Episode 57

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12th Mar 2022

The Life Changing Moment Of Realizing “It Was All On Me!”

Tricia walks her walk and talks her talk, coming from a childhood of sexual abuse and turning to alcohol as a pre-teen to “hold it all together” like the adults in her life were also doing, she numbed herself. She didn’t have the tools to process the emotions any other way.  However there came a point in her life where she realized that she had to take responsibility, not blame others, and choose to heal herself, and from there she has never looked back.  She went back to school and became her own first client in her healing journey, and now pays it forward helping others design the life they truly want to live!  Please share this podcast with someone that you know that needs to be inspired by Tricia’s story. 

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Tricia Parido is a Recovery Lifestyle Enthusiast, Speaker, and Published Writer. She is a Nationally Certified Life Coach, an International Master Addictions Specialist, and a Professional Life Interventionist with a Psych Degree in Process Behavioral and Chemical Addiction who loves to help change lives!

Specializing in life transitions and post-treatment journeys, Parido is ever committed to serving her clients worldwide to find the emotional intelligence they need to conquer their life challenges.

As an active business owner of thriving coaching practice, Turning Leaves® Recovery, Life, and Wellness Coaching, seated in evidence-based practices, she not only teaches her clients how to live the life they desire and “live free”, but she also teaches those that aspire to become professional coaches how to do so, passionately and professionally.


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Transcript
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tomorrow's don't wait for your wake up call.

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

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I'm your host, Melissa Daly and excited to bring you another

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wonderful guest today. Today I have with me Tricia purrito, a

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wonderful colleague and friend of mine. Welcome, Tricia,

Tricia Parido:

thank you so much for having me. I am so excited

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to be here.

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I'm excited to do this podcast with you as

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well. And to introduce you to the audience, Tricia purrito is

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a recovery lifestyle enthusiast speaker and published writer.

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She is a nationally certified life coach and international

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master addictions specialist and a professional life

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interventionist with a psych degree in process behavioral and

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chemical addiction, who loves to help changing lives,

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specializing in life transitions and post treatment journeys.

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Perito is ever committed to serving her clients worldwide,

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find the emotional intelligence they need to conquer their life

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challenges. And as you can see, I'm reading your bio there that

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refers to you by last name, which I never do. You're a

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Trisha to me. So I know, what I love about you so so much is

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that you truly walk your talk, and you have been there. And you

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have found your way out of the mass that I would love for you

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to share your story because it's incredibly inspiring. And it

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helps others know that they can do it too. Right?

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You know, Yeah, cuz I totally, seriously, I'm telling

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everybody here, if I can do it, you can do it. Because I mean,

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my journey started at the age age of four. And it was very

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split. So half of it was super awesome and amazing, right? This

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this, this young child who is reading, writing, doing

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arithmetic, playing chess, playing classical piano,

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competitively swimming at six and a half years old, right,

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like, just great things and but on the other half also was a

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four year old who already felt that they they had to keep

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things secret, that they had to hide things shove their thoughts

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and opinions and feelings and emotions down and shut them

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down. Because at the age of four, I experienced my first

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sexual assault. And I also experienced or witnessed my dad

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being struck by lightning. So trauma for me started at a very

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young age. And, and then in that was, you know, how I was

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receiving my environment and I was receiving my environment in

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a very skewed way, even at that young age. And I think a lot of

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it's because I am very intuitive. Didn't know that, of

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course then but, you know, fast forward through a lot of years

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of, of, you know, just regular sibling teasing, but

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internalizing it in a way that actually is an it became an

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alignment to what was reality. And that to shed a little light

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there because I know I'm speaking a little ambiguous, but

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you know, my siblings would tease me that you know, that I

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belong down the street to the neighbor, because I didn't look

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like them or that I was I was a milkman, baby or, you know,

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something along those lines. Because I did look very

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different. And, and my, my, you know, my skin color was very

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dark. And, and, you know, I just, I just looked different. I

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was different. And and, you know, at a certain point in my

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life when I when I got pregnant with my son, I found out that

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well they were right all along. And there was a reason why I

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never truly felt like I felt fit in and that's because I did have

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a different father. And, and but we were all raised in the same

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household. So anyway, so that's like early childhood for me, but

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you know, when I was 12 So we're getting into that adolescent

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space. You know, my dad was killed in a in a tragic

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accident. And so we go back to that modeling of what was being

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presented to me. So you know, there was the shoving down

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hiding, put on the pretty face. Don't tell anybody anything

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negative or bad. Always show the good. But then when my dad was

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killed, it's like, how are these people still holding this up?

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Like, how are they smiling? Like, I was going? I don't get

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it. I don't I don't understand. So I'm looking around the room.

