Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it now, release slowly again deep in, helle hold release, repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply, deeply well. I am deeply well. I am deeply well. I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast. Hi, I'm Debbie Brown. Welcome to Deeply Well, a podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this is where we become. Welcome back to this show. Oh my gosh. So this is a solo episode, and I have some musings for you. I am so deeply rooted planted in summer, so many experiences and thoughts, and I really want to tap in on how potent and spiritual the summer can actually be for us. I have found over the course of my life that summer can truly deeply be a portal of acceleration for us in so many areas of our growth. I've been examining why I think that's the case quite a bit, especially this year. So we're going to dive into some of that, and I am going to share some exciting news at the end of this episode about a very special meditation series that we will be launching right here on the podcast. So just to set the stage, I'm actually recording this episode at home. I'm not at our beautiful set at WTF Studios, and I'm sitting in my office and I'm looking out of the window watching my son have a swim lesson my little questibear turn. He is so crazy that little boy just jumped straight in. He is he just turned six, he is headed to first grade. And so there is so much that is really changing and growing about me, even in this season as I'm observing him, that has felt so expansive and so special for any other any other parents that may happen to be listening, are those that observe young children. You know, it's I think one of the things that we've all come to know. It's this universal truth that we're told is that, you know, our children are teachers, and they allow us to really become if we allow it and if we surrender to it, the most purposeful, refined, masterful versions of ourselves. But it does take work, and it does take process. And I think the thing that has been really special for me this summer I took quite a bit of time off from my regular workflow since January because I've been writing the book Living in Wisdom, and I'm gonna have some details on that soon, like pre order stuff soon. But I realized that, you know, I'm somebody that has been working multiple jobs since I was about sixteen years old, and for those that have followed my career long term, I used to be a badge carrying member of you know, the hustle culture and team No Sleep, and you know, I wore my workaholicism as truly a badge of honor. But then as soon as I got to know the real me, I didn't need that anymore. I didn't need to make something else my identity, like my work self or my work life. And it was hard to kind of deprogram, but I allowed myself to really find out how purpose wanted to be shared through me, whether or not that was something popular, whether or not that was something that garnered validation or garnered attention or praise or criticism. I just had to see how it worked for me. And that was definitely quite the process I've shared in previous episodes, you know, kind of ways to create new creative flows and creative habits and the way that we work. But I think one of the biggest, biggest things we can do for ourselves is choose to divest from the zeitgeist of whatever is popular in this time. And that's a challenging thing to do, and it's also sometimes feels like damn near courageous thing to be counterculture. But you know, we really have to look at not just the idea of hustle that's been around forever in different terms, but this kind of false belief I think in large part to social media performance over the last ten years of what is actually considered real success and versus what are kind of grabs for attention, and they fill ourselves, but they don't really bless or help anyone else. And it's hard to do to deprogram from this kind of flow of the culture that has absolutely been beneficial for so many Over the last ten years, we've seen so many, so many people around the world become multimillionaires, bring their families generational freedom, and acquire new wealth and new ways of spreading that wealth in the world. And as with everything, their shadow side and there's disconnection, and there is a lot of projection and performance in quite a few ways, and so to really kind of take a moment to look at whatever the zeitgeist of now is and see how you're flowing with that. And one of the things that I'm saying is this kind of connection to self aggrandizing but not a lot of reverence for the work that is actually being created. It's just about what you can get people to pay for things. And as I'm sure most that listen to the show, No, I have a significant problem with that, and I reject that in a lot of ways. But AnyWho, I digress. I say, Oh, that's to say back in January, I realized that I was kind of taking that understanding to the next level for myself of deprogramming, and I needed to really create active space to create. And so that meant changing my flow and not taking a couple clients, taking pause from a couple clients this year, a couple of businesses this year, so I didn't have to travel so much, so I could have this space to really think and write and create and spend a lot more time with my son. And I'm so grateful for that, especially as a single mom, just so grateful for that gift of space and time because as a child that was raised by a single mom that didn't have that privilege and that benefit. I know what a loss that is for both the child and the parent. So I've been really grateful for that, and in the flow of that, it's been so fun getting to know my son at this current stage of his life, going into first grade. Right, he has his sense of self really starting to emerge, Like his personality is so clear, and the ways that he's growing. It's just significant, this bridge of time, and I think that is what is so special about summer in general for us. You know, I think back to for my whole life. I used to say summer is my favorite time of the year. A couple of reasons, my birthdays in June, she and Gemini school is out. But also it's just you get to get a different relationship with time in the summer, right, we talk about those dog days of summer, but having more light, having more sunshine, sun medicine, having the ability to kind of be outside. And there is this casualness to everyone because even if you're working you know a lot of people, still there's just the sense that things are a little bit lighter and easier. Everyone's mood is slightly elevated. Things don't seem so serious. There is this ease, this ability to move a little bit slower sometimes because of the heat. And also it's just it's this bridge. A lot of people are taking time with their kids. School is out, Traffic is typically lighter because schedules have changed. Like there's just an air of ease for so many and time off for so many. And I say this so often, but I am a believer in maximizing the energetic potential that is available to us, and sum there's no exception to that it can be a magnificent portal for trying new things. There are more hours of daylight, which means that naturally for many of us, depending on your unique body, there is this natural vitality that is permeating the ambient energy that is all around us. And so it feels like we're given even more power from source, more power from creation. Our batteries feel a little more charged, we feel a little more primal, and we're also detoxing naturally because we're sweating more. So there's a lot of specialness here that we don't always have the opportunity to slow down enough to recognize, or our minds aren't always connected to that kind of tract of thought, but these are the things that I see, and these are the things that I think about quite a bit, and so summer has magic to it. A couple of years ago I put on Instagram healed girl summer, Have a healed girl summer, And I think every summer can really feel that way, no matter where you are in your journey. And I'm not saying you have to be obviously perfect. There's no such thing, and you don't have to be quote unquote fully healed, because there is no such thing. Healing is the work of our lifetimes. But it is a place where you can kind of rest in the depth of healing you've done thus far, and then let some of these natural elemental energies kind of take over and guide you into a little bit of that serendipity and synchronicity. So as we kind of start the summer, my birthday is a few days before summer Solstice, and summer Solstice is, without a doubt for me, one of my favorite times of the year. I found that it's just such a portal of acceleration for me in so many regards, and it's been interesting noticing this summer. Last summer, recorded an episode that was called I think it was called Summer