Curiously Wise Turns One + a Birthday Gift for You!

Curiously Wise Turns One + A Birthday Gift for You!

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And maybe that's something that you want to look back on and see if there's something that you've done really well in the last year or so that you weren't entirely. Consciously creating in your life. Maybe you have picked up a new skill, maybe you have opened your mind in a new way. Maybe you've taken up something brand new that just kind of happened and you didn't really notice.

You didn't say to yourself, oh, I'm going to do this now. , you just sort of moved into it and celebrate that. Celebrate those things. Those things that you naturally did or you moved into with grace, so much grace that you didn't even realize that you were making a change in your. Celebrate that.

Hello friends and welcome to Curiously Wise. I am Laurin Wittig, your host, and today is a special day for me and I hope it is for you. Today is the first anniversary of our launching of, Curiously Wise. We've gone through a few iterations since then and technically April 12th , is the first year anniversary, but we're releasing this on April 11th, because that's a Tuesday and that's when we release.

And I've, I've just really enjoyed taking a few moments to reflect on the past year. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to, to birth this podcast. It's been overwhelming at times. It has been downright frightening. At first, it was quite a step to. follow what I wanted to do in spite of my nerves about it.

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I didn't quite know where to go with it. And Candy was wonderful. She went right into coaching mode. She said, let's just take a second. What if you said this or what if you asked me that? Now take a breath and, and let's, let's have fun. And so, I am forever grateful to her for doing that because for one thing, it showed me that it's okay to not be all together and ready for everything all the time.

It's okay to need to take a moment and think about what needs to come next rather than just being determined to stay, you know, in conversation constantly. I've learned, I don't know that I've implemented this so much, but I've, I've learned from another guest who I met at a Podapalooza event, Alan Carroll, about the power of the Pause, and he talks about it in terms of speaking, but it also is really helpful in terms of life.

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I'm really comfortable with this now and I love having conversations with people I don't know very well. At first it was people I knew really well, so I knew what you know, what to ask them, and I was very comfortable. Now I'm getting outside of that comfort zone into a new comfort zone, a more expansive comfort zone.

Includes lots of people that I really know very little about. I mean, I do a little research on them. I get some information from them when, when we are talking about whether they would be a good fit for my podcast. I usually go find their website, maybe look at their socials just to get an idea of what kinds of things I could ask them, but I don't really know them personally.

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Getting outside of that, stretching my limit, stretching my beliefs about what I am capable of, has just paid off in so many ways. So I just wanted to share a little bit about that with you. I know that's all about me, but it's, I think it's lessons we can all learn that taking a moment in the midst of things to reassess, to stop and take a breath and think about, okay, where can I go from here?

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And then get your curiosity involved and, okay, where could I take this now? What question could I ask next? What do I think maybe I need to have explained for some of the listeners who may not be as familiar with whatever we're talking about as I am?

And I was very happy to hear from one of my guests. She said, you're very good at asking the questions that your listeners are going to want the answers to. I really appreciated that feedback, too. So, there's a lot of things around that, but also this idea that is a pause of sorts, but it's a pause in the midst of things, but maybe even taking a pause when you're expressing yourself or taking a pause when you're working on something and maybe you're stuck, there's something that's not coming or there's something that's you know, technology.

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Maybe that's a good time to take a pause as well. Another break, deep breath. Walk away from it for a while. And I've done that with, particularly with these solo episodes, which still I intimidate me, I have to say. And as much as I enjoy them and I get great feedback from them it's a little more intimidating to be up here and just be me without that other person to, to have the conversation with.

And so I often find myself going, okay, I'm going to make my notes about what I want to. I'm not ready to do that yet. I'm going to walk away and go do something else. And sometimes that something else is taking the dog for a walk, and sometimes it is literally making a cup of tea or it is doing something else that needs done, like something else on my to-do list for the day.

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So when I had an opening, I had to rush into it. But I am trying to learn to speak more slow. So you'll see me continue to work on that over the next, the next year, the next season. Well, it starts in April, would be our second season technically so those are just some things that I learned along the way.

