What Makes You Come Fully Alive? | Ep 70

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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

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

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What would that be worth

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to you? What is your health worth to you? Think about it.

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Your health isn't everything. But without it, everything else

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is nothing. And yet too many of us are taking it for granted

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until something goes wrong. No one wakes up hoping to be

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never been taught how to be proactive in our health through

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coach and integrative health practitioner, I believe it is

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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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My name is Melissa, Delia, your show host and today I am

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bringing to you a wonderful friend of mine, Cheryl Brewster.

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Welcome Cheryl.

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Thanks, Melissa. It's always so much fun

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hanging out with you.

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Well, I'm excited to share you with my

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audience today. And just to give the audience a little bit of an

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intro of who you are, and then I'll have you share your story.

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I want to start out with a question that you ask at the

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beginning of your bio, what makes you come alive and keeps

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you that way? And so audience really think about that. What

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makes you come alive and keeps you that way? For Cheryl, it's

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always about the courage to say yes to that something bigger in

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life to venture into greater possibilities. Through intuitive

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consultations, mindset coachings seminars and intuitive business

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masterminds and communication courses. Cheryl's zone of genius

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is supporting entrepreneurs, corporations, thought leaders,

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government agencies in defining and creating that something

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more, especially during times of transition or challenge, and

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don't we know times of transition and challenge right

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now Cheryl, so I love that you're here. This is my month,

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or my theme of intuition. And I'm so excited to be able to

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share you with my audience as we dive deeper into learning how to

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tap into our intuition, because we all have it, but we don't

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necessarily all use it. But I would love for you just to start

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out by sharing your story, what brought you into this line of

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work and expertise that you are so incredible at sharing with

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others now,

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sir, Thanks, Melissa. Well, first of all,

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that question, what makes you come alive and keeps you that

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way is really what drew me into this field. And my background

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is, is corporate working for electrical engineering and

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manufacturing. So it's a pretty big difference. So intuition

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will take us into our zone of genius, it will take us into our

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strengths, and it will take us into what we're naturally good

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at. And the quandary that we find ourselves in is that it

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will take us into the unknown or the unexpected. So that's where

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we could have inner values conflict, right, where we really

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want to follow our passion in our hearts. But if we've not

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done it before, then it puts us when I call into freefall, it's

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almost an existential angst. And that's what happened for me, I

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loved what I did, I was really good at it amazing company. But

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you come to that crossroads where you know, there's

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something more, and do you have the courage to take that leap?

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Because there's no track record, you are starting from scratch,

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at least I was. And if I had to do it all over again, I think I

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could have made things a lot simpler, easier. But I would do

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it all over again. Because when we're trusting our gut, trusting

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our intuition, we're we're growing into our potential, and

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there's nothing more rewarding or satisfying than that. So

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I agree it's an adventure

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for sure. Because you're you're kind of

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meeting some dragons along the way and you you kind of you

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know, you make them your allies, you figure out you don't have to

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slay them, befriend them and tame them and and they can be

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your your faithful servants. I just think it's so exciting. And

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especially now with all of the heaviness in the world and all

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of the fear, the old structures are tumbling you Land literally,

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I truly believe that is each one of us does our part to go down

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deep inside, figure out what does make us come alive and do

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that, that we are serving humanity. And and I think we're

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in for some really exciting times here. And it's so

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important to keep our focus on possibility and positivity.

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Because if we don't fear does a real number as we know. And we

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don't need any more stress we've had enough.

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Exactly. I fully agree with all that you've

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shared there. And, you know, especially with where the

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world's at today, you know how many people have lost jobs

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through the pandemic, and then those jobs are no longer

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available, or maybe they're being called back to their jobs.

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But they've changed, right? Pandemic has changed us the way

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we live our lives. And people are like, well, I don't want to

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go back to that job where I had to commute an hour and a half

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each way, every day to get to work, etc. I've worked from

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home, I want to keep working from home, you know, there's

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people that are having to face these decisions of do I go back

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to what I was doing before or not, and allowing, having them

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understand that they can tap into their intuition to truly

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guide them in that decision making. Right, as opposed to

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just doing what they've always done, and then ending up feeling

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unfulfilled or unhappy and stressed out, because, you know,

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it's not where they know, they want to be.

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Exactly. And right now, I think it's

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absolutely critical and crucial that we take a step back and

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look at that bigger picture. And you'll notice behind me, I've

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got a pirate hat. Because I believe one of the roles of

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intuition is to challenge the status quo. And and we're really

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challenging old programming old patterns. And I combine

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intuition with imagination. And the combination of those two.

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Very, very powerful. And you and I were talking earlier, we both

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taken some, some training and in some new modalities that we're

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using. And I love, love, love the aspect of it's time to bring

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humor and joy and fun back into our worlds.

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Absolutely.

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And, you know, if you're going through a hard

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time, it's kind of hard to make that shift. But but if you

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again, if you take a step back, look at the bigger picture. And

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go wait a minute. I have potential inside me. I haven't

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even tapped yet. I wonder what would happen if? And that's a

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really great question right now for for our listeners. I wonder

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what would happen if I listened to that part of me that wants to

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create more ease and grace in life.

