 Hi, hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Nice to see you this morning. Okay, I'm gonna check my sound here. I know it's it's easy to do these live stream. I've kind of found a little bit of a rhythm in that and I like that so hopefully that works for you all. Let's just see. Here we go. Oh good. I have to make sure my microphone's connected properly. So logistics. Hi, nice to see you. Are you here? Are you? Oh, come on. You need some coffee? Do you want some coffee? This is my coffee mug today. It says Joy. It's like fake it till you make it, right? No, no, no, no. In fact, we're going to talk about the opposite of that today. Our theme is tiger. I am trying to find joy. Okay, our theme is tiger. I will preface this Sunday Morning Coffee episode with sharing with you that I do have a cold. I hope I'm on the tail end of it. But you will hear me clear my voice. Clear my throat rather. So if you're listening on on AirPods, oh, I'm so sorry, I will try to make sure I divert that sound from the microphone. Okay. And I'll be drinking lots of water today. Okay, so hydrate, my friends, hydrate. It's also so dry because I live in the Midwest as you well know, especially if you follow me on Instagram at Bridgen inspired, you've seen me post beautiful icy snowy photographs. And you've heard me talk about often since November, we've got early snow and early cold, like early, like it's been cold, like the kinds of colds that we usually don't have until like mid January, we had like in November already. In fact, we've had a couple of major blizzards, snow storms where this last week we were iced in for like two days, didn't even get our driveway applaud for two days and the snow was really, really heavy. And so all of that to say that the energy of that and the atmosphere, it just sucks the moisture out. It's crazy because to think about the snow is very moisture, right? But the air is like dense. And so it's really dry. However, this is a good, good side of that besides the beautiful photography that I've been able to do in the gorgeous videos I've been able to share with you. We, if you step outside or if you even open up, if it's so cold, you can be on the get outside, open up a window and put your face in the window and breathe in the cold air just really breathe it into your lungs. It forces your lungs to open because the oxygen is like so dense and it really feels, it kind of feels shocking at first, but it feels good and it encourages you to expand. And when you expand, you actually open yourself to receive. So you're able to receive more deeply, more fully. So you see how this is an energetic thing with the air element. Yeah, very energetic, right? And nature is filled with support tools for us. And that's part of what we're going to talk about a little bit I think today in our Sunday morning coffee podcast. So it's really dry is what I'm trying to say too, is like, so it's really dry. So like my hands and I got, I got my lotions and I got my, my chapsticks all over I'm addicted to chapstick as you well know, and you'll see me utilize multiple forms of lip care during our time together. It's kind of a, you know, security blanket sometimes, but now right now it's a necessity. All right. So let's talk tiger. Let's talk tigers. This brings in the opportunity to have a conversation with you about the symbolism of things and the metaphor of things. Recently, for many of us, in fact, some public figures, as well as you, your family and your friends, not just because of the holiday season or the ending of the year or the astrology, but for all of the things that we have been moving through in our lives personally individually and then collectively as a family as a community as a country as a world as human beings on a planet wrapped in energetic awareness or for some ignorance, maybe, but it's affecting you. I want to be sure that I have real conversation with you and bring forward the information from spirit, from your intuition, from energetics that give you true support in your human form. It's got, we've got to apply this information, but in order to apply it, we have to know it. And it's not to give up your power or lay down the expertise to someone else. It is to feel and know yourself better. And during these times, people have been empathic. You are empathic. We have been very impacted. Again, to the degree or the depth is, is individualized. It is very personal, but we have been impacted and we will continue. I will share with you. Yes, we will continue to be impacted into this new year. And with that, there's hope. There's help. So with the energetics, as they are, and you being an empath with the very real circumstances that you're facing in your life, whether it be job challenges, people challenges, kid challenges, marriage challenges, loneliness, depression, seasonal affect disorder, depression, anxiety, whatever, mentally is challenging to you right now during this incredibly heart heavy processing time. It is not because you're defaulted to a, a, a motive, I'm done. I'm tapping out. It is because you feel the energy of things and you're processing energetics, my friends, you guys are processing. We are processing energetics in our heart. And it causes the heart to feel heavier than normal, heavier. It's like the snow that came. It was heavy. It was heavy snow. You could not shovel that. You could not shovel it. It was heavy. That's what's happening in the heart, heaviness. And whether people are psychic or spiritual or intuitive and know it or not, it is affecting them. And so then it also, what is also happening at the exact same time as those heart energy stuff is happening, this deeper processing, not because you're wrong or you're flawed or you're bad, or you've screwed up your life, or you have trauma, not for any of the, the reasons you might list in a mind. Okay. Your brain might list, well, it's because I'm going through a divorce. It's because I have mental health challenges. It's because I had, I lost my job. It's because I hate my job. It's because I'm in college right now. It's because, you know, I'm worried about my kid. Whatever the, because whatever the rationalization is, it doesn't matter is what I'm trying to tell you. It doesn't matter what it is. I mean, oh, you're like, oh yeah, it doesn't matter. No, no, I know it matters, but it doesn't matter energetically, you're feeling it and you're processing it and it's heavy. So just say, yeah, Bridget, yeah, I get it. It's heavy. I'm, it's heavy in here. It's heavy snow in here. Yeah. The snow will melt. Okay. It's going to melt. Not right now. Not for a while. It's hot. It's not hot. It's opposite of hot. It's freaking cold. It's heavy. So when that happens, we hunker down, we take care, we turn on the space heaters, we add some logs to the fire, the pellet stove, and we do things that are slower. I take care of ourselves. But what is happening? My beautiful energetic beings at the same time. Is that your mind, your brain? Oh, oh, it's getting lit with stuff. It's like you're a circuit board and your mind is going, do you like my sound effects? Probably not if you're listening with AirPods because I just yelled into the microphone. Sorry about that. Your mind is lit. Oh, that would have been such a good title for this. Maybe I'll have to change it from tiger to lit. Your brain is lit. And you know how for some who may have participated in some extracurricular activities over the holiday, and the toasting got a little bit too toasty. You know what I'm saying? Clink, clink, chinking