One of them was very early and one of them is very recent, and I continue to learn new things. And the other thing I'm learning is that having a network of people who you have gotten to know pretty well through some deep conversations is, even when I'm not actively working with them, it's a support system.

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And the next time we meet, we have a little bit longer conversation. And over time we get to know each other well or we can meet in a, in a directed conversation where we get to the heart of a lot of really vulnerable things.

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And that's something I didn't know I could do. I didn't do it even consciously, but looking back I see that I have, that's what I have done. And I think that came from my experience with the Wise Women's Circle that I ran before the Pandemic for two years, where I was the facilitator. I was the one who gathered everybody together and facilitated each each meeting and we always had a conversation and I laid down ground rules with the group about things like non-judgment. And I think, so I think I have trained myself just to be in that, that place.

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You didn't say to yourself, oh, I'm going to do this now. You just sort of moved into it and celebrate that. Celebrate those things. Those things that you naturally did or you moved into with grace, so much grace that you didn't even realize that you were making a change in your life. Celebrate that.

I'm a big fan of celebrating things in spite of being in a family where we really don't celebrate events very much. But I like to celebrate with my friends and, and my family when great things happen. Take a moment for yourself. Maybe even now. Pause this and take about, take a few minutes, maybe even jot down, or, or on your phone, leave yourself a voice note or.

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Look for those places where you made a pause that helped you ultimately move forward, and celebrate them. Notice them. Pat yourself on the back. Hold your heart and give yourself a little hug.

All of those things are worthy of celebration. And I know that I don't often take time in the moment to notice a lot of those things I did with the two that I mentioned with Candy and Alan because that's what their message was basically, is here's the coaching that I do and, and here's the, the speaking technique that I teach.

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And in the, in the shower, my brain goes into a different place and it's more introspective. It's less distracted. My body is in a happy place because I'm standing under warm water. And I'm able to, to see things in a, in a different way. Which brings me to another thing that I've talked about a lot this year, which is perspective.

And this is something I've been working on for years and it is such a powerful. To be able to change your perspective on something, and I've probably said it here a number of times on these episodes, but I, I typically will call it the hawk eye view or even the eagle's eye view of whatever the thing is that you need perspective on.

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And that perspective, that distance allows you to do the same thing. It allows you to kind of back up from the situation and see it from a distance. See it as if you are looking with fresh eyes or as if you were a different person, not embroiled in it. And you can really find peace. You can find compassion for yourself and for anyone else embroiled in it.

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Over the years, I've done a lot of of healing work, of course, on myself. You know, I've gotten help from other healers to clear out a lot of the things that were trapped by those emotions, right in my body and in my brain, and in my emotion, well in my emotions. Now I still get emotional, but not as actively.

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I'm looking at it as Laurin who wants to understand what's going on and wants to get curious about it, because there's something important. If I'm getting emotional, there's something important I need to know about me. Not about the other person, about me. Why am I reacting this way? What is it triggering in me?

And then I can choose if I want to practice not being triggered. Again, sounds kind of hard to do, but with practice it gets pretty easy. Because now for me, when I go, oh gosh, why am I, why am I feeling defensive? I stop talking for one thing. I don't defend myself. I, and I get curious about why am I feeling this?

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I can do it in in seconds now, but it gives me that, that pause. I stop talking, I get curious. I get the higher perspective and then, then I can respond from a different way, a different place, and with different energy. Instead of defensive energy, I can respond with curious energy. Or I can even share what I'm, what I've, I've learned.

Here's what I'm feeling, here's why I'm feeling it. And then we both get to learn from my observation about, you know, that interaction and maybe how we could do it better in the future. And it works with things as well. I obviously wouldn't, you know, share my observations with my car. Though I do talk to my car.

But if the car's giving me a [: 00:18:00

Now some of that may be true. I don't live in a place where it's dangerous if I break down on a cold day. I just don't live in a place like that. I know there are people who do. And so I'm not saying it's not, it's not a useful reaction, but particularly in relationships, it doesn't have to always be so, I don't know, difficult. So Uncomfortable. So lacking love and joy.

That's my lessons from this year, and I, I just wanted to share some of what I've learned and, and some of the big ahas that I've had this year and invite you to look back at your own and do the same.

