Living in Alignment
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Dawn Bouillion: Hey, friends! Welcome back to Not That Girl Anymore. I'm your host, Dawn Bouillon, trauma therapist and coach, and the founder here of Embrace Your Brave.
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Dawn Bouillion: And this is our very first podcast of the new year.
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Dawn Bouillion: 2026, baby.
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Dottie Griffin: And today, we're talking about something that I think.
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Dawn Bouillion: So many of us are craving, even if we don't have a language for it yet.
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Dawn Bouillion: And that is living in alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: For a lot of us, misalignment didn't happen because we did something wrong. It happened because we learned how to survive.
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Dawn Bouillion: We learned how to please. We learned how to stay safe.
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Dawn Bouillion: Stay small.
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Dawn Bouillion: Stay agreeable.
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Dawn Bouillion: And then one day, our body starts whispering.
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Dawn Bouillion: Or yelling at us that something feels off.
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Dawn Bouillion: So today, I'm joined by someone very special, my dear friend, collaborator, and somatic practitioner, Dottie Griffin.
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Dawn Bouillion: Who is deeply passionate about helping women come back into alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: With their bodies, with their truth, and with their lives.
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Dawn Bouillion: So, Dottie, I am so glad to have you here today.
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Dottie Griffin: So happy to be here. Happy 2026!
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Dawn Bouillion: I know! It's great.
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Dottie Griffin: It's a new year already.
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Dawn Bouillion: I know!
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Dawn Bouillion: So, Dottie, I know, like, you have a lot that, you're learning about this and you want to share, and so… but for many of us, this might be some new terminology, and this might be some new thinking and a new thought.
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Dawn Bouillion: So, when you hear the phrase, living in alignment, what does that mean to you?
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Dottie Griffin: Well, my favorite definition
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Dottie Griffin: About living in alignment, or what it's like to live in alignment, is choosing the kind of life
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Dottie Griffin: That feels most like you.
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Dottie Griffin: And not the life others expect from you.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dottie Griffin: That's what it means to live in alignment, and it's… it's when your actions Your habits and your relationships.
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Dottie Griffin: Match your needs, your wants, and your desires.
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Dottie Griffin: So…
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, so… We have 4 systems within us.
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Dottie Griffin: Called the mind, Body, Heart, and Spirit.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay.
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Dottie Griffin: And when they are connecting and all moving in the same direction.
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Dottie Griffin: That's when we're living in alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay.
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Dottie Griffin: All four of those systems are moving in the same direction.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay, so wait, Dottie, I feel like that first thing you said, like, had so much in it. Can you repeat that thing again? Like…
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Dottie Griffin: Sure, the favorite definition?
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Dawn Bouillion: Excuse me. The needs and the, like, all that kind of stuff. Say that again? That was so good.
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Dottie Griffin: Okay, so… It's where your needs, your wants, and your desires.
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Dottie Griffin: So it's what you like, what you want.
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dottie Griffin: match your actions, your habits, in your relationships.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dottie Griffin: So, you know, so many of us are… are really…
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Dottie Griffin: We don't really know what we want.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Or what we need.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: So our habits and our actions are not matching.
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Dawn Bouillion: Who we really are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Man, that is so good.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay, and so there's 4 parts of this, right? Correct.
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Dottie Griffin: Mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay, mind, body, heart, and spirit, and what…
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Dawn Bouillion: Tell us more about that. What are each of those systems responsible for?
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Dottie Griffin: So, our heart… oh, man.
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Dottie Griffin: Woo!
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Dottie Griffin: We need to start this all over.
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Dawn Bouillion: No, keep going. Keep going.
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Dottie Griffin: It's… It's kind of disjointed already.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wait, did I mess up?
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Dottie Griffin: No, I did.
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Dawn Bouillion: Well, but I feel like you're doing great, though.
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Dottie Griffin: Okay, alright.
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Dawn Bouillion: I feel like you're doing great, so…
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Dawn Bouillion: Mind, body, heart, spirit. So, just tell us what each of those systems is responsible for.
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Dawn Bouillion: This is so cool, I'm learning so much.
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Dottie Griffin: Okay, so first, our mind, that's our planner and our protector.
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Dawn Bouillion: Our mind loves safety.
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Dottie Griffin: It's always planning, it's always analyzing, it's always predicting, and it's trying to prevent
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Dottie Griffin: pain. It's trying to prevent us from embarrassment.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: It's trying to… to keep us… connected. Sometimes unhealthily.
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Dottie Griffin: It just wants that connection. It wants to feel seen, it wants to feel…
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Dottie Griffin: loved, accepted, all of those things. So, when our mind is out of alignment, it gets loud. And we start overthinking, we start worrying, we start criticizing.
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Dawn Bouillion: Oh, wow, okay.