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And being the intuitive I was, they were all drinking and

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smoking. So what did I do? I got my cousin victim, a six pack and

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a pack of cigarettes. And there you There you go. Right. It

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worked for me. And and so it became my go to just like the

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popsicles or the the lollipops you get when you fall down and

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scrape your knee or have to get a shot at the doctor or whatever

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the beer became that, that that thing I relied on, in times of

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death,

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you feel better. Right? Right. And then

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you put you put your you put yourself into, you know,

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this, this adolescent space. And and I experienced, you know,

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additional sexual assault, I was actually raped when I was just

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about 13 years old. And and then I was stopped by by that person.

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And and then trying to fit in and trying to make sense of all

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of that, you know, alcohol became even more of a reliable

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avenue to allow me to even feel comfortable in groups of teens,

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you know, these teenage people that I was now surrounded with,

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in various ages. And, and so anyway, you know, and all in

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all, I, you know, I've moved through five sexual assaults in

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my life, I also was in a relationship with a lot of

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severe domestic violence. So between four and 2023 24 now,

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four and 25. You know, I really, I really was, it really weighed

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heavily on my ability to be a control freak perfectionism. So,

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anorexia was a big part of my life. As I was drinking, and

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avoiding, right, like always, just always trying to be good

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enough. So there was a lot of reliance on on praise from other

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people. And when it wasn't coming, like it was really

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devastating, because I thought a lot of it as a child, small

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child, but that went away as I got older, and I just never

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could get it back. Anyway, so I worked really hard on holding on

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to my addictions, for a long time. And then my recovery

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journey so that's about 30 year journey with with chemical

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substance reliance, and, and, and, but eating disorders, I was

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able to heal from sooner, which is usually backwards for most

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people, you know, the substances go away first. But you know,

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when I met my spouse, I was able to find unconditional positive

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regard and allow myself to experience that, but I kept the

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alcohol and life was great life was wonderful. So my 25 year

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recovery journey was about healing those traumas and the

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eating disorders and you know, lots of other things. Fast

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forward, I'm gonna tell you guys empty nesters a real thing. So

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my husband and I have five children and and our girls

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really gave us a run for money. So in their in our oldest

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daughter's high school years, she constructed leukemia. So she

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had AML leukemia so there was a lot of you know, a lot of

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connected and family banding together to you know, like

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really get through it and get through it positively. And then

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the younger one, you know, she she got sick she got ecoli and

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ended up having hemolytic uremic syndrome and and had to go on

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kidney dialysis right so I was always on guard and so my again

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my only release for that emotional space because mom

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taught me mom raised me you know, buck up like pull up you

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know, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and and keep going

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like don't don't ever crumble and so I didn't but I but I did

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in those quiet moments still rely very heavily on that, on

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that calming of the alcohol because I didn't know anything

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else. I learned it at 12 I didn't know anything else. I was

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never taught effective coping skills. There was no emotion

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regulation or distress tolerance taught in my home. And it

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certainly wasn't coming at school. So when you know when

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when the kids started moving out, which most of them were

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gone all at once. The Empty Nest is a real thing. And then so you

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cover that ad that empty nest with having had a full

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hysterectomy at 29 and not being able to do hormone replacement.

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And really just being in this odd transitional space, I

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developed generalized anxiety disorder. And my medical

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provider who knew I was a daily drinker.

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She was a good friend, she taught her everything that was

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wrong with our with our daughters. But anyway, she

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prescribed Xanax, knowing I was a daily drinker for my anxiety,

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which seems harmless enough, but but it's not. It's really

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dangerous. And then it was prescribed to me over the course

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of five years. And so slowly but surely over those five years,

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what happened was I formulated a physiological addiction to both

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and they are actually synergistic, right, like they

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exacerbate each other. So you know, you get to the end where I

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decided, you know, gosh, enough is enough my body, I can feel my

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liver, I can feel my liver working at night. I can feel all

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four chambers of my heart beating is this is not good.

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Like I don't want to go out like my grandmother did was cirrhosis

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of the liver. So I checked myself in because I knew detox

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from alcohol detox from I didn't know detox from benzos was

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dangerous, but I sure learned that real quick. But I knew I

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needed to be monitored, because my blood pressure was off, you

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know, everything else. So I went to, you know, I researched I

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found a program that spoke my language. And I'm going to tell

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you a story of somebody that goes into detox and treatment in

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a way that nobody ever does. Because I showed up sober and

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showed him sober. I planned it, I spent two months getting to

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know the staff, and the programs that I knew what to expect. And

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it was all planned out. And you know, very much true Trisha

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style, right? It had to be perfect from start to finish.