the glasses and cheers. All of that. It's kind of like that. Like the after effects. Like right now, the brain has these moments where it's lit. Like you're like, oh, that feels good. Oh, that's great. And then after all of a sudden you're like, oh, you hit a lull, right? Where now you don't feel as good as you felt before. So now there's a comparison, right? Now I feel like this. I'm about here. I was here. Oh, I want to get back up to here. So what can I do to get from here to here? And you're trying to figure that out. And at the same time, when you're trying to figure that out, you're noticing this gap and the gap in and of itself is creating a bigger gap because then it's like, oh, no, I want to feel better than that. So then you might do some things to get up here temporarily again. So then you're up here again. Then you're lit. And you're like, oh, you might be lit with idea. You might be lit with a warm fuzzy that you got. Maybe you just snuggled with your cat. Okay. And it felt so good. And then you had to get up and go to work. Or maybe during the holidays, maybe you got to see a relative you haven't seen him forever. Because let's be clear. It's like been three years since we've all been able to hang out like we used to hang out, you know, the old school nostalgic kind of everybody in the same room kind of I am talking and laughing and hugging and touching and all that good stuff. Maybe you just had that. That was lit. Like you got lit with that. Your brain was like, oh, this is good stuff. Oh, I remember this. Oh, I know this. But then when you're remembering this, you're also noticing the gap, the space in between the length and time, the distance from how long it had been until now. Like, and what you're noticing is the distance, the distance between the gap, the separation, the lack in between, which is natural. It's natural. It's just what you process data information. It's your brain. It's your brain. It's analytical. It's supposed to do that. Supposed to notice the patterning of things, right? So it notices the loss of things, the loss in the distance. So your brain gets lit with that experience. And then you're already thinking as it's starting to kind of fade, you're already thinking about while it's still happening, it's almost over. Like think about it being a kid at Christmas time or at a holiday. If you don't celebrate Christmas, maybe your birthday, what have you. And you're almost or a vacation. You could think about it as a vacation too. Like you're at the end of this. You're almost at the end of it. You know it's wrapping up. And instead of savoring, savoring the moment, just really being present and soaking it up, you're already starting to let go of it. You're already starting to mourn it, to grieve the loss of it because you know it's over or it's coming to an end. It's not technically even over yet. And you're already getting to the end. You're preparing for the loss for when the light goes out. And then there's a stagnant energy again. And really, it's not stagnant. You guys, it's a baseline. It's just, there's a normal energetic, just a baseline that's not super high and it's not super low. The challenge is lately. And I will share this, I'm sharing this because as a human, I've been having this personal experience. Okay, this is my lived experience. And yes, I'm a psychic. Yes, I'm aware of energy. Yes, I have a whole host of tools, as you know, because I've shared them with you energetically to help feel better in the energy and to help understand at a conscious level, what's really happening as a human through emotions and feelings and very physical analytical brain functioning stuff, but also as a spiritual being, right? I got that. But what has been happening is this idea of kind of an average or a baseline, a center point, a kind of a stability place, like a marker, like a benchmark, okay? Like, this is just the baseline. This is the base. This is the marker, the benchmark here. It's not bad. This is never, this average place has not, it's not bad. Okay, it's a kind of a normalcy, a center point, a grounded energy. And for that, that base baseline is different for everybody. So your energy is different, right? Some people run lower and they're really chill and mellow. I have somebody in my life like that, so chill, like you can't even tell what's going on up and is really bothering that person. And then you have me who's like feeling everything, like literally, what does this mean? What does this mean? What does this mean? What does this mean? What is the meaning of life? You know, that kind of thing and every little thing that's happening, I'm getting lit up with stuff, right? And I think we've come to a place as human beings trying to understand our energy where it's kind of like, we forget that there's supposed to be low times. There's supposed to be low times. So if this is our baseline, I always want to like be like right below my chin because I feel like I'm treading water sometimes. Anybody else? Like, I literally have felt so much heaviness in my heart and mental health struggles where I feel like I literally feel like I can't breathe at times. And it's not, so it's not lost on me that actually on New Year's Eve, the day after New Year's, I got this like cold thing. It's not, that's not lost on me. I'm healthy, by the way, for the most part. I don't have the big C. I've taken like three tests is good. I don't have that. So or the little C either. I don't have it. But I feel that, right? And the deal is, is that we have forgotten that it's natural to have lows. It is normal to have lows. It is normal to feel like shit sometimes. Normal. Can we please make it normal to feel like shit? Can we do that? Can we do that? I think we should do that. But that doesn't mean we have to tell everybody about how shitty we feel or blame or complain. We can, however, express and manage and work with that. The fact that our reality right now, we can accept the fact that we feel like shit. We can accept it. It doesn't have to be fixed or repaired. It has a purpose. Okay. The lows have a purpose. You can't always be lit. Right. And who's to say that the feeling lower or in some cases, it might not be an emotional mood shift of lowness or sadness or heaviness or depression. It might actually just be a just slower vibration. It might just be, there's not as much work to do right now. There's not as many clients. So it is slower. Lower might mean slower, slower. Everything, every state of your energetic awareness, when you're aware of it, it serves a purpose. So if you can be aware of it and understand that it has a purpose and stop trying to push it out of the way or just get through it or change it or fix it, just allow it to be here, the slow space. Do you know metaphysically and in many cultural traditions like the Celtic wheel and with the turn of the wheel and the eight high holy days and the, I'm in actually two programs that reference this right now. So it's on the top of my brain, but that this time right now, energetically is a time for quiet. It's a time for stillness. And for me, where I live, it's obvious because I can't go outside and walk like you know me. I love to walk in the hot heat, sweaty, hot humidity, burning sun in the middle of the day. I like to walk. Now I'm walking inside on a treadmill and I'm walking less, slowing down. So the energy of this season right now is one of slowing down and going inside or resting, cuddling up with a good book or not putting so much pressure on yourself, or it's a time to let yourself