Sarah Marie

Thank you for this. Living in the now is something I am constantly working on and this is a perfect example of how my mind wanders off.

Those look less scary then the one I went into. Mine literally looked like a coffin with water. I had to talk myself out of my anxiety. Once I got in it was fine but it creeped me out at first.

The problem I found with "sleeping around" at that age was the "men" didn't know what in the world they were doing. After hooking up with 3 guys I decided it wasn't worth my time since they didn't even realize what they were doing. I don't know if I had a bad streak or what happened, but I eventually found someone I had good chemistry with and just taught him what to do. Now I am married, and I'm glad I hooked up and experienced other people. I'm also glad my husband did too. But to be honest I didn't really understand any of my sexuality until I was in a deeply connected relationship and I felt comfortable enough to explore. Also, I feel strongly sexuality is something to embrace and explore. Please don't worry about societies bullshit stigmas.

Do you buy into the idea of death? To be specific I am going to define the tradition meaning of death I am reffering to: "Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism." Credit: Wikipedia What do you believe happens when we die? I never gave this much thought, until I realized I was seeing and communicating with the so called "dead". Connecting people here in the physical world to those in a different realm is something I still try to soak in and understand. I can explain my exerperience and my inturpreatations of what it's like on the other side, but I have no scientific evidence to back myself up. The only evidence I have is the fact that I can and do connect total strangers to their loved ones. I would argue that the people on the other side are very much alive, even more so then the ones on the physical realm. Because of this, I don't buy into the idea of "death". I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Wow, I didn't know that. it was almost euphoric for me. An hour felt like it was only 5 minutes. Ill be interested to see how your experience is!

I agree also. I have two bachelors degrees that cost 5x the amount of my life coaching school. I got 10x more out of Ipec (and I'm not even finished yet) then my entire college career.

Check out the book "Co-dependency No More" and "Beyond Co-dependency"

If you had an unlimited amount of money which would you choose?

Some things I do are: Watch Leo's video about backsliding (pretty sure at least 1,000 of those views on YouTube are me ) Vision board. I keep this in my house where I see it often. Set reminders in my phone to do my affirmations and visualizations. Imagine the tough times (which some may argue isn't the best method). For example: The Super Bowl, I will imagine all the pizza there and walk myself through the party visualizing the my feelings of wanting to eat shit food and then talking myself through it. Negotiate with myself as Leo suggests. I try to listen to what my body is saying and sometimes I will spend a day just feeding my muse. (Hiking, just watching documentarys, getting acupuncture, etc.) Whenever I'm really down I try to find a different perspective and get inspired. Make sure my goals are realistic.

Yes! The more and more I study and think the more I feel disconnected. However I feel totally content with it. Sometimes I struggle with the disconnect with those closest to me, but overall I find it peaceful.

I told my family I was becoming certified as a life coach, but other than that I really don't mention a lot. Mainly because we are at two very very different places in our own journeys. My mom and sister mainly chat about who is getting kicked off the bachelor and their newest fad diet . They call me an "airy fairy", LOL. So, that pretty much sums it up.

I wish I had an educated answer for you. Usually the way I decide if someone is positive is by thinking about the following things: What are our conversations like? Do I enjoy them or do I find myself zoning out? How do I feel after I leave a person? Do I feel energized or drained? Is their life in chaos? I have found positive people by going out to different events. Some of my closest friends I met at a group meditation I go to weekly. Perhaps try finding a meet up in your area? Hope this helps.

I would travel and go as far as my money would take me. I'd try to pinpoint retreats and places to watch my favorite mentors speak!

Here is a perspective from a married non traditional gal, because I had the SAME fear as you. I literally could not even think about staying with one person forever, so I talk to my husband about open marriage and guess what? He didn't shoot me down, he said he's not there yet but possible could be one day. Now, I am okay either way now that I've been married a while and we've explored sexually. If she's open minded go for it.

