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Community Is the Medicine: How Community Connections Can Transform Your Path
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Sometimes the biggest healing happens when we stop trying to do it all alone. In this episode, we explore how real community can shift your spiritual path, deepen your intuition, and remind you of your own power.
From Reiki circles to sacred friendships, Kiki and Naya open up about the relationships that shaped their journeys and the moments that felt like lifelines. Whether it’s finding your tribe online, sharing your IG handle at an event, or creating a space from scratch, this conversation is your reminder: connection is medicine.
We talk people-pleasing, spiritual boundaries, giving without depletion, and what it means to stay true to your path while holding space for others.
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Kiki @kikstr | Naya @natural.nadja
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Transcript
Introduction to Community's Transformative Power
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Hey guys welcome back. In today's episode, we are going to be talking about how community connections can transform your life. What if your next breakthrough lives in the circles beside you?
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Today, we're diving into how real community can shift everything. I'm very excited about this particular one because we have, this is exactly what we're trying to do is build a community with our audience and other people, like-minded folks.
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When have you like felt most supported by a group and how did that kind of change your path?
Personal Growth Through Community: Naya's Story
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For starters, I'm excited to talk about this topic because it's something that we, that's exactly what we want to build.
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That was our reason for this podcast, this reason for this community. And so I'm excited that we get to share this with with you guys.
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I felt supported back when I find my Reiki community, which has been little bit sometimes now. And how did it change my path?
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Well, I live in a whole different country now.
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Work with more energy at a different level.
Support Systems: The Role of Friends and Mentors
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I never thought in a million years that moving to Mexico, i was going to be doing medicine the way that I'm doing medicine, the way that I'm working with it energy.
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i think that a lot of that has changed, has shifted for me. And I think it's part of my path, absolutely. But I do also feel like had I not had the Reiki community before,
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I probably would have not been where I'm at right now. And that's how I feel that the change has supported me. How about you, Kiki? What do you think?
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How does it feel for you? i think for me,
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their fire sign just kind of ignites something in me. And they've always been really supportive of my dreams and aspirations.
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So I think just with their support, I have kind of morphed into the person that I am today. So I really, they really kind of like helped me out in that situation. And they're always really good really great, I should say, cheerleaders when it when it comes to me on my spiritual path, really trying to grow. One of my Sagittarius friends is a pastor.
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And one of the things that I have always kind of battled with, I guess, is i kind of had to work on growing my relationship with God and to till this day I think she's probably the only person I really feel comfortable doing so with and it's just it's made my relationship stronger in that sense religiously and also I've kind
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But there's also another path to enlightenment and to bringing you closer to source. So I think when it comes to that, they are really a big part in um in in where I am today. I love that.
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I love how our Reiki community has brought us one step closer and to be here today for ourselves, but for the people that we're trying to bring into this um this community, anybody who wants to be part of something and feel like you are not heard or
Balancing Personal and Community Growth
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listened to
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We started this this community, it's because when we first started our personal journey, we didn't have any of these things, or maybe there were people out there, or maybe there were community out there, but we didn't we didn't find them.
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There is a reason for it. So we had to go and create this. And so if you're coming to listen to this podcast, or if you're watching us, um this is the reason why we...
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started all of this because there is a reason and there's a need for it. um We have gotten messages from that, you know, people have reached out to us individually to say, you know, what they had to say. And so I think that this is also for us, what keeps us driving and moving forward into this journey.
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It's not easy starting from zero ground zero. Kiki and I don't have much of a
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a following anything like we're starting like hey guys it's us we have a podcast come listen to us like we're scaling slowly but seeing the messages and hearing what you guys are sharing with us makes all of the reason why we continue to go in this community because we know how it's benefiting you just as much as it's
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We're human beings and we've made mistakes along the way. And as being in this journey for as long as we've been in this journey, our tips and tricks and experiences can always help us.
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That is the reason why we're here and sharing this with you. I wanted to ask you, Kiki, has there been a time in your life where you've offered to help someone where later on,
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it came back to you where that person came back to you and said like, thank you so much for the help that you've given me. i this happened. It happened.
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expected to happen, I guess. Um, and for those who don't know, I do still have like a nine to five and everything. And i was, i recently left a mentoring position with the company.
