Today’s episode is in honor of a special announcement. Devi shares her journey of writing her new book, 'Living in Wisdom,' which focuses on self-mastery, embracing grief, and personal growth. She emphasizes the importance of authenticity, emotional resilience, and the transformative power of grief as a teacher. The episode explores the holistic approach to healing, the significance of community support, and the gratitude for those who surrounded Devi during the process of creating this new work. Devi expounds on why and who she wrote this book for. “Living in Wisdom” was written for those dedicated to maximizing the energetic potential of their life and seeking the next steps and/or tools to expand further.
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Take a deep breath in through your nose. Holds it now, release slowly again deep in, helle hold release, repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply deep well, I am deeply well. I am deeply I'm Debbie Brown. And this is the Deeply Well Podcast. Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land in your journey. A podcast for those that are curious, creative, ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this is where we transcend. Welcome back to the show. As always, my goodness, I am so deeply grateful and honored to have you in the room. Thank you for bringing your heart, thank you for bringing your mind, thank you for bringing your process, thank you for bringing your desires and intentions into this space. Because that's what doing the work really is, right. It's creating the change that we long for. It's creating the difference and experience that we're currently having, and it always requires all of the facets of us to do that. As always, I am deeply grateful and honored to have you join me on this journey, and today, I think more than ever most especially, I am so excited to share something so incredibly important in my life with you. I did a thing. I am officially announcing and sharing with you my new book, Living in Wisdom, A Path to Embodying your authentic self, embracing grief, and developing self mastery. It is finally available for pre order, So right now, as you're listening, as you're watching, log onto that Amazon, to that Barnes and Noble and please preorderbis book. I feel that as I was writing this book, and I was on probably a six to seven year journey of when the idea, the download, the understanding of what God wanted me to birth came into my awareness. And then it took me two years to really get all of these experiences and all of this knowing and all of this work down on paper to share it in this way. And I couldn't be more proud, I couldn't be more thrills, I couldn't be more excited for you, not just to get this book, but to live with this book. I wrote this book with the intention of it being a companion that travels through life with you. So my hope is that you devour it and of course read it, but that you also let it become dog eared. Live with it, revisit it over time, spend time with it, let it join you at different spaces and places and different new levels that you reach within your self, work and your growth and your life. I know it's going to stand the test of time with you, and I'm just really excited to share Living in Wisdom is a timely and essential guide for navigating the complexities of your current life, of this modern life, of this experience of being alive right now when we have so many things that are constantly distracting us, constantly ripping our hearts open, constantly asking us to embody what we know deeply and use it to serve. It's an essential guy that is offering a deeply holistic approach that integrates the mind, the body, and the spirit. And as you know as a listener of this show, that is what we're doing in every episode is we explore sometimes these meteor topics you know deeply well. I've always seen it as a podcast not just for people that are doing the work, but I found that as I've met you, as I've heard from you, this is a show specifically for those that are very deeply self aware, that have done some work already that had an understanding of who they are. And you know where the landmines are, you know where those wounds are. And in this show we explore all the ways to transcend those limitations, to transcend complex lived experiences and traumas or discomforts and challenges and be able to navigate this world and this life with more beauty, with more purpose, with more service, with more integrity, with more honor, with more dignity, with more love, with more compassion. And that's what's in this book. You know, in an era where many of us feel incredibly overwhelmed by our unresolved trauma or stagnant in our personal growth right because sometimes we have to take breaks. Sometimes we have to open and see the crevices that we may have missed. In this book, I provide accessible strategies to ignite transformation and resilience by reframing grief as a master teacher and emphasizing the power of intention and self love of practice. This book will empower you to embrace any brokenness that has ever been present and really use it as a gateway to define wisdom as a gateway truly to unmatched growth, unparalleled personal power through practical tools that are in the book Soulful Insights. Living in wisdom inspires a journey of self mastery and reconnection with the sacred, making it ideally my intention, a beacon of hope, a lighthouse, a trusted