in Paris, and I had a very European summer this time last year. I was in Paris with a few of my girlfriends. I mean we were going on trips and journeys in the forest and you know, sauntering through these museums, having romantic dinners, going to clubs. It was just really special. And then I went to a dear girlfriend's wedding in Pulia, Italy, and went to Rome with some friends, and so I felt so free and so flirty and so just like yummy. Last summer and this summer, I've kind of been in the thick of I'm coming out of being in the thick of my process. I turned my book and actually on my birthday, so yes, Lord for that little portal. And it's just been incredible how many full circle moments have begun to expand for me this summer. And I think I'm kind of open to talking so deeply about my process today because I hope it will ignite in each person that's listening right now a desire to just kind of come into a recapitulation for yourself and recapitulation is kind of this step by step walk through observation of your day or your life or a moment in time. And this feels like a time that that could be incredibly serving for each of us. So I'll share a little bit more of my process this episode, and I invite you to start, if it feels resonant, to identify some things for yourself and spend some time to go back to this. So let's kick off. I want to catch up on summer, so let you know my feelings of summer. Why it's an accelerating portal and a good time to really just be with yourself, but in a very romantic, yummy, nurturing kind of sexy way, primal way. I kicked off the summer with my birth. So this year was my thirty ninth trip around the sun. She in that last little leg baby this third decade, and I don't think I've ever felt so young, so unburdened, so free. I feel like the culmulination of a lot of the expensive kind of inner work I was really focused on for myself in the last five years has just reached, you know, its glorious completion. And so this is really the first time in my life that I've had space for new feelings, which I didn't even know I was longing for that until it arrived. I didn't know that was available to me. And it's here, and as I'm getting used to it and kind of subtling inside of it, it's really quite wonderful. It's really quite special to have access to think of thoughts I haven't thought of before. And as someone that is a lifelong deep feeler and deep thinker, constantly contemplating the universe, much to the confusion of the majority of people I'm close to in my life, but that's what I'm here to do. It's just felt exceptional, extraordinary to have access to so many new thoughts and feelings, and to have like a true dissolving and surrender and relinquishment and release of thoughts that I'd probably been thinking for at least twenty years. They've been completed, and so just having this space, it's like, oh, yes, So this year on my birthday. Normally for my birthday, I love to do special things for the people in my life, so I usually have a really kind of celebration with you know, maybe fifty people, but these are old people that I'm close close with so like past the level of maybe fond acquaintance, and these are people that I really do do life with. Even if we only talk once a year, there is this way that we are tracking each other over time and connecting at the deepest layer possible. And so for the last few years, I've always held like this big kind of spiritual rager in my backyard and we're usually dabbling and dipping in some medicines and some fun and there's a DJ and music and most likely selection or selection vibes and fire and drums and it's just always incredible. And this year, I think, especially because I'm not quite forty yet and that is such a milestone year, I just felt so called to be alone. And my life has felt so full this year in the best ways, but I just felt so called to not spend time with people that I love and care about, but think about them by myself. So what I decided to do was I took myself on a little staycation. I'm based in Los Angeles, La girlf of Life, I'm based in LA and something that we love to do in southern California is go to Palm Springs and for those that aren't familiar. That is like the area that Coachella is in, if you've heard of that music festival. And so I love to go to Palm Springs. I love to go to Joshua Tree, like that is my escape. I will dip in a heartbeat and set up you know, camp at an Airbnb or a little boutique hotel out there and just like go on these like beautiful solo nourishing a few days doing things I like. And so this year this incredible resort opened in the Palm Springs area in the last couple of years called Sense. It's a wellness resort. It is like nothing I've ever experienced. It is, and I've experienced a lot of things. It is Wow, the peace that's there. To say, like the staff is phenomenal would be such an understatement, but I don't even have a bigger word than that to share. But I just felt so held and so cared for and so like looked after and every day like there's only one restaurant and it happens to be like a private no boo. I'm like, what, Like, I just oh my god, the food, the bed, the treatments. I did. I got like a lot of like energetic work done and massage and it I needed it deeply. And aside from like facetiming my boo at night and FaceTime request, I was just in silence and I was really kind of getting out the conclusion of my book and it was special. So I did that and then I drove home the day before my birthday, and on my birthday, I stayed home and I have like my workshop studio where I take clients and I do a lot of work from and I wanted to just like reorganize my books and listen to music I liked, and think in journal and jump in the pool. And I did that and it was heaven on earth. I'm so grateful. I just prayed the whole day, but not for anything in particular. I was just weaving prayers that I have for my life, for my son's life, prayers for my friends, prayers for the kind of work that I want to do. I got really clear on something that has been alive inside of me since I was a little girl, which is that, you know, one of the deepest desires of my heart is to serve children. And I've known that since I was a kid. My dream growing up was to be a child psychologist and a TV journalist. So I feel like I've really touched the themes of both in my life gratefully. But I've just been in a lot of prayer that God allows me to have impact and bless and add value to the lives of children. And I'm not quite sure how that's going to come together, but that is my prayer, my desire, my intention. I remember just being so incredibly moved by mister Rogers and LeVar Burton growing up and the way they spoke, which with such intention, depth and compassion to children. It used to always be my dream to work for PBS or to work for public programming. Somehow I made my way to hosting a TV show on MTV and hosting various radio shows and entertainment, but that was never my initial desire. My initial desire was to work in public broadcasting and create educational programming that could change the lives of young people. And so I just think back to that original desire before other really cool and different paths opened up for me. But yeah, I'm throwing that into the universe that I hope that the path begins forward for ways that I can serve young hearts and minds. So I thought about that a lot on my birthday, and then I just got so many beautiful calls and texts and deliveries and flowers from people that I love with all all of my soul, and life felt right and good and profoundly enough, just deeply, deeply, deeply more than enough. So the next day, to celebrate my birthday, me and one of my best friends, April, we went to go to Katot's concert at the Forum in Inglewood. Oh, Dear God, what's understood does not need to be said. I know a lot of people listening were either at that show or you streamed it on Amazon, and I just, my god, was it a sight to behold? It felt also like a full circle portal for me. I've talked about this a couple of times, but you know, I really have the privilege of being able to know and be friends with and see Kendrick before he became who he is, even though he's always been the anointed vessel that he is, and see so upclose like so much of that early early time, and it's like, I don't even know if I have the right to say this, but to like God, I'm just so proud, Like, I'm just so proud of everything I've had the privilege to see unfold and to observe. And just like the calling on his life is so big, and the way he answers that call, it's so dignified and diligent and profound, and it's just it's just a privilege to bear witness to and it's so incredibly inspiring to my soul. So seeing him on the stage, seeing him do what he does, which is represent truth and represent the people and create art. You know, it's the wrapping roomy, you know, it's just