We have to start to have reverence and appreciation for the new awareness is because if we reject

the awareness, we reject the wisdom that's inherently trying to change us.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Grove's podcast. Today we are hitting you

with a solo episode. So I'm going to share with you some things that I've read that have really just gone,

you know, my mind just being blown through them.

And bringing awarenesses to my behavior, just in self-reflection,

just brought up things that I want to share with you.

And, you know, I think often the things

we're processing are kind of being processed collectively. So I hope that in sharing these

things, it offers you some insights about your own circumstances, your own behaviors, your own

way of being in the world, and that we can all move together towards creating a more loving, open, boundaryed, secure space.

One of the things that we don't know about boundaries or just boundaries around ourselves,

which isn't just about keeping bad things out, but it's actually about bringing good things in.

And when we can actually sit with the truth of that, that boundaries are

just so important because they protect your purpose, they guide your purpose, they protect your

being. They also protect people you're in relationship with their being. Recently, I was reading

this book from Rachel Maddox. That's called Rebloom. And so we're going to put the link in the show

notes for it. It's absolutely incredible. And in one of the chapters on boundaries that I was reading,

I was just like, damn, this is good. And the line was, your medicine isn't medicinal if it isn't also serving you. God, like sit with that one,

right? Your medicine isn't medicinal if it isn't also serving you. Gosh, I could think about that

on many layers, like as a teacher, as someone who shares. Like if I'm sharing about medicine like boundaries,

how are mine? If I'm offering medicine in my relationships or to the world, am I offering

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