A Call For Love With Linda Orsini

Howard Brown: 00:00:04

Hello is this Howard Brown Welcome to the

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Shining Brightly Show. So glad to have you. Listen. It's really

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important we hear these terms self care equals self love. What

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does that all mean? Well, I've got a great guest who's going to

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talk us through it today and tell us why this is so important

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in building yourself confidence in you, Linda Orsini Welcome.

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How are you?

Linda Orsini: 00:00:28

I am fantastic. Thank you, Howard.

Howard Brown: 00:00:31

WOW. So, this is I always like to learn from all of

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our coaches and experts. And I want to tell you a little bit

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about Linda. So Linda Orsini is the founder of the global

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wellness education, and the host of a call for love power

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podcast. So she's a retired school teacher. 30 years

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experience. What grade?

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All grades all grades in elementary?

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All right, well, we gotta love our teachers. They

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are role models, and they are heroes. Oh my goodness. 30 years

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of teaching. Linda is passionate advocate for personal growth and

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transformation. Her own profound healing journey through anxiety,

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Soul fatigue, fear, self limiting beliefs has fueled an

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unwavering commitment to empowering others on their

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transformative journeys, where their expertise and body mind

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and spirit practices. lindo will skillfully guide you toward a

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life flowing with love, self care, self compassion, inner

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peace and joy helping you release the blocks and pains

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that are preventing you from living your best life. Oh, wow,

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we need Linda. Linda, tell us fill in the blanks. What did I

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miss. And also include something that we may not know about you

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something that you want to share?

Linda Orsini: 00:01:42

Well, I'm so happy to be here. And I love your

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podcast. So what an honour it is to speak with you and your

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listeners. I am the youngest of 11 children. So you may not know

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that, yeah, I have 10 older brothers and sisters. And so I'm

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the youngest and maybe feisty. Like to add feisty there and

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really independent. And I get things done. So I am self

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motivated. And I just do not wait for things to happen. I

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kind of had the mindset to create them myself. So that's

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just a different piece of information I like to share.

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You had a whole team of people. Oh, love it. Oh,

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my goodness, you're the baby. So Oh, my God, you had so many

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people taking care of your that's amazing. Did you get

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special treatment as being the youngest of 11.

Linda Orsini: 00:02:35

You know, my mom went to the bedroom at the top

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of the stairs. And every time somebody came in the house,

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she'd say, I made an apple pie just for you. And then the next

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person would come in the house and she would say, I made an

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apple pie just for you. And we would all hear this, but we

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would all be delighted. And then one day I was in a bookstore and

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the title said love each child the most. And I think she really

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live that both my parents did. There was lots of love to go

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around.

Howard Brown: 00:03:12

God bless her 11 children. That's amazing. And

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it's great sage advice from your mom. So I thank you for sharing

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that. Well, let's dig in and we're going to chop it up a

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little bit. So school teacher for 30 years. And you you

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actually in your bio, I read that you have an anxiety you had

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soul fatigue, Soul fatigue, what is that you have to explain self

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limiting beliefs. Tell us what happened to you. What's your

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story?

Linda Orsini: 00:03:39

Well, I was a school teacher and I loved it.

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Like I seriously loved it. But I would wake up every morning

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almost in tears, didn't know how I was going to make it through

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each day. I was completely exhausted. And this is where

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it's just not exhausted in your body, but your energy. So I am a

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yoga meditation guide, sound healer and Reiki master so I do

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know what it feels like to be in your spirit so depleted. And I

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would wake up each morning almost in tears not knowing how

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I was going to manage to the day and I decided to find my own

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path to healing my energy body and my mind because I was very

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anxious and anxiety as we know is worrying about the future. So

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I decided to really empower myself by first di diving into

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somatic healing practices and when I say somatic which I'm

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sure your your listeners will be interested to hear. We carry

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trauma, pain, worry suffering in our body in our physical body.

