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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I'm bad with something

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for you to think about. I
have to tell you my brothers and sisters.

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Drugs, alcohol, medications. They
are temporary fixes, but they have

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permanent effects. Let me say it
again, Drugs, alcohol, and medications,

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they are temporary fixes with permanent effects. Cherry, what are you talking

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about? Keep listening. I've told
you many many times through our episodes that

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you can overcome your addictions. You
can overcome any addiction that you may ever

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think about. If you choose to, you can overcome it. I've told

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you many many times that people go
to therapists, psychiatrists, rehab to the

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doctors for medications for assistance. But
I'm here to tell you it don't work

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unless you choose change in your life. I don't care how prominent they are

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or think they are. It don't
help unless you choose change in your life.

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I don't care about the medication,
I don't care the services that people

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provide. It will not help unless
you change your life. So let's talk

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about it. First of all,
when it comes to drugs and alcohol,

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it's a trillion dollar? Is it? It? Such? You are a

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zillion I don't think so. But
it's a trillion upon trillion dollar industry.

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Drugs, alcohol in different medications,
trillion dollar industry. That's why when it

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comes to medications of all sorts,
there's always side effects because they make those

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medications and they put all kinds of
stuff together to make those medications, and

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they make you sicker than what you
already are. They cause other issues within

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your body. They don't care.
They don't teach you holistic things. They

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don't teach you how to heal yourself
with nature. They don't teach you prayer

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because it's a trillion dollar industry.
Rehabs trillion dollar industry. People have went

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through rehab. They went through those
doors, those revolving doors, like eating

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tic TACs in and out, in
and out, come out good for a

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minute, boom right back. That's
because the mindset haven't changed, the heart

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haven't changed. And people know what
I've told you in episodes. I've worked

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alone side of healthcare professionals, mental
health professionals, because that's what I was

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at once upon a time. For
years, I've worked along side of mental

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health professionals who were on more medications
than their clients. I've worked alongside mental

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health professionals. Who have committed murder, suicide. So you go to people

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and you form inappropriate relationships, just
all kinds of things because what you're receiving

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is not what you need. Because
there's a lot of people out there who

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do that type of work, but
they're not good at it. I can't

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tell you the amount of people who
would tell me. No one ever told

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told me this before. I've never
heard it like that before. In Boom

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epiphany light goes off. Most people
in any position, they're in it because

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of the money. It's a job. I even had a chaplain tell me

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one time a chaplain. A chaplain
is someone who's supposed to be teaching and

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preaching the word of God. A
chaplain told me one time, it's just

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a job. I asked him flat
out, did he believe in God?

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And was he doing his job?
Because he really meant it. He said,

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it's just a job to him.
And I know because I've dealt with

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many chaplains in my career, many
because of what I have done and what

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I do. So it's all a
lot of it is just money making.

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But I'm telling you, all of
these medications and these quick fixes, they

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don't last, but they have permanent
effects in your body. If people really

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meant good, they would teach you
alternatives changing your lifestyle. Do you know

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that you can change how you eat
what you eat and it will change your

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life, mind and body. And
if your mind and body is good,

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so is your soul. You have
that peace within you. I'm a living

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witness. I did it, and
I've been doing it for a long time

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now. The doctor told me,
oh, your numbers are high, your

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borderline diabetic. And I've told you
this story before, and I was like,

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the devil is a liar, huh, not me? And I had

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three months to get myself in a
better place. And you know what's funny.

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I always thought that I ate fairly
good, and I did, but

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although I was not eating certain things, some things I was eating was not

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good for me, like candy.
It was just certain candy, but still

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candy candy. I love potato chips, especially those ruffles with that chelly cheese.

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Oh I remember, I don't eat
them, But yes, I used

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to love those those big blow popsuckers. That's what I used to eat.

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Those mintos or something like that.
I used to eat those all that were

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so good. But I quit everything
cold turkey. I've never been a big

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soda drinker, but I did used
to drink different juices. I quit all

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of that. I couldn't tell you
the last time I had juice or soda.

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I don't crave it or any of
that. I mean, I run

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from it. When I see that
stuff, I'm like, hey, no,

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I read the sugar content. No
way I'm putting that in my body.

