Wisdom Rising

Balancing Giving And Receiving This Holiday Season

• Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa • Season 4 • Episode 11

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On today’s episode, we share stories of kitchens loud with laughter, tamale days that turn work into ritual, and the healing power of nostalgia when it’s used as a compass rather than a cage. You’ll hear how legacy recipes, cookie plates, and craft swaps become more than things; they become carriers of memory and belonging. We also name the hard parts: control, isolation, and the fawn response that can make celebrations feel unsafe. Healing begins with safety, capacity, and one brave yes at a time—and we model how to create that with clear boundaries, small experiments, and support.

In this episode, we explore:

  • Balancing giving and receiving during the holiday season
  • Gratitude as a doorway to safe connection
  • Redefining holiday meaning through sensation and values
  • Homemade gifts, craft swaps, and cookie exchanges
  • Healing past harm and the fawn response around holidays
  • Nostalgia as medicine and micro-traditions that stick
  • At the 35 minute mark, we offer a distance Reiki blast as a gift to you! 

For our Reiki blast, we invite you to breathe, feel your feet, and let the current alchemize what’s heavy.  Then, integrate with a simple journal prompt: Which joyful memories want to return as living rituals this season? By the end, you’ll leave with practical ways to give from center, receive without guilt, and design micro-traditions—craft exchanges, cookie trades, communal meals—that make the holidays yours again.

If this conversation nourished you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a softer season, and leave a review to help more listeners find us. Your stories shape this community—what small yes will you choose next?

If you'd like to treat yourself to a Shamanic Reiki session this season, Christine is offering 90 minutes sessions for $100 (normally $250) if you mention this episode - let's get through the holiday season together! Book your session today: https://calendly.com/christinerenee/90-minute-shamanicreiki-chakracoaching?back=1&month=2025-12

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Rene and Chantel Ochoa as we dance between worlds of shamanism, mysticism, and energy healing. Each week we illuminate your path to self-sourced wisdom and attune you to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. Welcome, welcome, welcome back to another Whispers of Wisdom on this Monday morning. Our recording for our podcast was Wisdom Rising. So if you haven't checked out that podcast yet, please go do so. We've got so many juicy conversations and interviews over there. I highly recommend. And today's conversation is on balancing giving and receiving. So how do we give from a grounded place? How to become better receivers, how to tune into your heart chakra to sense what's truly in balance and more. There's more. There's definitely more to that. So uh thanks everyone for taking the time to be with us. Thanks, Chantel, for joining with me. So good to have you on. Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm gonna light some polo over here and get my energy into this conversation. But yeah, no, I'm excited about this one because I know that we are offering energy healing today, too. Yeah, I'm gonna do some distance reiki. So that makes me excited.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And I think that's one of the pieces that I'm also excited about. Like I feel like there's a bit of where do you give from a joyful place? And how do you receive from a joyful place? And I I love doing distance Reiki circles and I love offering, and I want to step into a space of doing that more often. Please stay on till the end of our discussion because we will be giving some Reiki out for your healing, for your balancing, for your alignment, for all of the things for your expansion. And we are looking forward to doing that piece of this as well.

SPEAKER_02:

So, with our topic of gratitude and giving from the heart, what do you feel like you have coming forward right now that you want to start a conversation off with? Like, where what gratitude do you have right now?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, I have a lot of gratitude this morning, actually, for my partner. Like I had this conversation in my head this morning about I was thinking about the holidays and how the holidays have not always been easy for me and how I have developed self-protection mechanisms to keep it safe. And my partner is really into the holidays, right? He really, he really enjoys the holiday season. And I have I have hardened myself to become cynical of it as a like way to keep myself safe. And I was tuning in this morning and I was meditating and I was feeling into like what would my higher self do? To be able to kind of break down some of these walls. And it was like just talk to them, just talk to talk and tell your story, and to be in a relationship where that's absolutely open and possible to go like this is why I am this way, this is why my holiday seasons have become what they've become, like a very minuscule sense of holidays, right? And um, it's just been really lovely to be in relationship and conversation with and really understanding that I have space to do the self-reflection and to do the the healing work because I'm ready for it, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Well, that's really nice, especially because what was, even though it's conditioned you to build those walls, you're in a new relationship and new space in your life. And so it's like that expansion of removing those walls and allowing yourself to start enjoying as much as you feel like you want to enjoy. And you might surprise yourself because sometimes once we let go of the wall and then we embrace what's to come, suddenly there's new things and experiences that you go, oh, wait a minute. You know, it's kind of like the Grinch's heart, you know what expands. And I just filling into that because yes, we can feel cynical with holidays and tradition and all that, but there comes times I think too where we can allow that healing to come in. And it sounds like you're well on that road.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So I think like from a real gratitude perspective, like, yeah, absolutely that's where I'm at. And recognizing like our conversation this morning on like balancing that giving and receiving and really understanding how what balance is, you know, really what balance is. I think in years past, we have come on again and again and again. And I've I've been preaching, say no, don't do the things you don't want to do. It's okay to cancel if you are not willing to participate. Like, don't take the abuse, you know, whatever it is, right? Like that's been my my call to our audience of like, you know, uh that it's okay to reduce and slim down if it's not an alignment for you because so many people overdo it. But then now I'm on the other side. It's like, okay, I've slimmed all the way down.

SPEAKER_02:

You're like, there is no holiday.

SPEAKER_00:

There is no holiday. And no, no, it's like, well, how do I bring the balance back, right? Of how do I lean into saying yes and to receive and to all of these things that I have spent uh a good long while going, nope, nope, not available for that. And now it's it's I'm on the other side of going, well, that's also out of balance.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah. So what was your compromise? What do you feel that is coming forward then?

SPEAKER_00:

I don't necessarily know if it's a compromise. I feel like it's an ongoing conversation. Let's put it that way, right? Like there's an ongoing conversation within myself of recognizing if I am responsible for my own enjoyment, for my own pleasure, for my own external experience, if there's an opportunity that arises, what am I really available for into saying yes or to say no? Right. Like I think there's the balance of going, is this something that I can put myself in a situation and try and allow myself to enjoy it? Right. Yeah. And so it's it's more like this morning I got a notification from my from my community. So if you don't know, I live in an intentional community and we're they're always doing holiday events, like Thanksgiving dinner. We literally have 50 people attending as a ginormous potluck. Like it is going to be insane. And I'm I'm totally on board with Thanksgiving. I like favorite holiday always has been love sharing food, love sharing meals. And then there was a notification that notification that popped up on my phone this morning that was holiday bonfire on December 18th, right? And so we live in a space where, you know, every once in a while, maybe once every other month, we have a bonfire and people come out and have drinks and hot cocoa and roast marshmallows, and we just chit-chat. And so we're having this holiday bonfire. And I was like, I could do that. I could do that, I could go enjoy myself some hot cocoa and enjoy this experience, and maybe I could have my kids come along and have my partner and his child come along. Like, you know, it's like I feel like there's opportunity in this new community because it is fairly new to be able to build a new relationship with the holidays.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, right. Good for you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yeah. So really trying not to be cynical and spear.

SPEAKER_02:

No, no, you know, and my experience is um, it's interesting because my growing up, so my grandparents were farmers, ranchers, and um and so my Grammy, she did all the holidays in such a spectacular way. And it was open door to anyone and everyone. And when um, well, for Thanksgiving, it was more um like intimate with just the family, but we had all the things for for Thanksgiving. And then when Christmas came, it was like every single nook of her house was decorated with Christmas, and then every like she would do it in in like waves of the hors d'oeuvres, and then those would go, and then it was the waves of all the food and every single meat and every side dish and every everything, and then all the pies and the cake and everything would come out in the third wave of food, and the presents and the tree, and and so that's what I grew up with, and I absolutely loved it. And then even Easter was we would do like 150 eggs and have goose eggs to die, and it was huge. And you know, I grew up on 20 acres while it was hers, but you know, that was my my playground, so to speak. And then as we all got older, my family got into the split idea of what holidays are, and now it's like pulling teeth to get anyone to want to do any holiday. And it's like, okay, so I feel like my family unit, because of my daughter and grandkids, it's like, well, we got to keep some, I want to keep some form of tradition going. And so that's what we're doing. But um, it's interesting because it's like, well, it is so I I'm coming from a perspective of not so much the tradition of what holidays or what the um the actual like Christmas is about and the history of Thanksgiving and all that, but what is the the meaning behind it, like the actual energy of it, right? Right. Gratitude, love, gathering, sharing of food, sharing of like everything of our harvest and our family gatherings, and then Christmas of celebrating each other. So that's what I come I'm coming to the table with. And even with my children when they were younger, and I told them about Santa, I researched Santa and found out that it's a lot of like Coca-Cola, probably actually where Santa comes from. And so they created our American version of Santa, and that's not the history part of Santa, but um, you know, and that's how I told my kids that okay, this is what this is, and it was very interesting, but right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It was for me growing up, the holidays were pretty extensive as well. And it, you know, multiple holiday events, like it was always a joyous occasion. Like Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday because it wasn't just the food, it was like extended family, and the and you know, there was a table for the kids. I loved the kids' table. I was like, great, I don't have to have adult conversation. We can talk about what we want to talk about. There was always an overabundance of food, and everyone was laughing and giggling, and we would play cards for hours. Like our family was really into card games, so all of the adults would play pinnackle, and all of the kids would end up playing like Tetris Nintendo games or like on the Atari, or um we would play all kinds of of card games as well. Like that's just what we did. I loved getting together with my family, and it was also, you know, the Christmas was also a major religious event for us. So, you know, going to to mass at the Catholic Church and doing the Advent wreath and putting it together and counting the days down by which candles you're lighting, and all of that was a huge piece of my upbringing. And um, and that was really interesting the way it kind of switched. Like overall, my childhood experience was very joyful. And my mother, as a professional baker, she would freaking make, I don't know, 15, 20 different kinds of cookies. It was all about the cookies, the Christmas cookies, right? And she would make all of these plates with two or three of each of the cookies, and then we would give them out. Right. So there was very much of like this was her art, and this was her way of showing people that she cared. And so Christmas cards with plates of cookies to all of the neighbors, all of her church friends, all of all of the people close to us was like it was divine. Like to get a plate of my mother's cookies was like a huge receiving because it was so I don't know, she was really hardcore about it. Yeah. She was really, really on it, it was amazing. And um, and so being part of the baking process, and that was a very much part of the family contribution of like, okay, Christine, stir the peanut buttle when the microwave goes off, and I'm doing I'm frosting the cookies over here, and we've got fudge going on over there, and like the whole thing was just a process, right? And so it was really um joyful and flavorful and sweet, right? And I I was remembering this morning of how that really switched, like there was a big um switch in my world of holidays when I was married to my first husband. And he was very emotionally abusive and he hated Christmas. I mean, absolutely despised the holiday, despise the commercialization of it, and I would hear nothing about anything else for the whole month of December. The moment he heard the Christmas music come on, I would hear about it. We were allowed to go to solstice parties, but not Christmas parties. And if anyone gave me a present, he would like chew me out for an hour, right? Like there was no, and I was very well into my um fawn like fawn phase. Like I knew how, like, okay, this is he's triggered. I'm just gonna breathe and like try to like keep keep figuring out how to please him so that he will calm down and and all this let this pass. Just let it will, he will move on to a new subject if I just don't say anything. And that's how I survived for four years. And then even after we broke up, if he knew my if I was giving my son a Christmas experience, he would chew me out. Wow. So it went on for years and years and years, and I'm like programmed to be like, this is a horrible holiday, it's the bad, it's commercialized, that because he also isolated me. So we weren't, I wasn't, I didn't have my own friends, I wasn't allowed to see my family, I didn't go home for the holidays, like all of those things were true, you know. So it really um like that relationship caused so much PTSD in and of itself, and then to kind of like, oh crap, is this leftovers?

