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<p><!--block-->Alara Sage (00:00.47)<br>Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Ecstatic Woman podcast, where we inspire and activate women in their power, in their magnetism, and in their bliss. I am your host, Alara Sage, the Ecstatic Life mentor. I'm here to activate you, your magnetism, your radiance, my loves. Fellow ecstatics, life can throw some curveballs at us, right? There can be moments in our life where we feel like we have to take these leaps of<br><br>faith, where we have to take these chances, seemingly take action that we don't always see the net that is ready to catch us. We don't always see the wind that is ready to pick us up and allow us to soar. Takes great courage in these moments. And we have our wonderful guest here today, Laura Christine, who is here to talk to us about courage and her personal experience with the power of this word.<br><br>She is a courageous woman. She left a toxic marriage to come home to herself. And Laura shares her story openly and without shame to inspire other women to show up for themselves, to do what is best for them, of course, with courage. Laura, thank you so much for being with us today.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (01:23.122)<br>I'm already tearing up. It's such an honor and it's such a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you, Alara.<br><br>Alara Sage (01:31.214)<br>Oh, my love, this is such a powerful conversation. I'm so thrilled to get into this and just dive into this. So before we go into your story, what is courage to you?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (01:48.466)<br>It's so many things, but the strongest thing arising right now is the ability to come home fully into myself and trust that my inner knowing is the right knowing for me to follow. That's courage.<br><br>Alara Sage (02:12.562)<br>Yeah, because we're not taught that, right? We're not taught to trust ourselves. It's so funny in our society. It's all about scientists and doctors. And they are valid, and we need them. And we have wisdom. We are intelligent beings. Yes, I really feel that. And I love how you're saying coming home to yourself. Obviously, you've had a very strong and powerful.<br><br>experience with courage. So how does this coming home to yourself with your story, how did that arise? Needing, feeling the need, feeling the pull to come home to yourself and then the actions to actually have the courage to do so.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (02:54.906)<br>It started with a realization that I was still a people pleaser in this marriage that you talked about, that I was still trying to fix myself so that my situation would be fixed.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (03:18.263)<br>I am not alone in that and I know it because when I started to talk about this situation, I can't tell you how many other women said the same thing was happening for them. It's like we take on all this responsibility to make our relationships work, to raise our spouses or husbands or partners and think that...<br><br>if something is wrong in the relationship, it's because we're not in alignment with ourself enough. So I kept trying to fix myself and I recognized one day, it takes what it takes, right? I recognized I'm not me. I knew I could feel my light was dimmer than it had been previously and than it is now, thankfully. So it started with a realization.<br><br>I am not fully me.<br><br>And it took courage to decide. I chose to do something different, which means to leave. And I didn't make, this is something that I want to stress actually. I didn't make a decision, okay, I'm leaving and this is done and it's for good. I made the decision to take a month and go live somewhere else. Because I needed that.<br><br>base and I didn't have it. So I made the decision to go and get that space for myself and see. You don't have to know the outcome of every choice before you make it. I just wanted to see what it felt like not in that situation for a month. I'm laughing just because of how incredible the lessons were.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (05:17.271)<br>how much grieving I did, how much crying I did. I dug a hole for a tree to plant because I had to do something with this energy. How much space I had, learning what to do with that space that I then had. I got therapy, so happy that I got the therapist that I had.<br><br>And having stepped away from it, I was able to see how far away from myself I was. But I couldn't see how far away I was from myself when I was in the situation. So I had to step back.<br><br>Alara Sage (05:53.358)<br>I mean, I really feel you as you're talking. I feel how intense this entire experience was for you and really truly how deeply connected you are to it, which I want to honor you because it's so powerful. You are really connected to that experience. And I feel like that's what really allows you to speak to it because you are literally, as you are speaking, wow, I'm in it with you. I'm feeling it. And.