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Your Period Isn't a Comma: Why It's Time to End the Chapter

• Terri Wilson

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Have you ever felt that undeniable push inside telling you it's time to move on? That persistent knowing that whispers "go forth" even when those around you question your decisions?

Walking away from situations, relationships, or even geographic locations that no longer serve our highest good can be both terrifying and liberating. In this deeply personal episode, we explore the profound courage it takes to close doors definitively rather than lingering in indecision. When we recognize the period at the end of life's sentences instead of trying to transform them into commas, we create space for new beginnings.

We dive into the countercultural practice of conscious reduction – how freeing it feels to pare down possessions to just what matters most. There's something powerfully liberating about fitting your life into a car rather than requiring a moving truck, especially when you understand that your true essence is spirit and light, not the material items surrounding you. Through personal stories of transitions, returning to places we once left, and breaking free from limiting societal programs, we uncover how determination becomes the fuel for authentic living.

The most profound revelation may be recognizing that what disturbs us most is often exactly what we're called to help transform. Sometimes returning to lower vibrational environments with new wisdom and higher frequency is precisely our purpose. At our core, we are never separate from divine guidance – the biggest matrix lie is that we are disconnected from Source. By quieting external voices and honoring our inner knowing, we access all the direction we need.

Ready to embrace your next transition with courage? Join this journey of authentic transformation where closing doors becomes not an act of giving up, but of stepping boldly into who you're truly meant to be.

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These boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do. I hope your boots will walk away on this Walk Away Wednesday too. Yeah, ah yeah. Welcome back to Free to Just Be, that podcast empowering humanity to courageously step right out of those patterns and programs and give a big old hug to new ways of being. And I hope this finds you in the greatest of health, with vibrant energy today, because you have chosen to accept the full responsibility for your body, mind and soul. And here on Free to Just Be, we'll try to inspire each other to truly be who we came here to be, first off, authentic that is the biggie we all want and need to be authentic, which causes us to be free and align with our highest potentials. So why don't you join me, teresa Marie You're a traveling ambassador of Chi today on this informative journey to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion. Oh well, welcome, welcome back.

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And, of course, as you heard in the beginning, it is a walk away Wednesday, and I'm pretty dang excited today because I want to share a little bit about literally walking away. You know, you're just walking away, you're giving up, you're not staying the course, you are leaving your path. All of these verbiages, all of these quote-unquote naysayers in your life will tell you not to do the very thing that your resonance, that you're knowing, you know. We feel that itch we have, as I shared with a friend of mine this morning. I feel that it's time to move, push rising rapidly in my life, that push that says go, go forth, go, that push that says go, go forth, go, and often that go is literally an indicator to step into something new. But closed off, something is ending in order for something to begin. And I think that in a world of consumerism, in a world of wanting more and more and more and more, we tend to accumulate rather than exit something in order to bring something new in.

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I give you the goodwill concept. I am a goodwill concept girl in that over the years it's kind of like if I'm going to bring something into my world, then you know, for example, if I'm going to buy something new, then what needs to go in my home. I've always had that concept, that concept of we don't hold on to stuff. Stuff is just stuff to me. Now I've also grown to understand that there is a big part of me that wants to level up my material belongings right, but what does that require? That also requires me to close the door on the goodwill mindset. So, just like I would say to you oh, you know, I used to.

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Back in the day when my kids were growing up, I was a big yard sale fanatic. I love going to yard sales because you can get. You know, it truly is an actuality when you hear the old adage that somebody else's junk is somebody else's treasure, and I used to love going yard sailing. But I would always determine that if I was going to bring X, y, z back into my house, then what did I have to give? What could somebody else find as a treasure? As I'm picking up this person's treasure, does that make sense? But I believe that in our current society, especially in the Western world, we are so stayed upon gathering, we're gathering, we're gathering stuff and more stuff.

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And I've really, really recognized the freedom in not doing that, you know, reducing my life, my material items, down to what I can put in a car and get up and go, which is what I'm getting up and getting ready to do, possibly even as early as tomorrow morning, and there is quite a freedom in that, where you know you don't have to pack everything and get a moving truck and doing all of that and think about it. You know what is that song that talks about? You know your life isn't going to follow the hearse, right? You are not going to take any of this crap with you. And I always go back to the remembrance of the fact that I'm like fire and air, because I am spirit and light and that is who I am. And all of this stuff, this desk and this computer, and even the clothes on my body are meaningless when it comes right down to who I really truly am.

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But doors closing it's a concept that people have a hard time wrapping their head around, unless, of course, they've done it. There are some pioneers in the world and there are some pioneers in my life, but even in my circle of influence and people that love me, I am still very much the odd woman out. You know you're doing what. Oh well, weren't you just doing this? Well, why are you doing that? And it's this questioning, it's this conundrum in people's heads that somebody can leave home and live with their son for a while and then just say you know what?