be with yourself, to have intimate conversations inside your head. And those conversations aren't post part of meetings. Okay, they're not, well, how can we do this better? How can we reevaluate what you have done wrong over the last year? That is not what January is about calendar year wise, by the way. That's not what resolutions are about. That's not what setting goals is about. It's not about going through all the past and all the things you haven't done appropriately, properly or adequately. It's not about pointing out the gap. It's about being with yourself without having to fix yourself and knowing that all the states of your energy, all the ways you're feeling serve a purpose and nature is showing you that. Nature, here we get to the tiger, nature is showing you that. Like with where I live in the northern hemisphere, the winter, right? And it's literally cold winter in Minnesota here, very cold winter. So it is giving me cues, nature gives you cues. You have not been set out here in a soul all by yourself, dropped off in the middle of nowhere, figure it out, figure it out. No, that's not what's happened. It might sometimes vary oftentimes. Sometimes you might be in a low spell where you feel like that is exactly what feels like it's happened. I promise you it's not, you have not been abandoned, only perhaps by yourself. Boom. Did you feel that? If you feel like you've been abandoned, it's because of you. So this still time, this slower, quiet, low time where you are forced to feel the heaviness of some of those emotions and feelings that you have discarded and distracted yourself from for the last year. That's kind of what happens in January. That's kind of what starts to happen at the winter solstice. That's one of those magical high holy days, right? That's kind of what happens. So this is a slow time, energetically and metaphysically, where intellectually the mind is going, Hey, we need some goals, we need some resolutions, we got to start exercising and eating better and whatever. As long as things are good, goals are inspiring to you or it gives you some kind of incentive or something healthy and positive to focus on, they're fine. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing wrong with not doing that. There's also nothing wrong with you not being in a high time and you being in a low time. That's okay. It serves a purpose. It sucks because it doesn't always feel good to be with yourself and with all of your emotions. That doesn't feel good because emotions are information and they give you so much knowledge. And then eventually when you start to feel like you're coming out of your low time or you start to feel some kind of a, I don't know how to explain how this happens because it happens to me all of a sudden like now it's time. Like you just feel like it just naturally kind of pulls forward. Like it's not a push. It's not a force. It's not a motivation. It's not a perseverance. I got to do this. And I love those memes just as much as the next person. Seriously, I love those motivational positives. Oh, I love it. I think it's awesome. It serves a purpose, right? However, that's not what happens when you're actually being moved from your center place where you are with yourself. Like you have to be on your own side. So energetically, instead of feeling the low lows and the desire really is to get to the baseline. Let's just be clear because then you can kind of make all sorts of choices and options and go up or down in just kind of a sweet and comfortable like swaying way almost. Gosh, it's almost feeling like a rocking chair or a hammock, like a hammock, like a rocking back and forth that you can you can ebb and flow. You know, it's easier when you're at the center point, but I want to make sure I talk about the tiger because I keep seeing it. So let me do that. So I do want to say if you are feeling particularly low and it's a heavy thick snow processing time in the hard space. And for me personally, it's very, very, very much that. And sometimes you need extra help. Okay. So please make sure you have support structures that are going to help your heart be supported by your brain because sometimes the brain can kind of be an asshole and just keep going with stuff and like, Hey, here's a goal. Here's a goal. And your heart's like, Wait, wait, I can't even, I can barely get out of bed. How am I going to get to the grocery store and buy special greens? You know what I mean? To make a smoothie. Are you fucking kidding me right now? Like that's how it feels some days, right? Or you have friends that are like, Oh, I just started my business and I launched this and you're like, all you want to say is, Oh, yeah, great. Fuck you. Hey, I am just really showing up and being honest with you here, because that's what I am. Right? Raw and honest. So my point is, if you are feeling really just so much a contrast between human life and the things you need to do, like shower, or get to work, or take care of your kids, like make dinner for your children kind of thing. And that's just getting hard. Make sure you have support structures in place. Common things because you need support structures for your brain because your brain does not understand spirituality. So you need to talk in tangible terms with your mind. So consider it this helping your brain understand the support you need from your soul and your spirit inside your intuition, not your intuition. Your soul and your spirit, your energy is what I want to say. Because if I say intuition, the brain goes, Yeah, whatever, your energy, so you're healthy and your body needs this too, obviously. So you counseling, coaching, there's 1-800 number hotlines for all sorts of assistance online. You could call like different hotlines every breakfast, lunch, and dinner of the day if you want. And there's different ones for different communities. So like the Trevor Project has great resources just so you're aware like text lines and stuff like that. There's suicide prevention hotline. There's crisis hotlines. There's mental health hotlines, like where I live, there's Canvas Health. There's so many resources. So what I would suggest to you is because either you or somebody you know is probably in a place where at any given point, they might be having low lows that they are covering up, or they are attempting to prevent getting too low. And they don't want to tell you that because they don't want you to think that they're not all together or they don't want you to think badly of them like that they can't handle their shit. I'm speaking from personal experience. So I know. I didn't tell you that I know. Before you get to that place, go online, do a search and make like a list of maybe five phone numbers that you could call. Put it in your phone under your notes or put it in your contacts and call it something like support and put the numbers underneath support. You know, like have support be the last name or something and then list each one of them or just do one contact. So you just open it up and you see it and you click that number and you call and you just talk to somebody and that's it. On the back of your health insurance card, oftentimes too, there is a number for, excuse me, there is a number usually for mental health services, like a hotline that you can call. Or oftentimes employers will have a wellness program that offers EAP, which is Employee Assistance Program. So get these things, put them in a like a contact in your phone so you have that. So even if you don't need it personally, you don't have