 around now. Hi! Good morning! I know I got some shaggy hair going on, but that's okay. We need to have Sunday morning coffee. My coffee will be here in probably, I don't know, 15. How long does it take to get to the lobby when you're on the 10th floor of the hotel? Probably like 15 minutes. So good morning. Welcome to Above Life Channel. Hey! Okay, I have no idea if I'm gonna be able to do it since I'm doing this like on my phone and I don't have my tripod. I told you guys I would be here on Sunday morning coffee even though I'm not at home, obviously. I'm not at home! I am not at home! Any guesses as to where I'm at? Hmm? Anybody watch my TikTok? Anybody watch my TikTok? Okay, let me just take a peek here and see if I got any. Can you hear me? I hope you can hear me. I think you can. I think it's working. Oh my goodness, okay. So, any guesses as to where I am? Okay, so it's in the title. There's a clue in the title. Oh my god, this hair really, I really didn't even, I did not take a shower this morning, obviously, and I just rolled on out of bed with my evening, evening hair. Here, let's make it look really beautiful. Look at that. Does it look rock and roll? I kind of look like a rooster. Welcome to Sunday morning coffee. I'm getting my coffee shortly. It's like 10 30 a.m. Central time. Nice to see you on this Sunday. Hey, hey, it is the last Sunday of February. It's gonna be nice today. I'm gonna head over to a labyrinth. This hair is funny. Oh, I love my hair. It's so funny. Okay, we're just gonna leave it like this. It's a gamble, you know. So last night, I went to a concert. My third year in a row going to the Air Supply Concert and it was lovely. It was so much fun. Aside from the drunk people behind us, there was a really drunk guy and there was four people and the one, the guy behind me was so drunk that eventually, I mean, they got up like must have got up three times during 90 minutes and got drinks and they were already drunk when they came in and the guy sitting behind me finally he was like stopped being so mouthy and was just like, I mean, he literally looked like he was gonna hurl. I'm so glad he didn't. Eventually, they left before the end of the concert. Thank God, because in the rest of us, no whole section were very happy because they were annoying. Anyway, Air Supply was a wonderful and lovely. If you don't know who Air Supply is, make sure you Google it up and listen to those old school oldies. Yeah. Oh my gosh, like roller skating and listening to the songs. I love it. This is the third year in a row that I've been here at Mystic Lake Casino in prior Lake Minnesota at the beautiful hotel and had some yummy food last night and just really enjoyed the concert. It was really fun and then got some pictures with some of the band members. That was good. Yeah, it was just a really lovely night and slept really good. The beds here are amazing. They're so comfortable and now we're headed out to another location for a couple of days and yeah, gonna be enjoying things. So it's a gamble. We're gonna talk about energy and we're gonna talk about how the things that we do impact us or affect us, okay, our energy because we've been talking a lot about energy here in 2024. This is the year of the empath. And with that, I'm gonna help you understand better how the energy is impacting and affecting you. And I'm gonna share all the things that I know and you can just have that info because I want you to be healthy and I want you to be happy and I want you to be engaged with life and I want you to be empowered and inspired. Truly, that's what I want for you and I can want what I want, right? And you deserve it. I'm just gonna tell you if you don't feel like you're worthy, if you feel like you're overwhelmed, welcome to humanity because that's just par for the course quite literally and you're doing way better than you think you are. Okay, you're really not fucking up as bad as you think you are. And if you did fuck it up last night or last year or five years ago or 20 years ago or you keep making the same stupid ass mistakes over and over and over again, cut yourself a break, please. Can you just? Because when you are transitioned and you are, I can tell you this for a fact and you are into that after life space. You're not going to feel the heaviness and the weight of all of this that you are putting on yourself now, the guilt, the shame, the self punishment, the self doubt. You are way better, way more amazing and incredible than you would ever imagine yourself to be. And it's just, we were having a conversation this morning about that, about how the life we've lived so far to this point has been one where there's this kind of perception that you got to develop a thick skin and you got to kind of accept, play the, play the hand you're dealt kind of thing. And it's like, how much really control or influence do you have over the life that you have been given a lot? And the best way you can influence an impact is to acknowledge that you have so much more power than you realize you do. And by that, I mean, by the way you think about yourself and the way you're talking to yourself and the way you're feeling about stuff is a trigger. It has given you information. It