watching that and watching you know, the end and the unity on stage. And you know, for those of us that grew up in LA and the surrounding areas, it was like the world getting to see what Los Angeles really looks and feels like for the first time, like outside of the pretend gays of like how we've been portrayed on TV. Outside of like the Basketball Wives or the Love and Hip Hops or you know, the Real Housewives or whatever. These shows are the shaws of sunset, you know, all of these things that to my eye feel so incredibly surface level and not necessarily helpful to the planet. To see what La really is and just the massive creativity that exists in this city under very often unimaginable odds. And then it was really it was really special because my girl, my friend, my bestie, April, like she and I came up in La Radio together and so we used to be at the Forum all the time. We used to be out at all the shows all the time. So almost every artist that hit that stage that night we had seen, you know, at the very first mixtape, not even the first single, you know, back when like LA was not getting to the rest of the country, And to see the transformation in so many of them and the massive success so many had, it's just it was so inspiring. It was so full circle. I also had a little eddie, you know, when I went there, and so that I also forgotten. I was like, what year is this? Am I still an intern? I was like, am i? Am I nineteen? At the Forum? Am I interning? Am I working this show? Like? What am I doing? Has time even passed? And then you're like, oh, it's been twenty years, baby. So it was just a wild trip and I'm grateful. I am just grateful. I'm grateful for my life. I'm grateful for the windy road that has led me to this moment and everything that I've been able to see and do and be a part of and observe and to be alive is something, And to age is really special. It's so cool to be at an age now where you look back at your life and you really get to track things, like you really get to see how your intuitive hits about people places, things like how that really aged and how that turned out, and what you've learned and who you've been in and it's just so great. Like getting older is so amazing and you might as well love it because if you're going to be here, you have no choice. So that was special, deeply. Well, something else that I've also done this summer, I want to say a shout out to this some another place that I went recently. I don't know if I talked about this already. I don't think I did, But I did accelerate her summit in the Miami area with Clint Kim Blackwell, who is just a fun, nominal, exquisite, incredible, powerful woman who does amazing things for so many people. But this summit is just something else entirely, it is It's special and her vision. I was there last year and had the privilege of being there and speaking there last year, and I did the same this year. I created a really deep workshop for the women of the deeper layers of silent pain and self care and ways to really nourish ourselves for our purpose, and you know, teaching what I teach all the time, which is using self care as fuel for your purpose so you can do the work that you're here to do and feel the way you want to feel about yourself inside while you're serving to whatever capacity you serve. And so the workshop I taught there, it was originally supposed to be I think forty five minutes to an hour, and we got to the end of that hour and I was like, well, I'm not finished, but we can stop here, and everybody in the room was like, no, keep going. So I ended up doing the workshop and all of us stayed in it for two and a half hours. But a couple of my sisters in the room who just blessed me with such gorgeous words and feedback and gratitude in a way that was medicine to my soul. But there were just so so, so so many special women in the room that it meant so much to me to see the way that self care and the work can move in the women who I believe deserve it most, the women that are looking to add beauty and benefit and truth and light to other people's lives. Oh my gosh. And also Jessica, who I'm always so inspired by her insane travels and traveling around the world. And yeah, it was so special, so just huge thank you again to the absolute queen, Queen, Queen Kim Blackwell. You do so much, so well, and this is no exception. It was extraordinary, and thank you, thank you, thank you for your work, my friend. It's an honor to serve with you. Another thing that I had a chance to have some deep connection with was I went to my very first Essence Best and Essence was celebrating its thirtieth Essence Best, which I was like, Wow, I had no idea it had been going on for thirty years. And you know, of course, I know we've all seen Girls Trip, which was such an epic movie. Shout out to all the queens in that film. I remember laughing so just so hard when that came out. I'm such a lover of New Orleans and I don't get a chance to go enough. But there is no place on Earth like New Orleans, like no place on Earth. It is such a melting pot of culture. Just the food, the people, Oh my god, everyone there is a delight And it was just so fun. And I was there on behalf of VIV Healthcare and also iHeartRadio and Black Effect and I did this podcast, the Deeply Well Podcasts live there and I had a conversation that I haven't had the chance to have recorded that I'm really excited to share as a near future episode on this show. But you know, the conversation with VIV Healthcare, they do phenomenal work in HIV prevention and they have, you know, just so many facilitators practitioners around the country that are getting really valuable in for meation tools and medicine to people that need it. The conversation just really, really deeply inspired me and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you. And it was such a privilege to be with them. And shout out to my friend DJ Mars, who did an amazing set right after I got off. But talking with everyone in that room and having the chance to unpack a conversation on sexuality and spirituality and self sovereignty and you know, really creating the space to build the bridges between an understanding of self care and self respect and self care and self advocacy, being able to have a conversation on what pleasure really is and should be within each of our bodies and what is performance of pleasure. It really meant a lot to me, So I'll be sharing. Met vede Vere soon. I had a blast in New Orleans. Oh my god. I was only there for maybe a day and a half. And my boom met me in New Orleans and so we had a chance to like explore the city. I went to the Cash Money concert. Oh my god. Okay, I went to the first night concert, which was so many amazing artists. The Roots were the house band for the night, which I mean, come on, it's the Roots. And then he Payne performed Our Alex perform My Girl. Oh there were oh it was just And then Rafael's The Deek performed Rafael's The Deec. I know most people know how I feel about Tupac, He's number one for life, but Rafael Seek is one of my top five all genre favorite artists of all time. I have loved Rafael Sadek since I was a kid, but when Instant Vintage came out, that album meant so much to me, and every chance I can to see him perform, I always jump at it. And his set was phenomenal and it was almost like not necessarily right for the for who he was going in front of for Cash Money, because I felt like so many people were missing the gems. Like I was just like, no, we gotta we gotta take this in y'all. But yeah, hearing still Ray live gets me every time. He did some covers too, of songs that he has produced, because he's such a prolific producer and multi instrumentalist artist and musician, and god, I just left so inspired on such such such a high. But that listened the second Cash Money at the stage, like that was something else entirely, Like I we were inside the football stadium in New Orleans for this concert. It was something else entirely, and I would just say that whoo. And then I ended up popping up New York for a couple of days from New Orleans, and I just got back and got some inspiration there, which was just like, Oh, I had the pleasure of living in New York for a couple of years in my twenties. And if anybody is listening and they think they're called to New York and you can do it, I highly recommend it. New York changes you in the best ways. I love La and this is where I will be and raise children and live my life. But a couple of years in New York is such an up leveling, Like it makes you so if you let it so clear on who you are how to move, you get to like your highest level of efficiency, which is like ooh, you're like, how did I get all of this done? And I mapped out a whole train route and I did this and I was carrying a backpack all day, like it is just like, oh my god. But I had such a special time, such such a special time in