Life is a Treasure

In this episode, I shared the poem "And The People Stayed Home"
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/fact-people-stayed-home-viral-poem-kitty-omeara-2020/
I also share my personal experience with therapy and online therapy.  The online therapy companies that I mention are:
https://betterhelp.com
https://talkspace.com
https://mdlive.com

I listed suggestions from A-M to offer coping tips:
A. Accept your feelings.
B. Believe in the best outcome.
C. Cry when you need to.
D. Don't focus on things out of your control.
E. Express your emotions in healthy ways.
F. Forgive yourself for putting stress and pressure on yourself.
G. Ground yourself:  5 things you can SEE, 4 that you can FEEL, 3...HEAR, 2...SMELL and;
                                1 thing that you TREASURE in your LIFE!
H. Honor yourself where you are.
I. Inhale for 5 seconds, hold for 3, exhale for 7 seconds.
J. Journal your thoughts, concerns, worries, feelings and what you are grateful for.
K. Keep in contact with loved ones.
L. Laugh as often as possible.
M. Move your body!!

I invite you to my daughter, Courtney Sprawls' online yoga class. 

You can sign up:  https://www.themindbodymystic.com/schedule

Next episode #024 on April 16, 2020, my daughter, Courtney Sprawls will be my special guest!!  She will be sharing her training journey in Bali with Hatha Yoga and how yoga can be extremely beneficial during this season of our lives dealing with this pandemic.

I hope that you all stay safe and strong! 

HAPPY EASTER,
Michelle Durand
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April's FULL Moon is a SUPER moon and a PINK moon.  It is also the FULL Moon prior to EASTER Sunday.  In this episode I share a tarot card to offer inspiration, a reading "What If" from https://gurpreetkgill.com/what-if/ to shed insight into the pandemic (COVID-19) affecting the world right now and information to encourage you if you are struggling to find peace during this pandemic.  I also invite you to listen to my dear friend, Tracey Swainson's guest episode #21 that I released on April 2, 2020 "Sacred Grief".  You can find more information regarding her work that she does with women grieving their loss from miscarriages at https://traceyswainson.com. If you are someone you know is suffering from past abortion experiences, I invite you to visit https://tearstotreasures.com

I hope you are all staying safe and strong!  This too shall pass and we will all have learned so many lessons.  Please reach out to me if you need prayer or support during this time.

Happy Easter,
Michelle Durand
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Miscarriage can cause so many different emotions from guilt, shame, anger, disappointment and more.  It's extremely important to allow yourself to have space and time to feel the feelings, work through them and learn healthy coping methods.  In this episode, my guest, Tracey Swainson shares her personal story of multiple miscarriages and how she learned to heal from them.  Tracey is an intuitive grief mentor and energy healer.  Her work aims to increase awareness of the grief healing journey and to hold space for the emotional and spiritual well-being of those ready to make peace with their unresolved grief.  It was her own healing journey of multiple miscarriages that fully birthed her sacred work.  The grief work that she facilitates focuses on energy healing, mindful practices, and soulful rituals, so they can create a sacred relationship with their loss, while finding a new way to embrace life.  You can find out more information at https://traceyswainson.com and Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredgrief

We hope that you'll be inspired and encouraged whether you have been through miscarriage experiences or know someone who has.  Please help us by sharing this episode with them.  You just never know how much that one simple act could impact their entire life!  We'd love to hear from you and how this episode has touched you.  Our goal and mission is to help everyone learn to create a LIFE that IS A TREASURE through hope, help, and healing!

Peace, Love and Joy,
Michelle Durand and Tracey Swainson

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Self-Acceptance is crucial to healing and to our relationship with ourselves and others in our life.  Lasting and meaningful transformations can only happen from a place of self-acceptance of who we truly are and where we are in our lives. 

In this episode, I share some of the struggles we may have with accepting ourselves and some inspiration to help us in our continual journey of self-acceptance.  When we learn to accept ourselves, we gain our power back! 

I'd love to hear your feedback and questions.  Please connect with me in our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeisatreasurepodcast/about/
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Peace, Love, and Joy,
Michelle Durand
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This is a bonus mini-episode called Tea Time Treasures created around the NEW and FULL moon each month.  This episode is for the NEW Moon on March 24, 2020, which is a great time to turn inward, clear false perceptions or accusations, tap into your own inner knowing (your intuition) in order to make positive changes and embrace fresh, NEW opportunities for your future!  You are worth it no matter what you've done or what's been said about you.  The truth is you are worthy of healing and unconditional love always!

I hope that this episode will inspire you in some way.  I'd love to hear from you.  You can reach out to me on my website https://lifeisatreasure.com or visit the Facebook Group: Life is a Treasure Podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeisatreasurepodcast/  Please come say "hi" and introduce yourself to me.  I'd love to meet you there.  

