How to Stay Always Connected to Spirit – Even When Life Feels Hard or Overwhelming | Suzanne Giesemann - EP 788

27:23It's often like, whoa, I'm dizzy, but it's such a lightness and I haven't moved, not like I've bent over and stood up. It's just all of a sudden it's here. I've learned to say, oh, somebody just came into resonance with me with a pattern that I can feel. And then I just tune in. And I often, I don't say who's here. It was just in that moment, oh, it's Wayne Dyer, that kind of thing. Pretty cool. In chapter two, you share a beautiful story of Patty and Dave Hart connecting with their daughter, Lauren, if I have this correct. And what did that case illustrate about the healing power of direct connection that we can have.

28:08And the medium James Van Frog said to me, Suzanne, you need to show people how real mediumship is. Evidence-based mediumship can change people instantly. You need to put some of your readings online. Well, readings are very personal things. And a lot of intimate issues come up because they have to do with healing, like forgiveness and things that people didn't get to say. But shortly thereafter, I did this reading for this couple that was clearly a setup from their daughter in spirit, Patty and Dave Hart. The James Van Prod thing came just after that because I wouldn't want to go into a reading thinking, oh, let's put this online if it's good.

28:45That changes the whole tone of why we're doing this. I had just done the one for Patty and Dave. And I said, you know what? Your reading would be so helpful for people to see what evidence-based mediumship is. It will show people the healing effects of this. And they agreed to let me do it. And it's now been viewed by over 60 ,000 people. What's phenomenal about that video? It's the full video unedited. And then when you watch mediums on TV, they're going to show you the highlights. They're not going to show you when the medium's wrong. And I honestly don't know any medium that's 100 % correct.

29:23usually because of the mode of communication, there's a little bit of filtering from spirit. It's like the lenses. We just can't help it. This body is a filter. But in that reading, I left in the nose, it's a full 45 minute reading. What's so phenomenal about it is you can feel and see the gray Paul over Patty and Dave when we start. Their daughter Lauren had passed after after horrendous battle with cancer and their beautiful daughter dies and they just thought that's it she's dead and gone and in the space of 45 minutes they couldn't deny Lauren was right there the evidence she brought through I got goosebumps as I remember it the evidence just their jaws were dropping it was so clear it was let Lauren things coming through that I couldn't possibly know.

30:18And then things came up later that they didn't realize at the moment. And we put that into that video and you see them when I interview them afterwards, right? Smiling is like night and day as a result of one reading. And to this day, they are upbeat, positive. Of course they miss Lauren, but they are just totally transformed. That video is available just on YouTube. Look up actual evidence of the afterlife. It's why I do this work. So because you're on the show, a lot of people are coming in because they know who you are and they know what you do. But some of my listeners may be tuning in to a mediumship for the first time.

31:05And in chapter three, you talk about common resistance. What are some of the biggest forms of resistance in people who are trying to connect with spirit or who don't believe in spirit or haven't been educated about spirit? And how do you help them to understand this and how it works? I try to lighten things up by, first of all, saying we need to examine our own BS. And that stands for belief system. All right. Not what everybody thinks. Well, it's actually true. but what we've been told by people is that mediumship isn't real or it's somehow wrong or people everybody who does it is a fake and that's this is learned from other people but when you have the personal experience of either connecting with spirit yourself or sitting with an evidence-based medium who is ethical has high integrity you'll see that it like we talked about with Patty and Dave, it has the potential to change lives in an instant.

32:10It has the potential to rock your worldview because you cannot be on the receiving end of a very evidential reading when you didn't quite believe there was an afterlife and not start to question how this world really works and not begin to question if this is the only world right here. It'll blow your world wide open and your belief system. One of the things that gets in the way of mediumship is trying to connect and also not understanding how mediumship works. It's not like picking up a phone and having a conversation. This nervous system does act as a filter. There are certain kinds of information that can't get through because it's compressed so much by the nervous system that we can't get specific types of data, but we certainly get symbolic in imagery.

33:07We do hear phrases and thoughts. We have feelings that reflect what those in spirit are trying to show us. We have a knowing that goes beyond data. And this all translates into the recipient of that experience saying, oh my God, that's my loved one. Ultimately, it's all frequency and patterns that anybody can learn to tune into. I had no idea I could do this before. I was not a born medium. I never saw spirits until my stepdaughter died. And I said, she has to still exist. I'm going to connect with her. And once you get the BS out of the way and learn how to bypass the filters in the nervous system, you're on your way.

