Speaker 1: Welcome to Playing on the Edge Radio, Radical Change with
Speaker 1: Ease with Master Healer Megan Edge and doctor Pat This
Speaker 1: is a space for real conversations about what it means
Speaker 1: to heal, grow and transform without losing yourself along the way.
Speaker 1: Here we explore the edges of change, grief, identity shifts,
Speaker 1: spiritual awakening, burnout, recovery, transformation, and the quiet return to belonging.
Speaker 1: Each episode blends intuitive insight, practical tools, and meaningful spiritual
Speaker 1: perspectives to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom and
Speaker 1: navigate life's transitions with more at ease, courage, and self trust.
Speaker 1: If you're ready to come home to yourself and discover
Speaker 1: that radical change doesn't have to be hard, you're in
Speaker 1: the right place.
Speaker 2: Take this really journey and we have got a blockbuster
Speaker 2: for you today. This is one of these episodes where
Speaker 2: both Megan and I we are influenced by the world's
Speaker 2: around us. Whether it's helping people, running a network, whatever
Speaker 2: we do, there is an influence and I want to
Speaker 2: just point this out. You don't always have to come
Speaker 2: from the worst of the worst situations to be on
Speaker 2: the edge of your outdated story. That's today's episode. You
Speaker 2: see we often think about ourselves or people we see
Speaker 2: or movies. We take a look out there and we
Speaker 2: think about these other people and we see how awful
Speaker 2: or their situation and what they're going through, right, and
Speaker 2: then we project upon them. How do we do that?
Speaker 2: Social media emails talking? The bottom line is, and Megan's
Speaker 2: going to walk us through this because this is the
Speaker 2: work she does to help people. And without this work,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, folks, you are running in place. You're
Speaker 2: not even running walking in place. You're on the edge
Speaker 2: of just moving backwards because the world around you is
Speaker 2: moving ahead without you. So what story are you telling
Speaker 2: yourself every day? Megan? What do you think about what
Speaker 2: I said about that? Like, even if you think right,
Speaker 2: even if you think you're moving forward and you're not,
Speaker 2: you're just you're just walking in place, jumping in place,
Speaker 2: let's say, And you think you're moving but you're not
Speaker 2: because everything around you was kind of moving ahead.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, and that is accurate, to be sure, especially
Speaker 1: if you are unconsciously stuck in a real or stuck
Speaker 1: in a loop of an outdated story that no longer
Speaker 1: serves you, but you're not aware of it yet because
Speaker 1: it's so comfortable. You're so used to that story, those
Speaker 1: words that you're saying to describe your circumstances and situation,
Speaker 1: that you aren't moving forward. And I think part of
Speaker 1: burnout comes because we're struggling in an old story that
Speaker 1: we're not aware of and try at the same time
Speaker 1: to keep pace with the world around us, which, as
Speaker 1: you point out, is moving very fast these days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you know that in that context, I
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about what you're going to
Speaker 2: take us through right out of the gate, the anatomy
Speaker 2: of an outdated story and core beliefs. And you know
Speaker 2: what's so obvious to me as I prepared for this
Speaker 2: is how many of those stories you know, we have,
Speaker 2: even you and I who do this work. I mean,
Speaker 2: if I had a dime for every issue in my
Speaker 2: life that I had to work on and move beyond,
Speaker 2: you and I would not be talking. We would be
Speaker 2: buying our own island somewhere. But part of this is
Speaker 2: I wasn't always aware. I wasn't always aware. So from
Speaker 2: where you sit, right, m hm, how do we break
Speaker 2: this down so people not just understand it? Because every
Speaker 2: time we talk about you got to release it, You
Speaker 2: got to let it go. You go you oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got to do all that. But what does that
Speaker 2: even mean? So help us understand the anatomy of this thing,
Speaker 2: because does it look like a jellyfish? Does it look
Speaker 2: like a Schwarzenegger? Does it look like a mack truck?
Speaker 2: What does it look like? To help me out?
Speaker 1: Well, I love all of those analogies. Sea Urchin came
Speaker 1: to mind too, you know that's a good one. Protecting us. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's start with a really key phrase, which is this,
Speaker 1: Your past is a place of reference. It is not
Speaker 1: a place of residence. Think about that for a moment.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that your past is a
Speaker 1: place of reference. It's something that has happened to you
Speaker 1: already that you refer back to, and it shapes the
Speaker 1: way in which you perceive your experiences in the present moment.
Speaker 1: But you're not supposed to live there. And I've known
Speaker 1: many many people over the years, clients, family friends, who
Speaker 1: unconsciously are living in that past experience or experiences. And
Speaker 1: what do experiences give us? They give us beliefs. It's
Speaker 1: a cycle. We have an experience, it either reinforces a
Speaker 1: belief that we already have, for example, Let's say the
Speaker 1: belief that you're carrying. One of the beliefs you're carrying
Speaker 1: is I'm not good enough, I don't deserve to have anything.
Speaker 1: There'll be a belief above that, which is nothing good
Speaker 1: ever happens to me, or there's no point in my
Speaker 1: trying because it's not going to work right, And then
Speaker 1: your experiences are going to validate that limiting belief without
Speaker 1: you being consciously aware of it, and that begins to
Speaker 1: run your life. That becomes the narrative in the back
Speaker 1: of your mind. And again you're not necessarily aware of
Speaker 1: this voice. It's way way in the back of your mind,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to look at it geographically,
Speaker 1: way at the back of your head, this little tiny
Speaker 1: voice that says, m m mmm, not you, everybody but you.
Speaker 1: The work that I do with people's stories is helping
Speaker 1: them to identify those limiting beliefs by pulling out the
Speaker 1: language that they're using to describe their experiences. So I'll
Speaker 1: give an illustration of that. I had a client in
Speaker 1: this week and I noticed that she was talking to
Speaker 1: me and telling me her story. And I could tell
Speaker 1: this was a story she told many times before because
Speaker 1: she was very comfortable and very entrenched in her responses
Speaker 1: and triggers to the story as she told it. One
Speaker 1: of the words she used repeatedly was hard. The word hard.
Speaker 1: Everything was hard, It started hard, it ended hard, it
Speaker 1: was just hard. Her life was hard. And I pointed
Speaker 1: this out to her gently and lovingly, but also forcefully,
Speaker 1: because when someone comes to work with me, I don't
Speaker 1: want to waste time, you know, namby pamming about all
Speaker 1: of it. I want us to get to the heart
Speaker 1: of it as quickly and as healthily as we can.