<br><br>Not everybody can do that, you know, and that is so beautiful because when you speak like that, wow, people can feel it even if they're aware or not aware whether they can feel it. So I deeply honor you for staying connected to an experience that was no doubt painful and challenging. And I loved how you said that oftentimes we can't see it, you know, when we're in it, we can't see it.<br><br>But there was something that said to you, right? There was something that said, hey, something's not right here. You mentioned like you were beginning to realize your light was dim. You weren't really feeling it. Can you explain a little bit maybe of what that was? Because I think it's so important to really realize that we don't know what we don't know. And we have to be available to seeing what is in our blind spots.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (07:19.966)<br>agree a few of the things that I think might help people sort of recognize it in their own life. I would wake up, and this is not like me, I would wake up every day and feel almost a sense of dread.<br><br>very not like me at all, but I started to do it every day for a while and I recognized that when my husband would come to bed, he'd usually stay up later than me. One, I had requested that he would not kiss me to sleep or kiss me when he came to bed because one, he was drinking, I'm not into that and two, I didn't wanna wake up, I didn't wanna be woken up, but he didn't listen because he wanted to kiss me.<br><br>I guess he thought it was an act of love or something, but really it was just respecting my request. And it, it didn't feel good. So if something doesn't feel good, it's not good.<br><br>Those were two main things. And I know it revolves around bedtime and sleeping, but really, when you're going to sleep and when you're waking up, that's when the truth is so present because your subconscious is active then. Feel how you feel when you're waking up. Are you constantly drained throughout the day as well? Are you constantly feeling like you're sort of fighting against your partner? Not like you're in arguments or anything, but.<br><br>You know that, here's another one. You see the potential. You feel it. Sometimes he shows it, or she shows it, or whoever your partner or friend or whatever may be, they may show it. But it keeps coming back to the sense of, I have to do some more work. I have to do some more work, usually.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (09:22.566)<br>If you're ultra spiritual, like I can be, it's, I have to do more work on myself because I'm not content in my life. And I should be content in my life because if I'm that spiritual, I should just be able to be content no matter what. More forgiving, more compassionate, more loving, more patient, any of that kind of thing. We get stuck in that trap of sort of the spiritual.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (09:54.679)<br>enlightenment or advancement kind of things. But really the lesson is I don't deserve this and I can't leave.<br><br>Alara Sage (10:04.29)<br>There's so much there that I would love to go into. And one of the things that really stands out is, yeah, I don't deserve this. It's really important to understand when we're in a space where there isn't a reciprocal energy that, like you said, feels good. Like, if it doesn't feel good, guess what? It's not good. And I love how you talk about early in the morning because that is such a profound time of the day. Right?<br><br>And I just want to really, again, emphasize that to listeners, yeah, if it doesn't feel good, it doesn't feel good. And it's not always this. This could be anything, right? This could be your job. This could be a relationship. This could be a friendship. This could be family. It's not always toxic in the context of what we deem toxic, like abusive and all of that. My marriage wasn't at all. We had a very good marriage. We're still really good together as we share children.<br><br>But I was experiencing a very similar thing. There was a lot of no's in my body. I was very numbed down. And I always felt like.<br><br>who I was wasn't good enough. And so I was always like, oh, I got to do better. I got to do better. But it was things that were irrelevant to like my actual heart. You know, I was wanting to do better to please him. And so he was by no means a negative toxic person in and of himself. However, absolutely the situation, you know, I could call it, I don't know if I'd call it toxic, but it definitely wasn't true to me.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (11:18.242)<br>Mm.<br><br>Alara Sage (11:35.838)<br>Right. And again, just coming back to like, it didn't feel good. I think that's such a good thing. Like, does it feel good? Right.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (11:42.006)<br>Yeah<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (11:47.974)<br>Yeah. And it can be a habit of yours. We're talking about kind of the external things, but maybe you're in a habit that actually doesn't feel good. Same thing. You can get out of it.<br><br>Alara Sage (12:00.414)<br>Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. And so when you decided, you said that you took this month apart. And wow, again, I could really feel you in that space of the grieving and all of the emotion that you went through. And I am presuming that it was like, oh, yeah, this is good. This is what I need. Can you kind of tell us what happened in that month and moving forward? And again, some of the.