Welcome to the Align Within podcast, a space for embodied intuition, self-trust, and opening to what you truly want.

I am Ashley Hemelainen, founder of Aline Within, and through personal stories, lived experience, and insight from the Akashik Records, this show is here to bring you back to yourself.

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Well, it appears that you are my Tuesday night date because here I am on a Tuesday night,

again, about four hours before this episode is going to go live talking to you and so

nice to see you nice to see you on this Tuesday night date but you're going to get it in your ears

later but I feel like I'm sitting here on a date with you having having a chat with you, one-sided conversation,

but I can feel you, nodding along, listening, I can feel you. Welcome back. Thank you so much

for being here today. It has been an interesting last couple of days. Well, first of all, I was recently listening

to a podcast and the host, it's a weekly podcast and the host was like, wow, it feels like I

was just here yesterday talking to you in this chair and a whole week has gone by, wow, I'm back here again.

And I have the exact opposite experience.

For me, it feels like although, yes, you're my Tuesday night date and I was here Tuesday

night of last week talking with you. It feels like last week was,

I don't know, two weeks ago, three weeks ago. And it's not even that so much happens in one week.

Like if you look at the calendar or the schedule, it's like, okay, like every week

does follow a somewhat similar rhythm. We have Hanu coming in, Hanu going out to Ben's,

Hanu coming in, Hanu going out to Benz, all the stuff that we get done each week, a lot of stuff

that is set in place. So it's not like, wow, what a crazy week. So many things happened out of the blue. I think it's just

so much energetic clearing all the time. Like so much always coming up. So much always to face,

not even by choice. Like I'm putting my peace fingers up right now and I'm like, peace out. I'd love to

have a week off. It's not like this is actively by choice right now. It just is coming. And what I just

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