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Hello, Empaths, we hope you're having a wonderful week. We are so excited to be back with you. Are you having a good week, Denise?

I am. And as we're recording this, we're getting ready for, well, today is a new moon and Mercury is going direct and energies are shifting. We're going into the seasonal changes. So I'm hopeful for some good, new, fresh energy

coming in in these coming months. Me too. This Venus retrograde and then Mercury retrograde,

who, it's been a lot. It has been a lot. So it'll be nice to at least see those two mixed up

energies go in our rearview

mirror. And luckily, luckily we have some fascinating stories and questions to share with you

on our community connection show. Do you want to start us off? I do. We had two people that have

taken our classes, reach out, and they listened to the

podcast we did with Laura Day, and her question about discernment coming up. How do you know

if it's something about you or if it's your own stuff or you're absorbing someone else's energy?

And the situation was that one of these people was on the other person's

podcast and was interviewed and then woke up panicked about some things that were shared and thought,

ooh, do I reach out and like wake up in the middle of the night in this raw panic of,

oh, should I have said that, should I have done this? And I think we've all been there, done that and have the T-shirt. But the real question came back to, I'm going to quote this here, blah, blah, blah. It was a bizarre jolt of energy. It bothered me almost to the point of texting this other person and asking her to change what had been said. And I was like, no, I don't want to

disturb her in the middle of the night. I'll do it in the morning and went back to sleep. But that

anxiety hung up. And then in the morning had heard the Laura Day podcast and said, you know,

those voices in your head may not always be yours, which we all know, but to go on that anxious

feeling, if they weren't yours, was someone fearful for her? Or, you know, I don't know. And I think that's

where the discernment piece comes in. How do you know if this is my stuff or if it really is someone

else projecting it on to me? And it goes on to say that, but I just

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