Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.

Excited to be back in your ear.

And there is a ton going on in the world.

A lot of heaviness, a lot of chaos, a lot of turmoil, a lot of, all the

things. And so I want to meet you in that and just find some sense of peace in this moment.

And no matter when you're listening to this episode, that will likely be true that there's

chaos. I remember talking to a friend of mine about that,

and her saying that, you know, it's really just making what is already implicit, so what lives

below the surface, the beliefs, the thoughts, the anger, the fear, whatever it is, and making it

explicit. And that's not to minimize it or dismiss it or bypass what's occurring,

but rather to say, what do we do with it? It's being invited to heal. And that's like when

triggers come up relationally or, you know, that happens from systems that we operate in or

government or corruption or whatever it is.

It's all so that we can find resolution, so that we can build bridges, but we seem to be

building a lot of walls. And we could see that collectively, but I don't know that we see that

often within ourselves, within the individual.

You know that you're caught up in an ideology or a space of sides when you're othering.

When you're like, that person's in all left or all right or QA. Non or their antivacs or

they're pro-poison, you you know like when we're starting to

label we're not able to take in information and it doesn't matter what side you're allowed to have

beliefs and values and thoughts those are all really important to align to but can you have them

and allow other ones to exist?

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