Energy Exchange in Gossip and Conflict Resolution

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Hello and welcome to
Practically Magick Today.

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I am your energy healer, Courtney Pearl.

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And today's episode we are going to talk
about the energy exchange of gossip.

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And before we get into
it, I know I've already.

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Teased and tantalized you into,
uh, what our topic is today.

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It's a very fascinating
and interesting topic.

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I can't wait to dive into.

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Before we do that, I'm gonna pull a card.

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Today I am using my Luna Edition,
the Tarot, ethereal Visions

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Tarot, and let's get into it.

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I love this deck because it
has a real prismic foil to it.

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It's very shiny and beautiful, and
if you cannot see because you're

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listening to the audio version, then
pop over to YouTube and watch the video.

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You will see what I am talking about.

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It's a beautiful deck,
Luna, meaning the moon

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and oh, for this episode today, I
have pulled the Hanged Man, which.

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Again, for those who are not familiar
with tarot, might find this to

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be a little bit creepy or scary.

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But actually the hanged man
is not hanging by his neck.

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He's hanging by his feet and he's hanging
upside down from the branches of the tree.

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Um, it represents, um, or has a very
close tie to the story and mythology

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of Odin who hangs from the tree.

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And sacrifices his eye for the gift
of wisdom from the uh, from the nuns.

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He gets the wisdom of the ruins.

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And if you're not familiar with that
story, we'll talk about that a little

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bit more in a different episode where
we do some folklore and mythology.

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The reason why I think it's fascinating
that this card has come up for our

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subject today is because we are
gonna talk a lot about give and take.

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We're gonna talk about energy exchange
and how there is something to be gained

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and there is something to be lost when it
comes to an energy exchange like the um.

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Like engaging in gossip.

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Right?

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And so the Hanged Man often
represents something to do with giving

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something up, a sacrifice of some
kind in order to get something back.

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And I've decided to do this
topic for in particular today

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because we've had something of
a, of a little bit of a conflict.

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Um.

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Happening, and it's really interesting
that during this conflict that's happening

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between two members of our community,
we, um, another member of our community,

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Cambria Davis, who you've seen as a, a.

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A guest on my show, she's the
Daybreaks, local astrologer.

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She has actually been taking mediation
training and it was interesting because

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we were kind of conversing among the
leadership group of the Daybreak Network,

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which we all head up as a community of
people who have different entrepreneurial

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projects, businesses, nonprofits, um.

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In our community, and it's an opportunity
for us to gather and meet and as we're

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the team lead people, the people in charge
of these gatherings, we were having a

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group conversation about this conflict
between two members of our group because

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we wanted to see how much we are needed
in mediating this conflict or stepping in,

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or how much we should just pull out of it
and let it play out how it's supposed to.

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I'm kind of wondering what
our role is in all of that.

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And it's interesting because one
of our, um, team people, I won't

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call out who exactly, but I felt
like they were uncomfortable with

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our, even our discussion about
this subject because I feel that

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they, they probably do their best.

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In all situations to stay out
of things, and I tend to agree

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with that most of the time.

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But in this particular situation
that we've been experiencing, we

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have someone whose behavior is, um.

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Not as conducive to a supportive role
or is not, uh, facilitating a sort

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of all inclusive atmosphere for the
other person in the conflict to feel

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welcomed and included in being able
to come to our meetings and to be able

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to feel that they have a community.

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So it was kind of like a, it's either
me or you situation where not both

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people felt welcome to attend meetings.

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And so this got me thinking
a lot about gossip.

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Now you'll remember, um, I've
referenced this before, but I was

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reading this book, the Cali and the
Witch, um, Sylvia Ver Federicci.

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Federicci, I hope I'm saying
that right, Federicci.

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She is, um, coming from a sort of
Marxist view and looking at the.

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Um, and taking that view a step beyond
into a feminist approach when she

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looks at the history of women, it's
women, the embodiment, and primitive

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accumulation is the name of this book.

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So I'm gonna reference some of
her talk on gossip here today

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as we get into our subject.

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I wanna talk about the history.

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Um, she brings this up a lot in the
book, and so I wanna talk about how

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the role of women went through a
transition in the Middle Ages as we were

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moving from Feudalist cast system to a
capitalist system in the, um, from the

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14 hundreds into the 15 hundreds, right?

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So at the time, um, so we're talking
about England around the year 1500.

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She talks about gossip, which is
derived from an old English term

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for godparent, combining God, uh,
meaning a kin and SS sib, which, uh.

