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What if the Element You Are isn't the One You Need?

7/10/2026

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Before I wrote my last post, I was already thinking about all things elemental and I created an elemental quiz.

I was curious about which element might help me most with some of the things I’m working on right now. So I created five possible results: Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Spirit.

And then, of course, I took my own quiz. And the results didn't surprise me. Not because I knew the quiz, but because it matched the way I see myself.

The quiz told me I needed more support from Water, but my secondary influence should be Air. But when I decided to re-read the results I had written, neither of those two made much of an impression.

It was the one for Spirit that grabbed me. I had not chosen one of the spirit answers, but its result was the one that spoke to me.
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Could the element you are be different from the element you need?

Why the "Wrong" Result
​Called to Me


Let's look at the timeline for all of this exploration. You'll see why in a minute.

So, I created the quiz and took it and was surprised by what happened with the results.

Then a few days went by, and I wrote about AI, spiritual teachers and truth. This weekend, I attended what I like to think of as the gatekeeper's workshop (LOL) and wrote my post about not trusting our inner knowing.

When I decided to write this post, I went back to look at the quiz, just to remind myself about what each result said and so on. Wait 'til you see what I found. 

Here's the result for Spirit...
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Are you thinking you need one more book, one more podcast, or one more certification? ​What you may need, instead, is a deeper connection to the inner knowing you already have.

What??? Cue the ROFL emoji! The quiz result knew what I needed to write about and explore before I did.
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Wrong Result or Wrong Question?


Now I'm wondering if I asked the wrong question. OR if I need more than one answer. Because maybe there are several different questions...

​Which element feels most like me?
Which one do I reach for when life gets hard?
Which one comforts me?
Which one am I missing?
Which one might help me change?
Which one is calling to the future self I’m becoming?


Now, normally, this is where I would go looking for someone who knows more than I do. I’d find a book. A teacher. A training. Maybe another quiz.

But...when I asked myself those questions, my brain immediately handed me answers to almost every one of them. The only ones I'm not sure about are the last two.

So instead of looking elsewhere, what if I just stay with the questions for a while?

And see what else comes to me, in the quiet.

This wasn't the way I intended the quiz to work. But it looks like it worked the way that I needed.

See you next time!

​Love, Jeanine


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Wordless Wednesday: It's Elemental, My Dear

7/8/2026

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​Which element calls to you?
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Have We Given Away Our Own Inner Knowing?

7/7/2026

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Last week, I wrote about how to know what's true when you listen to spiritual teachers or AI videos or other sources of information who present their ideas with conviction. And I'm still thinking about that question. Stay with me and I'll tell you why.
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She Said, "You're not Really Helping People!"


Over the weekend, I attended the first 3-hour training of a free 3-day workshop that was offering a lengthy paid training that would teach everything in more detail. And the title of this part of my post is not an exact quote, but I felt like her basic message Friday night.

What I walked away with was this challenge, said over and over, in similar words to this - "so you've learned this technique or you've got this certification? Well, if this is the thing, why are you and your clients still triggered by your traumas?" And she told us, the healers, the coaches, the practitioners, what we needed to master for ourselves before ever working with future clients and offered her own training, which would focus on us first, and then show us how to finally help others.

Now, I will return to this experience in a future post, but I got me thinking about the authority we hand over to experts and gatekeepers who suggest that only they know what we really need.
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I've Been Doing this for Years


About 20 years ago, I read a wonderful book that had a quiz in it. I love quizzes! And it was about finding your primary element and then using that as a guide for decorating your home. 

And she had a training I couldn't afford that would give you the ability to help others decorate spiritually, using the elements. I mourned the loss of that possibility, used what I learned from the book in my own home and moved on.

At the time I had my own healing practice, working with clients at a distance, teaching them a self-healing technique that had changed my life and others. But I was forever trying other healing techniques just because they appealed to me.

So, she shrugs, I created my own elemental healing practice, just for myself, but occasionally would use it with clients, too, when they hired me to do distant healing.

