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35. Guidance + Explanation on Emotional Eating from The Akashic Records + My Personal Experience
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Hi friend! I have been feeling this eclipse season energy harddd! I got really sick this weekend and intuitively knew it had to do with old patterns I am shedding during this eclipse season.
I share a personal experience with emotional eating and I share what my Akashic Records told me about food and emotional eating-- it's pretty shocking and makes a LOT OF SENSE!
If you have struggled in any way with eating, emotionally eating, food addiction, and not understanding why you can't change your diet, this episode is for you! I got crazy insight to how disease and illnesses are less about the food choice and more about the trapped emotions we're constantly covering up by snacking.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast and Alyssa's Journey
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Hello, my friend. Welcome to the It's Happening For Me podcast. If you are obsessed with all things spirituality, personal growth and development, and living as your highest self, you are in the right place. I am your host, Alyssa, and I spent the majority of my teenage years and young 20s living totally out of climate. As I started to question my patterns and behaviors and actually got to know myself at the soul level, I realized that everything was happening for me.
Role as a Spiritual Life Coach and Human Design Guide
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Now, as a spiritual life coach and human design guide, I am here to share my voice, personal stories, human design wisdom, and learn from incredible individuals living their purpose. Join me each week as we walk the spiral path of purpose together. I cannot wait to dive in.
Personal Struggles During Eclipse Season
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My friend, welcome back to another episode. Oh my goodness, you guys. So I don't know about you, but I have been really going through it during this whole eclipse season. We have the solar eclipse happening tomorrow, April 8th, 2024.
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I'm not an astrologist, so I'm not going to go into what the eclipse means. Astrologically, there's so many beautiful people that talk about this, but I just wanted to talk about my own personal experience of how I've actually been feeling. I opened up my records today to ask some questions about what my intuition has been telling me of why I've been feeling these feelings.
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And the answers that I've gotten were like really insane to me. And so this episode is going to be all about just like feeling deep feelings during the eclipse season and what it can really show us and what I've learned about myself.
Astrology for Understanding Experiences
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when it comes to food. Okay so this is really about like emotions and food and like emotional eating. And I will put in the show notes some of my like favorite people to tune into when it comes to astrology because it's so helpful to get all the juicy like details. So today's just gonna be an episode about a personal experience I've been going through. So
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I don't know about you guys, but I usually like...
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The way that I really use astrology in my life is I don't use it as like a predictive measure or I really just use it to like, okay, what am I actually going through right now? Like, how do I feel? And then I'd like to kind of see what's going on astrologically to make sense of everything. So I don't buy into any of like the fear around eclipse season or like mercury retrograde. I don't like to buy into any of that like negative energy.
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However, I also know that the energies are so real. It's so powerful. I can try to say that I'm not going to give in to these ideas around mercury retrograde and things that can go wrong. But in my personal life, things do happen with technology. I had a reading this weekend on Friday, really beautiful Jean Key's reading that was actually gifted to this beautiful woman.
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And it was such a great reading. And the freaking internet went out twice during the reading. And I was so mortified. I was like, oh my goodness, what is going on? It was very strange. It went out for George as well the first time. He was live streaming at the same time. And then the second time it didn't go out for him. It only went out for me. So
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It was really weird. That's never happened to me. And then I was like later thinking about it. I was like, okay, pretty sure this is like mercury retrograde. Um, so it's not like I'm like thinking things are going to happen because of it, or I'm like preparing for the worst. It's just like after the fact that things happen, I'm like, Oh yeah, this is probably why like it makes a hundred percent sense. Um, and then just some things to, um, with work as well and like contracts, you know, I'm in recruiting.
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and just some things, some really weird things went on with like offer letters that have never happened before. And so, and I've been doing this for, in this role for two years. So I'm like, okay, I could definitely see how that could be like mercury retrograde doing its thing. You know, because it kind of throws off communication and whatnot.
Connection Between Illness and Emotional Patterns
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But anyways, what I wanted to talk about in today's episode is that
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I have been feeling so sick. This happened to me on Thursday. Thursday, I had a job fair. We went to lunch with my coworkers afterwards, and then I came home to work the rest of the day at home.
