The Unseen Companions: Exploring Spirit Guide Relationships

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey everyone, on this week's episode of Whispers from the Mist, a conversation from the Spiritual Byway, Stacy and I are going to explore spirit guides, who they are, how they show up, and the many, many ways they can support us along our journey. We talk about the different forms guides can take, how to begin connecting with them, and how their messages might come through, whether that's intuition, signs, dreams, or even those quiet nudges that we barely recognize. In this episode, we'll also share our own experience with how our guides introduce themselves, and we'll talk about the idea that some may walk with you for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Take what resonates, and we will continue this conversation along the spiritual byway. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Whispers from the Mist, Conversations from the Spiritual Byway. I am Michelle. I am here with Stacy. Hi, Stacy. Hello, everybody. Yes, and I was gonna say I'm here with a lot of guides right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

A lot of guides. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

A lot of guides. They're filling our space. So we are gonna be talking about spirit guides today. And so I'm sure they are here right now to make sure we get it right. Oh, I just got full body chills. Yeah. I know they're here.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

So, Stacey, what is a spirit guide? So I think it all depends on how you feel and believe in things. You know, my spirit guide is a spirit that has crossed over that is here to guide me through life. You can have a plethora of spirit guides throughout life. You can have more than one at one time that are all kind of put in your path to guide you in some significant area.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

And I love that definition. I did go to AI, and in the AI overview, they said that a spiritual guide is a non-physical entity that remains in the spiritual realm to act as a mentor, protector, or guide to a living person. So that was the definition they gave me for what a spirit guide is, but who might a spirit guide be? Because I feel when I hear the term spirit guide, I get drawn to a specific type of energy when I say spirit guide, but it feels almost all-encompassing also, because your spirit guide may be someone who's a part of your soul group, was part of your soul contract before you came here. It could be, and I found this in my own group of guides, a deceased loved one. It can be an animal, it can be an angelic being, an archangel. It could be an elemental, a fairy, a gnome, something along those lines. It can be a prophet, a spiritual figure, or an ascended master, or just something of higher consciousness.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Even mythical beings, I think, can be included in that. You know, yeah, I was just gonna say I've not experienced a unicorn spirit guide, but that would be pretty amazing.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

And I know everybody loves this topic of spirit guides, and I get it. I remember when I first opened up spiritually, I wanted that communication so bad. Who's my spirit guide? Who's helping me out? What can I figure out about them? And then it's figuring how to connect with them. And there's several things that you can do. Do you want to start that, Stacy? And we can have a conversation about that.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Sure. One of the first things that I know I learned to do was to sit in a quiet space and kind of meditate around communicating with your spirit guides. There are a lot of tips and tricks and things that you can do, but I think being open to it is kind of a key thing, first and foremost. And meditation, however you choose to meditate, is one of the best and most, I don't want to say easy, but it's it's one of the best ways to connect with the spirit guide, is that meditation. And I say that knowing that it's not easy for everybody, but you have to meditate quite regularly, daily, daily meditation to let them know that you're open to communicating with them.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

And that this is a little bit of a one-off to stop here and speak a little bit about meditation. It doesn't take a lot, but as you said, you need to get in the practice of. So maybe the first couple of times you meditate, it's only for two minutes. Right. And then you can help it grow. Seriously, the longest I can probably stay in a meditation, not in a Reiki session or something like that, is 20 to 25 minutes. And then I feel like I have to come out. Have I meditated longer than that? I have, but it's usually with a guided meditation. But on my own, I step into protection and then try to go into meditation. And does my mind get busy? Yes, it does. And so it's learning to silence that however you need to.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Right. And and that in it in and of itself can be a challenge. I know for me, I tend to do active meditations where I'll meditate while I'm doing the dishes or folding laundry or, you know, accomplishing tasks throughout my house. I've heard this beautiful idea of when you sit down to meditate, particularly in the beginning, and your mind gets super busy to imagine that it's a whiteboard and just write everything on the whiteboard and then erase it. And just, you know, constantly going back to erase that whiteboard. So it's a blank space. Meditation is not supposed to be punishment. And I and I think that that is one of the key takeaways for me. And I know in the past we've talked about like I have ADHD. I have a very hard time sitting still. Very, very hard time sitting still. Even recording sometimes for me is a challenge. And it's not because I don't want to, it's because I'm very just I move and my brain moves and I'm, you know, skipping here and there and everywhere. So meditation was always a challenge. And that's where I learned to active meditate.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

