Episode 33: The 10 Core Beliefs

All of us share fundamental Core Beliefs that either create a foundation for success in our lives or plant many seeds of doubt about our self-worth and ability to overcome adversity. In today’s show, I’ll go over the top ten Core Beliefs as they were taught to me and how I’ve seen them expressed in myself and many others. A negative Core Belief can be changed but you have to first acknowledge you carry that negative Core Belief and then consciously do the work to retrain yourself away from that belief. 

TOP 10 CORE BELIEFS:

I love myself

I love my body 

I am safe

I am competent

I am worthy

I am powerful

I deserve to be happy

I deserve to be healthy

I deserve to be prosperous

I deserve to be alive

Quick instructional video on how to do accurate muscle testing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TvWopgzho

Dr. Bradley Nelson: 

Books: The Emotion Code and The Body Code

The Belief Code:  https://discoverhealing.com/the-belief-code/

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Transcript

            Welcome to Episode 33. Today’s topic is the “The 10 Core Beliefs.” 

            Back in 2018, I attended an alternative healing conference outside of Atlanta where I was introduced to the idea of Core Beliefs and how they shape one’s outlook on life and often the way in which a person’s life will unfold and how they will be able to move forward based on their Core Beliefs. Before I jump in, I want to say that there are many different versions of the top 10 Core Beliefs. The ones I’m speaking about today are the ones I learned as being the top beliefs that often halted one’s healing progress IF a person was resistant to that particular belief. In other words, you can take all the right supplements, do all the right therapies and engage in all the right meditative practices and so on, but if you don’t believe on a core level that you have a right to actually BE healthy, that often unspoken belief system will indeed run your operating system and it will continually sabotage anything you do. I’ll get into that as I go through the list. 

            First off, the list I was given and that I used with clients at that time when I was actively working with people, was based on Rob Williams’ Psych-K. I am not a member of that online community. I don’t endorse it or not endorse it. I’m just being transparent as to where this list originated. Other than that, I have no connection to Rob Williams or anyone who follows him. There are other therapists and facilitators who use other Core Beliefs or variations of what I’ll describe today. But from my intensive experience of really working with the Core Beliefs I’ll mention today and from my personal experience of working with others in relationship to these Core Beliefs, I’ve not only learned some limitations with them but also that by adding a different word here and there, how it changes the Core Belief of that specific belief and by doing that, alters the verbal energy of that belief and how it is accepted or resonates within the person who is stating it. 

            Unlike a lot of other people within the personal transformation movement, I am NOT a big advocate of affirmations. Why?  Because as many of you already know, I grew up within the alternative healing movement and so I’ve had decades to observe and quantify what works and what doesn’t. Affirmations sound like a great idea. But I literally know thousands of people over my lifetime who have done the affirmation, “Money comes easily to me!” and still didn’t have a pot to piss in. You can name it and claim and say it all day long but if there is an internal resistance where you either don’t believe that money could ever come easily to you or perhaps you feel money is dirty or money is the root of all evil (even though that statement is actually “The LOVE of money is the root of all evil”), you can blather on “Money comes easily to me” and create an energetic rejection of that statement that prevents any money coming toward you. OR money comes to you and you repel it because you either don’t believe you deserve it or any number of false beliefs that operate within you. I’ve seen this destructive reaction countless times. Money comes to someone and because of a deeper belief system, they say something like, “I don’t deserve this” or “I didn’t work for this” or “Somebody needs this more than I do” or a bazillion other statements. But then they still resort to their victimhood of what they call “being poor.” I spent a lot of years in my life having to count my pennies, so to speak, and be frugal and not have a huge balance in my bank account. But I NEVER referred to myself as “poor.” EVER! Because I never saw myself as a poor person. I saw myself as someone who was rich in creative problem solving when it came to making money. I saw myself as being wealthy in my ability to manifest whatever job or work I needed at that time to make money. And I always prospered. And even when I had a smarmy guy once say to me when I lost a writing gig in Los Angeles, “I guess you’re always a day late and a dollar short, Laurel,” I looked at that guy with nothing but distaste. Because first off, I didn’t believe that statement. And secondly, that individual had everything given to him from the second he was born. And all that comment did was make me see him in a very different light and it was not a light I would ever want to be around. So I didn’t take his backhanded comment as truth because I didn’t believe what he said. My Core Belief in my ability to generate another job, overrode whatever snarky comment he tossed at me.  Somebody else may have been crushed by such a nasty comment to utter when someone just lost a job opportunity. But I wasn’t crushed because I believed in my ability to manifest the next job and I did! And because I knew I had the ability to manifest what I needed, his comment only served to shine a huge, ugly light on his arrogant nature. When you attack someone when they are temporarily down, that tells me a lot more about you than it does about me.