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No way, white sugar. You
know, you have to start thinking

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now and healthy. And when you
look at all of these products and they

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have bioengineered, run, don't take
that crap home or GMO, don't take

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that crap home. I've been trying
to buy fruit with the season it you

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can't find it anywhere. It's horrible
out there in them streets, I'm telling

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you, and they know it.
They have bioengineered and gmode everything. So

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you have to be smart and start
thinking about maybe growing your own little here,

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a little there. Can be too
big because they're come and snatch that

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too, you know. So you
just have to be smart. You have

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to be smart about what you put
into your body, and it will change

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your life. Literally. I had
three months to get things better, and

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when I went to the doctor.
She was like blown away. I had

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lost like sixteen seventeen pounds. Yeah, and I was doing intermitt fasting,

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which I still do to this day. I'm very cognizant about what I put

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in my mouth because I don't like
buying like sauces and stuff like that.

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I don't know what you put in
it. People put a lot of salt,

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a lot of sugar. So I
try to make things naturally. So

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that's one thing that you could do. But when it comes to drugs and

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alcohol, you just have to make
a choice. Just like you made a

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choice to get on it, you
have to make a choice to get off

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of it. But some people,
they allow that substance to be a stronger

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forcing their lives than their own mindset. You allow it to take over.

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Anything you give power to can consume
your life. I've given up things that

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I thought I loved, But once
I gave them up, I never turned

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back. You know. It's like
repentance. People think repentance, Oh,

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you repent, and you because you
repented, you can go back to doing

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whatever it is you were doing.
Oh we fall down, but we get

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up. The Bible said we all
fall short. Excuses, excuse me.

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Yes, we fall short, but
you don't supposed to keep falling. At

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some point you're supposed to be able
to stand, but you never will.

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You keep using excuses to stay down
or to keep falling. You have to

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be stronger than whatever it is.
I don't care what you have to do.

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Go to the mountains and be away
from people. Get yourself together.

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You give power to whatever it is
in your life you do. As soon

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as I see a pattern in my
life trying to form, I do something

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about it. I'm like, Nope, nope, not happening. And you

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guys, you guys and ladies.
I'm not trying to say I'm perfect.

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I'm not, but I'm cognizant,
I'm aware. I'm mindful because I want

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to be the best me that I
can be. I don't run to the

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doctor all the time. I probably
should go for some things, but I

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just plead the blood of Jesus over
my life. And guess what, if

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I die, I'll be all right. Don't worry about me if I die.

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Cheeriot is all right, guarantee.
I am good. So I don't

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worry about all that stuff. When
I get pains and this and that.

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I plead the blood of Jesus.
I don't care how it sound to you.

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That's how I live my life.
And guess what I be all right,

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I'm not afraid to die, but
I don't want to die a mess,

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an alcoholic or a drugs attic,
or someone who have mental health issues

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and depending on drugs, because drugs
is just a tool, but they affect

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you permanently within your body. Alcohol
affect you permanently within your body. I

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have multiple aunts and uncles who have
died from alcoholism, multiple and a couple

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from pills. Multiple. When I
say multiple, I mean multiple, like

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six or seven. That's nuts.
Aunts and uncles, not great aunts,

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a great uncles, aunts and uncles, that's nuts. And I've had two

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that say, if it kills me, it kills me. And guess what

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it did. I saw them legs
and stuff swell up because the alcohol and

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stuff just poison their bodies. Been
drinking fifty years and you don't want to

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give it up. That's a habit. It's a habit. That's what it

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becomes you addicted because you have formed
a habit. It's habitual in your life.

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And it's the same thing with these
medications. People get on I'm not

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saying that medications don't help, but
what I'm saying is they don't fix the

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problem. The problems are still there, and oftentimes other things develop that's worse.

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I think I told you all the
story one time when the World Trade

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Center, when that stuff happened.
I mean I saw it, I knew

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people that worked there, I saw
all the commotions on TV. I mean,

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it just really hit me hard,
and I was feeling very upset and

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anxious about it. And I went
to the doctor and they put me on

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medication, some psychotrophy. Mind you, I was a mental health profession at

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the time. They put me on
some pycho trophy, and I think I

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took it for two days. I
threw it in a garbage. I told

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the doctor never again, because they
just trying to help me with my anxiety.