And that's a wonderful piece of advice. And I like the writing board. For me, when I step into meditation and I have a lot on my mind when I step in, I see myself placing everything in a basket, putting it up on the shelf and closing the door, and then asking that my thinking mind take a little bit of a rest and let my exploratory mind open up.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

I love that because that's a great visual to use. That's a great, great visual. I had on uh to add to it, I had a friend once tell me that when they meditated, they had a stack of white paper, you know, printer paper. And they would use each piece of paper while they were trying to quiet their mind, crumple it up and throw it in a trash can. And so they had this like almost like erasing that whiteboard or erasing that chalkboard, and like you closing that door, it's this like visual representation of I'm I'm taking these thoughts and and throwing them away for now.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

And I just when you said you closing the door, I see myself like up against it like this, like it's about to like explode, fall open if I move. And yeah, sometimes like like it's crazy, as we all know.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

I had the same visualization of you like shoving baskets in and just trying to close it at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Yeah, not always an easy task to do when there's so much going on. And I do find, and again, we're getting off topic topic, but I think it's so important when you meditate, you need to find the way that works for you. Absolutely is it active meditation or is it I'm sitting in a quiet space meditation? Is it meditation with music or not music? It really is whatever speaks to you. For me, I have to use music. I like to have headphones in and a blindfold on. Like I like to shut the world out. Yeah. That's not possible. Not always guided, occasionally guided. I do more guided meditations when I'm wanting to astral travel because they have a lot of those on YouTube, or lucid dream. And I want to step into and learn how to do that better because I find dreaming astral travel fascinating.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Absolutely. Yeah, I I can see that. I I utilize guided meditation when I find that my brain is far too active and I need to listen to something. Another one would be mantras or affirmations and you know, sitting and repeating a statement or a list of statements or just a word in your mind, which which kind of allows it to just be focused on that one thing. And I know I don't know if we've ever talked about it in in this podcast, but ho'aponopono is a great form of meditation as well, which is a Hawaiian, it's not prayer, but a Hawaiian thing utilized to help clear energy. So I've never heard of that before. No. I have to Yeah, we could do an entire episode on Hoapono Pono. It's really interesting. But it's it's essentially utilizing five statements on repeat and and clearing space and clearing energy. So that sounds great.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

So I guess we better shift back to spirit guides now. But that's our little take, a short take on meditation. Again, could have a full episode on meditation too. So you can connect with your spirit guides through meditation. What I would like to say is again, you have to set that intention. I would like to connect with my guides and hear the guidance that you share for my life. Say that every morning when you wake up. Say it in the middle of the day, say it at night. Whenever it comes to mind, just say it and hold that intention and ask them to come into your life, much like the archangels, ask for that connection to be strength. Again, uh words. Kingers or ask for that connection to strengthen. And I will say every day when I give my faith talk, I do ask for that, that the bond continue to grow stronger so I can hear with more clarity. And you can ask for signs too. You can. They're very good about giving signs. Uh, one thing I will say about stepping in and trying to meet your spirit guide, release the pressure around it. Because when you're so worried about getting that answer, knowing your friend knows who their spirit guide is, it just creeps in and that expectation takes over. Like I should know this, and you're putting pressure on yourself. So release the pressure around it, release the expectation and let it come in naturally. Because what you're doing is you're going to be building in time a relationship with your guide. And what you're going to find out is that relationship has been there all along. You just weren't tuned into the frequency. And that's one of the things. Like I'll share how my guide introduced himself. But after he did, I could sit back and say, his voice has always been there because I've heard it. I've heard him tell me to calm down or not worry about this or don't turn that way. I've heard it. I thought it was just me. It's always been there.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