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And it's interesting that you say, you

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know that because I've been using the words, imagine if a

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lot lately, right. But even when I think back to my own story of

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coming out of the corporate world, and ending up in health

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and wellness, I mean, that was completely guided by my

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intuition, because I never had health and wellness on my radar

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before, right, I have a commerce degree than I ended up in sales

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and corporate etc. And while I cared about my health, it was

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never on my radar to get into this line of work. But things

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just kept happening, that were directing me, right. And I was

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allowing myself to be guided into that. And then, you know,

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unknowingly in some ways, using my intuition to take the next

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steps. And it has landed me in a place where I have absolutely

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love what I do today. And I loved what I did before. But

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that was no more. Right? It was gone. That wasn't an option

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anymore. So what was next, and I'm just really grateful that

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I've landed in something else that I absolutely love. And

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that's the message I want to share with the audience as well.

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You might love what you do today, or did before the

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pandemic and now that's no more. Well, that doesn't mean you

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can't find something else that you absolutely love. And the

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thing is, it could be completely different to what you were doing

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before. And you won't know that unless you allow yourself to be

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guided by your intuition.

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Exactly. And that's why it plays such a

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critical role. And I like to use the analogy of and this applies

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specially to I think to entrepreneurs who are you know,

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they use their intuition a lot. But we all have our own

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individual glass ceilings and as long as printers we all grow

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ourselves. And as thought leaders we outgrow ourselves as

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creatives we outgrow ourselves. And so it's really interesting,

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like you can be super successful. And all of a sudden,

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it's like, hey, this isn't cutting it anymore, like what's

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going on? And so that invitation to go into imagination to say,

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Hmm, I wonder, and, and using imagination, what would it be

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like to? And I found, I find the power of that so incredible. And

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it, it does displace the fear. Mm hmm. And it makes friends

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with it. And in my line of work with, you know, doing intuitive

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readings and training and coaching and consulting, the

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bottom line for everybody, I believe, is, Am I really being

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here for myself? And my sense is, there's a real movement

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taking place right now we're really, and I'll bring in the

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spiritual component here, too, because as someone who studied

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metaphysics, is, what's the point of this particular

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lifetime? What am I really here for? And so the combination of

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intuition and imagination goes, well, what do I really like?

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What are my strengths? What gives me joy, and this ability

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to allow ourselves to really, really embrace, feeling good

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inside. And it sounds very simple. But if we ought to be

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really honest with ourselves today, it was like, Oh, we begin

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to find this, this pressure that we have, perhaps unknowingly

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been putting on ourselves. And that's where being coming aware

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of the pressure is so important, because there are tools that we

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can access inside that help to remove them. But this is gritty

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work. And I think that that's important to stress this, it is

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gritty work. It will take you into places you don't want to

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go. And that's why I love doing what I'm doing. Because I've

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been there know what it's like to go into uncertainty. And they

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come out the other side going, wow, you know, that was worth

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the price of admission? I'm glad I did that.

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It's always about coming out the other side,

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right? Yep. Because you come out the other side as a new person

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with new learning new insight, etc, etc, that allows you to

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look back and be grateful, yes, for whatever triggered you going

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through that additional growth. In the moment, you're not

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grateful for it at all, I totally get that been there too.

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But when you come out the other side, you know, you've come out

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the other side when you can look back at it with gratitude.

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Right, exactly. So So I love to take a look at

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you know, I always I always take a look at my own life and go,

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Okay, whoever comes into my life, in terms of synchronicity,

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I were we're here to help each other grow, you know, and those

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can be really amazing experiences. And those can be

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more challenging ones. But the bottom line here is, is keeping

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an open mindset. Yeah. And and you know, we can, it's very, I

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always go back to Okay, in this moment, is this making me come

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alive? And if it's not, the intuitive guidance, then is

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bringing me back online. And I think it's very important to

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stress to that what we're going through right now is to really

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honor what we're feeling and to embrace the negative emotions as

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as guidance actually saying, hey, get back on track, you're

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limiting yourself, you're in some way.

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Very, very true. And you were just talking about

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tools. And I know that you have a tool that you use the acronym

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joy. Yes. And so I would love you to share that with the

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audience.

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Absolutely. I use the word joy as an acronym

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because it stands for two things. JL why just open

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yourself and JL why Joy of you? And,

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and simply that word joy in and of itself,

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right? It's beautiful that you've got two acronyms from it.

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But you know joy is that highest energy state that we can be in

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as humans or maybe it's one below is peace, the highest joy

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might be wanting peace,

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the highest and then joy which is in They're

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both higher than love, which I find really interesting. And I

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was thinking about our interview today. And I thought, you know,

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I have to remember to say this is that I think joy is perhaps a

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bit higher than love, because joy is the action of love. And

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each one of us are here for a specific reason to experience

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our contentment inside, that's what we're here for. And when we

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go through different life experiences that don't

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particularly feel so joyful, just that little reminder is

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that everything here serves me everything, who's here to

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support my growth? So the the aspect of joy, then, is this

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profound acceptance that comes from both the sorrow and the

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pain of life, that that enjoy integrates that. And so at the

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time, yeah, it doesn't feel so great. But again, this bigger

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picture that I believe Joy really represents, because

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there's cycles and seasons and what you put them all together.