Speaker 1: Because by the time someone comes to me, they're ready
Speaker 1: to put this story down, they're just not sure how
Speaker 1: to go about doing it, or they don't know yet
Speaker 1: that they're even carrying that story. So I pointed this
Speaker 1: out to her, and I invited her to start paying
Speaker 1: attention to any of the times that she used that
Speaker 1: word to describe something in her life. Now, in and
Speaker 1: of itself, it's just a word. Why am I harping
Speaker 1: on this word hard? Because every word has vibration, and
Speaker 1: some words have a high vibration and some words have
Speaker 1: a low vibration. And this isn't wuhoo. We can actually
Speaker 1: see the oscillation when we record people speaking of when
Speaker 1: a word dips in the vibration of the sound of it,
Speaker 1: and when a word goes up in the vibration of
Speaker 1: the sound of it. So hard is one of those
Speaker 1: low vibration words. And here's what happens when you say
Speaker 1: the word hard full stop. If something is hard, that's it.
Speaker 1: You're done. It's just it's hard, and you just stay
Speaker 1: there in that hard energy. I suggested to her that
Speaker 1: she start practicing inserting the word challenge or challenging in
Speaker 1: replace of the word hard, and noticing how everything in
Speaker 1: her system, in her nervous system, in her vehicle, every
Speaker 1: system in the body reacts to that new word. What
Speaker 1: do we do with a challenge? Typically we rise to
Speaker 1: the challenge. As soon as we say the word challenge.
Speaker 1: Our brain starts looking for solutions. Yeah, there's this incredible
Speaker 1: neuron explosion that goes off in our brain when we
Speaker 1: start using the word challenge, because we like a challenge.
Speaker 1: As a species, we like a challenge, where hardwired we
Speaker 1: do define solutions for challenges. Right. So, with that, just
Speaker 1: that simple switch from one word that she'd been using
Speaker 1: for years and years and years, that defined not only
Speaker 1: described her experience of her life, but defined her experience
Speaker 1: of her life. She now as the opportunity to switch
Speaker 1: it up and start to feel into solutions right as
Speaker 1: opposed to stuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that's just one thing, but it
Speaker 2: really is everyday life language, everyday life thinking. And then
Speaker 2: even when you put a string of those thoughts together
Speaker 2: and they appear as a collective, right, it's a story. Okay,
Speaker 2: I knew, I told you I wasn't going to do this,
Speaker 2: but I have to do it. I posted on ex
Speaker 2: Twitter today because I am a sports women's sports advocate.
Speaker 2: I have been all my life, since a day I
Speaker 2: started to play softball. Manhole to manhole, and yes they're
Speaker 2: still called manholes, but they really are. I think we
Speaker 2: tried to change.
Speaker 1: That up, but it's street street holes.
Speaker 2: Is it street holes now? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's the power of words.
Speaker 2: And I'm watching something in a sport that I could
Speaker 2: not excel at. It was not for me. First of all,
Speaker 2: I'm too short, but I am tough on the basketball court,
Speaker 2: right But early on I knew that wasn't going to
Speaker 2: be for me. But I still love the sport and
Speaker 2: I've been watching the rise of the Women's Basketball Association,
Speaker 2: and so there is a core superstar that you could
Speaker 2: see her evolving story around referee and fouls. And I
Speaker 2: want to write her or call her and say, mss
Speaker 2: Clark Megan, and I can help you a lot about this,
Speaker 2: and I really can. You know, there are some things
Speaker 2: we could show you, really to help you be in
Speaker 2: complete control of who you are and show them by
Speaker 2: being badass about it. But that's the truth of it.
Speaker 2: And so I'm watching this and I'm saying, why does
Speaker 2: she not have somebody in her court to help her?
Speaker 2: And then I realized millions and millions especially of women
Speaker 2: don't have somebody to help them with this. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think you're quite right. I
Speaker 1: think you're quite right to your point, where is her support?
Speaker 1: Where is her help? What story is she telling her?
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit, first of all,
Speaker 1: about what I mean by story, what do we mean
Speaker 1: do your story? And some people, when I have started
Speaker 1: this work with them, will say, well, what do you
Speaker 1: mean my story? Like I'm making it up? You think
Speaker 1: I'm making this up? No, And probably that person as
Speaker 1: they were growing up, were told not to make up stories.
Speaker 1: So the word story becomes loaded. All that I mean
Speaker 1: by story is the experiences that you've had in your life. Yep,
Speaker 1: are you making up your experiences? No, your experiences happened
Speaker 1: to you. Somebody slams the car door on your finger,
Speaker 1: that's a real experience. But what do you do with
Speaker 1: that experience? When I work with people around story, I
Speaker 1: am calling them out on what they are making up
Speaker 1: about the experience that they had, what it means to them,
Speaker 1: or what they think it means about them, and then
Speaker 1: where they're taking that story and bringing it into their
Speaker 1: everyday life, like you talked about earlier, you know, and
Speaker 1: some stories are great stories. We talk about in the
Speaker 1: work I do. I talk about limiting beliefs and limitless beliefs.
Speaker 1: So limitless beliefs are fantastic beliefs. They're the belief that
Speaker 1: I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and Doggonnet people like
Speaker 1: me to quote Saturday Night Live and really believing it,
Speaker 1: or simply knowing what you are good at and being
Speaker 1: okay with knowing that and owning that. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a great runner. I'm not a great runner, I.
Speaker 2: Will call that one.
Speaker 1: But let's see, I'm really great at foraging. I'm a
Speaker 1: master forager. I can say that with complete conviction because
Speaker 1: I know that it's true. You're a fantastic ping pong player.
Speaker 1: That's a truth, all right. That's a limitless belief. You
Speaker 1: can do so much with that belief. A limiting belief
Speaker 1: is one that holds you in place. Just like you
Speaker 1: talked about at the very beginning, it's holding you in place.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you an example because as we were
Speaker 1: preparing for this show, and I'm thinking, all right, I
Speaker 1: know I still have limiting beliefs. We all do. You
Speaker 1: know they're all there.
Speaker 2: And healing is a big one right now.
Speaker 1: Healing is about pulling back the layers, right, So what
Speaker 1: is my current limiting belief? And I realized it's that
Speaker 1: I'm not good at technology. I even use the word
Speaker 1: luodite the other day in a conversation with someone about technology,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking basic technology. I'm talking about making a
Speaker 1: website or putting out an email or doing a funnel
Speaker 1: or all these kind of marketing things. I've got this
Speaker 1: belief that's now coming to the surface that I'm just
Speaker 1: not good at that it's not my wheelhouse. And I
Speaker 1: can make up all kinds of excuses and say I
Speaker 1: don't have time to learn it, I don't have the bandwidth,
Speaker 1: I'm not interested. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: as a business owner, if I don't understand how my
Speaker 1: technology works, I won't succeed in my work. And yes,
Speaker 1: I can farm it out and I can hire somebody
Speaker 1: to do it, and I've tried that in the past,
Speaker 1: but in the end, I'm not the one in control
Speaker 1: of it, and therefore it doesn't do what I needed
Speaker 1: to do or what I wanted to do. So what
Speaker 1: is the underlying, core limiting belief to this surface belief
Speaker 1: of I'm not good at technology. This is one of
Speaker 1: the things that I do with my clients when we
Speaker 1: go down deep into what is the limiting belief? So
Speaker 1: basically the question is what is the worst thing that
Speaker 1: can happen to me if I'm not good at technology? Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's the first answer. So my first answer is
Speaker 1: I don't succeed at business because everybody else around me
Speaker 1: seems to know how to do it but me, right,
Speaker 1: So that the next question becomes, well, what is the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario if I'm not good at business? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: what do I believe about that. Well, if I'm not
Speaker 1: good at business, then who am I to be a
Speaker 1: business woman? Am I making it up as I go along?
