 Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome. I'm going to do yawn. Oh, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. I'm literally lying in bed, and it is. I just woke up. It is like 5.40 a.m., I think. On October 1st. Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Today is my psychic birthday. My psychic birthday. What is that? Well, by the time you see or listen, rather, to this podcast, I've had, hopefully, had a live stream for my birthday online with you. So, a birthday. Let's have a conversation and feel into what that represents. The first thing I felt when I woke up this morning was, oh my gosh, it's my birthday, and it made me feel happy in my heart and at peace. It made me feel a complete, contented peace in my heart, as though someone just tapped the front of my sternum on my chest, and it opened wide like windows out into the new day, sunny and bright and warm and happy. Birthdays aren't always a joyful event or occasion if you think about how it all starts. It is quite an intense experience birthing into the world, coming into the world, however you arrived. It was through a woman, the body of a woman embodied in that sacred container of a womb space and that cuddled up sacred shelter you were grown, created and the intensity through which the transition occurs that causes you to come out of that safe and warm space and be out into the great big world with all sorts of sensory things, temperature, lights, noises, so, so many things new. And we recognize the role of the mother, the woman who brings you into this world through her body. We recognize that tense challenge by myself, as you probably know I've had four children and I have had that birthing process four times. So when I think of birthdays I think of many of those moments where it was a long day, a couple of days for two of them, it was three days of labor and feeling so stubborn and so committed to that process to get those people into this world or in medicine was just, you know, not going to work, I didn't want that, I wanted to feel into and trust my body and it was hard, incredibly painful and at the moments when I thought my body just couldn't take any more pain it's like I was at the top of this mountain when I released and relaxed into let's be clear, no relaxing was happening during the birthing process but surrendering into almost at that point just giving up like, okay, God please help me I'm sure I've said that many times in the birthing process with a physical child and with my metaphysical work for sure help me do this, help me through this help me with this, please just help me, help me help me with this and so for relatively healthy children more naturally into this world really focused on my process and wanting to protect them what I was creating and what I created and keep them safe and cozy, warm and fed and just loved not at all contemplating what they might be experiencing as the one being birthed sometimes when the word birthday comes up I naturally or instinctively want to say birthing day, birthing day not just to acknowledge the mother that did the birthing part but the human that came from the mother you you also did the birthing, it wasn't a one person show it was a dual process where two two were working toward a discovery of life and entrance into something new a birth or a rebirth you can listen to this podcast if you listen to it in October early October of 2022 I believe there is still the mercury bar to agree the way my technology has been acting up and such I'm sure there is still mercury, however it's a new day today is the first of October bringing this, bringing in to the awareness the opportunity to rebirth to begin again to start new, to start fresh to be renewed, rebirth so often in this life journey, at least for myself I can say I have had so, so many opportunities to rebirth it is painful it is hard it is insurmountable at times it feels lonely and totally isolating at times and other times it feels like I'm rebirthing myself on the stage where people are watching me that's not just because of YouTube my friends it's not just because I'm on YouTube it is quite literally because for some some massive change process you might be going through many, many people might be seeing you do that if you're going through a relationship change if you've been married for 20 years and you're changing that status your friends, your family things will change things are changing likely for you in these kinds of situations I will share that it feels worse for you to anticipate and to over-inflate it's natural other people's tendency to care as deeply as you think they do oh, oh, oh, people have opinions wow, people will share their opinions we forgot how to filter everybody's walking around without their little filters on their brains to be nice sometimes, right? especially if they're close to you they think they are able to just say what they think sometimes you ask, though, be fair you ask for advice but it's just opinions of others not the person that's living your life that would be you in your shoes so doing your public rebirth in a process like that you will get bombarded by opinions but oftentimes it's from well-intended people so if you can feel into their intention you will feel their personal fear of rebirth they're not stepping into change in fact you might be representing or presenting their worst fear you're going through a change process a rebirth where you have maybe gone to college gone back to school gotten some kind of a new skill or new training in a new area and you are stepping back into the work world in a new way you are rebirthed into a new career which can be scary especially later on in life it used to be anyway, now it seems like that's the normal thing great, let's make change and doing different things throughout our life, normal that's a good thing we want people who are engaged and interested not people who are dead on the job and yet that other person that has loved you and known you forever it seems forever and not forever maybe they might be giving you all sorts of opinions projecting fear onto you because they have it do you see, when people give you opinions or they give you advice it's from their perspective and so often it's about avoiding pain it's about avoiding the hard work that you've already been through, let's be clear or you're in the throes of it now so you're already in the process usually generally speaking you're in the process or you've already decided to go deeper into that process before you even shared that with anyone and so well-intended, well-meaning friends and family and people will give you advice and opinion and just remember you don't have to take any of it into action, you can listen and see that what they are sharing with you is love not an action plan you quite literally could just listen to them like Charlie Brown, do you remember Charlie Brown? like that like that and it's okay because probably nine times out of ten when someone gives you advice or their opinion it's probably worth about one percent ooh, does that seem mean to say oh, I don't mean it to be mean, my intention is not to be don't listen to anybody ever, my intention is use your brain, use your level of discernment in your heart and don't over-amplify other people's views don't over-amplify or over put place more importance on what's outside of you than what is inside because what is inside is