has given you information. And very simply, just by stopping, like stopping yourself when you become aware that you are making comments about your body, or you're making comments about how you're so old, or how life has passed you by, or how you don't like your thunder thighs, or the bags under your eyes, or the wines, or your teeth are a little crooked, or, or you just you should have went to college, or you should have went to college for something different, or you should have married somebody different. Maybe you missed an opportunity, maybe you lost or full. This is where you are the most powerful. So the reason why I put it's a gamble on here is because I wanted you to do different choices that we have the opportunity. Oh, look at you, you got a carrier. Sorry, I got to stop her a moment. You got a little carrier for the coffee. Oh, we got our coffee and carry. Oh, it's a caribou carrier. So she's from Maine, and she doesn't they don't do caribou coffee. Does anybody on here? I don't know if you know caribou coffee, can you put a thumbs up? Caribou coffee, I'm just gonna say is a little bit less. Okay, you go ahead. She's like, I'm gonna go. Um, caribou coffee is a little a little less rich than like a Starbucks. Starbucks is a darker kind of tends to be a little more nutty to me anyway. And caribou is lighter and fluffier because people in the Midwest apparently don't like dark rich coffee. Just got a latte better. Oh, your today's got a latte better. Well, this is hot. Thank you. She just left. She wouldn't give me privacy. That's so sweet, isn't it? She's probably gonna watch though. It's just regular dark gross coffee with some almond milk in it. That's what I'm having. Oh, and she brought me fruit. Oh, yeah. I got a fruit cup, you guys. Oh, sweet as that. I got a fruit cup. I got a fruit cup. That's nice. And so nice, nice, nice. Hi, queen. Nice to see you. Hey girl. Hey, good morning. So it's a gamble. It's a gamble, by the way, the title is about being at the casino. I am not a casino person. I don't even like the casino. I don't really gamble. I don't even do slots or anything like that or play cards because although I maybe should because I'm very lucky, aren't I? This year I've been last year this year. I've been very lucky in the last like four months, you know, very lucky to be alive and so maybe I should play slots or I mean, I'm not interested in really I'm not really a gambling kind of person. I'd rather spend money on good coffee and nice things to do. You know what I mean? I mean, and it's okay. It's just not my idea of entertainment, but that's where I'm at. It's a gamble. I'm at the casino. And the choices that you make, by the way, when they're based on these limited thoughts, these limited things that have been put upon us that we kind of accepted as reality. So these things that we complain about or dwell upon, like getting older or the mistakes that we've made in past relationships where it's spent like an hour and a half, two hours. We've both been talking about that. Like things I wish I would have done differently. Things I should have known. I should have got out before. I should have done this. I should have not kind of having that retrospective conversation. I mean, it's nice to get that information out of your body, right? Because our body is holding our energy. It definitely affects us. We've been talking about that, right? How intuitive your body is, how psychic your body is, and how much you need to really let go of that stuff and how you let go of it. Sometimes it's like venting or getting it out of your system. That's a good thing. But there comes a point too when you just kind of cut yourself back. You just got to say, hey, I did the best I could. And I know it's hard sometimes to accept that, but we are so hard on ourselves and we punish ourselves over and over and over again for the past and we can't do anything about it. Because the present is where the power is right here right now. Right here and right now. So it's kind of that delicate balance between having that retrospective conversation processing and then releasing it or integrating it, whatever needs to happen for you, whatever stage you're at. And then recognizing that it's not just going to be done. You're not going to be able to forget about that bad relationship that you had, that bad relationship. And the truth is, nothing is really totally bad or totally good. It's always a mixed bag, right? It's mixed. And it's a gamble, right? It's a gamble. You don't know what you're getting into, right? And it's going to be natural to be hard on yourself and it's going to be natural to dig on yourself the next time you're triggered by something that you know is really about the past and not the current situation you're in. But you just got to love yourself through that. You got to say, hey, I'm human. I'm human. I'm going to have all these different kinds of dynamic feelings and they're all valid, okay? It's not about good or bad. It's just that it's about this is how I'm feeling right now. Acknowledge that, recognize it, maybe have a cup of coffee and chill. Because there's nothing you can do about bitching and complaining about what you didn't do before. And