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Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Kat.

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I'm Jen. And today we're really excited to chat with you all about crystals. We're going

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to talk about just different healing powers of crystals, different ways that you can use

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them in your everyday life, as well as some of our stories using crystals in our lives.

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So before we dive in, I wanted to just share a little intro from the book Crystals,

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The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing, because I think it does a really good job of just expressing,

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like, I think crystals can be something that people think they have to know a lot about when

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really it can be intuitive. And we're all made of stardust, one of my favorite fun facts. So yeah,

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just remember that. But the quote goes like this, crystals can fill your life with magic.

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They're uniquely radiant and sparkling brand of magic. Born from the ancient rumblings and

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rattlings of our beautiful earth, literally seeded by stardust from the dawn of time.

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Crystals and minerals are magic filled tools that are fantastically easy to add into your

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daily life. You don't need special knowledge or training to begin experiencing the power of

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crystals. And you certainly don't need to spend loads of money on expensive specimens. All you

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need to get started is a sense of wonder and open-minded curiosity towards the intricate,

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gorgeous and powerful creations that are minerals and crystals.

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Oh, beautiful. Yeah, I feel like so many, there was such a wave of kind of making fun of the

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crystal girlies out here, you know, utilizing crystals. I think there can be so many kind

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of stereotyping that it's just the most woohoo thing and that it's so out there. And like,

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how can you think that this thing is doing anything? But there is really, really cool

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science behind crystals. Just the way that they're even formed is so amazing and the

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fact that there's such a different array of what they can look like and just the areas

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that they're actually formed across the world. Like there's, it's its own brilliance. But

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I also love the piezoelectric effect. It was discovered. And you can actually sense the

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vibration and energy that is coming off of crystals and the force that is there. And

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that is really how they utilize quartz watches because that pressure is kind of played on.

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So it ends up creating its own energy to run the watches. And I mean, for someone who would

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have been pretty skeptical of this concept early on, I now have had endless stories that

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have kind of validated just relationship to crystals. And I feel like it's been such a

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cool journey because there's been crystals that have been so prevalent at certain time

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periods of my life. I also think it's hilarious that when a crystal's kind of served out its

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purpose, it tends to either like go missing for me or like, yeah, another one will just

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get so loud and just be so prevalent, like I'll be gifted it like a bunch of different

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times. And I'm like, okay, like this is the new one for my life. The other one kind of

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served its purpose. I think a few of my stories that have kind of been like, whoa, that would

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have happened early on maybe you've shared a few of these on the podcast before. But

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I remember going into my first like crystal store with the actual intent of like, I'm

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coming here and I want to leave with a crystal and just kind of trying to read through all

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the descriptions and like be really technical about it. And then I felt my whole entire

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arm just like buzzing and tingling and I was like, what? I turn around there's this one

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crystal on the shelf just like right behind me and I was like, okay, hello. And then it

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was one that didn't have a label on it. So when I checked out, I was like, what is this?

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And it was an apophili and I searched it afterwards like the meaning of apophili and

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it was like, this is one of the crystals that can call you from across the room. And I was

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like, okay, that's funny. And that crystal has been it was it was so cute. I used it

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for so much to have just in the corner of my house and I could feel its energy like

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very, very clear. I also did energy work on my little sister one day and I had that crystal

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kind of as in the sister off to the side. And it fell and broke and like half of it

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ended up going to my sister. I was like, okay, well, it's split into two and it was like

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such a clean split like you couldn't even tell it had broke and I was like, take this

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other half. And then later we go to a crystal store and there were tarot cards up front

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and it said, you know, pull a little crystal card see which crystal is calling out to you

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and she got apophili that day the same crystal. So I thought that was like, such a cute full

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circle moment. And the other story I really want to share that was like mind blowing was

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in the middle of all the protests really happening across the entire country for Black Lives

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Matter in 2020, I was feeling like extremely heavy and I really wanted to carve out some

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time just to tune into the collective, send some, you know, positive energy and I just

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knew like a lot was happening and that there were really major shifts and I just wanted

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to be a little container to assist with that. And I put on my Howlite Mala beads and I had

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them around my neck and they are really good for absorbing negative energy. And I've done

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tons of meditations with those beads, but the second I like did my tune into the collective,

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these beads burned my entire chest, I had a full necklace of burn of beads, I had to like

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pull it off of me. I was like, okay, yeah, maybe not the smartest idea to like put crystals

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on your physical body and then tune into something so intense and potent. So in retrospect, made

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sense. In the moment, I was like shook, but like worked that well. But it just goes to

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show like, you can have so many personal experiences with using these crystals. And that's just

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a few of my cats, you have any fun crystal stories? Oh man, such a crazy experience, huh?

