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Breaking Free From America's Consumption Culture
Have you ever stopped to question why you keep consuming things that don't truly make you happy? That third cup of coffee, the closet full of unworn clothes, the endless scrolling on social media—what if these behaviors are part of a larger matrix programming designed to keep us addicted, distracted, and disconnected from our authentic purpose?
In this deeply personal episode, I share a powerful revelation that came to me during an early morning dog walk. As darkness gave way to dawn, I witnessed how my aging husky was startled by something he couldn't see until it was right in front of him—a perfect metaphor for humanity's current awakening. We're collectively experiencing the uncomfortable jolt of seeing what's been hidden in plain sight: our unhealthy relationship with consumption.
America has become a nation of consumers rather than contributors. We eat, shop, scroll, and accumulate possessions at unprecedented rates, yet statistics show we're more unhealthy, indebted, and disconnected than ever before. I candidly share my own battles with emotional eating, coffee addiction, and the false belief that material upgrades would fix my unhappiness. The turning point came when I left my home with just six boxes of possessions and discovered a surprising sense of freedom and joy in having less.
This isn't about rejecting all material comforts—it's about mindful consumption versus mindless addiction. Are your consumption habits sustainable? Are they bringing genuine fulfillment? Are they allowing you to contribute meaningfully to your family and community? When we redefine our relationship with "stuff," we can redirect our natural tendencies toward positive contribution rather than endless consumption.
Ready to break free from the matrix of consumption? Join me on this transformative journey and discover how walking away from what doesn't serve you creates space for authentic living. What small step will you take today to shift from consumption to contribution? Your health, relationships, and true purpose are waiting.
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, welcome. Welcome back to Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old patterns and matrix programming 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 full responsibility for your body, mind and soul. Responsibility for your body, mind and soul here on Free to Just Be, your host that'll be me.
Speaker 1:Teresa Marie. The ambassador of Chi will inspire you to truly be who you came here to be Authentic, free and align with your highest potential. So won't you join me on this transformative journey to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion? And right out the gates, I want to say that if this podcast is beginning to resonate with you or maybe even agitate you, can you smash the like button and can you share it with somebody so that we can get the algorithm going a little bit better, so that more people can be helped to get out of the matrix programs. Okay, all right. Well, before I get into the topic that I want to talk about today, what I have been feeling for a long time now that I need to walk away from personally, and it's much, much broader than just little old Teresa Marie. It's really something that the world, but most especially the Western world of America, needs to walk away, and we're going to hit that here in a moment. But you know, this is a very daunting time to be alive, is it not? And I got a really really good physical picture this morning at about 10 minutes to five this morning, as I got up finally, after not sleeping very well since about two in the morning, and I got up at three and came into my office and began my Siddhana and my devotions, and by about 10 minutes to five I was ready to get out and walk the dogs. But autumn's coming and it was pretty dark out, and so I took my two snow dogs I, of course, if you don't know, I have a Husky and a Malamute, so they're my snow dogs and I hooked Sniper and Liberty up and we began walking down the road.
Speaker 1:Now I want to give a little backstory. Our dogs are going into their geriatric years. We don't know. They're both rescues, so we don't really know their actual ages and we're assuming that they're about, say, somewhere between nine and 13 years. Okay, and Liberty, my Malamute. We've already recognized that. She's pretty well deaf and she's kind of quirky as well.
Speaker 1:But what I noticed today about Sniper was that I think that his eyesight is what's going, and the reason I'm bringing this all up is because I got this really vivid, you know, in real time picture of what I believe we're going through on this ascension journey. It truly is a spiritual battle to become more Christ-like. That's the last thing darkness wants is for us to go back to God. And I'm walking down the street and I'm loving it. You know it's quiet, stars are still out, you know the air had that morning dew in it and you know Liv is just. She's trucking down the road because she can't hear a dang thing.
Speaker 1:Right and out of the corner of my eye, I see my neighbor Cory's two dogs. Now he has two dogs that are in teenage years, one is a German Shepherd and one is a Rottweiler. And so these are, these are going to be, you know, formidable beast as they get older. They're both a very large breed and they can be very intimidating. Looking right.