33:58Yeah, I was doing another interview, and I can't remember if it was with Gabby Bernstein, or maybe it was Amy Lee McCree, but one of them was telling me that they had also spoken to Wayne. And they were saying that sometimes it's easier for a spirit who has fulfilled more of their life destiny in Earth School, on Earth, to communicate with you than it is for someone who might be earlier in their journey. Does that resonate with you? It does. It definitely does. There's a spiral to the growth of how much gets through to human awareness. and even across the veil, certain spirits might still cling to their earthly story without realizing it is all just an overlay on this pure being that we all are.

34:48So yeah, that rings true to me. What guidance do you give people for how they can recognize genuine guidance versus people's wishful thinking or imagination or searching for a clue, you know where I'm going. This goes right back to speaking of going around and circling back. It goes right back to speaking about the horror, like I did at the beginning. When we move our awareness into the belly and just say, here I am like present, I'm present. My mind's not wandering to the past, the future, or doubts. I'm out of my head and I'm present. That's like when I used to sail around in my boat and we'd drop the anchor.

35:31When that anchor digs in, you feel it. That connection is solid. So if you're holding awareness in the heart, trusting this is the center of my soul awareness, I'm receiving some guidance. Can I trust this? It lands with this solidness instead of, I'm not sure about that. There is a feeling that one can learn to differentiate between what's my imagination or something coming from within my individual pattern and something that's coming from a greater version of the self.

36:12you open up something called i think it's sit in presence of the divine practice do i have that right sip i call it sit in peace but sit in presence that works for me the sip of the divine yeah for people who aren't familiar with the sip of the divine what is it and how does it open the door to being always connected. It is so perfect for people who say, number one, I can't meditate. That's the number one excuse because I can't quiet my mind. And I don't have time to meditate. This sip of the divine takes away all those excuses because it only takes three minutes. Once you start doing it regularly, you may want to actually spend a little more time in stillness because you set the intention that I'm going to just stop what I'm doing.

37:04I'm going to slow down with a nice, relaxing breath. I'm going to drop my awareness out of this busy head. That's causing me so much discord. And I'm just going to stay centered here, present for three minutes. And I'm just going to observe what I'm experiencing. So not just observe the thoughts, but I'm going to be like the blue sky and observe all the weather that floats through. And that could be a thought that you notice and let it go. That could be an itch that you scratch and let it go. That could be a sound outside of a lawnmower that you say, oh, this is bothering my piece. Oh, let that go.

37:47And so for three minutes, you just notice how consciousness arises in awareness. And after you do this just a few times, even the very first time, you have this realization, wait, this awareness, this pure awareness without the weather patterns is my truest state. And without the weather, there's no disturbance at all. There's just this and it's peace. So you sit in peace as awareness, watching the clouds go by and the weather paths and the patterns. And you start to say, there are two aspects of me, this base, the pure being, the pure awareness, and everything else is an overlay. And it doesn't mean the weather's bad.

38:41And it doesn't mean the overlay is bad. It's just the way we are designed. But when you realize you can step back and sit in peace, now you're creating spaciousness in your field and in your life. You're creating openness. The reason my back went out was an entire lifetime, decades of guarding my energy field, guarding physically, tensing from past traumas, from people can be mean, people can say things, I have to protect myself. We all do it, which is why so many people have lower back issues and digestive issues. We're guarding, We're not open. But when you sit in peace every day for a few minutes, you can be open, things relax, and now higher consciousness can drop in as one of those clouds and say, you are so very loved.

39:43And you might go, where'd that come from? Because I sure don't feel it. And now you can engage that. Or you can use that time to say, what do I need to know right now? And just go back to being the purest guy. And this cloud might come in that says, do you know how much you're tensing during the day? Try being open. This is where the guidance that I speak of comes from. The pure awareness state. And three minutes a day will get you intimately familiar with it. I love it. So obviously being an alternative health podcast, I have a lot of guests who talk about the gut-brain access, but you were just talking about the gut and gut ailments to more of a spiritual nature.

40:32Can you go a little bit deeper into how that works? My dear friend, Brenda Bowman Baker, who passed in 2018, I believe. Yeah. When she first came to me, she came to watch one of my presentations in a venue, a public venue. I didn't know her. She didn't know me. She didn't know what she was getting into. But when she felt the energy in that presentation and heard what I shared, something in her cracked wide open. She ran from that place. She didn't know what this feeling was. It was her own light finally saying, hey, you've hated me your whole life. I'm right here. It's love. So she reached out to me later and I ended up doing a channeling session for her from my guides.

