Mindfulness Mode

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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.

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Sunday Jul 31, 2022

Everyday Crystal Healing; Lauren Blackford

Sunday Jul 31, 2022

Lauren Blackford is a Holistic Wellness Coach, Yoga Teacher, Crystal Healer, and Meditation enthusiast. She believes in a holistic approach and strives to help others find their ideal balanced life for their mind, body, and spirit. After her divorce in 2014 and with 2 small children to raise on her own, she turned to crystals, nutrition, yoga, and mindfulness practices to not only rebuild her life but also rebuild herself into a whole, happy, and healthy woman, mom, and teacher that she is today. Nothing makes her happier than helping others do the same. Everyday Crystal Healing

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Her yoga teachers.

Effect on Emotions

Going back to my original definition of mindfulness, self-awareness. A lot of times when I can just say, Oh, I'm angry, what am I angry about? Alright, let me sit with this for a minute. It's easier to process emotions when you can be fully aware of what they are, and where they're coming from. Knowing that sometimes not about what it's about, and finding the actual original source of those emotions. Everyday Crystal Healing

Thoughts on Breathing

I think breathing is such an important aspect of it. For me, it's the best way to go from the sympathetic, nervous response to the parasympathetic nervous response going from flight or fight or flight is to rest and digest and bring yourself internally when you're meditating. Are you doing yoga or just sitting at your desk, focusing on your breath and getting rid of all the noise? This brings you back to yourself and the power of everyday crystal healing.

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Bullying Story

I had a difficult relationship with my mother. She had narcissistic tendencies, she has since passed away. But I didn't really understand that or know that growing up. And when I was a young adult, I was very much aware from my upbringing that my self-worth rested in someone else's opinion of me, particularly hers.
I didn't know that was not accurate, so I made a lot of choices based on people-pleasing and making sure that everybody else was happy and finding my worth in other people. And then what I found that my now ex-husband, also has narcissistic tendencies.
It wasn't until after divorcing him and finding my worth and finding self-love; that has been the key to the turnaround in my life. Then I realized that those relationships were not healthy, that my self-worth resides in my mere existence, and that I do not need to please other people to find my own happiness. That is what attracts the joy and the beauty that I have in my life. Everyday Crystal Healing

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Are you experiencing anxiety & stress? Peace is within your grasp. I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing coach and hypnotist helping fast-track people just like you to shed their inner bully and move forward with confidence. Book a Free Coaching Session to get you on the road to a more satisfying life, feeling grounded and focused. Send me an email at bruce@mindfulnessmode.com with ‘Coaching Session' in the subject line. We'll set up a zoom call and talk about how you can move forward to a better life.

Wednesday Jul 27, 2022

Bridging the Gap between Spirituality and Science; D. Neil Elliott

Wednesday Jul 27, 2022

D. Neil Elliott was highly educated, owned a profitable consulting firm, and had a successful career and an amazing wife and family. But things were not all they seemed to be … Neil was facing a lot of challenges. In a phrase, he was in a dark place. Quite by accident, he discovered a Higher Road. As he traveled that road, he found the key to transforming his life. Over the course of the following year, Neil lifted himself to an inner state of love, peace, joy, and abundance. His perspectives on life changed entirely. His troubles and tribulations were his impetus to find the key that enabled him to revolutionize his life. He learned that the search for a better life does not entail positive thinking, saying affirmations, chanting mantras, or traveling to India to sit at the feet of a guru—or any other popularized method of “finding yourself.” …The key? To ascend in both spiritual perception and truth, you need to use the right process to break through your entrenched, human-ego barriers.

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Effect on Emotions

When you go through this process, mindfulness is part of the tool of helping me be aware of what I'm doing in the moment and with conscious thinking. But actually understanding this foundational stuff, allows that mindfulness to actually give me a different perspective of it. So it's actually becoming more powerful for me; without knowing what I now know about our truth of being or the source of where we come from and why we're here.