Speaker 1:And I remember, when I first returned back home, I didn't realize that Cory had gotten these two new dogs and man, my husband and I were walking by his house and these dogs came running out and it kind of it startled me. Well, because it was so dark this morning, you know, and I have Sniper on my right, which is the side of my neighbors, and I have Lib on the other side, and I could see the shadows of the dog coming down from their front porch down toward the road, but Sniper didn't see it. He didn't see it until that dog was probably six feet from him and began to bark ferociously oh, their barks are like really scary and I watched Sniper literally jump and as I told the dogs, you know, good morning, you know, go lay down. You know it's all right and they headed back up to their house and we continued down the path. It just hit me like a rhema. You know, rhema is like this very rapid illumination of your spirit and, you know, if you're aware and awake you can catch these rhemas. And there are a lot of life lessons in Ramas.
Speaker 1:And so, as I walked up the hill, I was thinking, wow, this is what we're doing here on planet Earth, because planet Earth for a long, long time, for many centuries, has been covered over with darkness and the light has been, you know, trying to rise up and trying to rise up, and now we're in what I believe is literally the Armageddon of our time, and the light is just flooding the planet and that has got the darkness. Just like those dogs, they are ferocious right now and they are throwing everything they can at the light to shut it down. They have to shut it down because, if enough light shows up on the planet, guess what? All of their dark hemiestetes, all of them are going to be exposed. And that's what we as a population of humans are witnessing right now, to the point where we literally witnessed, in cold blood, the killing of somebody. Because pretty much, they profess to love God, and loving God means that maybe you don't agree with some of these things that are kind of dark, and that's why he got killed. So we literally, like it or not, like the person or not, like the message or not, we all, as human beings, witness the darkness at its worst. And what's even worse than that, we watched people replay it over and over and over again, and it is going to prove my point today of what the matrix has done to us and what we can do to help ourselves walk further away from the matrix programming.
Speaker 1:And Jacob Held said it very well. He said one can best describe a culture of Thank you, jacob. And we can really make a case about this in America. We are the biggest consumers of the world, we are the richest country in the world and we are the unhealthiest. We are covered up with the addiction of consuming, consume, consume, consume. And the reason that this is so close to me is that just recently, in the last month, I have really been acutely aware and very, very, very conscious of what I have been continually putting in my mouth, my mouth. Now, I don't know if I didn't have physical needs met or whatever, but I am in the huge group in America called the emotional eaters. And what has this matrix taught us to do? Oh, if you have any kind of emotional issue, we're going to take care of it. We're going to eat, we're going to drink, we're going to medicate, we're going to zone out, we're going to sit in front of Netflix, we are going to consume. And actually it's been longer than months, it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 1:I remember when Tom McDonald came out with oh, I can't remember the title of the song, but the chorus was I'm a believer, I believe, right, and ah, a fighter, that was the name of the song a fighter, and that's what we are. We're in a huge fight right now and I know I'm rabbit trailing, but this will all come full circle here in a moment. And when I heard that song, I played it over and over again I'm a believer, I believe. And then one day, and yesterday, I confessed to my coffee addiction. And I have been an addict my whole life. And an addict doesn't necessarily mean crack or heroin. You can be addicted to anything. And here in the Western world the addictions are off the chain, okay, they are everywhere.
Speaker 1:And one day I was on my third or fourth cup of coffee and I literally was feeling horrible. And as I'm pouring the coffee, I said to myself wow, I feel horrible. Why am I drinking this again? And I just said because it tastes good. Because it tastes good.
Speaker 1:And immediately, as that thought left my head, I suddenly heard, to the tune of Tom McDonald's I'm a Believer song I'm a consumer, I consume. I'm a consumer, I consume. Oh, it was like a dagger going into my heart Now, as I shared with you in a couple of episodes this week. It's a dance Progress is progress, but sometimes it literally is inch by inch and then everything becomes a cinch. But sometimes we don't get it right away, because you know it's been a year or more since then way, because you know it's been a year or more since then, and I have to tell you that when I left my marital home 22 months ago, I entered into one of my biggest food and drink addiction periods, since I weighed 240 pounds.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, I am still right now today sitting on 20 extra pounds, and the medical world would consider me obese. Now look around you, especially people who live in America. There are people that are morbidly obese, and people who are in shape and have the correct amount of body fat on their body are now the minority in America. I can show you pictures. I was 238 pounds and I was pushing a size 28. And then I woke up some 18 years ago and I finally I lost with the help of oh, I can't remember the name of it now the weightlifting one. I lost 98 pounds and I still am carrying 20 pounds on my body. So I am very familiar with the consumption of food, with the consumption of alcohol, with the consumption of nicotine, cannabis, speed, speed balls, cocaine. I am very, very well versed about addictions, and that might not be your thing, but consumerism in our country is just as addictive. The level of consumption that we identify with as success is utterly unsustainable.