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Dottie Griffin: The body, on the other hand.
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Dottie Griffin: It carries every story we've ever lived.
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Dottie Griffin: And it doesn't speak in words.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: It speaks in sensations.
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Dottie Griffin: It speaks in tightness in the chest, fatigue, it speaks in energy, energy levels.
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Dawn Bouillion: And when it's out of alignment.
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Dottie Griffin: You're gonna feel it physically before you Understand it.
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Dottie Griffin: Mentally, in your mind. Your body starts telling you something's wrong.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, and before your mind even registers it.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow, yeah, that's so true. I can relate to that.
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Dottie Griffin: Right, I'm sure many people can. Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. You know, that's when we start tightening up, and we're like, oh, you know, something doesn't feel right.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, it's trying… it's a… it's a signal.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: a signal. So our heart is our emotional compass, and what it wants is connection, authenticity, and compassion.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: And when it's out of alignment, our emotions get stuck inside of us.
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Dottie Griffin: They don't flow through us, they get stuck inside of us, they start… Making our body feel… tense, tight.
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Dawn Bouillion: So when our emotions are stuck.
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Dottie Griffin: We're feeling resentment, loneliness.
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Dawn Bouillion: They're not feeling seen.
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Dottie Griffin: So…
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dawn Bouillion: You're doing great, Dottie.
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Dottie Griffin: Oh, Lord.
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Dottie Griffin: Okay.
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Dottie Griffin: And the spirit is your sense of purpose, your intuition.
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Dottie Griffin: And your inner wisdom. So that's the part of you that remembers who you truly are beneath the roles
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Dottie Griffin: That you've grown into.
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Dottie Griffin: Beneath the wounds, and beneath other people's expectations.
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Dottie Griffin: And when it's out of alignment, life feels directionalist.
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Dawn Bouillion: And you feel disconnected.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: So those are kind of the four systems that if we can get in alignment, We will find…
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Dottie Griffin: Joy, we will find energy, we will find… Purpose.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dawn Bouillion: You're… I mean, you're kind of blowing my mind right now, Dottie. Like, this stuff is… No.
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Dawn Bouillion: It makes so much sense.
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Dottie Griffin: Like…
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Dawn Bouillion: And yet, I don't feel like we've been taught this, or, like, I don't feel like this is kind of, like…
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Dawn Bouillion: well-known knowledge.
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Dottie Griffin: No, absolutely. As a matter of fact, I think we grow up…
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Dottie Griffin: Believing that all of these systems are separate.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, so if we… if we're feeling sick in the body, we're gonna go to the doctor, he'll give us some kind of pill or medicine or something that'll mask the pain, or we'll go
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Dottie Griffin: you know, take some over-the-counter drug that really just masks what we're going through. It doesn't… It doesn't address…
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Dottie Griffin: The core, or, you know, doesn't address what's really going on.
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Dottie Griffin: When we're feeling lost and, like, we don't have a purpose, many of us find some kind of spirituality, or church, or communion around that, and, you know, we… we…
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Dottie Griffin: We get our spiritual needs met there.
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Dottie Griffin: Our minds are racing, or we're mentally ill, or those things. We'll go see a psychiatrist or a therapist.
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Dottie Griffin: And all of these things really don't… began to…
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Dottie Griffin: Address all of the emotions that…
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Dottie Griffin: That we have. A lot of these things really ask you to bury them.
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Dottie Griffin: mind doesn't want to think about them. You know, a lot of the churches will tell you, it's a… you…
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Dottie Griffin: You let those go.
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Dottie Griffin: You, you know, you… really, it's called spiritual bypassing.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay.
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Dottie Griffin: And you don't really sit and feel your emotions.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: So…
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Dottie Griffin: No wonder we're all kind of just living misaligned.
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Dawn Bouillion: I was gonna say, that kinda makes sense, you know what I'm like?
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Dottie Griffin: Because we're, you know, we're thinking all of these are separate, and they're not separate. They're all part of who we are. They're all part of… they make up who we are, so…
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: When we're looking at them as separate entities.
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Dottie Griffin: Then… we're gonna… we're not gonna be able to move and live in the power and create the life that we want for ourselves.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow. Okay.
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Dawn Bouillion: You know, what's coming to my mind is,
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Dawn Bouillion: I've used the word incongruent. Like, when I'm sitting with my clients.
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Dawn Bouillion: And I'm like, okay, what you're telling me…
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Dawn Bouillion: It's, it's like, it kind of doesn't match what…
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Dawn Bouillion: like, is on your face, or, like, you know, how you're talking about it. There's, like, a disconnect, or, like, an incongruence, and so I've kind of used that terminology of, like.
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Dawn Bouillion: part of healing and recovery is to, like, become congruent. Like, what's happening on the inside is congruent with what's happening on the outside.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right?
