A Deaf Malamute Teaches Radical Authenticity

Liberty is our rescued Alaskan malamute with a gift for accidental wisdom. She’s older, deaf, loyal, and completely unbothered by what anyone thinks. She barges into rooms like a juggernaut, paces her daily circuits like it’s her job, and when she needs to go, she goes, even if we’re standing in the middle of the road. Watching her makes me laugh, but it also makes me ask a harder question: what would it feel like to be that free on the inside? If you’re working on becoming your truest self, this one might hit home. Please LIKE, Subscribe to Free2JustB, share it with a friend who’s doing the inner work, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What part of YOU is still buried?

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Welcome And Canine Wisdom

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Good evening, Humanityville. Tonight I'm gonna open the show with a quote from the enlightened hounds of Canine Wisdom. And I'm gonna dedicate tonight's show to our Malamute Liberty. And the quote is If what you want lies buried, keep digging until you find it, which is tonight's dog's secret for happiness. As I welcome you back to Free to Just Be. I'm your host, Teresa Marie, an ambassador of God Chi, and I have been sharing my uh dance of transformation for a little over three years now, and I share stories and uh tell on myself as I am on this incredible planet in Earth School, and I hope to encourage you tonight with some wisdom from the animal kingdom, because God will use all sorts of lessons in our lives, and um it's no mistake that to tonight I'm gonna use my amalamute as an example, and there's no coinky dink that her name is Liberty. So I I I gonna share a little bit about Liberty because she's gonna make my point tonight. Lib was um rescued. We found an ad in the paper, we were looking for a husky with blue eyes, and we had already uh adopted Sniper, who is uh probably 90% husky, but didn't have blue eyes, and he's he's cross with something, but he we got him from the pound and then recognized his need for a companion. Uh huskies are very much pack animals and they need uh companionship. So we began to look for a companion for him and found this ad for a blue-eyed um, and she was listed as a husky, but really she is an Alaskan malamute. And um we got there, and this should have been our warning sign or the the yellow flashing sign, um, because her current owner um did share why he had to get rid of her, or why he was trying to adopt her out, I should say. Um it's because he lived by a chicken farmer, and over uh the course of a certain time period, she had killed, you know, chased and killed 26 of his chickens. So she was a chicken thief and uh chicken murderer, and uh and he said, so I I don't want to put her down, um, you know, so but that's that's the reason that we're adopting her out among other things. And that quote unquote, among other things, we probably should have said, well, what other things? And then come to find out that um uh the reason that she had never been house-trained is because I think she's missing a little link in her brain. And um she's a very loyal, loving um, but uh dare I say, um, she's not working with a full deck. And uh so she's and we discovered real quickly that she is very incontinent. And uh so we've we've worked with her on that, and we've had her going on about three years now, and we've determined through the vet that she's probably uh somewhere in the 12 to 14 year old range. And Snipe is probably, you know, pushing eight or ten years as well. But anyway, um the reason I want to talk about Liberty is because she is fully liberated, and what I mean by that is Lib does what Lib wants to do. When, where, how, it doesn't matter who's around. Um, for example, we call her the Jaggernaut, and that's because um when she wants to come into a room, she will just take her head and barge herself right in that room. Um one of the other things she she exhibits at her age is movement. Uh being a workhorse type of dog, she always wants to move. And we have uh a home where you know she could go from the living room to the bedroom through to the bathroom and out back to the living room and make a complete circuit. And that's what she does all day long, and she'll go through the rooms and sometimes she'll just go around the living room, around the couch, around the couch, and then she'll come into the kitchen and she'll reverse it, and it's it's a prime example of um what we as seniors need to always keep in mind. If we want to keep moving, we need to keep moving. Now, Lib, we've already determined, is completely deaf. So she doesn't hear a thing, and in fact, um, you know, sometimes she sleeps so hard um that I have to go over and and make sure she's still breathing, right? But the thing that just cracks me up about her name is when Lib has to go poop, when we're out for a walk, now let me give you the contrast. Sniper is a gentleman. So when we walk, you know, um we live out in the country, and every country home has a ditch line. And so that's kind of like fair game for dog walkers, you know. All the neighbors that also walk dogs know this, and it's kind of the area uh in front of a piece of property that's not technically the homeowners, you know, uh we will mow it and that type of thing. But but anyway, Sniper or even in the woods, he will go off the path. He does not want to poop on the