SPEAKER_01:

Like, oh shit, have I have I just ignored this this whole time and not dealt with the Christmas factor? I think I haven't.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it sounds like it. But look at now you have a partner that is the complete opposite of the spectrum with it. So now there is that safe space now to go explore what you feel and to release those conditionings. And now you get to stand in your own training and your own personal life. I actually like this. Or if you don't, you know, now you'll know really what you feel. Do you like the holidays or do you not like the holidays? You know, right. And this is gonna be your year to figure it out so you can move forward with it. And I think you have all this community stuff coming forward for you to explore it.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. I think that that's key. Like, I really feel like part of it's like um I haven't been invited to a lot of Christmas parties. I haven't like it wasn't an I never really had an issue of over um over expectation, right? Like people didn't expect gifts or expect me to show up for things like that. Um not a pressure. It so it was just something that I kind of was like, nope, not doing it, no, not, you know, because I didn't have a ton of invitations, but now it's like I am in a safe space with my community and to participate. And whether it's holiday cooking or um doing this bonfire or the wreath making that they're having in a week, you know, they're they're doing all they're doing all the things, and it's not hard to participate because all I have to do is step out my door. Literally, the bonfire is in front of my house. That is where the that is where the action takes place, so it's easier for me to say yes to opportunities and go, I like these people, these are my people. Like I want, I I'm choosing to enjoy this opportunity of uh pleasure for my taste buds and conversation and all of the things. So yeah, this I think this year is meant to be a year of healing.

SPEAKER_02:

I absolutely love that for you. And I think that's what the holidays are about, is that is is the the healing that can come from it. You know, we a lot of people think, you know, oh my gosh, I gotta go hang with my family and all that. But sometimes that's the only time you ever get to see your family. And even if there are trigger points or things that are difficult, every family has that, you know. But I think over the last five years that hopefully we're getting to a place where we can embrace our family differently. We can embrace the opportunity of coming together differently and um and have the gratitude and and get come with a loving and giving heart of, you know what, I just want to spend time with you guys and and maybe table everything else and just show up and have fun. You know, yesterday we were um hanging out, my grandkids are here and stuff, and my old the oldest is six, and she was kind of like, I just want to play. And we're like, Well, what do you want to play? And she's like, I don't know. We ended up pulling out Uno and we all played. And even the two-year-old, you know, we gave her her sack and she did her thing. And I thought, see, this is how the traditions start. Even though we're not in holiday, we're not doing anything, it's just us hanging out. But I remember playing Yahtzee with my my Grammy, and she is very much the epitome of any holiday and always has been. And so I have her Yahtzee Cup. That thing's like 60 years old, you know? And so it's like pulling out, you know, pulling out the games, the cards, whatever. That was always her. So whenever I see her, we play, uh, even now, she's 89, we play spite and malice. And that lady is a feisty card player. She's just like, she cracks me up. But I feel that those are the traditions that we can pull forward for our little ones so that they too can carry those traditions. And um, when there is time of being cynical or being wounded through the holidays, I also think that there's a cycle that can come back to offer that healing to say, no, it doesn't always have to represent what it was. It can it can represent something new for me now. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think that's where we need to learn how to give from that grounded space and how to become better receivers. There's that balance in that. Like I'm trying to feel into still like, what does it mean to give without having to break the bank, you know, or how do we give from the heart and not just uh like I think I I in the past am like, okay, well, my kids need new socks, and they you know what I mean? Like those the practical gifts just so that there would be more things under the tree, and then they would have like the one fun thing. And is that actually giving from a grounded place? Is that actually giving from the heart? You know, and I'm not sure it is. So I'm like, I'm in a place of discovery of like, what's that freaking even mean? Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Like, and what does it mean? And for me, it's like filling into them. What is it that they is there something they need? Is there something they want that's um and if you're coming from a place of giving and you know, there's um homemade gifts. Like I love the idea that your mom gifted cookies, you know, and we moved away from from homemade gifts. I'm having a gathering next month um from my Reiki community. And so um we're talking about okay, we're gonna do like the white elephant game, you know. So it's like, okay, it's metaphysical things and it's homemade and it's, you know, so that way people who want to give things that they make, like I have amazing women in my group that they're they craft, like do um, they make plant plants, potted plants, beautiful potted plants, or they curate things in it and oils and all this stuff. Yeah, make something. Let's give gifts like that because one you know it's coming from your heart because you're putting your heart into it, it's your craft. And so those are kind of the gifts that we're giving this year. And then we're doing um big charcuterie, like, but in each thing, like the meat and the bread and the chips and salsa and the desserts or whatever. So everyone's picking like a specialty, and I think that for me, that just feels like we're being really creative versus very um traditional on what has always been and what to expect. I realize you don't want to have a turkey on Thanksgiving, don't. What is calling to you? What's on your palate? What do you want to enjoy? And I think that's what it's about.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that idea of the white elephant being like a craft exchange. Like that, I'm stealing that, Chantel. You steal it. I totally was gonna steal that because that's the kind of stuff I'm really into. You know, like I remember years ago I attended an adult Easter egg hunt. I was like, now this is unique. Like you would find crystals and earrings and dollar bills, and like it was just this fun thing. And and I'm like, I and I asked my daughter what she wanted to do for Christmas this year, and she said, I want to just do a white elephant. Like, she's not interested. Like, I'm like, okay, I like this version because she is super crafty. And I do like the idea of baking lots and maybe doing a um a cookie exchange. So everyone makes one cookie. I mean, I live with 42 units in my community. If everyone made one cookie, one type of cookie, and then we all had an exchange date. Yeah. Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know if there's 42 different kinds of cookies, but you absolutely add breads and you know, your cookies and all, oh my gosh, yes. Right? Because I think there's this is all cheese balls.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and oftentimes I feel like we we each have something that's more in abundance and less and and also lacking, right? And so it's also a good time to be like, oh my god, these pecans are amazing. Like, I think all of those nuts are like fresh right now. Like, I remember I used to have a friend every Christmas, she would bring back pecans from Mexico, and they were so good. And I'm like, oh I miss fresh pecans and tamales from my friend.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. Oh, yeah. See, tamales. Like in my husband's family, that's what happens, you know, as we get together and do tamales and um make that and stuff. And so I do think that we can maintain some tradition without it feeling like it's overwhelming and and putting your heart into it at the same time, having new ideas like we're talking about. I love the idea of having an adult Easter egg hunt and you're stuffing the plastic eggs with crystals and you know, things like that. That's amazing. That's so fun. Right. And that's you know, it's just creating into a new tradition of what can be and being just fun with it. I love that. That's actually like I'm stealing that. I love it.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm glad. Go steal that. And it comes back to, you know, I feel like the way like I could imagine myself at a tamale party and just totally loving that experience because it's a full day experience of stuffing tamales. Yeah, it is. No, it's not this little quick thing, it is like a full family function of creating and making tamales.

