking, you will
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come out on the other side and that pain does
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not last forever, and there is so much more joy,
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so much more peace in this life, in this world
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that we all deserve. And where I am now as
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to where I was twenty or thirty years ago or
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even ten years ago, I would not trade anything, or
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I mean, meeting all of you amazing people and Danielle
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and the experiences that we had, I wouldn't trade that
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for anything. And so if I can share that with
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one person and make one person's life writer, then it's
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worth it.
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I mean, to address that big picture part of what
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you're asking, Julie. Even before we started this work, and
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it probably I would say
it probably began. We were
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talking for a long time about writing a book. We
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talked for a long time about maybe doing a podcast.
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We actually just put up the most rudimentary of websites
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and record our first podcast, like right before COVID. It
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was like the end of February in twenty twenty, so
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that's how long we've been doing that work. But we've
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been using because we've been over thirty years right on
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this path since we said, Okay, this is what's going
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on with the family. We want to be better parents.
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We've got to figure out how to do that. Sadly,
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we did have to break with our family because they
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would not come with us on the healing journey. So
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it's just been Jenny and me. But all along we've
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been using whatever we learn, whatever we know where we
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are in the world, even before we started doing this
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specific work. So Jenny, as a family nurse practitioner has
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dealt with the physical and psychological and mental emotional fallout
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of living with childhood trauma.
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I mean it has an impact on your body health.
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family studies and gender studies in sociology, and for years
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I taught a class called Power and Violence in the Family,
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and so I would have students that would come into
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my office or share in the middle of the class
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for the whole class to benefit from their experiences. And
485
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so we've been using the knowledge we've been gathering over
486
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our lifetime in the places that we've been, put right
487
00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:09.599
where we've been and putting what we've created with the
488
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book and the podcast and the work we continue to
489
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do is what we wanted to do was put out
490
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there in the world. Because there's a lot of good
491
00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:19.559
stuff on family trauma right now, there's not much about
492
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sibling relationships, the damage has done to it, and how
493
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to heal it. So we knew that was a
new piece.
494
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But we also have been The thing that guides us
495
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.839
in everything we do is to be as transparent as
496
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we know how to be in that moment about what
497
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:35.759
we've experienced. Because you can read all the books in
498
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the world about family dynamics and so forth, but we
499
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:41.799
did not read anything when we were in that process
500
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about what it feels like when your world has turned
501
00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:48.799
upside down. When you say, okay, I've been not only
502
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:50.759
am I not in that warm, close, loving family I
503
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:54.720
thought I was. It's the exact opposite. And okay, if
504
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.319
I'm not the hero, then who am I?
505
00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:57.759
Like?
506
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It is an identity crisis and what does it feel
507
00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:04.720
like to try to move through that? Because we thought
508
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.519
we were going crazy, We thought we were coming on
509
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.960
glued as we're trying to just rewire our brains and
510
00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:16.039
choose different behavioral responses and all those things. There were
511
00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.359
times I felt like I actually was physically going to explode,
512
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like body, there was so much pressure inside me. My
513
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:23.480
body was just going to go all over the wall
514
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and the little pieces, and so those are the things
515
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:29.880
that we really emphasize in our work. What does it
516
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.279
feel like to try to heal? Because yes, it is
517
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:38.160
great on the other side, but it's a never ending process,
518
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of course, But when you're in the thick of it,
519
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.200
like you think you're nuts and it might be so
520
00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:46.079
painful you might just want to give up. And so
521
00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:49.039
that's kind of what motivates us, is wanting people to
522
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.359
know there's nothing wrong with you if you're having these feelings.
523
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.359
It's normal for you to have these feelings. And so
524
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:58.559
now we're working on a parenting book, which is not
525
00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:02.480
so much how to parent, but it's more like parenting
526
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:04.559
with the intention to break the cycle. And how is
527
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.480
that going to feel as you're doing it when you
528
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.680
have no role model right when you're doing trying to
529
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.400
do the opposite of
what it was done to you.
530
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.519
So that's what our focus is on. Helping people feel
531
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:19.519
like they're okay as they're going through it. You know
532
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that they're not alone exactly.
533
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:34.160
Wow, I mean it feels like it was necessary from
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everything you just described, both of you and Ronnie in particular,
535
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.119
just talking about like the changes and how it felt
536
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.480
and not feeling supported and turning your world upside down?