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Dottie Griffin: Correct. Yes.
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Dawn Bouillion: And so, yeah, that's kind of…
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Dawn Bouillion: making some sense to me. So things can, like, look right on the outside, and we've kind of learned to put on those masks, and like…
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Dawn Bouillion: But their body is exhausted, anxious, shut down, right? And that's not, like, that's not failure, that is the misalignment you're talking about, right?
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Dottie Griffin: That's absolutely correct. You know, we can go through life
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Dawn Bouillion: And we have the right mindset.
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Dottie Griffin: But When our mindset is, Just… suck it up.
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Dottie Griffin: you know…
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. Move on, just pick yourself up and move on, and…
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Dottie Griffin: Your whole life is just about checking off boxes and going through your routines and habits that you've gone through every day of your life, and… and at the end of the day, you still feel drained, and you still feel…
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Dottie Griffin: Exhausted.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, so it can look like you're doing all the right things.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: With the right mindset, and still be misaligned.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah, because we're not actually… connected, right? We're not actually living from, like, a place of being connected to.
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Dawn Bouillion: ourself. We're just, like, surviving.
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Dottie Griffin: We are on autopilot.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. Yeah, exactly, just autopilot. We don't even know what's going on, right?
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Dottie Griffin: Correct.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. So, what are some of the common signs, like, that you see for someone that's living out of alignment?
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Dottie Griffin: The biggest one is saying yes when we really want to say no.
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Dottie Griffin: That'll… yeah, that'll preach. That'll preach.
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Dottie Griffin: We often do that.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yep.
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Dottie Griffin: We're asked to do something, or we… somebody asks us for help, and we, you know, we're tired, we're exhausted, we already have our plate full, and because we are so conditioned to people please.
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Dottie Griffin: That we say yes, even when we mean no.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Oh, that's a common sign.
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Dawn Bouillion: Can't say no.
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Dottie Griffin: Can't say no.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay.
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Dottie Griffin: When we stay in relationships or jobs.
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Dottie Griffin: That don't reflect who we are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, sometimes we're in a different season of our life, we've outgrown something, and our intuition, our spirit, is telling us
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Dottie Griffin: It's time to move on to something else. But our mind is telling us, but that's scary.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: We don't want to do that. That's fearful. We don't… we fear the unknown.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: So… We stay in that relationship, or that job, or… or friendship, whatever, for… For way too long.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: The other one is… is exactly what we just said, is feeling like your life is on autopilot.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Absolutely. And I was thinking, as you were saying that, I'm assuming that's also gonna show up in our body, right? Like…
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Dawn Bouillion: That alignment, because we're staying in these relationships that…
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Dawn Bouillion: really aren't serving us, or we're saying yes, and our body's saying no, like, I'm assuming all that's gonna kinda be, like, yelling.
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Dottie Griffin: Oh, absolutely. Our body is screaming.
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Dottie Griffin: I know we've… we've had clients in groups, and talking about… Not wanting to go home.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, they don't want to… they don't want to go home, they don't… because…
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Dottie Griffin: But they don't… they're scared to leave.
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Dawn Bouillion: And I guess we're starting to talk a little bit about what this can look like in your… in your body, too. We kind of naturally just kind of drifted into that, but…
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Dawn Bouillion: this definitely can show up in your body. What are some ways that that happens, too?
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Dottie Griffin: For sure, you know, when you're… you're feeling just this tightness, your shoulders are always…
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Dottie Griffin: You begin to have physical ailments, you have headaches.
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Dottie Griffin: Chronic anxiety.
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Dottie Griffin: Many of us live in chronic anxiety.
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Dawn Bouillion: You know, it becomes a norm. Right.
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Dottie Griffin: We're… we're… we don't feel any joy. We… we don't have any desire to do anything. We're constantly exhausted.
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Dottie Griffin: And you can't make a clear decision.
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Dottie Griffin: You have all of these racing thoughts in your head, and you're trying to, you know, pinpoint the…
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Dottie Griffin: You can't… you can't make a clear decision when You have no clarity.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, and, you know, you feel completely drained and exhausted.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. You go through the day, I've been there.
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Dottie Griffin: Hey, I talked about… Oh my god, it's right.
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Dottie Griffin: It's Groundhog Day.
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Dottie Griffin: Oh my goodness, yes, you've talked about Groundhog Day. I did talk about Groundhog Day, and it's that…
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Dottie Griffin: You feel directionalist, you feel there's no purpose.
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Dottie Griffin: When you feel that way, you are not living in alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dawn Bouillion: And, you know, I think, especially for women that have, like, trauma histories, you know, it's important that we say.