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I'm pursuing something in Florida and going to Florida for six months and now considering going back. Going back, are you going backwards? No, there's been a gathering of self-knowledge, there's been an awakening in both my husband and I, and we are these two flames that are living separate and we're burning brighter and brighter and it's beginning to be very clear to both of us that holy crap, the power of bringing the two flames together, what an incredible blaze that will be. And, that being the determination, it's become clear. To me it's like well, what am I waiting for? Why am I waiting before going back? Why not get back in there before going back? Why not get back in there, get the transition part over and go? Let's go. Let's go, baby, right, because I have definitely determined over the last years, especially the last 10 years or so, that if something isn't serving me any longer, it's okay to close the door and get walking, walk away, right.

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You know, we have to realize that when a door closes, it's okay to knock on it a few times to make sure that it's really closed, right. Sometimes, maybe, there's a situation that comes up that's uncomfortable or a lesson that we needed to learn, and the door isn't shut, but in our mind, oh, it's done, it's a done deal. I'm cutting it off, but it behooves us to knock on it a few times. But then there comes a point if the door still doesn't open, then we have to be brave and courageous enough to let it stay closed. And that goes for anything in life, in where we live, in our career, in our physical health, in love, in life in general, when we literally begin to see the period at the end of the sentence coming in, the end of the sentence coming in, plop, and it plops down and it's like the definitive and it's the end of that chorus, and it becomes silent.

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Well, when that happens, what do we as humans do? We try to make that period into a comma and we get into this transitional place where we're going. Well, maybe I should try to make it work, maybe I should go this direction, maybe I should go that direction. And often what ends up happening is we just stay there so long that we make a rut and then we never do anything at all. And so you need to know that when the sentence ends and the page and the chapter is complete, it is okay, in spite of what, any naysayer, what anybody in your life, even those that love you the most. Sometimes you just have to make a determination and go forward with it, no matter what anybody says, right? So I've often thought about closed doors in my life and I used to sit and ruminate and be stressed about them and think well, you know, then you live in that regret page and that you know what they say.

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And Latus, I always say his name wrong. I don't know what it is about his name, but Bogan Arthur said it. Well, you know, when you're living in the past it is oh, what is it that he says? Hold with me a second. So Lao Tzu, yes, I actually went and figured out how to pronounce his name and there are naysayers right now that are saying you have studied under Tai Chi Gong for four years and you can't pronounce Boganathar's Chinese name of Lao Tzu yet. Oh well, okay, it doesn't change the fact that I studied Tai Chi Gong for four years and I have a problem pronouncing Lao Tzu's name. Big whoop.

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But you know, we get so caught up in the minutia of life, don't we? We get so caught up in what people say and think and it's all about comparison and one-upmanship and it's a bunch of baloney. But what Lao Tzu said was this if you're living in the past, you're often depressed, and if you're anxious, you're living in the future. So if you're at peace, that means you are living in the present. And so, to go back to what I was talking about, I used to be so stressed out and I would ruminate about the past and it would cause so much depression. Oh, I missed the boat. Oh, I should have walked through that door. Oh, oh, oh, woe is me. Well, I just don't have time for that crap anymore. I just do not have time for that.

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It is called determination, baby. It's time to walk away from the things that do not serve me anymore and know that it's okay. So I'm no longer stressed out about closed doors behind me, because new doors are opening if I just keep moving forward. And I also recognize that when doors close on me, it's because life knows that I deserve better. And guess what? Now I know my own worth and because am determining when to launch, because all the doors in Florida have already shut and I've knocked on them and I feel absolutely not only good but great about all the lessons I've learned in Florida. So many lessons have come to me. But now it's time to go back to Tennessee and take those lessons and put them to action.

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And part of me is like well, you know what? Why am I waiting in this transitional period? Because I paid the rent to the end of the month. Well, so what? I could leave a couple of weeks early and let my landlady have the blessing of getting these rooms ready for the next person. Or is it because I'm not sure exactly what it's going to look like? Well, baby, guess what? My whole life has been one of uncertainty and I'm quite familiar with uncertainty, so that's not a reason to hang out when the doors are already shut.

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Are there people here that I am going to greatly miss? Yes, there are, but most of them the door's already shut. It's done, it's a done deal. Now. My friend Sandy and my friend Pam. It's going to be a little more difficult to say goodbye to them because they have been my 79-year-old bookends for the last six months and I have gained so much wisdom from these lovely women who love God and um. It's. It's going to be one of the anchors here in Florida for me to come back and visit Um and take a lot of the wisdom that I got from these women and from my experience with the Circula Chi Wellness Center, and take them back to where I believe my heart has always been and that is in Bedford County, tennessee.

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Now I got myself so disgusted at one point, so heavy, with the frequencies in that county. That county, to me, has got very heavy, very dark. No, it's not even dark, but it's a lower frequency, it's a lower vibration, and as I had begun to rise up it was difficult for me to stay there. But now I recognize that all the lessons that I've been through, all that I was feeling while I lived in Bedford County you know that they say quote unquote. They, whoever they are, had a very true statement when you hear the old adage that the very things that disturb you the most are exactly what you're called to help fix. And that's kind of how I feel about Tennessee. I'm going to go shine my light so bright Now I don't even wear sunglasses anymore and that is something that has developed over the last four years with my practice of Tai Chi Gung and with learning about energy and frequency.