537
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:44.480
Is that all part of that?
538
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.039
The breaking up with the family? Does that make am
539
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.680
I making sense what I'm trying to say? Yeah, Well,
540
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the breaking up I'll jump in if you don't mind, Yes, go.
541
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Breaking up of the breaking up of the family really
542
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came from me. I had exhausted every avenue that I
543
00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:06.559
could think of. You know, I tried spiritual counseling with
544
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my parents with a pastor, tried limited contact, tried the
545
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.960
last the last straw was trying to do counseling just
546
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with my mother. We went to I was going at
547
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the university. Counseling services were free for me and for her,
548
00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:26.319
and so I said, okay, let's you know, if we
549
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can't agree on what the issues are, and I'm I'm
550
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you know, I feel like I'm being hurt every time
551
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we interact, then let's try counseling where you and I
552
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will go independently and then we'll go jointly. Well, after
553
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three sessions, each of us. I guess going independently. The
554
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psychologist told me at the next session, you know, Jenny,
555
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you're you know we we we totally understand your intentions
556
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of wanting to do joint therapy to try and heal
557
00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:59.119
your relationship with your mother. And they said, but we've
558
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had a medical staff meeting over this, this whole case,
559
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and after meeting with her and meeting with you, there
560
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is absolutely no way that we can allow you to
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continue in any joint counseling with your mother. It would
562
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be detrimental to you. Wow.
563
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And they said, and we can't. We can't participate in that.
564
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We can't be a part of that. It would not
565
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be it would not be right, it would not be ethical.
566
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And that was when I was like, okay, I've tried everything.
567
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:33.960
Every interaction was just another another moment to give them
568
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.480
more information about how I was hurting so that they
569
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:39.359
could take it and use it against me and you know,
570
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:43.240
fire more more rounds off at me. So it was
571
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just it was all about beating me down and so
572
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that I would capitulate and say, you're right, I'm sorry,
573
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it's all me.
574
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It's me. It's me.
575
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I'm the one that's wrong. You're perfectly wonderful and you
576
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did nothing wrong. That's what they wanted to hear. If
577
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.079
they didn't hear that, they would just flowed and beat
578
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:03.079
you down as much as they could. It just did
579
00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:05.000
not get any better. It got worse.
580
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.319
We tried an intervention with our dad too, Yeah, yeah,
581
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and that we for years we said that failed, and
582
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.480
then someone else reframed it for us and said, no,
583
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your father failed to make the choice to go to rehab.
584
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But what it did was it set you to free.
585
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It's like we have done everything at like we've said,
586
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it's clearly as we know how what the problems are,
587
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and we demanded that we addressed them. We're not going
588
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to just go on and ignore them like we have
589
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.559
for the last thirty years. We must address them. We
590
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.960
need to work together, we need individual counseling, we need
591
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.960
family counseling, you know, all these things. And they just
592
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.880
came crashing back with why any problems that existed were
593
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:50.759
all Jenny's fault. And there were other things that we
594
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haven't really talked about that we were concerned about. Concern
595
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for the safety of our children. I had one daughter,
596
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she had two. By that point, we just couldn't we
597
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just they made it impossible for us to even have
598
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limited contact. Now I say that, but we did have
599
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some little points along the way over the intervening thirty
600
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years where we did try to have some contact with them,
601
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but they just kept looking for more ways to hurt us.
602
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And they're very creative in the things that they managed
603
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to do, especially since I was, again, you know, a
604
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thousand miles away. And it's just, you know, our dad
605
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passed in October of twenty twenty four and we only
606
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found out by chance. No one ever told us. You know,
607
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it's very sad. We were just talking about this the
608
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other day. It's just sad that they threw us away.
609
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Right.
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We say that we walked away and that we broke contact,
611
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but really what I've come to understand is that they
612
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abandoned us. We begged them to stop hurting us. We
613
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.720
told them exactly what they were doing that was a problem,
614
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and they chose to let us leave instead of doing anything.
615
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And my husband for years has said, yeah, we have
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one daughter. He says, you know, I don't care how
617
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wrong I thought she was. If she's telling us, you know,
618
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we did something, I would do everything to prevent her
619
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from leaving, from walking out of our lives, you know,
620
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And that's the difference. Yeah, it was too threatening for
621
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them to acknowledge anything.