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And I started getting a really bad migraine and I felt super nauseous. And the only thing that helps me when I have a migraine is excedrin. So I took excedrin, it kind of went away. Friday, I worked half day at work, half day at home, didn't really feel a headache. Saturday, like the most horrible nausea, I woke up in the middle of the night.
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um to throw up and then like yeah just like a horrible it felt like the stomach flu like it felt like i was having a some sort of like stomach flu i did also eat um don't judge me i did also eat some raw cookie dough but it didn't have eggs in it um which i didn't know until after the fact so i am still guilty of doing that which i shouldn't have done that but it didn't have anything that could make me sick um
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I did eat a little bit of raw cookie dough. So me and George were like, okay, it's probably that. I probably have like salmonella poisoning or something. And so I thought that's what it was. Um, but it was like, um, yeah, it was just like, I couldn't keep anything down felt very sick. And then again, migraines, super bad migraine. I felt so weak. I was freezing. Like I was under two comforters. I couldn't get warm.
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George left for the day to go on his walk and do all the things that he does. And he put on the heater for me. And I just couldn't get warm. I had a fever, a very slight fever, low grade fever. And I was just like, what is going on? So this whole time again, we thought it was the cookie dough. And then
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He called me later Saturday and was like, hey, how do you feel? And I was feeling worse. And he's like, go read the package on the cookie dough and see what the ingredients list is. We need to see if you need to go to urgent care. Maybe you did get salmonella poisoning or something. And so I read it. I'm like, oh, OK, there's not even eggs in here. There's not even anything that could make me sick. But we still figured it was that for some reason. So I pretty much was in bed the whole Saturday sleeping all day.
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on and off, super uncomfortable.
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Didn't eat anything. I went to get pho, like Saturday night. I only ate like a little bit of it. Couldn't keep it down. And then today, again, woke up feeling slightly better, but still just super weak, super nauseous, migraine. So I was able to walk and like my body has really been hurting from like laying down. It's just been sore from not being able to like walk. So I went to, on a little walk with George this morning,
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around the lake. I went around like one lap and then sat in the car and meditated while he did his second lap. And then the only thing that sounded good was curry, like yellow curry from Thai. So I ordered that to go. We picked that up. And again, I haven't been able to really eat anything since Friday because I couldn't really eat any of the soup yesterday. So I ate some of the curry
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sat outside on my balcony, just kind of like was in the sun, falling asleep. And then I came inside and just like slept again the whole day. Like now it's five o'clock. And again, woke up with like a shooting migraine. I'm just like, what is going on? So I just took more Excedrin like an hour ago. And I'm like, I honestly like
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really think this has to do with eclipse season. And I feel like it has to do with the pattern that I have been trying to break through for so long, which is my pattern of eating. And it's like, I've talked about this in so many different episodes. I've even like, had answers from the Akashic records from this for my own records from getting my records read. And it's like,
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I eat, the way that I eat, I'm realizing right now because I also just opened my record. It's like I eat for emotional comfort. That's what I've really realized. And I like to eat foods that taste really good.
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And I've realized also that it's because it gives me this like hit of dopamine, and then I don't have to feel any feelings. And so right now I was just like, like probably 30 minutes before I hopped on right now to record this because I want to record it while it's still fresh.
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I just was like crying like non-stop. I'm like why am I crying like I'm having this huge emotional releases I don't really know what's going on and I'm like tuning into myself asking my intuition like what what is going on like does this have to do with like Again the eclipse season like because this is not like me Like I do cry
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but not just like this for no reason. And so I had this intuitive hit to sit in front of this mirror right here in front of my window where the sun is shining in. And so I was staring at the mirror just looking in my eyes.
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And I had this intuitive knowing. My soul told me, just start eye gazing with yourself. And so I just started staring into my own eyes. And I just started crying, tears streaming down my face. I had so many memories come up within a span of five minutes, just memory after memory of bad memories, traumatic memories.
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memories from childhood, memories from being a teenager, memories in my young 20s, all about relationships, love, pain. And it was so bizarre. And then I could also kind of see my reflection of myself looking into my eyeball.