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Indicated women who are
companionships at birth.

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So let's take ourselves back in time.

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As we look at the
community aspect of women.

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In that time period, women were
doing almost everything together from

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the time they were little to the.

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To the, um, the women of an older
age, um, in all of their activities.

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They were as a community sewing together,
um, canning and prepping meals together.

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They were creating a relationship
that is, um, very much.

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Different than our culture today.

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Today we have friendships.

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Women have friendships and collaborations
with each other, but they very rarely

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extend beyond, um, the times during
the day that we happen to coexist.

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Right, like our work relationships
or if we're working inside the home,

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we see each other on a social basis,
but not necessarily working together.

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We are working inside of our
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other most of the time nowadays.

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And so, um, women talking together about
the community, about other people in the

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community, about what people are going
through, what's going on, it was very much

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a day-to-day, all day, every day practice.

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Right.

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It was not shamed.

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It was absolutely just
a part of the culture.

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When it became a shameful act to gossip,
when it became gossiping, was then

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preached about over the pulpit and told
that it was sinful to engage in that kind

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of activity would have been during the.

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During the shift where patriarchal
power was, it was needed to be able

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to separate and isolate women from
each other in order to hold some kind

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of authority and power over them.

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So in a sense, women were
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interaction with each other was, um.

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Was shameful and sinful, and prideful
and shouldn't be acted upon at all.

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Um, as it's quoted in the book, as the
status of women fell, their independence

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in speech and social formations with
other women quickly became a threat.

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So I want you to take that into
consideration because this is where

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this shift into gossiping being bad.

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Um.

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Would've been seen and perpetrated by
the powers and authorities that be.

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Now I want to, um, to shift this focus
into what I understand as energy exchange.

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Okay?

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So.

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Yes, certain forms of gossip can leave one
person feeling drained of energy rather

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than having this a buildup of energy.

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So how do we tell the difference?

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Because surely gossip, especially it
is looked at in history as I, as I

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just pointed out, it must have been
a form of protection and power for

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women to have been exchanging it.

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Together.

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And by the way I'm saying this in,
in terms of women, but it's not as if

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women are the only ones who gossip.

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Uh, this is just how it was
perceived at the time in order

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for it to be labeled as shameful.

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And I think oftentimes, even still, there
is the aftermath of that sort of mentality

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because we still associate gossiping as
a women's activity rather than a social

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activity for all genders and people.

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Um.

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And when men gossip or when
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often associated as shameful.

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It's associated as socializing.

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So I am pointing that out to let
people know that yes, often when women

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engage in that sort of activity, it's
labeled as gossip, and that it is also

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corresponding with a shameful activity.

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Um, and I just wanna point out that
in this particular situation that I'm

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talking about with this group, the
person that I felt was maybe wanting

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to step back from it or tell us,
you know, let's just stay out of it.

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Um, let's let, uh, let them handle it,
uh, was a man versus all of the women

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who were discussing it and talking
about what is to be handled here.

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Now, as I said, most of the
time I agree it's stepping back

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and being out of the situation.

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However, when it comes to situations where
we need to discuss it because it is an

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act of, uh, protection and information
that is needed, that's probably how

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gossiping was most of the time engaged
with, in those, in the historical times

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I'm talking about, it would be like women
discussing certain men that are safe.

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Certain men in their
society that are not safe.

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Um, if an event or an activity happened
that would potentially need to be shared

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with the other women in the village
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it would be because you need to watch
out for this person, their behavior.

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Has shown signs of being an unsafe person,
and I wanna make sure that my fellow women

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and my fellow community know that so they
can be cautious and careful, and I don't

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think there's anything wrong with that.

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Um.

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In this particular situation with
the conflict between two people in

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our group, one person has exhibited a
behavior of, uh, victim mentality of

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blasting people who have offended them
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how they've been offended by someone,
and they're going to share it all over

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the community in, in a sense whether
their information is correct or not.

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They are strongly.

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Strongly pushed by a feeling of I
need to feel validated and I need to

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feel protected, and I need to gather
my community around me by making

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sure everybody knows what I just
went through and what has happened.

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And in some cases, the information
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perpetrator, about the person that
offended them is sometimes not accurate.

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And I want to invite people who
feel a sense of being the victim and

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wanting to, um, wanting to tell their
story as they, uh, often say it.

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I'm just telling my story.

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I'm telling what happened to me.

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I want other people to know what happened.

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Um, the purpose behind sharing that or.

