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This episode might just blow your third eye wide open.
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I’m joined by two powerful women—Tanille, an energy worker and mother of three, and Melissa, a counsellor and intuitive mum of two—for a conversation that goes deep into what it’s like raising spiritually gifted children. From toddlers recalling past lives to kids sensing spirits in the middle of the night, we explore:
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We also reflect on how our children become our greatest teachers—and how these new generations are here to shift the paradigm.
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If you’re a parent, or just spiritually curious—this one’s for you.
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00:00 Introduction and Guest Overview
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01:03 Melissa's Background and Spiritual Journey
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01:45 Tanille's Background and Spiritual Awakening
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02:52 Tanille's Parenting and Spiritual Insights
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06:30 Melissa's Early Spiritual Experiences
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10:04 Melissa's Family Spiritual Legacy
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12:18 Tanille's Son and Past Life Memories
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22:56 Melissa's Son and Spiritual Encounters
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32:40 A Special Connection with In-Laws
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34:02 Past Life Memories of a Stepdaughter
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38:25 Navigating Parenthood with a Gifted Child
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43:20 Clearing Spirits and Past Life Connections
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51:49 Guidance for Parents of Spiritually Gifted Children
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58:47 Conclusion and Reflections
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💫 Tanille – Belief work and trauma release specialist, helping clients break free from subconscious patterns. Join her membership anytime healing here, find her podcast here.
.✨ Melissa: - Counsellor: Connect on IG @purpletizzy79 or FB: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.peoples.79
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Lais (host): - Healer, Space Clearing Expert - find me on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author/ or FB here: https://www.facebook.com/Laisstephan1
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At what point does healing become another burden? When does self-improvement turn into self-punishment? And how do we know when it’s time to stop searching for the next tool, ritual, or certification and just be?
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In this episode, we dive into the shadow side of healing culture—the part no one talks about. The never-ending healing loop, the burnout from constantly trying to "fix" ourselves, and the guilt that creeps in when we’re not actively doing the work.
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We explore:
🔹 Healing as an Addiction – The rush of breakthroughs, the craving for the next modality, and the fear of stopping.
🔹 The Spiritual Hustle Trap – How the self-development industry often mirrors the same toxic productivity culture we’re trying to escape.
🔹 Integration vs. Overconsumption – Why pausing is just as important as the work itself.
🔹 From Hustle to Hiding – How burnout can lead us into isolation, making us feel unworthy of showing up in the world until we're “fully healed.”
.🔹 The Rise of Quick-Fix Coaches & Healers – Navigating an industry flooded with overnight certifications, aggressive marketing, and promises of instant transformation.
.🔹 Trusting Our Own Wisdom – How deconstructing rigid healing protocols can help us tap into our inner knowing.
.🔹 Grief as a Teacher – The profound shift that happens when life (or collective trauma) forces us to strip everything away and redefine what healing actually means.
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Wild personal experiences with spiritual trends gone wrong—including Ibiza yoni circles, group yoni massages, and high-vibe retreats that were anything but…
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Healing practices that secretly drain us more than they help.
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What our shadow selves would be doing as a full-time job
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The one piece of advice we’d give to our younger selves—what we wish we had known before diving headfirst into the self-help world.
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Meet the Guests and Host & Their Magic:
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💫 Lais Stephan - Intuitive Healer, Space Clearing Expert and host of this podcast as well as Happy Home Space Clearing Podcast. Find her Healing website here, the Space Clearing Website here and her IG here.
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🔮 Ivana Nady – Feng Shui expert blending space clearing with coaching and psychology. Find her website here and her IG here.
.🌿 Dena Musfer – Intuitive transformation guide, medicine woman, and Palestinian artist behind her brand Levantinian.
.💫 Tanille – Belief work and trauma release specialist, helping clients break free from subconscious patterns. Join her membership anytime healing here, find her podcast here.
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00:00 Introduction to Spiritual Fatigue
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00:39 Meet the Guests: Ivana, Dena, and Tanille
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01:54 Ivana's Healing Journey
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04:34 Dena's Path to Transformation
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07:24 Tanille's Energy Work Experience
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11:07 The Never-Ending Healing Loop
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20:48 Questioning Healing Modalities
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28:20 Starting with Biofeedback
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28:37 The Splunkma Protocol Experience
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30:44 Questioning and Adapting Protocols
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32:18 The Importance of Self-Connection
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35:59 Trusting Your Own Healing Path
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46:22 Advice to Our Younger Selves
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51:03 Final Reflections and Gratitude
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In this deeply insightful episode, we dive into the journey of recovering from people-pleasing, learning to set boundaries, and embracing the power of "no" as a full sentence. Joined by two incredible guests—Sharon from the UK and Hiba, a psychologist and astrologer based in Switzerland—we explore the roots of people-pleasing, the impact of childhood conditioning, and the lifelong process of reclaiming authenticity.