Speaker 1: Is there some imposter syndrome going on underneath that? And
Speaker 1: you and I did a show about imposters? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So if I'm an impostor, what's the worst possible case scenario?
Speaker 1: If I'm an impostor, Well, then I'm not being true
Speaker 1: to myself. Okay, but that's not the core belief yet.
Speaker 1: And so what we do is we keep going, we
Speaker 1: keep asking what's the worst possible scenario, what's the worst
Speaker 1: case if I'm not good enough? Eventually we're going to
Speaker 1: get to that absolute core belief that's holding up the
Speaker 1: house of cards, and we'll know we got there because
Speaker 1: there'll be a visceral body response, right, what's yours?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you something that came up for me.
Speaker 2: And this is really act and reaction, because there's a
Speaker 2: second part to the story when you get to the
Speaker 2: point that you're at, especially if you are having a
Speaker 2: conversation with another person. Okay, so I've done a little
Speaker 2: posting here, really really kind of cool stuff, like you know,
Speaker 2: in order for me to show oh, this is so silly.
Speaker 2: In order for me to show the commissioner of the
Speaker 2: WNBA the full responsibilities of her job and in my opinion,
Speaker 2: what she's doing well and what she doesn't, I created
Speaker 2: a pair of sneakers. One shoe of the sneaker has
Speaker 2: all the things and the other one are all the
Speaker 2: things that are not being done. Now, when I post
Speaker 2: these things, sometimes I say I'm an athlete, and then
Speaker 2: somebody will look me up and I will get this.
Speaker 2: So here's it. So I got a thing that said
Speaker 2: ping pong is not a real sport. Okay, okay, honey, okay.
Speaker 2: So here's where I am. Now, this is not what
Speaker 2: I'm saying for people to do. You see what I
Speaker 2: just said about Caitlin Clark, Megan and I have to
Speaker 2: keep ourselves in check. But I did get an interesting
Speaker 2: idea because my response back is okay, I'd love for
Speaker 2: you to come out and sit at the other end
Speaker 2: of the table and hit back my eighty mile pen
Speaker 2: our own ball. And so the person says, no way,
Speaker 2: that's how fast the ball goes. So now what do
Speaker 2: I do. I'm looking up speed guns. So when I
Speaker 2: play with my coach on Friday, I can take a
Speaker 2: speed check and if I'm not hitting the ball at
Speaker 2: eighty maybe sixty, I have to do a rebuttal or,
Speaker 2: I don't, do you understand because our stories can turn
Speaker 2: into Bizarro action, like Bizarro, the anti Superman character Bizarro.
Speaker 1: Well, our stories can turn into drama. Yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: an interesting point. With one of my clients I was
Speaker 1: working with, we got down to the very core limiting belief,
Speaker 1: which was that she wouldn't exist, and if she wouldn't exist,
Speaker 1: then there was nothing right. So there was an annihilation
Speaker 1: core belief that she was experiencing, and I suggested to
Speaker 1: her that potentially why her life was so hard and
Speaker 1: why she continued to be involved in other people's dramas
Speaker 1: and creating her own, is because that gave her existence
Speaker 1: some kind of meaning. Right. This is one of the
Speaker 1: hard questions, and I'm using that word purposefully because it
Speaker 1: does stop people in their tracks when I ask it,
Speaker 1: what is the benefit to you of your limiting beliefs?
Speaker 1: What is the benefit to you? How does it benefit
Speaker 1: you to be stuck in a story that doesn't allow
Speaker 1: you to thrive and evolve as a human being emotionally, intellectually,
Speaker 1: and spiritually. What's the benefit to you? And people whoa
Speaker 1: their backs go up? What do you mean, what's the benefit?
Speaker 1: Why would it be beneficial for me to think that
Speaker 1: I don't deserve to win the lottery or have a
Speaker 1: husband or a wife or whatever. You know what, why
Speaker 1: would I do that to myself? And I'm not asking
Speaker 1: that question from a place of blaming. I'm asking that
Speaker 1: question from a place of responsibility. You're a full grown
Speaker 1: adult at this point. I'm not talking about a seven
Speaker 1: year old who's trying to sort themselves out and figure
Speaker 1: out their story and not even knowing they're doing it.
Speaker 1: They're just being in their creative juices. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: us as adults. We have a responsibility and we are
Speaker 1: the only one who can take that responsibility to do
Speaker 1: our healing work and to show up as the best
Speaker 1: version of ourselves, the best version of a human being
Speaker 1: that we possibly can. And that's the challenge that I
Speaker 1: put out to my clients, to my students, and if
Speaker 1: I'm doing public speaking like this is the base of
Speaker 1: it all, this is what holds it up. What are
Speaker 1: you doing to take care of yourself as as an adult?
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly that's your exactly. Yeah, And let's be very
Speaker 2: clear about what we're talking about for this moment in
Speaker 2: time that you and I are talking when we say
Speaker 2: taking care of ourselves, the body, mind, spirit part of
Speaker 2: this and the emotional part of it. And in nine
Speaker 2: times that of ten cases, the emotional part is left out.
Speaker 2: You know, we give people a bunch of tasks, a
Speaker 2: bunch of assignment, right your journal, do this, do that,
Speaker 2: But that's not going to help Caitlyn Clark on the court.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a woman that has a lifetime
Speaker 2: of being a little bit like me, right, I mean honestly,
Speaker 2: so you want to work with somebody that was like
Speaker 2: you and is not like that anymore. Because I'm the
Speaker 2: woman that coached championship softball and I'm telling you when
Speaker 2: I was ejected from the game, I climbed over the
Speaker 2: backstop to get at the referee. And so please don't
Speaker 2: mark that down as good behave. It's not. But clearly
Speaker 2: I had to put my passion and purpose in a
Speaker 2: different place and know how to handle that, not for me,
Speaker 2: but for who I wanted the team to become. What's
Speaker 2: the consequence of that, Well, bad behavior on bad behavior
Speaker 2: on the field, like my players just crazy, like they're
Speaker 2: taking some kind of angry drug, but you can't see
Speaker 2: it in the moment.