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And you know, there's something really, really wonderful

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happening. So joy is Yeah,

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share how we can all get into that place of joy,

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right? Because right now, not enough of us are living there.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:16:29

Exactly. And that, and that's so So Melissa,

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get so excited, because in my own work, I see how I'm changing

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and evolving and growing where, you know, intuition supports

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joy. Why is joy important? Well, we think better, we feel better,

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we're more creative or more innovative. And when we allow

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joy and accept joy, not only is our birthright, but as the most

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optimal way of creating prosperity, because the

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definition of prosperity is, is the integration of the cold,

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hard facts in the physical world, whether that's a job or a

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house, or security, or cash, or finances, or whatever. But those

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things in and of themselves will not bring peace. There's a

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combination of things going on here. Yes. And that's why I like

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to talk about joy, because joy comes from the inside out. And

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really, and when we're going through fear and transition, we

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forget that, but it's wired in us. And so us that's why using

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imagination is so important and so powerful. And it's it's

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something that I believe it's a lost art, that we are reclaiming

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because it will take us into the grand adventure of life. And

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again, asking that question, Am I really feeling alive in this

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moment? Which brings us to choice point. And that's where,

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and you're familiar with the ABCs of intuition? Yes,

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I want to dive into that as well. Lots to

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unpack here and share with the audience.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:18:16

Well, last one tact and, and and again, life is

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a great adventure. Nothing at all, Helen Keller said that and

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I adore. We all have muses, well, Helen Keller is one of my

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muses. Right and, and so And here's an invitation I put out

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to the audience listening to this, think of who you really

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admire who really speaks to your heart and take a moment and just

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just be present with what it is you admire about them. And how

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that little bit of admiration can actually affect the change

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in you. And consider that you you also are someone that other

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people admire, and, and really appreciate that you to make a

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difference in their lives. And what if you lead from that

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place? More frequently, more often? What if you allow

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yourself to feel really, really good about who you are? Because

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when we're going in transition and change the primal brain

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kicks in, right? It's like, you know, instead of, instead of

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realizing, yes, I do have impact. Yes, I bring incredible

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gifts to the world. You know, the critical voice gets in

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there. And it's like, what a schmuck Are you and all of a

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sudden we're

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Who are you to think you can do that in our

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comfort zone and all to keep us safe, right? That primal brain

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is is meant to do is to keep us safe. And so yeah, and those

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messages can absolutely, you know, be our undoing.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:19:57

Exactly. And that's why I I love to talk

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about joy, because joy will bring you back if you're not

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having fun. If you're not feeling peaceful, well, you can

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and, and bring yourself back. So the ABCs of intuition really tie

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into that. So it's a formula that I created over over, over

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many years. And it's so powerful. The ABCs of

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internalist intuition are the language of the soul. And it's

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like, wow, I am here for a great adventure. And am I giving

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myself permission to really live it? And what if I did, so A is

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for aware? I'm aware in this moment of what what's going on?

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Okay. I'm not feeling the greatest. Uh, let's, let's take

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a look at that. So I'm going to allow what's here, knowing that

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it's serving me, and it's inviting me to find what it is

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within me, that I'm not seeing. And that I believe, totally

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reframes fear, because now it's like, oh, I'm feeling this

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:06

particular emotion. Because there's something more for me

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:10

that I don't I'm not seeing, right. So aware, breathe,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:15

connect to what that hidden aspect is trust.

Melissa Deally: 00:21:21

So in the ABCs, the B is breathe. So we're

Melissa Deally: 00:21:23

breathing through that difficult emotion that we're dealing with,

Melissa Deally: 00:21:27

right? And then C is connect, you said,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:30

Yep, connect to the heart. Because in the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:33

breathing and the allowing that emotion to be there, Michael

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:36

singer talks about this in the Untethered Soul. He said, Yes,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:39

you're going to feel discomfort, but it will only be temporary.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:43

So the more that we allow ourselves, to be really honest

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:46

with ourselves tell the truth, okay, here it is. Rather than

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:51

judging it, I'm going to see it as energy moving. And, and I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:21:56

like to use be for breathe, but I also like to use it for blast.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:22:01

I'm gonna bless this as it moves through me because it's trying

Cheryl Brewster: 00:22:06

to help. Thank you. Right. So that,

Melissa Deally: 00:22:11

and the sooner we allow the ABCs to kick in,

Melissa Deally: 00:22:16

and we choose to, you know, be aware of it, acknowledge it,

Melissa Deally: 00:22:21

breathe through it, bless it, and then connect with it, the

Melissa Deally: 00:22:24

sooner we get to the other side, and that plays in clearly,

Melissa Deally: 00:22:28

right, as opposed to fighting it squashing it, eating our way

Melissa Deally: 00:22:32

through it, right. I mean, this is this aligns so beautifully

Melissa Deally: 00:22:35

with just the work that I do with people in terms of, you

Melissa Deally: 00:22:39

know, detoxing and eating and guiding them through a detox.