Thoughts on Breathing

So when you are anxious or at a heightened state of anxiety, whether that's something that's exciting or fearful, for instance, if you can stop and bring your breath and be conscious and aware of your breath and slow it, the mind controls the body, the breath controls the mind.
So if you can actually breathe, you can start to control the anxiety and subdue the anxiety; whatever the source of that is. So breathing is very important in terms of the whole process of getting control of your thinking. Bridging the Gap Between Spirituality and Science

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Bullying Story

I was coming home from school. I don't know how old I was, there was a black child. So a black family moved into this community back in the 60s, of all white people. And there was this black child, and he was older than me. So maybe he was in grade five or grade six.
There were three older white boys, the same age as this black boy. And they were degrading this boy. They made them kneel down on the ground. I don't want to get into all kinds of specifics on this, but they made him kneel into the ground and they were spitting on him and calling them names.
I was like in grade three. I felt sorry for that kid; he didn't deserve that. At the time I felt like these kids should not be doing this. But I thought if I intervened I'd get the crap kicked out of me. So I avoided it but part of me right now would say, I kind of wish that little boy would have had the fortitude to step up and say stop that, even if I got beat up.
But you know, I didn't. It was a lesson that has stuck with me about how we treat other people. Bridging the Gap Between Spirituality and Science

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Are you experiencing anxiety & stress? Peace is within your grasp. I’m Bruce Langford, a practicing coach, and hypnotist helping fast-track people just like you to shed their inner bully and move forward with confidence. Book a Free Coaching Session to get you on the road to a more satisfying life, feeling grounded and focused. Send me an email at bruce@mindfulnessmode.com with ‘Coaching Session' in the subject line. We'll set up a zoom call and talk about how you can move forward to a better life.

Sunday Jul 24, 2022

A Hypnotic Approach to Wellness; Adrianne Hart

Sunday Jul 24, 2022

Adrianne Hart is a wellness advocate, hypnotist, and the host of the Get Well With Me podcast. She has helped thousands of people reduce stress, dissolve anxiety and upgrade their health and wellness by introducing them to the healing powers of their unconscious minds. so

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Laurie Hammonds So

Effect on Emotions

I'm naturally hot-headed. My trigger button is pretty hot. So listening to a self-hypnosis recording, about not being triggered has helped me tremendously to be able to notice when I'm triggered, to be able to disassociate, and hit the cool button instead of the hot button has absolutely changed my life. And every time I noticed that I'm getting to that place again, I put that recording on and it reels me right in. Hypnotic Approach to Wellness

Thoughts on Breathing

My favorite, I guess it's not a technique, it's more of a mindfulness technique and it's really a hypnotic induction. So to notice that when I breathe in how the air is cool and refreshing, and to notice that when I exhale, it's warm and relaxing.
And doing that just a few times puts me into a beautiful, trance-like state, or depending on the circumstance, it reminds me that it is safe to be here now. Hypnotic Approach to Wellness

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Bullying Story

So in middle school, I don't want to say that I was bullied because I saw people, I saw friends being bullied. And that was kind of different than being picked on a little bit. I was very small for my age, sometimes I was referred to as the runt of the family. I was smaller than everyone even though I was the oldest.
I was even called an Oompa Loompa for being so tiny and short. So those things kind of stuck with me but as far as being bullied, if you've ever ridden the school bus, bullying happens on the school bus.
So I drove my son to school every day. And I think that deep down, I wanted to protect him from what happened on the school bus.
I remember one time, some boys in the back of a bus, one boy was holding down the arm of a more scrawny kid. And the other one was just as far as I could tell they were going to break his arm. Therefore, I think mindfulness could have helped if I would have had the courage to say something. Hypnotic Approach to Wellness

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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022

Mindfulness in Motion; Nita Sweeney

Wednesday Jul 20, 2022

Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink. She is also co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. Her upcoming book, Make Every Move a Meditation (available for preorder), was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Download your free copy of Nita’s eBook Three Tools For A Happier, Healthier Mind. Mindfulness in Motion

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Daron Larson

Effect on Emotions

It's being able to withstand both painful emotions and feel positive emotions. That's what mindfulness practice has allowed me to do. I don't have to push and pull on either one. I can be with what arises, no matter what it is. Mindfulness in Motion

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Thoughts on Breathing

Notice how much you hold your breath. During the day, just notice.
When I'm running, often, I'm not forcing my breath instead, I will try to let my body react, relax, and let it take a natural breath. Mindfulness in Motion