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Inviting a person to do some healing
work on themselves because they

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feel uncomfortable and they feel
offended is part of the question

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that we're asking ourselves here.

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So, yes, a person does have the right
to speak about what has happened

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to them and how they felt about it.

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However, when it alienates and isolates
another person and creates a split.

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In the community.

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That begs the question on whether or
not who is it helping and who is it

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hurting by sharing that information?

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And that is the question I would
like to propose today in the topic

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of gossiping, gossiping, or talking,
um, to a person about someone else,

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it does give us a chemical need.

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Just like addiction to certain things.

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We do get a chemical need when we engage
with this kind of social interaction.

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We get dopamine, we get endorphins.

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We feel kind of that good and powerful
feeling, uh, that we get when we

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say, Hey, I have information to
share with you about someone we know.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now that's not saying
whether it's good or bad.

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I don't believe in good or bad.

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I believe in awareness of what
it is we're getting out of it.

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So that's the payoff.

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The payoff is I'm getting a
sense of feeling powerful and

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in control and connection.

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It does give us oxytocin as well
because that can connection with

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the person we're speaking to.

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It's like, Hey friend, I have
information about someone we know, and

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this is gonna make me feel connected
to you if I share it with you.

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Now asking yourself
whether it's going to, uh.

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Give you energy or whether
it's gonna drain you of energy.

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Here are some things I came up with
to help us kind of sort that out.

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Remember in last episode we talked
about engaging with art, how healing

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through art can be a really powerful,
um, modality for art, for healing, and

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it connects us with our authentic self.

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Well, we can use those same
guidelines in whether we're engaging

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with gossip and it's going to.

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Help us feel authentic or if it's
going to help us feel as if it

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strays from that authenticity.

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And when it strays from authenticity,
it cannot help but drop in energy level.

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Because the energy levels, which we've
discussed in previous episodes that

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um, is in the book Power versus Force.

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We talk about how there is the top
enlightenment and authenticity is in

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energy level, level of a thousand, right?

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And everything else is
categorized at energy levels.

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All the way down to the bottom,
which is shame at energy level 20.

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So we have all these, uh, calibrations
of energy levels we can engage with.

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If what we're doing is engaging
with an energy level that is not

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authentic, then it's going to
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And we can tell by saying, is this,
um, is this actually connecting me?

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To not only the person I'm
speaking to, but to creative

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energy or source or higher power.

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Does it connect me in that way?

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Does it offer, um, offer
a space of curiosity?

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I wonder what ha what is happening?

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I wonder what's going on.

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Um, does it invite compassion
for self and for maybe the person

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you're speaking about compassion.

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And I think this kind of is a tricky
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careful when you do the, oh, good
Old Southern, bless her heart.

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You know, when it's like, I'm really
worried about so and so, so I'm gonna

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tell you all about these things that
they've done, things that they've, uh.

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Things that have going,
been going on with them.

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Am I telling you in a sort of a space
where it's like, oh, she has been

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cheating on her husband, bless her
heart, and really what you're doing

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is you're just really, really actually
excited to share information about them.

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That is nobody else's business.

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So be careful about that.

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Is it true authentic compassion or
is it simply just I'm pretending

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to be compassionate so that I can
gossip and feel better about myself?

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Is it still ego that's getting in the
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Um, is it building or uplifting?

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Now, I really have to be
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You have to understand that gossiping
in some sense or another is still

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going to be a destruction of some
kind, and there may be a destruction

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of relationships happening here
with the engagement of gossip.

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I may be understanding information
about someone or something that I need

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to know because they are exhibiting
patterns, um, that are pretty destructive.

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Um, and maybe maybe doing that to
serve needs of their own, however.

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I still think some information needs
to be shared even when it destroys

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the relationship, because only
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you begin to rebuild destruction.

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Chaos and rebirth are all part
of a process, so I am not going

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to say that the destruction of
a relationship means that it is.

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Bad or negative, or it's going to
just, um, it's going to necessarily

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tear things down to a low energy
level because at some level

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there needs to be destruction in some
cases in order for rebuilding to happen.

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Um, some of the information shared
with me about how a person has

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engaged without my knowledge in.

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My reputation that someone has gone around
saying, um, don't hire Courtney for this.

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Hire me for this.

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That sort of competitive behavior.

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It's not something I or
I try not to engage with.

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But if somebody else is engaging in
that way, it's helpful for me to know,

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so I know, okay, that's something,
that's a space that they are in.

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That's how they are choosing
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I still want to show up for people
in support of them, even if they

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feel like they're competing with me.