I I remember having a conversation with you around that actually, because I remember whenever I first started connecting with Simon regularly, I was mad. I was big mad because I had been connecting with him my entire life. And it was so such a normal part of my intuition or my connection to the universe that I didn't put two and two together, that it was me actually actively communicating with my guide until I stepped back and really observed. And I was mad. I was like, so you've been telling me I've been doing this my entire life and just not realizing it. And I think while I was upset and mad, it was kind of a check too. It was a check for me to go, you have been connected. You are connected. You just need to figure out what it actually looks like.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

So I was gonna ask, and you kind of just answered, did knowing that they've been there all it all along feel validating or a little bit like, oh, this is what it is, and a little bit disappointing just because you're expecting this great grand reveal and you're like, oh, they've always been here.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

I think it there it wasn't disappointing. It was more like so I've been doing this the entire time and just not putting the pieces together. And now that I have the pieces and I can put them together, like cool. But I was hoping for some grand reveal, like to wake up one morning and see my guide standing there, go like shrouded in light, you know, this beautiful experience. When it was just like the whispering of a tarot card that kept kept popping up for whatever reason in my life. And it was just a strong message of like pay attention, and like, hey, knocking on my head, going, pay attention, you need to know this. You need you need awareness.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

But it is really cool when you do finally have that realization, and you can put a name, which they give us for our purposes, not so much for their purpose, um, but so we know what to call them. And I know when I met my guy, and I haven't told this whole story because it's a little bit fascinating, but it's a little bit overwhelming too. And it's something I've kind of wanted to keep to myself, but I think enough time's gone by and I've honored it and respected it that I can maybe share it. And if not, the audio glitch or something, and the story won't be on here anyway. But I didn't come across my guide. I knew I had a guide, at least one. And when he first introduced himself, I was just in bed one night and I'm like, there's someone in this room. And I'm like, oh, this is my guide. And I'm like, well, what is your name? And he told me his name was Shiloh. I'm like, okay, Shiloh, I guess that's a pretty good name for a guide. And I'm like, Shiloh, man, like, is that a guide's name? And so I'm like going back and forth on this whole name and it not seeming like it fit right. In between, I had a reading and one of the readers, or the reader, not one of them, there was only one there. She said that she had connected with my main guide, who was a very ancient angel, like one that had been around a lot. And I'm like, oh, that's really interesting because when I picture my guide, I'm not necessarily seeing an angel. I'm seeing long hair, like a plate, and then he almost looks like a senator. It's almost like this brown thing down around the waist, and it feels like a senator. So I'm thinking, is my guide a senator? Which is half horse, half man, right? Yeah, yeah. So I am religious, but I am Lutheran. I am not versed in like all the different archangels, or I hadn't learned about all the archangels yet. Of course, I knew they were there. I didn't know what they look like. So fast forward like a year or two, and I am reading something about the sun and how Archangel Michael is connected to the sun. And I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool because I have a connection with the sun. Maybe I need to get a pendant or something with Archangel Michael on it. So I started looking, and the image I came across was what I've been seeing in my mind. It was Archangel Michael who was there. And the cinator was not the half part of the horse. It was his armor, his gear on the bottom. I could never see below. It just looked like just the top part, the torso. So I'm like, oh my gosh. And then I got kind of overwhelmed by it. Like, what do I do with this information? I have always felt very protected, looked after, watched over. And now I know I'm working with Archangel Michael. So I need to learn everything about him. And then I got really confused. I'm like, well, what do I call you? And he's like, I don't know, what do you want to call me? I'm like, I could call you Sam. And he said, think about that. And I'm like, Shiloh, Archangel Michael. And I I didn't even put it together until he's like, slow it down, think about that. So I just know it's him. I don't think I call him anything now, but I still do invite Archangel Michael into my life. But I do know he's a part of my team. And I just, yeah, I haven't ever shared that.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