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Wow. Yeah, that's yeah.

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Wilds. Like crystal should come with a little warning sometimes.

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Danny was Danny was very shook by that. My husband was like, wait, what? Like, yeah,

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wilds, like can't ignore that.

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Burn mark. Yeah. Yeah, I've had some crazy experiences with like, at a sound bath. There

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was basically like a whole blanket full of crystals. And we were told to pick a couple

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that we resonated most with just intuitively. And I think that's kind of an interesting

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thing too to mention of like, sometimes we feel like we need to go down the rabbit holes

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and research everything before choosing which crystal speak to us. But like you mentioned

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generally or like, just see which ones call out to you. And that might be the one that

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when you look it up after is holds the message and the powers of what you're meant to dive

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into at that time. So essentially, that's what we did. I picked three, I believe. And

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I know for me that my third eye, my throat, my heart, and oftentimes my crown are the

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ones that just are most accessible to me and often the loudest and often the ones that

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get closed the easiest. So I took these certain crystals I'm spacing on which ones it were

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it, which ones I used at the time now, but I placed one on my third eye or on red on

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my neck and my throat, and then one on my heart. And during the sound healing, I experienced

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some crazy visuals and just like sensations in my throat and my heart with the different

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sounds because crystals can act like a magnet in so many different ways and kind of pull

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the energy into those spaces. So we use them a lot in energy healing too. So that was kind

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of wild for me just to like literally physically feel the vibrations in my heart, throat,

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neck, like third eye, just so powerfully like the reverberation just felt like it was taking

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it deeper and deeper into my body into my soul.

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Yeah, when you lay them on your body, that's a huge way I actually utilize to get to know

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the crystals is do a lot of either hovering one hand over one and just spending time at

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letting that be my meditation and letting it kind of guide me on an energetic journey,

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but also exploring like laying different ones on your body and just that's a really

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strong way to tune in and feel like these aren't just like pretty rocks. These are there's

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like really, really cool energy that can be surrounding a crystal when you connect with

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it like really against the body. I feel like that's a huge way to start to like feel what

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it's doing like, at least for Claircintiaan strong for sure.

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Yeah, yeah. So another way I use crystals in my everyday life is in meditation. So just

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holding onto one and just you know, going into my meditative state while staying connected

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to the crystal and the sensations and just noticing what comes my way during meditation,

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what messages the crystal can help bring through for me to digest further and be present with.

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And we are both energy workers, energy healers. We always make little altars at our retreats

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but have a bunch of crystals too. But it's been wild to work with people, you know, in

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the Reiki healing space. It's taken time to kind of figure out how to utilize this, but

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crystals can really help be energy as sisters while you're doing energy work. So if I have

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a client and every time that I'm like starting to, you know, tune into their aura lower in

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their body and I just keep feeling energy want to vortex up instead of having to continue

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to go all the way back up to the top of the crown of their head and like pull it back

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down. I can use crystals like get a lot of rooting crystals put it underneath the feet

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and actually be able to pull energy down more. And I've definitely had different clients

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that I've seen for Reiki where I need to have more crystals on myself just to ground more

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because the energy has been so potent. I've also I've had some clients where it's really

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hard to keep energy on one side of the body. It's just a really strong imbalance and it's

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wanting to all shift to the left. So sometimes it's using crystals at different points of

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the body to help me guide energy over and maintain it. Well, I'm kind of finding where

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that like misalignment of energy is or that whole or like why it's not wanting to channel

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there or holding space for the emotion to come through that's going to help kind of

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break some of that. I think crystals can be such a cool tool to experiment with in that

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way too. And I've seen it be so helpful for me as an energy worker to.

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So true. Yeah. One of my favorite ways to work with crystals is like out in public as

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well. So one really common way that a lot of witchy people do is put a crystal like in

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your bra. So right close to your heart for protection in a pocket and a purse just like

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having it with you at all times and some really common ones used for protection are obsidian.