622
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Oh, very powerful.
623
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Thank you their anability to admit even to meet you
624
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halfway and say, we know we've made some mistakes, but
625
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we'll accept this much responsibility.
626
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But not this much responsibility. It sounds like they didn't
627
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even do that.
628
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No, And while very very sad, Jenny, that also had
629
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to be somewhat validating to have medical professionals say to
630
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you you're not wrong.
631
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Oh yeah, I said, Well, I really have tried everything,
632
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and I cannot have any regret because I really did
633
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:05.440
exhaust every avenue that I possibly could. I did not
634
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.239
want to walk away. I could not allow them to
635
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hurt my children. Yeah, I would absolutely not allow that
636
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00:35:16.199
cycle to continue. I've said that recently in my own
637
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:19.440
family dynamics, like I'm much more willing to stand up
638
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to protect my kids, my fake kids, all of the
639
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:26.840
young people that I have mentored and mothered in my life,
640
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and my grandchildren than I am to stand.
641
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Up for myself.
642
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Yes, I've spoken up more on their behalf than I
643
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ever would have online.
644
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So I want to say this Okay.
645
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First of all, I've listened to the podcast from day one,
646
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from that February of twenty twenty, because I remember when
647
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:48.039
it was happening, and there were some aspects of your
648
00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:50.199
podcast that kind of got me through the holidays, like
649
00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.239
the things you give yourself permission to do and the
650
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.400
traditions you give your self permission to change. But a
651
00:35:55.440 --> 00:36:00.920
few things that you've said recently, Two things in particular. One,
652
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give yourself a break from your healing journey, because those of.
653
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Us who are still like you said, it's.
654
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Always a work in progress. We never get to the
655
00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:14.519
other side of healing. You unravel some layer of an onion,
656
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:16.800
and then here's another one, and here's another one.
657
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And sometimes you just.
658
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Got to take a break and say, look how much
659
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.679
progress I've made. And I think that we are all
660
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the type of women who find it hard to turn
661
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:29.639
around and acknowledge to ourselves we've made this much progress.
662
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:34.239
The other thing, which is completely relevant in astrology, in
663
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.199
the world at large, all of the things right now,
664
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is your voice needs to be heard. Step up and
665
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:46.039
put it out there. Somebody can find their own healing
666
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.639
in the experience of your telling your story, whether it's
667
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:51.639
just knowing that they're not alone, that someone else is
668
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:52.920
out there, They're not isolated.
669
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So thank y' all for that. I also want to tell.
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The whole wide world that I recently did an intuitive coaching.
671
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I'm not sure what y'll call it, but I did
672
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--> 00:37:04.599
a session jointly with Ronnie and Jenny. I said, I
673
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want a book with you. I have no idea what
674
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my real question is about, but I trust that this
675
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is going to go where it needs to go. I thought,
676
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you know, I worked for family businesses and all of
677
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:19.400
that kind of stuff, and I thought there would be
678
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.519
a lot of family dynamics that come up. But like
679
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.199
the animals do, sometimes the gods turned it back around
680
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:29.880
and they're like, no, Meredith, here, let's talk about you.
681
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:35.159
Let's talk about you. And I was like, do it?
682
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:39.159
Do I really really? The two of you, we've known
683
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:39.719
each other.
684
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A long long time, but we've not had really personal
685
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.880
conversations in quite a few years.
686
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:49.360
Right, so you really.
687
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Didn't know what was going on in my personal life,
688
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my professional life, my family life, any of those things.
689
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.880
But ye'll Kieren, Julie, you know how much we love
690
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working in tandem to do an animal communication reading, watching
691
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these two.
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Just tune in.
693
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It's we just finished an episode about channeling, and it
694
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:12.400
really was almost like watching YouTube channel from the Guides
695
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:19.199
to deliver very important and impactful messages to me.
696
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.800
It was all extremely relevant, It was all right on target.
697
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.639
It was beautiful to see you work together, especially knowing
698
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:31.440
your history and how difficult it probably was for you
699
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.039
to figure out a way to work together. But it
700
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.199
was very natural, it was very comfortable. I highly highly
701
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recommend anyone who's interested contact these two. They kept telling
702
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.440
me the stuff that I know, I know, I know,
703
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and I'm like.