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Dawn Bouillion: you know, misalignment wasn't really a choice, it was… it was your protection, it was your survival. And so, there's no shame here in talking about this, it's just putting words to what's actually happening, so that we can actually
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Dawn Bouillion: choose something different, right? Like, you talk about start creating the life that you want, and so if we don't know what's happening, we're gonna have a lot less chance to change it, you know? If we're asleep at the wheel, and we're just on autopilot.
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Dawn Bouillion: You know, then we're probably not going to think anything needs to change.
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Dawn Bouillion: And then we're not gonna actually be living. We're just gonna be surviving, you know? So…
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Dawn Bouillion: Which is why, you know, it's often some type of crisis that lands our ass on the couch, that we finally start saying, you know, something isn't right. Something doesn't feel right.
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Dottie Griffin: Correct.
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Dottie Griffin: And it's been… it's when you can finally get to that honest.
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Dottie Griffin: It takes us so long to get there, though, because, you know, we go to the doctor and we get a pill, or we go to church, and we feel
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Dottie Griffin: We feel full, and, you know, and then something good happens in our life, and then our mind kind of calms down for a little while, but it's all just a band-aid, really.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, until… yeah, it's temporary, until you really wake up and go, okay, there's something really wrong.
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Dottie Griffin: And… let me go figure out what this is.
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Dawn Bouillion: So why is it that you think, so many women live in misalignment?
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Dottie Griffin: Well, because from a very early age, We were taught to… Look outside of ourselves.
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Dottie Griffin: for safety, for approval.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: more love… for… You know, for… for acceptance?
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah, everything.
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Dottie Griffin: everything. We're taught to outsource all of that and look outside for that. And we learn to be good and productive.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Often at the expense Of listening to our own inner knowing.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right?
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, so…
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Dawn Bouillion: So we're conditioned to it.
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Dottie Griffin: a condition. It's definitely a condition from many of us from childhood, from our parents, it could be from churches, friends, who all are telling us what is normal and acceptable.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: But that doesn't resonate within us.
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Dottie Griffin: And I kind of feel like… society has…
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Dottie Griffin: Made it out to be, like, we're a whole bunch of horses, and we're being prodded, into…
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Dottie Griffin: the same gate.
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Dottie Griffin: When this one horse right here is wild.
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Dawn Bouillion: And what's sitting behind there?
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Dottie Griffin: Wants to be free, wants to express itself in ways that other people are saying are not acceptable. So then you have to sacrifice a part of yourself
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Dottie Griffin: To feel accepted, wanted, loved, and to go into that damn gate.
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Dottie Griffin: You don't want to go into?
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Dottie Griffin: You know, innately, you know you don't want to be there.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: But you're being told that's where you need to be.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: I don't want to be there.
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Dottie Griffin: So, that is definitely… an example of living.
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Dawn Bouillion: out of alignment. Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Well, because, like you said, we've been taught to outsource all that, so, okay, so…
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Dawn Bouillion: who do you think I should be, and how do you think I should think, and where do you think I should go, and… versus, like.
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Dawn Bouillion: seek that from the inside out, right? Like…
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Dawn Bouillion: Who am I? Who do I want to be?
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Dottie Griffin: We are living from… we find ourselves living from the outside in, rather than from the inside out.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, at some point, we stopped asking ourselves, what do I need?
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Dottie Griffin: And we stopped asking ourselves, what do I want?
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: And… we started asking questions like, what do you need from me? What will keep the peace?
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Dawn Bouillion: What will make me worthy and acceptable?
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Dottie Griffin: And, you know, we've often made ourselves small just to fit into others' expectations.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: And we've… Made it a habit of living disconnected.
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Dottie Griffin: From our authentic self.
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Dottie Griffin: All the while, we still look successful on the outside.
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Dawn Bouillion: That's a lie! You know? You know?
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Dottie Griffin: I was told, especially during my transformation.
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Dottie Griffin: Many people said, I just thought you had it all together.
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dottie Griffin: And I'm like, yeah, you did, because that's what I wanted you to think.
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Dawn Bouillion: So, you know, this whole alignment thing, I think, is…
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Dawn Bouillion: And so, it's nothing wrong if this feels unfamiliar to people, right? This alignment. Absolutely.
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Dottie Griffin: It's, it's.
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Dawn Bouillion: Something that we weren't… really weren't…
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Dawn Bouillion: ever able to have access to, or allowed to have. And so, when that alignment kind of starts happening, like, what…
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Dawn Bouillion: What does that look like? Like, what changes?
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Dottie Griffin: Well, you start responding to life differently.
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Dottie Griffin: Because you begin to show up more authentically yourself.
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Dottie Griffin: And when you start doing that, your relationships, your opportunities… of that… Has to adjust.
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Dottie Griffin: To the new you.
