Life is a different set of choices when your mortgage is paid, and the fridge is full. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed early because I'm picking up an extra shift that starts well before the sun rises tomorrow.

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Very important message. Thank you x

Nelly is a treasure!

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God created the world. That's what we are seeing But the problem is people worship what's been created instead of the creator!!!!

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As always, thank you so much for sharing your insights and perspective, Tanya. The past 5 or 6 years, as I no longer identify myself as Christian, it has been increasingly difficult for me to maintain a "buoyant and happy" persona during the holidays. I have done my best to represent and allow for the Christmas spirit to be alive for my children. We now have two teenagers and an 8 year old, so I'm having to dig deep to help her experience the magic and wonder of this time of year. I was blessed to have a wonderful childhood where my family went out of their way to make Christmastime special, so I have done my best to help pass that along. It can definitely feel exhausting sometimes, though.

Thank you for this. I effing hate the idea of Christmas right now, I mean I kind of hate everything but I know she wouldn’t want that for me so I hope I can get there someday in way that honours her.

I mean christmas is a nice time cos you see yourother family who might also die and you are glad theyre not dead so you may be sad about the missing people but mostly youre just glad everyone else isnt dead yet.

I love this idea but maybe if youre in kinda woody areas it would be a good idea to just mute notifications and ensure someone has your location. I love nature but safety is also a big part of enjoying nature

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What you are is never born and never dies.

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So why did he shave off 50% of his facial hair? 😮

Tf is tha beard man? I'm not trying to hate on you or anything, but like...if you want people take you seriously, you need some serious look. And tbh, you kinda do need people to take you seriously if you're speaking about something like death

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Grief may subside but it never fully heals. Lost love is the deepest of wounds.

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Tanya, that was beautiful and powerful. Beautiful because it painted a great picture and added much needed colour to a dull and often very dark space. Powerful because it is a great reminder that death and endings are opportunities for powerful new beginnings. I am also now aware of how much of what I talk about is a form of death and learning to let go and say goodbye to the things that no longer serve even though they may be the familiar and the comfortable. Thank you for being you are sharing your brand of magic with the world.

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Wow, such a powerful conversation. You always have such amazing guests, but I really connected with Wilka's wisdom, perspective, and examples. I liked how she mentioned us going through a "life review" connected with certain items and experiences, and you echoed this about your recent car purchase. I don't consider myself too sentimental, but I admit that I have done this quite a bit. The "life review" sparked a memory for me. I had the pleasure of playing music with a fantastic folk artist in Colorado Spring, Colorado, named Joe Uveges. His song "Perfection" speaks to death and reflecting on those close in our lives that we hope to meet again someday. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGfSXp2voNx_ZqM

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Going down a “how to be a death doula” rabbit hole tonight. I’m afraid of death. I want to know more. Subscribed and thank you.

Y’all should brew the Anamita mascaria.. thing will send you in a wild trip & is the main inspiration behind BOTH Santa clause & Jesus Christ.

Whenever I sit still with any moment or happening that gets under my skin...causes me anxiety or palpable frustration.... I see it is about control - specifically a moment of its apparent failure (I say apparent only because control "working" is also only apparent) - and then I want to say that is about, ultimately, a fear of death. Then I see we have perilously bound our desperate fear of loss of control to death - the ultimate loss of this (so-called) control. I think it isn't just a disconnection from the rest of nature, but modernity and civilization as we know it is an active pushing away and shutting out the processes of nature and denying we are also a part of them. Every *comfort and *convenience, everything we build or engineer or learn is in an effort to separate humans from the rest of the world and declare that we are not subject to Your laws! We make the laws! We are the agents, we are the knowers, we are the only doers of importance! THen it's tempting to ask "why are we so messed up?"...which one notices is also a separation of our "human condition" from the ecologies of which we are inextricably a part, from which we co-emerge with all the rest of life and being. So I wonder then if our modern madness must not itself also be a part of a global (not just human) process. Modernity is itself maybe like a post traumatic response, with the human body being an organ of the earth which is processing something that is way beyond "us", but that within this human organ of the world is experienced in this solipsistic consciousness. THe human ( i would re-emphasize *modern human of the last couplefew thousand years (out of tens if not hundreds of thousands of years of human beings living on AND with this earth) - and there are contemporary humans who have NOT been so hit by this fever in other cultures which haven't been infected by this uber-cultural Organism) is an agent of the earth running a fever in itself to metabolize .....something...... and everything that "I" experience now, I am less and less inclined to pathologize, but instead see as globally processual. Pathology is a language of policing...control... containment..... but life is not containable... not objectifiable... not dissectible but to destroy it in that process.... cells trying to excise themselves from the larger body? It gets tricky because this language has long been tailored to perform only these categorizing/isolating functions - thank god for the antidote of poetry which always sneaks through like a trickster. We run from the monstrous....but the monstrous is only that which shows us we are not really in control and so what we have labeled frighteningly to keep us looking or running away from those things to maintain our control fever... and also that fever and that process is NOT solely human.....we are enacting processes larger than us even in that which appears to be at odds with the rest of the living world. Our emancipation from this fever, if that is meant to be, is to wander out past the city walls and find and embrace the monstrous that we worked so hard to push out...and discover we were always a part of each other and longing to be reintegrated. Ha. Or something like that.

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What a powerful conversation! The concept of honest, authentic, brave vulnerability is so needed around this topic. I also love the honesty around the anger felt. I’m so glad I watched this! Wonderful ladies! ❤❤

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Thanks for bringing false narrative that we tell ourselves and others (a.k.a. "I'm fine.") We definitely cannot make sure that weget our needs are met when we tell ourselves we don't need anything. I haven't been very good at truthfully looking at my present emotional/mental states until only recently. I have gotten a lot better at recognizing when I'm stressed and anxious, but I know I still have a long way to go to make this a daily practice. Actually, today I came across a reflection that I did for Empowered Heart a few months ago that dealt with saying "I'm fine" when I really should have been reaching out for support. My son introduced me to the song "I'm Fine" by Kyle Hume (kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4DTm2mapdV3mNE) that speaks perfectly to this feeling.

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LOVE IT