New York in a lot of ways, very romantic time in New York, very sexy time in New York. And I even met up with one of my girlfriends, who is one of my favorite guests on this show, Simone Farshi of The Pleasure. Plus, we've done two episodes on sexual healing together over the last few seasons, so check those out. But we had a chance to have a little rooftop haying catch up on life, and so it was really special to see her. And then I got to see my beautiful friend Beth, who is the founder of one of my favorite jewelry companies, Foundree, which is based in Soho and she, oh god, she is just like this incredible, intuitive artist, fine jewelry maker, and just like she just blows me away, like her work blows me away. So we got to catch up over breakfast, which was so beautiful, so happy to see them, and then I had this really special experience pour over me, which I think as we conclude this episode, really brings it back to how I started this episode of using summer as a portal and really getting in time for some deep connections and also a lot of reflection on where have you come? You know, summer coincides with the halfway point of the year, so we have entered month seven, which means we are six months down in twenty twenty four, and it's such a great time to maybe stop and go look, pause and go look at any of the goals or reflections you wrote for yourself back in January and see where you are with them, see if you still even relate to them, see if they've already been accomplished, see what needs to be edited and what needs to be done. But it's a really, really, really really potent time to get even more clear on where you're going. And so it felt very kismet because as I left New York, I flew into Lax and when my driver picked me up at Lax, he looked kind of familiar, and so I was just like, hey, how you doing. Okay, you know, let's roll. And he looked at me and he said, I picked you up before. And the second he said that, I instantly knew and remembered, and he said eight months ago. I won't forget it. And I looked him in his eyes and I was like, yes, you did. That was one of the hardest days in my life, the day you picked me up. And I haven't talked about this publicly yet, and part of the reason I haven't is because I am not ready to. And also there is an active case that I want to make sure I am respectful of and I don't want to have any missteps. But someone in my life was killed in a profoundly tragic way in the fall of last year, and when he picked me up, from the airport eight months ago. I had just found this out, and I was getting ready to come home to be with my son, and we were stuck in traffic, and I remember sitting in the back of the car and I was talking to one of my dear girlfriends, Yvonne, who is such a prayerful, incredible, beautiful friend in person, and she was praying for me, and I was just sobbing in the back of this car, just sobbing and talking her through what I found out, what had happened, the awfulness of it, the fears, so many things. And when I got off the phone with her, I just started doing breath work in the back of the car because I was like, you have to walk through the door differently before you see your child, and so I was just like and just like in it. And he started talking to me, and he started praying over me, and he started sharing with me experiences from his life, and we both just had this really deep, beautiful talk and he was of such service to me in such a generous and selfless way with his spirit and the way that he really fueled me. And when I got out of the car, he got out of the car and he just gave me a big hug and he prayed over me, and I needed that in a way I can't even describe. And I was able to walk in the house, and you know, as we always do, we keep going. And when I saw him, now eight months removed, we're in a different calendar year, he and I talked again, and you know, he just said, so, how has life been for you since that happened. And because no one else in my world really knows about this situation except for him a couple other people, I don't get to talk about it much, and I haven't had a chance to reflect with anyone else outside of my own journaling or my own sessions with healers. And so I looked at him. I said, God, it's so powerful. You're asking me this question now, and I was able to share with him. You know that He said, I hope you didn't let it change you. And my response to him was, it did change me. I had to let it change me. He said, well, I hope you still believe in humanity, and I told him that I do believe in humanity, but that I also accept humanity for what it is, and that this experience has not closed my heart but it has made me so much more sober and discerning in my day to day interactions and the way that I am present with people while we're present and just being able to get that reflection out was so full circle, you know. And he and I were just so happy to see each other. And he, you know, he had shared with me that he went home and prayed for me, and like he talked to his family about me, and he ended up looking up the case and you know, just like praying for the person that had happened to and it meant a lot to me. And so this is my ketchup of summer thus far. And y'all know I'm talking in circles Sheila to talk, but I am so moved by the profound portal that summer can be and the way that we can be with things differently, both our growth and our pain points. And so as we close out this episode, I want to share a couple things with you before I get into the soul work. First is that we will be experiencing the greatness of Darryl Gaines, Master Astrologer several times before this summer ends. I am going to be launching a summer series where we dive in for the next few episodes into Daryl's astrological expertise of the transits that are happening this summer and how to maximize the energetic potential of them. And I will be leading and teaching meditation for the rest of this summer, so I'm really excited to share these episodes with you. We have been doing so much prep to prepare for them, and those will be coming. Over the course of the next several weeks. Will be unrolling several episodes. And then the second thing to share as we close out this episode is your soul work. Having heard this I'm sure incredibly long winded recap of my summer and my musings and experiences, I want you to take some time and I want you to recapitulate. I want you to do it in a few ways. I want you to take time and get into your sacred space, get centered, or if you're in transit and you know you want to do this as perhaps you're commuting or doing other things, just taking a few centering breaths before you connect to these thoughts for some clarity. And I want you to think of where you were emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually this time last summer. What has changed, what hasn't and why? What needs to be released, what needs to be called in, what needs to be integrated, and what needs to be re incident reimagined. Just notice it observationally without judgment. There is no right or wrong, because there's still a chance to keep going and to do things differently if needed. So first recapitulate that, and then I want you to really take some time to look at and recapitulate where you were six months ago and how you were viewing life. What were your goals in January? What were you thinking, what direction did you think this year was going to take? And now that we're on month seven, six months in, how does that compare to the reality of this moment? And again, take a moment. What can be edited, what can be released, what can be called in? There's always a way forward, even if you're listening and you feel perhaps disappointed or let down or indifferent, or if you're listening and you feel really proud. Wherever you land on the spectrum, there's no right or wrong. There are more opportunities ahead. But notice it with reality and truth, and notice it with observation and non judgment. And after you spend time in that recapitulation, takes some time to journal what the path forward could look like, what you desire, what you crave, what you can release, what you can call in. As always, thank you so much for listening to this show. I'm grateful to be here with you. I'm grateful for anything that this show may bring to anyone's life that is of merit, of positivity. It's a privilege, no I mistake. The content presented on Deeply Wells serves solely for educational and informational purpose. It should not be considered a replacement for personalized medical or mental health guidance, and does not constitute a provider patient relationship. As always, it is advisable to consult with your healthcare provider or health team for any specific concerns or questions that you may have. Connect with me on social at Debbie Brown. 