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The Art of Transition: Moving Through Life's Changes

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Transitions are a natural part of life, not just physical movements from one place to another, but psychological shifts that lead to self-renewal and transformation. This episode explores the journey of moving to Florida, encountering unexpected challenges, and ultimately returning to Tennessee with new wisdom and clarity.

• Transitions involve movement, passage, and change from one position, state, or concept to another
• Moved to Florida after feeling spiritually called, despite uncertainty about what would happen there
• Experienced significant shifts in energy and comfort levels as new people entered the workspace
• Faced the tension between retreating to safety versus moving forward toward growth
• Recognized the importance of listening to intuition even when ego wants to ignore the signals
• Learned that transitions follow a pattern: disorientation followed by reorientation
• Returned to marriage after 22 months of separation with new perspective and growth
• Discovered that without psychological transition, change is just "rearrangement of furniture"
• Committed to never conforming or doubting intuition again after this transformative experience

Keep going, keep growing. Most of us are not struggling—we're just transitioning, and it's the biggest part of the ascension journey. You are not alone.


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There comes a time when you believe everything is finished, that will be your beginning. And thank you, louis L'Amour, for that quote. And I welcome you back to a Thursday edition of Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old patterns and programs and give a big old hug to new ways of being. And I, teresa Marie, your traveling ambassador of Chi, I hope this finds you in the greatest of health, with vibrant energy today, because you have chosen to accept full responsibility for your body, mind and soul. Here on Free To Just Be, we're going to attempt to inspire each other to truly be who we came here to be, first off, authentic, honest, transparent, which all of those make us free, and then we become aligned with our highest potential. So join me, won't you, on this transformative journey to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion. Whoop, whoop, I am back in the saddle again after six days. Well, where have you been? Where have you been, teresa Marie? Well, it's called transition. Yes, lots and lots of transitions.

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And what is a transition? Well, it's a movement, a passage or a change from one position, state, stage, subject or concept to another. And how do I know? I was in a transition. Well, I'll give you some of the markers that told me that I was in a transition. I've been in many, many transitions, transitions. Well, life itself is preparation for transitions into other dimensions, everything's energy, and the energy is rising and so, physically, that's a transition. But let's just go through the definition for a minute and I'll explain to you why I've been in a transition. Well, the definition of transition says it's a movement. I am very, very well aware of movement and it's more than just my siddhanas, than just my siddhanas. My moving meditation of Tai Chi Gong. Movement in this person's world is moving. For the 33rd time, when I transitioned from North Florida back home to Tennessee, it was literally my 33rd. Ooh, those numbers actual move from one place to lay my head to another. 33 times I've moved. So I'm aware of movement in transitions, passages. Well, in the journey of life on earth school, we have quote unquote like rites of passage, right? Especially when we've faced new lessons and then we succeed. And then what happens? We transition or we level up. We've learned the lesson. Sometimes the transitions are longer and we stay in what I always have called the proverbial cul-de-sac we're going down our path and then we continue to have to learn the same lesson over and over again. And, trust me, I know a lot about that because I've walked around the Matrix Merryground Mountain for 40 years, just like the Israelites.

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What else does it say that it's a stage? Well, we all go through stages, right, you know? First it's birth. Birth itself has a transitional phase of the labor, right? First you're in the first stage of your pregnancy, and then the second semester, then the third, and then you begin to transition and your cervix gets thinner and thinner. It's all about transitions. What stage is Teresa Marie in right now?

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Well, at 64, I am now in what I like to call, which Spirit has told me is my mission stage. So I've had 42 plus years of lessons, most of them. Oh, there's many, many more that I still have to learn and some of them I will have to revisit, but there are many, many lessons that this sister, this sister of yours, a fellow human being, has already learned. So I am in the stage where now I get to turn around and help others up through the stages that they're going through. What other definition does transition encompass? Well, I'm going to couple the last two.

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It says it's a movement, a passage, a change from one subject or a concept to another. Well, the subject or the concepts for me have been many, many teachings, many platforms of learning, many different avenues of instructors in my life, many people in my life that I soak in what I need. And I used to always tell my seven kids, when they were growing up and they'd come home and a friend, or when they finally went back in school because I homeschooled for a lot of years, or when they finally went back in school, because I homeschooled for a lot of years, when they went back in public school and they come home and somebody said something, or you know, they were upset because words do hurt. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can't harm you. Is a lie, right? So they would come home and I would say, well, is what they said true? Well, if they said no, and then I would ask, well, could you learn something from it? Well, no, all right, then let it roll off your back like a duck right, like a duck in the rain. However, there are many times where something comes in and you do learn from it and you do grow from it, and then you come to a saturation point where that individual, that platform, that lesson book, the school course, whatever it is that you're embarking upon, has reached its end, it can no longer, it doesn't vibe with you anymore, or you have reached your saturation level and it's time for a transition into the next level. So that's where I've been for the last week, because I have transitioned not only from one state to another, not only from one state to another literally a state in the United States of America but also from one conscious state to yet another conscious state. Let me explain, state for a moment.

