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Staying Grounded in a Chaotic World | S1E12
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The world feels pretty chaotic right now—but staying grounded doesn’t have to be complicated. In this episode, Kimberley sits down with longtime family friend, creator, and lifestyle influencer, PeachyyMaddi, to explore three simple practices that help them stay grounded and protect their peace: alignment, ritual, and connection. Together, they discuss everything from prayer, meditation, and self-reflection to conscious consumption, taking yourself on solo dates, building community, and learning to let go of what no longer serves you. Whether your path is rooted in faith, spirituality, or simply becoming more intentional with your everyday choices, this conversation offers practical tools for finding your way back to yourself when life feels overwhelming. 💬 We’d love to hear from you. How do YOU stay grounded in a chaotic world? We invite you to share your thoughts in the comments below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Taking $20 and going to Dollar Tree and getting at you know this day and age 18 items. The tax and the police. Getting $18. 18 items. Getting the 18 items for $20 at Dollar Tree.
SPEAKER_01Hello fellow travelers. I'm Kimberly, your guide and your host, and today we are here with Peachy Maddie. If you know, you know. The world feels so chaotic right now. So we're here today to talk about the top three things we do to stay grounded in a chaotic world. So we've got alignment, ritual, and connection. But before we do, Maddie, tell everybody a little bit about yourself for the one person who doesn't know who you are already.
SPEAKER_00So I am Peachy Maddie Online, but I go by Maddie to everyone who knows me. And I make home decor videos, lifestyle videos. You might know my series Bougie on a budget, where I'm at Dollar Tree, you might know me from yelling at you to get in the car and we're going shopping. And a lot of my content is focused on comfort and whether that's comfort food, comfort decor, seasonal decor, and I'm like kind of a modern day Martha Stewart.
SPEAKER_01But so much cooler.
SPEAKER_00But I also have an aspect of spirituality, grief, and mental health. So, and I love to help people, whether it's decorating their space or having an idea of making a fun summer drink.
SPEAKER_01I love it. I love it. And tell people how we know each other.
SPEAKER_00So we know each other through my dad. Kimberly has known me for 27 years, which is my entire life. And she knew me in the womb to now. Honestly, has been such an inspiration for my art and my process because when I was a little girl, I would listen to your music. And it always inspired me to honestly, it inspired me to embrace myself. It was like one of the first impressions as a little girl that I got of embracing myself and just feeling that self-love for the first time, listening to your music, and I have it on my iPod, and I'd see you doing your thing. So for me, you were my blueprint, and it's very full circle that you've known me in the womb, and now I'm 27, and we're sitting here today talking about spirituality, alignment, and connection. Amazing.
SPEAKER_01And now the blueprint for me, starting this channel. I will tell you, Maddie was literally outside of James, my partner, the first person I told about the idea of soldier in the truth. So it's true. You were my blueprint. So I was there for the birth. Yeah. And you were there for my birth. Totally. So let's go. Let's get into this. Let's talk about alignment. That was one of the things we both felt like we used to stay grounded in a chaotic world. And before we started filming, we spoke a little bit. And Maddie, you mentioned to me that your spiritual life, prayer, those things help keep you aligned.
SPEAKER_00Talk to me more about that. So I would say that God is obviously my number one. And I would say that the alignment in my life really comes from having God as my number one and having that spirituality as like a tree center and it's rooted in the earth. It's helped me as not only shape as a person, but it's also guided me in the right direction, whether it's a situation or it's a decision.
SPEAKER_01You previously mentioned Mary Magdalene and Jesus also being kind of guiding forces. Can you say more about those influences?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I'm about to. So Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' apostles, and I I fell in love with her. She reminds me of like a divine feminine. And so Jesus as a man represents strength and guidance and wisdom and that deep-rooted, like tree-like foundation. And then for me, Mary is the feminine, creative, beautiful butterflies, nature, and being able to connect with Mary's story has absolutely shaped what I've thought about being a phoenix of a human being.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_00And really rising.
SPEAKER_01Wow. That is so beautiful. I love that. That is so beautiful. And so you know I'm not religious, so but I'm spiritual, right? So I find alignment in walking my top. That to me is my religion, in doll biol. It is so important for me to walk my top, to be the person I say I am every single moment of every single day. So when I find myself drifting out of alignment, I'm literally spending hours, you know, all the time, just thinking, why am I angry? Why am I frustrated? Why am I not giving forgiveness? Why am I bitchy? Why am I this? Why did I say that? Why did I think this other thing? And kind of figuring it out, like where'd you go off the rails so that I can get myself back on track and into alignment? And that has been such a saving grace in this crazy world for me to feel balanced.