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Dottie Griffin: So you start responding to life differently, And…
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Dottie Griffin: You know, because now you're this new person, and…
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Dottie Griffin: They're the, like, okay, they may like it, they may not.
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Dottie Griffin: But… If you're showing up authentically you.
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Dottie Griffin: then… It doesn't matter how they're responding to you.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, the…
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Dottie Griffin: You know, that doesn't always feel good.
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Dottie Griffin: And just because it's not feeling good in us doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dawn Bouillion: So, like, Dottie, do you remember, like, when this happened for you?
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Dawn Bouillion: I'm just thinking about…
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, it… it was… It happened to me before I had the language for it.
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Dottie Griffin: I could feel things shifting.
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Dottie Griffin: I could feel my life shifting, I could feel the energy
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Dottie Griffin: That had been dark and dormant for so long.
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Dottie Griffin: And… When I started noticing the shift, I started paying attention to it.
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Dottie Griffin: two or more of these systems were aligned. A lot of times, all four of them were. And that's when I… I mean, I felt like there are times, even now, today, that I feel like I could climb a mountain.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. You know?
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Dottie Griffin: or I can run a marathon. I can do neither. But I feel like it, you have… it's this…
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Dottie Griffin: it's this power, it's this resurrection power, I don't know how to explain it. It's like being in a cocoon.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah. Whole… all new possibilities.
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Dottie Griffin: All new opportunities that you are now creating a life with all of these new possibilities and opportunities for you.
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Dottie Griffin: But you're doing that.
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Dottie Griffin: You're creating that life. It's not coming from the outside. We're not outsourcing this anymore.
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Dottie Griffin: And I know you said it, Don, in one of…
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Dottie Griffin: one of a past podcast, we are designed with everything we need.
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Dottie Griffin: It's already inside of us.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: It's just… us.
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Dottie Griffin: Wakening to that power.
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Dawn Bouillion: That already resides in us.
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Dawn Bouillion: That's so good. Yeah, I definitely can relate to that with, you know, helping people heal trauma. You know, I'm like.
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Dawn Bouillion: Okay, so, like, God and His… Magnificent design, like… Created us to heal.
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Dawn Bouillion: So everything that you need to heal, you already have it right there inside of you. It's just you didn't know it, and then it's just learning how to use those parts of you, your mind, your body, like, everything that you're saying right now is part of the healing.
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Dawn Bouillion: process, right? It's probably, like, the very foundational piece, like, kind of the piece that has to happen before you can live from this place, but, like.
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Dawn Bouillion: It's so much what I teach my clients, and what they come to recognize, and what's so empowering to them.
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Dawn Bouillion: they don't have to go outside of themselves to heal. They actually have everything that they need already within them.
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Dottie Griffin: to…
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Dawn Bouillion: Heal, and to heal that little girl within them, and to reconnect with themselves, and the parts of themselves they had to abandon.
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Dawn Bouillion: In order to survive.
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Dottie Griffin: Absolutely, we've learned to abandon that intuition.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, that spirit side of us that's always moving us toward what's best for us.
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Dottie Griffin: We think we need to make decisions from our mind, and how can you make a decision when your mind is telling you a hundred different things?
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Dottie Griffin: You know, we've gotten to a point where we don't…
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Dottie Griffin: when somebody asks, what do you want? We're like, I don't know what I want.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: Where do you want to go eat dinner? I don't know.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. Wouldn't be much, yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: you know, what do you want to do today? I don't know. Everything is, I don't know, we don't know, because we're so… we're so…
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Dottie Griffin: We're just trying to think of all of these options that are available to us that we don't know.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: The secret is, we know intuitively
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Dottie Griffin: We just have buried that port.
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Dottie Griffin: Right. And try to make all of our decisions from our racing thoughts.
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Dottie Griffin: That's why we make many bad decisions. Yeah. Because, you know, they're not made out of clarity. They're made from pressure, they're made out of fear.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, because our mind is always trying to protect us from something.
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Dottie Griffin: that we can't see the bigger picture. That's why we have this intuitive brain.
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Dottie Griffin: That intuitive brain, that's the one that's… that's calm, and it's always leading us to the best version of ourselves. So when we begin listening to that.
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Dottie Griffin: And getting everything else, calming our mind.
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Dottie Griffin: It's letting our mind know, I hear you, thank you for trying to protect me, But… we're okay.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: We're okay, we're gonna… and we're gonna try this. We're gonna do this.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: And then it's our emotions coming into alignment, where you're like, okay.
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Dottie Griffin: Instead of all of the fear and the doubt and the confusion, you start feeling confident.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: and able…
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Dottie Griffin: Because our intuition is telling us we can do it, and we're getting our mind in alignment with that, and then our emotions start to be like, I can do this.
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Dottie Griffin: I'm confident now, you know? I… And it's okay if… If we fail.
