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Hi everyone.

It's Amanda Rieger Green.

Welcome to Soul Sessions.

Thank you for joining me today.

I thought in resonance with the energy of the nine,

especially in September of 2025,

being in a nine universal year in a nine month,

that I would talk about closure and karmic cycles and sacred closure. As many of you know, I am moving, have moved to Ecuador. And as I am recording this, I am still in Wimberley. But as you are hearing this, hopefully I have arrived safe and sound with my husband and our dogs in Ecuador,

so I am conditioning that pathway forward. But one thing I want to convey is in training with

the frequency of sacred closure.

Wimberley for me, which is where we've lived the past three years,

is a place that holds a unique frequency and tone

and has been quite significant in my journey and in my path.

In 2013, I lived in Houston, Texas. And when I got sober, when I decided to get

sober, when I hit that rock bottom of desperation and utter destruction, complete breakdown, that breaking point that really felt like there was no

way through. I woke up early one morning after just a series of horrible events that

climaxed in my alcoholism and addiction. And if you've listened to the podcast,

there are episodes where I talk about the dark night of the soul. And that really was the darkest

time of my existence. And it really came to a head in May of 2013. And through a series of divinely orchestrated events, I ended up in a treatment

center, an alcohol and drug rehab treatment facility and mental health treatment facility

in Wimberley, Texas. And that morning, when I decided I needed help, I wanted help, I also knew I needed some

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