SPEAKER_00I love that, and I do the same. I sit with myself when I feel an emotion, which it's very uncomfortable most of the time, unless I'm sitting in happiness and joy, which sitting in sadness and depression or whatever, you should sit in happiness just as much as you sit with yourself in sadness. Um, but it can feel more uncomfortable when you're just sitting in pure anxiety, which is what I feel a lot of the time, and I think to myself, why am I anxious? What is the root of this anxiety? Where is it taking me? Usually I close my eyes and meditate, and I really just sit with myself and analyze how I feel so that I can check in with myself because I feel like the anxiety would get worse if I just dismiss it.
SPEAKER_01Or if you uh suppressed it from when I used to drink to suppress wine, like, oh, I'll just have a couple glasses of wine or whatever. It didn't go away. It's going nowhere.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01It will be there for you when you wake up. Right. It will be there wait waiting for you. As anxiety. And I love that. I love that. Oh, that's so good. Um, let's talk a little bit about ritual. I know you have some pretty specific rituals that you do daily that help you stay grounded.
SPEAKER_00Let's let's hear it. So I do skincare every single day, showering, skincare, and my hair is a lot, and everything taking care of my hair and myself is like an act of self-love for me, and it keeps me grounded. I feel like there's a distinct difference between a routine and a ritual. I think a ritual is something where you're just doing it without even thinking. Yeah, it's a it's a habit at this point, and a routine sometimes you have to force, like if you're doing a diet or if you're doing you're trying to force a routine that doesn't really fit with your life. The rituals in my life I do without even thinking. Like going to see my horses, checking in with myself, sitting with my emotions is a ritual at this point. Um, skincare, shopping, honestly, shopping at Dollar Tree, taking $20 and going to Dollar Tree and getting at you know, this day and age, 18 items. The tax and the price, getting $18 items, getting 18 items for $20 at Dollar Tree, or just taking time for myself, taking myself out on a date. Every month I make sure to take myself out on at least one date where I sit with myself, I have dinner, and I just think and reflect. I just love to sit over a glass of wine and some pasta. I'm an event in restaurant, I'm getting hungry. And I just like to think and reflect, and that really helps my self-confidence and my self-love because I know I can sit with myself and I love myself. Yes, that is. I love what I feel and I love what I see. Yes, and that has not been my reality my whole life, absolutely not, right? It takes work, absolutely not, yeah. Right?
SPEAKER_01And it takes work to learn to sit with yourself, and you gotta say, if I'm not willing to sit with myself for dinner, ain't nobody else gonna be willing willing to sit with me for dinner, right?
SPEAKER_00That part, yeah, and taking myself out, it's sparked a revolution online, I feel like, because all the women that watch me, they it's almost like a light bulb moment where we all realized like we can just take ourselves to the things we want to do, you don't have to wait for anyone to take you or wait for somebody else to be able to do something you want to do. For me, it's a little bit different.
SPEAKER_01So for me, ritual is about consumption. I am so strict about being vegan. I've been vegan since 2013. Um and eating whole foods or try to. Um also strict about the information I allow into my environment. I don't watch any news. I know it sounds ignorant to say, and I know I'm probably gonna get some hate for it, but I watch no news. I don't have headlines, I don't have alerts, I don't have no nada on my phone, nothing. I don't turn on the TV, none of it. And my theory is if it's important, someone's gonna tell me.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01And if it's not, they're not, and whatever. I carry on with my life.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. Yeah. When it comes to me in the news, my therapist told me to stop watching the news as much as I was because it was triggering my PTSD from the Air Force because of current events going on. I don't need to be watching that, and that's what she came to the conclusion with me over was why are you watching this? What are you gaining from this? What is productive of you watching this? Can you do anything about what you're looking at? No, no, no. Then why are you letting it affect your day-to-day life? And that's when I had that light bulb moment of I don't need to have the news on, and I don't need to feel guilty that I don't have it on. Because opting out isn't necessarily a bad thing. Right. Because if you're doing it for your mental health and for your greater good, then that's what matters the most. That's delicious rather than just watching the news so that you can be informed.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, and let's be clear the thing you've opted into, you and I both, is spreading peace, love, joy, happiness through the world. That's our contribution right there. So sorry, sorry.