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And every single time i run into someone via our channels that we're talking and everything, or I get a call that's transferred over to me, and it's a it's an old mentee that I have, they're always like, oh my God, Kiki, I'm the agent that I am today because of you. i recently transferred over I've transferred over into a new team recently.
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And a lot of the people that I had helped during that time gave me the hugest shout out. I mean, my whole heart was just so full of joy and appreciation for that. Because you sometimes, you know, you just, I am being as authentic as possible and just trying to help others out.
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So I don't really think about it as... like me going the distance or putting like extra effort into it. I just look at it as this is the care and love and guidance that I would want from someone teaching me how to do something as I'm you know i'm on this learning journey. So I just put that kind of en energy into it, really. That's what I'm doing.
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And it's just really nice to know the kind of impact that I'm having on these individuals, honestly. It really just blows my mind and it truly fills my heart when other people are appreciative of something that I've done in that sense.
00:08:55
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In what you are doing now, like medicine and you're really getting in touch with yourself, are you seeing that ripple back to you frequently? not as frequently?
00:09:07
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Yes and no. so it's So in the medicine way, like you're asking, it's a little bit different. um You essentially are supposed, when it comes to medicine, and this is to answer that specific question, you are not supposed to help people, let people go on their own path,
Intuition and Guidance in Community Settings
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on their own journey, and figure out themselves out where we are taking ourselves out of the course on our own journey.
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see As a human being that loves to help people, my first instinct is like, let me help you.
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I'm aware of it. Thanks to my my mentor. I had to do these things in order to get rewarded by by my family. And so that becomes a response over time where it's like, okay, I have to do something. And that doesn't mean that I'm a bad person because I'm not helping people.
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But at the same time, read that they have to go through. And every time that somebody stops to help them, you are no longer in honoring yourself because you're helping the other person. So let's say i was having this conversation with my friend last night, literally about this.
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Let's say, My trajectory is to go right and then Kiki's is to go left. And then i am helping Kiki. And so now we're in the middle. So we're walking together because I have to meet Kiki where she's at. So now i' I'm veering from going to the right, which is the course that my creation, God, the universe, but I'm going
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And Kiki's like, help me. And I go to help her. So now we're merging to a different, a different line, right? Kiki is shifting because she's not learning by herself on her own. She's not doing these things by herself.
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And I'm going out of my way to help. And so now it's shifting that energy. So now I'm not doing myself a favor and Kiki isn't doing herself.
00:11:29
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So there are, so going to this question that you're asking specifically about medicine, this is the answer. But as far as things that has come back to me, um moments that I've offered to help people, there has been times where i have helped people and later on it's come back to me in the sense of, I have had my gifts have opened. And I told my friends, I'm like, do you want to hear what I have to say?
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And they would be like, yes. And unfortunately, most of the times these gifts have been about, you know, their relationship with men and how their relationship was not healthy, even though
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So they're upset. Who isn't going to be upset if you tell them that the partner that you love or you want to be with for the rest of your life because you feel butterflies are the right demand for you? So um sometimes we don't talk for a little bit.
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And then a couple months later, they'll come back to me and they're like, you were right. Like i I saw exactly what you meant. And so that really strengthens my gift for,
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because it really makes me be the bad person. But at the same time, it honors me because I listen to my intuition and I listen to my gift.
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And that is where I need to stand to honor my true self. So yeah, that's that's how I feel this question has turned back for me.
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And i I love that. And I I just want to point out to our listeners really quick too, that when Naya was saying that when she's using or she's integrating with medicine, she's really working on herself and in so doing, she's also helping you work on yourself because she can't give from an empty cup. Right.
00:13:49
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And I think a lot of us tend to do that where, We do want to help where we're so fixated on that task of, oh my God, this person needs help and I need to be there for them.
00:14:01
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But really and truly, if you don't take care of yourself first, you cannot, you know, take care of somebody else. And when they see you on that path of, you know what? she's doing what she needs to do in order to better herself, to to really connect with her intuition and her gifts and to grow.
00:14:21
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And then all of a sudden you get that DM or you get that text message or you get that phone call and they're like, oh my God, I saw where you were and where you are now.