beaten path. He's a gentleman, he finds a spot off the road. Lib, we could be walking in the middle of the road. Why don't you do it in the road, right? And that's what she'll do. It doesn't matter where she is, who's around. Um, it's happened in the kitchen with visitors. She'll just come strutting in and drop her business. It's like, really? Really, did you just do that? Yes, I did. And she'll look at you like, what? Doesn't everybody just do what is natural? And that's kind of what I want to talk about. And to take you back to the if you want what lies buried, keep digging until you find it. Which, you know, she's not a digger, she doesn't like toys, and she doesn't barely even eat treats anymore, but she's extremely loyal, extremely loving, and extremely herself. It doesn't matter who's around, she is absolutely dumb as an ox. We love liberty, Malamute. That's who liberty is. But what she reminds me is that's the freedom that we want. Well, not necessarily that we want to go out in the road and take a crap. I'm not I'm not talking about that, but to be free, to be that, you know, to have that much liberty, and it it's just amazing to watch her because it doesn't matter, you know, and and you know, she'll if she wants to do something, she's just gonna do it. And that is really where we need to head. And we need to continue to keep digging for what lies buried within us until we find it. Because what's inside us is our true self, it's everything, it's who we came here to be, it's our purpose, it is how God sees us, and we have forgotten, and we have to remind ourselves to get just like the picture I have um in my office, I'm looking at it right now, and it's a picture that my son made early on in his art career, um, before he had even gone to art school, and he tossed it out because he thought he said that the arms were out of proportion, and it's it's a terrible picture. And he threw it away, and of course I rescued it, and it's a a picture of a woman swimming underwater. And uh she's a redhead, and she also has some pretty buff arms. And when he painted this, I was at the hilt of my P90X, so I had these really buff arms, and at the time I was a redhead. And I was also going to the pool every morning because I worked at the rec center back back then, and I was swimming. So it was a perfect picture that I rescued, and that was right about the time that Dora came out as well, and so it is my reminder, not only of my son, but to keep on swimming. So it's the same concept. Let's keep on digging until we find our true self. That is really the crux of what this Free to Just Be podcast is all about. Getting back to that original spark of God, who we are, and the ability to finally see through God's lens how we really are, right? That's that's you know, we want to get rid of all the programming, not just some of them. So I want to segue into um how this is working in my life currently. Uh, you know, you get to the place where you, you know, uh I I'm not gonna go through the the the steps of of awakening, um, you know, the initial, and and where I'm at currently is it's it's almost like um uh uh really deep. It's like I'm at the point now where um the big pieces have been dissolved. Um not to say that they don't come back up, I'm talking about programs, but um a good part of them have I'm very aware of and I don't operate in them anymore. And so now it's getting down to the quote unquote nitty-gritty of life, right? And my relationship with God, because I have requested it, it's it's like um you you don't ever pray to God that you want him to make you more like him and you know, God change me, because he will do that in acceleration on steroids, right? And I have prayed that, you know, every day for probably at least 35 years of the 42 that I've been walking with him, right? And and that's what he has done. He's awakened and shown and taught and and said, Hey, and and as you hear very often, um he will say, Okay, you know, you got that lesson, now you're gonna share it. And this is one of those times. So it's one of those I'm gonna tell on myself days again. And uh uh, but it's and it's um it's an interesting one because I I really, really was in observer mode, and I was witnessing myself doing this. And so what I did was yesterday was my first day at work, and um I I had packed um snacks and and my lunch, and my last break was like at 3:30, and uh, you know, I had a really nice, you know, it was all veg, but um anyway, I I came home and I really wasn't hungry and I was tired. Um it was a long, long day on my feet, and so I sat in the recliner, and I had now I'm telling on myself right now, because at the time I did this, I think I I I vaguely recognized it, what I was doing, but maybe I wasn't ready to admit it. And and of course God doesn't let me get away with it. Um I can't um I can't get away with it because I want to be more like him, and I wasn't like him. And what I was doing was I was trying to manipulate my husband. And how do you how are you how are you doing that, Theresa Marie? Well, when I called him at lunch on my break, and of course it's Sunday, so he's home and I'm at work, and uh I just kind of dropped into the conversation a comment that he always used to say for years and years, you know, what wonderful thing are we gonna have for dinner? In other words, um, you know, I don't see you making food, so you know, I'm just I'm just trying to ascertain like when you're gonna get your