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Bullying Story

I came from an alcoholic family, I was in and out of my own drinking and addiction, many very addictive behaviors with substances. Therefore
And I think that this mindful awareness of my own behavior, and realizing that there was something driving me that I was unaware of. As a result of my actions, I would get bullied because other people didn't like what I was doing. Therefore
So that awareness that there was something else going on, so much deeper, than I could have possibly worked with, to maybe modify my own behavior, or at least, be able to be with it without all the shame and guilt and things. Therefore
And then when the bullying did happen, having the compassion because that's one of the things in meditation is we develop mind states, one of which is loving kindness and so having the compassion for the person, another person to realize that they too, were coming from some kind of place of often fear, that's what usually it is, we're coming out of fear. Therefore
It's taken years of therapy, to help me understand that. But in the meditation practice, sitting with memories of that, the thoughts that come up now, the body sensations, especially being able to be with the discomfort, and then also having fond memories that I didn't really remember because there was so much of the kind of bad things that I didn't let them happen. So
So when you're still or when you do meditation, even mindfulness in motion, when you let the rest of the world drop away, whether it's through in the writing practice the sitting in moving meditation, the rest of the world rep drops away, and joyous memories can come up.

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Sunday Jul 17, 2022

Live An Educated Life; Jellis Vaes

Sunday Jul 17, 2022

Jellis Vaes is the founder of The IPS Project, which stands for ‘Inner Path Seekers'. “Jellis believes we all have a voice inside our hearts with which to speak; that is our gift. And we all have something worth saying, even if we don’t always realize it. For a long period in his life, he thought he had no voice at all. For 6 years he went through high school consumed by suicidal thoughts, spending most of his time between the 4 walls of my bedroom – locked away from the world. He says: “I was overcome by feelings I had no words for.”

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What Does IPS Stand For?

IPS stands for Inner Path Seekers
This project started in 2021. I came up with the idea of creating a platform that just provides educational life topics that we don't learn much anything about from school, or from our parents.
It touched on subjects like mental health to the mind, relationships, the body, and the brain.
To sum it up, the platform does that through a podcast and online courses, and practical articles. We're also working on events and looking to buy a piece of land and build a community center where we can do workshops as well.

Lessons Learned By Being A World Traveler?

I did travel a lot, beginning when I was 18. When I was a teenager I got to a very dark place as I thought life was very boring and dull, and not exciting at all.
Traveling just opened up the adventure and the freedom and the possibilities that had not seen. So this is why traveling became a lifesaver to me and showed what more there is out there in life. I'm very thankful that I had that opportunity, so …So

What Is Your Life's Purpose?

I want to help people suffer a little bit less through life. When I was young, I walked very close on the edge between life and death, because I had a lot of dark thoughts about suicide. For instance
It's been an incredible motivator on why I'm doing what I'm doing. We just know so little about ourselves, which can then lead some people to very dark places.
I'm grateful for everything that I've done to help people who are struggling in life, or are walking on a very close edge between living and dying. But

Meditation In Your Life…

There are certain times in my life when I have done way more meditation. But right now I'm at a point where I don't have an actual practice of meditating every day, I would say that I have more other practices of being just mindful. So
I always go for like a morning walk. and that is a simple way for me to meditate.
This is just to get my workflow going, but also just to pay attention to my surroundings, feel gratitude for what I'm seeing, and just feel a bit aware of everything around me.
That is my form of meditation, just a walking meditation. That's something that I do every day, even if it's raining. So there's always something nice to be grateful for.

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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022

Tune In To Your Teens’ Passion; Jonathan and Renee Harris

Wednesday Jul 13, 2022

Jonathan and Renee Harris are a husband and wife team with 24 years of experience educating their children at home while running an online handcrafted skincare business. They now provide guidance to other parents to effectively lead their children to be inspired and to find their passion. Jonathan & Renee have graduated five of their nine children to create their own unique paths based on their interests and talents. To do so, they have developed a strategy called “Parent Their Passion.” which is used to create a compelling portfolio of the value of a child’s talent based on their personality and strengths.

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Gary North

Effect on Emotions

It's coming back to that gratefulness. Like, at the end of the day, it could be a tough day. We will get together and just say, “What are the good things that happened?” You start to list one or two and that switches my mindset.

Thoughts on Breathing

I'm gonna jump in on that one because I gave birth to nine children. I have learned a little bit about breathing.
Just that physical breathing when you're in the moment, because you notice the tension in your shoulders, and you know, when you're in labor, hard labor, it all comes down to breathing, taking your deep breath, and resting.
I could just apply that every time I get stressed; that would be amazing.