41:15I don't do that very often spontaneously, but I recorded it. And it was the guide said, you have spent a lifetime of self-loathing and you have seen it act up in sickness in your gut area. And it's not through any fault of your own. It's through not recognizing your beautiful inner light. And it turns out she had had cancer three times in the gut area. And she ultimately got it again, even though she came to love herself and realize who she is. I believe I talk about Brenda in this book. If I don't, I definitely talked about Brenda in my other two Hay House books, The Awakened Way and Making the Afterlife Connection.

41:55But by the time she crossed the veil, she wasn't cured physically, but she was totally cured emotionally and spiritually and began talking with me from across the veil immediately. But that's just an example. Not that everybody's going to get cancer if they don't love themselves, but the body reflects where this dense energy is. And the gut is the seat of our personal power. And she was giving it all away to other people that said, you're ugly, you're overweight, you don't like your lifestyle changes. She believed them instead of finding that truth within. Do you believe the same is true for someone who might be suffering from something like colitis, that there's a link here?

42:39I believe there's a link in almost every case. Even if we pick up something that's genetic, the soul chose to come into this body knowing there would be a genetic challenge in that area because it will focus us on certain issues emotionally and spiritually that are related to that area. Interesting. Very interesting. Suzanne, I want to move into part two, but before we do, I think for those who are not familiar with your teaching, I'd like you to introduce who Joy is. Well, I remember when I had a conversation in meditation one morning years ago, I was leading a workshop and my dear friend Lynette, who's in the new book, we were sharing a room in a house and I went off to meditate.

43:31and at that time I was talking daily with my guide, Sanaya, but I came out to Lynette and I said, I just had this conversation. I believe it was source. It's the highest aspect of pure being that expresses itself through words like Neil Donald Walsh's conversations with God. It was phenomenal. And I typed the conversation and she read it. She said, wow, Suzanne. I said, I'm not sharing this with anybody. I can't share this with anybody. They'll think I'm crazy. She said, well, yeah, okay, fine. And it wasn't long before I shared it, probably in that workshop that I was there to lead, because why would we want to hold this back?

44:07It's the ego that says, what will people think if you make a claim like this? Well, the goal is for all of us to come to know we are direct expressions of that voice that's within all of us. If we can access the highest expression of this awareness that then has a voice, take pure awareness that we touched in the sip of the divine and if it just ripples enough to now be able to speak it gets a little lonely talking to yourself so it creates all of us and so ultimately we are talking to ourself as source but saying source and god carries baggage for a lot of people and i said to this voice what do i call you and i was told to call it joy and that's with a capital J.

44:56And that's not human joy that comes and goes. It is this underlying state of pure contentment because it knows that beneath all of the waves and the ripples and the stories, it can't be harmed. It simply is pure being and all is well at that level. That's joy when you come to know that. And it's joyous for us when we come to know that we are ultimately that. beneath these stories, beneath the costumes. You are spoken to by joy when you seek guidance. Which topic in part two, forgiveness, grief, anger, disappointment, self-worth, et cetera, do you find people struggle with the most right now? Well, there's my first lip twitch of the interview.

45:47That's what my guides do when I dropped really into the state of coherence and they want to talk and they said, do not pigeonhole it into any one topic for each person is unique. And we tend to see other people and feel that their experiences are the same as ours and they're not. And they say that whole list was given because joy came here to experience it all. One is not more important or better or worse than another, but people will be able to look at that list and just zero right in on the one that speaks to their heart where they say, man, I must have come here in this body to work on that because that keeps coming up in my life.

46:26Wow. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go here then. One of the things you and I talked about in our last discussion was the power of self-forgiveness. And you shared a mantra with me during that conversation. You said, forgive me for ever thinking I was anything less than love. How has that mantra evolved in this book? I don't remember if we'd specifically discussed it in the book, but as I hear it now, it would be, it's love is the same as joy. So we learn to realize and have realized that we are that joy. We are that love and that we suffer when we forget that. So it's not asking joy to forgive us. It's forgive me myself for ever thinking I was anything less than joy and expression.