Melissa Deally: 00:22:43

And, you know, people might be thinking, well, what's the

Melissa Deally: 00:22:46

benefit of a detox? Well, a, you're cleaning out your

Melissa Deally: 00:22:49

insides, et cetera, et cetera, lowering inflammation, and all

Melissa Deally: 00:22:51

of those physical health benefits. But honestly, the

Melissa Deally: 00:22:55

greatest benefit that I see my clients get is the awareness in

Melissa Deally: 00:22:59

how their body feels in when they learn how to turn on

Melissa Deally: 00:23:04

digestion, before eating, when they change the way that they're

Melissa Deally: 00:23:07

eating from, you know, into a more nutrient dense meal, at

Melissa Deally: 00:23:11

cetera, et cetera, when they change the timing of their

Melissa Deally: 00:23:14

meals. As they learn all of this, that awareness is kicking

Melissa Deally: 00:23:17

in, right. And so from that place of joy, and awareness, all

Melissa Deally: 00:23:22

of it ties back to our health as well. Because when we stuffed

Melissa Deally: 00:23:25

down those emotions, and we don't allow them to process and

Melissa Deally: 00:23:29

we ignore them, that's another form of toxicity in our body

Melissa Deally: 00:23:33

that causes inflammation, and over time, can trigger dis ease

Melissa Deally: 00:23:38

in the body.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:23:39

Exactly. And you nailed it, because it's the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:23:42

unprocessed emotion. And again, here's the biology, right? It's

Cheryl Brewster: 00:23:48

a combination of the emotional with the biology, and that's why

Cheryl Brewster: 00:23:54

listening to our intuition is so important. You know, you said

Cheryl Brewster: 00:23:57

something really, really, that touched my heart there. Which is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:02

really we're talking about mindfulness and really

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:04

appreciating like, like, I love what Joseph Campbell said. He

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:09

said, This moment is eternity. If we don't get it here, we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:13

don't get it anywhere. Right. So to be able to live life in terms

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:19

of in this moment, hey, I'm here. I'm alive. What am I going

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:24

to do with this aliveness? And then we're talking about food is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:29

is we're mindful with appreciating, and we're mindful

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:35

with there is so there is so much to discover there is so

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:43

much to enjoy. And I'd even use the body as a metaphor in a

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:49

bigger way. For example, what's happening in you know, in the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:53

world today, whether it's Russia in the Ukraine or whatever is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:24:56

happening in these big world events. is that there's, as we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:02

each do our part, that we're all contributing to the fabric of

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:08

humanity in consciousness. And so to really make this personal,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:14

because the more that we do to live our highest optimal self,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:19

the more we are contributing, and we will be led or guided to

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:24

appropriate action that we need to take. So I,

Melissa Deally: 00:25:28

we also lift others up around us.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:30

actly. Exactly. And so when you talk about

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:34

inflammation, we are all at, you know, AI, in this massive return

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:44

to, to taking care of the planet by starting with us, and, and

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:51

speaking of us, there's a there's, again, a, quote Helen

Cheryl Brewster: 00:25:58

Keller, because I think what we're really battling right now

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:02

is overwhelm. And, you know, what can one person do? And one

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:08

of her quotes that so touched my heart was, I'm only one person,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:12

I can't do everything. But I will not refuse to do the one

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:19

thing I can do powerful is that like, like, if we all really,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:24

really took that to heart, because you, each one of us has

Cheryl Brewster: 00:26:30

the one thing that we can do.

Melissa Deally: 00:26:34

And there's another quote, and I'm not even

Melissa Deally: 00:26:36

going to get it right. I'll completely butcher it. But I

Melissa Deally: 00:26:38

love it. And it was something along the lines of don't believe

Melissa Deally: 00:26:42

that just because you're one person, you can't change the

Melissa Deally: 00:26:45

world. It's in fact, the only thing that ever did. Oh, right.

Melissa Deally: 00:26:51

Because one person starts it. And then it has that ripple

Melissa Deally: 00:26:54

effect. Exactly. And so you could be that one person that

Melissa Deally: 00:27:00

triggers that ripple effect.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:04

You and You are you are that one person. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:09

again, I think that's what I call the return to joy. We live

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:14

in a society, especially in North America, where it's so

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:17

external based. And it's it's like, no, it's it's internal.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:22

Yes. That's the greatest treasure there is, is inside.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:27

And so this shift and awakening, and it starts with the detox.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:33

Well, you know, in the mind, body spirit, it does start with

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:36

the detox. Okay, let's clean all this stuff out. And, and but but

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:41

here's, here's my thing is like, but can we have more fun doing

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:44

it? Like I knowing we need to do this, like no one needs to do

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:48

that. But when we have more fun doing it, like, number one more

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:53

gets done. And we have we just enjoy life more. Yeah,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:27:59

absolutely. So that and that's what I funny that

Melissa Deally: 00:28:03

you say that because I was recently in a

Melissa Deally: 00:28:05

business intensive training. And we had somebody come in and talk

Melissa Deally: 00:28:08

about, you know, subject lines for emails and headlines for

Melissa Deally: 00:28:12

newspapers, right? What gets people to click and open and

Melissa Deally: 00:28:15

read, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, my, my group program

Melissa Deally: 00:28:19

is called help kickstart and detox. And it's what it is, is

Melissa Deally: 00:28:22

that gonna, you know, are people jumping up and down to do a

Melissa Deally: 00:28:24

detox? No. Do people know they need it? And they do it anyway.