I'm comfortable sharing it, actually. It's really, really cool though, when you step back and think about it, because when you and I were kind of studying and learning about them together, we I think were told that archangels are often certainly guides for some individuals. And what I remember being told is when you make a big deal that it's an archangel, they they will turn around and leave and be like, yeah, not anymore. And I I think I love that you shared this story because you stepped into it so naturally and not like, haha, Archangel Michael is my guide, not yours. And it it was just a part of who you are. Kind of like Simon for me, he's just been a part of my life the entire time. And it it just feels very natural.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

It does. And it all revealed itself so naturally. And then, you know, I took the time to sit with it. And I've known this information for quite a while. And again, not ever shared it publicly. And yeah, I'm feeling a little vulnerable actually by sharing it. But I think it was time because it's just the way it works. It just is how it unfolded for me. And I feel so blessed to have that deeper understanding. Now I have another guide, and this one came across like a karaoke ball, like a little red bouncing ball that goes on the word you're supposed to sing. And that energy is just lively. It's fun. And that one I do believe is extraterrestrial. Very cool. Yeah, very cool. So lots of different things.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Yeah, and and I love that you have like two very different guides that are very different energies, too, which just is a demonstration that you really can have more than one person on your team. I think right now Simon is the only one that I'm aware of on my team, but that's not abnormal. There was a point in time that I think I had five different guides. I had one person that was there teaching me how to kind of talk more eloquently. And that was when I was going to school. And, you know, I had another guide that was there to help me connect in and work on clearings and and such along those lines. And but they've all come and gone too.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

And I think I have five guides that are still there. And the very interesting part about them is they are all assigned, as you said, different tasks in my life. Like Shiloh, he's the main one. He's the main dude that everyone comes to and then it steps forward to me. Like if there's work in the background and I need a cohesive picture, they all share their facts and he's the one that presents them. Right. Um, then I have my guide. I associate him with the color yellow, and he's my nostalgia. He's my grounding. He's the one I'm gonna go to for a hug or for reassurance. Right. And then I have my green guide who is associated with my safety, my protection, that watching over feeling. He's got my back. And it's so weird. He kind of came across almost as like a Clark Kent type of feeling, like it's just there. And then my blue guide, and I used to call it because the other ones have given me names, and again, they're names for my benefits, but this blue one would never give me her name. But she held me to my authenticity. She called me out on things, and so I always called her the blue one. I later found out that it's my grandma. And so I call her now Grandma Blue. But the very interesting thing is, and this is so fascinating, and people are gonna be like, you're crazy. But this is the honest truth. My grandma in life, Pinocchio, had come up, and I'm a Gemini, and she was fascinated with Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy. And for her energy to come through is that blue energy, that beautiful blue, just inviting energy, just blows my mind. And then that red energy is that of almost like a cricket. So I'm wondering if that was one of her guides in life too. So I have a lot of questions for these guides. I don't always get the answers. I have to wait my turn, my time, but I have a lot of questions.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Right. I think we all do. I think, you know, when we figure out who our guides are, we're like, how did I get you? Where'd you come from? Why are you my guide? Why'd why'd you get assigned to me? Where did we have a connection in a previous life, you know, where we are we oftentimes our guides too are known to be part of our spiritual, oh my gosh, family, our spirit family. And, you know, so I'm gonna branch off for a minute because I think it's important to note what a spirit family essentially is. Oh, absolutely. Everyone that you meet, or everyone that is in your life, is kind of already pre assigned what they're supposed to be and what role they're supposed to fill in your lifetime. So before we came down. To this life, you know, my husband and I agreed that we would get married, you know, later on in life. We kind of had the plan. And those are all like your spirit families, but there is an opportunity too for you to sit back before you jump into this life and say, Hey, I'd like you to be my guide for this life. Do you want to take a step back and you'll be my spiritual, essentially spiritual advisor during the this lifetime? And so your guides are often a part of your spiritual family in that sense.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

I don't know if I did a good job explaining that, but you did a wonderful job explaining that. And again, all these things branch off. And there's a whole episode in spirit family soul contracts, because you do make essentially contracts with these guides, with people you come across in your life. And you're the only one that has no clue here on the earth side of things. I mean, you've agreed to all this, but you just don't remember that you're gonna do this. I think it's so cool. I think all of this is so fascinating and it's so energizing too.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