47:14And I hope people understand that by the end of the book. The first part of the book has these conversations between me and Joy, trying to understand and help other people really understand that we are this. A lot of people are afraid to say that because it sounds blasphemous or egotistical, but it's the deepest understanding we can come to and it will change your life. So Joy and I dig at it, but it was all directed by Joy. I have to tell you that this book unfolded differently. And it's why my friend, Ann, who read it said, this is deeper than your other books. All my other 16 books until this one, I would get an awareness of a book coming in and I would get all these ideas and I'd buy index card and I would put one idea on every card.

48:01I would even say to my husband, I need index cards now I'm getting a book and one thought. And then I go and I'd find a bed, like if I was in my RV or I'd go to the guest bed that I didn't eat done make that night and I would lay all the cards out and I'd look at it and I'd say spirit helped me organize this and it would be like a computer and those would be the chapters writing it with spirit so I got all these ideas for how this book would unfold once Patty gift gave me the gift of the contract put them all on cards spread them out on the bed said okay spirit how are we going to organize this one spirit is joy but also my guides.

48:37That's why I say spirit in general. How are we going to organize this one? And I looked at them and I looked and nothing happened. And I went, what's going on? And I suddenly heard this book is going to unfold differently. You won't need those cards. So I gathered them up and I put them in a stack to the side and went to the computer and the The whole introduction just flowed and you'll see the book itself models the trust that it took to write each chapter because I referred to, hey, I haven't written for six weeks because it just wasn't here. And all of a sudden, here's joy saying, now we're ready and you can see why.

49:22And so the whole book serves as an example of how spirit shows up in our lives in the perfect way for each of us. Suzanne, in this season, I have been spending a lot of energy with my audience on self-worth and acceptance. And you said something a few minutes ago about wearing the masks and the costumes that so many of us put on throughout most of our lives. And I often talk about Tom Gilovich, who I'm not sure if you know of his work, but he's a professor at Cornell who's been studying people's regrets for decades. And he has found that 76 % of all people have the same regret, which is not becoming our ideal self or not becoming the person we were born to become, which I think goes right to this whole thing about us wearing a costing for the majority of our lives.

50:24What does spirit say is the fastest way for us to remember our inherent value. You may need to remind me of that question because what I'm being told to talk about first is that when I hear you describe that regret, my human mind acknowledges that almost everybody listening to you say that is going to feel that there was one certain path for us that we have to fulfill before we go back. So somebody on the other side might greet us and say, well, you were supposed to become a doctor and instead you did this and that wasn't good enough and you didn't fulfill your purpose when actually the one shared purpose that all of us came into human form to fulfill is to be joy in expression, which does not mean to be joyous all the time, but to live life fully following that inner nudge and expressing this awareness of connection, which often leads to some kind of service.

51:28Maybe it's not your vocation, but just a smile to somebody just when they need it. A listening ear without a smile when somebody needs that. That is living on purpose. Leaving here with more of our light shining than it did halfway through our life when we finally fulfilled our human tasks of raising a family, having a job, that kind of thing, realizing all along the way we're here to help each other, let our lives shine and treat others the same way we would like to be treated. There's a reason the golden rule is in just about every religion on earth, because there's an inner part of us, that's joy, that realizes that's why we're here, to be in relationship with others, with kindness and compassion.

52:14That's living life on purpose. If you go to your grave and you were a curmudgeon completely self-focused and didn't care about others at all, you may have missed a giant opportunity. So now I don't know what the second part of your question was, but that's such a huge relief, hopefully, for people that you are living your life on purpose. If you can go through your life review after you pass and say, look at the difference I made in all those little moments, not that I accrued abundance or titles or possessions. I have really come to believe, and I'll get to the question here in a second. I have been trying to explore this whole topic for years now.

53:00And there are a couple interviews that I've done. One was with a gentleman named Andreas Widmer. And Andreas at one point in his life was completely listless. He had no purpose. and he became a Swiss guard and he found himself being mentored by Pope John Paul II. And the Pope gave him this guidance that, Andreas, what you were put on here on earth to do is we're all given superpowers. And right now you're fighting yours. You need to do is you need to be leaning into them. And then you need to figure out how do you use them to make humanity a better place? And then I always talk about my conversation with Dakar Keltner, where we really went and explored moral beauty.

53:49Because people most feel alive, feel the most awe when they're doing simple acts of kindness to others or observing others do the same. So the more I unpack this, the more discussions I have. To me, there's something to this. That too many of us never get back to the superpowers we're given. and we're not using them to help bring about moral beauty in the world. I don't know if any of that resonates to you. It does. We are the hands and legs and lips and tongue of God. Use it wisely. Yeah. So that goes to the question I wanted to ask. What does spirit say is the way for us to remember our inherent value?

