You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 156.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host Jess Lively, and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire,

and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Welcome to the show guys.

Thank you so much as always for listening today I am sharing what my

experience was like in Donna Kocia last week so as you may have noticed last

week I did not have a Thursday episode for you which is

extremely rare. I think that's one of the only one of the very few times I've

never had in episode air for a week and that is because I was at this

Buddhist meditation retreat in Lachlomond in the Scottish Highlands.

So as I was there at this retreat, they have a policy of no internet or connection to pretty much the outside world.

So I decided to take that pause here on the show as well because I am on this lively adventure

sharing with you guys as real time as possible what I am going through and what I'm

experiencing as this adventure unfolds. So as I was there I was not here if that

makes sense but now I'm excited to share what I took from that experience. So I know from

Instagram I saw so many comments asking and just so excited to hear about this meditation retreat. So I'm going to give you guys a little bit

of an overview about what the retreat was like

in case you may be interested in going to it yourself.

And then I'll get into what I actually

took from it personally with my own individual experience.

So the meditation retreat was something

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