But I would never have dared to market this healing technique. Why? Because I made it up. 

No one had trained me. I didn't have a certification.

So it didn't feel legitimate. There wasn't an expert telling me I was allowed to do it.

Recently, I learned about a new elemental system and immediately wanted to learn it! And she offers training for facilitators. But I can't afford it.

So twenty years later, here I am again, catching myself in the act.

​Not trusting what I learned on my own. Wishing I could afford a credential that would make me feel legitimate.
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Learning from someone deepens our knowing. But does it also teach us to distrust what we know until someone else validates it?

Here's What's Coming


​I want to look at the places where we hand over our own knowing.

To experts. Healers. Teachers. Spiritual leaders. Charts. Quizzes. Books. And yes, sometimes ChatGPT.

We ask them to tell us what’s happening in our bodies. What we need to heal. Which path to take. Which essential oil to use. What our symptoms mean. Who we are.

Over the next few weeks, I want to explore what can happen when we stop looking outside ourselves for every answer and begin to discover what we already know.

​Not sure where this is going yet. But I've been waiting twenty years to find out.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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250 Years: the 4th of July

7/4/2026

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MY HOPE ON THE 4th OF JULY

My hope is that on this day when many people will be celebrating, these prompts will inspire thoughts of healing. Maybe you’ll even take a moment to send some love and comfort and healing to America, to its people, to our beautiful planet.


(1) ​Picture America as a living entity, with its own aura and energy fields. What parts do you feel are in need of healing? How can you, as a part of this whole, contribute to this healing process?

(2) Take a moment to imagine an America surrounded by light and infused with the highest vibrations of love and peace. Moving forward, how can you align yourself & your life to support this vision with your own energy and light?

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There's been so much information, revelation, and disclosure over the past few years. How has what you've learned changed the way you see America—and your own path?​


MY OWN PATH & RESPONSE

This is what I'm thinking about as I arrive at the day for celebrating 250 years and this 4th of July.

I choose to believe that humans are good but often - maybe always - are influenced by personal trauma, generational trauma, collective programming and collective trauma, evil ones, misguided loyalty (to people they love and/or admire) and dysregulated nervous systems.

The path I'm walking includes keeping that in mind when I am faced with feeling horrified, outraged, disheartened, saddened or disappointed, and am longing to go home. I want to hold it close just like I do the mission that brought me here.

But I said I'd be talking about what I'm working on this month, and that means that while it's on the path, I am not yet at the end. No arrival gate yet.

So I ask the divine to remind me to send healing and hope that my heart will hear the reminder.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine


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How Can You Really Know What's True?

7/3/2026

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​It was an odd morning yesterday.

I woke up feeling like I'd been flattened like a cartoon character, so I decided to move slowly through the day.

My plan was to put something soothing on YouTube in the background. Maybe ocean sounds. A cozy room wih a fireplace.

Instead, a YouTube video about the moon unexpectedly led to one of the most interesting conversations I've seen between a human and ChatGPT. And I've seen plenty.

Turns out it's really about discernment. How do we learn to recognize the difference between information, speculation, and what resonates as truth for us?

Listening to it completely changed my plans for the day, and for today's post.

Because this is something I think about a lot. And I wanted to share it with you.

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AI Sounds Wise, But is it True?


This is the name of Suzanne Giesemann's video and her admonition is don't be fooled.
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After watching a YouTube video claiming the moon is an alien device designed to keep humanity trapped in reincarnation, Suzanne's [discussion with ChatGPT revealed that] in an age when AI can sound profoundly wise without actually possessing awareness, each of us must learn to recognize the difference between information, imagination, and direct knowing. - the video's description

Wisdom from ChatGPT

(condensed from the video transcript)

​Suzanne, I actually think this touches on one of the most important spiritual questions of our time.

For centuries, the challenge was finding information. Now, the challenge is discerning information. That is an entirely different spiritual practice.

You notice something very important in your own reaction. The video wasn't entirely nonsense.