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And it had to go in the very timeframe. And if anything was

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going to happen, I was going to overachieve not under achieve.

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So I I accomplished my seven to 10 day detox in three days, and

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those kinds of things. And and then I you know, and it was it

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was great. It was wonderful for for what I needed in that space.

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But then I went home, and the discharge plan was a and weekly

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therapy. Well, where I lived at the time, because I was also you

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know, in a in a whole different county where I went to

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treatment, but I went home, the age didn't even exist in my, in

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my community, I would have had to go to counties or two cities

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over. And I I tried, I really did, but I didn't even fit in

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right there is just, it just didn't work. Right. And so I

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found a women's group, it was just a bunch of us women, you

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know, talking about whatever, we all had families and kids or

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whatever, we all had our own issues and problems. And and

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that was my support group. But in that I went to school. And so

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I became my first client, I literally was my first client.

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So Melissa says I eat sleep, breathe and actually walk the

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walk of what I teach, even though it's been nine years. I

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since I since I've been doing this practice, and I absolutely

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am still in it every day. So I went to school and I started

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learning, you know, everything I heard about, you know,

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addiction. So physiological effects of drugs and alcohol on

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the body, right was glass number one. And and I, you know, got my

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certification to be an addiction treatment counselor identified

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in that space that I am more suited to be a coach found an

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accredited, again, I emphasize the word accredited coaching

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program for for addiction. That was very extensive, and also

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went on to get my psych degree where I studied process

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behavioral and chemical addiction. And and so all of

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those three things combined. I'm learning and I'm learning and

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I'm learning and I'm like, Okay, so I'm learning all of these

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methods and modalities and tactics and things like that,

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that as practitioners, they teach us to talk about with our

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clients, as a counselor or a therapist or a psych, right. But

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the cool part was because I wanted to be a coach, I got to

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say, we need to know because I remember I sat in all of those

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rooms, I sat in, you know, in all the meetings and the groups

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and the therapy and you know, the counseling, and nobody was

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teaching me how to implement it in my life. They were talking

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around it. So when I was in school, and I was

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really telling you what to do, but then not the

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house. Right? It won't

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even you don't need to consider it. Right because

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it's very, very gentle. Yeah, it's

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very gentle. You say it's, well how about this? You should?

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Yeah, let's try that or consider Yeah, anyway, it's different.

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They they educate you, but they don't tell you what you need to

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do. So I figured out I converted it all to a coaching model so

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that I can actually look During the practical application of

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psychological tactics, I did it in my life first. And then I

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spent a lot of time learning how to, you know, with other people,

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like because I can't teach you how I did it, but I sure as heck

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now, where I'm at can can help you help you figure out how to

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add, edit, delete, change def more, make it your own for your

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life. And then we figure out together what is that practical

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application going to be for you? And and so we come out with, you

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know, we know ourselves. Anyway, so So that was my journey. That

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is That is how I ended up launching my practice. And or

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creating it should I say, and that's, that's my story. Don't

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look back.

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Keep going forward. But I saw a recent post

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of yours on social media. And you just mentioned in that post

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about the moment you decided to love yourself. So talk to me

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about that moment.

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Oh, wow. I'm not even sure if it was a moment. I don't

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even know

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if it was where maybe it was that phase.

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It was in that it was in that because, because even

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though I was loving myself, for the mother, I was for the wife

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that I was, right. I wasn't loving me, I didn't live for

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myself first, I lived for everybody else first, and it was

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all seated in, you know how much I could do for others. And I was

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always that one that would drop everything and go take care of

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it. I was always the hero, always the hero. And so, you

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know, it wasn't that I. So in my, in my recovery, education

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journey, I really started to figure out that a lot of that

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internal dialogue that was about me, right, I felt like my

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thoughts, my feelings, my emotions, my opinions, my

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beliefs, my needs, my wants my dreams, my desires, weren't seen

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as being valid, or holding any value. I've felt very dismissed

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in my life. Even though I was working real hard to be the hero

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all the time, then, you know, as I as I'm healing on my own, you

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know, in my own recovery, you know, I'm learning that my

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family doesn't think that I think that I think those things

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about me, and so that's when I dove in even deeper, how can I

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restructure these things. And it became important to me, as soon

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as I realized that it was all, it was all just about what I was

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how I was allowing myself to experience my environment, the

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people in it, how I was allowing myself to see and experience

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myself. And I can liken this to anybody that may know what this

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is like. But Body Dysmorphia is a you know, it's a it's a

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difficult thing. And I and I lived with it for a long time.