to tell me if you need it. I don't care. No judgment. I think you're smart if you're doing that by the way because you're prepared before it happens because when it happens, trust me, you cannot think straight. You don't even know you have a phone when that happens. When you get that low phone, what's that? You don't even care. You can't feel anything. You're so disconnected. You don't know. That's the last thing. You can't feel heat. You can't feel cold. You can't feel feelings. You literally just go numb and you go just you're out yourself. You're not going to think about that. Oh, maybe I should look up something. But right before that happens, right before you get too low, your body will trigger you and then you can take some action for yourself. And if it's just opening up the contact on the phone, you can also make sure that you do have a counselor. Even if you think you don't have any problems and everything is great for you. Good. Consider it maintenance. It's like preventative care. Do you do preventative care? Do you exercise? Do you go to the doctor? Do you take care of your body? Yeah, okay. You need to do preventative care for your mental health too. And the mental health piece is the mind. For me, it's the mind of the body connected to the heart. That's what it is. You need to do that. Okay. You just need to. You need to. That should be your new year's thing because with what I see this year coming ahead, we're going to need it. You need to be in a committed relationship with your whole self, with your brain, your mind, your thoughts, with your heart, your heavy, those heavy snow feelings right now, you might be happy. Okay. Maybe you're not. Maybe you're in a good time. You're in a time that's like not a good. Good sounds like a judgment in a higher time maybe or a lit time. Great. Good. There is going to be a leveling out. It will happen. It always does and that's okay. But so before you get to the low, low times, make sure you have that set in place. Also, for friends, your kids, print that shit out and put it on the side of the refrigerator. Here are our crisis lines. Here's what you do when you feel like crap and you need to talk to somebody. You can't talk to mom. Here's what you do. Here's the resources and maybe you create a contact in your phone and you send it to your kids so they have a resources. Do you see what I'm saying? You can't make the freaking phone call for them and you can't make the choice for them, but you can give them support by giving them information and if they use it, great. And you can set the intention that they will if they need it. Do you see what I'm saying? And or also friends, have these conversations with your friends. Say, hey, I created this support web for myself and I sent it to my kids and you can even just say, hey, I made this and I gave it to my kids because your mental health is a big deal and stuff. Hey, can I send it to you? So you have that, you know, maybe you can use it for your family or for you or whatever. You know what I'm saying? And be a safe place for people. Okay. People don't have to look like they're in crisis to be struggling underneath the surface. In fact, we have learned very well to hold up a public persona that looks like you have it all together. You all do it and I know you do. I know you do. Think about those times when you are so emotionally upset about one of your kids or something or you're so worried about something and you still put on your makeup and go to work and you sit in a meeting and listen to somebody talk about profit margins. Remember that? Do you remember those moments? You've been there. You've been there. There's nothing wrong with any of this conversation we're having right now. There's nothing wrong with you. It doesn't mean you're broken. You are not broken. This is natural baseline, lower lows, slowing down, working with that energy, not to make it go away, but to give yourself that time to connect when you are feeling low. That's the time that you build the relationship within yourself. That's the time when you know you can trust yourself and rely on yourself to keep yourself safe, to keep yourself in an energy of love, to keep yourself cocooned, to be gentle with yourself. This is the time for self-compassion. This is where you learn how to take care of yourself. It's not about isolating, but it can feel isolating, but it's about really knowing, getting to know yourself and what you need, and then utilizing tools. It could be tapping, EFT tapping. That's what I've been doing a lot of tapping lately. It's been really helpful to me because meditation sometimes is hit or miss. It's hard sometimes. Even if meditation is hard, still turn on the audio of it. Still turn it on. Still listen to it and just sit there. Close your eyes and sit. It might take a couple days before all of a sudden you start to hear the words, but at least you're setting the intention and you're showing up. That's what you need in any relationship. Your behavior tells the truth. Show up for yourself, and that will go a long way. Just show up. Sit in that space. Sit in that damn meditation for 10 freaking minutes. Even if you're like, sit there. Hold the space. That's it. That's it. It's not, it doesn't have to be hard. Stop fighting yourself. The world gives you enough challenges as it is. Other people give you enough challenges of it as it is. You get enough from other places, from everywhere. Why would you be fighting yourself? Why? It does not make sense. This is going to be a long Sunday morning coffee. I hope that's okay. I might need to reheat. It's a good thing I woke up sexy as hell this morning. This is my water cup, by the way, because of the throat thing. Okay, tiger. We're going to talk about the tiger. I do actually have a moon water on my altar space. We just had a full moon, so I set her out. I didn't put her outside. I was not going to let that happen again. Did you hear my story about the water in the last full moon because it's icy here? Yeah, you can only guess. I left it out overnight. I didn't leave. I was going to do it for a couple of hours and then bring it in. But yeah, it kind of broke and froze and it's still outside. And yeah, it's kind of a thing. Yeah. I wasn't using my brain that much. This is beautiful. This is perfect. I have some water and I have a little, I have a candle. Obviously the fire element balancing things out for me right now. I'm definitely a fire element, a fire bear by just by, that's just organically who I am. That's just, that's my innate incarnation is fire. Hello, Shakti. Tiger. Okay. But I am soothing and working with the water now. I kind of shifted into that. It came in in December for me for sure, the water and that's emotion. Traditionally, water is associated. It's not the case for everybody. When I share information, by the way, it's just from like 18 years of my experience, but that's not necessarily what is true for you. So I'm just sharing from my perspective and working with clients and having my own experiences. So it's just a place to start is what I'm trying to say. It's just a place to start. It's not, it's just a place to start. It's not the answers. Okay. But so the water is traditionally associated with the heart chakra and emotion. So it's perfect because I've been going through a lot. You guys know that. Like I've been really, I've shared that with you. I think we need to talk more vulnerably and openly about our feelings without feeling ashamed of them without feeling like we're worried about how we looked to other