Melissa Deally: 00:28:29

And they love the process with me? Yes. But then they were

Melissa Deally: 00:28:33

laughing and going well, you could be changing your headlines

Melissa Deally: 00:28:35

to you know, look hot, naked, again, get bikini ready this

Melissa Deally: 00:28:39

summer. So I've started doing that just because, yeah, bring

Melissa Deally: 00:28:44

that fun and silliness into it, et cetera, et cetera. And to

Melissa Deally: 00:28:49

have people you know, kind of look at it in a more playful

Melissa Deally: 00:28:52

way. We're still, you know, having to look after our body,

Melissa Deally: 00:28:57

but it can be more playful, it can be more fun, which I love

Melissa Deally: 00:29:00

that you brought that up, because my whole last month of

Melissa Deally: 00:29:02

podcast episodes was all about bringing more play and more fun

Melissa Deally: 00:29:06

into your life. And as a result of doing that, it's something

Melissa Deally: 00:29:10

that I've been consciously doing a lot more of recently, and it's

Melissa Deally: 00:29:14

been fabulous from, you know, girls night out, you know,

Melissa Deally: 00:29:17

dancing at the Irish Pub until all hours to I just saw the same

Melissa Deally: 00:29:21

movie twice in one weekend because it was Top Gun and oh my

Melissa Deally: 00:29:24

god, it was amazing. And I'm in love with Tom Cruise all over

Melissa Deally: 00:29:27

again. And I haven't done that since I was a teenager, right?

Melissa Deally: 00:29:34

But we can, and we can allow ourselves to have fun. Just

Melissa Deally: 00:29:38

because we grow up into adults doesn't mean we have to stop

Melissa Deally: 00:29:41

having fun. If you're enjoying my content and someone that

Melissa Deally: 00:29:46

wants to step into being proactive in your health and

Melissa Deally: 00:29:50

learning more, I would love to invite you to join my membership

Melissa Deally: 00:29:53

community. There's a link in the show notes for only 1999 a month

Melissa Deally: 00:29:57

you get access to all of my content And there's a lot as

Melissa Deally: 00:30:01

well as weekly calls that you can come and get your health

Melissa Deally: 00:30:04

questions answered.

Melissa Deally: 00:30:05

It's truly priceless.

Melissa Deally: 00:30:07

I'd love to see you join the community, check out the link in

Melissa Deally: 00:30:10

the show notes. And it's something else you also

Melissa Deally: 00:30:14

mentioned that brought me back, I'm reading the book atomic

Melissa Deally: 00:30:16

habits right now. And you mentioned like showing up and

Melissa Deally: 00:30:19

being alive. And in that book, he told the story of his five

Melissa Deally: 00:30:25

year old daughter, one day, no two year old, she was two. And

Melissa Deally: 00:30:29

she was up really early one morning, and he was up with her.

Melissa Deally: 00:30:32

And she just decided to walk out the front door. So he followed

Melissa Deally: 00:30:36

her out the front door, and she walked out into the middle of

Melissa Deally: 00:30:38

the garden and threw her arms up in the air and said,

Unknown: 00:30:42

Hello, world.

Melissa Deally: 00:30:43

I'm here. Right, as a two year old, that we need

Melissa Deally: 00:30:48

more of that in our adult lives, right, we've stopped being so

Melissa Deally: 00:30:51

serious. And that is a child who is absolutely, you know, living

Melissa Deally: 00:30:56

in her joy and ready and in her liveness. Right. She's ready for

Melissa Deally: 00:31:02

her day.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:03

I love that story. And and it really speaks

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:07

to me, I think is is the DIS I call it the discipline of joy. I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:13

put the two words together, because it's like a test plan.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:17

It's like, yeah, you know what we are unlearning some really

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:24

toxic habits. And, and again, whatever analogy works for

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:29

people. Again, for me, I and you know, in one of the talks I've

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:34

got coming up, it's called Embrace your inner pirate.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:37

Because there and fail boldly because it's like, why we the,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:46

again, the pressure that we unknowingly put on ourselves.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:50

And so when we embrace that inner pirate, it's like, I'm

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:53

going to, I'm going to break this pressure, I'm going to

Cheryl Brewster: 00:31:56

break the rules of conforming to the pressure, I don't need to be

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:01

doing this to myself. But without reflection, which is why

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:05

I host monthly intention setting without reflection, how will we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:10

know? And so we imagine that every month is a gateway to the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:18

grand adventure of your life. So every month, you have a chance

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:22

to take the time to reflect. What did I learn? Where did I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:25

grow? How? How much more? Am I living the adventure of my life

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:35

this month than I was last month? You know, and really

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:38

keeping those focus questions and also telling the truth like,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:42

Okay, what am I what am I still avoiding? And, and to go in and

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:49

to go deep. And to also go in with this whole idea of life is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:54

a grand adventure, or nothing at all, to really put it in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:32:59

perspective, because again, what's the point? What are we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:33:02

here for?

Melissa Deally: 00:33:05

I love the idea of being that grand adventure,

Melissa Deally: 00:33:08

again, when you look at it from the perspective of the child,

Melissa Deally: 00:33:11

right? To them every day is a grand adventure. And I don't

Melissa Deally: 00:33:15

know about you, because you were in the corporate world as well.