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Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it now, release slowly again deep in, helle hold release, repeating internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I am deeply, deeply well. I am deeply well. I am deeply well. I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast. Hi, I'm Debbie Brown. Welcome to Deeply Well, a podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. This is where we heal, this is where we become. Welcome back to this show. Oh my gosh. So this is a solo episode, and I have some musings for you. I am so deeply rooted planted in summer, so many experiences and thoughts, and I really want to tap in on how potent and spiritual the summer can actually be for us. I have found over the course of my life that summer can truly deeply be a portal of acceleration for us in so many areas of our growth. I've been examining why I think that's the case quite a bit, especially this year. So we're going to dive into some of that, and I am going to share some exciting news at the end of this episode about a very special meditation series that we will be launching right here on the podcast. So just to set the stage, I'm actually recording this episode at home. I'm not at our beautiful set at WTF Studios, and I'm sitting in my office and I'm looking out of the window watching my son have a swim lesson my little questibear turn. He is so crazy that little boy just jumped straight in. He is he just turned six, he is headed to first grade. And so there is so much that is really changing and growing about me, even in this season as I'm observing him, that has felt so expansive and so special for any other any other parents that may happen to be listening, are those that observe young children. You know, it's I think one of the things that we've all come to know. It's this universal truth that we're told is that, you know, our children are teachers, and they allow us to really become if we allow it and if we surrender to it, the most purposeful, refined, masterful versions of ourselves. But it does take work, and it does take process. And I think the thing that has been really special for me this summer I took quite a bit of time off from my regular workflow since January because I've been writing the book Living in Wisdom, and I'm gonna have some details on that soon, like pre order stuff soon. But I realized that, you know, I'm somebody that has been working multiple jobs since I was about sixteen years old, and for those that have followed my career long term, I used to be a badge carrying member of you know, the hustle culture and team No Sleep, and you know, I wore my workaholicism as truly a badge of honor. But then as soon as I got to know the real me, I didn't need that anymore. I didn't need to make something else my identity, like my work self or my work life. And it was hard to kind of deprogram, but I allowed myself to really find out how purpose wanted to be shared through me, whether or not that was something popular, whether or not that was something that garnered validation or garnered attention or praise or criticism. I just had to see how it worked for me. And that was definitely quite the process I've shared in previous episodes, you know, kind of ways to create new creative flows and creative habits and the way that we work. But I think one of the biggest, biggest things we can do for ourselves is choose to divest from the zeitgeist of whatever is popular in this time. And that's a challenging thing to do, and it's also sometimes feels like damn near courageous thing to be counterculture. But you know, we really have to look at not just the idea of hustle that's been around forever in different terms, but this kind of false belief I think in large part to social media performance over the last ten years of what is actually considered real success and versus what are kind of grabs for attention, and they fill ourselves, but they don't really bless or help anyone else. And it's hard to do to deprogram from this kind of flow of the culture that has absolutely been beneficial for so many Over the last ten years, we've seen so many, so many people around the world become multimillionaires, bring their families generational freedom, and acquire new wealth and new ways of spreading that wealth in the world. And as with everything, their shadow side and there's disconnection, and there is a lot of projection and performance in quite a few ways, and so to really kind of take a moment to look at whatever the zeitgeist of now is and see how you're flowing with that. And one of the things that I'm saying is this kind of connection to self aggrandizing but not a lot of reverence for the work that is actually being created. It's just about what you can get people to pay for things. And as I'm sure most that listen to the show, No, I have a significant problem with that, and I reject that in a lot of ways. But AnyWho, I digress. I say, Oh, that's to say back in January, I realized that I was kind of taking that understanding to the next level for myself of deprogramming, and I needed to really create active space to create. And so that meant changing my flow and not taking a couple clients, taking pause from a couple clients this year, a couple of businesses this year, so I didn't have to travel so much, so I could have this space to really think and write and create and spend a lot more time with my son. And I'm so grateful for that, especially as a single mom, just so grateful for that gift of space and time because as a child that was raised by a single mom that didn't have that privilege and that benefit. I know what a loss that is for both the child and the parent. So I've been really grateful for that, and in the flow of that, it's been so fun getting to know my son at this current stage of his life, going into first grade. Right, he has his sense of self really starting to emerge, Like his personality is so clear, and the ways that he's growing. It's just significant, this bridge of time, and I think that is what is so special about summer in general for us. You know, I think back to for my whole life. I used to say summer is my favorite time of the year. A couple of reasons, my birthdays in June, she and Gemini school is out. But also it's just you get to get a different relationship with time in the summer, right, we talk about those dog days of summer, but having more light, having more sunshine, sun medicine, having the ability to kind of be outside. And there is this casualness to everyone because even if you're working you know a lot of people, still there's just the sense that things are a little bit lighter and easier. Everyone's mood is slightly elevated. Things don't seem so serious. There is this ease, this ability to move a little bit slower sometimes because of the heat. And also it's just it's this bridge. A lot of people are taking time with their kids. School is out, Traffic is typically lighter because schedules have changed. Like there's just an air of ease for so many and time off for so many. And I say this so often, but I am a believer in maximizing the energetic potential that is available to us, and sum there's no exception to that it can be a magnificent portal for trying new things. There are more hours of daylight, which means that naturally for many of us, depending on your unique body, there is this natural vitality that is permeating the ambient energy that is all around us. And so it feels like we're given even more power from source, more power from creation. Our batteries feel a little more charged, we feel a little more primal, and we're also detoxing naturally because we're sweating more. So there's a lot of specialness here that we don't always have the opportunity to slow down enough to recognize, or our minds aren't always connected to that kind of tract of thought, but these are the things that I see, and these are the things that I think about quite a bit, and so summer has magic to it. A couple of years ago I put on Instagram healed girl summer, Have a healed girl summer, And I think every summer can really feel that way, no matter where you are in your journey. And I'm not saying you have to be obviously perfect. There's no such thing, and you don't have to be quote unquote fully healed, because there is no such thing. Healing is the work of our lifetimes. But it is a place where you can kind of rest in the depth of healing you've done thus far, and then let some of these natural elemental energies kind of take over and guide you into a little bit of that serendipity and synchronicity. So as we kind of start the summer, my birthday is a few days before summer Solstice, and summer Solstice is, without a doubt for me, one of my favorite times of the year. I found that it's just such a portal of acceleration for me in so many regards, and it's been interesting noticing this summer. Last summer, recorded an episode that was called I