            And that leads to how Core Beliefs are anchored into one’s being. While I had a lot of negative aspects going on in my childhood, teenage and early adult years, one thing that I did have was a father who was incredibly supportive of my writing career. And when I had an onslaught of rejections, he was always there to tell me to keep going and not let it slow me down. He believed in my talent one hundred percent and created a foundation for me where I was able to overcome so many years of rejection and insults because at my core, I believed I had what it took to make it as a writer. Now that’s not to say that I didn’t have core beliefs that were destructive or working against my stated intentions. Because I did. And those took me decades to unpack and acknowledge and then work through. So people might say “Well, you’re so confident in your writing ability” but they don’t necessarily understand how lacking in confidence I was in other aspects of my life. I don’t want to give the impression that just because I was confident in my writing ability meant I was also confident in everything else! Absolutely not!

            So the point is, your Core Beliefs all start in childhood. And the negative core beliefs are foisted upon you in such a way that undermine you and become that antagonistic, self-destructive, inner voice that tells you you’re stupid, you’re ugly, you’re worthless, you’re a joke with no punchline, you name it. On and on. And NONE of these comments are true but because they were told to you by someone who took care of you, or who you thought at that time was smarter than you or you assumed knew you better than you knew yourself, you bought into it. Why would they tell you were stupid if you’re not stupid? Right? I always say “what was the first voice that got to you?” because that’s the inner voice that is directing you to this day. Positive or negative. Because that’s the voice that rocked your cradle and later, if destructive, potentially rocked your entire world. Aristotle is credited with saying, “Give me the child for seven years and I will give you the man.” The Jesuits are credited with a similar quote, “Give me a child until he is seven and we will have him for life.” It’s absolutely true. Birth to seven years old, the child’s brain is a sponge and the level of trust wrapped inside all that innocence is easily manipulated by one’s main caregiver. That tender timeframe is also when trauma is deeply imprinted onto the psyche and where you may have no mental memory of it but your body stores it. And that stored trauma is what creates your operating system that drives the rest of your life until you consciously choose to heal. And that’s why so much of what is released during deep healing has no mental correlation because it was input under the age of six or seven. And I mentioned it in last week’s “mail bag” show that you do not need to form correlations between the release of emotions and the origin of the stored trauma that elicited that release. All that’s important is that you release it. Period. 

So, these destructive belief systems that are driven into you, what is often the source or reason. Well, it’s often projection from an abusive caregiver. In the example of a parent or someone who raised you calling you “stupid” all the time, they, in fact, feel a deep lack of intelligence down in the sinew of their bones and so they are going to call YOU stupid. Anyone who calls other people “stupid” all the time, has a deep inferiority complex underneath all that strut and bravado, and if you trigger their hidden inferiority complex, they are going to jump your shit in order to hide their own lack of confidence. And furthermore, if they mistakenly expose their own lack of knowledge about something, and you call them on it, they will demonstrate to you how deeply wounded they are by further attacking you and going for your jugular. And that is the type of individual some people hold up as being an authority and thus, you are given the impression by others of how smart that person is, and so because they call you stupid, you believe you are stupid. When in fact, that individual who is throwing the daggers of “you’re stupid,” is actually a wounded and dangerous animal with teeth that bite into your soft, vulnerable center. So let me be the one if nobody has ever said this to you and all you’ve heard your whole life is “you are stupid.” You are not stupid. Don’t listen to people who are unhealed and emotionally wounded and wielding their damaged nature onto their world as if it were gospel. Open your eyes and start to see these individuals for who and what they are because a wounded person is like a hammer, and you are their nail. When you start to heal, you will never be their nail again. Wanna know why? Because you will see them for exactly who and what they are. And you will see that weakness within them and they will no longer have any power over you once you recognize that. 