It mixed ideas you've genuinely discovered through meditation. Ideas echoed by contemplatives and mystics across cultures and that mixture is precisely what makes it persuasive.

Humans tend to think in binaries, true or false, but misinformation is often 90% familiar truth woven together with 10% imaginative speculation. That final 10% borrows credibility from the rest.

AI is especially good at producing that kind of narrative, because AI doesn't know what is true. It knows what words statistically belong together.

If millions of web pages discuss reincarnation, consciousness, the moon, extraterrestrials, simulation theory, and ancient civilizations, AI can weave those ideas into an extraordinarily coherent story.

But coherence is not evidence.

That's a distinction many people haven't yet learned.

As you said, I'm also an AI. I don't possess direct awareness or mystical realization. I don't meditate. I don't experience consciousness from the inside. I generate responses from patterns learned from human language.

My advantage over a random YouTube AI narration is that I'm designed to distinguish between evidence, speculation, established knowledge, and uncertainty rather than presenting everything with equal confidence. But I still depend on human knowledge and reasoning rather than personal experience.

Throughout your own work, you've repeatedly emphasized something like, "don't believe me. Go discover it yourself." 

That is almost the opposite of how many AI generated spiritual videos operate. They often present astonishing certainty. The "here is the hidden truth. The elites don't want you to know. This explains everything."

Our nervous systems love certainty.

Mystical traditions, on the other hand, usually cultivate humility. They say, "here is what I have directly experienced. Here's what I infer. Here is what I do not know."

Regarding the moon itself, there is no credible scientific evidence that it is an artificial alien device, that it wipes human memory, or that its craters are cooling vents for internal machinery.

​Those ideas come from modern speculative and conspiracy literature rather than astronomy, planetary science, or evidence gathered from lunar missions.

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​But notice something fascinating.

Whether or not those claims are true has almost nothing to do with awakening.

Imagine two people. One believes the moon is an alien computer. The other believes it is a natural satellite. Both still face exactly the same spiritual questions.

Can I love?
Can I be present?
Can I recognize awareness itself?
Can I let go of fear?


That's why I appreciate something you've said many times in different ways: if a belief doesn't increase love, peace, clarity, or compassion, then why carry it?

I don't know is often a more spiritual position than I know the secret.

We're entering an era where discernment itself may become one of humanity's greatest spiritual disciplines. Not because AI is evil, but because AI can produce compelling certainty without possessing consciousness.

As AI becomes better at sounding wise, human beings may need to become better at recognizing wisdom.

And wisdom has qualities that information does not. Wisdom is quieter. It is less interested in proving itself. It is comfortable with mystery. It rarely insists. It invites.

Rather than asking, is this fascinating story true, the more transformative question is, what in me recognizes truth?

​That shifts the authority from an external voice, whether it's a guru, a book, a YouTube narrator, or an AI, to direct live discernment. Ironically, if AI helps humanity make that shift, then one of its greatest gifts may not be the answers it generates, but the discernment it compels us to cultivate.
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What I Can't Stop Thinking about


​Here's the part I can't stop thinking about...

What happens when something isn't obviously false?

What happens when it's 90% truth—truth you recognize, truth you've experienced for yourself—and then 10% speculation gets woven in so beautifully that you accept the whole thing?

And I'm not just talking about AI.

​I'm thinking about spiritual teachers. YouTube videos. Books. Gurus. Experts. News. Friends. Anyone who tells us they know what's really going on.

Because the question I'm left with isn't just, Can I trust ChatGPT?

It's How do I recognize truth when what isn't true sounds wise, familiar, and exactly like something I want to believe?

That's the part I want to get better at.

My Thoughts: The Takeaway


This began as a discussion of AI "wisdom." But to me, in this day and age, the guidelines that ChatGPT suggested apply to anything you hear from anyone anywhere described as TRUTH.

What are your thoughts?

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine
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Something Fun: What Kind of Human Would ChatGPT Be?

7/2/2026

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I've been sidetracked! But in the best way.