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And, and now I now I know how to navigate it. But but you know

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when when you don't see yourself or don't allow yourself to see

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yourself in the way that others do. Or even better the way that

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you want to see you and the way that you want to see you

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experiencing living, then other people aren't going to be able

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to receive you the way you want to be received. And so that's

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when it started was when I realized that I was putting my

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negative beliefs that I don't know from childhood. Remember I

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said back in childhood, it was the way I received my siblings

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innocent sibling this, right. Like, I can see them today. And

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we're all well over our 50s Right, we're 5060s and, and they

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they don't they, they never at any time really felt like they

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were doing anything, you know, traumatizing to me. But they

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were but that was my arm that was on me. I blamed them for so

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many years and it was all on me. Granted, I was a child. And my

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mom taught me how not to you know really say about the you

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know, the traumatizing things like frayed of the dark. I think

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I shared that with you earlier today. Yeah, right. Definitely

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afraid of the dark. But I never told anybody I would just sit

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there frozen in my room and just sit there like I don't know, the

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whole night. Because I didn't want anybody to know that I had

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this thing wrong with me. Whatever, right? So the moment

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that I realized that it was up on me was the moment that

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changed my life. When the day that I realized that I'm the one

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that thinks all of these things about me. Other people may as

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well, but but that's on them. I can't control how other people

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perceive me. But I can change how I perceive myself which is

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going to up my chances of being received and perceived by

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others. closer to the light in which I wish to be seen. Does

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that answer your question? Absolutely.

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And that is so powerful. It is so, so powerful

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because I've recently done podcasts, the January 2022,

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podcasts were all about slowing down and getting more done. But

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in that we were talking about our beliefs and the 70,000

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thoughts we have inside our head. And in fact, my December

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2021 POTUS podcast, we're touching on this as well,

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because it's such an important point, right. And when we get to

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that point, where we realize that a lot of the dialogue that

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we have in our head is simply not true. It is not based, in

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fact,

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or the floor is in our head, exactly.

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Based on beliefs and experiences, etc. But it

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doesn't mean it's true. And it doesn't mean it's fact. And when

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we understand that we can then realize, okay, I can rewrite

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them exactly as you did. And when you rewrite them, then you

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can show up in the world as who you want to be, and then there's

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can receive you that way.

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Yeah, that's how that I love that you're talking about

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that the beliefs, right? I have an exercise that is just so

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transformational. But you know, those in going through my I

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believe, exercise is how I came up with my life's motto that I

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just adore, I adore. And that is this is my life to, it gets to

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look, feel, be however I want it to, I get to choose and love

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that. And so when I have that model, what it also has done is

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it's allowed me to offer it to every other being on the planet,

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because who would I be? The thing that that only applies to

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me. Right? And and so this allows me to, to stay out of the

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stance of a judger Mm hmm. This allows me to stay in a space of

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of a learner, and curiosity that, yeah, somebody that is

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open to receiving, to learning to gaining to expanding,

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I absolutely love that. And on this podcast,

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my audience has heard me say many times before, to turn your

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judgment into curiosity. Don't judge yourself, get curious as

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to why you're feeling what you're feeling, whether it's

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emotional pain, or physical pain, etc, because then we get

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to an understanding, and then we can choose to do something about

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it. But I absolutely love your life's motto. So I want you to

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say it one more time, because that was really powerful. Say it

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one more time nice and slow, because the audience would love

Melissa Deally:

to hear it. Again,

Unknown:

I talked so fast, and just my life.

Melissa Deally:

Just before you do that, I want to link it to

Melissa Deally:

the fact that the theme of the march podcast is all about power

Melissa Deally:

within. So share your motto again, please.

Unknown:

This is my life too. It gets to look, feel be however I

Unknown:

want to,

Melissa Deally:

I get to choose. I love it. And when we know that

Melissa Deally:

internally, and we make that decision, there's so much that

Melissa Deally:

we can then create for ourselves on that path that we want to go.

Melissa Deally:

Whether that's in building a business, whether it's in going

Melissa Deally:

back to school to completely change up what you're doing in

Melissa Deally:

life, whether that's even allowing your body to heal,

Melissa Deally:

right. Because even that comes back to the place of belief that

Melissa Deally:

you first have to believe you can heal before that's even

Melissa Deally:

going to happen, and you get to choose. So I love all of the

Melissa Deally:

work that you do. And you and I of course work very closely

Melissa Deally:

together and there's overlaps, etc. And I want you just share

Melissa Deally:

about it leads from that motto, but everyone has the power to

Melissa Deally:

experience living the way they desire. And that totally ties

Melissa Deally:

into that model that you've just said. But just dig into that a

Melissa Deally:

little bit deeper, because sometimes people feel like

Melissa Deally:

they're stuck and they don't have any choices. What would you

Melissa Deally:

say to that? Oh,

Unknown:

I Well, I deal with this day in and day out right

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with with the clients because it's you know, they generally

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come to me, you know, with with something they want to remove

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from their life, whether it's alcohol, sugar, whatever, right?