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When I first got to North Florida, it was very exciting. It was also very daunting. I found myself having to rely on spirit like I never have before. Um, I was in a new place completely. Um, I knew very few individuals. Um, I had to find a place to live. And then some of you know that four days into Florida, I rear-ended my boss, wrecked my car, totaled my little hippie Honda, and so I had all of this transition happening, all of this uh, state of mind happening right. So then I adjusted to that and then I go into one of the main reasons that I went. Well, the absolute main reason I went to Florida was because God told me to go.

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I had visited Florida in January for a tour, a training, in Melbourne, florida, and when I was there, florida was calling my name. I mean, from the moment I got into the state of Florida, it was calling my name. I knew that. I knew that. I knew that I needed to be in Florida. In fact, at the end of the three-day seminar that I was at, I didn't want to leave, but I didn't have all my belongings. I only had three days worth of clothes and I can tell you honestly, without a doubt, had I had the ability to, for example, ship my few belongings or, you know, be like bewitched and wiggle my nose and send my belongings to me, I never would have left Florida in January. But what I did was I came back and three weeks later I had my hippie Honda packed. I went back and house sat for my friend in Miami and I took my first load of quote unquote stuff and then, 10 days later, I went back to North Florida for good.

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So it was in stages, it was a state of mind that got me to Florida. My state, my chi, my life force, no-transcript, small still voice of the creator. And you are a creator in action. You are just like him. You were created in his image. You will hear that voice clearer and clearer. So I knew I was supposed to be. That was the state of mind and I couldn't shake it until I got to Florida.

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Then I found a place to live, got a new vehicle, went through those states of mind and man in the midst of that, there was fears I had to go through. There was lots of uncomfortability, there was anxiety, there were meltdown stages, there were all different states of being, states of mind. And then the last stage was when I went to fulfill part of the reason I went there and that was to open up a business. And I went to open this particular business and the energy was beautiful, it was glorious. I felt like I was right where I was supposed to be and there were just two of us then and it was pretty much an empty building. And as this business got to be built out and up, the energy began to change. One of the first shifts I noticed was the introduction of another set of chi. Another individual came in into the facility and the energy completely changed. And then I remember when we got an order of furniture and accessories, and suddenly this building that was open and airy and had a lot of feng shui to it was filled with boxes and chaos, and so that was yet another state to be in. So these are transitional ways of being right.

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And then, of course, at the tail end of my stay in Florida, for me the energy completely shifted with the addition of yet more individual energies. People come in, and every person has their own energy field, and as more energy fields came in, there were many that I did not resonate with, and so my state began to feel a different way. So here comes another transition, and I stayed in that transition for most of my visit in Florida, of my visit in Florida, in fact, I would say that this transition was a huge one for me, because even as I was going through it, I recognized that I was in a pretty big denial. I did not want to believe that my knowingness was telling me one thing, and yet I couldn't shirk from the fact that that's exactly what was happening, and so I stayed in a state of disbelief, a state of uncertainty, a state of how can this be happening? And this is life, school folks. This is what transition is all about.

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What does William Bridges say? Transition? Well, let me go back to Abraham Maslow first. So in the midst of transitions, as I am sharing with you, you can choose to go back towards safety, can choose to go back towards safety. Right, I could have just left right then as soon as I felt uncomfortable.

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But see, I have become so accustomed to being uncomfortable. My whole Jerry Ringer Springer life has been one of uncomfortability and in fact I have begun to recognize that to be comfortable is what I kind of feel uncomfortable with. How about that? And that's true for a lot of folks A lot of humanity thrives in chaos imprinted upon yourselves before you're seven years old. And if you had a very chaotic childhood, then when you're living in peace and you're living in harmony, you may not know what to do with it because you've never transitioned into that. And that is kind of like. You know, from the time I was 17 up until my 40s, my life was totally chaotic, and so over the last 20 years it's been very interesting here's the word again transition into recognizing that people actually live in peace, people actually live in comfortability. That was kind of news to me and it's taken me all these years to even begin to scratch the surface of being comfortable. Being comfortable, how about that? And you know, that is, it's true.

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So here I knew, in Florida, that I wasn't going to run away. I'm not a runner, in fact, I take obstacles by choice. So I chose to stay and observe, and that really piqued my observation skills. And if you haven't listened to my series about exiting the matrix and the whole episodes about being the observer, you might want to go back and find those episodes, because I talk quite extensively about being the observer. But now guess what? Having gone through yet another transition of being the observer and the depth with which I was able to observe caused yet another transition, right? So the thing is growth.