Peace, Love and Joy,
Michelle Durand
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I am joined with my guest, Clarissa Romero who is the Founder of Beauty from Ashes~Overcoming Abuse and Surviving Narcissism.  She is also a blogger for broken women who have been abused by a significant other, a family member or a friend.  She helps them to get through their tough situations by encouraging them that it can and will get better!  She knows first hand that it is possible after recovering from a narcissist relationship.  She shares her stories, testimony and experiences of living in this type of situation, how to get out and offers hope to others who have inner wounds from emotional abuse to seek help and healing!  You are not alone and you are going to survive.  We also discuss how this affects your self-worth and how to restore it after abuse.  We hope that you can gain awareness and understanding of these types of situations and can learn how to help those who feel like there is no way out.  Please feel free to share and help us spread the awareness and information to those who may be in the middle of or recovering from a narcissistic relationship. 

You can find more informaiton and reach out to Clarissa at her website https://beautyfromashes.site

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Peace, Love and Joy,
Michelle and Clarissa

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As we are all aware, the world is experiencing a pandemic.  This situation is changing our world and our life.  In this bonus episode, I hope to offer you some inspiration during this time of insecurities, information to help boost your immune system and ideas to implement into your daily life to find the treasures during these trials.  Times such as these affect our mind, body, and soul.  Yet, this too shall pass and we will become stronger through it.  We can choose faith over fear, sanity despite scarcity, affirmations during anxiety and most importantly, peace during this pandemic. Please reach out and let me know how I can pray for you or help you at https://lifeisatreasure.com

Stay safe and strong!!
Michelle Durand

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Do you struggle with SELF-WORTH?  Do you feel less than and that you don't deserve better?  Do you believe that the choices you've made have caused you to punish yourself and not deserve forgiveness of yourself?  If so, I encourage you to listen to this episode in the series:  Treasure Yourself.  It is possible to restore and regain our self-worth.  I know this because I struggled so many times with the same issues...not feeling worthy of this or that and especially not worthy of forgiveness to myself due to choices that I made that hurt myself and others.  You are not the choices that you have made and you are not who others say you are.  Your self-worth does not change!  Our beliefs and stories that we tell ourselves cause us to think that we are less worthy.  Perhaps you are a people pleaser or you neglect your own needs and desires.  Maybe you don't strive for better and you're barely surving.  It is my hope that this episode will inspire and encourage you to realize that others shouldn't influence or determine your self-worth.  I am sharing tips and suggestions to help you increase your self-worth and realize that you are worthy no matter what, always!  I'd love to hear your feedback and questions that you may have.  You can contact me and listen to other episodes at https://lifeisatreasure.com

Peace, Love and Joy,
Michelle Durand

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The full moon on March 9, 2020 is a Supermoon and also called "Worm Moon".  I find these facts so interesting and I hope that you do also.  Earth and nature are always talking to us and giving us messages if we are open and aware.  The beginning of spring is upon us and it is a great time to use the illumination of this Full Supermoon to help us see what "can of worms" or areas in our life need forgiveness.   Self-Forgiveness is extremely important to allow room for healing in our mind, body, and soul.  Forgiveness is for OUR good, not others.  It helps us set ourselves FREE and find peace from our past. 

I hope that you enjoy this mini-episode of Tea Time Treasures and I'd love to hear from you.  Please reach out to me through my website at https://lifeisatreasure.com

PEACE, LOVE + JOY,
Michelle Durand
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I am joined with my guest, Deborah Quirke a Psychic Kinesiologist in Newcastle NSW, Australia.  Deborah is an exceptionally gifted healer who has 15 years experience specializing in supporting women and men to FIND THEIR VOICE after experiencing abortion, miscarriage, sexual trauma, divorce, unhealthy relationships, bullying, grief, addiction, depression, coma, speech disorders - to feel love and acceptance for self.​

Having experienced adoption, sexual trauma, abortion, and addiction herself. Deborah knows how debilitating shame can be.  She can authentically say "you can heal" because she has, which has enabled her to support countless men and women to heal their pain.

Deborah shares her personal stories as well as her experiences, knowledge, and wisdom.  This episode will shed so much light on the dark areas of our lives that keep us stuck in bondage.  Our hope is that you can find inspiration and encouragement to seek your own inner healing from whatever experiences you've had in your past or are currently going through.  You are worthy of healing and finding freedom from the past and be able to move on to enjoy a life that you treasure! 

We hope that you can transform your pain into power, your fear into courage and your stress into growth.  You can find out more information and contact Deborah at her website https://deborahquirke.com as well as IG @deborah_psychickinesiology

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Peace, Love and Joy,
Michelle and Deborah

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