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So this is a birthday. This is a first birthday of Curiously Wise: Practical Spirituality in Action. And I want to give everybody listening a gift.

Now, this could come back to bite me because there may be a lot more of you out there than I think. But what I would like to do is I would like to offer you the gift of a, a guided experience: A Message from your Guides Experience with me.

Now, let me tell you what this is. I love to teach people about guides. I work with my guides a very closely and every day, all day, I'm in conversation with them constantly. I just, I, there's this one particular method that I use to help people get messages from their guides, and I dreamed it up.

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The client sits there or lies there and relaxes while the practitioner goes and does the journey, gets the information, and brings it back for the client.

I've created a way to safely bring someone with me energetically into a portion of that shamanic realm that I, that I work in, that, my particular one that I have created and built over the years. And I do it by creating a bubble of a healing bubble, a safe energy bubble.

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And I'll described that. And then I invite in any and all of high vibration who would like to bring you a message. Slowly spirits will come. And now I say spirits as a generic word. Sometimes it's earth elementals like gnomes and fairies and, and those kinds of things that we're kind of familiar with from our own fairy tales.

And sometimes it is your ancestors. Sometimes it is angels. Sometimes it is spirit guides and they will present in all kinds of ways. Sometimes it is spirit, your, your power animals. And I don't know what's going to be there.

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I will be honest, I get a lot of validation when I do this for people I don't know because I, there's no way I can know what symbolism or what kind of, of spirit being would be meaningful to you.

So what I would like to do is offer you a 20 minute Messages From Your Guides experience.

And we can do this by phone or by Zoom. And the way that you're going to do this, if you're interested in this, and it's absolutely free. It's a gift. It's a gift. And I am not going to sell you anything because we're going to have a 20 minute call for this, and it's going to take that 20 minutes to do this.

So I'm not, this is not in any way pitching you anything, but it is a way for you to get to know me a little bit more and, and how I work. That's part of my gift to you is so that you can have a, an experience working with me.

But also I [: 00:23:00

So here's what you're going to do. You're going to use the word BUBBLE because I call this a bubble healing. It's not really a healing, but that's what I've always called it.

You're going to use the word BUBBLE and you're going to go to my website, which is HeartLightJoy.com, and click on the Work With ME! menu item. And then the third option on that is to book a call with me.

Now this is usually the, the consultation call. I'm just using the same booking system for that. So what I want you to do is when you sign up for that call, there are, a couple of places where I ask if there's anything you'd like me to know or anything that you want to work on.

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I'm not offering this anywhere else. And you'll see when you get to that page where you sign up for the call I've, I've put a little message there that reminds you, you need to use the word, but I don't tell you what the word is because I don't want anybody who hasn't listened to this episode and celebrated with me to to receive this gift.

o this, and it's not April of: 2023

And I think you'll find it fascinating.

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Thank you for joining me today. Thank you for joining me anytime. I love that there are people out there who are interested in these kinds of deep conversations and you know, my own personal meanderings. And I, I really would love to hear from, from folks. So that's the taking advantage of this gift is a way of me hearing from you that you are listening and that you are getting something of value from this.

I also would love, if you have things you'd love for me to talk about in my solos or topics you'd like me to find a guest to talk about I would love for you to let me know that, as well. And you can email me at Laurin, and it's l a u r i n, at heartlightjoy.com and let me know.

e not yet started booking for: 2024

I'm booked through: 2023

And in the meantime, I hope you'll keep joining me in our second year of Curiously Wise: Practical Spirituality in Action. And I'll see you next time.

Thank you so much for joining us today on Curiously Wise! If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future fabulous conversations. And if you had any ahas, please share them in a review on Apple Podcasts so we can continue to pay forward the unique wisdom we all have.

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Curiously Wise is a team effort. I am grateful for the skill and enthusiasm Arlene Membrot, our producer, and Sam Wittig, our audio engineer, bring to this collaboration. Our music is Where The Light Is by Lemon Music Studio.

I'm Laurin Wittig.

Please join me again next week for another episode of Curiously Wise. From my heart to yours, may your life be filled with love, light joy, and of course, curiosity.