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Well, so, first off, you don't want to back up and you don't want to go back into safety. But look, we are humans and we are trained by our egos to go right into safety, safe space. You know they, whoever they are, remember back in COVID days, and you know. Then they took it and ran with it, and I can remember working at Amazon and they actually had safe space booths the size of a phone book, a phone booth I'm really showing my age here like a booth, like think, a Superman, right, and they'd have a bench in there and some little pretty quotes in it and it was a safe spot to go.

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If you felt like you were anxious, okay, that is pretty much, you know, kind of checking out. It's again playing safe, and that's because your ego, anytime anything new comes in especially what we're talking about is transition, right, transition's all about change and the ego only keeps a file cabinet full of past experiences. So if you were anxious during a change and who isn't anxious during a change your ego is going to go morning morning. This is not good. We don't want to go here and so often and don't kick yourself or beat yourself up or berate yourself with the wet noodle, because you indeed find yourself going to that place of safety.

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You know full well how many times I've talked about being in the fetal position, right? So that's one option you can go back towards safety or forward towards growth, and growth. You have to choose it over and over and over again, according to Abraham Maslow and according to me I mean experientially, I know that this is true the times that I have retreated, guess what? That lesson is going to come back up again and again and again until I freaking deal with it. I have to face the growth. And what do you need? To overcome? Over and over again, fear, which is nothing more than false evidence appearing real, right? So taking obstacle by choice will accelerate your transitions, right? So we've got that life is a preparation for transitioning into a new dimension, right, and that's what we're doing. We are ascending, we're moving up the ladder, we're leveling up. So each step requires a transition, right? And in the process of self-transformation, it's not completely just about changing yourself. It also means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. And so here I am, I'm in Florida, and now everything is telling me it's time to go. I've been there.

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Well, it actually, for me, it started beginning about three months in and I was just like, wow, this really isn't what I thought it was, and I really tried to justify. I thought to myself no, this is part of your mission, this is what you came to do. And I really tried to justify. I thought to myself no, this is part of your mission, this is what you came to do. And I just, it was a resounding no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And when you hear no enough and you do not go forward towards growth. If you think growth and change will make you uncomfortable, well, just try going against your inner knowing, your spidey sense, your intuition, that love and light that's right inside your chest, right, you go against that long enough and that will put minor uncomfortability about being uncomfortable to shame, because it will never leave you from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to sleep. It's going to be right there, this knowingness, this knowingness, this knowingness, and that's what happened to me in Florida.

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I knew that, I knew that this was not for me and I did not want to make the transition, and that's for a whole another show. My ego was taking massive, massive hits, because I have been here and done this two other times before and I honestly could not believe that here I was again, in the same classroom, and so I was determined that I was going to make the most of these lessons, and I was going to be absolutely sure, and so I did not want to make the decision. And let me tell you, I've shared with you before, in one of my marriages, which was a completely unsafe environment for my children, when I was unwilling for whatever reason spiritual or programs or what have you? God said oh no, this isn't happening. And he made the movie move right. Well, that's exactly what ended up happening to me as well. I was in a sense, phased out, very quietly in fact, and that was a very interesting observation for me to glean lessons from.

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And then the day came when the person in this new job venture came and said well, you know. Pretty much, in a way, it was like well, you know, your services aren't needed anymore and, you know, can we go ahead and stop paying you? And when I it was like at that point it was like lethal, because I already knew that. I knew that I knew, and it was like thank you, god, for making this choice for me. And so I readily agreed. And the next day I was free.

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And these are all transitions that I am sharing with you. Transitions are the natural process we go through Of what, how does it look? First, it's disorientation. How could this possibly be? You know, back in January, I was sure that. I was sure that I was sure.

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Well, as my story begins to get unpacked, you will see with me that I was in Florida for many, many, many reasons unbeknownst to me, that I had no idea I would encounter situations and teachers and lessons that had nothing to do with the reason that I thought I originally went for, besides the fact that I was just told to go, I didn't know what I was going to do. I knew that a business was opening that I was hoping to be a part of, but at that point it wasn't even open and I went in faith because God told me to go. And so much occurred. But this transition that I'm speaking about today was all about experiencing new perceptions and new dimensions of experience, and man did I get a lot of them.

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And so the first part of the process was disorientation Kind of incredulous, you know. Why would you bring me nine hours from home? Why would you take me from my husband? Why would you allow me to choose to live away from my seven kids and 11 grandbabies, and all of those questions. So the disorientation came first, and then reorientation, and I described to you about the reorientation when I first arrived to Florida. Well, these last six days, that's what I've been doing here at home, and quite blissfully, I might add which this reorientation really marked a huge turning point in my path of growth.