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This conversation touches on the pivotal moments of awareness, the patterns that show up in relationships, work, and social dynamics, and the healing practices that have helped us step into our power.
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If you've ever struggled to put your needs first, felt drained from constantly prioritizing others, or sensed a shift in your boundaries as you step into a new chapter of life, this episode is for you.
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What We Discuss in This Episode:
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✅ Recognizing people-pleasing patterns – How early childhood conditioning, loss, and family dynamics shape this tendency
.✅ The mother and father wounds – How these core wounds impact self-worth, relationships, and the fear of disappointing others
.✅ Navigating midlife and transformation – The role of perimenopause, Uranus opposition, and Pluto/Neptune transits in awakening deeper self-awareness
.✅ Spirituality & people-pleasing – How spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, and "love and light" culture can reinforce over-giving
.✅ The difference between being nice and being kind – How true kindness sometimes means setting firm boundaries
.✅ Compassion fatigue & the healer’s journey – Why many therapists, healers, and empaths struggle with overextending themselves
.✅ Saying no without guilt – Learning to sit with discomfort and reprogram the belief that setting boundaries is selfish
.✅ Healing practices & tools – From inner child healing and reparenting to bioresonance, Ho'oponopono, journaling, and working with Mother Earth
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🎙 Sharon (UK) – A Reiki Master and intuitive healer who transitioned into deeper spiritual work during COVID, uncovering childhood trauma and learning the importance of boundaries. She shares her journey of healing the mother wound, detaching from spiritual bypassing, and working with tools like bioresonance.
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Her website: https://linktr.ee/sharon.rebalanceholistics
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🎙 Hiba (Switzerland, Jordanian roots) – A psychologist, astrologer, and dreamworker who specializes in helping clients overcome people-pleasing, set boundaries, and integrate their full selves. She shares insights on astrology and midlife transits, the cultural aspect of people-pleasing, and how to balance compassion with self-protection.
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Her website: www.wiserhumans.com
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IG: @wiserhumans
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🎙 Host: Lais – Intuitive healer, quantum energy healing teacher, and space-clearing expert. Sharing personal reflections on the impact of people-pleasing, the father wound, and the journey of deconditioning from new-age programming around forgiveness.
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Her website: https://myhealingsanctuary.net
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author
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Resources & Mentioned Books:
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📖 The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller
📖 When I Say No, I Feel Guilty – Manuel J. Smith
📖 Ho'oponopono – Hawaiian forgiveness prayer and self-healing practice
📖 The Map of Consciousness – David R. Hawkins
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The world is shifting rapidly, and with it, anxiety is at an all-time high. From the cost-of-living crisis and food insecurity to AI replacing jobs, the far-right rising in politics, and the struggle to stay hopeful, it feels like we’re all just trying to keep our heads above water.
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In this episode, I’m joined by Anna Maria, a practicing witch from Estonia, and Alistair, a spiritual practitioner with Persian-Scottish roots. We dive into the collective anxieties shaping our world and how to stay grounded amidst uncertainty.
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We wrap up with a short grounding meditation to help you release tension, calm your nervous system, and find stability in the chaos.
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🎧 Tune in for a deep, raw conversation on the anxieties of our time—and tips on how to navigate them.
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🎙️ Host Lais: [IG: https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author/
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Healing Website: https://myhealingsanctuary.net/
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🔮 Guest (Anna Maria): https://www.patreon.com/SchoolOfWitchcraft
⭐ Guest (Alistair): https://www.instagram.com/alballentyne
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🎙️In this profound and vulnerable episode, hostLais, an intuitive healer and space-clearing expert, leads an intimate discussion on navigating theDark Night of the Soul—a spiritual reckoning that strips away identity, beliefs, and purpose, forcing transformation.