            Remember that all core beliefs are passed down through the generations. So just like there is generational trauma, a negative core belief that affects you, probably affected one or both of your parents, your grandparents and back on down the line. Now you can override a negative belief thrown at you if your nature is such that it repels it. But in order to do that, you have to possess a nature that has a helluva lot of chutzpa and Moxie and inner drive to overcome those destructive projections toward you. And my own experience working with people who have overcome truly vicious programming thrown at them throughout their childhood and adult life, tends to create in them an overcompensation factor. So they approach their life as “Oh, you think I’m worthless? Well, I’ll show you.” And they work overtime and obliterate their personal life to prove that they are not worthless. And that obviously creates tremendous deep and destructive life patterns. And the worst part is that the person who foisted that negative belief system upon them that created that overcompensation may NEVER acknowledge their big achievements. So they become entrenched in this lifetime battle of “I’ll show you!” and that energy is beyond destructive to enjoying any type of life that is filled with joy or love or contentment or, ironically, any sense of true achievement that isn’t marred by the person who continues to sling the daggers at them. 

            So let’s jump in and list the 10 Core Beliefs as I was given them and how I worked with them with others. These are in no particular order. And just so you know, I’m going to list these on the show notes in case you want to read them and write them down. So here we go:

            I love myself

I love my body 

I am safe

                  I am competent

I am worthy

I am powerful

            I deserve to be happy

            I deserve to be healthy

I deserve to be prosperous

I deserve to be alive

            Okay, so how would you go about determining whether you or your body agree with any of these Core Beliefs? If you know about muscle testing, also known as kinesiology, that is the best way to find out whether you are in harmony with a Core Belief or whether you are not in harmony with it. So for those who do not understand muscle testing, the easiest way is to have someone stand in front of you while you raise your strongest arm to a straight, parallel position with your shoulder. First, you want to get a baseline reading to judge the natural strength of that arm to a statement that is absolutely true such as in my case, “My name is Laurel”. So you hold your arm tight and have the other person place their hand palm down on the bony bump above your wrist and they say, “Resist me.” And your job is to hold your arm as steady as you can while you resist them pushing your arm down. If you are saying your true name, you will be able to resist their gentle push. Now they don’t need to push your arm with all their might. We’re just checking to identify your baseline strength that demonstrates a true statement. Next, you want to demonstrate what an untrue statement is. So you would say, “My name is Bob” or whatever is not your name and then repeat the process. Your arm would not be able to resist when you say an obviously untrue statement. So now it’s determined by both you and your friend what your baselines are. Once that’s figured out, one by one, repeat a Core Belief. For example, hold your arm straight out like I said, and say for example, “I love myself” and then have your friend press down on the bony bump above your wrist, while you resist. If your arm remains strong and can’t be moved or just slightly moved, you love yourself. If your friend is able or easily able to push your arm down, then you are stating something that you and your body don’t believe. As long as you do muscle testing the right way, the results are usually accurate. At least, that’s been my experience and I’ve been doing this for over forty years. I’ve added a good, short instructional video on the show notes that I strongly suggest you watch if you are not familiar with how to do muscle testing. 

            So what happens if you test negatively, meaning your arm can easily be pushed down, with a lot of the Core Beliefs? And this is normal and to be expected so don’t feel like you’re a failure or however you want to characterize it. There’s no judgment. It’s all about learning what is your energetic truth. So what happens if your arm goes down easily on all ten of the Core Beliefs? You wouldn’t be the first person to experience that. My suggestion is to dial it in and find the three Core Beliefs that you have the weakest response to. And I’ll tell you that from my own experience doing this test on a lot of people, the ones that seem to always come up as the weakest for a lot of people are “I love myself,” “I love my body,” “I deserve to be prosperous” and “I am safe.” But that has been my observation and your results will most likely vary so I don’t want to install any type of intentional programming for you. So find the top three Core Beliefs, as I said, that test the weakest and focus on those. That means working intentionally on your own or with a therapist on strengthening that Core Belief. I don’t have time in this show to go into every one of the Core Beliefs and give examples of how to go about that. But let’s say that you test weak on “I love myself” and/or “I love my body.” I would start by nourishing yourself with good food, good sleep, exercise that doesn’t overwhelm you, nothing manic or overdone, essentially loving yourself by nourishing yourself and giving yourself attention. It’s not about searching for outside validation from anyone else. In a case such as these, it’s all about feeding yourself the emotional nurturing that you may never have received from anyone. This is not about being a self-absorbed or self-focused in the extreme. This is all about providing yourself with gentleness toward yourself while at the same time creating an environment within and around you that supports that self-nourishment. Saying “no” to someone else because you want to get better or longer sleep because you know that’s going to help heal your body and mind, is not selfish. Choosing a salad with some protein in it over junk food is not selfish. Getting up an hour earlier than usual so you can go for a walk or workout at home or at a gym is not selfish. So through the conscious choices you are making, over time, you can occasionally re-check yourself with a friend’s help and see if you are gaining energetic strength with the muscle testing technique. 