It really is. Because when you step back and you look, you really do have this opportunity between lifetimes to orchestrate what experiences you are going to have in the next life.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Yes. And hopefully not a lot of karma relation. Karma kind of freaks me out because unknowingly you can step into some bad karma.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Well, how do spirit guides communicate? How do they not communicate? It it all depends on how you connect in. So, you know, I think we did all of the different ways you can experience spirit in a previous episode, but you can hear them, you can see them, you can feel them. Like Simon tends to give me physical symbols as well as visions in my mind or whispers in, you know, whenever I'm walking through life.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Whispers in the mist.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Whisper from the mist? In the mist, yeah. In the mist or from the mist. I don't remember right now.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

I think it's whispers from the mist. I'm saying both. Either works. You get the gist, right? Yeah. Well, I love that. I was thinking about how my guides communicate with me and how guides possibly commun can communicate with other people, depending on, again, what Claire is open, how you best receive information. But one of the ways is your gut instinct or your inner knowing. That could be guide-led. If you keep seeing repeated words, names, or symbols, that could be guide-led. And I know that I am spoken to a lot through auditory means outside my body, like repeated names, random places that I had just been, or words I were thinking words that I had just been thinking coming across somewhere in the exact same moment. And weird words, not like everyday like dream or ice cream. Weird, obscure words. So that works for me. Yeah, they can come through your dreams and leave impressions. I like feelings too. Yeah, emotional shifts or sudden clarity about something. Like you do not know what to do with something, and all of a sudden the answer comes to you and it feels like it has legs. Meaningful timing and synchronicities, which they speak to me always. I'm always looking for them, and they always make my day and bring a smile to my life. And then just subtle presence that is sometimes overlooked. Sometimes you're not paying attention, but there's that subtle feeling of something with you. Maybe for me, sometimes I feel it in my left shoulder like someone's walking with me with their hand on my shoulder, sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Yeah, it's it's an interesting thing. And and you know, I love that you have experienced like the sh the hand on your shoulder and it doesn't freak you out. But again, you probably know it's your guide.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Yeah, and it's not exactly like it feels like a hand on my shoulder. I just have pressure on my shoulder. When I step into awareness, it feels like it's almost there, like standing right behind me. Right. Um, touching me, grabbing my leg or something, and pulling me under a table would freak me out. Or sometimes I do feel like like tinglings or something, like on my skin, just like someone brushed up against it. But you know, maybe that's my dog. I'm not sure. That doesn't freak me out, but grabbing me would freak me out. Yes. Yes, it would. Um let's go back to the human, I'm a scaredy cat. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still human here. Exactly. And then again, connecting with them, drop the pressure around it. Don't compare yourself to other people, you know, connect in quiet moments.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

And just remind them that you are open to hearing from them and that you're listening. I think having an open conversation regularly opens yourself up to it too. Definitely.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

Yeah. Just keep asking them to come in, saying that you want to establish that relationship. And then once you have that relationship and that contact, let's make it deeper. Let's continue to deepen this. Help me to understand it more. Show me how you're going to work with my energy so I know that you're here.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Right. Open and just just kind of like you said, and and I know we keep saying it, but dropping all expectations because it's going to happen in a way that you don't expect. It's going to show up in a way that you are used to as well. It's going to be like walking. You know, we get used to walking. We can just stand up and go. And that's kind of how our spirit guides communicate with us. They know us. They know us inside and out. And so they're used to communicating with us at this point in time. They know when we are paying attention and when we're not. And because of that, it makes it harder to distinguish if it's them or if it's something else. It's true.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

But once you notice the pattern, you'll know when it's them. It'll just come across a little bit different energetically. And what a weird shift that is. Something that's always happened and now it's got an energetic zing around it. Yep. Yeah. And then you'll you'll really notice it more for sure. You know, another way you might tap into that spirit guide energy, and I just thought of this, is automatic writing too. Absolutely. Pen to paper, ask a question like what do my spirit guides want me to know today?