Speaker 1: You're right, And to that point, this is where I
Speaker 1: do come to this work with a great deal of
Speaker 1: empathy and you know, fierce gentleness in that I know,
Speaker 1: I understand. I've been there, I'm still there in some
Speaker 1: parts of my life. Like I just shared around technology,
Speaker 1: it's it's where we all are at some point or another.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But by the time someone comes to work with me,
Speaker 1: and I say this many I've said this many times before,
Speaker 1: they have got to be ready, willing and aim to
Speaker 1: do the work and what's asked of them, because they've
Speaker 1: already been through so many other healing systems that I
Speaker 1: just haven't worked for them. And I'm not bashing any
Speaker 1: healing systems because everybody comes to it from a different
Speaker 1: place and different modalities work for different people. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, by the time someone comes to me,
Speaker 1: they're saying I've tried everything, yeah, and I just there's
Speaker 1: something that hasn't shifted yet. And that's where I say, then,
Speaker 1: look good, let's go and find those core limiting beliefs.
Speaker 1: Let's go and find the language that you're using, and
Speaker 1: see if we can vibrate that language, you know, and
Speaker 1: let's get you into this mindset of I am responsible
Speaker 1: for myself and my well being. It doesn't mean your
Speaker 1: story isn't important. It doesn't mean that what has happened
Speaker 1: to you is irrelevant or that we're pushing it away.
Speaker 1: We are not at all. What we are doing is
Speaker 1: we are changing your relationship.
Speaker 2: With it, and we're not changing the fact that it's
Speaker 2: Some of these things are true. I'm not changing that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was abused and beaten in Catholic boarding
Speaker 2: school at age five. It doesn't mean that. But when
Speaker 2: I tell that story now, I don't lead with that.
Speaker 2: I said. When people ask me questions like what's the
Speaker 2: worst thing that happened to you in that Catholic boarding school,
Speaker 2: I said eating oatmeal, because that really was. But help
Speaker 2: us through with an exercise on how to question our
Speaker 2: core beliefs, because see, this is the work you do.
Speaker 2: And then, you know, we have a lot to talk
Speaker 2: about today because it's all tied together to who we
Speaker 2: want to become, really, not who our parents told us
Speaker 2: not to. You know, my friends telling me, why the
Speaker 2: heck are you going to put up a black wall.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, you don't know what's in this head.
Speaker 2: And I please, I'm not even going to invite you
Speaker 2: in there. But let's talk about an exercise. We need
Speaker 2: to help people with our beliefs.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's use the example that I gave it
Speaker 1: before about my own where I find myself right now
Speaker 1: and I'm struggling art again, that's part of the story.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with my technology. You can see now that's
Speaker 1: part of the story. I can change that right now
Speaker 1: and say I am learning to understand how technology in
Speaker 1: marketing can serve me and my business. See what I
Speaker 1: did right there, I taught myself and I switched it up.
Speaker 1: So now I can feel in my body. My whole
Speaker 1: body's going, oh yeah, we're learning. We love learning. Let's
Speaker 1: go learn, let's learn how to do this. And learning
Speaker 1: for me is a big dug. It's a challenge in
Speaker 1: that I love the challenge of learning. So now I
Speaker 1: want to know. But two seconds ago, I was talking
Speaker 1: about how I was struggling with it. That's how quickly.
Speaker 1: This is how quickly you can do this work. And honestly,
Speaker 1: if you could see the chemicals in your body, the
Speaker 1: chemical cascade as you make that switch. If you flip
Speaker 1: it up, you'd be astounded. So what will happen for
Speaker 1: me now is I will no longer use that word
Speaker 1: struggling in in the explanation or my understanding of my
Speaker 1: relationship with marketing and technology. It just I just simply won't.
Speaker 1: I can't go back to it. So that's that's one
Speaker 1: way that you can work with understanding what your core
Speaker 1: limiting beliefs are by first of all, paying attention to
Speaker 1: your language. And there's a fantastic book that changed my
Speaker 1: life by a woman named Evonne Oswald. She's a Canadian.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yes, every word has power. Oh he's got
Speaker 2: a new book too, does she?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, I interviewed her. You got to get a hold
Speaker 2: of her.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. She and I were in touch for a
Speaker 1: little while and then we lost we lost touch.
Speaker 2: On her book changed me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a foundational, fundamental switch up in my
Speaker 1: mind and my understanding of why my life seemed so
Speaker 1: hard at the time. And what was so interesting is
Speaker 1: as I started to change my language, as I started
Speaker 1: to understand the difference between a low vibration word like
Speaker 1: I forgot to a high vibration word such as I remember,
Speaker 1: I started noticing the language of all the people around me,
Speaker 1: including my most intimate relationships, my husband, my children. Well
Speaker 1: they weren't really talking yet, but I noticed how other
Speaker 1: people were speaking, and it became jarring as I was
Speaker 1: practicing using different language and different understanding of the impact
Speaker 1: of that language on my whole system, on my central
Speaker 1: nervous system and my brain and all of it. So
Speaker 1: when you're looking at what are my core limiting beliefs,
Speaker 1: you can do that exercise that I shared at the beginning,
Speaker 1: where you know what is the worst case versul You
Speaker 1: identify what am I most afraid of, what is my
Speaker 1: biggest angst, what's my biggest concern? And we're talking personal
Speaker 1: emotional things like abandonment or not being good enough, those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. But the first thing that comes to
Speaker 1: you is going to be that surface one. You want
Speaker 1: to burrow down and down and down until either you
Speaker 1: can't answer the question because it's so deep it's nonverbal,
Speaker 1: or in answering the question, you suddenly know that that's
Speaker 1: what it is, and then you can start changing your
Speaker 1: language around that. I have an there's another exercise I
Speaker 1: want to share, but it's a bit longer. Do we
Speaker 1: want to wait until?
Speaker 2: No, let's do it now.
Speaker 1: You want to do it now?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, let's do it now.
Speaker 1: Okay. So a lot of what I work with with
Speaker 1: people is the energetic systems of their bodies and understanding
Speaker 1: where those energetics are. And in this exercise, we're looking
Speaker 1: at the energy of the past, the energy of the present,
Speaker 1: and the energy of the future. Now, what's really fascinating
Speaker 1: is that when people talk about things that have happened
Speaker 1: in the past, they often gesture to the left. When
Speaker 1: we're talking about something that's happening right now, you'll see
Speaker 1: people's hands or right in front of them. That's the
Speaker 1: energetic present. But when we're talking about the future and
Speaker 1: what we're going to do tomorrow, we gesture with our
Speaker 1: right hand. So there's a level of body language understanding
Speaker 1: in this exercise as well. And it's really fun when
Speaker 1: you start to notice, Yeah, this connection again, it's like
Speaker 1: an it's not like it is an unconscious connection that
Speaker 1: we have to the energy around us. So excuse me,
Speaker 1: we're in high energy right now. Let's bring that energy
Speaker 1: down there we go. So this is typically done standing
Speaker 1: but if you're sitting or you're driving. If you're driving,
Speaker 1: and please don't stand. If you can't stand up, that's okay.