<br><br>I always say it's like kind of digging deep, right? Courage asks us to dig deep in your experience.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (12:38.796)<br>Yeah, so I dug a hole so I could plant a tree. Ha ha!<br><br>Alara Sage (12:41.126)<br>Oh yeah, literally. You're Doug Deep.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (12:51.12)<br>I gave myself as much grace as possible in this situation. I...<br><br>at the moment and was self-employed and I just basically took the month off. Thank God I could. I understand that's not accessible for everyone to be able to do, but we have our ways of coping. This is something I think most people don't understand because when you don't know what's going to happen, there's fear there. The unknown is scary and it brings up fear. So we think it might be worse. If I leave, it might be worse.<br><br>No, you have ways to cope. You're a woman for crying out loud. You can cope. I promise. And yeah, and it will come. What you need will come. That's the courage though. It takes courage to trust that and to take that step. So yes, I did that. I cried a lot. I learned how much.<br><br>I was afraid to not be on the same page. So I wanted him to understand why I left, what was happening, and he couldn't in this situation. He literally cannot understand.<br><br>So I had to learn that not everybody's going to be on the same page as me, that unfortunately I want everything to be in harmony. I'm a Libra, five planets in Libra. I want harmonious life. Everybody on the same page. We're all just chill. Sometimes it has to get discordant so that the harmony can come in.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (14:45.138)<br>because otherwise it's going to stay just a little bit off, a little bit off key. Oh, it's really painful. Sometimes we have to go way, way off key in order for the harmony to come back in.<br><br>Alara Sage (15:01.874)<br>Yeah, I mean, like literally when you think of music and you think of something being off key, which I'm really good at, I'm really good at being off key. You know, it's like this, like, oh, this doesn't quite, like it doesn't quite fit, doesn't quite resonate.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (15:14.218)<br>Yeah. Yeah, so think about it. Do you want to stay in this position, situation that's a little bit off key? That's not so bad. That's a little off key. Or do you want to jump into the discordance? Get way off key so you can find the harmony again. I'm getting chills.<br><br>Alara Sage (15:35.442)<br>I did too. I was just like, wow, that's beautiful. You should definitely like trademark that. That was wonderful.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (15:44.162)<br>noted. But I learned how to say no. Huge thing. He was sending me desperate texts, telling me it would go back and forth between sort of angry and sort of, I love you, come back, you destroyed my life. The only way to fix it is for you to come back. It was really hard because again, I wanted him to understand what was going on. I was<br><br>on the phone with my mom because she knows how to say no. So I called my mom and I said, look, he keeps texting me. I don't know what to do. She said, you just need him to stop. And for the first time I'm like, oh yeah, that is what I need. Let me, let me take into consideration what I actually need. I wrote in the, I wrote in the little text thing. I just need you to stop.<br><br>I felt sick. My body hurt. It was literally in pain because I thought that was going to cause him distress to send that text. However, I knew, okay, this is what I need. I have to find the courage to just click that little arrow that makes it go. I sent it. And do you know what happened?<br><br>He sent a text back that said.<br><br>Okay. And that's it. And that was it. And the desperation stopped at the moment.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (17:22.842)<br>Nobody got hurt. Nobody died. I survived. Like, whoa. I learned that I can actually say what I need and no one's gonna die.<br><br>Alara Sage (17:37.262)<br>It I'm laughing, but it's so true. You know, I'm laughing, but it's really something that we subconsciously believe. And again, you know, it's like really important the listeners hear you on that. Like, yeah, I can state what I need and desire and stand in that and nobody's going to die. That's not going to kill anybody. And it's interesting because I too am a Libra, but I have Mars and Scorpio. And.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (17:45.148)<br>Mm-hmm.<br><br>Alara Sage (18:02.246)<br>But what I've realized is it's also a lot of nervous system energy that when we're very little, and for those of us who are beings of light that are really here to live in our truth.