Finding Peace in the Storm

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Welcome to the Giddy Up segment.

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I'm thankful that you're here and I

hope you listened to Tuesday's episode.

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It was kind of a quick, short one,

but it was really inspirational to me.

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I was on vacation in Arizona, waiting

for family to arrive and just enjoying

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the quiet, and I had been on a

long hike, which is a way for me to

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really connect with God, in fact.

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It was interesting today.

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We've got a bunch of snow and I

was feeling kind of uninspired

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and not super passionate and.

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You know, I look at that

and I think, why is that?

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Why is it that sometimes

I just kind of drag?

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And so I got up, I jumped a little

bit, I walked around the barn, I

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moved my body and that seemed to help.

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So I think sometimes, and now I'm

doing this recording and I think

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sometimes taking action can help.

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Um, so anyway.

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That was inspiring.

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It was about success and how I have

changed how I view success a lot

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since I was younger and rather than

white knuckling it, I really want

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to find my true calling and follow.

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Follow that.

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And, you know, I, I begin the day

in scripture and I turn to God and

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I go, how can I serve you today?

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And sometimes I forget

till later in the day.

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And so, so then I'm backpedaling,

but it, it has changed my life.

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And what I want to share with

you is something hard that I

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went through, um, just last week

and it was hard and it was good.

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It was, me going to my.

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First diagnostic mammogram since

all my, um, you know, catching that

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stage one cancer started and all

the things that I've been through.

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And I do want you to know that

I am learning how to handle

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hard things so much better.

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And that's what I want to share with you.

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One year ago, if I would have had to

have gone in for a diagnostic mammogram

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after going through all the things

that I've gone through, you probably

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would have had to sedate me this year.

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I was able to, with the help

of surrendering my life to God,

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I was able to kind of get a

handle on my mind and watch it.

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And keep things clear.

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And so I was a little nervous,

but I was not as nervous as I

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normally would have been, which.

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You know, it makes sense.

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It's kind of scary.

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But, um, and I did, I cried a little

when it was good and, um, and it felt

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good, but it wasn't, it wasn't obnoxious.

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It was kind of like when I drove in to

have my surgery, I was so terrified,

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but there was a supernatural peace.

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People talk about this when they

surrender to God and I had that

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again driving in to get this test.

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And I told my husband, I don't

want you to come with me.

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I, I can do this alone because I'm

going to have to keep going in for

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these, you know, every year for the

rest of my life, just like we all

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have done up until this happened.

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And, um, I didn't want

to go and I wasn't happy.

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It was hard, but there was a peace there.

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So it's so hard to describe, but that's

what I call that super natural peace.

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And the only reason I believe I got

that was because of what I went through.

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So listeners don't be afraid

to go through hard things.

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We all do.

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And I don't want you to

suffer, but there is.

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There is a certain amount of difficulties

that we're going to go through.

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I want to help you so that you

can handle the difficulties.

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And so that's why I'm writing my book.

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That's why I'm doing some

new courses on mindset.

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I'm still doing mediations because I feel

so drawn to serving and, um, I feel so

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strongly that that is a gift that I have.

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So that is.

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Probably, well, for right now, always

going to be a part of what I do, uh,

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mediations and um, you know, either

helping people take one last ditch

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effort to save their marriage or

amicably divorcing if, if that's the

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path that they, they choose to take.

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So, um, but in addition to that.

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I want to have some courses and

this book that are going to help

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you get through something hard.

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And I mean, they're here, here

in a nutshell is what it is.

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And I've talked about

this in past podcasts.

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You can go back and listen.

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I talk about mindset a lot.

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It's huge.

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It's big.

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It is the number one step

besides surrendering to God that

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I took to get my mind right.

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And I learned how to

do it through coaching.

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And then.

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I started self coaching so that I could

really, uh, do it every day and get

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better and I don't do it every day.

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I try to remember, but sometimes I get

lost and when really big, scary things

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happen, I got really lost and I had

to go on a little anxiety medication.

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And so, There's a lot of tools out

there that we're going to need.

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It's just that we're going to

really need to think through it and

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pick the option that's best for us

because we're all unique individuals.

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And I feel like that's true of anything.

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That's true of any medication or

any plan or diet, anything that

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you're doing, you are unique.

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So you, it's up to you to figure

out what works best for you and

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what might work best for some.

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may not work best for you.

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For example, I do believe in intermittent

fasting, but that only means that I

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stop eating at dinner and I maybe don't

pick up eating until about 10 30 or 11.

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Um, the next day, what doesn't work

for, for Lisa is to do long fast.

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It raises my cortisol.

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I get chubby, I gain weight.

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So.

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It's just interesting, but

for some people it works.

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So I'd love to be able to

tell you exactly what to do.

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I can share the tools that I know

of that you can start testing out.

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And so I say, I start the day with God.

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I kind of surrender that.

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And then I do that mindset work

and you can go back because these

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are just little short segments.

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You can go back and listen to that mindset

podcast about how to get your mind right.

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Another thing that I did was the

JJ Flazain's core wounds course.

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That is how I started really understanding

what was going on in my head.

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And then I've been doing neuro linguistic

programming, which I haven't even dived

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into, or dove into yet, but I will.

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That is kind of rewiring your brain

to change your beliefs, because even

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though we all know, We should think

of certain way and we know it's

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sometimes silly or not serving us.

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It's really hard to change

those neural pathways.

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So that has been a huge piece.

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That's the first step, um, for

me to changing my life and to

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changing how I felt walking in

to that diagnostic mammogram.

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And so all is good.

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Um, they tell me I'm

cured, which is awesome.

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And I'm so thankful.

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Um, So if you're going through

something hard, go listen to that

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mindset, start digging and take care

of yourself because you, in order to

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serve this world and to use the gifts

that God has given you, you got to

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give yourself rest and care and love.

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So you take good care.

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Thanks so much for being here.