704
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How did you possibly know to talk about? Oh, hello universe,
705
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Hello universe.
706
00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:58.679
Oh that's great feedback. Thank you, Meredith.
707
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.039
Yeah, thank you so much for mariat even though I
708
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:02.760
was late, and you gave me some grace for that.
709
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Because I was working, which you told me I should
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do less of.
711
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:07.000
Right.
712
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Actually, that was the Guides telling you, I know, I know.
713
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But how beautiful that the two of you are able
714
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to be conduits for that information from the Guides and
715
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:22.760
to be able to do it together from thousands of
716
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:28.119
miles apart, in such a beautiful way. Your healing journey
717
00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.679
has brought you so far. There are multiple times when
718
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:33.400
you've been talking that I've teered up a little bit,
719
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feel very emotional about it all. You're truly inspiring. So
720
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.599
thank you for that.
721
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Thank you Meredith so much, Karen and Julie.
722
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Do you all have any other questions to ask of
723
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these amazing, amazing women.
724
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I do, if you guys don't mind, because I had
725
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the opportunity to meet Jenny at an Ainsley McLoud event. Yes,
726
00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:58.400
it was awesome, Yeah it was.
727
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I know.
728
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He was so excited I saw you walk. I'm like,
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oh my gosh, I know we're from CPP Lane.
730
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Yeah, yelp world.
731
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I was so nervous by the way to introduce myself
732
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to you, just because you were like, I know this
733
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is but this is part of like mine, just because
734
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you were you know, and I'll say it this way,
735
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like you'd been a professional animal communicator in.
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Her world longer than me.
737
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You're you're an older alumni than I am in that part,
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and so I was just like, oh, hello, hello.
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You feel you were so kind and gracious. I am
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curious though, because I'm a huge fan of his work
741
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and all of that.
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So I'm curious how the soul guides the purpose the
743
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soul age, the soul type, is there anything?
744
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And I know that's a whole lot. I would love
745
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to actually have him on the podcast at some point here.
746
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How has that work even impacted your own healing journeys
747
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and even moving into what you.
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Help
people with now, I'll just jump in.
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I think that certainly his books and and his his
750
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work has been very, very influential. And Ronnie and I
751
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:09.159
actually have had a couple of joint readings individual but
752
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also joint readings about our work together with Ainsley, and
753
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so I I think, you know, the soul the soul
754
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level age and all that is interesting to know, but
755
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for me, it's the connection with the soul guides and
756
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receiving the messages from the soul guides. And I think
757
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I think meeting with Ainsley, he just he for me,
758
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.719
just reaffirmed what we had already felt like we developed
759
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and tuned into with the animal communication and the soul
760
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level intuitive coaching work with Danielle and you all. And
761
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:45.880
he told us both, he said, he said, you two
762
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:50.119
are highly highly intuitive psychic. He said, this is you're
763
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.519
on your apps. The guides say you're absolutely on the
764
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right path. And so that was very very affirming for
765
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me and I think for because you know, as you
766
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all know, if you get you get these downloads of information,
767
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.079
it's like, am I making this up or you know,
768
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.079
so I just I'm not going to filter it. I'm
769
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just going to share. It may sound crazy, but here
770
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it comes. And it's just so I feel so humbled
771
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that the guides are working with me and that I'm
772
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you know, I'm receiving those messages so clearly, and that's
773
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what I'm talking about. It's not me, It's coming from
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the guides, you know. I'm just I'm just here to
775
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share what they're telling me. And I love it. I
776
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.360
want to do more of it. I if I could
777
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:33.280
do this all the time, I would do it all
778
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:36.880
the time, because it's just I end up, you know,
779
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I end up at the end of a session, whatever
780
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.320
has come through. You know, as Danielle had said many times,
781
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.760
there are also some messages for the for the person
782
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that's you know, receiving those messages and sharing them. And
783
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:54.679
I always feel so
so hopeful, so joyful and and
784
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so at peace during those readings and after those readings.
785
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.280
And you probably know what I'm talking about about, that
786
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experience of being there to assist another person and connect
787
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.199
like that is just very meaningful for me.
788
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:11.000
Yeah, oh thank you, Yeah, I would.