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Bullying Story

I remember my own childhood, I was not bullied, but I had friends who were and I had to step in.
But I think about it most of the time unless it's a true gang situation. So what we're seeing, we're not talking about that, right? That is because they're trying so hard. And usually, they're trying so hard to fit in, and everybody kind of knows that they don't have their own thing going right.
So once you start throwing yourself into something, that's where the child may need the parent to help them cross that bridge. When you're good at something and you do it with passion, you start attracting other people who are also interested in a similar topic.

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Sunday Jul 10, 2022

The Mindfulness Of Ice Cream

Sunday Jul 10, 2022

The Mindfulness of Ice Cream is the topic of my episode today. I will be telling a few stories and then talking about the five Mindfulness aspects of Ice Cream. Do you enjoy ice cream? What's your favourite flavour? Sit back, relax and enjoy today's episode about ice cream.

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1/ The Anticipation

Take your time. Take two deep breaths and just imagine what it's going to be like tasting that ice cream. What will the coldness be like? Consider whether the ice cream will be in a bowl or a cone. How will it feel as you hold the bowl in your hand? What is the texture of the bowl? Do you feel the coldness through the bowl? Imagine how the ice cream will feel when it touches your tongue. Take some time to anticipate the upcoming experience. Can you anticipate the flavor and the texture? Can you imagine the sensation as you swallow the delicious ice cream?

2/ The Texture and Flavour

Now you're experiencing the actual ice cream and you take a bit on your tongue. Consider the experience whether you're using a spoon or tasting it from a cone. Put it in your mouth and on your tongue. Experience the flavor, the texture, and the iciness and allow yourself to enjoy the experience.

3/ Can I Preserve This Memory?

What would it be like to preserve the memory of this moment? Can you imagine that? You're experiencing the delicious flavor and texture. What would it be like if you could preserve the memory of this very instant in time?

4/ How Does It Make You Feel?

How does this make you feel at this very moment? What is the experience like for you? How do you feel in your body? How do you feel as you swallow the ice cream? What is it like to anticipate the next delicious taste of this ice cream?

5/ Can I Be Passionate?

If you could remember it, can you be passionate about this memory?
Is this a passionate experience for you? What could make it more passionate? Just think about the passion that may be connected with this moment. Passion feeds us in our lives and you can allow yourself to go there. Allow yourself to be 100% in the moment with this experience. Allow yourself the pleasure of this moment in time. Now that you have this memory, you can come back to it anytime you want.

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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022

Freed From Stuck; Susie Hayes

Wednesday Jul 06, 2022

Susie Hayes is a psychotherapist, sex coach, trained hypnotist, life coach, and practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She developed and directed two centers in Colorado, providing counseling and educational services. She is a speaker, podcaster, and writer, having published the award-winning book “FREED from Stuck! Dare to Cross the Bridge Beyond Grief, Trauma, and Self-Sabotage to Discover Lasting Change Now”.

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A Graduate School Professor

Effect on Emotions

I have come to appreciate the value of emotions guiding us to the truth about what we really need.
There is no condemnation of any emotion. We understand it as part of the way our mind and our body and our soul informs us.

Thoughts on Breathing

I am into Wim Hof cold therapy and into the breathing. I do the cold therapy twice a day and the breathing once a day.
It keeps me alert and strong and is great for my immune system.

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Bullying Story

I had a conversation last night with a client who has high levels of anxiety. Much of it had to do with neglect, abuse, and bullying in his history. I was sharing with him about the magnificence of our nervous system and how anxiety helps us understand what we need.
Rather than resisting, fighting against or condemning anxiety, we need to allow it to inform us in our bodies and our nervous system about what's going on so we can attend to it.
If we can learn how to sooth our nervous system, we can come out of that state.

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Sunday Jul 03, 2022

Divine Trust To Find Your Way Home; Dr. Nancy Wiley

Sunday Jul 03, 2022

Dr. Nancy Wiley spent 27 years building a highly successful orthodontics practice in Florida. It was the school tragedy in Parkland that spurred her to feel the time was right to create and bring through Divine Trust. With the loss of one of her own patients and the sorrow of so many around her, she felt introducing Divine Trust would be a path to healing for many. From direct experience, she is now absolutely certain that there is a Divine Presence that wants everyone to know It and Trust It.

For the past eight years, she has been enrolled in the Inner Circle of a comprehensive program called Your Year of Miracles where she became clear that her next Divine Assignment was to assist others in opening to the state of Trust in the Divine, as she has done. In her new book, Divine Trust: A Practical Guide to End Suffering and Find Your Way Home,, she lays out a blueprint that anyone can easily follow to achieve this incredible state of Divine bliss and trust for themselves and thereby achieve freedom from suffering.