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I used to always follow that program that I have blue eyes and fairer skin and I'm so light sensitive and I would wear the darkest mirrored sunglasses that I could find. And over the last year, I mean, I came to Florida and I can walk the beach with no sunglasses without squinting. Now you tell me how that program of sunglasses was the truth. No, we need the sun, we need the sunshine in our eyes, we need the earth under our feet. And what did the matrix do? They covered our eyes and they covered our feet. Interesting eyes and they covered our feet. Interesting. There's a point of resurrection, of inquisition for you, humanity, don't believe me. Well, check it out yourself.

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So, on this wonder-filled Wednesday, a Wednesday that I woke up, oh yeah, and it was still rolling. It was still rolling last night. I did a podcast yesterday about oh, I had this revelation about how the food piece is the piece that's keeping my light, my sunshine, covered with a cloud right, and I recognized that program. And I talked about how I woke up yesterday with a food hangover. And guess what? Teresa Marie, yes, she is an ambassador of chi and she is on a huge learning curve and she is on the authentic path, because I am not here to say, oh, I've done X, oh, I'm so good and I have arrived and I've learned all the lessons. Hell, the hell. No, I learn lessons every single day and I often learn by repeat, repeat, repeat and yes, a repeat occurrence At 10 o'clock last night I ended up getting ice cream again and, yes, again I woke up this morning with a sugar hangover.

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But today is a new day, folks. Today we can choose differently. Today we can have more effing determination. I love that Mud Vein song and I can't. I no longer want to vibrate in that low vibration of lots of cursing. But you know, cursing oftentimes provides that emphasis and Mudvayne did a song and the chorus was I'm so effing determined Confidence and it's heavy metal and it's headbanging and you can barely understand what they're saying because they're screaming. But that's how I feel. That effing determination, confidence is here today. It has risen up and it has said you know what you might not need a little U-Haul because you have reduced your life down to what can fit in your Honda Fit.

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And I'm looking around at my milk crates of books and boxes of journals and I'm thinking to myself. You know what I think with some determination I can make it work and I could hit the road, jack. Don't you look back? I can hit the road, jack, right, bright and early in the morning and I can get this next chapter of life started.

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But, of course, there's a few pieces in between this podcast and the end of this day that I have to walk through, and the most important, of course, is checking and checking and checking is Checking and checking and checking. Hey God, I'm seeking the answer. I'm knocking on your door and I am asking the question is it time for me to launch? And then I wait. I wait for the answer because they always come and I tell you, when you begin to live your life more and more aware of that aspect of your life what aspect do you say, teresa Marie? That we are one with our Creator. We are creators and we have a direct connection to Him, right to the source, and we don't have to go through people or books or gurus or men of God. They are all uber, uber important in our life. Do not discount any of that.

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But ultimately, we must never forget that not only did we come as part of the divine we, you and I have, I am God eternal within us, right now, right now in our body. It's housed right there. We are that proverbial tabernacle, hello. And the biggest lie, the biggest lie of the matrix. It is the body of the octopus or the spider right and all the other matrix arms come out of this one big, freaking lie, and that is that we are separate from God. That is bullshit. Do not believe it. It comes from the pit of hell.

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And you just need to have ears, you need to have eyes and you need to have your spidey sense, that clairvoyance, that knowing that you know, that you know the inside knowingness, acutely aware. Wake it up. Wake it up. It's time to understand that all the answers have always been inside, if you but allow yourself to listen and you have to move away all those other voices. You need to tone all the other distractions out so that you can hear that still small voice out. So that you can hear that still small voice, because not only does it still speak, but it's wanting to speak and use your vessel, your tabernacle, your building, your avatar, your costume that you chose when you came in.

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Yes, indeedy, we chose who we were going to be, who's parents were going to be, what lessons we were going to learn, and I know that. I know that I stood up and jumped up and down and put both hands up and said, yes, yes, let's do this. I want to learn all of these lessons. And I was told really, are you sure? Yes, yes, yes.

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And then I was here, and there have been many, many, many, many, many times, even in this week, where I was like I'm so tired of this, I don't want to do this anymore. Can I just go back to bliss? But that is the very reason I'm here to shine, to remind everyone that that bliss is right inside. Let's go back inside together, humanity, and when we get there, oh my gosh, the blazing fire that's going to envelope this earth is going to wipe out 3D and we're all going to be able to go on into the golden age where authenticity is what rules. Man, I love you, humanity, and you can tell I'm quite buzzed with determination, with confidence, with the lessons learned to be courageous, to go forward and to slay anything before me that keeps me from my purpose. How about you? Have yourself a wonderful Wednesday and know that I love you. Peace out.