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Hi, my love. Welcome back to another episode of the Yoga Inspired Life podcast. I have a feeling that this episode is going to be a bit of a heart spill because it's

coming straight from a place of reflection and raw honesty. And before

I get into it, I do just want to say, I am genuinely so grateful that you're here. This space,

this podcast community means the world to me, especially for episodes like this, where we can just

have a heart to heart. So thank you for being here.

Over the weekend, I had a moment where I acted out of alignment.

It really threw me off because it's been a really long time since I've had a moment like

this.

And I've been sitting with the aftermath of acting out of alignment, the shame, the overthinking, the self-judgment. And I realized that this morning, this is exactly the kind of thing that we don't really talk about enough. And I totally get why. I mean, frankly, there's a part of me that doesn't really want to talk about it either. There's a part of me that would love to hit the rewind button and do things differently. I would love to just forget that this ever happened because I'm so not proud of the way that I behaved. And it wasn't anything like that crazy, but it just was not in alignment with who I want to be and who I truly am. So it's like I get why people

don't want to talk about this stuff, but I feel like it's important for me to make this into

a teachable lesson, not only for myself, but for somebody else. So today we're going to dive into

the process of forgiving yourself when you've messed up, when you

didn't respond how you wanted to, when you acted from a place of pain or fear or old conditioning

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