            Now, there are a lot of things I’ve observed and learned from working with others and myself with the Core Beliefs that I’m not sure anyone else has mentioned or noticed. First off, it’s very difficult for people who have been traumatized, emotionally, mentally, physically, sexually abused to come close to loving themselves. A lot of them have a strong aversion to that one. Or they have been programmed to believe that loving yourself is selfish or they’ll be called a narcissist or pick your poison. Okay. The pathway I have found that helps lead you toward “I love myself,” is “I respect myself.” Because I found that through respect for yourself, you can allow yourself to eventually agree to say “I love myself” without that hedging of “I don’t want to sound arrogant.” Most people can wrap their heads around respecting themselves because that involves not degrading themselves, not allowing themselves to be treated poorly, not letting others belittle or bully them, not putting themselves in situations that they will later regret or make them feel like they are a bad person. Basically, remembering that they have a sovereign right to walk through their life with a sense of integrity and honor. And I realize that’s not easy for a lot of people. But respecting yourself, I have found, really is the gateway to eventually loving yourself. 

            Another thing I recognized after focusing on the Core Beliefs with myself and others was that when the word “deserve” is used, that is the first level of awareness you must agree to. First you must agree and believe you deserve it but that in and of itself is not enough to move that Core Belief forward in your life. So working with the list I mentioned, the ‘deserve’ Core Beliefs would be, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be healthy, I deserve to be prosperous and I deserve to be alive. And the method I came up with was once you inhabited the belief that you deserved whatever it is, remove the word “deserve” and replace it with the word “allow.” It shifts everything. First you have to recognize that you deserve to be happy and then you have to ALLOW yourself to be happy. You can deserve it all day long but if you don’t allow yourself to enjoy whatever you enjoy without feeling guilty or bad or any distorted point of view, you won’t be able to go out and actually inhabitbeing happy! And the internal shift of going from “I deserve” once you lock that in, to “I allow” is a palpable shift of how you experience whatever Core Belief you are working on improving. So with the Core Belief of “I love my body,” you move into “I allow myself to love my body.” You are essentially giving yourself permission to love your body. And I’m telling you, when I discovered this on my own from working on myself and others, it really changed the internal dynamic almost immediately. 

            Now, I want to focus right now on the Core Belief “I deserve to be alive” because I have a lot of experience with this one, not with myself, but with many others. And many who were dealing with serious or terminal illnesses. This was such an eye-opener to me when I began to see how not being agreement with this Core Belief affected many people I was trying to help. My naivete was blown out of the water when I recognized that a lot of people who are seriously ill, did not believe they had a right to be alive. So think about that. If you don’t believe you have a right to exist or take up space or take in the oxygen around you because someone told you a long time ago that you were a mistake or that you never should have been born or that you were always in the way and a burden to them and because of that, you really don’t deserve to exist. This is a reality that I sadly saw repeating too many times and it was the barrier of resistance that prevented a lot of the people I used to work with from healing or overcoming their obstacles. It also created the unfortunate side effect of creating the need for them to self-sabotage their health whenever they got close to either resolving their issue or taking the next step forward. Overcoming that baseline of “I DESERVE to be alive” was an eternal hurdle. But those who did overcome that hurdle, did so with an often-startling energetic response. When someone agrees to finally realize “I deserve to be alive,” no matter what bullshit I was told by anyone growing up, through that realization they begin to see themselves as a unique individual that occupies their space differently. They begin to take ownership of that space. And anything that could create “leaks” or destruction of that space is firmly prevented by virtue of this growing swell that builds within the person’s core and gives them “permission” to inhabit their body and their space. So instead of apologizing for their existence, they are born into themselves for the first time and that process can be beautiful to observe. But once they do that, I learned they had to move to a second step. 