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And in order to relieve that is very helpful and actually

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detrimental to relieve it to our energy body through nature

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through restorative yoga, through breath, work, all these

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different modalities, sorry, different modalities that really

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guide you to self healing. Wow,

Howard Brown: 00:05:14

I resonate with it, but I am not a yoga guy or a

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meditation guy, I get it all out on the basketball court through

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extreme exercise, hiking, biking, basketball, but there's

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a lot of my audience here that needs to be able to process

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that, especially folks that have been dealt with cancer or

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caregivers. And I, I heard something that resonated with me

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with you is that you are, you're waking up every day with fear

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before you went to work. And that can lead to bad things, and

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burnout. And I hear that in the nursing profession, we're

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hearing that in the teaching profession now. And that's not a

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good way to wake up every day. I mean, you want to wake up every

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day and try to be as positive as you can and be blessed. Be

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grateful, seize the day, but you had to overcome that. And now

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you help others to do so. So that's really, really important.

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Now, I listened to your podcast to where mutual fans were very

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aligned, about motivate, educate, and inspire our

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listeners. And I want you to tell us how your podcast came

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about. And it's called the call for love. And what inspired you

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to choose that name? And what does that really mean to you?

Linda Orsini: 00:06:35

Well, it's so interesting, because I knew I

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wanted to start a podcast and I didn't know what what I was

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going to name it. And it came to me one day, because if you think

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of your day, Howard, and if the listeners think of their day,

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how many different emotions have you felt up to this point of

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listening? You could have had joy, exhaustion, fear, stress,

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anxiety, anger, you could have had resentment, you could have

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had a whole range of emotions. And in one day, you can

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experience so many emotions. And instead of calling them in some

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spiritual texts, because I am a student of A Course in Miracles,

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they say there's two emotions, there's fear. And then there's

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love. And the first episode of my podcast series, a talk about

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the difference between the two, and and how on these rocks, I

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was painting, fear on one side and love on the other. And fear

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means stress, anxiety, resentment, anger, sadness, all

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those negative emotions. And that's the What fear kind of

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represents. And I realised I don't want to think of my life

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as love and fear, because fear is so negative, and I'm in it a

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lot. And so, through A Course in Miracles, and the tax, there is

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another term that you can call fear. And that's a call for

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love. So you can be in two places, you can be either in a

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place of love, or there's a call for love. And I think it's

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really empowering for us to notice, where we are standing.

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Are we standing in the light? Are we starting in the shadow in

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the darkness? And noticing it, just noticing it? And that's the

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first peace? Are you in a place of love? Or is there a call for

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love. And then when you notice that and you give yourself some

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time and space. And when you offer yourself Self Compassion,

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because to notice it requires some courage to say, Oh, I'm

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feeling really angry and to hold space for that, then you can

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invite love in. And that's a call for love.

Howard Brown: 00:09:03

Well, we're shining brightly as you know,

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with the sun coming off those that are listening on video, I'm

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staring at a sign behind you and I want to read it because you

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just said about the two places have a call for love or it's

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amazing. So behind you, I'm reading and for those listening

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and watching you'll be able to see it but for those listening,

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it says every day, laugh, celebrate love, dream, hope,

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learn and brace wish, share, enjoy, give live and smile. And

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it's it's I'm just staring at it going. That's amazing and you're

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trying to live in that embodiment or you're trying to

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get there and that's it's cool. So I I really appreciate you

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having that sign behind you. It's a great reminder to where

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we can get to or if we're already there to just really be

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thankful and grateful that we were there in some parts of it.

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or day or life and things like that. So on your path to self

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love, you give me some stories of how this, how this

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transformed you, I'm sure people look at some tangible examples.

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So share some stories with us.

Linda Orsini: 00:10:16

Okay, I will, I am so happy you mentioned this

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because I had guided a retreat for some woman, just the other

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week. And on my way home, I had an experience that was not very

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pleasant, you know, I have a super great marriage, like

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divorced and remarried. And I hadn't been with my husband for

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almost three weeks, because I had been travelling, yada, yada,

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yada. And I was listening to all the things he was doing without

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me and I have some jealousy, I had some jealousy. And so this

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is noticing. And then I got a little cranky. And, you know,

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all these feelings were coming up that were not very pleasant.

