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Take This personally with Morgan Heelsman. Hi, y'all. Welcome to Take This Personally With Morgan Heelsman

Hi y'all, welcome to Take This Personally.

Morgan here.

This week I got to dive into some serious self-care work with expert Christina LaCary.

I brought her on so she could share another resource for those who are looking for ways to elevate their lives.

Some people do therapy, some like manifesting and affirmations. Christina likes to help people expand their

self-awareness and align their energy so that they can lead their most fulfilling lives. Her work

is applied to all areas of somebody's life. And reading about her online, I thought it would be

a super thought-provoking conversation.

And it really was. So here we go.

I'm here right now with Christina LaCarrie. Christina, how are you?

I'm so good. And I love hearing that. I'm like, that's a really

beautiful way of explaining it and putting it. I'm like, oh, I like that. Well, it's awesome what you

were doing to help people. And I just want to hear all the things so we can help some more people

out there. So I want to know what does it mean to create or reach the highest most powerful self?

So for me, it's less of like a mental concept.

I think it can kind of sound like it's unattainable if you think it's somewhere to get to.

And really what I'm talking about when I say that is being in the present moment,

like being aware of your conditioned thoughts and your reactive emotions that, you know, have been programmed within you in your childhood and traumatic events to really choose and decide how you want to feel and who you want to be, how you want to respond in this moment, instead of just being like a bundle of reflexes.

So I think it's really less about trying to get to this version of yourself and realizing

that this version of yourself is the natural you underneath all of the distortions and delusions

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