you're not in that relationship. The person that you're with right now is not that fucking person. Do you know how many times I've heard that in the last however many months? They're not the same person. They're not the same person. She's not that person. That's not going to happen. They're not the same person. They're not the same person. You are not the same person. And you can do whatever the fuck you want. I'm like, yeah, I can. And not just because I almost died and I'm not. I'm alive. I can do whatever I want. So can you? And maybe we got to start with the simple wants of being nice to ourselves, being kind to ourselves, recognizing, again, we are doing the best we can. And somebody needs to tell you that you're doing the best you could, or you can. And you did the best you could at that old thing. By you carrying around that old heartache by that crappy person that you dated that treated you like crap and made you think that you're the problem or you're not meeting their needs or you're not good enough for them. That old story is not helping you. It's hurting. It is consistently digging at you and devaluing your efforts to be healthy, be connected to yourself, be intuitive, be present and aware for life to make positive choices and decisions. Yeah, that old stuff that you're just carrying around. There's nothing you can do about that. There's nothing you can do about other people. There's not. There just isn't. And the next person you're with, there's nothing you can do about how they turn out either. But if you're constantly bringing your past into your current situation, it's not going to help your current situation because then you're not fully present and you're not being yourself, then you're not being your best self. And the relationship isn't going to be impacted by you not showing up. Or by anticipating the other person being a certain way or being afraid of that. And it's normal again. I'm not trying to blame people who's been through heartaches and narcissistic relationships and imbalance of power relationships and really crappy people and people that have been hurt. Remember hurt people, hurt people? Everybody really is that person. Like I'm that person. I'm the hurt person. So I might make two choices and decisions if I do from my place of hurt and fear and pain, they're not going to be healthy strong decisions just like you. So don't bring that in. Do you see how you become that person then in the next relationship you're in or in the next interaction you're in? And I'm thinking about relationships because I'm thinking about a conversation I had this morning about and last night too about who we are and how we present ourselves and bring ourselves into any relationship we have. Whether it be a friendship, whether it be a romantic partnership, whether it be a new job even a job situation or scenario it's we're different you know and but we have choices as to how we are going to interact and how we're going to be, how we're going to be present. So hi I'm going to say hello to the chat. I got to check out here in a little bit. Let's see. If you're watching you can come back in you don't have to be gone. This hair isn't messy. I think I'm going to put a hat on. Let's see. Hi Dreamer. Hi Dreamer nice to see you. Grace and Mercy for ourselves yes that is her that is correct Lady V. That is very correct. To that. Hi Drew nice to see you. Hi Tisha good morning my college kiddo. Hello Joe I'm going to call you Joe. Nice to see you all. Nice to see you this morning hi hey okay I got to wrap this up because I have to finish I think I've packed pretty well for the most part but I wanted to make sure I popped in here um did I stay up late last night? Yes I did and I actually had one of my first drinks since the open heart surgery yes I did and I was very chill I had a Bailey's coffee and then we shared something else and I can I can't remember what it was. I know weird right a drink and a can was that even worth it I think it was like a mojito but we shared it so it was no big deal because we're both we're like oh let's have a drink but let's not get crazy so and I've been hydrating big time and I feel really really good I do I feel good so so good morning to you all I appreciate I appreciate uh sorry I got a hair in my mouth one of my long little hairs here that are on grazing I appreciate being able to connect with you every Sunday morning here on Sunday morning coffee I am also on tiktok and I did share some stuff from the concert last night so you'll see that if you follow me on tiktok I haven't shared it on above life channel me sorry I have a little bit of a crappy internet connection it looks like so I am going to say goodbye for the moment I am planning to do a video tomorrow as well on Monday even though I'll be traveling to a different location I'll share that with you too so I hope you guys have a great day don't get too lost in love it'll air supply reference there for you but I'll see you tonight in my sweet dreams but here I am the one that you love okay because you're every woman in the world to me I hope you have a great day a good start to the week and I will check in with you all tomorrow thank you so much for being here lots of love to you