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And and so what what they have to realize, or what they get to

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realize at some point is that that's, that's just the surface

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level, that there's a reason that they have have given it an

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emotional purpose. They've given it a job to do in their life,

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and we have to figure out why So I'm going to piggyback on your,

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you got to know your the why we do have to ask ourselves why?

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Why do I want to? I don't know, give up alcohol? Why do I want

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to give up sugar? What what is it? What distress? Is it causing

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me? Why do I need? Why do I feel like I need to give this up? And

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when we have that answer, we need to ask why again. Because

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it's never that, that surface, I'll tell a little story, I'll

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tell a little story. And I think this will help people because

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this is a good one. As human beings, we broad brush, right?

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We broad brush everything everything's, you know, I had a

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client who, who always felt like the black sheep of her family.

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She never truly felt like she fit in or was accepted or was

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you know, she always felt judged and belittled. But she also took

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that, that same thing with her to work, she'd get in, she'd get

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a new job, and then everything would be bubbly. And she'd be

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super great friends with everybody in the minute somebody

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didn't like something that she had to say, or her opinion, or

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she didn't make a mistake, all of a sudden, she was the black

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sheep there. And it just was broad brushed everywhere

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throughout her entire in all air, all categories of her

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environment. So in a very long session, and a very long

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session, we've worked it back, you know, picking away at each

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cat each category and each thing we'll do you know, when we got

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to the end of it, it really only stemmed hurt all of those

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feelings, all of that hurt, all of that pain, all of that. Not

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feeling accepted, of being judged, all of those things

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really only stemmed in her relationship with her sister.

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That immediately freed her to, to repair all other areas of her

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life, every other relationship, every everything like that. And

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then only have to focus on this one person, the relationship

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with one person and it healed so fast, it healed so fast. The

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problem is, we say I'm stuck. And we can't figure it out. Or

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we keep trying we try something we stay surface with it. And

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then we go that didn't work. It's like reading the self help

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book and then going I didn't get any of the results that that the

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book says every one of their participants has gotten or, you

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know, going to Tony Robbins or going Why am I not one of those

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top five people that are now millionaires because they went

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to Tony Robbins, whatever, right? The thing is, you can

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read it, you can listen to it. But until you do the work, the

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practical application, the investigation, then you have to

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do the, the cultivating, then you have to do the nurturing,

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and then you have to do the conditioning. And until you're

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ready to do all of the levels and layers of what it takes to

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truly instigate change, you're either going to be all in an all

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out think of that diet that you go on twice a year, once a year,

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every quarter, every summer, whatever it is, right? Y'all

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know who I'm talking to, right? I got to go on this diet because

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I got to drop, you know, 25 pounds, we go all in, we

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restrict our food, we exercise six days a week, we get to our

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goal, we hang it, we hang there for a couple months, and then we

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start to get complacent, we start to get right, because we

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never intended to condition it as a new way of being. We only

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did it for the surface reason of feeling like we were bikini

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ready, which I love to challenge everybody to realize that your

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bikini ready everyday go to target, they have them all year

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round, that they have your size, right, just put it on, you have

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to start defining things better, like what is it? We have to know

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what is bikini ready, like you better define that it's not? I

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look the way I want to look at my bikini. Right. But anyway,

Melissa Deally:

exactly. It's not the same for every single

Melissa Deally:

person, right? We've got to deep dig deeper than the words.

Melissa Deally:

Right. And I think what you're saying here is something that I

Melissa Deally:

do with my clients as well as the seven layers of why. Right?

Melissa Deally:

Is it's not just stopping Why do you want to do this? And it's

Melissa Deally:

not just stopping at that first easy answer. No, it's going

Melissa Deally:

deeper. So if you have that, what's that gonna get you? Why

Melissa Deally:

do you want that and keep going. And so it sounds like that's

Melissa Deally:

exactly the what you were doing with this client that figured

Melissa Deally:

out that all of the broad brush brush of, you know, feeling like

Melissa Deally:

the black sheep, when she got down those seven layers result

Melissa Deally:

of one person in her life.