ass up and make food, right? And you know, this is this has been a sore point for a lot of years, you know, and and I uh in this transformational dance that I'm in have discovered um oh about three years ago, I really realized that I have been cooking for 40 years and I have never enjoyed it. I, you know, my daughter, she loves to cook. She loves to bless people with a good meal. And me, not so much. No, she didn't get that from me. Now, you know, I would cook for the kids and all of that, and I have certain things that I do real well, but creative, you know, doing things off the cuff. No, no, no. In fact, we are currently using Home Chef because it's just the two of us, and I don't even like making those when everything is pre, you know, pre-packaged, it's you know, 20 minutes set up, you know, from 20 or 30 minutes, you know. And anyway, so I didn't want to cook last night. And in my view, you've been home on a Sunday, you've been home all day. You know, and in my head I'm thinking, doing nothing while I'm at work. And so, you know, I get up and I cook your breakfast every morning, even though nine times out of ten I don't eat myself, but I make sure you have food before I leave for work. So to me, it just seems logical that on the nights that I work, that you're home, that you could have dinner waiting for me for a change. I didn't share any of this. What I did instead was try to direct my husband. And, you know, it's so funny because two or three days ago we were talking and he's like, Well, you should know by now after all these years that if you try to get me to do something, I'm gonna resist. Well, that's exactly what happened when I, you know, so creatively slipped in on the end of our conversation on my lunch break. So, what spectacular Sunday meal are you gonna make for us tonight, babe? And he just went, and I'm like, Yeah, that'd be great. And I got home, and of course, there was no evidence of any kind of activity in the kitchen. So I was like, F this, I'm not gonna do this, you know. And let me just contrast that with what God would have. He came to serve us all. And we are called to be servants, and honestly, I am always happiest when I am in servant mode, right? Because that is how we were created to be, to be helpful to one to another, right? But I was not in that mode. So I was sitting on that recliner, and I was had my eyes closed, and at one point my husband said, Are you sleeping? And I didn't respond. And then I heard him say, Guess so. So I don't know how much time went by, but I was thinking, you know what? I am gonna sit here and I am not getting up, you know, because then he'll have to cook. That was my form of manipulation. Uh X amount of time goes by and he kind of knocked into my foot, and I opened my eyes, and I didn't say anything, and I just kind of got comfortable on the recliner again, closed my eyes again. And X amount of time, a few minutes later, um, I kind of opened my eyes and uh whatever it was that he had uh that he was watching, I started watching with him, and he went in the kitchen and came out with a bag of cashews. And so I was thinking to myself, well, I guess we're having cashews for dinner. And that's exactly what we did. We shared this small little bag of um uh really I can't remember what flavor they were, but anyway, and so that all being said, I'd never said a word, you know, and I was thinking, you know, yeah, I've taught him a lesson, haven't I? And we ended up going to bed, and I laid in that bed, and all I could think about was how rotten that was, and how it wasn't my true self, and how that was my former life, my unawakened self that wants to act like the world, and and you know, I was miserable between my ears, mentally and emotionally, I caused myself suffering because I did not do what I knew was right, and I know that there are um women out there, um uh Michael Del Rocco on on Everyday Lives Um podcast would would call them the modern woman. Uh some churches would call them the Jezebel women. I just like to think that um they are women that don't know about the order. Um I have always believed that it's God, the husband, the wife, and then the children, and then the community. I have just always believed that. And I believe that um in a marriage, yes, it should be reciprocal, but you know what? If each person in a marital relationship is willing to serve the other, then you have a beautiful relationship. And my husband serves me in so many different ways. And cooking a meal, look, he's not looking for uh, you know, incredible cuisine or not even um my daughter's calibar. He just would like food, you know? And and so it's pretty simple, and it's only two of us. Anyway, I say all that because God wouldn't let me get away with it. Because He loves us that much, and He knows that when we become more and more like Him, we're going to be free to be who we were always meant to be. And frankly, a whole lot happier. So I appreciate liberty showing me how it is that you can just not care about anything or anyone around you and you can just be yourself. And I also so appreciate how God is in the transformation business and little by little is literally awakening me to remember that I always was like Him. And I just need to go back to that version because it's the best version. So I hope you have a marvelous Monday evening with those that you love. And of course, I wish you the greatest health with vibrant energy, and of course, peace.