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because the sun is really bright right now. And so it was like I was looking at myself as though it wasn't me. It was like my soul looking at Alyssa in the human form. And it was just like this huge emotional release. And it was like not for one thing specifically, but it was just like everything just crying, shedding. It just felt like
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And I was like noticing how beautiful my eyes are. And I was like, Oh my God, like my eyes are so pretty. Like I feel like I, like in that moment I was like, I feel like I am looking at the most beautiful eyes in the entire galaxy. Like it was really like I was looking at myself through God's eyes and it was just like so beautiful. And so in that moment while I was just like crying,
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it felt like it wasn't gonna end. It felt like this can just go on for eternity, especially because I didn't have any logical reason as to why I'm crying. Like I was seeing all of these flashes of these like memories, but it was, they're all so random that it wasn't like a specific thing that's like, there's not like a, even though the through line could, we could say is like relationships or even like abandonment, I can really see like that through line as well. It wasn't like,
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a specific reason why I'm crying. So I felt like I was going to be in that moment forever. And I was like, I wonder what I'm going to get through this and what I'm going to just like start smiling. So then I kind of started like smiling at myself, like purposely when I was like, but I was still crying. So it's like kind of weird. But then it was like,
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It was weird that I just started feeling like very comforted. And then after like a couple more minutes, eventually I just felt so peaceful. Like literally stop crying. I felt so peaceful. I felt like in a state of bliss, honestly, just staring at my eyes and.
Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Self-Acceptance
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Then I just started smiling at myself and just really looking at my skin and looking at all the imperfections. I'm not wearing makeup right now, so I'm just really looking at myself, looking at my pores, looking at my wrinkles that are developing, looking at maybe a little acne that I have, my lips. I'm so dehydrated right now, you guys. I'm so dehydrated, so looking at my lips that are chopped.
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and my freckles, any imperfections you can think of. And instead of judging myself, it was like, wow, like, that's so beautiful. Like, that's so human. Like, I was really just looking at myself. I really think through God's eyes and just feeling like, looking at how beautiful I am. And it's like, I would never think of like,
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wanting to show that face on social media or like to take pictures you know that close up showing all the quote-unquote flaws in my face but it's like it felt like the realist version of myself I was like whoa this feels like me this feels like who Alyssa really is behind any masks or like illusions or trying to cover any parts of herself and I really think that like it's it's like um
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a reflection of the macrocosm of all of us. It's like all of us are putting on these masks because we want to portray something. We want to get somewhere, and so we're trying to portray something.
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like, and I even noticed this in myself of like, okay, even how like I want to be like, I want to fulfill my destiny of being a healer, of being somebody who helps other people. And I really saw this like weird thing where it's like,
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Okay, so I try to put on certain masks to maybe come across as like an authority or maybe I want to like position myself in a certain way so that people perceive me as whatever I want to be living my purpose or maybe if somebody wants to be
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like an influencer online. They're going to portray themselves in a certain way so that people see them as that. I can just kind of see every different way that we put on these facades and masks to try to get people to perceive us in the way that we think they need to perceive us in order to get something or to fulfill something. But looking at myself right now with completely, like I said, no makeup, crying, chapped lips,
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and actually looking and seeing, like, I look so beautiful. I was like, oh, I actually trust that person. Like, that person that I'm looking at in the mirror right now, I fully trust her. The person who just cried and now her, like, green eyes are really green and bloodshot because she was crying. It's like, wow, like, I trust her because she's so real.
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And so it just made me think about how we don't have to try to show up in any certain way. We don't have to try to be anything other than what we are. And if we can actually just be that, that is what is going to be so magnetic to people. And of course, it's easier to say that than to do it. It's easier for me to
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be able to speak my truth and talk on a podcast where you can't see me, or I'm not live, I'm not interacting with people. I feel very comfortable right now. I feel very secure in my comfy home by myself. Even though I'm speaking to you, it still feels very safe.
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um for me at least because you can't see me so i'm like is that a form of hiding like even though i feel like i'm sharing my truth and like speaking my truth do i only feel safe because you can't see me so that's something that also yeah came through right now that i can contemplate
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But I also know for myself, one of the reasons why I wanted to podcast is because I love listening to podcasts and I listen to podcasts when I'm driving and so I don't need to see the person. So I actually think that's not true. I think it's actually, I think it might actually help us be even more vulnerable because
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we can be our fullest self. There is no face that we need to put a mask on when it's just our voice and we're just expressing ourselves through spoken word and through what our heart wants to express. So wow, I actually just moved through that in real time. I think it's actually better that I'm not on camera because I can actually just 100% be myself. And I know that I love listening to podcasts. So I know that you love listening to podcasts.