people. I think we need to have more honest conversations with people and be vulnerable. We have to have more trusting relationships where we can be vulnerable and be uncomfortable with our feelings and let other people be uncomfortable and work through that together because that's how you build your relationship better with those people. That's how you really build good deeper friendships and connections with people by letting them know that because then when you share, they can share too. And it can be this beautiful growth opportunity just like within yourself. Do you see what I'm saying? So the water is kind of a big deal for me this year. It seems like I'm utilizing it as a healing tool. So I just want to acknowledge that again, one way that we're supported by nature naturally, like there's natural supports all around you. So here's what happened this morning. I was thinking about actually, I'm going to heat up my bubbler. So you're going to hear it because I really want this to be hot water. You have time, right? Like you're not in a hurry, right? Are you okay? I hope not because we're going to talk a little bit more. You're going to hear this. It's going to get hot. Oh, just a minute. When I have the heater on at the same time as I turn on my kettle, it blows the fuse. So I've learned a lot about circuitry. Funny, right? Fingers I blow a fuse, right? Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm looking at the chat here. Hi, everybody. Hi. Nice to see you. Okay. Yeah. Out of this conversation, take what is a fit and alignment for you and leave the rest. That's all it is. Not everything is going to apply. It's good. That's good. We're all good here. So here's what happened. So I was thinking about this this morning. I got up and I was like, oh, I was trying to get my butt out of bed. I was really trying and I thought, oh, it's Sunday. I can just lay here to get up. And then I realized, oh, I have to do a Sunday morning coffee. Oh, I didn't record that. I got to get out of bed. So I got out of bed and I'm like, okay, so I don't make coffee, let the dogs out all that. And as I'm thinking about it, I have a list of like topic ideas and things that bubble up during the week. I like make little notes and my memo is on my phone or in my journal. And so I have ideas. It's easy. It's super easy. It just comes in. But this morning, and I had one I think from when I was sleeping last night, I think something came in. And this morning when I woke up, I had a tiger image in my head. Someone tell you about that. Okay. So I had a tiger image in my head. So there's a couple of reasons why the tiger is coming through. So I'm going to share that with you because it has to do with symbolism and metaphor and a way in which we are getting the information that we need. We are getting it. We're just not understanding it. Okay. You're getting support. You're getting support from the universe. You're getting support from nature. Hello, water. Do you know how much I did? I'm like, I've never been a huge water fan. Like, I don't love to swim. I used to be scared of the ocean last year I went two or three times, two times to the ocean, three times. I can't remember two or three times the ocean, which is crazy. I hadn't been to the ocean in years and all of a sudden I go twice. Like Gulf of Mexico, I went in November and then in August I went to the Pacific Northwest. So crazy, right? So I'm like, oh my God. Amazing, right? The water's coming in and I knew I needed to do that and I knew it was a clearing, a purging for me. And it just, I'm thinking about it now. I can feel that energy of the ocean and seeing the ocean and how she's different in different places and different ways in different minutes. Every minute's different, right? With her. She's just beautiful and she's divine, feminine energy. The ocean is mother ocean. Yeah, I'm just feeling that energy, but we're supported. My point is we're supported. We have so much support. I'm waiting for this thing to bubble. It needs to bubble. Oh, isn't there saying like with the watch, watched pot never boils? As soon as I said that it's like as you wish, it's starting to bubble. You probably can't hear it. Look, I'm manifesting. Wow, that's good. What is it, the eighth? Oh, it's one month for my birthday, just so you guys shouldn't make that on your calendar. It's one month for my birthday. My birthday is in February. Here she comes. Yeah, she's bubbling. Yes, she is. She's quiet for a little bit and then she gets really like, whoa, that's awesome. I'm kind of liking this vibe here. So the water is the water and the heat are coming together, right? The fire element to warm the water. See how they work together? It's not either or it's and it's always and that's the answer to everything I was telling you from that video. I'm like, no, no, no, it's not or it's and it's always and and they're gone. Can you guys hear that? I don't know if you can kind of noise cancel sometimes sound for those of you who are auditory. You may hate this one. We may love it. Kind of awesome. Would you like to your coffee? Put it in the chat what you would like. I'm offering you both. You can have to your coffee. It's always an and to end coffee we have here. You don't just have one thing or the other to choose from to end coffee. So you can have both if you want. What are you drinking this morning? What is your beverage of choice? Do you have tea? And if you do, do you have a specific kind? If you have coffee, do you have a favorite? Are you a Starbucks gal or you know, you know, Nespresso. Actually I'm really into Americana. It's everywhere I go now. I'm having Americana. Part of that is because I can't do my whole caramel macchiato anymore because of all the you would not believe all the sugar and crap that they put in that thing. Plus caramel is like not being in and some things. I did learn some things about that this year. So I am taking that or last year in 2022. So I see what you're having in the chat and add a little bit of this to my coffee just to warm it up. Like I said, I like Americana. I'm going to add this to my just pure water. I've been drinking dragon tea. I got that as a gift this year as my one of my Christmas presents. So I've been having dragon tea, which is good actually. It's like a black tea. It's good. I like red teas too. That's kind of my thing. I like anything with cardamon in it. Cardamon. And the summertime, I drink different kinds of teas. Yeah, I'm here. You see my tea is a frappe. A frappe. Miss frappe here. Okay. Coffee. Yeah, coffee. You guys know I have mugs, right? They're little, but I have mugs here on Above Life channel. There's actually merchandise that's mugs. And my favorite one is the Hope mug. They have a Hope mug. I love it. It's just so sweet. And this supports my channel. Although I should probably check the pricing on all that stuff because they just jacked up the prices a lot. So I don't think I'm actually making my, I better check that. My business brain needs to get lit. I'm working on it this year. I am doing sessions. You'll start to see links in my descriptions where you can actually book private sessions. And you don't have to be in a coaching program, FYI. You can just do a one-on-one. It's fine. I'm allowing that now because I'm like, oh, I'm going to need to do that. I'm going to need to let that happen, aren't I? Yes, the universe says, yes, you're going to need to allow people to just come into your life, even if just for a moment, a reason, season, or lifetime. I'm like, okay, okay, fine. Okay, I