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And it's blowing my mind. And like, it's really making me sit And like journal and think about the things that I need to do and where I need to go and where my path is really like what my purpose is.
00:14:46
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And just working on yourself, just that personal growth that you're taking, that time for yourself is beautiful. And everyone around you is going to feel it. And that's that ripple effect.
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I love that.
Empathy, Boundaries, and Authenticity in Community
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are coming to you. I mean, I received ah a voice message from a friend. She
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thought she felt disconnected and that she didn't listen to herself and so on and so forth. It took me a couple of days to respond back to her because I listened to the message. And first I felt the emotions, you know, I'm an empath. So of course it's difficult to be like,
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ain't mine. I took it straight to the heart. I was like, oh, man, you know, and, you know, at one point in the in the message, she's crying. So, of course, I'm like, oh, my God, here I go. In the heart, shoot me.
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And um but then I had to regroup myself and say, oh, OK,
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her that I can feel her pain and I can understand what she's sharing with me. But at the same time, i cannot take that on.
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i think it's important to ground ourselves and using
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First of all, I sympathize with what you're going through. i i feel it. I understand. i hear you. I see you. I honor you. And um doing what you're doing is is a huge... What she's going through is is massive, right?
00:16:31
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And having to go through that... And seeing her growing is also a beautiful steps. But like you said, you know, you have to take you on things, but she just started this. all All this is, is, is a mystery to her. Right.
00:16:46
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Wanted to help somebody and being like, I can't help you because you have to go on your own path. It's hard, but gotta move on. You do.
00:16:58
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um it's, it's giving them this, this, this space to work on themselves. Um, and and really and get themselves engrossed in their healing journey so that they can better know themselves.
00:17:18
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is and And that's a beautiful thing. I think any kind of personal growth for someone is is great. they've I don't think there's anything bad about personal growth and getting to know yourself.
00:17:31
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And we have been talking about community So how have you kind of like found a space or have you needed to create a space where truly like you're feeling yourself, where you belong?
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I can think of two communities or two spaces that I have found myself ah to to this journey. One of them, of course, is is the Reiki. Reiki really is what started this whole domino effect.
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um My first Reiki one class attunement, I was like flying. i was like, ah what is happening? And started to realize I had power in me. And I was like, what does that mean?
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of how much energy I am holding inside of my 3D body.
00:18:37
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It sounds like I'm a lunatic. But so that has been one of my space where I belong. But the other space that I also ah find myself belonging is, again, the ancestral sacred medicine community.
00:18:55
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I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I didn't have this community. i wouldn't be able to grow into learning to trust myself and learning to listen to my intuition again and really going into a space of healing, growing, and learning to tap into myself.
00:19:19
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And I think that that's like super powerful. How did you find your spaces? Just like you, i have one community and then I have our Reiki community.
00:19:31
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So in just like friendship community, it was one of those situations where ah kind of just, those are the people that came out of nowhere, honestly.
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People that I needed in my life in order to like continue my journey. so like when my dad had passed away i mean i had been working at that establishment for the longest and i had never had any kind of like interaction with one particular person who now is like my ride or die she's a sagittarius she's also the the pastor i was talking about earlier and so
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One of my friends as well, that came out of loss as well. We were, or actually kind of like rebirth for that particular one. Cause we were like, just coming back out from COVID and we're like, Oh my God, there are places and people around us.
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We're like trying to find ourselves in this reality that we're currently in And then when it comes to Reiki, I mean,
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we went through, what was it? Like four classes, right? and Four classes we went through and out of our masterclass, that was really all of us really coming together and having that connection.
00:21:03
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And without like guidance and support from them, i don't know, you know, where I would be today. Like having, because you can be on that journey and you can feel very alone if you don't have someone to really talk to and because not everybody in your everyday life is going to understand what you are working through, you know, like doing shadow work. You do have to have that community to talk to in order to feel grounded and supported. Otherwise you're going to feel like you're just floating out there in the ocean, adrift, not knowing where you're going and really helping to kind of like tap into your gifts and, and, and ground yourself and,
00:21:46
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learn about how to connect with your intuition. Because that has happened. This is the journey. This is the path. Exactly what you're saying, where you're feeling crazy.