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I wanna show up in a space where I
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So I might still say, I'm sorry
that you feel that way about me.

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However, I am still hoping that you
are successful and hoping that you

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find reconciliation with your
work and your relationships.

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So, um, is it uplifting
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Uh, then on the opposite end of that,
if it's gonna be a drain on my energy,

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it's um, at, in engaging with gossip,
does it come from a place of judgment,

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judging whether something is good or bad?

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Um, does it give me that thrill to
connect with the person that I'm.

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That I'm speaking to, um, because what's
gonna happen is it's gonna feel thrilling

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in the moment, and then when I disengage
with the conversation, I am probably going

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to feel that energetic draining later.

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I'm gonna walk away from the
conversation and go, Ugh,

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should I really shared all that?

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Or should I have said
the things that I said?

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Oh, now I'm questioning it
because it feels draining.

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It feels like I engaged with
something that took my energy from me.

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Um, when in the moment it felt
like a thrill to share information.

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It probably was still not okay to,

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to engage with that energy.

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And then does it show our own insecurities
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Is it scrutinizing?

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Scrutinizing others?

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So ask yourself these questions
when you're engaging with something

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like the act of gossiping.

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I am not here to tell you that
just like religious church leaders

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have done for a long time and over
a pulpit saying, gossip is bad.

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Don't do any of it.

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It's a sin.

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It goes against God.

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That's not necessarily true and
that is not how I view it, but.

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I think the best way to handle certain
things, especially if you are the

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subject of gossip, which in this case I
have been, um, with this situation I'm

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talking about in our group, I am the
subject of some of that gossip and then

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someone else is the subject of attack.

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And because someone is in great pain and
has felt very violated, they feel that

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retaliation is the best way to handle it
and to go publicly and say all the ways

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publicly that they have felt violated,
when in truth there may have been another

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perspective to consider compassion.

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For all parties is my best
advice moving forward.

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I have reached out to the person who
was potentially the perpetrator of this

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person's victimhood and said, I have
gotten to know you and your energy, and

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I, I know that there's a lot more to
this story than this other person is.

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Is publicly stating they are hurt clearly,
or they wouldn't be acting this way.

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Um.

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The energy that I feel is that this
kind of outburst is only gonna hurt them

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and their reputation more so than you.

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And I feel that I can support both
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but because of this person's behavior
and how they've chosen to retaliate,

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I may not want to work with them on a
level of, um, putting myself at risk.

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Because it seems that these two parties
were working very well together, at

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least outwardly until they weren't.

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And then this other person chose to
be public about their, uh, experience

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in the breakup of their relationship.

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And because I know that to be
their pattern, they've done

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this several times already.

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It will be far less likely that I.
Will want to work collaboratively with

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them because I wouldn't wanna subject
myself to that kind of retaliation if

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something were to go wrong, and even if
I was to unintentionally offend them.

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I know myself, and I know I don't
go around intentionally offending

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people, but it does happen.

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Um, I'm not for everybody and maybe
some of the, the actions that I've taken

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have, um, hurt people unintentionally.

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And so I would hate to work with somebody
that I was in fear of or in fear of

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like walking on eggshells with them.

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So in sharing that
information amongst ourselves.

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What's happening, what the patterns
are, what the patterns of behavior are.

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It is just allowing each and every
person to in the community interact

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with each other with that knowledge.

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Now, I know I've used a lot of, uh,
someone and something and this and

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that, and it's a very vague and elusive.

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That's because I don't want anyone
in particular to be called out.

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I just want to use this
example of a situation in.

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The energetic exchange of how
gossip can one be powerful and can

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actually support and build community

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while at the same time it can be
destructive and it can exhaust our energy.

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So being careful about how you engage
with it and then knowing that the

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ultimate goal is to be compassionate.

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I know this person.

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Who is engaging in behavior, I wouldn't
necessarily do myself or would want

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to put myself, um, in connection with.

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I know that they themselves are going
through really hard things and healing

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and on their healing journey as well,
and so we all choose to do things.

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Because we are hoping to get a need met.

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She's engaging with that behavior
because she's hoping it will

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meet a need that she has.

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Um.

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It may ultimately end up costing her
more relationships, and that's something

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that she will have to be aware of
and will have to work through on her

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own, or she'll blame us, other people
in the community for not connecting

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with her or having relationship with
her, when really we are just choosing

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to stay out of those patterns for
ourselves, for our own protection, and

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that for every person I engage with.