source of guidance for navigating these transformative times. Because we don't want to just navigate the grief. We don't want to just navigate the transformation. We don't want to just navigate through discomfort so we can keep going. We want to find ways to still allow and make space no matter what we're going through, no matter what the world is going through, to make that space for potent creativity, to make space for tiny joy, to make space for the truth of who and what we are and what we deserve to feel. But it's also a masterful guide for coming into acceptance that part of the human experience is signing up to feel and process all of it, all of it, all of it, the karma, the hard stuff, the good stuff, the joy, the happiness, the pleasure, all of it. All of life's experiences have led you to this exact moment for a reason. So instead of feeling disempowered by them, or potentially instead of feeling overwhelmed and frozen by some of them. Let's use them. Let's use them for our highest good. Let's use our wisdom to serve. Let's use our wisdom and the adversity that we have faced as superpowers so that you can up level life in every category of how you experience it. So, as so many of you know again, I'm Debbie Brown. I'm a wellness educator, i am a wellbeing advisor, and I'm a multidisciplinary healer. I have been steeped specifically in the processes of spiritual psychology, of energy work and energy healing, of somatic processing for many years. I've dedicated my entire life, as you know well from this show, left an entire other world over a decade ago so that I could really devote myself to the emotional work that I felt God calling me to. And I've come to understand a really beautiful yet surprising truth about the journey to healing and self realization. It can really only begin when we learn to accept and embrace our pain. When we're not trying to do the work to avoid the things that have happened, but when we accept what has happened and we do the work to transcend that feeling and change the way we relate to any of the things that have happened or are happening to us. Sometimes that is that big tea or little t trauma, and sometimes it's really just that daily friction of what it is to be alive. And we can't undercount that, right, We can't dismiss that having struggles and having discomforts in day to day life. It is something that we all go through. But there are ways to really get into the fibers of whatever that is for each of us, because for each of us it is very unique and it is very much serving purpose. We can get into the fibers of it so that it can actually be useful to us, so that instead of draining us, some of those experiences and the way we relate to them can be transformed as fuel for our purpose. So I'm so excited, so excited to invite you on this path with me when that is ultimately going to guide you back to yourself, allowing you to be transformed by both the grief and the joy. I want you back in your body, get back into your senses, get back into your feelings. This book leaves together really all of my expertise and so many of my life experiences from spiritual philosophies and spiritual psychology, metaphysical, vedic philosophy, ancient wisdom traditions, holistic self care practices. So that means we're diving into the mental, the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual way of exploring ourselves. And I also share a lot of deep, deep, private storytelling for my own life and my own complex and deeply synchronistic life experiences. I've had the grief, and I've had the miracles, I've had the joy, and I've developed really a passionate, pleasurable relationship with myself and my life. And some of the ways that I have come to that are the practices that we explore in this book. Living in Wisdom is an essential guide to getting yourself out of your head and into your body. What are you ready to heal? What are you ready to release? For the last time? Time? Time? Deeply? Well, as part of the process of developing the book, right you're working with the publishers you're working with and understanding of what is the best way to get this big work across in the world. And when I was thinking of as part of the exercise like, who is this book really for? Who did I write this for? Who does God want this for? I really realize that it's so deeply connected to people like me, to people like you, or who I imagine you to be. As I think of those listening to this podcast, it's people that are self aware, that are intelligent, that are compassionate, that have a sense of self, but have also lived through adversity or have had complicated and complex lived experiences. And what do I mean when I say that, well, to have complex lived experiences mean it may not just be one major challenge in your life that you made it through, right. You may be someone that has had so many varied experiences of having to navigate challenge. You might be someone that says, you know, I don't understand why does it have to be so difficult for me? Or why do I find that I keep facing this or I'm a good person or a desire to be a good person? How is it that I keep finding myself in scenarios that the truth of me, the goodness of me, is not reflected back. You know, your people that seek out more. That's how I found, you know, on my journey and a lot of what I explore in this book is there's so many levels and facets to being able to heal your life and live your life with