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So because of my practice of a love, or a call for love, I

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noticed I was not in a place of love. And I could say things

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that were just unnecessary and, and nasty. And mean, and I

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didn't want to this is marriage, you know, we're all if you're in

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a marriage or a partnership, you know, these things come up. And

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so I was thinking to myself, Okay, I noticed that I'm not in

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a place of love. I'm not in a good space. So what am I going

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to do, I'm going to step back, and I can say anything, I'm

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going to feel all my emotions, hold space for all my emotions,

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and then offer self compassion. And there's three components to

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self compassion. There's the first one is self kindness, oh,

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I'm feeling these feelings, and they're not comfortable.

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What am I going to do? So I offer myself

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some soothing, that maybe placed my hand on my heart, or maybe

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you know, I rub my forehead, or I roll my shoulders and release

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it from my body. And then I say, you know, this is not unusual,

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that, you know, I've been away for about three weeks. And you

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know, we've led our separate lives for a couple of weeks, and

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these emotions could come up. This is part of the human

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experience. Just noticing that and appreciating that. And then

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I gave myself some space, I breathed into it, I went for a

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little walk, I put my feet in the in the grass and the ground,

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it gave me some space I, I took some deep breaths, and

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pranayama, which is breathing techniques in yoga. And then I

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let it go. And then I can and then when I finally got home, I

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could greet him with love and kindness, because I was very

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happy and excited to see him. But it was a journey. It was a

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journey to notice that we get triggers in our life, that are

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painful or uncomfortable. We notice them, we create space for

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them. We offer ourselves self compassion. And then we switch

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we flip the switch from those unhealthy emotions that hold us

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back from living our true light from shining brightly into a

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place of love. And that's what I want to be. And that's what I

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advocate for is that it's through our mindset, and through

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practices that we can flip into a place of love. And then when

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you are self compassionate and loving. What does that do? It

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ripples outward. It makes the whole world a brighter place.

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And everything all love comes from self love. All love comes

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from ourselves. So that is an example of how I practice how I

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walk the talk.

Howard Brown: 00:14:09

I appreciate that. So it's fear of missing out

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because you he was maybe golfing or doing something with his

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friends and I get it. And then so you said there were three

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things in self compassion I got one was self kindness. The

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second one was with creating space.

Linda Orsini: 00:14:25

So self kindness, yes. common humanity, which is

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really knowing that this is part of the human experience. Okay,

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and number three, and and they're in no particular order,

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and mindfulness. That means holding space noticing. So

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you're going to notice maybe offer yourself some kindness and

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then know that this is not unusual and they could come that

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you can have some more of one than the other and they can come

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in different order, but always usually It really starts with

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the mindfulness piece is just noticing. And I like to say

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where you're standing, are you standing in love? Or is there a

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call for love? So noticing first the sensations of uncomfortable.

Howard Brown: 00:15:15

I appreciate that. And I, the reason I wanted to

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get that down was because it's easy to hear it, but I missed

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it. Because I was really listening to your examples, and

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then putting it into practice. So I want to actually then now,

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you're an advocate for self compassion, and you have this

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wisdom, when someone is going through struggles, okay, I live

Howard Brown: 00:15:38

in the cancer world, and the patients and their caregivers

Howard Brown: 00:15:41

and their families are struggling. But you know,

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whether it's addiction or loss of job or divorce, or

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relationships, we all get knocked down. And it's you have

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to get back up again. And I always say that we lift

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ourselves up. And that's what you do. So when someone comes to

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you, what advice do you offer them? When they're in the

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struggle? Well, how do you get started? And where do you take

Howard Brown: 00:16:03

them through?

Linda Orsini: 00:16:05

Well, that's an excellent question. And I have

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coaching clients, and although I have not particularly dealt with

Linda Orsini: 00:16:15

cancer patients, per se, I have dealt with people who are really

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struggling with death of a partner or a friend or breakups,

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life traumatic events. And what I say is, what are you feeling?