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Okay, so what I just wanted to talk about today, and today is going to be a short episode. I know I always say that, and then it turns out to be like an hour, an hour and a half. But today is going to be short. I just wanted to share with you what just came through when I opened the records and asked them basically about food and emotional eating, because it's honestly mind blowing. So after I just had that little cry session staring in the mirror,
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Then I felt really good, was looking at myself, felt so beautiful. I was like, okay, I'm going to open my records because I want to see if the reason that I'm sick right now is because this is helping me. The eclipse season, the cosmos are helping me let go and shed something that I need to shed that I've been trying to shed, which is this unhealthy eating patterns. It's like I try everything I can to
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to break through them. And it's like sometimes it works for a while, sometimes it doesn't. But what I really need to let go of is eating purely for pleasure and purely for taste. I want to eat to fill my body with good nutrition. When I was so sick this weekend and I couldn't keep anything down, I felt so bad for myself. I was like, I'm so sorry, body, that I put you through such
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trash all the time when I'm giving you food that does not feel good for you probably. Or just eating things that I know are going to upset my stomach or whatever. And so I was like, wow, I really want to feed myself with just like beautiful, nutrient dense things that are going to help me thrive and feel good. So I asked the records. Okay. I saw my records open, but I asked them.
Cosmic Intervention and Health Realignment
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am I sick right now because this is really the cosmos during this eclipse season helping me shed something that I need to shed and step into a new version of myself?" And they said, yes, absolutely. This is happening because, Alyssa, we have tried so hard, you have tried so hard to do this on your own and sometimes
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humans need help from the universe. Sometimes humans need help from their guides, from God, from divine intervention. And so that is why people get sick sometimes. That is why sometimes people get diseases. That is why sometimes people get into accidents because they're
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It's like they're off course. They're off course and little things keep kind of happening to knock them back onto course. But it's like when you don't listen, something bigger is going to come along and there's something bigger. And it's like each time is an opportunity for us to course correct. Every time that something seemingly negative happens or
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seemingly that we don't deserve it. Of course, nobody deserves anything negative to happen. Nobody deserves to develop diseases or illnesses or to have accidents or to get injured. But sometimes we're not listening and we can't course correct on our own.
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It's almost like an intervention that is happening to change our life. When you look at so many people who are really in alignment now and really living their purpose and so connected to their heart, so connected to their mission, so just on fire, successful, abundant, they are living their best life.
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They have a story. They have a story of when they hit rock bottom or they have stories of when something really shitty happened that they were like, okay, that's it. I'm done. Thank you. Now I'm choosing to use this as momentum to totally change my life.
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Honestly, if you think about any person that you look up to, any mentor that you have, any person that you aspire to be like, any person that is doing great things in their life, they have a story. They have a why. They have a reason of when their health suffered or they had a divorce.
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an accident or just something. Think about Dr. Joe Dispenza when he was in that marathon and he got hit by a car and was told that he was never going to be able to walk again.
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and that he needed to have this certain spinal surgery. And he decided after many different opinions, doctor's opinions, like, no, I'm not gonna have that surgery. I'm gonna heal myself. And he literally healed himself through his meditation and visualizations and he can walk again now. And now his whole life's work is around healing other people through these meditations and visualizations. And so it's like, that was his turning point. That was his rock bottom.
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And so the records say that, yes, like, Alyssa, you have been trying so many things. Nothing's working. You're going to get so sick this weekend. You are going to have such a bad migraine. You are going to be so nauseous. You're not going to be able to keep anything down that you're going to start to really
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only want to crave healthy foods. You are going to be so tired of feeling like shit that you're going to take care of yourself and be grateful for your body and prioritize good things. And we're going to help you give you like a little kickstart of detoxification so that you can really like detox off of the foods that you no longer want to eat off of coffee.
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Like I think I'm also having migrates from not drinking coffee since Friday.
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because I do drink coffee every day. So I'm like, okay, wow, this is helping me in a way that maybe I wouldn't have been able to do it myself. And so I'm really taking this as like, how can I take what is happening that seems so crappy and turn it into a way of like, how can I co-create with this and go with this energy instead of fighting against it? How can I use this as momentum to shed what I wanna shed and step into the person that I wanna be? How can I really use this to serve me?
