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Welcome to the Soul Touched by Dogs
Podcast, the show for dog lovers who

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see dogs not as toys or tools, but
wise souls worth our respect and care.

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I'm an Herrmann, and I'm your host.

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I talk to poor some humans, people who
do great work for dogs and their people.

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So come and join us for
today's conversation.

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Anke: Hello, and welcome, Maribeth.

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I'm super delighted to have you here.

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Listeners, I do hope please
do check out the video.

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You've got to see your her jumper.

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It's just the most adorable thing.

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Maribeth: It's it's all little
dogs just doing dog stuff with cute

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little phrases here, which I can't
read because it's backwards, but

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But it's I I wore it for you, Erica.

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So

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Anke: Oh, I'm so grateful.

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That's just really made my day.

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So why don't we start out and
let people know where you're

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based and and what's your

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Maribeth: business?

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I I am in Alexandria, Virginia, uh,
south of the capital, Washington, DC.

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And um and my business is that I am an
intuitive animal communicator and I also

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Include medical intuitive and energy
healer because I use all three of those

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modalities to help people and their pets.

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And I do most of my sessions remotely.

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Uh, I wanna say that because one of
the most interesting sessions I've had,

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Anke, was where, uh I'm in Virginia, US.

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The woman was when I first talked to
her well, she said the woman is in

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Thailand now And her dog is with her
aunt and uncle in Canada, and we were

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able to have a very good session.

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We've done a couple of seen.

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Couple of them.

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So, um, intuitive communication
does not depend on location.

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It's a it's a mind to mind connection.

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So That's

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Anke: so beautiful.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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I mean, like, several questions pop up.

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Like, the first thing I'm curious about
is I would imagine that's that's not

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what you did when you got out of school.

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Right?

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So how, you know, how
did you get into that?

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And what was the turning
point for you to say, look.

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I can turn this in my full time
into my full time business.

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Maribeth: Um, Yeah.

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I think you're gonna love the story.

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Uh so I'm a retired navy officer,
US navy officer, and then I went

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to into an association, worked for
a great association for another

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twenty years um and and I had this uh
intuitive spark to do massage and and

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in still having a day job and there
I started taking some courses used.

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Stick with me.

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Uh, energy healing courses,
Reiki, became a Reiki master.

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And at that point, somewhere in
there, My dogs started communicating

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intuitively with me I like The first
one was I love telling the story.

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My dog, Timmy, who had passed
a few years ago, showed up.

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While I was in the kitchen,
he was in the dining room.

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He just popped in sitting
on the floor, and it looked

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like He was physically there.

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It wasn't the ghost see
through anything like that.

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It was like, wow.

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And I turned my head and said, Timmy,
With delight and surprise, of course, uh,

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because this had never happened to me.

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And, um, he He disappeared.

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And I've got to say I say
this so often when I get to.

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So but I love it.

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He came back.

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He he was happy.

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Oh, he had survived death.

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There's still a personality there.

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And he took the time to come back and
let me know he was a he was a happy guy

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and everything was good and he loves me.

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So like, And it's like in a
millisecond I get all this stuff.

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So, um, it took me a while.

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Uh, I started doing Energy
healing, uh, for people.

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And then I tried intuitive animal
communication after I've learned some I've

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learned some stuff I took some training
because I wanted to do this on purpose um

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my dog Tibor was really the guy who got me
to, like, switch over to intuitive animal

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communication as my primary focus because
I started seeing visions of his past life.

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And I don't mean, um, reincarnation,
although I I do know that our

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animals reincarnate, but this
was just before I got him.

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He had a rough life.

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And that was the time when I
said, I've got to start working

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with people and their animals.

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And I gotta say, when I get to
work with people who who loved

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their animals enough to show up
and talk to an animal communicator?

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Man, I'm already talking to
the dog or the cat, and seen.

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And you, you dog lover you,
you are so open hearted.

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It it's a it's a perfect combination.

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Seen.

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That's I was just hooked, and
I've been hooked since then.

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Anke: I can totally understand that.

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Yeah.

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So what do people come to
you for most of the day.

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Is there a pattern or is it
is it a variety or what is

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that people come to you for?

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Maribeth: There is there is a variety.

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Um, I prefer to be somebody who
helps I want to say solve problems

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uh that's the human's version of it
but It's all about relationships.

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We get we who love animals, our
dogs, we we bring them into our life

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Because we want to have a happier
life and we break we get so much joy.

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So people come to me when, When they have,
say, aggressive dogs or dogs with tons

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of anxiety, uh some some behaviours that
they brought with them say if they're a

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rescue dog and they've been adopted in
that way Um, or the behaviors change.

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Physical issues.

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You know, I I'm taking my
talk to the veterinarian.

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What else can you pick up?

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Uh can you do some healing about it?

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And then, Oh, we were
talking about this earlier.

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We do we do talk about the rules
of living with your humans.

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You know, like, there are just
certain things about where everybody

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goes potty and there's different
rules for dogs, cats, and people and

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sometimes they need some guidance of
on on what works when you you decided

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to live with your beloved human.

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So that was a little thought.

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Then finally, As as dogs or other
animals are starting to, uh, get older.

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So I hope with that, uh, you know, how
are they feeling and even end of life,

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um, end of life issues about how are
they feeling physically and emotionally?

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Is the treatment working or
are they like done with it?

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In telling them about the transition
and helping people connect afterwards.

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I wrote a book Peace in Passing,
Comfort for Loving Humans During Animal

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Transitions based on my experiences
there, so lots of dog stories.

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So that that's hopefully in a nutshell
all the different areas I I work with.

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Anke: And I I mean, that's so helpful.

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I've had, like, my first dog
passed, like, two years ago.