Linda Orsini: 00:16:35

What are you feeling? What, what emotions are going through? And

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no doubtedly fear will come up? Where do you feel it in your

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body? Where is this sorrow? Where is this fear? Where is

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this anger? Where are you feeling it in your body, your

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emotional body, and they can sometimes place their hands on

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their heart, you know, they can feel it in their digestion. And

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you know, when your body when you're holding these thoughts in

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your mind, it becomes dis ease. And ease in the mind is not

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helping the body. So knowing what you're feeling, noticing

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where it is in your body. And then the instinct is no one

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likes uncomfortable. We always are trying to push away, what is

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not pleasant. And the key here is to hold space for what is

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unpleasant, in order to move through it. Because if we push

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it aside, we're ignoring it. But when we hold space for it, it

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can move through us. And we can leave it behind. And it doesn't

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become a burden and it doesn't become a weight.

Howard Brown: 00:17:59

I appreciate that. One of the things that where you

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and I have just really, really well aligned is that so I carry

Howard Brown: 00:18:07

my stress on my shoulders, and then you carry it obviously in

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your head, what I do is, at times, go help somebody else, it

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actually takes my mind off of that and going being a mentor,

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or listening ear or a hug for somebody else. And that actually

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helps a little bit in rejuvenating me, and then I can

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focus back on me. Because I say, you know, you got to lift

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yourself up first. And but I find that helping others, the

Howard Brown: 00:18:37

endorphins, just kind of then allow me to come back to me all

Howard Brown: 00:18:41

that. But the world is stressful. And again, it's how

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you actually take it on is what I'm hearing from you. But

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focusing back and giving people the right tools, whether that's

Howard Brown: 00:18:53

breathing, I call it finding your happy place, the stress

Howard Brown: 00:18:56

free zone. So we're talking about the same thing. You use

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the mindfulness techniques and things like that as well, which

Howard Brown: 00:19:02

are certainly important. And when people see these things

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working for them, I think you'll agree that the practice of

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gratitude, self gratitude, and gratitude really helps carry you

Howard Brown: 00:19:17

forward. And so can you speak to that a little bit?

Linda Orsini: 00:19:21

Yes, well, I would like to go back a little bit and

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say that, first of all, we need to know what our body needs to

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release that cortisol that that springs up and you said you play

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basketball. You know, sometimes that's what you need, you know,

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you need to release that that energy and then you can come

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into a place of more calm, but when you practice self

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compassion, it automatically creates a more empathetic

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person. And that's what we want because when we become self

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compassionate and self compassion is not selfish. It's

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tapping into what we need. Only then can we bought being more

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empathetic to others. And that's what I say a call for love. What

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are we living if we're just loving ourselves, and we're not

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spreading that out to others, so that you first reach out to

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others, it's an act of love. An act of love grows, right? It's

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not limited, is full abundance. So you're spreading that love

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and energetically, that's a higher vibration. And when you

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are sharing that light, and that love with others, it can't, it

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can't not stop. At just them, it permeates everyone. And that's a

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sense of gratitude. We knew, fill, fill and live your life

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from a place of love, without resentment without fear all

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those places, your vibration changes, your health changes,

Linda Orsini: 00:20:51

your skin changes, I swear your whole physical body changes, you

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have this glow and this light around you shining brightly. How

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can you shine brightly? If you're living in a place of

Linda Orsini: 00:21:02

fear, anxiety, stress? No, is. But I say that it's it's not

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automatic. For a lot of people, a lot of people need some

Linda Orsini: 00:21:12

guidance to work through it. Because we stick we stick to

Linda Orsini: 00:21:17

those negative emotions. And that's where meditation is so so

Linda Orsini: 00:21:23

important, because it teaches us that we are not going to die

Linda Orsini: 00:21:28

from an unhealthy emotion, that it's like the wave of the ocean

Linda Orsini: 00:21:31

is going to come to us and guess what is going to roll away?

Howard Brown: 00:21:37

So yeah, that meditation is one of the tools

Howard Brown: 00:21:40

and practices that that helps. I'm assuming you. Are there

Howard Brown: 00:21:44

others, you speak of a couple others on your podcast, I

Howard Brown: 00:21:47

noticed.