think it was called Summer in Paris, and I had a very European summer this time last year. I was in Paris with a few of my girlfriends. I mean we were going on trips and journeys in the forest and you know, sauntering through these museums, having romantic dinners, going to clubs. It was just really special. And then I went to a dear girlfriend's wedding in Pulia, Italy, and went to Rome with some friends, and so I felt so free and so flirty and so just like yummy. Last summer and this summer, I've kind of been in the thick of I'm coming out of being in the thick of my process. I turned my book and actually on my birthday, so yes, Lord for that little portal. And it's just been incredible how many full circle moments have begun to expand for me this summer. And I think I'm kind of open to talking so deeply about my process today because I hope it will ignite in each person that's listening right now a desire to just kind of come into a recapitulation for yourself and recapitulation is kind of this step by step walk through observation of your day or your life or a moment in time. And this feels like a time that that could be incredibly serving for each of us. So I'll share a little bit more of my process this episode, and I invite you to start, if it feels resonant, to identify some things for yourself and spend some time to go back to this. So let's kick off. I want to catch up on summer, so let you know my feelings of summer. Why it's an accelerating portal and a good time to really just be with yourself, but in a very romantic, yummy, nurturing kind of sexy way, primal way. I kicked off the summer with my birth. So this year was my thirty ninth trip around the sun. She in that last little leg baby this third decade, and I don't think I've ever felt so young, so unburdened, so free. I feel like the culmulination of a lot of the expensive kind of inner work I was really focused on for myself in the last five years has just reached, you know, its glorious completion. And so this is really the first time in my life that I've had space for new feelings, which I didn't even know I was longing for that until it arrived. I didn't know that was available to me. And it's here, and as I'm getting used to it and kind of subtling inside of it, it's really quite wonderful. It's really quite special to have access to think of thoughts I haven't thought of before. And as someone that is a lifelong deep feeler and deep thinker, constantly contemplating the universe, much to the confusion of the majority of people I'm close to in my life, but that's what I'm here to do. It's just felt exceptional, extraordinary to have access to so many new thoughts and feelings, and to have like a true dissolving and surrender and relinquishment and release of thoughts that I'd probably been thinking for at least twenty years. They've been completed, and so just having this space, it's like, oh, yes, So this year on my birthday. Normally for my birthday, I love to do special things for the people in my life, so I usually have a really kind of celebration with you know, maybe fifty people, but these are old people that I'm close close with so like past the level of maybe fond acquaintance, and these are people that I really do do life with. Even if we only talk once a year, there is this way that we are tracking each other over time and connecting at the deepest layer possible. And so for the last few years, I've always held like this big kind of spiritual rager in my backyard and we're usually dabbling and dipping in some medicines and some fun and there's a DJ and music and most likely selection or selection vibes and fire and drums and it's just always incredible. And this year, I think, especially because I'm not quite forty yet and that is such a milestone year, I just felt so called to be alone. And my life has felt so full this year in the best ways, but I just felt so called to not spend time with people that I love and care about, but think about them by myself. So what I decided to do was I took myself on a little staycation. I'm based in Los Angeles, La girlf of Life, I'm based in LA and something that we love to do in southern California is go to Palm Springs and for those that aren't familiar. That is like the area that Coachella is in, if you've heard of that music festival. And so I love to go to Palm Springs. I love to go to Joshua Tree, like that is my escape. I will dip in a heartbeat and set up you know, camp at an Airbnb or a little boutique hotel out there and just like go on these like beautiful solo nourishing a few days doing things I like. And so this year this incredible resort opened in the Palm Springs area in the last couple of years called Sense. It's a wellness resort. It is like nothing I've ever experienced. It is, and I've experienced a lot of things. It is Wow, the peace that's there. To say, like the staff is phenomenal would be such an understatement, but I don't even have a bigger word than that to share. But I just felt so held and so cared for and so like looked after and every day like there's only one restaurant and it happens to be like a private no boo. I'm like, what, Like, I just oh my god, the food, the bed, the treatments. I did. I got like a lot of like energetic work done and massage and it I needed it deeply. And aside from like facetiming my boo at night and FaceTime request, I was just in silence and I was really kind of getting out the conclusion of my book and it was special. So I did that and then I drove home the day before my birthday, and on my birthday, I stayed home and I have like my workshop studio where I take clients and I do a lot of work from and I wanted to just like reorganize my books and listen to music I liked, and think in journal and jump in the pool. And I did that and it was heaven on earth. I'm so grateful. I just prayed the whole day, but not for anything in particular. I was just weaving prayers that I have for my life, for my son's life, prayers for my friends, prayers for the kind of work that I want to do. I got really clear on something that has been alive inside of me since I was a little girl, which is that, you know, one of the deepest desires of my heart is to serve children. And I've known that since I was a kid. My dream growing up was to be a child psychologist and a TV journalist. So I feel like I've really touched the themes of both in my life gratefully. But I've just been in a lot of prayer that God allows me to have impact and bless and add value to the lives of children. And I'm not quite sure how that's going to come together, but that is my prayer, my desire, my intention. I remember just being so incredibly moved by mister Rogers and LeVar Burton growing up and the way they spoke, which with such intention, depth and compassion to children. It used to always be my dream to work for PBS or to work for public programming. Somehow I made my way to hosting a TV show on MTV and hosting various radio shows and entertainment, but that was never my initial desire. My initial desire was to work in public broadcasting and create educational programming that could change the lives of young people. And so I just think back to that original desire before other really cool and different paths opened up for me. But yeah, I'm throwing that into the universe that I hope that the path begins forward for ways that I can serve young hearts and minds. So I thought about that a lot on my birthday, and then I just got so many beautiful calls and texts and deliveries and flowers from people that I love with all all of my soul, and life felt right and good and profoundly enough, just deeply, deeply, deeply more than enough. So the next day, to celebrate my birthday, me and one of my best friends, April, we went to go to Katot's concert at the Forum in Inglewood. Oh, Dear God, what's understood does not need to be said. I know a lot of people listening were either at that show or you streamed it on Amazon, and I just, my god, was it a sight to behold? It felt also like a full circle portal for me. I've talked about this a couple of times, but you know, I really have the privilege of being able to know and be friends with and see Kendrick before he became who he is, even though he's always been the anointed vessel that he is, and see so upclose like so much of that early early time, and it's like, I don't even know if I have the right to say this, but to like God, I'm just so proud, Like, I'm just so proud of everything I've had the privilege to see unfold and to observe. And just like the calling on his life is so big, and the way he answers that call, it's so dignified and diligent and profound, and it's just it's just a privilege to bear witness to and it's so incredibly inspiring to my soul. So seeing him on the stage, seeing him do what he does, which is represent truth and represent the people and create art. You know, it's the wrapping roomy, you