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So this is black like it is it literally acts as a magnet to pull away negative energy and

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it absorbs it. So it's really important to cleanse those to kind of help release that

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negativity and just let it go. Another one is selenite. So selenite quartz really absorbent

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and helps with purification. So that's when you can like put your bra something I love

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to do it shows. I feel like I've probably mentioned this before in the pod is just holding crystals

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in my hands as like my fidgets fidgets crystal fidgets. Yes. It feels so good. You know it's

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like sensation and you can decide like if you like a more textured crystal to hold on

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to and kind of like move your finger pads around the ridges and the points. Some people

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also prefer like a really smooth one. So over the years I've gotten Kyle my husband a couple

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different tigers I like thumb print smooth crystals. And I remember when I got him his

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first one we were living in Boston at the time and he was definitely going through some

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bouts of intense anxiety and it was his his worry stone. So he had his pocket and I remember

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him telling me that one he'd be at work or just like out and about and he'd start to

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get a little anxious or nervous. He would like thumb his worry stone and it was yeah,

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tigers eye which is one that's so good for calming anxiety. Yeah, and it's beautiful

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and it looks a little bit more masculine too. So I think it was a little bit easier to get

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him bought into that one at first. Now I don't think he cares. But he also was like, yeah,

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it felt really nice and would really help. And I just imagine it like taking the worry

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out of my body out of my hands and into it and it also would make me think of you. And

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so that would help with anxiety too. So sweet. And they have such a good weight to them,

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you know, it's a sensory experience in itself. Not only is there something really cool to

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look at if you just need that grounding point, but it's also like the weight, the texture,

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it's guiding you into the present through your senses and even just looking at it from

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that way if the energy thought behind it just seems very overwhelming to grasp. I think

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that's another really cool way is just how much it can activate like the senses so strongly.

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Yeah, just talking about carrying them around. I love that there's, yeah, you can get necklaces,

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bracelets, rings with crystals like so excessively. I also think it's hilarious because the timing

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of when bracelets break for me that are crystals is always so funny. Like I will get a bracelet

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that you know will guide me through a little period of life and then it'll break. And I'm

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just like I always see the timing behind it and I think it's hilarious. Another story

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I wanted to share. My little niece, I don't know if you guys have seen a cello night before.

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It literally is just like kind of this like white, cool looking tower. It has like layers

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to it. And my little niece was like, is this a unicorn horn? And I said, absolutely it

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is. And we will forever call it that. Also, my, yeah, her mom sent me a picture of her

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sleeping with two crystals on her regular eyes and then one on her third eye and she

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was fast asleep and she goes, did you teach her to do this? And I was like, I wish I could

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claim that but no, this is higher wisdom. I will now be trying to sleep with crystals

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on my eyes. Thank you. So wisdom from a five year old.

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Why sage? Why sage? I love it.

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So good. Yeah. And thinking about like going back to that point I mentioned with like having

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crystals at shows. Sometimes, you know, at shows, like we love gifting things. It's

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very much about the collective energy and caring for your neighbor, caring for your

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friends. So sometimes I'll look to my friends that I am with and say, do you want to hold

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my crystal? And yeah, pass it on. Sometimes you're like, no, it's okay. Sometimes they're

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like, yes, I'd be honored. And so one little like thing to note is that crystals can also

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be very absorbent of other people's energies. So that's like a good note to self is when

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you either like have friends or others just in your safe space where all your crystals

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are or like you're sharing it and you're passing along. It might be a good time after

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that just go ahead and give your crystals a good little cleanse. Yeah.

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So talking about cleansing, like there is definitely way more technical things you can

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look up. I think, yeah, you can kind of see all spectrums of like how tos on it. How I

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personally kind of utilize this is I think about either I have a lot of them up on the

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altar. So I do pretty regular cleansing of my altar space anyway, and I just use incense

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and smoke and ask for cleansing of that space. Just like I normally would in all of the episodes

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we've talked about different ways to cleanse. I also think just giving the crystals like

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an actual like potent energy meditation, like I'll sit with some of them sometimes and think

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of like I'm giving them energy back to so it's like just putting my attention on that

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space asking for the intention to be sad just to kind of purify that energy. And it's just

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a chance to hang out instead of just, yeah, aimlessly using them with like no intention,

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which you know, can always happen. We can be very busy and not think of it that way.

