I had a mundane but helpful intuitive experience this morning. I was making my daily, try to make it daily, herbal infusion and the

herbs were in the jar and I was pouring the boiling hot water over it and when the water was about a fourth of the way

into the jar I thought this might crack from the hot water.

I'm gonna stop and put some cooler water in here.

And the moment I put the kettle down, I heard a pop. And the jar cracked.

Luckily it didn't shatter and explode all over the place as has

happened, as happened to my husband Owen last week when he was making coffee.

But if you know if I hadn't had that weird flash of I should stop doing this this

might crack if I had kept going it might have reached that level of heat where it did completely explode and, you know, shower

me with burning hot, boiling hot water and herbs. And it made me think about intuition. I mean it's such kind of a

funny little moment and story and no huge profound effects on my life but I'm sure glad that it happened then and I mean I do that every day

Poor boiling water over herbs or coffee and it made me wonder like what it made me think about how intuition is

something that is strengthened it's a muscle that gets strengthened the more

you use it and when we can apply this muscle, the skill, to more profound,

magical, meaningful, like life-changing experiences than just such beautiful

things happen in our life. So this show today is not about that moment in my kitchen,

but I wanted to share one of my own medicine stories,

something that's been developing for the last year,

something that's so relevant to things that I talk

about on this show and it's funny because when I first started thinking about, yeah, maybe I'll do a

podcast about this. It was so much smaller than it is now because as I

sat down and started thinking about all of the threads that weave into this

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