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The next thing that I asked was, I asked about emotional eating and I asked, I forget the exact question that I asked you guys, but I asked something like, is
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The food that we eat, like when we're emotionally eating, and we eat foods that taste really good, like high fat, high calorie, high in salt, foods that aren't great for us, I was like, are those foods what make us sick?
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And you know what the records told me
Emotional Eating and Disease
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guys? They told me that it's not even the food that is making people sick. It's not the food that is causing cancer. They told me that our bodies are so resilient. Our bodies are so freaking infinitely powerful that they can actually detox like toxins. They can detox these, um,
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They can detox these additives, but the reason?
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that we get cancer from these foods is because we're emotionally eating. And every time that we grab for the chips, every time we grab for the candy, every time we grab for the soda or the coffee to pick me up at 4 p.m., every time we grab for the ice cream, we are bypassing our emotions that we don't want to feel in that moment, so we're not feeling them. And that emotion is getting stuck in our bodies and is creating disease. And when we snack all day,
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every single day for months that turn into years of our life, imagine how many freaking emotions are trapped inside of us from every freaking snack that you snack throughout the day, throughout the weeks, throughout the months, throughout the years of your life. That is what is causing cancer and diseases is those stuck emotions because most people that are snacking, most people that are eating
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foods that give them a dopamine hit. So again, very high-process foods that are high in salt, high in sugar, high in fat that make us feel good for a moment that we're grabbing. We're grabbing them to feel better because we don't want to feel this subtle energy, whether that's stress, whether that's disappointment, sadness, anger, frustration, disappointment,
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any of those feelings. So we grabbed some snacks and it's completely unconscious for most of us. Those emotions are getting trapped inside of us and that is what is causing diseases. And I was like, holy shit. That is what the records told me.
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They told me it's not even the foods themselves only. Because think about this. Why is it that people who, there's still people who really care for their bodies, they exercise, they eat correctly. Why do they still get cancer? Why do they still get diseases? Because their emotional body is not being taken care of. They're still not processing their emotions.
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their emotions are trapped within them. They're not allowing themselves to feel anything. And so sure, on the outside, physically, they might look really fit, but they're not actually dealing with the emotional self. And that is what causes cancer and diseases. And then I asked them,
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okay, is it only the that or is it also the food? And they said it's definitely a mixture of both. Because I asked like, okay, well, diabetes, you know, is caused from like insulin, not being able to be regulated properly from like sugar and carbs that turn into sugar. So like, what is the explanation for that?
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And they told me again that it's a combination of both. It's a combination of some sort of like trapped emotions and then also obviously sugar. Sugar is like the worst thing for our body. That's what they told me in the records.
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And again, obviously, take or leave any of this information. This is not a medical information. This is just what I got from the records. But to me, it makes so much sense. It makes so much sense and it literally blew my mind because think about how many times we snack and emotionally eat throughout the day.
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And then I asked them, am I able, am I having this like crying breakdown right now because I don't have like, I'm not distracted by food because I haven't had food in my system really for like two days. And they're like, yes, you're having an emotional release because you finally don't have these dopamine foods in you. You're not going up and down, up and down. You're able to just be raw.
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Okay, sorry, I had to stop for a bit and start again. But basically,
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Just to kind of wrap up where I left off, I asked the records, like, so we know that emotional eating causes us to repress our feelings. And not even just emotional eating, but eating those high dopamine foods, those foods that are high in salt, in fat, in
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like high calories, processed foods, those foods that you know are so freaking yummy that aren't totally natural. So we know that it's that mixed with the bypassing our emotions so their emotions are getting stuck in us. So I was like okay so how do we like what should we eat? Like what am I supposed to eat? What is supposed to be like a balanced way to eat? And they told me to follow my intuition.
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So what came through for me was me personally, I need to eat according to how I feel daily. So if I meal prep, I can meal prep, but know that I have a pattern of kind of like getting tired of certain foods and it always comes at different times. And so if I was to meal prep for like six days out, I might get tired of that food on like say day three and like not want to eat it anymore. And then
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maybe make a decision to like, oh, go get food instead. And that wouldn't really be like following what I want to follow. So for me, it's to really meal prep in shorter periods of time.