what is birthing you take care of that birthing baby within you, not the outside person that thinks they know better, they don't know your body they don't know your inner process they don't know your wherewithal they don't know truly the depths of what you've been through and what you go through on a daily basis inside they don't know and whenever you undertake a change or you're moving through a transformational time other people cannot understand truly the depths and yet they can still show up and support you and you can still gain and feel the love of others around you a hundred percent you can and you should women don't birth children alone for the most part there might be some tribes or some circumstances in which that occurs but we were not meant to be alone in our birthing process and neither are you my dear you who are listening to this going through some changes in your life oh god, yes, goddess, goddess, goddess I feel you my dear I feel you I feel you you are brave you may not feel it but you have a courage that transcends the temporary suffering you're in oh, I know you're going to say to me, Bridget, it doesn't feel temporary oh honey, I know it doesn't feel temporary but one thing I can tell you about suffering it is not meant to be your identity hear me, hear me, hear me out I said you are not meant to live in pain we were never meant to take on suffering as an identity and it is not the only part of pain transition, change it comes with pain in the form of struggle yes, struggle is natural it gains new skills new ability to trust in yourself which is the most profound thing that comes through a rebirth is the trusting in yourself leaning into the process of the change but not to become the pain it is not your new identity it seems like it feels like it's going to swallow you up and eat you whole in it and be the way forever I know it feels like that but just like a storm it passes, it moves through it moves, pain is intended to move not to stay and even if you have suffered an unbelievable unbearable physical or emotional pain that you've carried with you your entire lifetime there are layers upon layers of that that have cleared and moved through and breathed out and shifted there is a medicine for you to recognize the love and the power of love that was there before and is there now and will be there after all of the changes you moved through in your lifetime regardless of whether they are directly related to the pain cause or not you have power within you the power to rebirth and I used to think, let me just tell you I have sat in circles with priestesses and goddesses and the energetics of incredibly divine women and the term rebirth is used and is used with the intent to understand, to shake the loomspace of earth to recognize the constant, steadfast power of the embodiment that we are it doesn't matter if you're in a feminine body or not you are one with the goddess energy the divine feminine flows through you as much as the divine mask and you are the sacred union of the two yeah I'm going to get a little woo-woo here because it's important and it's part of who I am it's part of my medicine in the world and they use the terms often in these beautiful circles of empowerment the term of rebirth and early early on it bothered me because I physically had birth children I physically knew the pain and the struggle and the intense love to move through the process of the birth to feel everything like I was going to be led to the edge of death I thought my body would rip open quite quite savagely just to bring life into the world just to bring life but for to bring only to bring to have the honor to bring life into the world I knew how precious and powerful that was so when someone said rebirth I thought hmm do you know what you're talking about? do you know? and the resounding answer from your spirit guides your spiritual support team especially the feminine deities yes yes we do we use the word with intent a profound meaning and that is a message for all of us today birthdays might be a day on the calendar to pause to celebrate all the progress you have made as far as you have come now and you have not come this far to only come this far I know I know it's a famous quote I'm not sure who said it but it's true you will have other birthdays in the future other birthing experiences other rebirths you will you will into the depths of which you actually remember the day or the time of the year or the season for which the change occurred that's most often likely I believe is to remember by the season what was the weather like what did it look like outside what time of day was it you remember all those kinds of things and often change doesn't happen in one day or two days or three days it happens over time like a season or a year of your life or a time of life a block of time of life and so today I remember time it was fall it was early autumn it was autumn like so autumn in Minnesota I will share it. I'll try to share it on my live stream and you'll see it here on above-life channel in the reflection of 18 years ago. I'm an adult now. In my psychic terms, my intuitive terms, I'm an adult now. But to celebrate then in some way to acknowledge, at least acknowledge how far you've come, how much you've grown. Even if it's not, it doesn't feel good and you're not quite there yet and you feel like you've made more of a mess than anything. Just remember, when you renovate a house, when you're renovating a room, especially like a kitchen or something like that, or a bathroom, oh my goodness, everything is so disrupted for such a long time until it gets put back together and then is amazing and incredible. Don't stop in the middle of the process. Don't stop. That's like you wouldn't stop in a renovation. You won't stop in a rebirth. Don't stop your process. Honor where you've been. Honor where you are. And then when you get to a point where you can look back and really see, oh my goodness, look at how much has changed. Oh my. Oh, I definitely did coffee this morning. I suppose I'll have to get out of bed to get it, but it's way too cozy here. It's cozy and it's cold in this room right now. It's chilly. I have to grab a robe and head upstairs and make some pumpkin cake latte coffee. That's in my espresso. I just tried it in my espresso. I just tried the pumpkin cake latte again. It's good. That's pretty good. Yeah, I'm embracing the season of autumn. The best I can. I'm a summer baby, you know. I love summer. Oh, love the sun. And today on my birthday, my psychic birthday, I'm 18. I'm an adult and I do adult things today, adulting things today. Yes, I am. And it's going to be beautiful. Yeah, it's going to be 70 degrees. That's beautiful. So I'm grateful. I'm grateful for you. Thank you for listening. Have courage. Okay, have courage. You're changing or you're contemplating a change. Or you just came through a big one. Take a break, take a rest, but do not stop. Don't stop evolving and growing and changing. That's what life's about. It is about these re-burping opportunities and the times in between. Live your life, live it. You are meant to be. You are meant to be. This is Bridget. Thank you for listening to Sunday Morning Coffee, my podcast with Bridget. I hope I've inspired your spirit today, filled you with some hope and encouraged you to live your life. It's your life after all. And you get to live it. Just live it. Thanks for listening.