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Jenna Molly

Effect on Emotions

So mindfulness brings me right here into the present moment with the light of my consciousness.
Whatever anxiety is there that I choose to bring into it, and look at it with the light of consciousness in the present moment.
So being mindful of it, loving it, choosing to bring light to it.

Thoughts on Breathing

If you're not breathing, you're not in the present moment. So when you're in the past or the future, you're usually holding your breath.
It's breathing. It's critical. It's foundational.

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Bullying Story

I've never shared this publicly. My family knows it. But in sixth grade, I grew up in a beautiful city called Columbia, Maryland, where they bussed in people from the inner city of Baltimore.
There was a gang of girls picking on a little friend of mine, and I was tall for my age. I had no clue what was going on. I said, “Pick on someone your own size”. Consequently, they picked on me, they were brutal. There were about 10 of them and they would find me in the halls, would wait for me after the bus line, and beat me up.
I didn't want to go to school and I couldn't tell my mom. They told me if I told anyone I would get beat up more and they'd hurt my family.
So the only thing that saved me was that one of their two gang leaders shot her boyfriend in sixth grade. She got put away and the other one became pregnant and she got sent to a juvenile home. That broke up the gang and so there was peace in there.
I was so bullied and I had no clue because I was coming from peace and self-respect. But that turned my reality upside down because I almost didn't want to live at that point.
I couldn't really say it because it sounded so ridiculous for sixth graders to be afraid for your life.
Forgiving everything else that came afterward, forgiving those girls with light and love … just the techniques that I teach melt everything in its path and they work for every single trauma. The mental work has helped the Parkland shooting students who have lived through that event and helped them to with the power of my light.

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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022

Worth The Risk; Dr. Kris Lee

Wednesday Jun 29, 2022

Dr. Kristen Lee, Ed.D., LICSW, known as “Dr. Kris”, is an internationally recognized, award-winning behavioral science clinician, researcher, educator, speaker, and comedian from Boston, Massachusetts. Her episode is entitled Worth The Risk.
As the Lead Faculty for Behavioral Science and Faculty-in-Residence at Northeastern University, Dr. Kris’s research and teaching interests include individual and organizational well-being and resilience, particularly for marginalized and underserved populations.
Dr. Kris works with organizations and leaders around the world on how to use the science of behavioral change and human potential to build healthy mental health cultures that help prevent burnout and promote organizational and human sustainability.
She is the author of RESET: Make the Most of Your Stress, winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Motivational Book of 2015, and best-selling Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking-Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World and Worth the Risk: Learn to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World, 2022 The Next Big Idea Book Club nominee. She is the host of Crackin’ Up: Where Therapy Meets Comedy and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Thrive Global. Dr. Kris’s work has been featured at Harvard and on NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, and CBS radio. Her TEDx talk, The Risk You Must Take is featured on Ted.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Effect on Emotions

It helped me be more self-compassionate, less anxious, more focused, and more measured. So
So I think it helped me create those retreats or those air pockets in my life that I need. Because I tend to just be an over worker, I love what I do. There's a lot of need in the world. So it helped me be more present with myself and not let my mind be a runaway train.

Thoughts on Breathing

Above all, I love the box breathing method. So
It's a nice four-count holding and then releasing. So
The reason I like it so much is that it's sustainable because sometimes if I make things too grand and too complex, I might stay with it for a while, but then fall off track. So

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Bullying Story

I think it was very commonplace, like in middle school, I was very keenly aware of the bullying that was happening. So
I was that loud person that would stand up if I saw someone being hurt.
Understanding the impact on one's life when these things happen, and how to help teach social-emotional skills and kindness are things that weren't necessarily present on the school bus in the 1980s. So
Therefore, mindfulness would have helped me probably be a little bit more self-compassionate, and it would have helped me deal with that override of anxiety and fear that I was doing in those moments. So
I love the exercise of thinking like, what would your past self say to yourself? Or what would you want your future self to say to the now. If I could look back I would say to myself, this is going to help you develop your empathy, this is going to help you be more mindful in how you show up and you contribute to the world.
Don't internalize the messages of the meanness of the people, doing this kind of bullying that doesn't define you. Worth The Risk

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