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Dottie Griffin: So, Ken.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: And then our body starts relaxing.
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Dottie Griffin: Get out of that fight, flight, or freeze mode that we're… many of us are living in chronically.
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Dottie Griffin: We can calm our physiology, And making decisions from… from clarity.
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Dottie Griffin: And again, you know, sometimes the decisions we make
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Dottie Griffin: We might not feel really good about it.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: Because we… we might be disappointing someone.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: and… We also know it's the right thing to do.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dawn Bouillion: So it's… it's, it's really… Choosing what's actually best for you, and not abandoning yourself.
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Dawn Bouillion: anymore. Like, not betraying yourself to keep the peace.
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Dawn Bouillion: In that… in that moment.
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Dottie Griffin: Absolutely.
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Dottie Griffin: Absolutely, and when we do that, when we…
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Dottie Griffin: Align mind, body, heart, spirit.
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Dottie Griffin: We become the best version of ourselves.
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Dawn Bouillion: No.
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Dottie Griffin: That allow ourselves to now move in that authenticity and that honesty.
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Dottie Griffin: And that will open up… The avenues for other people who are aligned with us.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: to become part of our lives. Other people, other opportunities, could be other job opportunities, other relationships.
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Dottie Griffin: When we were living so… We're not living authentically.
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Dottie Griffin: Then we're going to attract what's not authentic.
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Dawn Bouillion: But when we are living authentically, then we're going to attract.
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Dottie Griffin: what's authentic?
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Dottie Griffin: That's really what… that's what… that's what our emotions want. They want that connection. They want authenticity.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: That's how you get that in alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: Absolutely.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah. Begin attracting… The same… the people who are aligned with your values, with what… who you are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, that's… again, it goes back to not trying to put everybody in the same little box. If we can all begin to put each… put ourselves in each other's shoes.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: And see each other for who we are, not for who we want you to be.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right, right.
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Dottie Griffin: What a lovely life that would be.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right? Exactly. We'd all actually be living this thing, you know, and living this thing kind of…
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Dawn Bouillion: In a way that makes us all better and stronger, because we're living more true to who we are, like, connected and aligned and, like…
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Dawn Bouillion: And you know, Dottie, I can say, just in watching you over…
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Dawn Bouillion: the… the years and seeing your transformation, like, seeing the joy that that brings for you, right? Seeing the excitement for life. And one of the things that just… it just, like, excites me so much for you is
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Dawn Bouillion: the inspiration that you are, because you're also, like… this is not just concepts for Dottie. This is, like, a life-changing, I-want-the-world-to-know-this situation, you know? Like, it's, like, it's oozing up and out of you, and, like, it's never too late.
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Dawn Bouillion: you know, I think your age and stage in life, to see you Makes such a life-changing…
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Dawn Bouillion: decision, and just, like, change your life, like, into a whole different, like, way of living. It's just so inspiring.
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Dottie Griffin: Yup.
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Dawn Bouillion: To me, and I know so many women need what you're offering. Like, so many women need what you have found.
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Dottie Griffin: Really?
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Dawn Bouillion: And it is available to them. And, like, everything that you're saying is just, like.
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Dawn Bouillion: hey, it's possible for you to do this, too. Like, it's…
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Dawn Bouillion: You know, like, so I'm so excited, Dottie, I know you're creating something really special that's gonna be coming out very soon.
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Dawn Bouillion: that, it's not just more, classes. It's like, no, no, this is, like, life-changing stuff that we want to offer to the world so that they can experience it.
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Dawn Bouillion: 2. And so, You've created something called Living in Alignment, right?
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Dottie Griffin: Yes.
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Dawn Bouillion: So what is it that inspired you to create that, Dottie?
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Dottie Griffin: So it's a workshop, that I want to present at the beginning of next year.
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Dottie Griffin: And it's called Living in Alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: It's this year, actually. We're in 2026.
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Dottie Griffin: Oh, my!
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Dawn Bouillion: We're 256.
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Dottie Griffin: At the beginning of 2026.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: Here is it?
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Dawn Bouillion: But it's Ken.
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Dottie Griffin: It's called Living in Alignment, Creating the Life You Really Want.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: And, you know, I was inspired to do it because I was living it in real time.
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Dottie Griffin: Like you just said, it was…
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: it was… something I learned, in my somatic practitioner training course
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Dottie Griffin: About the mind, body, soul, or mind, body, heart, you can say heart, soul, spirit.
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Dottie Griffin: And how they are… they…
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Dottie Griffin: work as one, not as separate entities, and that really resonated with me, because I knew that innately.
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Dottie Griffin: And I began applying
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Dottie Griffin: this to my own life, and I began noticing the shift. My energy levels started to rise, I became more curious and attentive to what my body was experiencing.