<br><br>What we experience when we're young is that there's a discourse in what we're feeling vibrationally in our nervous systems and our bodies and what everybody is showing us. So families coming home, people around us, they're pretending everything's OK. Meanwhile, our bodies are not saying everything's OK. And it doesn't feel good. Our bodies don't feel good. And we're very little. And we're like,<br><br>how do I make this stop? This doesn't feel good. And we start this people pleasing, like let me make mom happy, let me make dad happy, let me make everybody happy. Oh, I feel so much better in my body, right? Meanwhile, we just don't understand, like this isn't mine, you know? These emotions, this energy that I'm feeling isn't mine. And so we start this practice of like, everybody around me needs to be happy so that I feel good in my body. And yes, the courage to say,<br><br>No, screw that. What's going to make me happy? And all of you get to deal with your own unhappiness. I can help you. I can inspire you. I can make you laugh. But you're not my responsibility. I don't have to carry this weight for you. And I really feel like this was what you were feeling and experiencing with your husband.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (19:35.726)<br>And actually as a child, unbeknownst to me, of course, we don't know. We don't actually recognize that as a child up through, I had no idea that my mother was actually hiding how she was suffering basically, and trying to make the things work and I hesitate to share much because it's not mine to share. But the part that is.<br><br>is that I am a very sensitive being as a little girl. I had to have known. And that has to be why I was so, so sad a lot. Sadness is what I've carried through. And I get it now, 100%. Wow, I get it now. And I'm 40. I didn't know it until a few months ago.<br><br>Alara Sage (20:35.765)<br>And again, these moments of courage, it's also a-<br><br>ingrained in our bodies and in our subconscious mind. Like, again, going back to this, like, if I choose what I want, other people are going to suffer to the point of death. Right? Like, I really want to emphasize that because that, like, what you said, I want to go back to what you said of, like, texting him, I need you to stop made you feel so sick to your stomach. Like, I want the audience to really feel the depth of that programming. Right. That, like, if I really own what I want,<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (21:09.994)<br>Mm-hmm.<br><br>Alara Sage (21:11.5)<br>want, oh my god, the whole world is going to collapse. And that's where the courage really lies, right? And like, no, I need this. I need this. I'm going to breathe into my body. Fingers crossed. Right? And then like, hey, nobody died.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (21:25.842)<br>Yeah.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (21:33.846)<br>It's amazing.<br><br>Alara Sage (21:37.054)<br>And not only did nobody die, but wow, like the spaciousness, the release, the oh my god, I can breathe.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (21:49.21)<br>It really was an active liberation of myself. I freed myself a little bit, but enough to keep doing it.<br><br>Ugh.<br><br>Alara Sage (22:06.418)<br>Yeah, the liberation of self, you know, it's. It's profound. And again, this can be literally in any space, right? This could be in our work. This could be in a variety of different relationships, just things that we've basically agreed to on some level. And then saying, hey, you know what this thing I agreed to, it doesn't work for me anymore. And there's a big no there. And having that courage to say no and take that step. So.<br><br>Just continuing the full story here, OK, so you left him and moved through. And before, actually, I want to do touch on one thing, the crying and the grieving. Again, I want to honor you because it's so important to grieve. It's so important to cry and grieve. That version of you that is dissolving, the version of you that is literally dying, which you had a life with that person, right? There is a whole process.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (22:47.644)<br>Mm.<br><br>Alara Sage (23:06.176)<br>and structure that you have that you have to say goodbye to. And there is a grieving process there. So I love how you so powerfully spoke to that. It's okay to cry, it's okay to grieve. Then what happened? What transpired for you?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (23:27.506)<br>Magic. Nothing short of it. I, oh, I found a new place to live on the island. I was on Oahu. I had the best roommates you could ask for. We're all still friends. I was only there for four months, and then it was time for me to move on.<br><br>That's how I kind of roll. I feel I live somewhere until it's time to go, and then I know that it's time to go. I follow.<br><br>where it tells me to go. And this time it was travel, visit friends. I hadn't seen anybody in over seven years because that's how long I was on Oahu and it's far, far away. So I drove around the country and visited a lot of friends that I knew from before, some that I only had met online. It was so magical. And every single...<br><br>I would go somewhere, something else would open up. I didn't have a real agenda. I just knew that I was going to be traveling. I knew that I'd hit Minnesota, because that's where my family is. And I knew I was landing in California.