Melissa Deally: 00:33:17

But I do definitely, I mean, I've loved my career in the

Melissa Deally: 00:33:19

corporate world for 24 years. But I do feel like, that's where

Melissa Deally: 00:33:23

some of this got beaten out of me, in the sense that, you know,

Melissa Deally: 00:33:28

it was just, there was so much focus on getting the job done.

Melissa Deally: 00:33:32

And, you know, you're paid for 40 hours a week, but you weren't

Melissa Deally: 00:33:35

gonna get the job done anything less than 60. And then after

Melissa Deally: 00:33:38

that you're dealing with, you know, getting meals on the table

Melissa Deally: 00:33:40

and sports games and the grocery shopping done. And you just, you

Melissa Deally: 00:33:45

don't have time for anything else. And it just the stress

Melissa Deally: 00:33:47

just builds, right. And that's where I was when I look back,

Melissa Deally: 00:33:54

grateful that I got let go. Because I got to completely

Melissa Deally: 00:33:58

change my life and design a life to live it the way I want to

Melissa Deally: 00:34:01

live it now where I do get to play. And I do get to have that

Melissa Deally: 00:34:06

time to be reflective, et cetera, et cetera. But was that

Melissa Deally: 00:34:10

your experience in the corporate world too? Or is that just

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:13

just Yeah, well, well, very much. And in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:17

two ways. I worked for some amazing companies and man, I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:21

worked for companies. I was like, Oh, my, oh, my. And but I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:30

also had an internal system. One was wired for joy, and one was

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:34

wired for pressure. And so I ended up flat on my back and I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:39

was in my 30s. I think, blood in my back, couldn't move,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:44

literally paralyzed with pain because of a really toxic work

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:49

environment. And it was that particular event that triggered

Cheryl Brewster: 00:34:57

I'm going to learn everything I can do About living the grand

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:01

adventure of my life. And that's where things really changed. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:07

that whole listening to my intuition, that's where it

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:11

kicked in. And the thing that totally changed it for me was

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:14

absolutely tapping into this whole idea of joy. There is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:19

something inside of me, that is so happy and so powerful.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:26

However, I have a responsibility to it. And if I, for all of us,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:34

if we continue to deny that, and not nurture it, not grow it. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:42

this is why I love to teach, because who knew that learning

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:47

about joy would be a process or a curriculum? Well, I found in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:53

my own life, it actually was, it was like, Okay, it's, you know,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:35:58

causes greater than effect. So let's go back to root cause. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:03

let's go back and ask that question. Well, what if? And,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:09

and what if, even in the midst of this really difficult

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:12

circumstance, and, and you and I were talking, I'm going through

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:15

one right now with some, you know, some, some critical things

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:19

happening with some loved ones around me. And it's, it's like,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:22

there's a part of me that wants to go into the worry and the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:25

like the. And there's this other part that's going no, no, no,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:28

remember, you've done this before you mastered up before

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:32

and you can master this too. And the power of joy overcomes the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:38

power of stress. And when we give ourselves the dignity of

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:46

life, the dignity of I will be true to this adventure, I will

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:53

be I will be here for myself. And like Viktor Frankl talked

Cheryl Brewster: 00:36:59

about that is the last of the human freedoms. So the question

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:03

that I would have to, again, anyone listening to the podcast,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:07

is, this is your freedom to nurture, this is your freedom to

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:11

grow? It is yours. And really listen to that voice of

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:17

intuition, because it knows the way and it helps you ground

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:22

this, so that you have a solid foundation to walk on, even in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:26

the midst of the most difficult circumstances. And that's what I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:32

call joy, that ability to live your life that way, on those

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:36

kinds of terms, that in my mind, and my definition, is truly the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:37:49

the hidden treasure inside that we are each given to discover.