SPEAKER_00Whenever the world is chaotic, I love to make my content curated to comfort, whether it's food or advice or skincare, or I'm in the taking a bath or an everything shower, which is like showing all the products and all the things I do, um, or scrubbing my horses and giving them a bath.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And that's so perfect, such a perfect segue into connection. How do you find connection or how do you use connection to keep you grounded?
SPEAKER_00So I would say using connection to keep me grounded really starts with my family. It roots in my family connections and the fact that I proudly have a relationship with my father, my mother, my stepmother, and my stepfather. And having that strong family foundation helps me in all aspects of my life. Decision making, and I understand that everybody has a good relationship with their parents. For example, my mom doesn't have a good relationship with her parents. And I don't fault anyone for choosing themselves and their peace over having a relationship with a family member for the sake of them being family. Right. For the sake of that person being blood. If someone's not serving you in the right way or they're not treating you the right way, you can walk away.
SPEAKER_01Family or not.
SPEAKER_00Family or not.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Totally. Oh boy. And I guess I locate connection. And as I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking maybe I actually take my family, James, George, my inner circle of friends. Maybe I take them for granted a little bit. Because I'm locating the connection a little bit outside in my spiritual community at Agape. And the biggest source of connection and groundedness for me are my neighbors. The people I see every day when I walk George in the park. I have gone so far as to make it a point, like it's my job to say hello to every person we meet. So sweet. Well, sometimes people ain't feeling it, you know, and it may take months of saying good morning, hello, to people before they will even look at me and respond. So in these days and times, sometimes it doesn't even feel natural or organic to build bridges with your neighbors. But I'm telling you, I think you said it best earlier. You gotta be like a piece of moldy fruit in the bowl and just spread it around.
SPEAKER_00Yes, my saying is that if there's moldy fruit in a bowl, it's gonna spread. So you can either have that mold be like, you can think of it as positivity, negativity, whatever, but I like to think of it as positivity, just spreading, or like I don't know, I'm dealing with hornworms in my garden right now, but just hornworms spreading all over the garden. Positivity just spreading, like hornworms, like hornworms to a tomato plant.
SPEAKER_01Amazing. Well, this has been so great today. So far, we've talked about alignment, we've talked about ritual, and I love that our ideas about it are so different, right? And then we talked about connection. So it's it's been really amazing. Maddie, if someone is out there feeling untethered, unbalanced, just out of whack in this chaotic world, what's the one piece of advice you would give them?
SPEAKER_00I would definitely tell them to let go. Letting go in terms of meditation or just sitting with yourself, finding a way to let go is everything. And it's really hard because you have to let go of control, you have to surrender essentially. And no one really wants to do that naturally. I feel like we don't want to do that, but finding a way to let go and allow yourself to be aligned and to live in your truth and truly let go and come into yourself.
SPEAKER_01You heard it here. So much wisdom. Okay, travelers. So now the question is up to you. How do you stay grounded in a nut-so world? Is it alignment? Is it ritual? Is it connection? Or is it something else entirely? Let us know. Maddie, thank you so much for being with me today. It has been such a tremendous joy to have you here sharing your heart, your wisdom, your love. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00And oh, please tell people where they can find you. So you can find me on YouTube as Peachy Maddie with two whys and one eye, and then on Instagram and Facebook, Peachy Maddie with three whys and two eyes.
SPEAKER_01Excellent. And we'll put it in the show notes to make it easy for people. Wonderful. Until then, travelers, may your soul's journey be joy-filled and abundantly blessed, and may you shine your light so brightly that it not only illuminates the path for you, but for every being we meet along with you. I release this prayer knowing it is already done. And so it is. Thank you for walking with us today. If you've been moved by this episode, something struck you, please hit subscribe, leave a comment or review in the comments box. We would love to hear from you. And if you were feeling lost, adrift, uh, not the balance in this chaotic world we are currently living in, find me here. Go to my website, look at the show notes, and check out uh private coaching journeys with me. We can do this thing together. Remember, alignment, ritual, and connection are three easy tools that you can use to get balanced in this crazy world. Until we walk again, let us say.