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And then yeah, putting them outside is a huge thing people do, especially under kind of more

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positive moons that are happening. You can let them just like bathe in moonlight. Some

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are definitely more sensitive to water. So you always want to like look that up and make

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sure that it's a crystal that's not gonna like go down from being outside if there's

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like dew on it. But I think the only thing with the astrology, there's a lot of back

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and forth of people being like, this is a bad moon to manifest is a good mood to manifest.

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And I think the only thing I tried to think of is if we are in like a really potent astrology

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of like eclipse energy, like think of my how light beads burning me, you might not want

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to harness like the most intense energy. So that's another intuitive check in asking yourself

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like, has the energy around this moon been pretty positive? Like, can I feel a lot of

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positive shifts happening in my life because of this moon? And maybe if it's feeling really

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positive, then when that new moon or full moon is happening, putting the crystals outside

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to kind of collect some of that energy can be a nice time to reset it. Beginning of seasons

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can be good. If you're listening to this like in time with us, we're about to enter into

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airy season. And yeah, I think it's the start of the zodiac year. Anytime there's like

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a new fresh start, I think that can also be like a good gauge for when to kind of reset

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Mm hmm. Such good tips. Yeah. And you mentioned moonlight. That's a really great way to charge

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crystals. Sunlight is also a really great way to help like purify them. Just think about

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like sun and heat and how that really helps transmute like old negative energy and make

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space for the new good stuff. So yeah, you might even spend like, if there's a good time

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in life where you either look up the astrology of that time or like you're feeling really

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good, like your crystals are going to take up your energy too. So you could even like

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give them a day outside in the sun. So at night, you know, maybe give them a little,

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a little wash if you, you know, and dry to make sure that they don't, you know, it doesn't

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negatively affect them. A little smoke, like you can give them a whole spa day. Charge

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them in the moonlight. My altars also like right in the moonlight. So I intentionally

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like place my altar right by a window and know that like at night the moon can hit it

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just so so it's just constantly being absorbed by the moonlight.

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I made a joke to Kat that as apartment livers have to go to our home, our home owner friends

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house to get those crystals charged. My apartment zero moonlight.

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Yeah, exactly. Like bring your crystals over to the house. You can have a spa night together

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for your crystals.

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The entire yard.

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I've got all your friends crystals.

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So magical. I love it. And thinking about like places on earth that are so ripe with

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crystal magic. I'm just coming back from Sedona and it's I know it's one of Jen's favorite

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places. Oh my God. And there's crystal stores like every it's like every half mile. This

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is crystals and crystals and crystals.

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Yeah, so many. Yeah, it is a beautiful, freaking paradise, spiritual place for people like us.

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And so one thing that I want to share about there that I remember learning that was so

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freaking amazing and magical is that essentially Sedona it is made up of like thousands of

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war texas.

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So what's a war tex? It's an it's a center that is influenced by Sedona and particularly

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certain minerals that have formed that when these minerals come together that electrical

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energy is just so potent that it creates these healing spaces.

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So when you go there, if you are like tapping in, if you're aware, you'll notice that there's

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like a certain kind of energy. It's like a little hum. And there's said to be seven main

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war texes there.

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And basically the war texes are made up of iron. So that's what makes up the red rocks.

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When you go Sedona is actually a dried up ocean. There used to be an ocean there, which

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is so freaking cool. Many, many moons ago. And when you're there, you can kind of tap

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into the energy in that specific geographical location that you're in. And it said that

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there's certain war texes that there's like an upward lifting energy. There's certain

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that there's like a downward to earth energy and then there's some that like it's a spiraling

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kind of side to side.

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And so my friend Heather and I, we were there together and we were trying to intuitively

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tap into see which vortex was giving off which energy and it was so fun. So fun. And it's

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just so cool to think that like at the surface, you know, crystals before you crack them open,

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they look like rocks, you know, they just look like any old rock. Like I'm looking at

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a citrine right now that I have here. And on the outside, it looks like, you know, when

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you're hiking, just like a little mountain face and how to know on the outside things

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can look so mediocre and maybe a little boring. And then on the inside, there can be this

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whole magical sparkling crystal there.