SPEAKER_00 28:33

And then start writing. Absolutely. And that'll that will give you more information, I think, than any other way to attempt to communicate. Because that it's just, it just is, you know, you're writing to write, you're not writing for an end goal. And when you're doing that and you're just opening yourself up to whatever comes through, you really are, you know, setting yourself up to communicate in a way that you might not otherwise be able to do.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Yeah. And automatic writing, and this again as a side note, fascinates me. And it's a great way to tap into your subconscious mind or to communicate with your guides. But when I automatically write, and everyone should do this just right. Don't worry about punctuation, don't worry about correcting your spelling, just write and let it come through. And I will find when I go back to read it, the handwriting changes. And the words that I use are not words I typically use. And that's usually a sign to me, like it's communicating with a guide or something else.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

And and the other thing too to note is actually pen to paper is definitely more powerful. And I know that there are some individuals out there that are like, I'm not gonna sit and write. And I am actually one of those I type a lot faster and my brain moves sometimes too quickly. But even in typing, I can see a language shift take place. And I'll go back and read things that I've typed, and I'm surprised. I'm like, that's not language that I typically use. Those aren't words that I usually would put together in a sentence. It makes sense, but that is it me talking or is it, you know, Simon or is it another guy?

SPEAKER_01 30:16

And typing is just as therapeutic and it can work through typing too. And um, I think we've talked about this before. Yeah. Between us. I don't think we've talked about it on an episode, but just how that shift in dialect or the way you the words you use, it all changes.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

And and I've experienced that during a reading too. When someone asked me to tap into a loved one, I remember, you know, I wrote a bunch of things up that were coming through and I sent them, they're like, that's not you talking. That is literally how my loved one spoke in in life during life. And I've never heard you speak in that manner before. Just the cadence of the sentences, how they were put together, and all of that was a genuine surprise. Fascinating. It all fascinates me so much. Yeah, it's it's very, very, very cool whenever you're able to step back and look at it.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

Yeah. So again, today we're talking about guides, what it is, who they can be. I really want to step just for a moment back into a reason, a season. You had talked about that with guides that you had one who came in to help you speak more eloquently. And they were just there a short time, they did their job and moved on. I know at one point you had an elephant energy come in to teach you a lesson and it moved on. So if they moved on, just know that you're evolving and you've learned that lesson. They're still there for you if you need them, if you need to call upon them, but they've moved on to help someone else. I'm kind of thinking of Pete's Dragon right now, actually, where he helped Pete and then Elliot moved on to help other group children.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Which makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah, but and your guides, they will be here to help keep you aligned to your life path, your goals, what you're supposed to do. Again, you have free will. You don't have to listen to what they say. But if you don't listen, they're gonna make things more challenging. Yeah, in a more challenging way, is what I was gonna say. So I don't know. Guides, they just fascinate me. I'm so grateful for them. When I am having guide communication, again, I'm still protecting myself, not from my guides, but just from anything that can be eavesdropping or near. Um so yeah, protection's still important. Yeah, it's true. Always protect. Yeah. So do you have anything else at this point you'd like to say about guides?

SPEAKER_00 32:48

I don't think so. I'm kind of excited to see what questions you have today, actually.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Okay, I do. I have three listener questions, and here they are. The first one is have you ever experienced guidance or support from a spirit guide? The second one is, what subtle signs or patterns have you noticed from them? And the third question is, are you open to recognizing communication that is already present? Those are really great questions. I love them as I always do. If I didn't, I wouldn't write them down. Stacy, would you like to close out this episode? Stay curious. Trust what you know, and we will meet you and your guides along the spiritual byway. Until next time, everyone. Bye. Bye, everybody. Thank you so much for listening to the spiritual byway. Here's the orchid help the podcast reach others who are searching for the same sense of understanding community. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us and walking the stretch of the spiritual pilot. Wherever you are on your journey right now, just know you're not alone. We're here for you, and we're all in this together.