Hello, everyone, and happy Sunday. I am recording this intro from Asheville, North Carolina. You may hear my friend cleaning in the back.

Hi, Denise, yo.

You may hear the washing machine going. This is a full-on, easeful girl's vacation situation.

So this episode coming up is a really special one. I sat down with Corey Allen, and we talked about myself healing journey, meditation, breath work, writing to heal, and everything else in between.

And I hope you enjoy it. If you want to hear the full episode, which I highly suggest you listen to, you can head over to his podcast, and that will be linked in the episode notes.

I hope you all have been doing well and sending you so much love this Sunday. Take care.

Hi, I'm Alex L, and I write books for a living. The Hey Girl podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind. Hey, girl.

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One of the things that I love that I've seen you point out before is that you've been doing the work that you're doing on on self healing and so forth for a long time, but that still you find moments where you feel overwhelmed and you find that your clarity is challenged.

And I think that's such a crucial point because people sort of tend to get this fictitious idea that there isn't an ending spot or a finish line where kind of the stuff of life no longer affects them anymore.

And of course, that's just not the case. And so I'm curious if you could just speak to and share to the moments really particularly how those moments of difficult moments have changed from whenever you started becoming kind of conscious that they were happening to now to where they're still happening, but you have a huge toolkit to work with them when they happen.

And perhaps you're showing the disparity and the shift between those two could be rather insightful to people.

Well, I think you nailed it. You said exactly what I was going to say, which is my toolkit looks different. And so it's not that I have it all figured out now.

It's not that I am done with my healing journey, but it's that when things get hard and healing and when I feel lost in my past, what can I pull out of my emotional toolbox is what my therapist called it years ago and what I still call it now, what can I pull out of it, you know, to work through whatever feelings or healing or hurt or past or triggers that are coming up.

And there is no end point ever. I always say to my clients and my students in my books like healing is a forever thing. It's a forever love.

And when I started looking at it as this daily practice versus this place to get to, a lot of things changed, a lot of how I looked at becoming who I wanted to be changed.

And it allowed me to really give myself grace and understanding and self compassion. And it also made room for me to explore like what I need and what I want in my different phases of healing and hurting.

Because I think we avoid knowing that a part of life is pain and grief and a part of life is healing and moving through.

And so when we're able to hold both the duality of both things and the trust that this and that can be true.

We can start looking at our healing and our self-care practices and our relationships and our work and life in a more expansive and curious way.

And that's what I do and it's not always easy, but it's absolutely necessary because I know now as a student of life that some things will always hurt.

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