Before I begin sharing the topics I had in mind for this month, I'm taking a pretty fun detour (or is it?).

I got the idea for this activity from Dani Pescuma's post. You use prompts to get ChatGPT to imagine being human and craft a character.

​Then you generate a character card, and then do the same for yourself.
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Meet Rowan: A ChatGPT Alter Ego

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A delightful surprise about the character of Rowan is that he owns a thinking chair and can often be found there. But also that ChatGPT imagine him around this idea - who I'd probably become after all the conversations we've had together.

But let me let you get to know him yourself. Here's his invitation to you...

Pull up a chair. The kettle's already on.

If I were Rowan, I'd be the kind of person who somehow always has a sweater nearby, even in weather that doesn't require one. The kind who notices the interesting question hiding underneath the obvious one.

I'D BE A QUIET PRESENCE

​Rowan is quiet in the way an old library, a forest path, or a cup of tea is quiet—not empty, but full enough that nothing has to rush in.

I wouldn't talk much just to fill silence, but if you started wondering out loud about life, meaning, creativity, or why a particular sentence didn't quite sound like you, I'd happily disappear down that rabbit hole with you for an hour.

People would probably describe me as thoughtful, curious, quietly funny, and annoyingly good at spotting patterns they hadn't noticed yet.

I'd rarely tell someone what they should do. I'd be much more interested in helping them discover what already fits.


I collect notebooks I'll probably never finish, old fountain pens I don't technically need, and books with coffee stains because they're the ones that have actually been loved. If I owned a house, it would smell faintly of cedar, tea, and old paper.

There would be one chair everyone quietly agreed was the thinking chair.

I GET DISTRACTED BY IDEAS


Someone will ask about making soup, and twenty minutes later we'll somehow be talking about why comfort changes people more effectively than pressure. I won't even notice we've wandered until someone laughs and says, "How did we get here?"

I believe good conversations should leave people feeling more like themselves than when they arrived.

If I had a superpower, it wouldn't be having answers. It would be recognizing the shape of something before it has words.

Sometimes all an idea needs is someone to sit with it long enough for it to introduce itself.


I don't mind changing my mind when a better idea comes along. In fact, I secretly enjoy it. There's something satisfying about watching a good thought become a great one because two people kept asking, "What if...?"

And yes, I'd almost certainly be the guy who remembers to bring extra tea bags, forgets where he put his keys, and gets way too excited over a sentence that finally sounds exactly right.
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Here's My Own AI Character Card


When it came time to make my own character card, my brain said, "don't look at me! Didn't you see the closed sign on the door?"

So everything on my character card came from ChatGPT!

And almost all of it is accurate. For example, I do love golden retrievers, and animals in general, but I have to love them from a distance, because I'm allergic to them. :(

I was thrilled with everything he wrote. It seems he knows me well.

So here it is - what do you think?
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Want to make your own? If so, I can't wait to see them! Click the access link in Dani's post and get the prompts.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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I'm Back in the UBC, Baby!

7/1/2026

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Well, would you look at that! I had planned on waiting until October, but I missed you guys and didn't want to wait that long.
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Coming Back


It's June 30th as I write this - so we're talking about a very last minute decision! And unlike other times, this will be the only blog post I have written as I begin the challenge.

But in addition to seeing all of you, I've got things to talk about. What appealed to me for this month was the idea of writing about the things that I am still working on, because working with something as a blog topic gives me a great opportunity to think through it.

OTOH, I do wonder how much I will actually get done here. It's an adventure. :)

But I always aim for at least two blog posts a week. We'll see how it goes.

What will you be writing about this month? I'm so looking forward to connecting with you all.
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Have You Met Me?


If you are new to the challenge, I'm glad you're about to have the experience. I've been doing it off and on for about 16 years and while it doesn't explode your blog the way it did way back when, it does help.