SPEAKER_02:

It is, yes, and making the masa and putting it, you know, on the the leaf and or the the husk. And so it absolutely is, you know, and then you get to eat it when you're done, and it's and it's always at Christmas.

SPEAKER_00:

Like that, yeah, that just that to me is like the epitome of really finding pleasure and experience where you're like everyone is enjoying the the rut the loudness. I just love a Mexican kitchen.

unknown:

Like, I think that's it.

SPEAKER_00:

I do. I'm like, every everything's really hectic, and everyone's talking over each other, and there's laughter, and there's children screaming, and there's babies suckling and their mamas in a corner, and you know, like all of it's happening, and it's just like and everything is surrounded by the tamale and so much food, yes, so much food, it's so much food. I just I want uh I wish I had the the people and the know-how to to have a tamale experience.

SPEAKER_02:

I think you need to just start one for yourself. Maybe that can give your gift back.

SPEAKER_01:

We're just gonna have a big tamale feast. Please, someone invite me to their tamale cooking, please. That's what I want. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, no, so even with that, it's like picking the things that make you happy. For me, okay, my mom, she makes these baked beans, okay, and then my Grammy, she makes this macaroni salad. You put the two of them together. I'm talking childhood is bursting. It is the most intense, like memory is so nostalgic for me that whenever they're like, Well, what do you want to have? Not so much on the holidays, but um, anytime like they're together, I'm like, Yeah, make your beans and you make your macaroni salad because um it is just such a good mixture of flavor. And I don't know, no, it is it's a great mixture of flavor. However, it truly is about going back to childhood because that was like part of our Easter, and that was part of like the holidays that would come up, you know? And so I loved it. And even now as an adult, I'm like, yeah, I'll take that anytime. And my grandma will still make me that, you know. And I just I love it when she's around and she's like, What do you want? Do you want your macaroni salad? And I'm like, Yes, right.