<br><br>What I didn't know is I would be in Utah for two months. What I didn't know is that I would meet a real fun friend in Colorado and hang out for a week and then go see him again in Pennsylvania. And we still talk. I didn't know that I would be coming to Vermont to visit one of my roommates, Jared, who moved out here to be closer to his kids.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (25:11.13)<br>And now I live in Vermont because that turned out to be home. So I think there was some karma there between us, some good karma, where we got to be good friends. And then he actually showed me where my home was.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (25:26.698)<br>There is so much that I can say about my travels. And I do share it on my podcast as well, 100 Ways. But the magic that opened up and the different people that I met, I had to trust that my path would open itself up to me. And it does. Each step reveals the next. But you have to take that one step that you can see. And then you'll know the next one.<br><br>That's the challenge is not seeing where the path is going, just seeing the next step on the path and trusting that it's going to reveal the next.<br><br>Alara Sage (26:07.018)<br>Absolutely. The step that's in front of you. Step on that.<br><br>and trust that next step is going to open up for you. We're talking about courage. Really, courage exists because of fear. We fear what you're referring to. We fear what we can't see. What do you mean? Go forward. There's no path there. Where do you want me to go? And it's like, well, the step's right there. And it's like, great, but where does it lead to? I got to know. I want to know. This need to know, it can be very gripping.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (26:21.88)<br>Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (26:40.4)<br>the unknown, the fear of what's going to happen. Of course, that's where the magic is. But fear exists, right? And fear is very much in our bodies, and it's very visceral to our nervous system. Did you have any specific ways that you worked with fear? And or do you have any advice for the audience of what happens when it's just like, but I'm so scared? And or that little voice is like, are you effing crazy?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (26:50.902)<br>Mm-hmm.<br><br>Alara Sage (27:08.622)<br>What do you think? This is gonna your life is gonna be ruined. Who do you think you are?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (27:16.746)<br>So all of that, yes, I've experienced. One of the things that helped me a great deal when I was feeling all sorts of anxiety with this friend that I met in Colorado, it's interesting. The first or after you are leaving, after you have left something unhealthy, and it's interesting.<br><br>a healthy relationship is scary too. Any kind of new relationship is so scary because you don't want to repeat it. So you're looking for red flags everywhere. And I had so much anxiety. Yin yoga helped me.<br><br>Alara Sage (27:52.688)<br>Ha ha ha.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (27:58.882)<br>I have a lot of different tools. I meditate. I run. I do art. I'm a musician. I sing. And that's another thing that helps as well. In fact, one song in particular brings me home. I will sing it once and probably obliterate it because I'm crying and you can't cry and sing at the same time. I can't anyway.<br><br>But if I keep singing that song, it brings me home. That and yin yoga were the two things that helped me with that. The other thing, journaling and then allowing myself to be uncomfortable and talking to myself in sort of a logical way about it, of course I'm uncomfortable.<br><br>I don't know where I'm going to go. I don't know what my life is going to look like. I don't know how I'm going to make money. I don't know all of these things. Of course, I'm feeling uncomfortable. Also, it's fricking cold here. And I am not used to being cold. And I don't like it. And it's OK to not be comfortable all the time. What can I do now? I can take a hot bath. OK. At least my bones warmed up for a second. I can.<br><br>Talk to friends. Get your network. Talk to your friends. I can sleep. I can nap. Oh. I can write music or sing. Do whatever creative activity you do, baking. Yeah. Be in nature. For me, nature is a healer. Of course, in the dead of winter in Minnesota, where I was this last year, it was.<br><br>Stupid, but you can even get outside sometimes in the winter and play in the snow or do something. Move, dance, be afraid, actually be afraid. That's cool too. But don't let it stop you. Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (29:55.954)<br>Yes. Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (30:03.23)<br>I love how you're just owning it, right? Like, I'm uncomfortable. Guess what? That's OK, right? Like, this is an uncomfortable circumstance. I don't know what's happening. I don't know how to make money. And I don't like the cold. Like, you're just letting yourself. It's like letting the little kid, right? It's like, I don't like the cold. I am uncomfortable. OK, I hear you. Like, sweet. Like, that's what you know. This isn't what I want. OK, yeah, this isn't what we want, right? Like, have.