know, it's just watching that and watching you know, the end and the unity on stage. And you know, for those of us that grew up in LA and the surrounding areas, it was like the world getting to see what Los Angeles really looks and feels like for the first time, like outside of the pretend gays of like how we've been portrayed on TV. Outside of like the Basketball Wives or the Love and Hip Hops or you know, the Real Housewives or whatever. These shows are the shaws of sunset, you know, all of these things that to my eye feel so incredibly surface level and not necessarily helpful to the planet. To see what La really is and just the massive creativity that exists in this city under very often unimaginable odds. And then it was really it was really special because my girl, my friend, my bestie, April, like she and I came up in La Radio together and so we used to be at the Forum all the time. We used to be out at all the shows all the time. So almost every artist that hit that stage that night we had seen, you know, at the very first mixtape, not even the first single, you know, back when like LA was not getting to the rest of the country, And to see the transformation in so many of them and the massive success so many had, it's just it was so inspiring. It was so full circle. I also had a little eddie, you know, when I went there, and so that I also forgotten. I was like, what year is this? Am I still an intern? I was like, am i? Am I nineteen? At the Forum? Am I interning? Am I working this show? Like? What am I doing? Has time even passed? And then you're like, oh, it's been twenty years, baby. So it was just a wild trip and I'm grateful. I am just grateful. I'm grateful for my life. I'm grateful for the windy road that has led me to this moment and everything that I've been able to see and do and be a part of and observe and to be alive is something, And to age is really special. It's so cool to be at an age now where you look back at your life and you really get to track things, like you really get to see how your intuitive hits about people places, things like how that really aged and how that turned out, and what you've learned and who you've been in and it's just so great. Like getting older is so amazing and you might as well love it because if you're going to be here, you have no choice. So that was special, deeply. Well, something else that I've also done this summer, I want to say a shout out to this some another place that I went recently. I don't know if I talked about this already. I don't think I did, But I did accelerate her summit in the Miami area with Clint Kim Blackwell, who is just a fun, nominal, exquisite, incredible, powerful woman who does amazing things for so many people. But this summit is just something else entirely, it is It's special and her vision. I was there last year and had the privilege of being there and speaking there last year, and I did the same this year. I created a really deep workshop for the women of the deeper layers of silent pain and self care and ways to really nourish ourselves for our purpose, and you know, teaching what I teach all the time, which is using self care as fuel for your purpose so you can do the work that you're here to do and feel the way you want to feel about yourself inside while you're serving to whatever capacity you serve. And so the workshop I taught there, it was originally supposed to be I think forty five minutes to an hour, and we got to the end of that hour and I was like, well, I'm not finished, but we can stop here, and everybody in the room was like, no, keep going. So I ended up doing the workshop and all of us stayed in it for two and a half hours. But a couple of my sisters in the room who just blessed me with such gorgeous words and feedback and gratitude in a way that was medicine to my soul. But there were just so so, so so many special women in the room that it meant so much to me to see the way that self care and the work can move in the women who I believe deserve it most, the women that are looking to add beauty and benefit and truth and light to other people's lives. Oh my gosh. And also Jessica, who I'm always so inspired by her insane travels and traveling around the world. And yeah, it was so special, so just huge thank you again to the absolute queen, Queen, Queen Kim Blackwell. You do so much, so well, and this is no exception. It was extraordinary, and thank you, thank you, thank you for your work, my friend. It's an honor to serve with you. Another thing that I had a chance to have some deep connection with was I went to my very first Essence Best and Essence was celebrating its thirtieth Essence Best, which I was like, Wow, I had no idea it had been going on for thirty years. And you know, of course, I know we've all seen Girls Trip, which was such an epic movie. Shout out to all the queens in that film. I remember laughing so just so hard when that came out. I'm such a lover of New Orleans and I don't get a chance to go enough. But there is no place on Earth like New Orleans, like no place on Earth. It is such a melting pot of culture. Just the food, the people, Oh my god, everyone there is a delight And it was just so fun. And I was there on behalf of VIV Healthcare and also iHeartRadio and Black Effect and I did this podcast, the Deeply Well Podcasts live there and I had a conversation that I haven't had the chance to have recorded that I'm really excited to share as a near future episode on this show. But you know, the conversation with VIV Healthcare, they do phenomenal work in HIV prevention and they have, you know, just so many facilitators practitioners around the country that are getting really valuable in for meation tools and medicine to people that need it. The conversation just really, really deeply inspired me and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you. And it was such a privilege to be with them. And shout out to my friend DJ Mars, who did an amazing set right after I got off. But talking with everyone in that room and having the chance to unpack a conversation on sexuality and spirituality and self sovereignty and you know, really creating the space to build the bridges between an understanding of self care and self respect and self care and self advocacy, being able to have a conversation on what pleasure really is and should be within each of our bodies and what is performance of pleasure. It really meant a lot to me, So I'll be sharing. Met vede Vere soon. I had a blast in New Orleans. Oh my god. I was only there for maybe a day and a half. And my boom met me in New Orleans and so we had a chance to like explore the city. I went to the Cash Money concert. Oh my god. Okay, I went to the first night concert, which was so many amazing artists. The Roots were the house band for the night, which I mean, come on, it's the Roots. And then he Payne performed Our Alex perform My Girl. Oh there were oh it was just And then Rafael's The Deek performed Rafael's The Deec. I know most people know how I feel about Tupac, He's number one for life, but Rafael Seek is one of my top five all genre favorite artists of all time. I have loved Rafael Sadek since I was a kid, but when Instant Vintage came out, that album meant so much to me, and every chance I can to see him perform, I always jump at it. And his set was phenomenal and it was almost like not necessarily right for the for who he was going in front of for Cash Money, because I felt like so many people were missing the gems. Like I was just like, no, we gotta we gotta take this in y'all. But yeah, hearing still Ray live gets me every time. He did some covers too, of songs that he has produced, because he's such a prolific producer and multi instrumentalist artist and musician, and god, I just left so inspired on such such such a high. But that listened the second Cash Money at the stage, like that was something else entirely, Like I we were inside the football stadium in New Orleans for this concert. It was something else entirely, and I would just say that whoo. And then I ended up popping up New York for a couple of days from New Orleans, and I just got back and got some inspiration there, which was just like, Oh, I had the pleasure of living in New York for a couple of years in my twenties. And if anybody is listening and they think they're called to New York and you can do it, I highly recommend it. New York changes you in the best ways. I love La and this is where I will be and raise children and live my life. But a couple of years in New York is such an up leveling, Like it makes you so if you let it so clear on who you are how to move, you get to like your highest level of efficiency, which is like ooh, you're like, how did I get all of this done? And I mapped out a whole train route and I did this and I was carrying a backpack all day, like it is just like, oh my god. But I had such a special time, such