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Joined byJunior, Quinn, and Kimberly, three remarkable individuals who have endured and emerged from their own dark nights, this conversation explores:
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✨Personal Journeys of Darkness & Awakening
Each guest shares their deeply personal experiences of loss, trauma, and identity dissolution, only to find wisdom, resilience, and self-love on the other side. From Junior’s poetic self-discovery, to Quinn’s surrender into the unknown, to Kimberly’s lifelong cycles of awakening after a childhood of abuse, and Lais´last dark night reflecting the state of humanity, each story reflects the universal nature of the dark night and its power to shape us.
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✨Surrender & Self-Compassion as keys to transformation .A common thread emerges: resistance prolongs suffering, while surrender leads to liberation. The guests discuss how letting go, trusting the process, forgiving themselves, and embracing their emotions, became the turning points in their healing.
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✨The Role of Spirit, Nature & Creativity .From spirit guides and synchronicities to the healing power of nature, writing, and meditation, the episode highlights how connection to the unseen, the earth, and creative expression can anchor us through even the darkest moments.
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✨Forgiveness & Collective Healing .The conversation extends beyond personal healing, touching on the wounds of humanity—our shared grief, injustice, and trauma. The guests reflect on forgiveness, both for oneself and for the world, as a path to true freedom.
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✨A Closing Prayer & Meditation .The episode concludes with a grounding meditation, inviting listeners to reconnect with their inner light, even in moments of despair. Lais offers a free downloadable healing meditation for those currently navigating their own dark nights.
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🔗Resources & Links:
Free Healing Meditation for the Dark Night Of The Soul :https://myhealingsanctuary.net/darknightofthesoulmeditation
https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author/ or check out her services on her website: https://myhealingsanctuary.net
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Junior (Poetry & Spiritual Reflections):https://www.youtube.com/@UnpopularArmadaArtStudio
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Quinn :Sacred Spaces Energy Healing. Email - quinn@sacredspacesenergy.com
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Kimberly (Nature-Inspired Spiritual Growth) Let’s Grow Outside YouTube Channel.
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🖤Final Message:Even in the darkest moments, you are never truly alone. There is always light waiting to be found—within you, around you, and through the journey itself.
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In this deeply raw and urgent conversation, we confront the shadow side of the New Age spiritual movement—where love and light rhetoric is often used to dismiss social justice, activism, and human rights advocacy. What happens when spirituality becomes a shield for privilege and inaction? When standing up for injustice is labeled as low vibrational or divisive?
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Joining me in this roundtable discussion are six powerful voices from different backgrounds, each sharing their lived experiences of being gaslit, shamed, or silenced for speaking up—particularly in the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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We unpack:
🔹 Thespiritual bypassing that excuses silence in the face of oppression.
🔹 How thefalse light program is used to uphold systems of control.
🔹 The devastating impact ofbeing abandoned by spiritual communities for advocating human rights.
🔹 Thehypocrisy of Western spiritual spaces, their colonial roots, and their complicity in maintaining oppression.
🔹 What truespiritual activism looks like and how we can reclaim our power.
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We also explore therole of spiritual leaders and influencers—how they have failed in this moment of reckoning and what they should have done differently. Instead of uniting communities in collective healing, meditation, and global action, many have turned away, choosing neutrality over humanity.
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🌍Speakers:
🔹Lais (Host) – Intuitive healer, space-clearing expert, and advocate for spiritual integrity. You can find her on IG here:https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author website here:https://myhealingsanctuary.net who has long navigated the discomfort of never truly feeling at home in mainstream spiritual circles and the heartbreak of losing friends over her advocacy for Palestine.
🔹Dena Musfer – Palestinian transformation coach, artist, and founder of Levantinian who shares the devastating silencing and erasure she faced in the coaching industry when she spoke up for Palestine.
🔹Hind Ben Slimene Torjmen – Human Design reader, Gene Keys practitioner, and human rights advocate from Tunisia, now in Denmark, who reflects on the disconnect between public support for Palestine and government complicity, and how the global silence feels like an even deeper betrayal.
🔹Samantha Thornhill – Poet, performance artist, and journaling guide exploring spiritual truth who unpacks the spiritual bypassing that keeps communities asleep, and why she left the U.S. in protest of its funding of genocide.
🔹Janine Hesse– German skincare coach who who speaks to the pain of German complicity, the media propaganda she has witnessed, and how she broke through the societal conditioning that discourages questioning authority.
🔹Simran Reyah Sondi – Former banker turned medical intuitive and energy healer, exposing the dark underbelly of the wellness industry and the whitewashing of western spirituality
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🌟Closing Prayer & Reflection
We end this powerful episode with a moving prayer.