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My husband, oh, my goodness, what incredible reorientation has occurred. I really and there it is again disorientation, because I thought I had faith. I had been praying for my husband, roger, for 25 years. 25 years ago I met him and I was scared of him and I began praying for him to have an encounter with Jesus, praying for him to have an encounter with Jesus. And you know, 17 years ago I get into relationship with him and eight years ago I married him and, as many of you know, 22 months ago I walked out and it wasn't running away. No, I knew that, I knew that if I didn't walk out, no, I knew that, I knew that if I didn't walk out, neither one of us would fulfill our purpose, neither one of us would grow and baby, I tell you what being in solitude and being on our own for that amount of time really really accelerated our growth process. And so I reorientated myself back to my home base, to my marital home, to my husband, to my pets, to my gardens, and it's been incredible.

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And what was amazing to me about this reorientation, which marked an incredible turning point in both of our lives, which marked an incredible turning point in both of our lives, was, you know, it really amazed me how much I was operating under huge amounts of cortisol, huge amounts of stress and really almost like the fight and flight response every day in Florida, not even realizing it. And here I was doing my Siddhanas normally every morning and adding two, sometimes three sessions of my Tai Chi Gong. So the energy was flowing massively, but toward the end it was not a good flow for me. It was very staticky. It was very. I had to break away from that and I even had a transition there. I was away from the business for almost two weeks before I actually packed up and got ready to leave, and I needed that transition to level my own energy field out and get myself back into realignment and balance, because everything went upside down.

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There were days in Florida where I felt like I was on a completely different timeline than the people that I was in relationship with. There were days where I would walk in to certain places and felt like I was completely unseen. And I'm not talking about the unseen, like you know. Oh, I want to be noticed. And I'm not talking about the unseen, like you know, oh, I want to be noticed. No, I'm talking about literally like I felt like people didn't even know I was there and so I've learned and experienced what it's like to be in different timelines. And you can be in different timelines with the same people. One hour they'll say one thing and the next hour it'll be completely different. And you're like what, what? So lots of disorientation during that time frame, and we got to remember that transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal. That's what William Bridges shares and it's so true. My self-renewal and coming back home to spirit has been full of transitions, but the lessons and the things that I will unpack about Florida have just been so profound and you always think, as you're going through a transition wow, this is the most profound transition I've ever been in, until the next one comes right, and it's just amazing how this all works. And so, on this day of transition, I just wanted to share how grateful I am now to be back home in Tennessee and how grateful I am for transitions.

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And I want to close up today's episode with a final quote from William Bridges again, and he says change is situational. So, okay, you can look at it that way. Look at the stories that I've been sharing with you today Situational change. Well, all right, I was in Tennessee in January and in February I was in Florida. So that would be a situation change. I was married to Roger Lee and then I was separated from Roger Lee. These are situational Transitions.

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On the other hand, according to William Bridges, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. So I could have left my marriage and said F it whatever. Whatever happens happens, whatever, whatever happens happens. Or I could have taken it as an actual transition and continued to pray for my husband and then eventually begin to communicate and then eventually go through all the transitions that we did. First it was text, and then it was a WhatsApp Zoom or video call, and then it was in person, and then, no, it was text, phone video, then in person, and then a longer in person and voila, I am back and the transition is complete. Right.

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But you can also go through a change and do nothing with it. And guess what? Go through a change and do nothing with it, and guess what? Nothing will change you might. It's like the old adage you can change your location, but you cannot change who. You are right, if you don't deal with your shite and you move, guess what the shite is going with you. That's kind of the concept, right?

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So to continue with what William Bridges says, without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture, unless transition. And what does he say? Transition is Self-redefinition or reorientation. Right, unless transition happens, the change won't work because it just doesn't take. And I tell you, I don't know if it's my age, I don't know if it's because I am not doing this BS again, I'm not ever going back around the mountain and, by the way, I'm not ever going back into that box of conformity again.

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And that was a big big part of the transition in Florida. I know that, I know that. I know that nobody, no job, no organization, no spiritual guru, nobody is ever going to make me conform to anybody. But who God made me, I will never, ever, ever doubt my intuitions, my spidey sense, ever again, and that was one of the hugest lessons I learned in Florida.

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So, wherever you are today in your transitions because you know what they are always going to be there. Transitions are going to come and we might as well get used to them. We need to either embrace change and thrive with transitions, or we're going to be stuck right. Going to be stuck right, and there's just so much more we can talk about, about transitions, and I just want to close by reminding you to keep going, to keep growing, because most of us are really not struggling humanity. Most of us are just transitioning, and this is the biggest part of the ascension journey, and you are not alone. We are all in this together. I love you so much. Thank you for listening. Smash the like button and let's share this everywhere to get the message out Peace out.