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Hi, everyone, and welcome to the podcast to the Tina Zarina podcast. I have here my good friend Diana. She is a healer, a Reiki master, and a social worker. And I know she has incredible stories as well. So we're going to get into that today.

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Can you start us off with the story of how you started your business, or what happened, and how it became to be?

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I was rear ended, and that was the third accident I had been in. I was rear ended twice, and, had a bad,

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event with my Jeep almost rolling over on the side,

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driving into oncoming traffic and very, very scary event.

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And after that happened, and I survived with very, very minimal injuries, I realized I have important things to do here on Earth and that,

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I just, I needed to heal.

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And so I was living a pretty enjoyable life before the third accident.

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I hiked, I canoed, I kayaked, I did all sorts of fun things. I traveled quite a bit.

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And after the third accident, it was like my body was completely locked up,

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completely in shock. I couldn't turn my neck a centimeter without feeling excruciating pain in my whole body.

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And I kind of, like, threw up my hands to the universe and,

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just said, okay, I'm listening. Like, I need to. I needed to figure out what to do with that amount of pain, and still be able to function.

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And so, here I am.

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So take us on that journey with you. And was the diabetes a part of that journey as well?

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How? Because

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from my experience, we teach what we had to go through and what we had to learn for ourselves. Right. So how was that process for you? What did you learn? And tell us more about that?

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Yeah. Yeah,

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I did I had to learn a lot. And, I have a lot of people to thank for where I'm at because

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in my healing journey, I was referred to one person.

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And

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then that person kind of opened me up to Reiki and I never have experienced something so peaceful in my life.

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And he couldn't explain it. I didn't understand it. And then that person led me to clinical hypnotherapy.

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So I went and did that. And it was those times where I was in those different therapies, where the

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only times that I could feel peace in my body, and the only times that allowed me to feel safer and more comfortable.

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And

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so I made a promise to myself that as soon as I could get well enough that I would get training and those things immediately, and I did.

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It was, I think, it was in 2020 before Covid happened.

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I became a Reiki master and I got training and clinical hypnotherapy.

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Yes, the diabetes does impact,

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Healing.

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that was a big part of my journey as well. So, I feel like I.

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Maybe take a little bit longer to recover than the typical person.

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And, the stress and the impact of that on my sugar impacted the pain. And that was just the vice versa,

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cycle.

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That just was really, really challenging, but

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also inspiring because it encourages me to be healthier, to eat well, to

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stay motivated and, and take care of my body.

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all of that, the pain and the health also sparked me to get to where I am with my, my fitness journey, I guess.

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And

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so, yeah, that's it all kind of gives me motivation, to do what I do. Yeah. I have the belief that

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the body can heal. Everything regenerates within three years. And

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if we keep giving it the same old program, then we're going to get the same old response. And so,

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I just have been working on changing my programs a little bit and focusing on health and

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strength and, processing all the grief and everything, that came along with that.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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I heard you said you started off with the Reiki and then clinical hypnotherapy, and that worked for you.

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How long did you do that? Or were there any other parts of it that helped you as well?

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Yeah. So I am a social worker.

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I've been a social worker since, 2007.

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And back then when we went to school, a lot of the therapies were, cognitive based. There were a frontal lobe. Focused.

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through this journey, I learned a lot of body based healing, a

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lot of processing in your body, a lot of, tuning in and and healing and feeling within the body.

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And that has been life changing.

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And so all of the knowledge that I gained as a social worker

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just made so much more sense to me. And

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I could apply them in different ways so that,

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now I start with the body. I focus on healing in the body and

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then work my way to the thoughts.

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For me, creating that safety and really, really, really one of the biggest things on my healing journey.

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I always tell people this and they always laugh, but, honestly, my cat daffodil,

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adopting her, I adopted her probably about 2 or 3 weeks after the accident,

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and she was one of the greatest gifts that I could have ever had

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because I heard how I was speaking to her.

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And I compare that to how I was speaking to me.

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And it was such a different thing.

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And that was that was really what really, you know, everything all added up. But that

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was really what,

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that was really my she's my best teacher.

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That allowed me to bring in that self-love. And so, all of the therapies helped me create safety in my body.

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She, along with all the things I was reading, like a, you know, a spiral that was like one book that led to another,

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that led to a therapy.

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And here I am.

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So I don't know if this is a stupid question, but do you think the brain.

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Is more powerful than the body, or the body is more powerful, or they're both just very strong and intertwined, and you

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need to work on both.

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I believe that the human brain is such a fascinating thing, and it is very powerful, but it is very, very outdated. And

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I say it's almost like our human brain is like the dial up network.

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It's very slow. It's very outdated.

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It works. It takes a long time. It's got the old program, but it's like, why would you ever use dial up when we have access to 5G?