Guidance on Intuitive Eating
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And then what came through was to eat soups and stews, like things that are like really wet. And that makes so much sense because those are the things that I really crave. I can get cooked vegetables in there. Another thing for me is like, I think, um, my dosha's and my constitution, my, my constitutional makeup of dosha's in, in Ayurveda. There's Vata, Pitta and Kaffa.
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and I'm partially vata in my body type. And so for me, it's very hard on my digestive system to eat like raw vegetables. So like salads, raw vegetables, it causes a lot of bloating and discomfort in me. And so for me, having cooked vegetables, warming foods is like really, really good for my digestion. And so, and it's also something that I can just like get behind that sounds good. So I'm gonna be making like stews with whole foods
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sticking really to like, as far as meats go, if I want to eat meat like turkeys, fish, chicken, and then just like putting a lot of vegetables in the soup and spices and kind of doing more like low carb. And again, not because I'm afraid of carbs, not because carbs are bad, but I do want to stay away from simple carbs because simple carbs immediately turn into sugar in our body. And
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is one of the things that they told me that is very damaging on our body is sugar and also like refined sugars and so the other thing they told me is that again our bodies are freaking magical our bodies are so
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I mean, they're the most intelligent, resilient things in the world. And so it's okay for us to go out to dinner occasionally with our family, with our friends, celebrate and order whatever we want. We don't need to, like the whole thing that was coming through is like balance. You have to find a balance.
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The extremes don't really work unless you are a very extreme person. Some people in their human design can be a little bit more extreme. And so for them, it might work. But for the majority of people, being able to find balance in eating whole foods, eating with your intuition, eating things that make you feel good,
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And then being okay with going to dinner and ordering anything that you want off the menu because it does taste so good. Like we're allowed to indulge and like have those really yummy food moments. And that's not gonna cause our body to seize. What causes our body to seize is when we have the emotional response afterwards of beating ourselves up around what we're eating. That's what really came through. So it's like, you can eat
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a bowl of pasta and be okay. Your body can process it, you know, if you want to go to dinner on a special occasion and eat a bowl of pasta. But if you are in your mind and you're emotionally beating yourself up about it and you're like, oh my God, like why did I eat that? That internal emotional response is what is causing inflammation and like issues in our body. It's like if you can just lovingly eat it and thank the pasta for
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coming you know being prepared in the kitchen by the chef and like having the most beautiful ingredients and now entering the body and just really imagining your body being able to digest it and process it and being so thankful for having this loving celebration with your friends and family and like you're celebrating by eating a really yummy pasta.
00:34:19
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you're going to digest it much better than if you're beating yourself up about it and thinking like oh my god I'm gonna be so bloated why did I do that I shouldn't eat pasta this is so much carbs like you know so it's really catching ourselves in those mental patterns so again it's very much both where it's like we need to eat whole foods like whole foods are good foods that
00:34:44
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Like the foods that we're eating are to bring us nutrition and to sustain our life, to sustain our health. They're not here to be fun. And so, you know, eat the most yummiest foods all the time and to get those dopamine hits. And so that's what I have always associated food with is like, Oh, I want it to taste really good. And, um, I don't care how it makes me feel because I just want to
00:35:11
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get that dopamine hit and love what I'm eating. And then I'm going to feel crappy later and I'm going to start emotionally eat and grabbing for other things to make me feel better because now I don't feel good. My body feels bad because it's, it's hard to process this. So this is like the overall art chain lesson is that our bodies are very resilient. They can process anything in moderation, but also
00:35:37
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The issue lies in us grabbing those foods, snacking, picking the really delicious dopamine ones because we are subtly unconsciously not wanting to feel those emotions. And it's so tricky. Like these are so tricksters, you know, it's like, but if I really reflect and look back at my life, I see this happening all of the time. It's like, okay, even say if I meal prepped, and so I already like had my food for lunch at work.
00:36:08
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And then maybe it hits like two o'clock and then I start getting stressed out because whatever, something at work is stressing me out. And then there's all these snacks in the break room. It's like, do I go and grab the chips? Do I go and grab, um, the bars, whatever's there, or do I recognize, Alyssa, you're not hungry. You have some stress. How can you take a few breaths? Maybe go for a walk outside, walk around the building, drink some water.