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I would echo with Jenny said, I think I've read
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his books, and I actually I got a chance to
791
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go to a workshop with him, a weekend workshop at
792
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Kripalu before I ever did the animal communication and so
793
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.760
he you know, led us through a bunch of meditations
794
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:27.840
and I had some really interesting experiences.
795
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And that was when I was.
796
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:33.960
Still very new with the idea that I could develop
797
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.320
my own intuitive capacity, and so he was very affirming
798
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.239
in that. And actually in the last reading Jenny and
799
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I had with him jointly, you know, the guys came
800
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through and said, you deserve a bigger audience because there
801
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:47.639
are a lot of people out there looking for what
802
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:51.960
you're doing. And so that really was a nice little
803
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.079
light under us, you know, to be like, okay, keep going,
804
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keep being open to what else you can put out there. So, like,
805
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we recently launched a subsect that's focused on just answering
806
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questions about childhood trauma, what it is, it impacts, how
807
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:10.119
to heal from it, how to support somebody who's healing,
808
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.199
to raise awareness on all levels and so we're just
809
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:18.599
looking for ways other ways to get this information out
810
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:22.599
into the world because we just feel called to do it,
811
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and we felt called for a while before we actually
812
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did anything. And we keep moving forward. We just recorded
813
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the first episode for season seven of our podcast because
814
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:36.480
we continue to feel like people are looking for this
815
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.920
and we're not sure exactly how many, but some of
816
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them are. So people are listening, downloading, buying the book,
817
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:48.360
and so it means it's a way for us to
818
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:53.639
find
meaning in all that we've been through. Yes, right,
819
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making what happened to us means something not just for
820
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our own journey and our relationship with our family and
821
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:04.760
friends and colleagues and so on, but to actually improve
822
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the world and to get to a point where we
823
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:10.639
can talk not just about helping people heal from trauma,
824
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:12.960
but how can we make sure people aren't traumatized in
825
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the first place?
826
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:14.639
Right?
827
00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:16.599
How can we move the world to that point?
828
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:24.000
What a beautiful idea, a sentiment, idea, hope for the future,
829
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:26.760
because is they all know, I know a little bit
830
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:29.480
of astrology be dangerous, but we're at this really interesting
831
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.679
point astrology wise, particularly on Friday, right with Saturday and
832
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:35.119
Neptune at the zero point of areas. So what a
833
00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:38.719
wonderful to be able to put that wish, that desire,
834
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:42.000
that momentum out in the world. And I agree with
835
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:44.880
you that there's there seems to be such a need
836
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.320
and I'm even like a hunger for this work. Does
837
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trauma work? When I watch the It's gonna say the
838
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:56.800
popularity or I keep seeing doctor gibormonte everywhere, Richard Schwartz
839
00:45:56.920 --> 00:45:59.719
is everywhere. You know, there's I'm looking at my bookshelf,
840
00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:02.960
who a lot, even Ken Wilbur with spiral dynamics. There's
841
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:07.599
so much conversation around trauma and that what we all
842
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:11.760
possess of trauma, collective trauma, even intergenerational trauma. So the
843
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:15.800
work you both are doing is fascinating and absolutely yeah,
844
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:17.719
I couldn't agree more so well needed.
845
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:18.239
So thank you.
846
00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:19.119
Yeah.
847
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.000
And I remember when I was first reaching out to
848
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:25.320
you guys to see if we could have some of
849
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:27.559
these conversations. I think you had just done or were
850
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:32.159
about to do a presentation together at the school where
851
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:36.000
you work, Ronnie, about sibling interactions and all of that,
852
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:39.119
and you were saying that the show of hands sometimes
853
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:41.280
at the end of the class where people are like
854
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:46.639
I think I have that. You know, this is another
855
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:50.719
example of your voice needs to be heard, speaking up,
856
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.159
speaking my voice. But doing this podcast, putting all this
857
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:55.800
out there was such a huge challenge for me personally,
858
00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:57.360
because who wants to hear my voice?
859
00:46:58.119 --> 00:46:59.400
My voice doesn't really matter.