Speaker 1: You can do it sitting as well. Take a nice
Speaker 1: deep breath in and exhale and let your body settle.
Speaker 1: Deep breath in, feel into your body as you settle
Speaker 1: into it again. And we're going to take one more
Speaker 1: deep breath in and we allow anything that is no
Speaker 1: longer in our high is good to be released on
Speaker 1: that third breath. Okay. So bringing your awareness to the
Speaker 1: present moment, I want you to you. I invite you
Speaker 1: to bring in to your physical body right now, anything
Speaker 1: and everything that is giving you grief, that is hurting,
Speaker 1: that feels uncomfortable, that feels sad, that feels disconnected. And
Speaker 1: I invite you to do this from the observer position,
Speaker 1: so that means staying up in your head and watching,
Speaker 1: not participating in it, because I don't want you to
Speaker 1: fall into this. I just want you to become aware
Speaker 1: of it, of where it is in your body, and
Speaker 1: what it feels like and what it looks like. And
Speaker 1: just hold on to that for one moment and take
Speaker 1: a breath into it. And now what we're going to
Speaker 1: do with relaxed knees. If you're standing, relaxed knees, relax hips,
Speaker 1: relaxed shoulders, if you're sitting, to relax your shoulders, relax
Speaker 1: your hips. You're going to either physically or energetically step
Speaker 1: to the left. We're going to move everything that we're
Speaker 1: carrying right now in this present moment back into the
Speaker 1: past where it came from. So take that step energetically
Speaker 1: or physically to your left and stand there for a moment.
Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in, and on the exhale, say
Speaker 1: to yourself, I acknowledge, I accept. Deep breath in, I acknowledge,
Speaker 1: I accept. You're simply acknowledging it. You're simply saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is it, this is what it is. Now we're
Speaker 1: going to take another deep breath in, and on the exhale,
Speaker 1: we're going to say, I release, and let that be
Speaker 1: a big breath out. Ah, feel it all the way
Speaker 1: down until you can't breathe, and then take a nice,
Speaker 1: gentle breath in. In that breath, you have created the
Speaker 1: intention to release back into the past any of the
Speaker 1: emotional baggage that you've brought into the present moment, and
Speaker 1: then give yourself a bit of a shake and let
Speaker 1: yourself go soft and you can do it a couple
Speaker 1: of times if it feels like it's not happening right away,
Speaker 1: but don't force it, don't try to make it happen.
Speaker 1: Just allow. That's the acknowledgment and the acceptance. And now
Speaker 1: bring yourself back to your present moment. Put your hands
Speaker 1: into prayer position, which is just a typical way that
Speaker 1: we pray, and then move your hands to your solar
Speaker 1: plexus with your fingers pointing outward, so we're directing energy
Speaker 1: out into the present moment. And smile. Let yourself just
Speaker 1: smile for a moment, okay, And then we're going to
Speaker 1: step into the right We're going to step into the future.
Speaker 1: So take yourself physically or energetically into the future again,
Speaker 1: relax your body physically or energetically, and now imagine every
Speaker 1: single thing that you want to happen for you. And
Speaker 1: if any butts show up, sit them right down, because
Speaker 1: that's all a butt is good for you. Sit down
Speaker 1: on a butt. You don't let it get in the way.
Speaker 1: If excuses come up why you can't have it, just
Speaker 1: that's okay. You just leave those excuses alone. I want
Speaker 1: you to paint a picture of what your life has
Speaker 1: the potential to be. And in that moment, I want
Speaker 1: you to feel it inside every single cell of your body.
Speaker 1: It is real. The love of your life, the career
Speaker 1: of your dreams, your bank account full, your family, harmonious,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and it can be more than one thing.
Speaker 1: You can ask for all of it. Standing in that
Speaker 1: future energy. Feel that energy start to move through your body.
Speaker 1: Can you feel it. I've got goosebumps. I can feel
Speaker 1: it running up and down my body as I'm saying it.
Speaker 1: Bring it all in and now breathe it in and
Speaker 1: again on the exhale, I acknowledge, I accept, and another
Speaker 1: deep breath in and on the exhale, I release. Okay,
Speaker 1: And in that lightness of being, you're now going to
Speaker 1: return to this present moment, having released into the past
Speaker 1: that which belongs in the past, having released into the
Speaker 1: future that belongs into the future and is coming towards you.
Speaker 1: And in this moment you are in a state of
Speaker 1: grace and allowing. Take a deep breath in, release and
Speaker 1: open your eyes and smile.
Speaker 2: Megan, thank you so much. Well, excuse me, We're going
Speaker 2: to take a really short break but before we do again,
Speaker 2: we're not just having a conversation. This is a work
Speaker 2: you do and you work with people all over. So
Speaker 2: would you tell folks the best way they can reach
Speaker 2: out to you, what they can do to schedule time,
Speaker 2: whatever that is, give them a way to do that,
Speaker 2: and any other tools you might have to help them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, so, definitely they can head over and visit me
Speaker 1: at my website. There's loads of information and resources on
Speaker 1: the website and links to other places where I keep
Speaker 1: my resources, like my YouTube channel, my substack. There's lots
Speaker 1: of videos our radio show of the last fifty four
Speaker 1: episodes now you can find on our YouTube on our
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. And then you can also find me across
Speaker 1: social media, so you can reach out to me on LinkedIn,
Speaker 1: You can find me on Facebook with Megan Edge Healing
Speaker 1: or Megan Edge. You can find me on Instagram. Where else?
Speaker 1: Am I far too many places these days?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I love an old fashioned email send.
Speaker 2: Me yeah, no kidding, right, okay, but I've had to
Speaker 2: resort to texting because my mailboxes always well. So we're
Speaker 2: that is not a story, that is a fact. We're
Speaker 2: going to take a short break when we come back
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the word that has to
Speaker 2: do with the mind, the body, and the soul, the alignment,
Speaker 2: but more importantly, how can we know that and then
Speaker 2: focus on the mind, body soul framework teaching. See, you
Speaker 2: got to have one thing. It's one thing to have
Speaker 2: this idea about alignment. Then there's another thing of now
Speaker 2: how do I? How do I? And I got a
Speaker 2: really interesting story I want to tell you about Jessica,
Speaker 2: something I asked Jessica to help me with. Let's take
Speaker 2: a short break. Everybody will be right back.