00:22:00
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You're feeling like you need to be locked up in a loony bin. That's how I felt sometimes. No, I fail you on that one. Like the, the friends that I have who support me on the outside, they were people that just, they just kind of, they found me.
00:22:14
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It was just something that happened. I had to definitely seek out a community, like our Reiki community in order to really start feeling like myself because I'm always kiki, but there was always a part that was missing. And if I had never really sought that information out, I i think I would still be feeling lost a little bit.
00:22:37
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Like, yeah, I would have had other friends and I would have been able to talk to them about certain things, but other people are really going to understand what I'm going through. and be like, okay, you should ask yourself these questions.
00:22:50
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People who are not working on how we are working on ourselves, if they're not doing the same thing or they've been on a similar journey, they are not going to be able or equipped in order to help you out with that.
00:23:04
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I remember a time where when we talked, when we first started, i mean, we've okay we've been talking about this podcast since like March and we didn't launch it to like a month later or something like that because we had been like meeting up and stuff like that. And I remember one of our conversations where you had said to me, yeah, I opened up another Instagram.
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That is part of your identity. That is who you are. You are already a master. you are already a Reiki master. You don't need to open up another Instagram account page.
00:23:51
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Who you are, that is your authentic self. Now, if you're trying to do something different, obviously. But I remember that. And it was like, why do we need to create different social media accounts to be like, oh, I'm a beauty makeup artist in one and I'm a travel agent in another one. And i'm I mean, obviously, if they don't match, yes, you make different topics. But if you're staying true to yourself and you're being who you are, which is yourself, authentic, then you should be seen with all colors or shades and and all many hats that you wear, it is normal. We shouldn't have to create different pages because if you're trying to
00:24:33
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the good, the bad, the ugly, and show all the hats that you wear. What do you think, what tips or what ideas would you have for our listeners that they can take today where they can deepen their connection with maybe a text or a local community meetup or even an online circle? Where do you think, how would you advise um our listeners to go about that?
00:25:05
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When you start interacting with people, one of my friends had actually asked me if, when do you feel comfortable enough to share like your information As in like your phone number, like your personal information, your phone number or your IG account, you know, maybe you take a baby step and you're like, oh, well, I don't know if I want to share that just yet with them.
00:25:29
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But here's my IG handle and you can like text me back and forth there. And that's actually how one of my friends and I started hanging out. And then I was like, oh, well, now we've kind of like grown our relationship.
00:25:43
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Here's my phone number if you ever want to ask me anything, you know, and obviously that will come to my phone automatically as opposed to, oh, now I have to go into Instagram and, oh, you sent me a message. Let me respond.
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So
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actionction And depending on like if you have a business or whatnot, you can always let them know hey I've got maybe a newsletter that's coming out or here we're gonna do like a local meetup for like-minded people and just building that community. I think that would be the best step or that's how I would do my stuff.
00:26:40
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How about you? what What kind of steps would you do?
00:26:53
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else i think we all do it think that like we only share our instagram accounts uh unless your account is private and it's different but i think that we mostly share if our life if our if what we're showing online on social media with people is is already showing parts of ourselves so i think if we have somebody following us it's because we want to we want them to see that part of ourselves and be like okay this is who i am ah you know take me or leave me and then from there you can grow but um I do like that.
00:27:24
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ah I don't really do Instagram right away. i think that that's like later later down for me. um But what I would say is that if you're looking to find a community or how to where to look and how to start one um I think that you can probably go on Facebook and look for groups and type in, you know, something like if you're into tarot cards or witch witchy things, or if you're into like, you know, food as medicine, or if you're into like, you know, whatever your journey is bringing you to,
00:27:59
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search bar and look for community a group community on there and then sign up and then start growing community that way. Start growing yourself that way. um You know, there is there is an app called Meetup as well. And that's for your local neighborhood where you can find people, you know, around you and again, in the same community as well.
00:28:19
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um And obviously, it's not because you're meeting people in these groups that it is going to work out with everybody.
Resources for Building Community and Personal Growth
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Not everybody is going to be at the same level as where you are in your healing journey.