Linda Orsini: 00:21:48

Yeah. So well, I in my podcasts I am including

Linda Orsini: 00:21:51

meditations and I am on Insight Timer. Now. I'm an advocate for

Linda Orsini: 00:21:56

meditation, because of the benefits are really mind

Linda Orsini: 00:22:00

boggling. It's 1000s upon, probably since humankind has

Linda Orsini: 00:22:05

come on this earth, meditation has been a practice. Meditation

Linda Orsini: 00:22:09

is paramount to living healthy in our mind and body, and to be

Linda Orsini: 00:22:15

best stewards of this earth. So meditation, I do believe that,

Linda Orsini: 00:22:20

you know, energy can't be created or destroyed. It's not

Linda Orsini: 00:22:23

even my belief. It's a fact, right? It's a scientific fact

Linda Orsini: 00:22:27

that energy cannot be created or destroyed. So your energy, how

Linda Orsini: 00:22:32

are you living in it? How are you moving through it, and it

Linda Orsini: 00:22:35

can get stuck in our body. And then once again, that's where it

Linda Orsini: 00:22:39

dis ease can come in. And so as a Reiki Master, and transfer,

Linda Orsini: 00:22:45

formative life coach and I am trained in hypnotherapy, all

Linda Orsini: 00:22:49

these modalities, I think I've studied almost everything there

Linda Orsini: 00:22:52

is it's a strength, but it's a weakness. Because I am more of a

Linda Orsini: 00:22:56

student than a teacher, I love learning. The thing, the reason

Linda Orsini: 00:23:00

why I've learned all these modalities is because

Linda Orsini: 00:23:04

something's going to resonate with one person. And when I have

Linda Orsini: 00:23:07

my clients, I have a whole toolbox that I can pull from

Linda Orsini: 00:23:13

that resonates with them. Especially if there's certain

Linda Orsini: 00:23:16

personalities, you know, some people are not going to want to

Linda Orsini: 00:23:19

sit still through a meditation, but I can guide them through a

Linda Orsini: 00:23:22

very gentle movement practice, which helps them get closer to

Linda Orsini: 00:23:28

that somatic healing.

Howard Brown: 00:23:31

Well, you spoke of, you know, fear and anxiety

Howard Brown: 00:23:34

and stress and I in my book, I refer to that as darkness. And

Howard Brown: 00:23:39

that's where people are trying to get out of, I just read a

Howard Brown: 00:23:42

fact that coming out of the pandemic, and COVID, where we

Howard Brown: 00:23:47

were very much restricted on what we could and cannot do. The

Howard Brown: 00:23:51

number one thing coming out now is the emotion of loneliness.

Howard Brown: 00:23:57

It's really interesting in a world, you know, people have

Howard Brown: 00:24:00

really missed getting out and being amongst people, the

Howard Brown: 00:24:03

embrace of a hug and things like that. And how can how can get

Howard Brown: 00:24:09

into the place of love, help that help you. Because

Howard Brown: 00:24:12

loneliness is something that people are dealing with now. And

Howard Brown: 00:24:16

you need to be able to look inward and be able to then share

Howard Brown: 00:24:21

yourself once you're, you know, ready to ready to, you know, on

Howard Brown: 00:24:24

a solid foundation. So did you know that about loneliness is

Howard Brown: 00:24:27

one of the big emotional malaise coming out of the pandemic?