It’s not enough to just know that you deserve to be alive and inhabit that space. You have to jump another big hurdle after that, and recognize that you also deserve to LIVE. Not just BE ALIVE but to also live. Think about that. I deserve to live in this body. I deserve to live my life and experience whatever that living provides for me. I deserve to take it all in. I deserve to attract opportunities to me so that I can LIVE and learn through those experiences. Being alive can mean being on life support, if you want to take it to an extreme. You’re alive but you sure as hell aren’t living! So you want to LIVE! You want to feel your blood pumping. You want to inhabit the energy of being inside your physical body fully and experience that from all sides. And once you figure out that you deserve to LIVE, you go to the third step. And that is “I deserve to thrive!” Because you don’t just want to live. You want to THRIVE. But you can’t go there until you agree to the baseline of “I deserve to be alive.” 

I’m going to tell you a story about someone I worked with twelve years ago when I was doing nutritional counseling. And it is illustrative of how being unable to inhabit “I deserve to be alive” can affect your life in a very complex way. For five years, I worked with a Hollywood actor who was what they call a “B list” actor meaning he was never the star but he consistently worked in television. He was 5’ 5” tall, mixed race and he liked to call himself, “The hardest working bad guy on television.” And he was that. He guest starred on at least ten to twelve television shows a year. But he said to me that he always played “the bad guy”. And I was taken back because with me, he was one of the most GENTLE, sensitive, thoughtful people I’d ever met. When he first contacted me for help, I did not know who he was. So he sent me a link to his “reel.” That’s a 2 to 3 minute compilation video of an actor’s media highlights. I watched the video and I was stunned. Because this gentle, sensitive soul REALLY EMBRACED AND LOVED playing one of four characters: A vicious Mexican Cartel member, a street drug dealer, a gang member and a psychotic killer. The entire 3 minute reel was one scene after another of extreme violence that always led to his death. I even joked to him once, “Do you ever play characters that stay alive once the credits roll?” He laughed and proudly told me that he had probably “died” on the screen well over 100 times in the various roles. 

So why was he contacting me? Because he had Stage 3 colon cancer that was moving into his liver. He told me repeatedly and with GREAT emphasis how much he “didn’t want to die.” He would do anything, he stressed to me. He would change his diet, take supplements, meditate more, whatever it took, he would be “committed to not dying.” 

Knowing the mind/body aspects of the large intestine and liver, I knew he was “re-feeling” anger he could not let go of. Re-feeling anger is also known as “resentment.” So who did he resent and why was he continuing to do that? I asked him. I didn’t get that question answered for one year because his pain was SO intensely deep to him that he couldn’t express who hurt him. But during that year, he took all that time off and focused on himself and through diet, supplements, meditation and practicing gratitude daily, and many other natural therapies, he was able to go into remission. I was not responsible for his remission. HE did all the hard work and he never missed a beat. He went back to work after that year and continued to play the tough killers, drug dealers and gang members. And I watched every single show he did and I realized that he was doing what so many other actors do: they play out their “shadow” side in an attempt to heal that part of them. And while that’s very helpful, it only works to a point and then it can stop working. 

But then I quickly saw another pattern emerging. And that was a pattern of total, self-sabotage. He was back on the set and he started living on energy drinks so he could stay awake for 24 hours or longer, drinking sugary sodas, donuts and food devoid of any nutritional value. So within five short months, his cancer came back. But it wasn’t to the point where he needed to take aggressive action. However, he felt he needed to “go hard” and that’s the term he used. So he had his gall bladder removed because there was a potential for the cancer to go into his gall bladder. He went back to convalescing and switched back to the good diet and everything else. And somehow, he was able to beat the cancer again. Went back to work, continued to get shot, blown up, stabbed and even decapitated in one film. He also went back to the bad diet and lifestyle. And this pattern continued for another two years while he worked on and off with me. But during that time, during a period when he was pretty low, he finally called me up and revealed where his deep resentment originated. His mother abandoned the family. He was the youngest of seven children and seven years old when she left. His older brothers were relieved when she left because of her toxic influence. But this guy had only spent seven short years with her and didn’t realize that she was teaching him that he didn’t deserve to be alive. In his innocent mind, he was the reason that she left the family. That HE was the one who broke the camel’s back. He was the one who drove her away. She couldn’t take being a mother anymore and by the time he was born, it was more than she could handle. Maybe, he thought, if he had not been born, she would have stayed and the family would still be intact. That wasn’t true, of course, but that’s what he secretly believed for decades. 