Stress-Related Snacking and Emotional Awareness
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allow, be with yourself and ask yourself, why do I feel stressed out right now? What is making me feel stressed out? Allow the emotion to come to the surface, feel whatever I need to feel and then move on instead of trying to put a blanket over it by grabbing a snack, grabbing a snack. And that's what we do. And I think so much of us, so many of us might think that
00:37:01
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we don't even tie it to the emotions that we're trying not to feel because most of us have these emotions buried very deeply. The majority of people don't even realize that they're snacking to cover up these emotions. The records really showed me this map of us on earth. It was like most people that are still pretty unconscious to
00:37:28
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themselves being souls to them. You know, most people still think that they are just like humans. They're not really connected to them being a soul. You know, they still haven't really had that awakening process yet. And so they don't really even tie the connection between like shitty food and like feeding themselves, like slash like eating for their emotions. And so it's like, how deeply suppressed are our emotions?
00:37:55
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And most people, they're so freaking deeply suppressed. And for me, not being able to eat anything these past two days, I was able to allow all these emotions to surface so quickly onto the
00:38:10
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surface, you know, and also because I do do the work, like I am in this in this space, I am doing the work all the time. And so it's like, I'm aware of kind of like what's going on. And so it's brought to the like, awareness now, you know, from the subconscious into this conscious awareness. And it's just so cool being able to like, know that and to see like, oh my god, this is what's going on.
00:38:35
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but it's not able to happen when I keep going to get the foods that just make me feel better in the moment. If that, you know what I mean. So I don't know who this is gonna resonate with. I feel like there, a lot of us struggle with this, a lot of us struggle with body image, a lot of us struggle with food, a lot of us struggle with just like feeling good, knowing what to eat. There's so much information out there that is so confusing online of like what to eat. And the other thing that came through as well from the records was like,
00:39:06
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It was like, Alyssa, you're not eating properly to lose weight. This has nothing to do with weight. This has nothing to do with aesthetics. This has to do with you feeling good because if you're not healthy, if you do continue to eat the way that you eat and you are suppressing these emotions and you develop cancer, you develop some sort of disease, you will not be able to live your purpose because the past two days, you guys, I have not been able to get out of my bed.
00:39:36
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I barely was able to get out of bed to walk this morning. And that was a struggle. And the last thing I wanted to do was to be of service. Like the last thing I wanted to do was to be on my phone, was to look at anything, was to engage in anything that I love, any of my passions, to think about other people. Like when you're sick, you're so tuned into like yourself and what's going on, there's no way you can be of service to others. And so the message I came through was like,
00:40:04
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Lissa, we're helping you during this eclipse season break these patterns so that you can be your healthiest self, your clearest vessel, so that you can be of service and help others.
Motivation to Serve Amidst Struggles
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I almost didn't do this, record this episode today because I've been feeling so shitty and I took the Excedrin and I was like, okay, wow, I guess this is going to be like the first episode that I missed because there's no way I can record this. I took the Excedrin.
00:40:34
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And then I went on my phone to listen to some voice notes from my friend and respond back to her. And then I went on Instagram really quick and I was watching this video. Um, and she was talking about the eclipse season and how
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During this time, we're all gonna be feeling this, like our emotions coming to the surface. But the way to move through it is to be kind to others. I think it was Till Swan. And she was saying, the way to do this is to like act on the impulses of showing kindness and being helpful to other people. It was like, even though you feel shitty, like say if you're in line at the grocery store and someone behind you,
00:41:16
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doesn't look well like allow them to go in front of you cut you so they can get out faster or if someone needs you to say something nice to them if someone needs you to like cook them something it was like how can you still be of service because she was talking about how when we feel our worst it's almost like we become narcissistic and we only can think about ourselves and it's not for any it's not a and I don't even like saying the word narcissist that's just what she said but
00:41:43
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It's like, we can only think about ourselves because we're in so much pain. But the way to move through that is to be of service to others and to somehow help someone that's hurting even more than you. And so that is what gave me the motivation to be like, get up. I started like, I was like, I remember I told you, like, I had that like soul feeling of like staring at myself in the mirror, just looking at my eyes. I had that cry session. I had that healing session. I was drawn to open up my records, ask the questions. And then I was like, Oh, I'm gonna record a podcast right now. Like, I can
00:42:11
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That helped me know that I can still be of service and like share this because maybe this can help somebody else. Because all the pain that we're experiencing isn't for only ourselves, it's to help other people as well move through things. And so, yeah, I just thought that was so beautiful. And I think there is one more thing that I asked the records.