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Dottie Griffin: What was happening in my life, and how the two were connected.
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dottie Griffin: So the more I listened, the clearer I became, and I was no longer surviving. I was actively creating the life I truly wanted.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: And I woke up one day, and I'm like, whoa!
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Dawn Bouillion: I'm actively creating the life.
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Dottie Griffin: I truly want.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: And… and if I can do that.
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Dottie Griffin: Anybody can do that. If it's available to me, it's available to everyone.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, and…
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Dottie Griffin: For most of my life, my mind was the loudest voice, and it was often driven by fear, and it was… it was…
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Dottie Griffin: such doubt in myself, and as I… I…
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Dottie Griffin: began to live in alignment, it gave my mind clarity. So instead of fear running the show.
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Dottie Griffin: I was able to calm it, I can listen to my intuition.
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Dottie Griffin: And my body began to feel energized, relaxed, at peace.
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Dottie Griffin: I wasn't living in resentment, anger, irritation, frustration, none of that anymore, and I was peaceful, confident.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: And began to feel deeply connected to myself, and… again, you know, I just…
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Dawn Bouillion: Oh, really?
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Dottie Griffin: It's just something that… I want to give away.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: I feel like…
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Dottie Griffin: If we did a workshop and got women together and started talking about what we value. We all value different things.
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Dottie Griffin: But let's figure out what it is we value, and then build our life around that. So that was really kind of the inspiration behind.
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Dawn Bouillion: the worksheet.
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Dawn Bouillion: Oh my goodness, Dottie, I can just think of so many people that…
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Dawn Bouillion: need this, want this, you know, like, it's such a perfect, next step to, once you've kind of understood your own healing, and kind of done some work to heal the little girl inside of you, and get reconnected, like, it's such a…
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Dawn Bouillion: a beautiful next step of, like, okay, now what? You know, like, so now how do you live from this place?
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Dottie Griffin: It is definitely the evolution from realizing you matter, to your story matters, to what are you… what are your dreams?
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Let's start dreaming again.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah, that's, that's so exciting.
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Dawn Bouillion: It's so exciting to me, because, you know, I'm…
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Dawn Bouillion: our, our quote at Embrace Your Brave.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right? Behind every face is a story to be told, is a voice to be heard, is a soul to be healed.
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Dawn Bouillion: And a dream to be discovered.
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Dottie Griffin: Right?
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Dawn Bouillion: We don't just want people to heal, we want people to live and thrive and…
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Dawn Bouillion: this is kind of what that feels like to me. When you talk about this, now it's like, okay, well.
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Dawn Bouillion: how do we not just survive, but actually live, and not… maybe just live, but actually thrive, you know?
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Dawn Bouillion: Because being in alignment, it just… it feels like thriving. Like, it feels very life-giving.
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Dawn Bouillion: to your system.
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Dawn Bouillion: All of it.
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Dottie Griffin: When you get to, especially, you know, when I'm hitting 60, and still not feeling a purpose.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, and not having a direction.
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, that…
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Dottie Griffin: that mortality kind of hits you in your face, and you… okay, we gotta figure this out. We're not going to the grave without figuring this out. Right. And…
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Dottie Griffin: That was the start of… of my therapy, and really, the transformation of my life.
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Dottie Griffin: Because I… I wanted… I didn't want to leave this… this world without…
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Dottie Griffin: Finally figuring out what my purpose was.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: You know, and it took… A lot of self-reflection.
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Dottie Griffin: And a lot of sitting with, who is Dot? It was a lot of unlearning.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yep.
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Dottie Griffin: what I learned. Wasn't necessarily that I had to learn… I had to learn more. Yeah. I had to unlearn all of the things that didn't work for me, didn't serve me.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Unraveling all of that.
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Dawn Bouillion: Hmm.
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Dottie Griffin: And that led to…
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Dawn Bouillion: It probably didn't help that you had someone reminding you that you only had one life.
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Dawn Bouillion: We have one life, you know? Like, I want you to live it! I want you to live it!
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Dottie Griffin: There were so many aha moments for me in therapy.
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Dottie Griffin: that I knew innately, but it was putting the language to it.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: that it's just this stepping stone, stepping stone, stepping stone to wanting to dream again, and realizing that I… I do have…
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Dottie Griffin: interests… And… And talents, and…
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: have passions that, you know, I wanted to live out. No one was really…
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Dottie Griffin: encouraging me to do that. It was to kind of just stay in this… in the… in the gate.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah. With all of the tame horses. Yeah, absolutely.
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Dottie Griffin: When you gave me permission to…
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Dottie Griffin: Get out of the gate!
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Dottie Griffin: And the, you know, kind of wild, carefree dot, that's when I really caught the wind, and… and…
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Dottie Griffin: And just had the desire to really live life.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Oh, man, and it's been so evident in just watching you. Girl, I'm super excited about this.