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So if you don't do anything about those old programs and that software that's stuck in there, then you're going to keep getting that same, benefit.

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So

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if I kept replaying the old program of pain, the old program of trauma, the old

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program of grief, then that would be the output that my body would give me.

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And now anytime I have an injury or setback, how I treat it allows me to heal so much more quickly

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because I treat it with loving kindness.

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I treat it with, an awareness that my body has an innate knowing of what to do and how to heal, and

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that I just have to, like, activate that and teach my body that and, hold space for that to happen.

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So as someone that's very logical, hearing you say you treat your injury with love and kindness and trust your body and let it do what it wants to do. I'm like, what does that even mean? How do you do that?

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Beautiful. I was hoping you would ask. So, I recently fell and it was on cement,

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and I had most of my body weight on my hand.

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And so I just created a lot of pain in my arm. And before I would have called my therapist, I would have been in a panic. I would have gone into a state of depression

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because the hundreds and thousands of dollars that I spent on therapy would have been flushed down the drain, and I

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would have had to start from ground zero again.

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And this time, when I had that maybe not serious injury, but significant, like enough. Every time I felt pain in my hand,

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I became aware that pain is just a way of my body communicating to me.

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So when I felt intense pain, I was like, oh, okay, thank you for telling me that. I need a break now.

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So

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I'm not sitting in this posture all day, okay? You want me to move my hands? I'll do a few exercises.

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Thank you for telling me that. Okay, so I have communication with my pain now. Like

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it's you sitting right here next to me, and we. We

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talk to each other.

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So.

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Oh, I'm doing something else now. It's hurting again.

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Oh, okay. Thank you.

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You're telling me now that I need to do, Maybe I need to take Tylenol to, to help soothe or take the edge off. Right.

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So it was. I just look at it as a a signal. Now, of telling me that I need to do something different,

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and I didn't get sucked into all the negative thoughts that normally pop up, which is, oh, now I'm sad.

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I lost all my progress. I've been working so hard. And I said, you know, you heal so much faster now. You heal so much quicker now you recover so much better now.

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It's okay, it's okay that we hurt ourselves. We know what to do. We know how to heal. We're. We're good at this. We know how to heal.

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Now. We've

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got a lot of experience with that. And so just. Yeah, that's softness.

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It's like it's a conversation. More than anything with, with,

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parts of me that are trying to get my attention,

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that is really timely for me to hear because I don't know if you remember, but I had a foot injury and I'm still kind of working through it.

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And,

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everyone was telling me like, stop running, stop running. And I'm like, no, I can't stop running. I need to keep running. And I wouldn't listen to the pain until it got so bad that I couldn't run.

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I had to stop. And maybe if I just listen to it

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a little bit more and slowed down, then it wouldn't have gotten as bad as it did,

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And then sometimes it's just even a cue. So maybe you were running on the outside of your foot and your foot's so much in pain telling you maybe you need to shift your posture. I'm

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not an exercise expert, but I just I get curious about why there's pain there now.

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And I try so hard not to compare myself to other people because, they haven't had to struggle or things are easy for them.

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They can move their bodies freely and flow, like with flow and so. And I sometimes feel like a rigid, stiff board. Still,

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even after all the years of, hard work I've invested into my body. But I just I love my body now so much that it's like, I'll do whatever you need me to do.

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And I'm listening now.

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So, yeah, I'm glad that helps you.

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And it doesn't mean that you have to stop running. It means that you have to, like, listen to what it needs, adjust, modify. Maybe one day you run more. Maybe one day you run less. Yeah,

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maybe you tape your ankle. Yeah. Maybe you hydrate. More like it's just. What is it? Need is is what I try to hear.

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Yeah. And we actually share the same kinesiology. Just. And I think what I've been doing, like I've just been running wrong, which is hilarious that we don't know how to run when it's supposed to be so natural. Yeah,

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well, we sit all day and we're in these awkward postures that are not meant for, like, that's not how the human body was built.

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So, yeah, that makes sense.

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So when I know you take patients and you are accepting patients, what does it look like when you're helping them? Like what kind of problems do your patients come in with? It's like, do they come in with pain or is it more of, a therapy session? What does that look like?

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So, in my individual practice, I do see people with depression, anxiety.

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I do have an expert or a specialty in chronic pain, not only because of what I've lived through, but I also used to work with, children who had special needs and disabilities. And

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so, I've got that expertise there.

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I really believe at the root of it, I am I am focused on self-love.

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So when people come in with confidence issues, you know, it's that boundaries or they're attracted to toxic personalities.

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It's a lot of what I do in my private practice, trauma stuff. Healing childhood trauma or current trauma.

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And, in my group stuff, which is like a newest passion and excitement that I'm excited about. I

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have developed a

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strategy that allows people to come and to heal without having to communicate anything to anyone.