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (30:18.378)<br>Yeah.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (30:23.856)<br>Yeah.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (30:29.171)<br>Yeah. But then... All the while knowing that...<br><br>Alara Sage (30:32.066)<br>The tantrum.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (30:37.334)<br>Literally I am going to know what I need to know when I need to know it. And I can't know it beforehand. So trying to force myself to know the next thing before the next thing is ready to be known, it's pointless. So do whatever I can to get home. And that means pull all my energy into myself, get home in myself. One thing that I, that has helped me a lot breathe into my pussy, breathe into my pelvic floor. Right? Hell yeah. Breathe.<br><br>Alara Sage (31:03.642)<br>Yes, yes.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (31:07.168)<br>there and focus. That is our root chakra. That is where we are home. We're stable. We're secure. We're rooted in that, in that place, in our pussy, breathe into it. Get there. Just be here now. Just like all the masters tell you how to do it though. How to do it. They don't, they just say, be here now. It's like, well, how do I do that? Stop thinking. How do I do that? Well, that's a challenge. Breathe in your pussy.<br><br>Alara Sage (31:21.791)<br>Mmm.<br><br>Alara Sage (31:25.579)<br>Yes.<br><br>Alara Sage (31:29.592)<br>HA HA!<br><br>Alara Sage (31:37.168)<br>We should start telling the Mel Gurus, breathe into your pussy. Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have one of those. Bummer for you. Well, the rest of us are gonna do just that. Ha ha ha.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (31:44.998)<br>I know I have I think men I think breathe into your heart maybe for them possibly ankles I'm not sure I haven't really explored that all that much. Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (31:56.766)<br>Yeah, I feel like it's more of their heart. It's very easy for them to be down into their sexual organs. They need to be more. Yeah.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (32:01.614)<br>Exactly. Yep.<br><br>Alara Sage (32:05.506)<br>I really love what you said, like, where is my comfort? What can I do right now to help myself feel more comfortable? Right? It is like that little kid, again, like, I don't want this. OK, what can I do? Do you want a blanket? Do you want, like, I just keep getting this image of a little kid. Like, I want a snuggie. Like, whatever you need, like, let's make it all comfortable for you. Yes, we're in a not so comfortable environment. Having those tools for yourself, like you named off so many. Nature is phenomenal.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (32:23.551)<br>Yeah<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (32:29.898)<br>Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (32:34.64)<br>after my divorce, I was in nature every single day. And the minute I'd be like, ugh, I would just go out to her and she just would just suck it right out of my body. Like by the end of the walk, I was always just like, I'm good. I'm not going to die. Right? I'm good. And so she is so powerful. I loved how you spoke about singing and your music and breathing into your pussy and journaling. Right?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (32:47.375)<br>Mm-hmm.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (32:51.263)<br>Yeah.<br><br>Alara Sage (32:59.682)<br>Like it's so important that we not only have one tool, but we have several tools that we can pull from in any given moment that, OK, what's available to me here now and what really resonates the most? I think that's really powerful and very wise information that you're bringing forth, yes. So Laura, how can people find you and hear more of your story and your journey and connect with you?<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (33:16.806)<br>Mm.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (33:27.05)<br>The best way is on my podcast. I actually have taken on a full-time job. So my podcast is where it's all at, which is called 100 Ways. It's actually a daily podcast, so I have some very short episodes. And my journey is sprinkled throughout. It's kind of a series within the podcast.<br><br>Facebook is where I hang out, but you'll get that link over at the podcast, so I would just go there.<br><br>Alara Sage (33:59.886)<br>Wonderful, yes. Kudos to you for a daily podcast, my gosh. But that's wonderful. Like I want to say to the listeners, if there could be some really quick bite size information that they can grab, kind of grab and go.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (34:12.067)<br>Mm-hmm.<br><br>Yeah, it totally is. And it's like, I share the things that I've learned through this journey too. But little tiny bites and not necessarily scenarios that I went through, just some wisdom that I stumble upon. And I'm like, oh, I got to share that.<br><br>Alara Sage (34:35.61)<br>I really love that.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (34:35.815)<br>And it's all about coming home to self.<br><br>Alara Sage (34:41.656)<br>Wonderful, wonderful.