Howard Brown: 00:24:32

Well,

Linda Orsini: 00:24:33

I would say loneliness could be all the

Linda Orsini: 00:24:37

time, but it was just more emphasised in COVID. You know,

Linda Orsini: 00:24:42

you know, in the jail, what did they do? The worst torture is

Linda Orsini: 00:24:46

putting you in solitary confinement, right? Yeah. So

Linda Orsini: 00:24:50

being alone is is often terrifying. And it's funny that

Linda Orsini: 00:24:54

you should mention this because I just came off of a five day

Linda Orsini: 00:24:57

silent retreat, and being alone with oneself is no walk in the

Linda Orsini: 00:25:02

park. It's not a picnic. And I, once again, if we're feeling

Linda Orsini: 00:25:09

lonely, notice the feeling off for years noticing is

Linda Orsini: 00:25:14

mindfulness than offering yourself loving kindness. And

Linda Orsini: 00:25:18

then knowing that it's not unusual to feel lonely, it's

Linda Orsini: 00:25:21

part of being this human experience. And then shining

Linda Orsini: 00:25:26

brightly taking that love and taking it outward. My father

Linda Orsini: 00:25:31

always used to say, Go serve. My parents were big, volunteer

Linda Orsini: 00:25:37

people, my brothers and sisters were really advocates for living

Linda Orsini: 00:25:42

and loving and moving outside of ourselves. So if you're lonely,

Linda Orsini: 00:25:47

give what you want. You want more love, give love. You want

Linda Orsini: 00:25:51

more time, give time, you want more attention, give attention,

Linda Orsini: 00:25:56

and then it will come back to you like a boomerang.

Howard Brown: 00:26:00

It's great advice. While this is this, my show is

Howard Brown: 00:26:04

only a teaser, because people got to go watch your show and

Howard Brown: 00:26:06

get in touch with you. So this is the moment we are going to

Howard Brown: 00:26:09

shine. We have shined all show. But now the shining brightly the

Howard Brown: 00:26:12

spotlight is on you, Linda, I'd love for you to tell people how

Howard Brown: 00:26:16

they can get in touch with you. And then give us some final

Howard Brown: 00:26:19

thoughts and then kick it back over me for the show wrap.

Linda Orsini: 00:26:22

Well, I would love to offer your listeners journal.

Linda Orsini: 00:26:26

It's a seven day guide to self love, which I will keep

Linda Orsini: 00:26:32

available for your listeners. And of course, I'm on all the

Linda Orsini: 00:26:35

platforms. A call for love is my my podcast name, and also my

Linda Orsini: 00:26:41

social media. But my Business is Global wellness education,

Linda Orsini: 00:26:45

because I'm a speaker, a coach, mine mindfulness guide,

Linda Orsini: 00:26:50

meditation guide so many modalities. So I decided as an

Linda Orsini: 00:26:54

educator, and global, I advocate for wellness. So my my business

Linda Orsini: 00:27:00

name is Global Wellness Education.

Howard Brown: 00:27:03

And well thank you. And also I want to add that

Howard Brown: 00:27:05

you're also a teacher and a student, as well, because you

Howard Brown: 00:27:08

mentioned so so we'll definitely include all that information in

Howard Brown: 00:27:12

the show notes and on all the socials and definitely the link

Howard Brown: 00:27:14

to the PDF that journal will will definitely include that.

Howard Brown: 00:27:18

Give me some final thoughts and we're going to wrap the show.

Linda Orsini: 00:27:22

My final thoughts is that we are so lucky to be

Linda Orsini: 00:27:27

alive, to be breathing. And when we find the love deep love

Linda Orsini: 00:27:33

within us, it is our duty as humans part of this spiritual

Linda Orsini: 00:27:38

experience to give it outwards. So shine the light to shine the

Linda Orsini: 00:27:43

love. And if you're not in a place of love, then there's a

Linda Orsini: 00:27:47

call for love. But you can always decide

Howard Brown: 00:27:51

Wow, powerful Thank you. Well, it's so nice to

Howard Brown: 00:27:55

have you Linda and sharing your your teaching your wisdom and

Howard Brown: 00:27:59

your passion with with my audience. Thanks for being here

Howard Brown: 00:28:03

today. So this is Howard Brown, you've been on the shining

Howard Brown: 00:28:06

brightly show. You can reach me at shining brightly.com I've got

Howard Brown: 00:28:11

the book my speaking also the podcast. There's also things

Howard Brown: 00:28:14

about my cancer journey, lots of video and also other podcasts.

Howard Brown: 00:28:19

So come seek me out there. There's also discussion guides

Howard Brown: 00:28:24

that are free downloadables on survivorship. Mentorship is

Howard Brown: 00:28:28

leadership and interfaith meeting the other so lots of

Howard Brown: 00:28:31

good resources there and get interactive with me. Again,

Howard Brown: 00:28:34

Linda Orsini thank you a call for love. Really a pleasure to

Howard Brown: 00:28:38

have you on the show today. Thank you.