Speaker 1: Hello, Beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Are you ready to listen to your soul? Discover the
Speaker 2: power pausing and turning in on our soul? Whisper with
Speaker 2: Kathy Belmont and Doctor Pat The Sacred Show. Hey everybody,
Speaker 2: welcome back. I'm doctor Pat. I get to do this
Speaker 2: work with Megan. You can find out more about me
Speaker 2: at ttrnetwork dot com. Megan just gave you a ton
Speaker 2: of information, but this isn't about information. This is about
Speaker 2: reaching out and creating a change in your life. And
Speaker 2: what Meghan and I both know we have not gotten
Speaker 2: here by ourselves, Like okay, we didn't get our own
Speaker 2: little planet and just sit up there and say, oh,
Speaker 2: look at our life changes. Look what we're going to do.
Speaker 2: Because you know what the truth is, if you have
Speaker 2: your own planet, you don't have other people. So you
Speaker 2: have to do it with it. But we need to
Speaker 2: take this and put it into context for all of you.
Speaker 2: And this is what Megan's going to walk us through.
Speaker 2: This is not just about a mind. It's a mind body,
Speaker 2: and it's a soul, and there's a thing called alignment.
Speaker 2: This is the work that Megan does. But even after
Speaker 2: you go through that, right, you have to figure out
Speaker 2: what the framework teaching is and then what do you
Speaker 2: do to change? And Megan's going to walk through all
Speaker 2: three of those things right now, because these stories, they
Speaker 2: will take hold of you and you will wonder why
Speaker 2: am I at the place I'm that and I didn't
Speaker 2: do anything? Well? Okay, wait, okay, ninety nine thousand thoughts
Speaker 2: you just had about what? So Megan, let's walk through it, right.
Speaker 2: I mean you know this, You know that we get
Speaker 2: those stores and you know people think, oh, but Megan,
Speaker 2: I didn't say it out loud. Okay, saying it out
Speaker 2: loud is bad. Writing it down is even worse. But okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't say it. Okay, but how many times did
Speaker 2: that thing go through your mind? Like you suck at technology?
Speaker 2: I just went through this with Jessica. I said, Jessica,
Speaker 2: I need a new way to do a show on YouTube.
Speaker 2: I want to show it, set it up like content creation.
Speaker 2: So this is Jessica. I love her because my story
Speaker 2: is I don't have a clue about how to do that.
Speaker 2: Because she's telling me you got to put it on
Speaker 2: your phone and you got to do this, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: my head exploded right then, and so she sent me instructions.
Speaker 2: So I reached back out. So what did I do
Speaker 2: with that? I did nothing. My story that I couldn't
Speaker 2: do it. I built a network people, but my story
Speaker 2: that I couldn't figure out how how to connect the
Speaker 2: interface between my phone act social media and do a
Speaker 2: content creation video no action. So take it away and
Speaker 2: help us out with how we get from a thought
Speaker 2: that we have to complete annihilation of taking any action
Speaker 2: for our future.
Speaker 1: Here's where we start. Question everything you say. Start there.
Speaker 2: That is my famous well Webman quote.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is how you break it down so that
Speaker 1: you can build it back up again. You break it
Speaker 1: down so you can build it up. So we were
Speaker 1: talking on the break about aging and these stories we
Speaker 1: have about aging, and this is really important and I'm
Speaker 1: going to use this as our example for the three
Speaker 1: tiers of the mind, body, and soul. Healing technique that
Speaker 1: I have because we all age, We aged them the
Speaker 1: second we're born. In fact, we're even aging before we're born,
Speaker 1: because we're evolving. This is what we do as physical beings.
Speaker 1: And yet in North America, and especially for women, we
Speaker 1: have this story about what it means to become an
Speaker 1: old woman. I'd love that poem. And I'm an old woman.
Speaker 1: I'm going to die my hair purple, and I here's
Speaker 1: all the crazy things I'm gonna do when I'm an
Speaker 1: old woman because no one's gonna care because I'm an
Speaker 1: old woman. But even in that empowerment of I can
Speaker 1: do whatever I want to do because now I'm an
Speaker 1: old woman, there's the underlying message of but because nobody cares. Right,
Speaker 1: That is something that we are taught from a very
Speaker 1: early age, both men and women. We are taught and
Speaker 1: we bring it with us until we question it. So
Speaker 1: this is the question. Is it true, right I'm too
Speaker 1: old to do such and such? Is that true? That's
Speaker 1: the question, Is it true I can't climb Mount Everest?
Speaker 1: Because is that true? Is it true? If it's true?
Speaker 1: And you go, yes, it's true, I'm too old? Okay,
Speaker 1: But do you want to do this thing that you're
Speaker 1: saying you're too old to do.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Hell yah, good, Then what are you going to do
Speaker 1: about it? Are you going to get strong? Great? Go
Speaker 1: get a personal trainer, stop eating junk. Whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's not that difficult, or it's not that difficult. It
Speaker 1: is challenging, shall it can be challenging. And here's the
Speaker 1: reason why. Your mind is where your story is held. Right,
Speaker 1: and by mind, I don't just mean your brain. Your
Speaker 1: mind is actually your entire body. It's every system in
Speaker 1: your body. Because when you think of something, your body
Speaker 1: responds to it positively or negatively or just it responds,
Speaker 1: and then we interpret the response as positive or negative. Right.
Speaker 1: The power of your mind to change itself, you can
Speaker 1: change your mind about anything, should never be underestimated. And
Speaker 1: if part of your story is that you can't change
Speaker 1: an old dog can't be taught new tricks, is that true?
Speaker 1: Question it? Your intellect is incredible, Your wisdom is beyond measure.
Speaker 1: You may not know that, and someone may have told
Speaker 1: you it isn't and maybe you let that be part
Speaker 1: of your story. But here's where you start to do
Speaker 1: that work. Is the mind. The body is this incredible vessel,
Speaker 1: this amazing temple that we get to live in. We
Speaker 1: get to live inside these exquisite bodies for our entire
Speaker 1: lives until the soul says we're good, we've learned, we're done.
Speaker 1: Off we go. Why wouldn't you look after that? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you look after your body as well as you
Speaker 1: look after your car if you're someone who looks after
Speaker 1: their car.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: So the body piece is around what we're putting into
Speaker 1: our body, our relationship with our body, what we believe
Speaker 1: to be true about our body, and a lot of
Speaker 1: those stories are held in our body. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of the trauma work that I do with my clients
Speaker 1: is where in your physical body are you holding that
Speaker 1: horrific experience from when you were twelve or five, or
Speaker 1: when your husband left you, or whatever it is you
Speaker 1: failed the exam, you're holding that in your body if
Speaker 1: it's still a story you're telling that has a charge.