<br><br>Okay, well with that said, let's move into our activation. Let's literally like come home. Let's come on in. Let's reconnect. Let's feel ourselves. And so I always say to the listeners, you know, just, you know, if you're driving, keep your eyes open and you can always come back to this at any point and there's nothing that you have to feel during this circumstance during this experience. Just know that your body is very, very intelligent and whatever you feel and experience is perfect for<br><br>you. Okay, so if it's possible go ahead and close your eyes and let's just start by taking some nice deep breaths in through our nose out through our mouths And if it's possible for you to sigh let yourself sigh or exhale audibly<br><br>this really psychological response, telling your body to let go, telling your body to relax.<br><br>Alara Sage (35:49.814)<br>Beautiful and taking your awareness down to your pelvis and taking a breath all the way down into your pelvis Feeling what you're sitting on feeling the chair that you're sitting on feeling that subtle gravitational pull on your body And allowing yourself<br><br>to just let go to exhale into that pull, letting yourself drop down into your body, letting yourself drop down into this moment, surrendering and softening.<br><br>Oh, surrendering and softening. Yes, yes, yes. Let's take our awareness to our pussies and let's breathe down into this space. Oh, this is this is the root of our. This is our root chakra. This is the root of our body. This is the root of our being. This is where our safety lives. This is where our Shakti, our creative life force energy lived. This is where our alive.<br><br>Your liveness lives here. Yes, yes, yes. So softening, setting the intention as you breathe into your pussy right now. You are softening.<br><br>softening it, softening your body, softening your being into your own aliveness, softening and opening, opening up to more of you, opening up to more of your power, opening up to more of your courage. Yes, beautiful. And just keep breathing.<br><br>Alara Sage (37:37.878)<br>all the way down there. If you feel called, you can even place your hand over that area of your body and place your hands there so you can feel yourself and feeling your body and feeling your being, feeling this beautiful connection to the seat.<br><br>of your power right here right now this beautiful connection to the seat of your power my love yes and breathe and we're just inviting right here right now the root chakra to open more asking the root chakra to open more asking and calling in a sense of safety into the body<br><br>Calling in a sense of safety and connection to our great mother, Mother Gaia, connecting in opening and connecting into that sense of safety that no matter what you're experiencing, my love, you are safe. No matter what you are experiencing, you are fundamentally safe, safe. Here now, safe, safe in your courage, safe and your choice to choose you safe and taking those leaps<br><br>Oops.<br><br>Safe, safe, safe to prioritize what makes you feel good. Safe. Okay. And breathing, setting that intention. I am safe. Setting the intention of safety within the body. Setting the intention to cultivate more safety within the sense of the self so that you can take more actions of courage, that you can take more actions that are aligned deeply within yourself.<br><br>Alara Sage (39:20.832)<br>Keep your focus on the root. Keep your focus on your pussy. And keep your focus on this word safe, safe. Breathing and receive.<br><br>Alara Sage (40:23.274)<br>exhaling, creating more space for a sense of safety in the body. Exhaling, you're releasing, you're releasing any tension, you're releasing any belief structures out through the breath now that suggests that you are not safe in and of yourself. You are not safe releasing these now. Keep breathing, calling in that safety with your breath, exhaling out the tension.<br><br>Alara Sage (41:10.97)<br>Yeah<br><br>Alara Sage (41:40.646)<br>Deep breaths. Expanding the root chakra. Increasing the safety of the nervous system now.<br><br>Alara Sage (42:01.274)<br>Oh.<br><br>Yes, yes,<br><br>Alara Sage (42:32.906)<br>Yes, yes, yes. And so it is, and so it is, and so it is. By the perfection of three, the divine trinity, it is complete.<br><br>Alara Sage (42:44.818)<br>Open your eyes. Laura, my love, thank you so much for sharing so incredibly authentically from your heart, inspiring women to be courageous in their life.<br><br>LC Christine | 100 Ways podcast (43:05.814)<br>Thank you for holding this space for all of us.<br><br>Alara Sage (43:12.714)<br>And by all means, audience, check out her podcast and share that with your fellow ladies. And check out Laura on Facebook and Instagram. Connect to her as wherever you feel is available for you. And as always, share this episode. This is such a powerful message for anybody, really literally for everybody, because there are always times within all of us that we don't feel good.<br><br>doubt our capacity to shift and to change and to take those leaps. So share this episode. Make sure you subscribe and until next time on the Ecstatic Woman podcast. Love you all so very much.<br><br><br></p>