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And, you know, I kinda
expected it to be tough once.

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Right?

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So I still kind of feel the
connection is still there.

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You know?

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I have a most of my screensaver
everywhere, so I don't

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not afraid to look at it.

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Like, you know, I cannot
be very much present.

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And, you know, but there is that part.

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Like, I always worried, but it was
one thing I always worried about.

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Like, how would I know when he's ready
to go, you know, because I thought I

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don't want him to suffer just because
I don't wanna let go, you know, but

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I also don't wanna put him to sleep
before he's ready to go kind of thing.

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You know?

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So I always worried about that.

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And in the end, like, boy, was it clear.

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Find.

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It's so easy to Yeah.

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You know, I I've that felt that made me
feel better that it was, like, so clear

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that he really clearly communicated.

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Look.

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Have done.

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You know?

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And I had just literally last week,
the one like, my other dog, like,

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he well, we kind of He was sick.

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Like, he kind of threw up.

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And and so there was, like, you know,
he's turning almost he's getting

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close to thirteen, so you kinda worry.

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So and you and that's the piece
where I think this is so helpful

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to kinda have that extra insight
in into what he can't tell me.

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Tried to kinda have that sense of, you
know, is it just a little like, have you

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just eaten something and, you know, and
it's just a little stomach bug, or is

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there something more serious behind it?

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And, you know, nothing if I worry,
I'm probably the furthest away

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from being a support to him.

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Maribeth: Right?

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Oh, that's true.

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Um, and and Most of us can't stop
worrying but getting more information

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and connecting Even if the information
is hard to hear, a bit of the

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knowing and and reinforcing that
You know, just telling them how much

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you love them in in a way that's
different from usual day to day life.

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You know, that telepathic connection.

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I think we all have it with our dogs,
with those animals that we love.

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But bringing it in even stronger,
it does soothe us humans, you know?

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And hearing, you know, like,
well, what would make you happy?

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Um, you know, what do you what would
you like me to do for you to make

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you feel better?' and just Hearing
what they say back, that's also

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it's like we want to do something.

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And so so just a little bit of comfort
of hearing that what they're feeling

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and uh maybe what they would like,
uh, that that soothes the worry.

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Anke: What would you recommend to
somebody who kind of says, well,

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that makes sense, but how, you know,
how can I hear or what can I, you

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know, how can I get started on this?

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I look at my dog and, you know,
I can sort of read body language.

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Right?

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Sort of like but how can I go beyond that?

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Is there something that I mean,
is there something that you can

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tell people or is it everybody
has to find out their own way?

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Maribeth: Or Interesting.

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So um yeah a couple of things I would
say I would start with your mindset that

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They're absolutely intuitive beings.

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So they're already set you know,
their their part of the connection

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is already like, And then it kinda
it's like, well, well, I don't

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really know how to get there.

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So assume that they're already
connecting and assume that you We're

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born with the intuitive ability.

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It's not, um, something that's
only special people have.

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I believe that we have the wiring,
The energetic body as well as our

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physical, uh, brain and mind to do it.

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I didn't start doing this for so
many years it's I'm like an example

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that you could start at any age
kind of get that mindset And, um,

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where where will we go with this?

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Let me I'm trying to think of it.

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The bit really cool things we can do.

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Had.

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You could you start simply, uh, imagine
that you're ready to listen and you

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can hear it a lot of different ways
when I say hear that's that's probably

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misleading you can receive information
a lot of ways, so be open to it.

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You could get a picture.

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You You might hear some words,
you might get an emotion expressed

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in your body, you might get one
of their memories as a picture.

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So you could start with something simple
just been sitting down quietly and asking

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them something and being open to whatever
comes in first like that's your intuitive

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side After that, voyological mind just
is like, oh, I wanna just you can't that

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would you already knew that how could
you or how could you know that or this is

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all crap or So listen for the very first
thing you get and then thank them for it.

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Uh, it's always gonna feel
like imagination because that's

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how intuition comes through.

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Found out that a lot.

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It's never changed for me.

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Yeah.

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And once you okay.

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You got yeah.

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So it's never changed for me.

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So it's beginning to trust yourself.

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And then, What?

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You don't thank them and see if if,
uh, there's a change in their behavior

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after what what they've shared or or
if you notice something different.

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That would be the quickest and
most fun way to try it out.

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Uh, or ask them to do something
different and show them in your mind

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and and have an emotion around it.

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Anke: Got so much wind.

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That's that makes so much sense.

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And it's about, I think, like,
what I most feel from even

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even the two of us being here.

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You know?

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It's that slowing down.

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It's that peaceful presence.

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It's that stop taking input from
a million directions to even allow

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that that to come up and feed you.

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Because I think intuition doesn't yell.

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Like, intuition always whispers,
right, in whatever way.

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So you need to give it some
space to, you know, to even

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notice it because it's there.

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It's just like, can you hear it right now?

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Or if are you so busy kind of, you
know, hustling and bustling and talking?

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And so where can people find your book?

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Where can they find out more about you?

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Maribeth: Seen.

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Well, I I have a website and and
my website is sacredgrove dot com.

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S a c r e d g r o v e dot com and my
books there, um, and how you you know,

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I do I write a lot of blogs, uh, and
so there's a lot of information that

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you can just get on my website, and
and there's also ways to work with me.

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Anke: Awesome.

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That's wonderful.

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Thank you so much.

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And, obviously, we're gonna pop the
link in the show notes here and on

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the in the on the on the blog page.

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Obviously, it's gonna be there as
well, so it will be easy defined.

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Thank you so much for
coming, and I can't wait,

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Maribeth: you know, to have you back.

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Oh, this is fun.

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