Speaker 1: So we're not only looking after our body at the
Speaker 1: physical level, but we're doing the energetic and emotional maintenance
Speaker 1: of our bodies as well. And if the relationship you
Speaker 1: have with your body, the story you're telling is that
Speaker 1: your body isn't good enough, it's too short, it's too fat,
Speaker 1: your knees are wobbly, your hair's too straight. I don't
Speaker 1: care what you're telling yourself. You need to start questioning
Speaker 1: the truth and validity of those stories if those stories
Speaker 1: are self deprecating, because self deprecation doesn't help anyone. The
Speaker 1: third tier is the soul, and this is your relationship
Speaker 1: with the divine. However you perceive that to be your
Speaker 1: soul in the soul's journey, and if you're one who
Speaker 1: believes as I do, that we move through our soul
Speaker 1: moves through multiple lifetimes in order to experience everything about
Speaker 1: being human, then your soul and you as the human
Speaker 1: You you had a conversation before you got here about
Speaker 1: what your purpose was, what life is going to mean
Speaker 1: for you, how you're going to contribute and be of
Speaker 1: service to others, and that story you wrote before you
Speaker 1: came into this lifetime, and you can access that story.
Speaker 1: So some of the work that I do with people
Speaker 1: is around life purpose. You know, they come in and
Speaker 1: they're in a state of despair and despondency because what's
Speaker 1: the point, what's the point of living in this world
Speaker 1: when there's so many things that seem to be against
Speaker 1: us and all these things that are happening that are
Speaker 1: horrible by most standards anyways, But there's always meaning and
Speaker 1: there's always purpose. So we do that soul work to
Speaker 1: understand why we chose to come here and have the
Speaker 1: experience that we have, and then we take those experiences
Speaker 1: and we move them from being traumatic, victimizing experiences to
Speaker 1: having value. Through many of the different modalities that I
Speaker 1: work with, you know, including the couple of exercises that
Speaker 1: I've shared with you today, these are all the ways
Speaker 1: in which we begin to practice practice stepping into who
Speaker 1: we came here to be. Oh have we lost? Well,
Speaker 1: so you're so taken back by what I said.
Speaker 2: No, here's what I'm thinking, because if you listen to
Speaker 2: the show, the journey's not over, the work is not done.
Speaker 2: You know. Someone said to me a long time ago
Speaker 2: that that you understand the challenges with thinking big. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, what. I just went to a ton
Speaker 2: of workshops, conferences for ten days, been in the desert,
Speaker 2: no water, vision questing so that I could think big.
Speaker 2: I think Gene Houston said this to me, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: is this hypocritical? This's my first thought? This is my
Speaker 2: bronx side. And then I said, oh okay, And so
Speaker 2: they went on to explain to me in terms my
Speaker 2: mom used to explain it, we are not given anything
Speaker 2: in life we can't handle. And that is a tough
Speaker 2: statement to go up with Mama Dorris with because there's
Speaker 2: some stuff you get in life. But she believed the
Speaker 2: God of her understanding does not give us anything that
Speaker 2: we can't handle if we find the silver lining and
Speaker 2: are willing to help other people with that same thing.
Speaker 2: So Mama Dar has always said, like a two poort thing, right.
Speaker 2: She come up with these in the middle of bingo,
Speaker 2: playing bingo, the middle of bingo.
Speaker 1: I love it. She's channeling in the middle of bingo.
Speaker 2: She's channeling. But what she's saying is you have to
Speaker 2: think big and the challenges come up for you to
Speaker 2: learn how to think bigger.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm what what she.
Speaker 2: In her mind she lived in that right side deal
Speaker 2: because in her mind, what she's saying is the challenges
Speaker 2: are coming up, not for the present. They have no
Speaker 2: She would say stuff like that thing you're going through
Speaker 2: the air at work, pat that that has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the president. That has to do with your future.
Speaker 2: And you know, I mean back in the day, I
Speaker 2: was just not like who you're looking at now, and
Speaker 2: I would say, like you, you know, okay, but I
Speaker 2: get it now. I love that challenges have nothing to
Speaker 2: do with our president or our past. They have to
Speaker 2: do with blowing a giant hole in a mountain that
Speaker 2: takes us to the future and the destiny we want,
Speaker 2: so that once we get there, we will get another
Speaker 2: challenge that brings us to the next place. And once
Speaker 2: I was able to look at it like that, I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: bring it on. Now I stopped saying bring it on,
Speaker 2: because Okay, that's a bit much. But do you understand
Speaker 2: what that statement means when we think about.
Speaker 1: It, Absolutely? And I love that. I love that reframe
Speaker 1: it because it's all about for me, it's all about
Speaker 1: bringing purpose and meaning into the experiences that we've had
Speaker 1: in our lives. And I'm very careful when I say
Speaker 1: that because I do a lot of work with survivors
Speaker 1: of sexual abuse and sexual assault, childhood, sexual assaultant oh yeah,
Speaker 1: an adult as well. I do a lot of work
Speaker 1: with those survivors, and never, ever, ever do I want
Speaker 1: to condone certain human actions. There are certain human actions
Speaker 1: which are. Absolutely I don't even have words to describe
Speaker 1: how horrible and horrendous they are. The things that people
Speaker 1: are capable. I don't believe in demons because we are
Speaker 1: capable of doing far worse than whatever a demon can do.
Speaker 1: And there is no excuse ever for taking advantage of
Speaker 1: somebody and hurting somebody on purpose. Absolutely never, and nor
Speaker 1: should a seven year old or a six year old
Speaker 1: or twelve year old take on the responsibility of giving
Speaker 1: that experience value and meaning. But when you become an adult,
Speaker 1: when you graduate into adulting, now you can do the
Speaker 1: work around honoring that little person that you were, or
Speaker 1: whoever you were, whatever age it was, when something happened
Speaker 1: to you that was so horrific. You can honor them
Speaker 1: by taking that experience and doing the healing work first
Speaker 1: and foremost, and then finding that way of supporting and
Speaker 1: being of service and helping others. And it may not
Speaker 1: be that you do the work with survivors, because you yourself
Speaker 1: are a survivor, But what it means is that you
Speaker 1: have an empathy within you that is deeper than you
Speaker 1: had before you did this work, right, because before you
Speaker 1: did this work, you were in you were still in
Speaker 1: that story, and that story still had a really big
Speaker 1: grip on you because it's a really big story, right,
Speaker 1: But when you move through it, and it's not an
Speaker 1: easy process necessarily, there's a lot of really painful work
Speaker 1: that has to happen. But when you get through that,
Speaker 1: and I can speak from personal experience for some of this, now,
Speaker 1: the story is one of this is what happened to me.
Speaker 1: It was never my fault. And I want to make
Speaker 1: a difference in the world now for other people who
Speaker 1: have gone through something like this. I want them to
Speaker 1: know how precious they are and how it was never
Speaker 1: their fault, and so that then becomes the news story.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what I mean by changing your relationship
Speaker 1: exactly with your experiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what Mama Doris was saying in her own words,
Speaker 2: in our own language. But she made a great point.
Speaker 2: And you know, I remember before she passed, her and
Speaker 2: my sister died a year apart from each other, and
Speaker 2: it was just gut wrenching. But here's the good news.