SPEAKER_00:

I yes, I absolutely miss my grandmother because she would make these sour cream twists, and it was so labor intensive. No one could really learn how to make it. Like she she didn't have really a recipe, you know. It's just she's this German woman and she just knew the rest, like she had followed the recipe, but the way she folded it and folded it and folded it, it's kind of like croissant, right? But in each layer, there's a layer of butter and sugar, and it just becomes this really beautiful twisted pastry. And no one in my family could figure it out, you know? And so the only person in my family who knows how to make it is my sister-in-law. She's not even blood, you know what I mean? I'm like, how did you figure that out? Like, seriously, how did that get passed to you? I'm I'm glad it's still in the family after she's passed, but now she's got to really spread spread that, spread that love around. And so it I've I like the idea of going back to that nostalgic, joyful memories, like which joyful memories are we allowed to embrace and really feel into? And because I think that's part of the pleasure of the holiday, right? Like if we can come to nostalgic from a blissful place, what what hits that for us, right? For you, it's your macaroni salad with the baked beans. I couldn't imagine that tasting good together. But if that's what works for you, that's amazing, right? Totally does.

SPEAKER_02:

And you know what's funny about that is I will tell people you can mix them and they're like, mm-hmm. And as soon as they do, they're right there with like, what is this? I don't know. It's just But you know when you're talking to your people, it's important for recipe for our elder transition. You get their recipe. You become in their kitchen. And so long ago. Um, she has beautiful memory and personal. And so um and I have them feel um, even throughout the years of moving and my own life transitions and everything. I don't have as many, but I do have them. And um I just think it's important for us that we can maintain a little bit of that tradition. And that's a great deal to have them.

SPEAKER_00:

Like your recipes, you know what my favorite Christmas present I ever received was made from recipes, family recipes from both sides of my family, like specifically for me. So not if it was my aunt or if it was my mom. My mom always has really amazing gifts as well. And it's it's a it's a photo album with stories with recipes. So it's photos of me during the holidays and eating the different foods with the the picture with the recipe and with other relatives with their notes about that memory. Right?

SPEAKER_02:

Like I think my mom has a really beautiful way of senting into what's gonna feature and you know, like it's always about coming to the table with some kind of um I don't know if it's always a lot of questions, and so it's about um or she'll have a journal prom and then from the journal prompt we ask each other like doing this little interview with each other, and we get to know who we are on such a deep level because they're not just basic surface questions, they're very deep questions. And she's even done one where you interview the elders in your family and one before my dad has. So he um transitions like in 20 2020, 2021. And um we have some of the best answers from him on some of the you know what we were asking about and everything, and even when we did his his um photo video, like his video at the end, you know, and everything. He had like um voice message and at the end of it, he said, okay, I'll see you later. That was his goodbye, and my daughter was able to click that and put that at the very end of his photo of his photo. And then it's coming, and then it's like okay, later, and it's those three, and I think it's those things that we can pull from that we can travel and journey forever with us, you know, like that's always gonna be the same. We're always gonna have that. Um it's those books, it's just humble things that we can create and really fill into the person that needed.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. So if you are listening, if you're watching um whatever medium you're receiving from, know that this is a reiki blessing from Shamanic issue to you to receive fully and completely from whatever wherever you need it in your life. Taking a nice deep breath, feeling into your body, having received, received, received, breathing that all in, feeling your feet connected down into the earth beneath you, grounding your energy, and whenever you're ready, wiggling your fingers and toes, fluttering open your eyes, coming all the way back to the space. Feeling like I want to leave you with a journal prompt of what are the where are the places in your past where nostalgia of happy memories, blissful memories can come into your presence.

SPEAKER_01:

Anything to add to themselves?

SPEAKER_02:

I think that that's a beautiful way to do it and to brave that new beginnings happen all the time. And if there is a new beginning knocking on your door, be brave enough to open it and see what's on the other side and allow yourself to expand into that energy.

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