just love people. So I wanted them to come back. You know what I mean? I like that relationship piece. Okay, now I'm good. Are you good? Norma and Closie. Oh, some of you might have iced tea too or iced coffee. Is it hot? What's the temperature you're like? Is it hot? Do you have hot coffee or like hot chocolate or cider? Or do you have cold? Are you like a cold brew kind of person? There is a coffee place that I need to get back to in Washington state that's called The Woods. Oh my gosh. I literally walked to that place like every freaking day when I was there. It was not far from my sister's place. And I was like, oh my God, I can't explain how good the coffee is there. It is so, I love Washington state. I just love it. If it wasn't so rainy and cold, I would probably live there, but it is very radiant cold. So I don't know. But it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. And it's called The Woods. Does anybody know of that? Anybody familiar with that? It reminds me of Minnesota, I think, to our North Shore. But anyway, all right, so let's get you talking about that. How nature supports us, all right? So the water element, the fire element, the air element, right? I said how the air is rich here now with the oxygen and it reminds you of expanding and expansion is about receiving. So we have to get better at that, you guys. Collectively, as people, we are so not good at receiving, right? Some people might be good at taking, okay, but that's not receiving, all right? That's not receiving. Receiving is different. Expanding to receive, opening to receive. This is part of the work that I'll be doing in a program. I'm entering a year-long program. And the first month is really about the mantra is I surrender, I receive. And it's really about allowing that into life. And it's hard to send it, render and let go and not control things, not to control how you receive. And so it's kind of like today, it's sunny, beautifully sunny, so I'm going to receive the solar energy. I don't get the heat, but I get the sun. So I'll receive that and bring it in. And I'll literally sit here. I would have, so I have a living room space where the sun comes right in and I have two huge chairs that I sit in. You've seen this because it's on above-life channel. I channeled right there from with George Michael last week. But right now, the way the sun is, it would have been blinding. I couldn't, you couldn't even see me if I was sitting there. But, but so I will receive the sun. It comes in and it does warm. It does warm. So I'll receive that solar light energy, which is beautiful. I'll receive that. That's an element, right? And then the energetic of the water element I can receive just by looking at the water, by drinking, sorry, by drinking the water. I can do that or by taking a shower with intention or taking a bath. Baths are really sensitive to me right now. My body. Oh girl. Oh girl. I tried to take a bath this week. It was like Wednesday and I freaked out after. I was like crying. I could not function after I took a bath. It was like, it was so sad that my body was so, so, almost felt so fragile and the water so tender and delicate. It was just trying to love me, but I was like not in a space to be able to what, what receive it to be expanded to receive it. So there's, but there's lots of ways you can connect with the elements of water and then fire, you could literally, if you have a fireplace or a pellet stove, oh my god. Okay. So one of my dreams is I really, I think I want a pellet stove. Maybe I'll get that in my next house. I kind of want like a cabbony vibe, but I want it to be like in a contemporary condo in a city. So I like want everything. Maybe a loft. I don't know. Oh my god. I'm just having all these provisions, but I want, I want that like that wood burning stove vibe, you know, and, but I don't want all the work like I don't want, I don't want myself or my partners to have to be able to chop the wood and do that's just too much work. Unless we can have it delivered. That's fine, but I just, I want the fire element, right? Don't you, you might have that. You might have a beautiful fireplace or even like a gas fireplace. Fine. Fine. Totally fine. It does the job, right? Or you can burn, burn some incense, right? Burn an incense cone, because it kind of does that little spiral. So pretty. So pretty. Or you could have a bonfire. Maybe where you're at, it's nice enough to do that. Or even if it's cold, have a bonfire. People have bonfires here all the time in the winter. I'm like, it's kind of cool. Like quite literally cold, but it's beautiful, right? So many ways to bring in that fire element, right? You can, you can do like just a candle, simple, easy, right? And the air element, by opening the air, by breathing the air, by using symbolism of birds or the energy of the wings, watching the birds. There's so many ways that you can, can experience it by focusing on your breath and breathing. And of course, earth. Earth, earth. Earth is the basis. She is the baseline. She is the center point. Earth. That's how you know you're at your, your, your center, right? That's one way you can get there quickly. Earth. Sometimes they say dropping in the, the divine feminine work that I've been doing. I've been doing it for years by the way, but I'm formally entering into a program. It's really so simple to get support if we come into this point of center, just this stable and steady grounded in earth. And it's just earth energy. It's not like, okay, I need to go take off my shoes and walk on the earth and walk around in three circles and put my hands on the ground. You can do whatever you want, ceremonially, ritually, whatever, but it's just knowing that earth, like right here, center core at your heart space, earth, bring the earth right into your heart. Let her love you. That heart, hearth, hearth, hearth energy. I actually did a meditation about that a long time ago. I should actually share some of that stuff with you guys. So it might be a good idea. Maybe I should do that. Anyway, my point is earth is always everything. Earth is literally everything. It's the home base for all of it. Yeah, for us to experience the air, the water, the fire, the light, right? The earth, the air, the fire, the water, right? So the tiger, I saw it this morning when I was washing my face, putting on some moisturizer and I saw this image of a tiger and it made me kind of giggle. So it came into my awareness this past week or a couple of days ago. I was having a conversation with a friend and she sent the tiger emoji, like random. It seemed random. I can't remember. We were talking about something and it just seemed not, like it kind of seemed out of place, not out of place. Surprising. I'm like, wait, what? And I was like, okay, I think my response was okay or smiley face, like what? And in the moment when I was washing my face and touching my face, it made me feel joy. I remembered that moment and that little emoji and it made me feel good. It made me feel good. It brought me up to a baseline. Do you understand? I wasn't already lit, okay? I was like below the, I was, I've been below the baseline a lot, okay, a lot lately. Okay. Honestly. And it brought me up to the baseline and I was like, oh, tiger. And I thought, that's just a symbol. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's a symbol for me. And in this moment, it symbolized this like lighthearted, playful joy energy, a tiger. But what it means for me, so what it symbolized in that, in that, in that moment when I was remembering it was that, but what it means for me, when I first saw it and why it was like, wait a minute, whoa, it seemed like, I'm like, this seems out of context a little bit. Or I'm like, whoa, okay. Because what it means for me, the tiger, the symbol, this is nature. This is symbolism. This is metaphor, you guys. I want you to pay attention to this for your life because this is going to help you. It's not just bad shit happening everywhere. There is really good stuff that's coming in that you are not noticing. So this is why I'm sharing with you about the tiger. I want you to notice. Okay. Notice and get nurtured. Notice and get nurtured. Okay. So I'm like, oh joy. But I'm like, so what it means for me, the tiger, I'm like, it like literally just like opens me wide. The tiger expands me in a second. It like blows the fucking doors off his heart. It's like, yeah, tiger. Okay. I got you. I got you. Like that vibe. Like it just makes me come alive. Do you see that? Makes me come alive. And I know there's a lot of reasons for that for me. So now that when that shows up now in my awareness, I'm like, you know, do you know why? I'm like, I got to share this with you guys because it's so cool. So the tiger for me is very divine feminine, very strong, confident. She has orange on her body, which connects to the sacral chakra, which is sensuality. Oh, she knows what she wants. And she focuses on what she wants. And she might not attack or jump or get after it. She might be just chilling and relaxing and waiting for it to kind of come to her, get a little closer. And then she knows she instinctively, intuitively responds. She is a hunter. She is a warrior. She is very savvy, very savvy. And who doesn't love all that energy? Hello. That is like, oh, okay, squad gold here. I want tigers in my squad. And I'm like, I like that a lot. That's hot energy. That's like fire energy to me. And that's like warrior. That's oh, that's good energy. And I'm like, Whoa, this is a lot of meaning for me personally. So you see how a symbol or metaphor and emoji, an image on somebody's letterhead or their logo on their website, or a picture on a cover of a book, like if you go to the brick and mortar bookstores, which I love, I love that. Oh my gosh, I just, I got to do that just last week. It was so much fun to touch the books and look at the picture, the art and on the cover. But you see the symbolism and the meaning for you personally, how it touches you. That's a message. That's God. That's universe. That's your soul talking to you, the colors, the imagery. That means something that brings you to life. That gives you info immediately. So see what it meant for me. I was like, Oh, I mean, I know it wasn't necessarily intended that way, but I was like, Oh, okay, here I am. Here I am. Okay. Hello. Okay. My body's awake now. Yes, it is. So I also remembered in 2020, I was in a online year long study. And it was anointing, the sacred art of anointing. So using essential oils, I've shared this a little bit here. It was the emerald temple.com. Those are the oils, the emerald temple.com. And it was through priestess presence temple. You can look at that up to priestesspresence.com. And there's a lot of offerings there and a lot of free stuff and a lot of stuff that if you're interested in divine, feminine, devotional kind of work, work that you work with a lot of the shadow within yourself, that self help, self development, but in a way that's empowering and focused on you, but it calls you on your shits. You have to be prepared for that. And very divine, feminine, goddess archetypal energies. So it was this, this beautiful program called Rosa Mystica, which actually is going to start in February. So that's the thing that is striking, sparking you. You should check it out priestesspresence.com. Elaine Kalila Doughty, it's her work. I've known her for a year. She's an incredible, a lot of integrity, a lot of integrity. So I was in that last year and in that program, one of the oils that we had, we did this meditation. And I think it was, interestingly, it wasn't the intimacy oil because there's an oil for each of the chakras and you work up the chakras. It's amazing. You guys, this is amazing. And it wasn't the intimacy oil because I think I would have probably freaked out at that point if I did that because I was in the beginning of the year and I was not in that place. Again, not in that place. But I'm just going to bring in this. This is the honor oil. See, look at my fingers all filled with the oil. I'll put it on the back of my neck and my throat chakra goes on the belly. This is a solar plexus. It's called honor oil. It's very divine masculine for me. That's what it means, the solar energy. I told you this was going to be long. I hope that's okay. Oh yeah, it feels great. Oh God, that feels so good. But we were doing a meditation and in the meditation, we were at this place with a segment. I think it was, oh no, did I? I think it was a meditation with segment, which is she's a goddess energetic. I love her. She's like such an embodiment for me, such a force for me. I'm very warrior, very sensual, very divine feminine leadership energy. And she came in and it was this choice. You were standing at this mountaintop and it was this choice of the lion or the tiger. You choose which path you take. Which one are you with the tiger or the lion? And I chose the lion. Like instinct, right away. I'm like, oh, I'm all about the sacrament. I'm all about the lion, lioness, which is also our ganglial aerials energy. I'm like, that's me. No question. Lioness. That would be me. I'm not, that's me. I'm not. And so now it's funny because I remembered that I was like, oh, I had a choice between two cats and I chose the lioness. And now this year, all of a sudden this tiger emoji energy is coming in. I'm like, ah, it's never an or. It's an and. So look at how this choice then comes back around for me to support me. So to for you in your life choices you make. Like I always tell people in session to I'm like, it's not like a grid system. Like in the streets, like you're driving and you're trying to find your way, you're navigating, you're following your way, you're taking the right roads, right? You're taking the right roads. It's a cul-de-sac, honey. It's a cul-de-sac. It's a great big circle. You're going to come back around and have another opportunity. You always have more opportunities. You always do. You do. They might look different. You might now recognize, hey, this is the same kind of vibe that I had this time last year or this time five years ago or in this relationship I had 10 years ago. I'm having the same kind of situation right now. You might not recognize that you have that choice point, but everything comes back around. And it's not just the bad stuff, you guys. You know, people say, karma, like what comes wrong goes wrong. It's not just the bad stuff. It's the good stuff. We got to start noticing. Because when you notice the good stuff, it brings you back to your baseline, your center point. It keeps you stable and steady. So there's lots of metaphors, lots of evidence for you in your life that will bring you like this, the symbolism for me that came forward today. And you can think of all sorts of fun things with a tiger, can't you? Like the eye of the tiger. Hey, Rocky, right? It's like, am I training for something? It's my body going to start moving? Or is it like, like that song just like, oh my gosh, it just makes me, it like doesn't just pump your blood like that. Like it gets you, you