such a special time in New York in a lot of ways, very romantic time in New York, very sexy time in New York. And I even met up with one of my girlfriends, who is one of my favorite guests on this show, Simone Farshi of The Pleasure. Plus, we've done two episodes on sexual healing together over the last few seasons, so check those out. But we had a chance to have a little rooftop haying catch up on life, and so it was really special to see her. And then I got to see my beautiful friend Beth, who is the founder of one of my favorite jewelry companies, Foundree, which is based in Soho and she, oh god, she is just like this incredible, intuitive artist, fine jewelry maker, and just like she just blows me away, like her work blows me away. So we got to catch up over breakfast, which was so beautiful, so happy to see them, and then I had this really special experience pour over me, which I think as we conclude this episode, really brings it back to how I started this episode of using summer as a portal and really getting in time for some deep connections and also a lot of reflection on where have you come? You know, summer coincides with the halfway point of the year, so we have entered month seven, which means we are six months down in twenty twenty four, and it's such a great time to maybe stop and go look, pause and go look at any of the goals or reflections you wrote for yourself back in January and see where you are with them, see if you still even relate to them, see if they've already been accomplished, see what needs to be edited and what needs to be done. But it's a really, really, really really potent time to get even more clear on where you're going. And so it felt very kismet because as I left New York, I flew into Lax and when my driver picked me up at Lax, he looked kind of familiar, and so I was just like, hey, how you doing. Okay, you know, let's roll. And he looked at me and he said, I picked you up before. And the second he said that, I instantly knew and remembered, and he said eight months ago. I won't forget it. And I looked him in his eyes and I was like, yes, you did. That was one of the hardest days in my life, the day you picked me up. And I haven't talked about this publicly yet, and part of the reason I haven't is because I am not ready to. And also there is an active case that I want to make sure I am respectful of and I don't want to have any missteps. But someone in my life was killed in a profoundly tragic way in the fall of last year, and when he picked me up, from the airport eight months ago. I had just found this out, and I was getting ready to come home to be with my son, and we were stuck in traffic, and I remember sitting in the back of the car and I was talking to one of my dear girlfriends, Yvonne, who is such a prayerful, incredible, beautiful friend in person, and she was praying for me, and I was just sobbing in the back of this car, just sobbing and talking her through what I found out, what had happened, the awfulness of it, the fears, so many things. And when I got off the phone with her, I just started doing breath work in the back of the car because I was like, you have to walk through the door differently before you see your child, and so I was just like and just like in it. And he started talking to me, and he started praying over me, and he started sharing with me experiences from his life, and we both just had this really deep, beautiful talk and he was of such service to me in such a generous and selfless way with his spirit and the way that he really fueled me. And when I got out of the car, he got out of the car and he just gave me a big hug and he prayed over me, and I needed that in a way I can't even describe. And I was able to walk in the house, and you know, as we always do, we keep going. And when I saw him, now eight months removed, we're in a different calendar year, he and I talked again, and you know, he just said, so, how has life been for you since that happened. And because no one else in my world really knows about this situation except for him a couple other people, I don't get to talk about it much, and I haven't had a chance to reflect with anyone else outside of my own journaling or my own sessions with healers. And so I looked at him. I said, God, it's so powerful. You're asking me this question now, and I was able to share with him. You know that He said, I hope you didn't let it change you. And my response to him was, it did change me. I had to let it change me. He said, well, I hope you still believe in humanity, and I told him that I do believe in humanity, but that I also accept humanity for what it is, and that this experience has not closed my heart but it has made me so much more sober and discerning in my day to day interactions and the way that I am present with people while we're present and just being able to get that reflection out was so full circle, you know. And he and I were just so happy to see each other. And he, you know, he had shared with me that he went home and prayed for me, and like he talked to his family about me, and he ended up looking up the case and you know, just like praying for the person that had happened to and it meant a lot to me. And so this is my ketchup of summer thus far. And y'all know I'm talking in circles Sheila to talk, but I am so moved by the profound portal that summer can be and the way that we can be with things differently, both our growth and our pain points. And so as we close out this episode, I want to share a couple things with you before I get into the soul work. First is that we will be experiencing the greatness of Darryl Gaines, Master Astrologer several times before this summer ends. I am going to be launching a summer series where we dive in for the next few episodes into Daryl's astrological expertise of the transits that are happening this summer and how to maximize the energetic potential of them. And I will be leading and teaching meditation for the rest of this summer, so I'm really excited to share these episodes with you. We have been doing so much prep to prepare for them, and those will be coming. Over the course of the next several weeks. Will be unrolling several episodes. And then the second thing to share as we close out this episode is your soul work. Having heard this I'm sure incredibly long winded recap of my summer and my musings and experiences, I want you to take some time and I want you to recapitulate. I want you to do it in a few ways. I want you to take time and get into your sacred space, get centered, or if you're in transit and you know you want to do this as perhaps you're commuting or doing other things, just taking a few centering breaths before you connect to these thoughts for some clarity. And I want you to think of where you were emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually this time last summer. What has changed, what hasn't and why? What needs to be released, what needs to be called in, what needs to be integrated, and what needs to be re incident reimagined. Just notice it observationally without judgment. There is no right or wrong, because there's still a chance to keep going and to do things differently if needed. So first recapitulate that, and then I want you to really take some time to look at and recapitulate where you were six months ago and how you were viewing life. What were your goals in January? What were you thinking, what direction did you think this year was going to take? And now that we're on month seven, six months in, how does that compare to the reality of this moment? And again, take a moment. What can be edited, what can be released, what can be called in? There's always a way forward, even if you're listening and you feel perhaps disappointed or let down or indifferent, or if you're listening and you feel really proud. Wherever you land on the spectrum, there's no right or wrong. There are more opportunities ahead. But notice it with reality and truth, and notice it with observation and non judgment. And after you spend time in that recapitulation, takes some time to journal what the path forward could look like, what you desire, what you crave, what you can release, what you can call in. As always, thank you so much for listening to this show. I'm grateful to be here with you. I'm grateful for anything that this show may bring to anyone's life that is of merit, of positivity. It's a privilege, no I mistake. The content presented on Deeply Wells serves solely for educational and informational purpose. It should not be considered a replacement for personalized medical or mental health guidance, and does not constitute a provider patient relationship. As always, it is advisable to consult with your healthcare provider or health team for any specific concerns or questions that you may have. Connect with me on social at Debbie Brown. 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