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I love it.

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Like that's kind of a synonym for life.

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So real and are 50% of my crystals that I own from Sedona. Yes.

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Yes.

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Absolutely.

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Did I buy some more when I was there?

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And it's so kind. It's going to wrap this up. We were going to give just a few little

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technicalities and really take this for what it is. I think you can use like the zodiac

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signs. You can use the different chakras to kind of figure out like which crystals are

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good for you. I believe in the intuitive way of doing it above all, but I do think it's

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been really beautiful to know that I'm struggling to access my heart and then to go lean into

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the crystals that can elevate that area. And for the chakras, firstly, just knowing the

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different color of each point, the crown, the third eye, the throat, the heart, the

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solar plexus, the sacral, the root, just knowing the colors of each of those, you can

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match it to the stone.

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So it's very simple to actually figure out which one's going to help with which thing

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just by knowing like which center you're kind of having trouble. If you know you need more

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grounding, look to that root and figure out what crystals then are red and black, the

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colors that kind of correlate. And then Kat's going to give us a few other little fun ones.

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Totally yes. And this is kind of like Crystal Magic 101 today. If you want to really learn

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about each crystal and their magic, there's so many amazing books and like articles online.

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There's so many resources out there for you. So we hope that this episode kind of like

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helps inspire that and prompts you to do more research on your own. And as always, hit us

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up online. If you have any questions or want to nerd out or share any stories, we always

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love to hear about it.

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So to share a couple specific crystals that can help really catalyze certain areas of

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your life, starting with focus and productivity. For like honing in on this in your life, a

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couple crystals that you might look into working with are Agate, Citrine, Desert Rose, just

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one of my favorites, Pyrite, Rainbow Fluorite, and Selenite.

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Unicorn horn. Unicorn horn, exactly.

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Then for communication, if you're in a time of life where you need to like speak your

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truth, you're feeling really motivated to ask for what you need. Some crystals that

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you might look towards working with are Amazonite, Apophylite, Celestite, Chrystocola, I don't

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know how to say that one, Kyanite, and Rose Quartz.

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And for luck, there's a whole other slew that might be supportive for you. Amethyst,

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one of my favorites, beautiful purple, Citrine, Emerald, Jade, Pyrite, Ritalated Quartz, and

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Sulphur. And then finally, if you're looking for more creativity and inspiration in your

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life, a couple crystals that you might look into are, again, Amethyst, Amatrine, Aragonite,

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Clear Quartz, Labradorite, another one of my favorites, Pyrite, Smoky Quartz, and Spirit

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Quartz. And there's so many different things that you can do when, you know, we've talked

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about a couple of them when working with crystals in your everyday life. There's certain things

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that you can do for travel protection, say you're afraid of flying. There's Emerald and

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Moonstone can help calm fears of flying, which I know is so real for so many people. It's

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just really good to like give them a good cleanse after that, all like the technology

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can kind of mess with crystals. And then for sleep, I love putting Amethyst, like either

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under my pillow or right next to my head, it can help with good dreams and giving more

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inspiration. And you can even use crystals like in the bath, if you look up which ones

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ahead of time, drinking water that has been infused with crystals in like 12 hours of

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sunlight can also be a really beautiful way to like bring that crystal magic infused in

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water molecules into your body, unlike a whole other permeable way.

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Nice. I keep black tourmaline in my car. And I always like when I've been somewhere that

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has taken up a lot of my energy, I'll just sit in the car for a second, hold that black

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tourmaline. And then that one's really easy too, because I can just put it up on the dash

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and let it just like have a little recharge. So that's like one of my regular ones I interact

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with always. And I also keep an Amethyst like right by the head of the bed just to help

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with dreams, space, third eye. And then yeah, I think all of the protection ones are really,

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really great just for going through the day and then just looking at your own needs because

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Rose quartz has had such a prevalent thing at different time periods of my life. I had

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so much voice blocking. So all of those communication ones mentioned, so helpful just to have for

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a certain period of my life. So yeah, just intuitively take some note on what you are

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wanting to kind of harness and focus on and then let crystals kind of be a little guidance

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sister for you. We'd love to hear.

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Let them be the guide.

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