00:42:40
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Yeah, that was mostly it. It was mostly just like, you know, we need to be our healthiest selves to be of service because when we don't feel good, like people that truly have these like terrible diseases that are like debilitating illnesses, they cannot be of service.
00:43:03
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because they just feel so bad and it's so sad. It literally breaks my heart. And so I'm like, okay, Alyssa, like I need to fix this. Like this is a pattern that I need to fix because I want to be my healthiest self. And I want to feel good and I want to have energy. So yes. And
00:43:31
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That is basically it. So I think that's really what I've been feeling going through this whole eclipse season is really shedding patterns of, again, emotional eating. It's like, what is that covering up? That's also something I'm going into on my own healing journey.
00:43:49
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really looking into that. But I just love the guidance from the records that like, oh, wow, this like eating that we're doing, and people getting sick from foods or like cancer causing foods, isn't even necessarily just the food itself. It's just as much the emotions that we're covering up from eating those things. So that was life changing.
00:44:11
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So it's like, okay, how can we allow ourselves to just sit in the shitty feelings and feel whatever we need to feel instead of grabbing the food? And for other people, it's gonna look like different addictions, different vices, like instead of grabbing the drink of alcohol, instead of smoking a joint, instead of shopping, you know, instead of going on Amazon and buying a bunch of stuff, instead of some people gamble, some people
00:44:36
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whatever, grab the phone, just simply grab the phone and start scrolling. I noticed that as well when I was looking at my eyes in the mirror. I was like, okay, how many times do I go for the dopamine hits instead of just feeling what feels uncomfortable? And it's like, we don't even realize that we're feeling uncomfortable, but just something feels uneasy. And then we want to
00:44:54
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mask that by looking on social media, scrolling, grabbing the snacks, whatever it is. It's different for all of us, but it's all the same stuff. So I hope that was helpful.
00:45:10
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Yeah, I just felt so much love from the records, so much support, so much healing. I feel so healed. I feel really renewed and on a good place. So yeah, just to sum it up that the records want you to know that
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You know, intuitionally eat what feels good for you. Only you know, your soul knows what you need to feel nourished, to
Reflections on Intuitive Eating and Self-Love
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feel good. Really pay attention to when you're grabbing those like high dopamine type of foods. Really think about like, why are you doing that? And see if you can limit your snacking throughout the day. Like our bodies, like when I was really sick this weekend and couldn't keep anything down, I realized that like,
00:45:58
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most of us eat way more than we need to eat. We don't need to be constantly snacking. We don't need to be doing that. It actually takes very little for us to be sustained and
00:46:10
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good and we're actually just really backing up the system by constantly eating and like not allowing any fasting time or time to digest and rest and the body just wants to be in harmony and wants to be at ease and it can when we just allow it to and to really love ourselves and to give ourselves the gift of health through taking care of it.
00:46:37
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And so that's all I have for this week. So thank you so much for being here. I'm wondering how you guys are feeling. There's some transits in where there's some major transits going on right now in the human design gates that I have majorly in my chart. I think that might also be why I'm really affected right now by this energy. But whether you're feeling it or not,
00:47:06
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just know that everything comes up in the way that it's supposed to for you. There is no right or wrong experience. So if you're not really feeling anything, that's totally good. You don't need to be feeling anything. If you're feeling all of the emotions, something's coming up for you. So you can really sit with that and ask, what is that? And instead of turning to all of these different things or even pulling cards, it's like,
00:47:30
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Maybe just like sit down and look at yourself in the mirror and look in your eyes and just stare at your soul and talk to yourself and get on board with yourself. Like I said, Alyssa, I need you to get on board with me. It was like my soul speaking to my body self. It was like, I need you to get on board with me. We, I need help. We need to change these patterns. So, all right, I hope you guys have the absolute best week and I will see you next time. Bye bye.
00:48:01
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