Speaker 1:What does John Robinson say we are doing? We are gobbling up the world. And what does the Word of God say? That we are of the world. We live in the world, but we're not of the world. What does the Tao Te Ching say about it? That we are to observe what the world does and do the opposite.
Speaker 1:And yet, what is your addiction? Humanityville? Is it your phone? Oh guilty. Is it scrolling through Facebook? Oh, some days, I'm guilty. Is it watching marathons on TV? I used to be guilty of that years and years ago. Is it buying things that you don't need? How many of us have so many clothes in our possession that we literally don't ever wear all of them? How many of us have so much furniture in our house that we can barely walk? How many of us have garages so jam-packed that we can't park our car? How many of us have multiple vehicles when there's only one of us. I mean, it's not to say that you can't have things, but I want you to look at the design of the matrix towards consumption.
Speaker 1:We are a culture of consumerism, and what does unbridled consumption bring to the matrix? It brings inebriation. It brings ego. It brings addatisfied people. It brings the need for more, more, more it. It it's uh, it reminds me of the book that I I've read to all of my kids and and many of my grandkids um called give me hands. That is what the matrix wanted for us. Reach out, reach out, reach out and not, you know, reach out with love. No, reach out for more stuff. Reach out for stuff that's going to make you feel better, even though it really doesn't. It makes us sicker and it really is a form of greed. It really is a form of greed. And what is greed? It's the assumption that it is all for my consumption. Think about the people that rise in financial status and they receive the status quo and they have all the bells and whistles that they can imagine. They can travel anywhere, they can get whatever kind of health care they want that nobody else can afford. They have every clothing and jewelry and makeup and procedures done and they are the most miserable people on the planet. Very oftentimes, very oftentimes, elise Boulder said, the consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Speaker 1:I'll give you a real-time example in my own life. I've never really been a material girl. I've always had the concept that if I'm bringing something in the house, then something has to go to goodwill. That's how I've always lived my life. Now, part of it is the scarcity mentality, and that's a whole nother topic. But I've not been a trendsetter or no, I shouldn't say that I've never gone with the trends. So I'm pretty much the opposite of that. I'm the one that wants to not wear makeup and not dye my hair, and I would prefer to not wear a bra and not do what the world is doing and not do what the world is doing. But this whole consumption program was a big well, not a big part, but part of it.
Speaker 1:Toward the end of my days, before I left my home and my marriage for a season, I was thinking about how, you know, my husband just wants to stay in mediocrity. He doesn't want to rise above and he wants to stay in this house. That needs repair and you know we need to do something about the hair and the dogs, and on and on and on. And, interestingly enough, when I left, I left. I've talked about this um nauseam, um in prior episodes, about how I left in my hippie Honda with you know, when I left this home, I had probably eight or nine boxes, and when I left for Florida, I reduced that down to probably six that fit in my little Honda Civic in the hatchback. I only had a two-door car and that was what my life was reduced to. And I have to tell you that my happiness quotient really, really increased.
Speaker 1:In regards to physical life, life was so much easier. I didn't have pets to deal with, I didn't have housework to deal with, it was just me, myself and I and my six boxes of possessions. And when I moved in with my dear roommate Pam, my landlord Pam, we were sharing her beautiful home. It was her home. I didn't have to worry about the vacuuming, the dusting of anything but the rooms that I was using, and it was a completely freeing and liberating experience for me Because, you see, I left and I was doing all the dog chores, all the cooking, all the cleaning, working outside, all of that stuff that many women are barking back at because their self is saying you know, I don't want to be the only one doing this, right? But now let me fast forward you to when I returned.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden, none of that physical baloney mattered. I was so happy to be back in a home with my husband who, by the way, we always loved each other. We just I personally didn't like him for a long time. He had a lot of narcissistic tendency and I was tired of being controlled. And all of that and our time apart absolutely radically changed both of us and I came home and everything was familiar and it was my home. It wasn't Pam's home. The stuff in the house was all functional and aesthetics really don't matter to me anymore. What's more important to me now in this stage of life, in this chapter of my life, is how can I contribute to my family of humanity, how can I contribute to my children and my grandchildren? And that's a whole nother topic. And I realized, wow, I really got caught in that consumer trap, didn't I? And that is what the matrix does. It teaches us that without all of this stuff that, by the way, we have to work two jobs to obtain it and then we have to maintain it. So all of our time is spent maintaining and earning and spending and we don't ever have a chance to just be or to just enjoy the toys that we bought, right?