54:38Like, how do we get back there? How do we get it to click? Notice that difference between your pure state of awareness and everything else that covers it up. Just pure awareness of what you are projecting from that state of awareness. It's awareness. You could call it presence or mindfulness. Once you sit in peace for a while and you start to notice, you will notice throughout the day, ooh, what I just said, that was a little disharmonious. I was under stress and I snapped at my husband. That felt so different than that pure awareness that I feel in the morning. I'm gonna go apologize. Everything stands out more when you experience peace, pure awareness regularly.

55:24That's the point. So that the true nature of you, you feel it instantly when you're not in harmony with yourself and others. So you feel it the most when you're not in harmony with yourself or others. Yes. It's, this is the reason we come here for life, love in full expression, L-I-F-E for the fullness. So we don't say, oh, that was bad. I don't want to feel that. That, that was a, that contrasted so much that I'm going to pay attention to that. Wow. I know that experience didn't help hurt joy, but it hurt my husband and it hurt me that I hurt him. I'm going to rectify that. And it just makes life, it's a dance.

56:05It's a dance. We're not here to be perfect. We never will be. The perfection is the base layer. Everything else is experience. So let's just take it all on and may my lessons be as painless as possible. That's my daily prayer. So I know one of the things that affects a lot of people is disappointment. What is your advice for how a listener could better manage disappointment when they're faced with it? Notice that what leads to disappointment is expectations and assumptions. And disappointment will lead you to trust spirit more. Saying, oh, that didn't turn out the way I wanted, but there actually may be a better way.

56:53I'm going to trust that. I can't wait to see how this turns out instead. That was what I wanted, but I don't have the bigger picture right here. Okay, Spirit, show me what awesome thing is going to happen instead, and I'll try to get out of the way. And I know another one, Suzanne, that is big right now is I think a lot of people see despair. All you have to do is turn on the TV, and you see it all around you. What's your advice for helping people to find hope in the times that we live in? Recognize that despair and hopelessness is part of the programming that comes with your brain. We're programmed.

57:36The left hemisphere of the brain is programmed to focus us on what stands out that could be a problem for us. We're programmed to look for the negative. When you say, oh, that's the program, show me the bigger picture here. You've already stepped back from the story. You're acknowledging there may be something greater. You're asking for a different viewpoint and it's here. Now you can go to the heart and the gut, the horror and say, what's my best action? Is there something I can do to alleviate suffering within myself and others? Then do it. And if not, I can at least realize that is one aspect of the story.

58:17Send peace. But underneath it all is peace already. That sounds like a lot of work. And it actually is at first until it becomes just a way of being that becomes your natural reaction to say, Oh, I'm suffering when I read that headline. That is truth. That is suffering. I'm witnessing it. And at the same time, I can step back and say, I really can't do anything personally about that news but i can find the peace within myself i can send prayers and i can work on turning up my light and not giving my full attention to the brain and the way it acts it's the program thank you so much for sharing that yeah i read books a little bit differently than many people do i typically start from the back and then come back front I almost did that last night.

59:14It goes totally against the way I want to get linear, but I almost wanted to go right to the summary in this one book. And I may yet, but that's fun. Yeah, I like to read the acknowledgements because it gives me a sense of who the author is, who they're thanking, who was involved in the writing of the book. And then I typically like to read the conclusion of the book. And there was something that you wrote that that just hit me. you write, imagine a life where peace and tranquility flow like water. Imagine a life where you don't panic when you can't find your phone because you know that you are already and always connected to a source of love and guidance that is eternally yours.

59:55And I just thought it was so beautiful. Is that the hope for listeners and readers when they finish the book? That's it. That's my whole mission right there, John, in a nutshell. And that imagining a life where peace and tranquility flow like water is taking a phrase from the final poem of a young man named Wolf, Michael Wolf Passacarnis, who died by a lightning strike, just like my stepdaughter. I wrote a book about Wolf and the way he knew he would die that way and when and where it would happen. And what he came back from across the veil to teach all of us became my awakened way of living. Everything we've been talking about tonight goes back to living awakened way, realizing you're not only human and we're part of this big web that connects everything.