beauty, grace, ease, and purpose, and sometimes it just takes us going lair by layer. So you may have done a lot of the work, you know, may know where all those wounds are. You may have had some you know, really impactful, beautiful self help books that have brought you a lot of depth and release, or you may have really already deeply learned about certain aspects of yourself through therapy or through different processes or coaches. But even in all that, you're not necessarily experiencing the changes that you may have hoped for in your day to day life and relationships. That happens, that's the first phase of healing. You get awareness, But awareness is very different than true embodiment and embodyment is when you live what you say and that is reflected back to you. So it's not just that you're showing up as the bigger person in relationships, but you come into a place where you are transcending the need and the desire and the force within which you're doing that, and the relationships around you are actually reflecting back to you, to your truth. So it's not as hard, it's not as tough. You're not being the bigger person. You are leading by example, but now the people around you are kind of echoing that as well. That's what it is to embody wisdom, right, not just advice for others or knowledge about a subject. But to embody wisdom means that you are showing up in your authentic power in a way that you don't have to yell or announce out loud for others to know who you are. The proof is in each movement and each moment of your life. If you're at a place where you're feeling that you're yourself is still suffering a little bit or struggling, this book is for you. For those that are overwhelmed or even as I was haunted by unresolved trauma, or feel stagnant in your personal growth. This book is providing accessible strategies and practices to advance and fortify your soul, To advance and fortify the transformation that lets you live the truth of what you're thinking. It lets you feel the truth of what you're thinking. It's about expanding your emotional resilience and inviting in a new depth that creates a foundation for self mastery. This book is for people who live in their heads, who may be their only real ally throughout most of their lives. You're your own advice giver. This is a way to get out of that loop and begin crafting new experiences and creating space for new thoughts. So when you're ready for your life experiences and the way that you interact with your world to change, there are practices in this book that can really support that deeper intention that you have for yourself. We go even deeper in a lot of the subjects that I have been exploring on this podcast, and we teach some concepts and some understandings in multiple ways so that we can allow them to sink into our bodies and sink into our lives in any of the areas that we are currently affected. So the book is taught from that very holistic view, which is mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. However, we are also adding in a new depth of having those experiences with ourselves, and that's their providing accessible strategies for personal growth and well being with three of the biggest tools at the forefront. These are the tools that take you to the next level. Self mastery, devotion, and wisdom. Those are the three key components that are at the forefront of how to best utilize this book. It's about coming into deeper devotion of your life, of your practices, of your rituals, and living in devotion to yourself and who you want to be and to those you love, living in devotion to your service, to the work you're here to do, to your purpose, and also diving into the truth of what it is to be in self mastery. Self mastery requires devotion, it requires joyful discipline, It requires a bigger understanding of why you're here and what you want to do while you're here. And then we have the beauty of wisdom, which is really the truth of how your experiences have or have not allowed you to grow in your life and take up space in the work you do, in your relationships with others, and in the way that you view yourself. My book is a deep dive for people that are already steeped in some understanding of wellness of wellbeing, but are feeling stuck or simply needing a companion to be in it with them. You need someone there with you as you navigate your own strength, your own wisdom, your own resilience. This book is really about moving beyond that threshold of self help, to tune into your body, to tune into your mind, to tune into your spirit, to heighten and grow your intuition. Each person that listens to this show has deep and profound intuition, has a sense, has an understanding of what is going on in the world, in yourself, in your body with others. Now, depending on where you are in your journey, you might identify without really strongly like yeah, I'd be knowing, or I feel the moon, that full moon, that new moon when it's out, or maybe something that there is still fear around embracing. But wherever you are in your journey with how you access your gifts and how you access your intuition, I wrote this book in a way that is really intended to help you explore that with greater depth andies and to really help you maximize the energetic potential of your life, to maximize the energetic potential of your unique gifts. What you came to this earth to do and to be and to serve with And if you're somebody that feels really good