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💬Join the Conversation:
This episode is a call for deep reflection. What are your experiences with spirituality and social justice? Have you witnessed or experienced the silencing of activism in spiritual spaces? Share your thoughts and tag us online. (links below)
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📌Resources & Links:
🔗 FindDena Musfer and her work on IG athttps://www.instagram.com/levantinian
🔗 Connect withSamantha Thornhill for Oracle readings & journaling guidance: Www.samanthaspeaks.com, The Black Unicorn Journal of Passionshttps://a.co/d/efBO4C8, find her on IG:https://www.instagram.com/ladygriot/
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🔗 Connect withSimran Reyah Sondi on her website:simransondhi.com and her IG:
https://www.instagram.com/sswlifestyle
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🔗 Connect withJanine Hesse on her IG:https://www.instagram.com/skincare.rebel.coach
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In this deeply raw and illuminating conversation, we break the silence around perimenopause: a profound spiritual initiation that few women are truly prepared for. What if this transition isn’t just about hormone shifts, but a powerful awakening that forces us to reclaim ourselves after years of people-pleasing, caregiving, and suppressing our truth?
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Joining me in this roundtable discussion are four incredible women from diverse backgrounds, each navigating their own perimenopausal journey with wisdom, frustration, and revelation.
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We unpack:
.🔹 The surprising ways perimenopause manifests such as mood swings, rage, brain fog, anxiety, and deep fatigue.
.🔹 How Western medicine often dismisses or misdiagnoses perimenopause, leaving women unsupported. Or the opposite: puts women on hormones without testing their hormone levels beforehand.
.🔹 The role of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), natural remedies, and holistic approaches.
.🔹 The spiritual transformation of this phase—why it forces us to shed illusions, stand in our truth, and stop people-pleasing.
.🔹 The intersection of perimenopause, ADHD, and neurodivergence—how symptoms are exacerbated and what helps.
.🔹 The grief, freedom, and power that emerge as we transition into this new stage of life.
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We also discuss the clash between modern motherhood and perimenopause. What happens when we have young children at a time when our bodies and souls are demanding solitude, slowness, and self-prioritisation?
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🌍 Speakers:
.🔹 Lais (Host) – Intuitive healer, space-clearing expert, and advocate for spiritual integrity. Lais shares her personal journey of discovering perimenopause and she is grieving about brain fog.
.🔹 Tanille – Energy healer, biofeedback practitioner, and mother of three from the US, navigating perimenopause with both natural and medical interventions. She shares her experience with HRT, energy healing, and the unexpected emotions this transition brings.
.🔹 Nelia – Portuguese Auditor’s assistant living in Germany and self-healing advocate, balancing the demands of work, motherhood, and an unexpected transformation into someone who no longer stays silent. She discusses the rage, heart palpitations, and the new, unapologetic voice emerging within her.
.🔹 Kira – Finnish Reiki healer based in Switzerland and single mother navigating late-onset perimenopause, ADHD, and extreme fatigue. She shares how nutrition, supplements, and mindset shifts helped her reclaim stability.
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🌟 Closing Reflection:We end this episode by embracing the power of perimenopause: not just as a phase of loss, but as a rebirth into our truest, most unfiltered selves.
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💬 Join the Conversation:This episode is a call for deep reflection. What have been your experiences with perimenopause? Have you felt misunderstood, unsupported, or empowered through this transition? Share your thoughts and tag us online. (links below)
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📌Resources & Links:🔗Connect with Lais for intuitive healing and space-clearing: https://myhealingsanctuary.net and on IG here:https://www.instagram.com/laisstephan_author/
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🔗Connect with Tanille for healing here: https://www.patreon.com/anytimehealing,Listen to her Podcast Lighten The Load:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2102632 ,Contact her via email: lightenyourloadpodcast@yahoo.com, follow her on IG:https://www.instagram.com/lightenyourloadpodcast
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🔗Connect with Kira Cantatore
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🔗Connect with Nelia on IG:@senhoradonanelia and the info she shared on the products she is taking:xbyx.de
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🔗Connect with Kira on IG:@kiramcan
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Welcome to ‘The Alchemy Of Light and Shadow “—a space where we journey through the depths of human experience. Here, we come together with a diverse group of voices to explore the ordinary, the messy, and the profound. Together, we uncover hidden truths, challenge the familiar, and engage in heartfelt dialogues about the world within and around us. From life's simple moments to its most pressing issues, we illuminate the shadows and celebrate the light within us all. Join us on this journey of discovery and connection.
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