860
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:01.719
You know, all the things we were told as children
861
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:03.880
and all of the things that we learned to believe
862
00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.840
about ourselves, all of that. Yeah, bringing that forward, we're
863
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:14.960
realizing just how many people need those messages to feel
864
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:18.760
like they can actually step up break the cycle. So
865
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.960
excited about this next book about breaking the cycle. Talk
866
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:24.760
to my kiddos about that all the time. Just because
867
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.320
this is the last hell ever many generations doesn't mean
868
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:31.119
it needs to be the next, right can we do
869
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:34.280
to bring the cycle? So I thank you for both
870
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:39.320
being so willing and I mean raw putting yourself out
871
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:42.679
there in the first place to bring up these difficult
872
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:47.320
topics and to help the people that you've helped. You're
873
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.239
helping me and you don't even know it. We'll talk
874
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:55.199
more about that later. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. So let's
875
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:57.480
tell the world. I've got a ton of links in
876
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.280
the show notes, but tell the world how how can
877
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:02.880
they find you, Ronnie and Jenny?
878
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:03.719
How did they find you?
879
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:04.800
Oh?
880
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:07.559
Yeah, well, I mean the website is the best place
881
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:09.639
because you can find everything there. So it's Ronnie and
882
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:13.280
Jenny dot com r O N N I and j
883
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:16.519
E N N I E. But we are on Instagram
884
00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:19.519
Ronnie and Jenny. We have a substack. We're on Blue
885
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.159
Sky that's brand new. That's more political stuff, but there's
886
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:25.559
starting to be more cultural things on there as well.
887
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.679
So we have a book, a podcast, There's lots of
888
00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:34.360
free content on our website, short articles we've written. We've
889
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:36.280
got our one minute blog. If you just need to
890
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.280
be uplifted for a moment, right
you're having a cup
891
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:41.559
of tea and you're thinking, oh, I'm feeling kind of discouraged.
892
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:43.960
What can I you know, what can I look at
893
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:45.960
that will maybe cheer me up or give me something
894
00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:49.000
positive to think about. So, but the website will link
895
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.280
you to absolutely everything that we're doing, and most of
896
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:56.920
it is free, so people can just just enjoy it
897
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.599
and benefit from it. And we always I wanted to
898
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:01.920
put in a plug for people to let us know
899
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:05.639
what they think. Right, they can message us via the
900
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:08.840
sub sect, via Instagram, via the website and let us
901
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:11.679
know what kind of content you want, because there may
902
00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:14.679
be things that we could create, could put out there
903
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:17.679
that we're not aware people are looking for. So we're
904
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:18.920
always happy to respond to that.
905
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.400
Anything to add, Jenny, Just our.
906
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:26.199
Message that I feel like I always share at the
907
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:29.639
end is that you know, our whole mission really is
908
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.280
about love and self love, acceptance and knowing that you
909
00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:38.039
are not alone. You are not alone in this in
910
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:40.880
this past, and we are here to support you and
911
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:42.639
love you and help you anyway we can.
912
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.639
Yes, And I'm just going to say thank you to
913
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:50.639
the animals for bringing us, guiding us all here, because
914
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:55.400
they are the foundation of seeing who we are, loving
915
00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:59.079
us no matter what, and giving us the space to
916
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:03.039
have some faith in ourselves. So I'm just animals that
917
00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:06.039
we each have in our families that led us to
918
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:08.119
getting a chance to see each other, meet each other
919
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:08.960
and support each other.
920
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:11.360
I'm very grateful for that.
921
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:13.039
Yeah, very grateful.
922
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:16.800
I'm so grateful for all of us being brought together
923
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:18.440
to have this conversation today.
924
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:20.119
Thank you so much, ladies for being here.
925
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.239
Oh, thank you for having us. We've been looking forward
926
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:23.480
to it.
927
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:26.840
Such a pleasure to see all of your beautiful faces again.
928
00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:29.079
Oh my gosh, thank you.
929
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.559
Wow, Thank you so much to Ronnie and Jenny, Ronnie
930
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.320
Tishner and Jenny Weaver. We hope that all of our
931
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:42.960
listeners enjoyed today's conversation on the Animal Communication Podcast cash.
932
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.679
We talked a lot about intuitive healing and families and
933
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.719
animal communication and siblings and a lot of deep stuff
934
00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.559
we're going to have to really process here, so listeners,
935
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.840
let us know what you thought. Drop us an email
936
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00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:05.639
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941
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.760
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942
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:18.679
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943
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00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:22.679
Julie Heart and Karen Dandy Smith.
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