Speaker 2: You know, when my dad died, she shared letter from
Speaker 2: my birth mom and that letter was so revealing. My
Speaker 2: birth mom was in Bellevue in New York, she had
Speaker 2: mental disease. Let's just put it like that. Alcohol like
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, ended up killing herself. My dad threw
Speaker 2: the letters out, she pulled him out of the garbage,
Speaker 2: and when he died, she gave them to me and
Speaker 2: they were personal, and they were letters about how she
Speaker 2: loved both me and my sister, because you see, when
Speaker 2: somebody leaves you, you don't think they love you. But
Speaker 2: the bottom line to the story and the way she
Speaker 2: described it has to do with your story and the
Speaker 2: energetic timeline you talk about. She reframed it and when
Speaker 2: she said to me, you faced a lot of challenges
Speaker 2: in your life, but there's one challenge. She did this
Speaker 2: in a Southern draw. It's like, honey, honey, you face
Speaker 2: so many challenges in your life, you know, just like me.
Speaker 2: But you know you got something you got to handle
Speaker 2: right now, or else you're not going to be able
Speaker 2: to blast any hole in any wall. You have got
Speaker 2: to stop drinking. And this is me talking to all
Speaker 2: of you out there that understand the meaning of you've
Speaker 2: had one too many and you don't know how to
Speaker 2: have one too many the next night. This is me
Speaker 2: talking to you. You can put that down, there are programs,
Speaker 2: there are help, there are mindset changes, because what she
Speaker 2: said to me, if you don't put it down, you
Speaker 2: will not face the challenge. You'll drink it away. And
Speaker 2: if you don't face the challenge so that you could
Speaker 2: blow that wall, blow that mountain open. She grew up
Speaker 2: in the South, so a lot of mining down there.
Speaker 2: Blow up, blow that hole in the wall. You won't
Speaker 2: be able to do it because you won't even see
Speaker 2: the mountain. Pat Yeah, we have to really identify those
Speaker 2: things that are challenges that not just stop us from
Speaker 2: our daily goodness but from our future goodness. And what
Speaker 2: you're talking about is changing the storyline, aren't you.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. And we do the work from the
Speaker 1: original story so that we can rewrite and create, or
Speaker 1: not even rewrite because it hasn't been written yet, but
Speaker 1: we get to write what that story looks like moving forward.
Speaker 1: And it isn't always going to be a bed of roses.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's probably not ever going to be completely
Speaker 1: a bed of roses. However, again, it's how you approach
Speaker 1: the experience through the tools that you have cultivated in
Speaker 1: the understanding of who you are and why you're here.
Speaker 1: And why you want to be the person that you are.
Speaker 1: And if there's a part of you that's deeply ashamed,
Speaker 1: there's a part of you that's using a substance to
Speaker 1: numb out, or cover up or hide behind, Absolutely do
Speaker 1: the work around the addiction, but also go deeper into.
Speaker 2: What is half doing that up. You have to go.
Speaker 1: Into the why of it, Where is this coming from?
Speaker 1: Where is it coming from? And that's the painful work.
Speaker 1: But again, like we said at the very beginning, none
Speaker 1: of us do this alone. This is work you do
Speaker 1: with somebody who you trust, you have a connection with,
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, I feel safe with you, and
Speaker 1: I can be vulnerable and I can break myself all
Speaker 1: the way down so that I can then build myself
Speaker 1: back up again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, the community. I don't care what
Speaker 2: you think about AA or twelve step programs, but I
Speaker 2: will tell you know, once upon a time I used
Speaker 2: to think everybody should go through the steps, because once
Speaker 2: you go through a fourth step, a fifth step, and
Speaker 2: then you have to stand in front of a person
Speaker 2: and make an amends, it changes you. Yeah, it changes you. Megan,
Speaker 2: what's your closing? What do you want to leave us with?
Speaker 2: Today and again remind people how they can work with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm happy to work with people in person
Speaker 1: if you happen to be in my neighborhood, which is Victoria,
Speaker 1: British Columbia in Canada. But if you're not in my neighborhood,
Speaker 1: we can do this work online from anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: If you've got a connection, We've got a connection, and
Speaker 1: we can we can absolutely do this work. I I
Speaker 1: want you to know how amazing you are, point blank.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely amazing. And I joke about that skit
Speaker 1: from Saturday Night Live. You're good enough. I'm good enough.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty enough and dog gone and people love me
Speaker 1: because that was a big thing in the eighties where
Speaker 1: you were supposed to just say positive affirmations and everything
Speaker 1: would get better and go away. Deep down inside you
Speaker 1: are all of those things. You're far wiser than you know.
Speaker 1: You have such resilience. You've got this. You've got this,
Speaker 1: So show up in your best self and recognize that
Speaker 1: that self is going to continue to evolve. You will
Speaker 1: always be evolving if you give yourself that space to
Speaker 1: do so. In so, you've got this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Megan, thank you for today, and thank you for
Speaker 2: bringing this topic, because the bottom line with this topic
Speaker 2: is the silence, and I want to talk about that
Speaker 2: for a minute. The silence that we have that is
Speaker 2: deafening of what people went through through COVID, and they're
Speaker 2: carrying so much with them. Stories. Everyone has a story,
Speaker 2: Everyone went through a challenge, and yet it's as if
Speaker 2: we flipped a switch to just move on normal. And
Speaker 2: one thing COVID did, which Mama bars if she were alive,
Speaker 2: she would say it it tested every part of our body,
Speaker 2: mind and soul in ways that we couldn't accomplish. So
Speaker 2: she would then say, you're not only going to blow
Speaker 2: a hole in a mountain when you get through that,
Speaker 2: you're going to annihilate the whole mountain. She can't do
Speaker 2: it alone. Thank you, Megan.
Speaker 1: Maybe you climb the mountain, come down the other side.
Speaker 2: I see, Mom is got to stick a too dynamite. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she is a spot for dynamite. Mellie. Thank you so much, Emily,
Speaker 2: thank you so much, and to all of you out there.
Speaker 2: We talked about a lot, but guess what we did
Speaker 2: talk about. We talked about helping you, and not just
Speaker 2: helping you today on the show, but helping you, giving
Speaker 2: you a resource Like Megan, she gave you her information.
Speaker 2: She is there and please even if it's not you.
Speaker 2: You don't think you have a story to change, but
Speaker 2: you know somebody that might, because you know we all do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll past this information on. Thank you Megan, thank you
Speaker 2: Pat Right, and thank you to the best audience on
Speaker 2: the planet. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, see you next time. Thank you for joining us
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Speaker 1: For more healing resources, to book a healing session, and
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Speaker 1: Heart's Oracle Cards and guidebook, visit Meganedge dot ca A
Speaker 1: and remember, healing isn't something you have to wait for.
Speaker 1: It begins the moment you choose to come home to yourself.