Unknown:

So I'll give you this last example. The last example

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of why we are the way we are why we get stuck in ruts or stuck

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not knowing how to make a change or whatever. Think about how we

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greet each other. Hey, how are you? I'm good. I'm fine. Okay,

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good and fine. Bad, bad answers. Fine is probably the broadest

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answer you can ever give. If you look at the word in the

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dictionary, it is the broadest thing you could ever say about

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yourself, you are either fine as the as a natural stone gym,

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whatever, or you're as fine as a piece of hair that's been overly

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bleached, that's gonna break if you blow on it, right? Like,

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literally fine is way too broad of an answer. We've got to we've

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got to know how to describe how we, how we feel in any moment,

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with with a true description, we've got to quit throwing the

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word busy at everything I busy. I challenge you to look up that

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word and then look up the similar words and not and not

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ask yourself is my busy, or my involved in engaged in my life,

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quick thrown busy out there, like it's a badge of honor,

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because all it does is it gets in your head psychologically

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screw you up, get you frazzled, and blah, blah, blah, right?

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Let's find something better to say. I'll get it all get all up

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in a sermon. So

Melissa Deally:

that I absolutely agree with you. And

Melissa Deally:

the words that we use are so important, whether they're the

Melissa Deally:

words that we're using to talk to ourselves inside our head,

Melissa Deally:

are the words that we're putting out there, into the universe,

Melissa Deally:

into our community into our family, and the messages that

Melissa Deally:

flow from there. So I also want to dive into emotional

Melissa Deally:

intelligence in this conversation, because that's

Melissa Deally:

another biggie. And it's something that I know you've

Melissa Deally:

said is not innate. And, you know, so often I as I've been on

Melissa Deally:

this journey, for the last seven years, I felt why wasn't I

Melissa Deally:

taught this in school, right? There's so many things that I

Melissa Deally:

wish we could be teaching our kids in school to this day, and

Melissa Deally:

you know, reforming our school system, and it's coming. But

Melissa Deally:

emotional intelligence is another one that I would love to

Melissa Deally:

see taught at school, but share with us on that topic.

Unknown:

Lovely. If emotional intelligence was taught at the

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school age level, for the very fact that I've already stated is

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these things take learning, they take nurturing, they take

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cultivating, they take conditioning, if we don't teach

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our children at a young age, impulse control, their brains

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aren't even equipped for it. Right. But they get innately

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they don't have it because they don't they don't have a frontal

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lobe, they're still in their old reptilian limbic system, right?

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They're very knee jerk and reactive. So if we aren't

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teaching them effective, self soothing tactics, patience, you

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know, things like that, then then what are they going to

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learn that when they're an adult, they think about all the

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Instagram application needs we have out there in the world. So,

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you know, we have to start with, you know, teaching everybody how

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to truly get to know themselves, right? I call it you know, a

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whole health survey, where we start to actually look at this

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six categories that actually create whole health and include

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intellect, and, you know, all the things that teach us how to

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ask ourselves the hard questions, so that we can learn

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how to uncover what we need to do going forward. Next, teach us

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again, impulse control, teach us a different way of being

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assertive, because I'd venture to say that that assertiveness

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has been skewed. Because it's sort of this you know, people

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think I'm assertive, I'm blunt, to the point, I'm assertive, I

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challenge you to look at assertiveness as as something

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more of an open, honest, genuine, transparent and

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authentic way of being. And when I say the words transparent

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mean, I'm transparent, always in all things that I do. And I'm

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genuine and authentic. And I'm not there trying to pretend to

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be somebody I'm not. Right. So we're talking about our kids, if

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we're cheating them, true assertiveness, and we're

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teaching them to be open, honest, genuine, transparent,

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authentic, right? For teaching them those things. They won't be

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like me and sweeping things under the rug. Right. And trying

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to put on the perfect face or fit in with the in all these

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little cliques. I mean, we'll still have them but but we're

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going to have a better chance, then we need to have that then

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we need to have distress tolerance, again, distress

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tolerance, and there are so many things that fall under that. If

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they can't take bullying without getting distressed and ending up

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committing suicide. Right kids are doing that today. We need to

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get on board. Mm hmm. This is real. They are shooting each

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other we need to get on board. Absolutely don't have distress

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tolerance. I really at least when I was a kid, we used to

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just hit each other with our fist, right like Right. There

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wasn't nice Some guns and all the things anyway. So we have

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to, we have to teach distress tolerance, and we have to know

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how to do it. So parents get some training, right? Well, you

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know, learn it yourself. So you can lead by the good example.

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Effective, self soothing, again, I'm going to bring that backup

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effective, self soothing, it's not all external reward, we

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cannot rely on needing a bath, we cannot rely on meeting

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meditation, we cannot rely on Downward Dog. Because when we're

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driving our car, what are we left with our head, we gotta

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learn how to do it in here, and have the tools in here ready at

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any given moment. And that's going to also foster us to have

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the ability of emotional intelligence, or I'm sorry,

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emotion regulation, which rounds out us having emotional

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intelligence, and learning how to, you know, live our lives.