For the record, If my husband and I do part ways in the future (which is pretty likely considering I'll stop at nothing to live to my full potential) I will not remarry. I would need something non traditional.

Are you my twin? Just joking but our stories are so similar it's weird. I married at 18 and moved to Georgia right after my husband got out of boot camp, only to find my husband was a completely different person. I am 25 now and we are still married but I am going to be brutally honest with you. During our years living away and in the military environment everything was brutal for a while. He was not himself and really just an ass hole. I ended up working in the basic training for a contractor and saw what they went through. It made me more empathetic to the things my husband went through but I still had to learn how to put down boundaries. Although my husband never called a lot it was the opposite, he was physically there but mentally checked out. Yet somehow we made it out the other end. He really wasn't himself until he got out of the Army. Even now we do not connect on a deeper level. I still feel young, like I'm learning about myself, but I am happy with him. I don't know what the future holds but I just focus on myself and am letting that play out (I also have an 18 month old). I just wanted to let you know you're not the only person who had the "what the actual fuck did I do" moment after boot camp. I'm not saying stay or go, I just really want you to know this happens more then you know. My advice is to really go with what you're feeling. Back then I didn't even know what I was feeling so I just went with it. If you know it's not right RUN because living that lifestyle is no joke.

Perhaps try a non traditional way of meditation? Coloring? Visualizations of grounding might help you as well.

Well, you know I go back and forth on this. For one, I want to be studied. Hooked up to machines to see what my brain is actually doing when I am connecting to those on the other side. On the other, I don't feel a need to "prove" my self so to speak. It's always very clear the people that come to me even if they are extremely skeptic they walk away 200% believing me. There is another medium in the U.S named Theresa Cuputo (aka the Long Island Medium) and she let a doctor scan her brian while doing her readings. You can see the results here: http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/long-island-medium-inside-psychics-brain It's very interesting stuff to me. Doing this was never something I wanted, but now that I see how it helps I know it will somehow be included in my life's work. I am just not sure exactly how yet. I wish I could somehow scientifically make a connection, because like I said I don't have any scientific evidence.

This is amazing and really opened my mind. Thank you for it.

You know, I may be crazy thinking I am communicating with dead. To start, my psychologist helped me figure out what was going on. They make me see, feel, sense etc. things that connects them with the living. I still think I'm crazy (haha), but luckily I have done this enough times (over 230 times with complete strangers) which makes me semi creditable. I have been very insecure about this and didn't tell anyone for almost two years because the reaction I got was exactly yours. I take my integrity really seriously and never wanted someone to think I was one of "those" new age hippie bullshit people. I don't do this to make money, I do it to help people. Luckily Leo's videos really helped me overcome limiting beliefs and I learned not to care what people think about me. Because I was able to overcome that, I have been able to help connect over 230 people, and that feels like it's supposed to be apart of my path. So, either I am actually talking to them, OR I have extremely good luck at guessing. Either way I'm helping people heal and helping them get over any burdens they may have from someone else's passing.

I am just questioning why I guess. Once we become 100% "nothingness" that's it? We are just purely enlightened forever? What about guides? Maybe we then move onto another realm and become a guide for people still transitioning? These thoughts might be way way off I don't know, It is just something I think about often.

I didn't write that very clearly so I apologize. I do understand it is a great thing, as my initiation feels in line with this belief as well.

Interesting perspectives on this, I appreciate it.

This is right onto what I believe. I got really into understanding death after I started connecting people and I read this book called, "The Afterlife of Billie Fingers." Essentially her brother passed away and he was communicating what the other side was like. He explained it as being apart of the universe, that souls were entire galaxies. It was an interesting read. Also, sometimes when souls on the other side they will tell me that certain things they did were "lessons" for their souls. It makes me believe in past lives. But, then what? We learn all these lessons from multiple lives to grow into even bigger nothingness?

I will never be excited about folding towels.