about how you're showing up right now in the world like you may have access that layer of purpose, you may have had a beautiful understanding of how God uniquely uses you, how the world, how the universe best utilizes your gifts. Then this book is going to take it to the next level. I share a lot of stories of clients that I work with and ways that we transcended some limitations. I'm really blessed to work with so many people that I deeply respect and have a lot of reverence for people that are doing beautiful, impactful and influential work in the world. And sometimes it's as simple as clearing that lens of perception so that anything even the smallest, teeny tiny things that are in the way from the utmost luminosity of your purpose, the full radiance of the light you're here to share. Getting that out of the way, cleansing that lens, getting out those fine particles and residues. This is the book of refinement. So if you find yourself doing the work that you know you're being called to do and becoming who you are called to become, then this is the book that takes you specifically deeper in mastery. And that's why I say that this book beautifully grows with you because if you're new on your journey, it's giving the real steps, it's giving the how to to get to that next level so that your life experiences start matching up with the truth of who you know yourself to be. And it's a book that you can continue to refer to over time. If you're at maybe a different level of your journey where you have learned some of the lessoned, or if you've unlocked some of the patterns, then this is your book of chiseling and refinement. It is the iron that sharpens the iron. It's the way to make that light brighter, make the work deeper, and ideally, hopefully most especially, make the goodness that you receive bigger, more expansive, let it flow deeper in your cells in a way that you can really trust and know and derive pleasure, rest, release grace from So get out of your head, stop running those loops of thought, get into your body, and let yourself feel and really express with that body the changes that you have accomplished. Embodiment requires taking that elevator down from the head into the heart and really balancing and harmonizing all of one's experiences. It's about fortifying the spirit, using the tiny joys to feel the rest and the release that you deserve in the moments of challenge to keep you going, and then tools of processing those times of challenge so that you can move out of them with more urgency, with more grace, and a lot more ease. You did not have to heal through pain. There are ways to heal through pleasure, through joy, through service, and that's what we really dive deeply into in this book, most especially growing the courage and the capacity and the resilience to have reverence for your grief and to interact with it as if it is a master teacher, because it is utilizing and emphasizing your power of intention and devotional practice. So let me say this really, really, really loud and clear, and as you know from listening to this show, we dive into this a lot. You don't need another guru, you don't need another person that you're trying to be. You do not need to be influenced, you don't need another inspiring person to project yourself onto. You don't need to worship anything in this world or of this world. This is about getting into your body and your life and honoring the wisdom that you have already gleaned, and creating better choices and better systems so that you can live it for yourself. You are the inspiring person that you've been waiting for. And if you've ever been inspired by me or this show, I am so profoundly grateful, and that is a gift God has given me to share. However, this book is about diving into how inspiring you are, how wise you are, how masterful you can be, and giving the steps and the process to honor that and see that in yourself, Because in this book are the steps and the processes and the stories of how I did that for myself so that I could turn on that inner oven that I talk about so often, so that I could find the way to inspire myself and be on my own vision board each day. Because I'm living my unique journey and you have your unique journey that is so gorgeously bespoke to what you are here to do. There is no comparison, there's no competition. It's about unlocking the best that's in you through the tools and practices that have been tested over time deeply well. So when it comes to the work you don't have to do it alone. You don't have to wait for everything to be perfect. You can begin now, and you can heal your life while you are living it fully. And know that the work that we do on ourselves, it's our life's work. It's meant to take our whole lives. Go slow, move beautifully, and slowly and intentionally as you do this work in your own time. We're blending mindful awareness, meditation, somatic process into a very comprehensive framework for sustained healing on multiple levels in your life. We're going to move beyond old blocks. We're going to identify patterns and transcend them. We're going to release wounds and release trauma into sustainable and authentic practices that will nurture you mind, body, and spirit in a very actionable, yet easeful way. I really, really, really really loved writing this book. I had an incredible team that really supported me as part of this process. My publisher as my editor was a dream to work with, and even the