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Because in that, oh, I've missed one, my favorite, your locus of

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control, quit being so externally derailed, Mm hmm. Be

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internally driven, be internally minded. Again, that goes with

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that assertiveness, right. And take take ownership of how you

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want to experience living, this is your life. And then then you

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can say, this is how I want to experience my environment. And

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this is how I want to be received by other people. And

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then this is the example I'm going to lead by, but this is

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how we bring up our children or our grandchildren so that they

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they don't have, they don't have to, you know, I mean, we're just

Unknown:

talking about mental health finally, you know, I'm in my

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50s. So

Melissa Deally:

well, I love I absolutely love all of that, you

Melissa Deally:

know, I hear over, I hear over and over again, that happiness

Melissa Deally:

comes from the inside, right, not relying on those external

Melissa Deally:

sources for happiness, when I have this, I'll be happier when

Melissa Deally:

I have that I'll be happy. And we know that isn't true. I mean,

Melissa Deally:

that's, I can't remember the number it's staggeringly high. I

Melissa Deally:

think it's something like 75% of people who go and have a plastic

Melissa Deally:

surgery done. And then they get to have their face look exactly

Melissa Deally:

the way they want it to look. And then they're still not

Melissa Deally:

happy. Right now most guys that happiness comes from inside. And

Melissa Deally:

for too many years, we've also been taught, like you were

Melissa Deally:

taught, squash, the emotion, squash, the emotion, squash, the

Melissa Deally:

emotion. So this conversation around emotional intelligence is

Melissa Deally:

so so important now, and I love that that's such a big piece of

Melissa Deally:

the work that you do, because so many of us are getting to

Melissa Deally:

adulthood. And we've never learned this. And we haven't

Melissa Deally:

been able to process our emotions. And we have been

Melissa Deally:

relying on external sources to make us happy. And that's where

Melissa Deally:

the addictions are coming in. So your work is so needed,

Melissa Deally:

particularly now, particularly now, because the last few years

Melissa Deally:

have been hard on everyone in the world. Right? And so the

Melissa Deally:

rate of addictions has absolutely increased, whether it

Melissa Deally:

be drinking or shopping, or smoking or whatever it is, right

Melissa Deally:

sugar, etc.

Unknown:

So,

Melissa Deally:

so I want to ask you, before we dive into how

Melissa Deally:

people can reach you, one of the questions that I asked all of my

Melissa Deally:

guests, what does don't wait for your wake up call mean to you.

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Oh, learn how to hear what your body is telling you.

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Because it's telling you what you need to know that it needs

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to Yeah, needs zap. Like, literally, if I would have

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started listening to my body a whole lot sooner. And I it this

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would be a whole new podcast, right? Like, there's all

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different episodes. But if I had started to listen to my physical

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body sooner, I would have I would have healed a lot sooner.

Unknown:

Right.

Melissa Deally:

And I love that because it's so in alignment

Melissa Deally:

with my work of teaching the exact same thing.

Unknown:

And we get along so well.

Melissa Deally:

Together. Exactly. And you and I have just

Melissa Deally:

recently worked together and continue to work together. And

Melissa Deally:

you've had some great results from experiencing my detox

Melissa Deally:

program.

Unknown:

Oh, I tried to do my follow up when a whole month

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early because I loved it. So I'm glad I asked you first, because

Unknown:

I still have a whole month to go. I gotta wait for April. I

Unknown:

was ready. I was ready to go at the end of February.

Melissa Deally:

We don't want to do that too much, because then

Melissa Deally:

it's hard on the body. But I love how you were willing to

Melissa Deally:

step into it. You're still listening to your body every

Melissa Deally:

single day. You knew something was up with digestion, even

Melissa Deally:

though you have that nutritional background. It's not the main

Melissa Deally:

focus of the work that you do today. And so you decided, hey,

Melissa Deally:

you know, I want some help with my gut. But let's do this detox

Melissa Deally:

and see what happens. So

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I think that the important thing there to hear

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because I love that you just said this. I know we're almost

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out of time. But all all of us practitioners that are listening

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to this message right now, right? There's something really

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important in this because we are not all the master of all. And,

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and so eating healthy. And being, you know, a nutrition

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coach for people in recovery, you know, didn't make me a

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master at everything that comes with nutrition, I had a very

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healthy diet, but but it was still not 100% serving me

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because I still had things that were in the way and I wouldn't,

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I couldn't figure it out. And I just kept, you know, taking

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foods away. But anyway, so we all need to coach in certain

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areas, when we whenever we get stuck in something when we get

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stuck somewhere. And I don't it doesn't matter who you are, or

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how educated you are, you can have my mentor, and I talk about

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it all the time, we know we can have the gazillion years of

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experience, but there's always something more for us to learn.