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No matter what they do or how
they do it, I hope and support

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and want the best for them.

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And I think that that's part of the
setting the ego aside or going through a

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difficult conflict can be an egoic death
in allowing some part of our ego to.

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Be crushed and destroyed sometimes
painfully so, so that we can

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evolve and grow and move on.

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And I hope that this situation,
as uncomfortable as it is, can

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allow an opportunity for all
of us as a community to grow.

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And I hope that the person
who feels alienated can.

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Feel comfortable enough again, some at
some point to return back to the community

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and know that they're welcomed and loved.

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Oh.

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So I don't know if that ties
into anything that you have

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experiencing from wherever you are.

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Or if you, um, have had situations
like that come up, I would

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love to hear your stories.

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If you have a particular situation
in which a family or, um, community

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groups that you're a part of have had
certain conflict that you thought were

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very tricky or you weren't sure how to
navigate it, or you were part of the.

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Part of the conflict or you were kind
of on the sidelines as I am in this

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situation and how you handle that.

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So please write in your stories to me.

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I would love to hear them.

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You can find me on social media.

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I'm uh, Instagram at Prism Healing.

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I am, you can message me on my website,
prism healing.com, or on Facebook,

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Courtney Pearl's Prism Healing.

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And those are great spaces to
get connected with me, and I love

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hearing stories from a listener
or questions from a listener.

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If you'd like to be featured in a
future episode as we get ready to

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finish this episode, I hope that
some of this has helped you today and

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helps you to be more aware and more.

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Understanding of your energy levels
and how to be protective of those.

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I would like to give special thanks
to Jess Blaine at Ride The Wave Media

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for producing this and every one of my
podcasts and doing all of the hard work

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of putting it all on our own YouTube
channel so that both practically Magick

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the podcast and Ride the Wave Media and
an all their network of podcasts can be

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built into the empire that it will become.

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And empire is probably not the right
word, but I feel like it's becoming

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a great community of its own.

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I would like to thank Sarah at
Sunshine Community because she

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facilitates and navigates these tricky
situations we've discussed today

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very well and very gracefully, and I
super duper appreciate her for that.

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She's a Magickal person in and of herself.

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So if you don't know Sarah
Albert at Sunshine Community.

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You can become a part of
that community as well.

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Um, let's see what else.

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Alright, I have a couple
of announcements coming up.

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If you are local in daybreak or the
surrounding areas of daybreak, I

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have my body, my dance party that
practically Magick is hosting at Land

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of a Thousand Hills Coffee and Social
here in Daybreak, right there in

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front of novel Crescent Communities.

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We are putting on a very.

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Kind of small and intimate, but also
large enough to be a real true party.

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Just Blaine at Ride The Wave
Media is gonna be our DJ and we

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are doing that on March 20th.

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You can get tickets on my website.

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Prism healing.com.

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If you go to the events section,
you will see all of the classes and

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events I have coming up and you can
purchase a ticket to that event.

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10% of profits for that for tickets are
going to be donated to Daybreak Pride.

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So if you wanna help support
the Pride community in daybreak.

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Purchase your ticket and
plan on coming and dancing.

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It is a women and queer folk only event.

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So if you are a woman or those
that support them, you can purchase

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a ticket for yourself and come.

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We're gonna be dressed in sweats and
comfy clothes, and we are just gonna

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dance our hearts out for the whole
evening, and we're celebrating spring.

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And if the weather's good, we're gonna
open the door and have it go outside too.

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It's gonna be a blast.

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They are already putting together a
special drinks menu for the event at Land

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of a Thousand Hills, so please get your
tickets before they sell out because we

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can only sell 80 tickets for this event.

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It's gonna be amazing.

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I also have some online classes coming
up, so if you would like to take my

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online Altars and Sacred Spaces class
that I'll be teaching March 23rd.

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It is an online class at 11:00
AM Mountain Standard Time.

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So on a Sunday, we are going to
learn all about creating altars, and

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whether that means an official pagan
altar for you, or if it just means

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how do I connect with creating spaces
in my home and in my outdoor spaces

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that feel like connecting to self.

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Connecting to land, connecting to source.

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This is a fantastic class that I've put
together with a lot of fun resources

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and really, really great, um, materials.

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So those are a couple of
things I have coming up.

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If you would like to sign up for
those classes, um, please message me

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and, uh, look for me on my website.

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I think that is all.

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The announcements today.

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Thank you so much for joining me
and I hope to see you next time.

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Go make Magick, witches and wizards.