design of this cover. It was so important for me to share this cover in this way. As listeners of this show, you know, or if you follow me on Instagram, you know how your girl feels about the sun. I love the sun ever since I was a little girl. I just have so many core memories of the fe of sunlight on my skin or the feeling of the sun just allowing me to feel closer to God because I could feel the rays on my heart ist days, I seek the sun. On my happiest days, I seek the sun. So including this ancient healer, this life giving force in the cover was really really important to me, and I just love how it turned out. The color I chose orange. This color is representative of two things that are really deep for me. One, orange is the color of the sacral chakra, so right underneath your navel, where your womb space would be. It's the place of sacred creativity, of birthing not just children, but ideas, love, life, any creation. It's the space that your intuition really resides right your gut, instinct or when you feel that knowing it hits you here. And the color for that that's evocative of that space is orange. Also, I love astrology and color strology, which is a practice of finding the color that most resonates with your soul based on your birthday. And my color is this exact color that we used for the book brandied Melon Orange. So bringing that all together, Jess felt so important. So me, I'm really excited on the front cover to share that my brother, my dear friend of nearly twenty years, Charlemagne the God did me the honor. Leonard Mcalvey did me the honor of writing the ford to my book. Every time I've read it, I cry and I text him and I'm like, thank you so much. I love it. I love you. But it's deep, it's profound, it is special, and he shares some really special moments of the relationship between he and I over the last nearly twenty years and things we've done together and ways we've learned and grown. And having that in the forward it felt like was the perfect, perfect bookend to a lot of the experiences that I explore within this book and on the back cover. I'm just so grateful and blessed to have some incredible, real friends and real people that I admire and love share their thoughts who have read the book. I want to say a huge thank you to my friends, like one of my life's greatest mentors, doctor Deepak Chopra, Elizabeth Lesser, who I talk about her book broken opened so often. It meant the world to me, she shared on the back cover. My sister Leila Delia Nedra Towab shared on the cover just so much love and respect for her in her work. My brother and dear friend Andre three thousand, and my dear friend Big Sean. I'm so grateful for all the words that they shared and added on the cover and the expressions they have about these pages. And I can't wait to get into your hands. So the publishers tell you you got to push pre orders, So I'm pushing my pre orders, y'all. It is officially available for pre order now. My deepest intention with this work is that it touches and blesses your life in a way that feels supportive to you, in a way that feels necessary for your soul. It is my dream and my core, deepest desire that this book helps set you free in all the ways that you're meant to be free, so that you can be who you actually are with grace and ease and love and purpose and impact and influence. So please preorder this book, get a couple copies. If my work has ever meant anything to you, if there's ever been a word on this show or on my Instagram or in person. I would like to ask that you buy a few copies, if that's possible for you in this moment, financially, and give them to people, share them with people, have a few on stock at the house in case you have a party that you're going to as a housewarming gift or a host gift. However this shows up. Get it for your students, get it for your colleagues, Get it for your mom, Get it for your dad. This book is for everyone. It's for everyone that has had a complex life. It's for everyone that sometimes feels overwhelmed by the grief of being alive. It's for those that are also ready to become fully alive inside, for those that get turned on by the sun, for those that are learning how to navigate their own bodies. This book is for you. So you can get it on Amazon, Barnes, Noble, an all the places it is available as an audiobook. Two. I hope you'll do it both ways, because I always like to have a physical copy of something in my hand so I can write in it. But then I like hearing people's voices too, and hearing them kind of invoke and express through their language, bring their work to life, I should say so. I hope you'll enjoy it in whatever way feels best for you. It is officially available April twenty second, twenty twenty five, so it is available for pre order right now as you're hearing this, and it is going to be at your door right around April twenty second. I'm so proud of this. I'm so grateful to share this work. Living in Wisdom a path to embodying your authentic selfs embracing grief and developing self mastery. Forward by Charlemagne the God, written by me, Debbie Brown. I can't wait for you to have it in your hands. Big love now, Mistay. The content presented on Deeply Well serves solely for educational and informational purposes. It should not be considered a replacement for personalized medical or mental health guidance and does not constitute a provider patient relationship. 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