Unknown:

And there are other people that know more about something than

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we do.

Melissa Deally:

And also when we're in it, it's hard to see

Melissa Deally:

for ourselves what is going on, right, I have someone coming in

Melissa Deally:

from the outside, they have more clarity of vision. And so you

Melissa Deally:

know, I still work with a naturopath, even though I can

Melissa Deally:

run the very same labs, and I run them for myself and I read

Melissa Deally:

them for myself. And I read all my labs for my clients, I still

Melissa Deally:

share my labs with my naturopath and book a session with her to

Melissa Deally:

get her feedback, because she's coming from the outside. And

Melissa Deally:

when you're looking at yourself, what have you missed, right? So

Melissa Deally:

I love that you know that that you step into that and embrace

Melissa Deally:

that. So tell the audience how they can get hold of you. And

Melissa Deally:

also, I know that you are offering a very generous gift

Melissa Deally:

for the audience. So please share that as well. I

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can always be found on my website, which is turning

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leaves Lea v s recovery.com. And you'll also be able to find me

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if you just click on the link for the for the for the gift,

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but there's a race for that one, because there's only there's

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only three available, so you have to hurry up. But or you can

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call me send me a text message at 805-710-2513. Push, pause,

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rewind, play it again, write it down, whatever you need to do.

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I'm very much an open book, that's how you find me, the free

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gift that I'm offering is five days of my time. It's it's my

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one of my favorite ways to actually get to know somebody,

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develop rapport, and also help them get on a to figure out what

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it is they even need to do, whether it's work with me or

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somebody else. And it's called by light called Life

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intervention. So this is again, we will spend an hour and a half

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face to face time, we'll figure out how but we will be doing a

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lot of communicating over the course of a five day period. And

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so there's a lot that goes into it. There'll be a lot of

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surveys, questionnaires, conversations and time to meet

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one on one. But we're will definitely figure out some some

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focal points for you. Anyway, I the links gonna be in the in the

Melissa Deally:

show notes. Yep, I don't put all your contact

Melissa Deally:

information in the show notes as well. And I just want to let the

Melissa Deally:

audience know that your life intervention program is valued

Melissa Deally:

at $350. And that is some powerful work that you are going

Melissa Deally:

to be guiding people through. So if there's anybody listening,

Melissa Deally:

that if you know that you're in the mass, if you are trying to,

Melissa Deally:

or you're ready to start figuring that out with some

Melissa Deally:

assistance of healer and expert, like Trisha, jump on that,

Melissa Deally:

because there's only three available. So the first three,

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if you're listening to this in six months, and and

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there isn't a free one left, you can still have it though. Yes,

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just reach out.

Melissa Deally:

But three for free right now to that three who

Melissa Deally:

sign up to work with Trisha. So thank you so much for offering

Melissa Deally:

that. I really appreciate it. And it's been wonderful having

Melissa Deally:

you on the show. And I would love for you to leave with the

Melissa Deally:

question that I asked every time. What is one tip you can

Melissa Deally:

give the audience to inspire them to take action in their own

Melissa Deally:

health journey today.

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I'm going to say sit down and look at the different

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categories of your life. And look at look at where you think

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you're stuck or where you think you're having an issue and break

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it down. What's it costing you? What's it benefiting you? Do do

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a cost versus benefit analysis pros vs. Cons what you know pros

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and cons and actually get in there and do those y's do the

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seven layers of y that Melissa was talking about. Ask yourself

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why what is it and how can I how can I see myself moving past

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this and if you can can't answer the hell reach out and find

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somebody that can help you find out, figure it out.

Melissa Deally:

And Tricia has the great, great place to start.

Melissa Deally:

So thank you again for having, uh, for coming on the show. I

Melissa Deally:

really appreciate your time. This is such an important

Melissa Deally:

conversation. And thank you for your bravery in your own

Melissa Deally:

journey. And then now for being willing to pay it forward and

Melissa Deally:

share that with the rest of the world. And to my audience,

Melissa Deally:

thanks for joining me once again. And I look forward to

Melissa Deally:

having you come back next time.

Melissa Deally:

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About the Podcast

Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!
with Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner
As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you can then make the right choices for you and your family. The choices you make today impact your future 1 year, 5 years, 10 years + from now. It is never too early to start looking after your health, as Health is your TRUE wealth....without it what do you have?

About your host

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Melissa Deally

Melissa is an Integrative Mind Body Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issue. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures, but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing, so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.