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I was hallucinating. I'm serious,
I was hallucinating and I said,

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oh, heck no. And I
know I wasn't doing it before I threw

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that medication in the garbage. I
destroyed it. I didn't just throw the

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pills in the garbage. I destroyed
it. And I told my doctor,

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nope, no, nope, I'm
good. Never took that crap again.

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You have to be aware of things
because guess what if I would have took

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that medication. That medication, it
could cause you to have suicidal thoughts.

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It could cause you depression, It
could cause all kinds of things, and

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it affects you internally. It messes
with your organs. But people every single

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day they popped those pills, but
they don't try to work on self.

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Some people go to therapists for a
lifetime. You know that therapists should terminate,

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but they don't because it's about money. If you've been going to your

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same therapist for a lifetime, something
is wrong with that. You have not

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progressed. Some of you go because
you become so familiar and comfortable with that

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therapist. I remember I had to
let go of people because they started to

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feel a certain way. I don't
go to work for that. I don't

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go to work for that. So
I mean, you have to want to

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be better for yourself. You have
to want to be better so you can

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get off medication. I was on
some allergy medication and I told you about

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this, and I was like,
Lord, I don't want to be on

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this medication anymore. And I just
quit taking it. I started running and

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throat dry everything. But I found
a concoction on the internet for my symptoms,

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for my allergies, and I made
that concoction which was simple as white

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vinegar, lemon oil. You could
lift this oil, spearmint oil, and

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lavender. I mixed it up and
every single night I sprayed my carpet in

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my room. Every night, I
sprayed my carpet because mind you, I

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was in a renter and you know
how that goes. People have pets and

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all of that crap. So I
was spreading every night with my concoction,

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and eventually it did whatever it was
supposed to do, and I never I

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have not been on any elegergy medication
since then. One time the problem was

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so bad, I did have to
take a few because that's on the outside,

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So I get my prescription because sometimes
what's on the outside affects me.

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So I'm no dummy, but for
the inside, that's why I was having

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a problem. So you just have
to be mindful, try to do things

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a natural way. If you know
you have issues, try to heal from

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the inside out. Deal with whatever
your issues are, face them head on.

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Why are you angry? Why are
you sad? You know face head

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on, you already know why,
but you just have to deal with it.

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Forgive whatever someone done to you.
Some of you say, I'll never

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forgive, then continue to be that
broken person. If you never want to

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forgive, you're never going to heal. Forgiveness is for you, it's not

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for that other person. It's for
you to heal and move on. So

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if you want to be hard headed
and never want to forgive, you're keeping

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yourself right where you are, where
you've always been, in that unhealthy mental

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state. You have to want to
be better for you. Stop reaching for

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that drug, that alcohol, those
pills, because, like I said,

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temporary fixed, because permanent damage,
permanent effects to your body. And I

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just want to talk about it.
In case no one ever told you,

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I'm telling you you can be better
if you choose to be better, no

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matter what is ling you mentally.
Something got you to that point. You

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was not born into this world that
way. We develop mental illnesses because of

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the things we go through, and
most are because of what we open ourselves

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up to, what choices and decisions
we make in our lives that usher in

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all of the stress, all of
the turmoil. So just like you ushered

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it in, you can usher it
out. Most of what we deal with

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nowadays, yes we do have,
we do go through all of us the

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unexpected, but most of the things
we deal with nowadays is self inflicted.

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Self inflicted. So think about your
life, what is the problem, face

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it head on. Only you can
change your life, I mean in a

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permanent and positive way. Only you. Your therapist can't do it, your

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doctor can't do it. Only you. Only you. We develop a lot

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of sicknesses because of all the other
stuff that causes sicknesses in our bodies.

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You have to start thinking about it
all, thinking about what you put into

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your temple, your body, and
you know what, That's all I'm gonna

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say. I'm leaving it right there. Thank you for listening. I hope

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you got something out of it.
Much much love to each and every one

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of you. Please share this episode. Check out both of my podcasts,

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Relatable Life Chronicles Relationship Chronicles, and
I also have a podcast out there that

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I no longer use, but I
still have episodes on there. I now

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put all of that onto Relatable Life
Chronicles and that podcast is Life with Jesus

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in It. You can check them
all out. Thank you. For listening.

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I end every episode the same,
and I hope and pray for real

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that you do it. Thank on
it