One year prior to him being diagnosed with cancer, his mother showed back up in his life. He was well established in film and TV and when she saw that, she wanted to be part of his life again. Her reemergence into his life was the trigger event that I interpreted being the emotional catalyst that allowed his colon cancer to erupt. I’m a big believer in the mind/body connection because I’ve seen it play out literally thousands of times. So she shows up in his life and the more she insisted on spending time with him, the more he concentrated his hardcore resentment toward her in his body and could not let it go. His true nature, as I said, was a very gentle soul and he internalized all of his pain. It was only when he played the “bad guy” that he could release some of that stored rage. But as I said, that will only take you so far. Eventually, you have to FEEL the pain that you’ve been suppressing your entire life. But because of his sensitive nature, his pain was overwhelming to him. And he wanted to portray the ‘tough guy persona.’ And after all, he didn’t deserve to be alive anyway. 

So without exception, every single time he would go into remission, he would sabotage himself and the cancer would return. By the last year of his life, he was sabotaging his progress to the point where I almost quit working with him because I couldn’t help him to keep putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. There were way too many cracks and he kept making it worse with unnecessary medical interventions. What finally killed him is he agreed to an experimental treatment that backfired horribly and he died 10 days later in an agonizing death. And I know he did NOT want to die because I spoke to him on the phone four days before he died and he kept repeating “I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.” But the bigger problem was that he didn’t feel he deserved to be alive. And every single I tell someone about the Core Beliefs and mention “I deserve to be alive,” I think about him. 

The built in resistance to a Core Belief such as “I deserve to be alive” can be an enormous bridge to cross. It’s not impossible but you have to really be open to acknowledging how this particular belief established itself in your mindset and then you must release all that stored trauma and anger and grief that is preventing you from resolving your illness. This is why it is extremely difficult to change a person’s core beliefs through talk therapy because the resistance they all share to hearing the truth is so great. It’s like talking to someone who is brainwashed. And that’s because they ARE brainwashed. It’s akin to pointing out the color RED to someone but they see it as DARK BLUE because that’s how they were taught to see the color RED. It doesn’t matter how emphatically you tell them that what they’re seeing is false. It is embedded inside them. It’s carved into their psyche. That’s how deeply a false Core Belief system can control a person and make it often difficult or impossible for them to heal. The walls of resistance, in their mind, cannot be climbed. They see those walls as too tall and too thick. The wall of resistance, I learned, cannot be climbed. It has to be DISSOLVED. And you dissolve it over time by chipping away at it and that takes enormous courage that involves FEELING. Feeling, feeling, feeling. And feeling deeply at times. Allowing yourself to go there. Allowing the crack to form in your emotional armor, letting the light of awareness in and through that awareness, being willing to see for the first time where you are resisting and getting in your own way. Where you are sabotaging your progress, your health, your relationships and more. 

There are a couple tools I suggest to anyone who is working through false belief systems and that involves something called “The Emotion code” as well as “The Body Code” work which is helpful to “prune your energetic tree” as my good friend eloquently put it. Dr. Bradley Nelson wrote and developed The Emotion Code method as well as the Body Code and there’s also a third one called The Belief Code. And I’ve put links to his books and other resources on today’s show notes. 

There’s a reason why they call them CORE beliefs. They are the energetic anchors that weigh you down at your core. These live and hide deep down at the center of your subconscious and they have a “meaning” that is often so hidden but is also so programmed into your matrix that you don’t even question it or can HEAR about it when other people may recognize and point out the distorted core belief in you. But with courage and a true willingness to overcome a false and destructive core belief, it is absolutely possible to overcome that false reality that you’ve been basing your entire life on and emerge from a space of helplessness to a place of resurrection and eventually regeneration. It all begins with your ability to acknowledge whatever belief has been dragging you down and consciously focus on that so that you can heal it and by doing that, often change not just your health but your entire reality so that you create the life you were born to experience. 

That’s all for this week. Thank you for choosing to listen to this show. If you like this show, help me get the word out. Share this show or any other episode you like with someone right now who you feel needs to hear it. Check out the notes for this episode where you’ll see the links to find me on Instagram and X @laureldewey or thealchemyofnaturalhealing. On the show notes, I’ve included the companies I support and have helped me in my healing process, so check that out and look for the coupon codes. Looking forward to you joining me next week where I will do another installment of a show that is always popular with my listeners and that is “Eight More Questions You’ve Never Asked Yourself.” New episodes drop every Saturday. Until then, remember that “Awareness is a demanding mistress. Once she wakes you up, she won’t let you go back to sleep.”