00:28:30
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But at least you can learn something from somebody else. And remembering that. Some people are going to trigger you. They're your mirrors. That's your work.
00:28:41
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That is what you have to do. They probably are not even aware they're triggering you um or they do. And they want you, they're telling you that you need to work on yourself by triggering you.
00:28:52
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And sometimes it's not even them. Sometimes it's their energy that she's doing it because your energy is confronting where their energy. And so now it's like this battle internally. You're like, yeah, yeah.
00:29:04
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I like this person, but I got a weird vibe from this person. And you don't know why. That vibe you're getting is an energetical feel that you're receiving. and now you're starting to see like why you're not liking that person because you're seeing something in that person that is irritating you or that is making you feel some kind of ways.
00:29:27
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So just be careful who you share things with and how you share things with people. And if you're getting a weird vibe from somebody, steer clear from it. um Listen to your intuition and yeah, go from there.
00:29:41
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But that will be how I would suggest, you know, using apps like meetups, your Facebook. And um if you go to one of the events and you find somebody and you want to share your Instagram account or a phone number or your WhatsApp number, that's fine and do it.
00:29:58
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But yeah.
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there And
00:30:06
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and maybe, who knows, maybe in the future, Kiki and I will start a community event as well, an online community. We have talked about this before. So we'll see how, when, and where. Maybe this is something that we could do, should do.
00:30:22
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You guys can let us know if you would be interested in something like that. um Maybe a monthly or bi-weekly community online. We'll see. I love the fact that you...
00:30:33
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dropped in that information about the meetup because I really did not know about that app, you know, so that you can meet like like-minded people. So thank you for sharing that. that's not only myself, but with all our listeners.
00:30:45
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um I think the other one that you had talked about when you were still in the U S was, i think you had sent me some information on Evite. Sometimes Evite has some, some free things that,
00:31:01
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People say, okay, you know, we're doing like a meetup and everything. So look for those things. You can use, like Naya was saying, you can use the meetup app and you can even use the eBite app because they do tend to show you what is going on locally.
00:31:17
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And if that's something that kind of like matches with you, like you vibe with that. company called, I think it's called Spirit Fest, and they usually have like different things that are going on. That's something that you kind of like have to pay for.
00:31:30
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But again, it's more like like minded people, people who are interested in crystals or um by how different vibrations help different ways of healing one another or healing yourself.
00:31:43
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So I love that, like attending events like that. And then you feel how you feel. If you want to give them their IG or if you've gotten into like a really deep conversation, then go ahead and like give them your phone number. You can exchange that.
00:31:57
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and continue talking about that. And there is also, if you go onto your Google store or your Apple um store, if I think that if you type in, cause there is a few apps that are about community. There's another one, but I forgot what it's called. And I think it's like neighborhood something, or I forgot what it's called where you can find people to like come fix your sink. And you know, all those things there also have like, they have like people that meet up for like dating or like, you know,
00:32:26
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Like single woman salsa nights, like, you know what i mean? Like there's specific groups, but then there is more vague groups, right? So I think that if you just do like a basic, you know, um internet search and you're asking, you know, the internet, or if you decide to ask AI and say like, hey, help me find...
00:32:44
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you know, applications that I can use or groups that I can use to go to meet other people that are like-minded.
The Rewarding Journey of Personal Discovery
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So you don't feel so alone in this journey because again, like Kiki was saying before, this journey can be very, very, very lonely.
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Finding yourself is for me, I think it's like walking in a forest path and being by yourself and discovering yourself.
00:33:10
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At first it feels very
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But as you continue to grow and as you continue to take the path of the unknown, you are then being shown to the magic of the forest, which the fairies and the gnomes and the earth that's around you. And so that's kind of like how I see spiritual healing or spiritual path being.
00:33:38
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And once you start having friends that are in the same community, it really helps. So... Stick with it, continue to do the work, continue to stay there.
Conclusion and Call to Action
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But at the same time, you can find these community groups anywhere online if you need one if you choose to have one.
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Today, we named the moments where community lifted us, explored how giving and receiving both fuel growth and mapped one small action to build your tribe.
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As always, stay weird and stay wild. We'll see you on the next one.