make you feel alive. It gives you like this purpose and your body feels it. It's in this embodiment energy. I love that. So that like, I literally could have a theme song, couldn't I? I have the tiger. Yeah. It's very divine feminine, though. So it's kind of interesting. I'm like, I don't think of Rocky and the divine feminine. So maybe it's both the divine masculine feminine coming together, whatever, whatever your jam is, that's what it maybe would be. And then the third thing I saw with the symbolism of the tiger, you're going to totally laugh and I'm so going to date myself, which is mine, is Tony the Tiger. Does anybody know who Tony the Tiger is? Does anybody? There's actually two different versions of a tiger I can share with you right now. But anybody remember who Tony the Tiger is? I'm going to give you a whole minute for that. Yes. Ding, ding, ding. Thank you, Quinnette. Frosted flakes, the cereal. Tony the Tiger. Do you remember Tony the Tiger will come in and help you with all your sporting stuff and help give you energies. You could have a good breakfast in the morning. Tony the Tiger. Frosted flakes, your cereal. Like that, right? So like childhood, like this iconic energy and the simplicity of that, like believing in something bigger than yourself or having some kind of spirit guidance like that embodied in this cartoon character, fine, whatever, whatever works for you, whatever is going to help you get from the low, low, kind of gently moving, supporting you where you're at and bringing you to your baseline. Okay, that's the point, right? I always think of baseball when I think of Tony the Tiger. He must always wear a hat, right? Did he wear a cap? I always think of baseball. All right. And then there's one more. Tigger, the bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. Because the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one. Does anybody? Tigger, right? I have a friend that loves one of the Pooestown. Well, she likes Piglet. Yeah. And so Tigger the Tiger is fun, very bouncy, lots of energy, which can be a lot to handle, isn't it? Because lots of energy doesn't necessarily mean good. It could be like manic. It could be overwhelming. It could be too much to handle at times. And so the goal is not to change yourself, not to change the natural rhythms of your energy, not to change your moods, force a change. It's to be in awareness of how you get to manage, decide, choose subtly in the moments, what you need for support, whether it be looking up the resource hotline number that you need to call and have a conversation with somebody. And the anonymity is nice. You could do that. Or maybe it's getting outside and taking a walk, even though it's cold. So your air breathes in the dense oxygen, just getting outside for one loop around the cul-de-sac, or one loop around the block, or one walk to the mailbox. That's it. Maybe that's it. It's that awareness, you know? All right. Oh my gosh, this was great, you guys. Thank you so much for being here. I so appreciate you. You guys are like such good receivers. I really appreciate it. I really, really do. I really wanted to have the conversation about, everybody says mental health, but it's not just mental health. It's this full body awareness of the expression of life. It's life health, life wellness. And we're all at different places at different times, and there's no shame in how you feel or don't feel. But I think the key is the conscious awareness. You got to stay conscious. And when you can see yourself changing or shifting or going down a slope, you need to then take as soon as you start to notice even little bits of that kind of slide happening, that's when you have to take action. Because when you're in too low, you won't be able to do it. I know it's hard to do it. And then you have scenarios like stitch or twitch, twitch, right? Like a home stitch. I'm thinking Disney. Sorry, Twitch. Sorry, honey. I'm sorry. He's like, it's okay. He's like dancing. It's all right. It's okay. Yeah, that's why we're not channeling him. We're not going to channel him. Please stop asking me to channel him because everything looks so good on the outside, didn't it? Because you can be high functioning, majorly depressed at times just so you know, don't make assumptions about people. It's true. The meme that goes around about how be kind to people because you don't really know what they're going through because they're not necessarily showing you, right? Yeah, we're going to not touch that one for a while. So when it's time, we will. I can feel him actually right now. When it's time, we will. He's like, he stands like this and he goes, I totally respect that. He says, I totally respect that. And he says, thank you. You're welcome. He says, thank you for talking about this today. I did. I talked about it. I talked about it. You matter. Okay. I hope that we've inspired your spirit and given you some hope today filled you up a little bit. Maybe I mean, I even offered you my Kevill hot water. So you know, I love you, right? You know, I'm like, I love you in your heart. I know your heart might be heavy and there's but that's it's normal. You're not bad. You didn't take on too much energy. Oh, you screwed up. So now you feel bad. That's not true. It's not feeling. It's not a punishment. We need to do it. Well, okay, I'm going to write that down. We're going to have to do a Sunday morning coffee about how emotions are not punishment. Okay. That's me. I can't show you my entire journal because that would be if you see it says private on it, you probably can't tell but it actually says private emotions are not punishment. Feeling is not a punishment. It's information. Okay. It's opportunity to build a relationship with yourself to show up for you. Please do that. You are worth getting to know. You do matter. You're worth getting to know. You're worth getting to know a promise. You're not going to learn anything deep and dark and horrific about yourself. You're scared of that. I know, but the truth is, is you're pretty amazing. Spend some time with yourself and you'll find that out. I mean, you have like a speck of universal consciousness inside you. God source creator a light within you. You have that prime source energy inside you. That's what your light is. That's what your solar plexus is. That's what oneness is. That's what love is. You have that. It's inside your belly. It's in your inner temple. You have it. You just have it. Everybody has it. You can ignore the rest of your entire life if you want to, but you have that. So when you're spending time with yourself, when you're taking care of the heavy hearted emotions or your physical body or working towards supporting your mental health or understanding yourself better, when you're doing that, you're honoring that, that piece of light inside you, whether you call it God or creator or source or universe or consciousness or love or light. It doesn't matter what you call it. It is. It just is. And that's you. All right. Hey, thanks for hanging out today. I appreciate you. If you've made it to the end of this video, when you're rewatching this or listening to it, will you do me a favor and put a comment so I know and just don't emoji. You can put like coffee or tea so I know that you listened. I would like that. Okay. That makes me feel good. That makes me feel good. That's like pouring hope into my cup. So I appreciate that. All right. And remember, this is your life. It is yours. And you get to live it. You get to choose to live it. Just live it. Just live it.