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Dawn Bouillion: this program. Is there anything you would want to say about this program that kind of sets it apart or makes it different?
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Dawn Bouillion: From just maybe mindset work.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, you know,
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Dottie Griffin: mindset works, so I think the difference between Mindset work only is…
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Dottie Griffin: And about living in alignment is…
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Dottie Griffin: Finding what matters most to you, What do you value?
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Dottie Griffin: Because we're all different.
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Dawn Bouillion: Go.
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Dottie Griffin: And… Living a life That inspires you?
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: It isn't just about… powering through. It's not just about having a mindset where you're powering through something.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dottie Griffin: It's about empowering you.
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Dawn Bouillion: I like that.
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Dottie Griffin: And the secret… Is that the most aligned version of yourself is already inside you, like we said.
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Dottie Griffin: It's not about changing who you are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: It's about waking up to who you have always been.
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Dawn Bouillion: Wow.
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Dottie Griffin: That person…
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Dottie Griffin: That person there, It's the most authentic, And it is radiantly beautiful.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: When you are shining your light.
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Dottie Griffin: And you're living from alignment from within, then you have something to give.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes.
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Dottie Griffin: without.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes, yes, that we need. We all need.
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Dottie Griffin: We all need, and that is the power, that is the true power.
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Dawn Bouillion: I mean, that kind of gets me fired up, because I'm imagining the more people that step into that, and live in that alignment, you know, and then, like, we have, like, these women's groups that we're creating, and you see more and more people. Okay, that's when we're, like, changing the world, right?
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah, and it's, it's about, it's about that collaboration.
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Dottie Griffin: who we all are. It's not fearing our differences. It's celebrating them.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah, because they're so important to the overall, just expansion of everybody, like… Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: Everyone has to be in alignment with who they are, not who they have been told to be, or who we…
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Dottie Griffin: Exactly. And when you're living out of that, and you're allowing someone else to live in their own alignment.
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Dawn Bouillion: Mmm.
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Dottie Griffin: Then we can… we can create power together.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: But instead, we're… we're trying to…
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Dottie Griffin: To make people into what we want them to be, because we're uncomfortable with who they are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Sorry!
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah, absolutely.
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Dottie Griffin: It's my lived experience, this is who I am inside. Innately, if I'm moving, in that direction.
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Dawn Bouillion: Good enough.
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Dottie Griffin: all of my systems moving forward together. They're not fighting against each other, there's no conflict with it. And me.
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Dawn Bouillion: then I'm not gonna…
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Dottie Griffin: Have conflict outside of me.
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Dawn Bouillion: Right.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: I'm so excited about this. I'm so excited to be able to offer this to more people, and see them step into it, you know? Like, see their…
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Dawn Bouillion: like, invite them in. Like, all of them, and all of their uniqueness, and all of their gifts, and that only they can do. Like, only they are. Like, it is them. They are the important people.
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Dottie Griffin: That is who you… that is who you are.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yeah.
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Dottie Griffin: Yeah.
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Dawn Bouillion: So, this is just, so exciting, Dottie, and such a…
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Dawn Bouillion: I think such an important conversation, an invitation.
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Dawn Bouillion: to our people out there of what's available and what's possible, right? We don't just have to stay in that autopilot space.
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Dawn Bouillion: We don't have to live this disconnected life, we can actually, like, Experience, like, real… True, connected, living, thriving.
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Dawn Bouillion: And we don't have to go outside of ourself to find it. It's all within us already.
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Dottie Griffin: That is the secret, it's already inside us.
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Dawn Bouillion: Yes, it's so…
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Dawn Bouillion: So beautiful. So, thank you so much for offering this to us today. Dottie, I'm super excited about your program. I know a lot of people
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Dawn Bouillion: will want to be a part of that. And just kind of like you've… like you've said,
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Dawn Bouillion: If you're listening and you don't feel aligned right now.
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Dawn Bouillion: that's about awareness, it's not about failure, right? Just pay attention to that. We're inviting you in to…
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Dawn Bouillion: That align space.
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Dawn Bouillion: And remember, it's not about becoming someone new, it's about returning to who you were, who you already are, right? You just didn't know.
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Dottie Griffin: Right.
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Dawn Bouillion: And so we will be sure to put all the details to Dottie's Living Alignment Program in the show notes.
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Dawn Bouillion: And just… if this touched you, if this kind of… if your body responded to this conversation in any way, I'm just inviting you to trust that.
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Dawn Bouillion: And to… to accept that, and to move towards that.
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Dawn Bouillion: So thank you so much for being with us today, and remember, you matter, your story matters, your pain matters, your dreams matter, and you're not that girl anymore.