Melissa Deally: 00:37:55

And I love that and, you know, we're talking

Melissa Deally: 00:37:58

about corporate beating things out of us. But the other thing

Melissa Deally: 00:38:00

that I want to point out is there may be listeners that are

Melissa Deally: 00:38:04

here, and maybe not fully in their place of joy and having

Melissa Deally: 00:38:09

designed their own life and, and feeling that true happiness and

Melissa Deally: 00:38:14

joy from inside because whatever they've been doing, has been

Melissa Deally: 00:38:18

guided by other people. Yes. And the biggest one of that, that I

Melissa Deally: 00:38:22

see is parental expectations, right? Especially our

Melissa Deally: 00:38:27

generation, I hope it's not true of the current kids coming out

Melissa Deally: 00:38:31

of high school. And I know when my kids were in high school, I

Melissa Deally: 00:38:35

actually went to a seminar by our Parent Advisory Council,

Melissa Deally: 00:38:39

talking about helping your children choose what they were

Melissa Deally: 00:38:43

going to do after high school. And it wasn't just about what

Melissa Deally: 00:38:46

are they good at? And it was definitely not about what do you

Melissa Deally: 00:38:48

want them to do? It was about what are they good at? But what

Melissa Deally: 00:38:54

is their passion? What do they enjoy, and you combine those two

Melissa Deally: 00:38:58

to help guide them? And it has nothing to do with you. And for

Melissa Deally: 00:39:02

me at the time? That was? I just thought, wow, that's really

Melissa Deally: 00:39:06

great advice. Because if I hadn't heard that would I have

Melissa Deally: 00:39:08

tried to guide my children into something that wasn't

Melissa Deally: 00:39:12

necessarily align just because I thought it was what they were

Melissa Deally: 00:39:15

should do. And I know so many people who have had that happen,

Melissa Deally: 00:39:19

right? And then they get into adulthood and they're not happy

Melissa Deally: 00:39:22

and they're unfulfilled because it wasn't ever what they were

Melissa Deally: 00:39:26

supposed to be doing. And if that's you as a listener, that

Melissa Deally: 00:39:31

you're feeling unfulfilled in your work in your life, do that

Melissa Deally: 00:39:36

internal check in. Listen to your intuition, because maybe

Melissa Deally: 00:39:42

it's time that you get to choose what you do for yourself.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:39:48

That is so beautifully put Melissa and and

Cheryl Brewster: 00:39:52

with that. It's it's the call to trust yourself. And I believe at

Cheryl Brewster: 00:39:59

the bottom Love this for all of us. It's how much am I really

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:03

trusting myself. And I love quotes the German philosopher

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:11

Goethe said, and until you trust yourself, you will not know how

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:16

to live. And isn't that isn't that amazing? And so I, again,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:22

it's the call to intuition is the call to joy, which can only

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:27

happen by trusting ourselves, which means we Yes, we need to

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:32

embrace our inner pirate here and break some of these rules,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:35

these chains that we have found ourselves in, take back our

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:40

power, whether that's from old limiting beliefs, or whether

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:44

that's from some relationships that are demanding and you know,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:48

where have I given my power away? Where have I unknowingly

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:52

and again, I want to bring this back to the power of emotion,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:40:55

because in the reframe work that I love to do, it's like, okay,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:02

let's take this, what you would call a negative emotion, let's

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:05

take it and look for the gift inside of it. Because what if

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:09

you're feeling depressed? Because you're not living life

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:12

on your terms? You know, what if, what if the depression is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:16

actually trying to serve you and help you and get you to see

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:20

that, and so to to be very kind to ourselves as we unearth these

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:26

things, because there's some real vulnerability here. And,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:31

and there's a beautiful phrase from Plato that I love to use in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:37

the communications courses that I teach be kind for everyone you

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:41

meet is fighting a hard battle. And so who are you? Yeah, isn't

Cheryl Brewster: 00:41:50

that great?

Melissa Deally: 00:41:52

I also love in relation to kindness there. This

Melissa Deally: 00:41:54

one I think everybody will know. But it's, it's so true that in a

Melissa Deally: 00:41:58

world where you can choose to be anything. And I think that ties

Melissa Deally: 00:42:02

in beautifully with what we're talking about as well, is that

Melissa Deally: 00:42:04

it's your choice. And you can choose to be anything. Yes,

Melissa Deally: 00:42:09

choose to be kind.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:12

Yeah. Because at the end of the day, I, you

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:17

know, we can be so technologically advanced. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:24

yet we live in a world that is driven by war. And my question

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:30

is why I, I do not want to be a part of a society that continues

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:42

to ignore what's most important. And why, at this point in 2022,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:51

are we dealing with issues that have been here since the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:42:55

beginning of time, and the why is is because the internal

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:00

aspect here, if it's not driven by exploration and adventure and

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:06

kindness, we've missed the point. So I think there's a real

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:12

call to arms, I call it the I call this call to arms in and it

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:17

is, it's a call to Grace let let us let us each one of us really

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:24

tap in and say, What can I do in the first place we start is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:29

okay, am I doing what makes me come alive? And if I'm not,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:35

that's where I start. And then from there, that energy for

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:40

forcefield is so strong and so powerful. I believe we have a

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:46

global movement right now, which is calling us forward to be the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:50

change makers we're capable of being and it starts so simply in

Cheryl Brewster: 00:43:56

our own mindset, in our own self care. And this whole idea that

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:03

this one precious life in I had an out of body death experience.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:14

And when I was coming back, the I was told you have a second

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:20

chance. And the second chance was do what brings you joy.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:35

That's how we're going to heal the planet. And it sounds

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:40

perhaps a little naive, but is it really how much power is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:44

there Shawn anchor wrote a book called happiness, The Happiness

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:49

Advantage. And the stats there are amazing in an over a 20 year

Cheryl Brewster: 00:44:54

period of the studying business and prosperity The most

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:00

successful people are the ones who are happy. So let's let's do

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:06

this together. Like, I just think it's time to have fun. And

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:09

I think it's time to have conversations like this where we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:12

say, You know what, there's something so amazing that wants

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:15

to move through me. And, and, and some people don't even know

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:19

what it is yet. But what happens when they find it, and they

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:23

discover it. And then and then we have conversations like this

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:26

and you and you do, the great work that you do is supporting

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:29

people with their physical health, and then the emotional

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:32

component of that, and I do what I do, which is saying, Yeah,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:36

you've got something inside of you that knows the way you can

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:39

trust it. And together, let's let's truly create this amazing

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:46

adventure of life together, we need leaders who are ready to to

Cheryl Brewster: 00:45:53

lead from that kind of energy, that kind of mindset.