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So, let's say the topic is anxiety. You do not have to come in and talk about what makes you anxious. Who makes you anxious?

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I use music intentionally to allow people to tune in with the emotion or theme or topic of the day,

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and we use writing because writing is actually proven by research to allow you to release and to create flow, instead

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of keeping the tornado of thoughts stuck stuck up in our head.

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It allows you to, to have that physical release. And so you get to take your journals home, you can rip up the pages, shred them, burn them, keep them, whatever.

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But we we go through that release through the pages. And then I teach some of those body related exercises.

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we do tapping, bouncing, jumping.

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I just dance to just release whatever's been stuck.

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And I also use a little bit of my hypnosis and mindfulness training as well to help with reformatting. So if you've had an old program that makes you constantly stay anxious all the time while I use, suggestions and and metaphors and different techniques to help shift those into healthier, balanced, techniques and, those circles, they happen at the Lodge and Lake Shore, and it's the most peaceful place, and it's very serene.

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And it's not always what people consider to be negative emotions. I don't feel any emotions are negative. But people label emotions as negative. I do focus on ones that are lower vibrating and the ones I don't always feel so good.

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Anger, anxiety, depression and all those kinds of things. Suicide. Those are lower vibrating energies.

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But I do focus on things like joy and, and self-love. And so there's a mix, a variety of, of different, areas that we focus on.

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Is that in the same night you're going through both.

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Yeah. So on the same night you get education.

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You get that somatic processing. You get to like get everything out and then create flow in your body.

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And then you also get to have that peaceful relaxing meditation. So

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that the feedback has been phenomenal. People say that it is life changing. They haven't experienced anything like it. So

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I get super excited about it. It's one of my favorite things to do.

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If I could do groups like that all the time, I, I love it.

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It's really about just giving yourself permission to connect with your feelings. The

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same way that I was talking about earlier with the pain.

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How? It's just information. Not necessarily good nor bad, just information that you need to take in and process. Right. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Everything is neutral until we assign meaning to it. And so

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if you, if you can come in with that space and just be curious and be open and willing to trust the process, anything is possible.

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I my business is called your healing center on purpose because I believe we have everything we need to heal inside. And I'm I'm just the teacher. I

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just hold the space. I just give you that environment that you need to heal. And, people go off and they use the tools and they use the techniques, to create that magic inside.

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I love that. I love that you mentioned that because I wanted to ask you about your business name, so. Thank you. Yeah. It's really special to me because

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you know, we've

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been conditioned to believe that we. Everything we need is outside of us. You have to go to the gym to be healthy. You have to go to bars and restaurants to socialize.

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You have to do all sorts of, you know, buy these, take medication, buy supplements. Right. Like, you have to do all of these things outside of you when if you could just turn your attention and

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for just a moment,

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this one little moment, it doesn't have to be all day, every day could just be like a little tiny pause.

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Listen to those whispers. Listen to those that that wisdom that's there. It's incredible what you can do.

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Where can people find you online Instagram whatever you want to share. Yeah. So if you search your healing center on Instagram or Facebook I'm there. My website is currently in progress and,

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I'm available.

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Phone, email, whatever your group events are the weekly. Monthly. How often? The healing circles are once a month, and,

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they're, the topics change every month. I may start repeating them, but right now, it seems the flow is like people are wanting new emotions every time.

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And so, you know, inside out for everybody who who doesn't know is very factual.

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It's a movie like Pixar or Disney, I don't know. And, they, interviewed all of the top brain specialists, neuroscientists, psychologists like every person who has anything to do with human behavior

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and, the science and function of the brain to create that movie. And we're just starting to see that where multiple and there's not just one voice or one speaker inside, which kind of scares some people there, you know.

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Well, am I, you know, but the sooner that we like, embrace that and we start to talk to our parts like they're our friends and our family, or cute little cat, the more you're going to feel that that shift inside and that healing and that's that's the medicine.

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That's that's it right there. Yeah. So it sounds like acceptance is also the key.

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Yeah. And and not getting sucked in by all of the brainwashing that we get from, you know, the ads on social media to the news to the, everything that we're hearing and being inundated with. It's all, it's all fear based

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information. So as much as I'm aware of it and it does activate fear in me, I also choose not to focus on it.

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I choose to put all of my energy into safety, self-love, creating a world that is, comfortable.

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Is there anything else on your heart that you feel called to share? No. Just keep healing. Don't believe what anybody tells you. A lot of how I live, how far I've come, is because I refuse to listen to doctors, therapists, whatever.

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said you can't do this or you won't do that, or you're always going to feel this. And, you know, I was actually told that I would probably never use this hand at one point in life from another injury and

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clear, full functioning of it. So, don't believe what they tell you. Just keep healing.

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Awesome. Thank you, Diana, for being on the podcast today.