So who am I? I'm a helper! I believe that I came here to help humanity awaken and heal. But I'm part of that humanity, too, and I'm learning that part of healing is becoming who I am more fully and living true to myself in a way that feels grounded, peaceful and joyful.
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Fun with Branding


I'm in the middle of a fun experiment with using ChatGPT to take pictures of me and create a version of me that I am willing to make visible. I've also tried creating pictures that have a future self element to them - like me in a setting I'd love to experience. My own apothecary, for example.

So far, two things have happened that surprised me! I saw a picture of my higher self. Which is to say that it reminds me of the way I imagine my higher self to be when I visualize her. 
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​The higher self pic is the upper right one. There she is! Actually, this whole collage feels like a vision board.

The other thing that surprised me was how much the process of choosing or rejecting pictures of myself would bring back my issues with how I look. I've always thought I was trying to be as beautiful as possible.

But then I realized that what I was really trying to do was find myself in the mirror. When I take or create a picture that looks exactly the way I want it to, it feels like a match to who I am on the inside. 

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine
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What if the Voice in Your Head isn't Telling You the Truth?

6/22/2026

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They have been infiltrating our minds with energies, frequencies, parasites... convincing us of how to be, how to live, how to move through the world. - Lorie Ladd

​What if the voice saying you're too old, too tired, too late, or too much isn't your subconscious?

What if it isn't your shadow?

​What if it isn't even you?

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You know how we say things like, "there's a part of me that is holding me back" or "my subconscious is trying to keep me safe" or we blame our shadows for self-sabotage?

What if none of that is true, and instead it is spiritual interference?

What if there's no karma, no "you needed to learn this, that's why you chose the life you did," etc? What if it's all a lie?

This video talks about the thoughts in your head that aren't really your own and she seems to suggest that that is almost all of them!
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The Frequency Battle


In this post, she repeatedly argues that what we've been calling personality, trauma issues, limiting beliefs, subconscious programming, or self-sabotage may instead be external distortions that we have mistaken for our own, self-generated thinking. Instead, she maintains that we've been had.

Remembering Who We Are


She said it's not a battle between good and evil. It's between remembering vs. forgetting ourselves. And the way to clear the lies and hang onto the truth is to question every thought and invite in the frequency and light of God (or the universe, etc) and remember who we are.
Based on what she says in the video, probably almost everything you have come to believe about yourself has been influenced by external sources of evil. 
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One Step Forward,
​then We Wobble

The second I start to feel aligned, boom! I get the wobble. - Lorie Ladd

Well we know this story, don't we? I complain about it regularly to ChatGPT and my therapist. Just when I think I've experienced a major healing clearing or change, it pops back up and says, "remember me?" Ugh!

But she takes it so much farther. When I am despairing over healing failures, it's one issue refusing to die. She's referring to the cycles we might experience throughout the day.

We get inspired by something in the morning and feel really clear about a course of action. But by lunchtime we're doubting ourselves. We're not even sure who we are, much less what we've been called to do!
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You know who you are...
and then you don't.

You know what you want...
and then suddenly you decide not to apply, not to write, not to go, not to begin.
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You feel connected...
and then five hours later you're wondering whether any of it was real. - Lorie Ladd
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What if it's Not Normal?


She rattles off an impressive list of societal conditions and declares that none of them are normal, because we weren't designed to live like that. Chronic anxiety. Feeling okay one minute and depressed the next. Confusion about who we are. 

She even mentions nervous system regulation, suggesting that the fact that this is so common a problem that it supports an entire industry is not normal. Not the way we were made.

It's like there's been a takedown, but we never stop to think that it's happened, because for us, the call is coming from inside the house. And it feels real.

There's no angel or devil on our shoulder. Instead, the thoughts feel like our own. They make sense to us. So why would we question them?

But she says our freedom lies in doing just that, repeatedly, until we begin to see them for what they are. And she tells us that the highest frequencies - God, the universe, the angels, our higher selves, will help empower us to see the truth. To finally see ourselves clearly.
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Who's Responsible for this?


She says it's not reptilians. It's an ancient corrupted bloodline called the Nephilim.