Melissa Deally: 00:46:00

And, on that note, I just really want to

Melissa Deally: 00:46:03

leave the audience with that question that we started with at

Melissa Deally: 00:46:06

the very beginning, and to start asking it of yourself every day,

Melissa Deally: 00:46:11

and even throughout the day, so you can start to tap into what

Melissa Deally: 00:46:16

brings you alive. So does this make me come alive? I think

Melissa Deally: 00:46:22

that's such a powerful question that will lead us into using our

Melissa Deally: 00:46:30

intuition into working through our ABCs and into that place of

Melissa Deally: 00:46:34

joy. And as we've said, when one person does it, it has the

Melissa Deally: 00:46:39

ripple and beneficial effect on all the people around you. And

Melissa Deally: 00:46:42

we all rise up together. So thank you. Thank you, Cheryl,

Melissa Deally: 00:46:46

for joining me here today. This has been an amazing

Melissa Deally: 00:46:49

conversation. And I just love everything that you shared. And

Melissa Deally: 00:46:53

it's so powerful, so profound, and fun to write bringing play

Melissa Deally: 00:46:58

and fun back into it as well. And before we sign off, though,

Melissa Deally: 00:47:03

I just want to ask you a question that I asked all of my

Melissa Deally: 00:47:06

guests. What just don't wait for your wake up call mean to you?

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:11

Oh, I love that. Well, to me, it says, you

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:18

caught me by surprise her wasn't expecting this to me it means

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:23

when when joy has been knocking at your door, and you haven't

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:28

been listening, there's going to be a price to pay. So I'd rather

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:33

pay the price. And yes, then, oh, I wish I would have listened

Cheryl Brewster: 00:47:39

sooner.

Melissa Deally: 00:47:41

Yeah, that's true. Very, very true. Right.

Melissa Deally: 00:47:45

And again, that's where the awareness comes in. To

Melissa Deally: 00:47:48

recognizing when joy is knocking at our door, and US tuning in

Melissa Deally: 00:47:51

and listening. So you have very graciously offered a gift to the

Melissa Deally: 00:47:56

audience. It is a gift for the first five people that respond

Melissa Deally: 00:48:02

because this is a highly valuable gift. And we can't just

Melissa Deally: 00:48:04

leave it out there infinitum for whoever listens to this, you

Melissa Deally: 00:48:08

know, five months, five years from now. But please share your

Melissa Deally: 00:48:12

gift with the audience. So they know to go to the show notes and

Melissa Deally: 00:48:16

book a session with you if they're interested.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:18

Yes. So the the gift today is an Akashic reading

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:23

with me a half hour Akashic reading. And the Akashic records

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:27

are basically the supercomputer of your soul. That's where

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:31

everything is stored. And what's even more exciting, not only is

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:35

it a storage unit, it's also very alive and vital. And we go

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:41

in, we see the information that's there. And then we we

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:45

ask, okay, what again, what is here to support the success, or

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:52

the joy or the healing, whatever that is the prosperity, the

Cheryl Brewster: 00:48:55

adventure moving forward. And very powerful, powerful work.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:00

This is what we're up to here. So yeah, for the first time I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:04

look forward to it. Yes,

Melissa Deally: 00:49:07

thank you so much for offering that to the

Melissa Deally: 00:49:09

audience. And I highly recommend it to those listening. Don't

Melissa Deally: 00:49:13

delay, because this is an incredibly eye opening

Melissa Deally: 00:49:18

experience into your past lives and who you are today. And I

Melissa Deally: 00:49:22

know the first time I had my Akashic Records read it was

Melissa Deally: 00:49:25

really confirmation of who I am today. And I found that to be

Melissa Deally: 00:49:29

incredibly powerful. So is there any last thing that you would

Melissa Deally: 00:49:33

like to leave the audience with and also please share how the

Melissa Deally: 00:49:35

audience can get ahold of you as well. It will all be in the show

Melissa Deally: 00:49:39

notes. But you can go ahead and share that here too.

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:42

Oh, sure. Yes, the intuitive life.com And I

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:46

love to hear from anyone who's been listening to the podcasts

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:50

that I'm that I'm on and my question is, what makes you come

Cheryl Brewster: 00:49:54

alive and how can I help support you in doing that? So I Welcome,

Cheryl Brewster: 00:50:03

listeners to reach out and go. Yeah. Okay, I'm ready. I'm ready

Cheryl Brewster: 00:50:07

for more.

Melissa Deally: 00:50:09

I love that. Well, thank you again for being

Melissa Deally: 00:50:11

on the podcast. Cheryl. I really appreciate it. And thank you to

Melissa Deally: 00:50:14

the audience for tuning in and listening. I will be back next

Melissa Deally: 00:50:18

week with a deeper dive into using your intuition as it

Melissa Deally: 00:50:23

relates to your health. So have a great week everyone. And

Melissa Deally: 00:50:27

thanks again Cheryl, by

Cheryl Brewster: 00:50:29

on Sunline

Melissa Deally: 00:50:33

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Melissa Deally: 00:50:35

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Melissa Deally: 00:50:39

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