Speaker 1:Chris Lash said the model of ownership in a society organized around mass consumption, what is the model of ownership? Addiction? And that is what mass consumption has done to us. We might not be addicted to all the substance abuses that I listed earlier. It may be food. It may be literally the consumerism of buying things. It may be a pantry that is so full that you could go through the apocalypse three times. Maybe it's. You cannot let go of anything and you've become a hoarder because you feel like you never know when you're going to need it. That's all consumerism. And what does? Mindless consumption always turn into Excessive consumption and thus the addict.
Speaker 1:And you know, the focus of recent days has been about getting rid of the violence in society. We need to get stop the violence. Stop the violence. Let's look at the definition of violence for a minute, folks. It's the intentional use of physical force or power to cause harm, injury, death or psychological harm To who To oneself, another person or a community. So let's back completely away from the matrix programming concept for a second and look at the violence we are doing to ourselves.
Speaker 1:That's what I had to look at, man, oh man. It really began in Florida because, you know, I was away from everything that I thought was my issue, and it was me and God and nobody else. And I was still doing violence to myself with the way I was eating, the choices I was making with my time, the choices I was making with my lack thereof of contribution. It was violent. And I had to recognize oh my gosh, do I hate myself that much that after all these years, I'm still abusing myself with food? I'm still abusing myself with excess. Everything is an excess with me. Anything I do, it seems like I would do it excessively.
Speaker 1:And then one day after I was home for about a month, I thought, wow, okay, so if I am an eight on the Enneagram and my downside is excessiveness, couldn't I turn that excessiveness on to good things? So that is exactly what I'm doing. I'm moving away from consuming so much and I'm being extremely mindful, not mindless. Everything that I pick up, certainly, everything I put near my mouth everything I choose to do. I am now being mindful about my consumption and my excessive tendencies. So now I'm very proud of myself that I can tell you that it literally now has been seven whole days coffee free. Now I'm still drinking a very low level of matcha or green tea, but everything has shifted. My body that has been so used to junk and processed food and massive sugar. And I'm not going to lie, when I was in Florida I lived largely on takeout food, which is horrible poison for your body.
Speaker 1:So to back all that up and to say if I want to walk this path of darkness and see the light come down and illuminate everything and enter us into the golden age, and if I want to leave the planet better for my grandchildren than I left it for my children because my children are struggling through this matrix now too and what did I do? But I contributed to the matrix for much of their life so if I want to be around to do those things, then the first thing that I need to gain back is my health running like a well-oiled machine, and I know how to do that. I mean, I lost 98 pounds and kept it off. I know the things that I have to do, oh, but the self-discipline thereof. And there comes that excessive personality of mine. So turn your excessive addictions, your consuming of things that you don't need, turn it around. Turn it around.
Speaker 1:What does Deb Midra say? She says that life is not for consumption but for contribution. You see, I don't want to just stay at home and eat my way back to bad health. No, I want to be a well-oiled machine, contributing back to society, contributing back to the battle of getting humanity off the matrix merry-ground.
Speaker 1:So I just ask you today, where are you at on a walkaway Wednesday, with being a member of the American Consumption Society? Are you doing violence to your own self? Are you doing violence to another person in your family because your time is consumed with consumption? It's consumed with earning enough so that you can buy the next doodad. Are you doing harm to your community by not entering into any kind of community activities? Oh, I'm pointing those fingers back to me here. Humanity, I'm keeping it real. Keeping it real.
Speaker 1:I don't want greed to be the assumption for all of my consumption. Oh, I have to get this. I have to get this. You know, I'm not going to be happy unless X Y Z and I need to earn this amount of money in order for me to do X Y Z. I don't, I don't want to be there. How about you Now? That's not to say that we can't be comfortable and that we can't consume things, no, but when things become out of hand and it keeps us from getting back to our true selves, it may be time to walk away from it.
Speaker 1:So, on a walk away Wednesday, I just want to ask, with the John Robbins quote is your level of consumption that you identify with as success sustainable? Are you into debt up to your eyeballs? Is it wrecking your health? Is it wrecking your relationships? Do you have time for nothing but work? Are you gobbling up the world or are you making an impact on the world for the light? I love you, humanity, and I ask that you use these words today to illuminate your own life and ask yourself the hard questions Are there things in my life that I need to walk away from and then choose? Are there things in my life that I need to walk away from and then choose? Choose today, even if it's just a small iota of a big elephant that you have to walk away from, the way we walk away from things often is not to say anything about overeating, but it's often one bite at a time. I love you, humanity. Have a wonder-filled Wednesday.