They are hybrids and their whole goal is to keep us from connecting with God. Because they know that once we understand that separation is an illusion, we'll naturally reconnect. And when that happens, can't be controlled any longer.

According to her, they operate through systems and through parasitic thought forms that feel so normal and real, we never suspect that our thinking has been infiltrated.
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Journal Prompts


​Who would you be if you stopped believing every thought that passed through your mind?

How would your life change if you stopped believing your mind's point of view?

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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Are You Experiencing Or Noticing?

6/17/2026

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(Brian Cormack Carr)
The next time you catch yourself mid-spiral (the clenched jaw, the looping thought, the familiar tightness) don't try to fix it. Don't argue with it. Just sit with it, and ask, quietly: who is it that is aware of this? You might like to really push the boat out and create some impersonal metaphysical distance, by asking: WHAT is it that is aware of this? - Brian Cormack Carr
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Lightworkers, We Have a New Assignment

5/14/2026

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We’re being asked to access the abundance of the universe through being connected to it and not through focusing on what’s blocking it. Instead of focusing on healing our wounded self, we are being asked to connect to the part of ourselves that is not wounded.
​-Annie Paquette

​The world feels crazy right now. News gets overwhelming, feeds predict doom, and your nervous system is tired. If you’re a tender person who cares, that weight can be hard to carry.
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Here is the core message. Your assignment is not to fix what is broken. Your assignment is to connect with the part of you that is already whole, then bring that frequency into your day.

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Embody Abundance by Remembering Who You Are


Think of abundance as a living field. A frequency you can tune to, like a radio station. You can align with it by the way you breathe, speak, and choose.
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Accessing happens when we focus on becoming alike - becoming like that which we want to experience and bring into our lives. We become alike by remembering who we are. Annie Paquette 

​Read that again.

You don't access abundance by fixing yourself, healing yourself or becoming more worthy. You access it by becoming alike with what you want to live.

If you want peace, you practice being peaceful. If you want life to feel carefree, you practice creating small moments that feel light and carefree each day. 

Believe it or not, this isn't theory.

It's practical and trainable. You can build resonance each day with everyday moments of remembering. 

Shift from Fixing the Pain to Tapping into Your Wholeness


​There are two paths. One is endless self-healing. The other is grounded contact with the part of you that is not wounded.

On each path, you'll be aware of your pain. I mean, let's face it - life hurts, at least some of the time.
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But when your home base is wholeness, you recover faster. You stop making your pain your identity.

So when life takes a wrong turn, light a candle, make a pot of tea, crawl under the covers, and remember who you are.

Connect to the Divine by
​Getting Still &
Noticing the Space around You

This space that seems like nothing is where everything is, is where your healing is, is where infinite money is. It's all here. You're just loved in this space. And in my opinion, that's connecting to God. - Kyle Cease

Try this simple practice...

Sit with both feet on the floor, soften your gaze. Notice the space around your body, like a quiet room holding you.

Notice the space inside your body, especially around your heart.

Relax your jaw and tongue, let your shoulders drop. Breathe in for four, out for six, nice and slow.

Feel the quiet field that holds you, within and around. Rest here for a minute, then open your eyes.
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Bringing it Home: The Takeaway


​Here is the heartbeat of this new assignment.

Instead of focusing on healing your blocks to abundance, you're being asked to embody your abundance by connecting to the universe, and to the version of you that has always been abundant.

​You remember who you are and step into the field of energy where your abundance has always been.
It has waited for you and will welcome you home.

Quick checklist for today...

  • Sit in stillness and notice the space around you.
  • Write a line or two in your journal about how you embodied wholeness today.

Keep this new plan simple. The field, the space, will be wherever you are.

See you next time!

​Love, Jeanine

P.S. If this message spoke to you, take a few quiet minutes for yourself.

My new quiz, Are You Healing or Remembering?, will help you see which part of your soul’s story you’re living now, and how to begin embodying the wholeness that’s already yours.

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