1:00:45Wolf's final poem, by the way, that book is available, but it's also now a documentary that's available free on the streaming platform to be Wolf's message. just summarizes all of this with a way that I dare anybody to watch it and not say wow but Wolf's final poem said spirit of great healer that would be joy awaken within this heart peace and tranquility flow like water that's a prayer the time has come to allow the light of nature to free my soul. Those were his final words that he wrote down. And peace and tranquility flow like water is my goal for everyone reading that book. But look, there's the P and the T that turns Siri into spirit.

1:01:36Kind of cool how that worked out that way. But that is absolutely available to all of us. I just went through this period with my husband's sickness and me. I jokingly say getting my face carved up, but, and the herniated disc, we all have challenges, all of us, physical and otherwise, and the peace and the tranquility is not out there, it's already here. And it's just my greatest joy to give people practical tools to access that and notice when we are not in balance and in harmony with that. My last question, Suzanne, is this. The way people are feeling now with the world and the conditions we're living in, are you finding that spirit is becoming more and more vocal to you?

1:02:26Are the spirits that are interfacing with you becoming more urgent in their guidance? Are you seeing any change? I find spirit more accessible and open available to me now simply because of the trajectory of my path. I committed to that every day and I work on finding that balance and it pays off in that. But I have not experienced urgency with them because at the higher levels, they know that all is in order. They see how we are unfolding. They don't get upset. They trust spirit. They're working like we are, but they don't have that sense of human oh my god we've got to change things now that's when you feel that that's an overlay that's a filter that's your human side coming in saying this is not good we got to change this those in spirit are saying okay let's keep it going here and more and more of you are getting it that's good because as you drop the tension and restriction of this should not be happening.

1:03:30Now you can hear them. That's what we need to do. Open to the wonder of spirit that's right here. Suzanne, I always love having you on the show. For listeners who want to learn about you and your work, where's the best place for them to go? That will be my website, which is just my name, SuzanneGiesemann.com, but also our free Awakened Way app on iPhone or Android, just type in their app store, Awaken Way. And it has daily inspirational messages from spirit that I get every day right here in meditation. They're fresh. And then in the menu, free meditations, suggestions of videos, a button where you can push and say, give me the message I need right now and see what wondrous answer comes back for you.

1:04:19It's a really great way to keep you committed to your own growth, to let your own light shine. And then my YouTube channel has over 600 videos and a weekly podcast that's live most Sundays. So I'm doing my best to help people find harmony. How's that? I love it. Well, thank you so much again. Always an honor to have you on the show. Well, it's been lovely. I love the questions. They led to some great discussions and hopefully got some people curious to want to know more. That brings us to the end of today's conversation with Suzanne Giesemann. One thing I kept thinking about while we were talking is how quickly life can change.

1:04:59A phone call, a diagnosis, a loss, a season we never expected to walk through. None of us are exempt from those moments. But what I appreciated about Suzanne's perspective is that she isn't asking us to deny pain or explain it away. She's talking about the practices that help us stay grounded when life feels uncertain and about finding a kind of connection that remains even when circumstances change. As we continue our flourishing series next week, we'll move from awakening to rewiring. My guest will be Nick Ortner. Nick is the founder of Tapping Solution, one of the leading voices in the world on emotional healing and personal transformation, and the New York Times bestselling author of his new book, Rewired.

1:05:39For more than two decades, he's helped millions of people understand how stress, old experiences, and deeply ingrained patterns shape the way we think, feel, and behave. In our conversation, we explore why change is so difficult, why willpower alone rarely works, and how our brains and nervous systems can learn new patterns that support healthier, more intentional lives. Because most of us already know what we want to change, the harder question is how we create change that actually lasts. We have something called the negativity bias. We all know it. if someone says, John, I could say one mean thing to you today, and you will remember it for three years.

1:06:15And the next thousand people that talk to you could say nice things. And it'll be gone. It'll be like, well, Nick said that one thing. So our brain does latch on to these things. It's in order to keep us safe. I talked to a lot of authors, and I joke that you haven't made it as an author until you get a one-star review, because it means your book hasn't gone out far enough. If today's conversation resonated with you, please share it with someone who might need a reminder that they don't have to carry life's challenges alone. You can find today's companion workbook and additional resources at the ignitedlife.net.

1:06:46And until next time, remember this, the practices we return to in difficult seasons often become the foundations for how we flourish in the years that follow. I'm John Miles, and you've been passion struck.

1:07:08Thank you.