Rev. Rose Hope: This is when Spirit calls and you on your
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Speaker:Our special guest on the show today is Jeri Tourand. Jeri is a
Speaker:self love and relationship coach, empowering visionary
Speaker:souls to bridge Heaven and Earth by embodying their authentic
Speaker:selves. A former school teacher and radio show host, she is now
Speaker:a dedicated Zen trilotherapy practitioner, integrating
Speaker:transformative modalities like ho pono, pono and mindfulness to
Speaker:awaken self love and inner freedom. Since 2009 she has led
Speaker:retreats and workshops, guiding deep truth and self love,
Speaker:helping clients release emotions, trust life's flow and
Speaker:live fully through Zen, travel therapy and unconditional love.
Speaker:Retreats, Jeri invites participants to experience
Speaker:heaven on earth. Her mission inspire you to embrace your
Speaker:divine essence, express your potential and live a life of
Speaker:love, vitality and freedom. Hey, hey everybody. I am so excited
Speaker:about our guests today. I mean, as you know, I'm always excited
Speaker:about our guests because we bring in the most magical,
Speaker:special people. And it is no surprise that we have Jerry here
Speaker:today, because she's one of the most magical people that I know,
Speaker:and I've had the privilege of knowing Jeri personally now for
Speaker:it's been a decade. Can you believe it? So I have had the
Speaker:privilege of watching this woman support people, help people,
Speaker:share her heart with the world, and so I'm thrilled that she
Speaker:agreed to come on the podcast today. Thank you, Jeri.
Jeri Tourand:Thank you Deanne. I am so happy to be here, and
Jeri Tourand:you always speak to my heart, and you've you've definitely
Jeri Tourand:been a part of my journey, even when you didn't even realize how
Jeri Tourand:much I was watching you.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: And the feeling is mutual. Is that so beautiful?
Jeri Tourand:It's like we often don't realize the light we shine on the world.
Jeri Tourand:And so you know, with that being said, you know you have had a
Jeri Tourand:powerful life with some really significant turning points that
Jeri Tourand:have allowed you to get to this beautiful place of being a love
Jeri Tourand:mentor and a love guide for people. So I would love our
Jeri Tourand:audience to hear that story for you. What was it that catalyzed
Jeri Tourand:this journey and allowed you to step into this divine path?
Jeri Tourand:Would you start us off with that?
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, absolutely. It has been a journey, that's
Jeri Tourand:for sure, and I feel like I'm revisiting so much of it again,
Jeri Tourand:like anew. So, yeah, it's very alive in me. And some people
Jeri Tourand:have kind of referred to me as a dark night of the soul doula,
Jeri Tourand:just because I, you know, I have been through some really rough
Jeri Tourand:times, and I remember when I really had no idea who I was, my
Jeri Tourand:my journey. I mean, it's kind of been my whole life, since my
Jeri Tourand:childhood, I always felt like people should just love each
Jeri Tourand:other, like, how can they just not see what's possible here?
Jeri Tourand:And how can people be so mean to one another and how, you know,
Jeri Tourand:and as a school teacher, bullying was always really one
Jeri Tourand:of my, I guess my biggest triggers, wow, is not really
Jeri Tourand:understanding how kids could be so mean, and where does this
Jeri Tourand:come from, and then Starting with those questions, starting
Jeri Tourand:on this whole journey recognizing, you know, that we
Jeri Tourand:really just don't love ourselves, and recognizing that
Jeri Tourand:I was included in that, that I really didn't have any idea how
Jeri Tourand:to love myself, what that even looked like. I thought it was
Jeri Tourand:all about self care, you know, I eat well, I exercise, I'm kind
Jeri Tourand:to people. And after my father died in 2001 of a terminal
Jeri Tourand:illness, I really did start to question everything, and I
Jeri Tourand:started to ask all the deeper questions, why am I here? What
Jeri Tourand:is life all about? Who am I? Careful what you wish for. You
Jeri Tourand:know that started me on on an amazing personal development
Jeri Tourand:journey to find Jerry. Know what? Who is this? What is this,
Jeri Tourand:really? And. I had already recognized that I fell into the
Jeri Tourand:people pleasing category, not really living for myself, but
Jeri Tourand:doing what I thought I had to do in order to survive, in order to
Jeri Tourand:be loved and lovable and all the things. So then I dove into
Jeri Tourand:taking courses and listening to they weren't podcasts back then,
Jeri Tourand:they were teleseminars, like every single day, just traveling
Jeri Tourand:all over North America, going to various retreats, personal
Jeri Tourand:development workshops. And that rattled to the surface
Jeri Tourand:everything that wasn't true about me. Wow, it's actually
Jeri Tourand:quite devastating, because it was just like a whole
Jeri Tourand:dismantling, a whole unraveling of everything I always believed,
Jeri Tourand:wow. And it actually started this dark night of the soul era.
Jeri Tourand:So 2007 I started to question marriage. I started to question
Jeri Tourand:my marriage, my parenting, like everything, my chosen career,
Jeri Tourand:where it just felt like nothing was really me, and I was
Jeri Tourand:questioning whether any of it was aligned, wow. And I ended up
Jeri Tourand:having a full blown anxiety attack where I felt like I was
Jeri Tourand:dying of a heart attack. I couldn't breathe. I had chest
Jeri Tourand:pain. My face went numb, my limbs went numb, my legs went
Jeri Tourand:numb, and I was in and out of the hospital for a couple of
Jeri Tourand:years, having episodes these attacks. I had to quit teaching
Jeri Tourand:because I could barely get out of bed. Wow. I was so scared. I
Jeri Tourand:thought I was gonna die, and I was so worried that my three
Jeri Tourand:daughters were gonna find me dead in the morning because of
Jeri Tourand:the crushing chest pain, the numbness, I didn't know what was
Jeri Tourand:going on, and I wasn't fully convinced that it was an anxiety
Jeri Tourand:panic attack, as the doctors had said, but I was willing to
Jeri Tourand:entertain the idea that it was okay. And I tried everything. I
Jeri Tourand:went to the traditional doctors and naturopathic doctors, a
Jeri Tourand:chiropractic that, I mean, I was juicing non stop. I was painting
Jeri Tourand:my feet with iodine. I, you know, I, and I'd already
Jeri Tourand:identified that there was some sort of autoimmune something
Jeri Tourand:going on here, yeah. And then, ultimately, yeah, I mean, some
Jeri Tourand:doctor said, Okay, you're positive for lupus, mitral valve
Jeri Tourand:prolapse that I had, like, my heart valve got really weak, and
Jeri Tourand:they said it was minor mitral valve prolapse. But I thought,
Jeri Tourand:wow, there's the ultimate not listening to my heart, yeah, and
Jeri Tourand:then my thyroid and I went down to under 100 pounds and like, so
Jeri Tourand:it was very physical, mental, emotional. So I thought, okay,
Jeri Tourand:all of it, yeah, this is like a total breakdown, and nothing
Jeri Tourand:that I was trying was working. Kind of start to question, okay,
Jeri Tourand:so what am I looking for here? I'm obviously attached to you
Jeri Tourand:some kind of a result. Ah, you know, it's not working. It's not
Jeri Tourand:working to get rid of, to change, to fix this part of me
Jeri Tourand:that I'm judging is bad. It's wrong. It shouldn't be here. I
Jeri Tourand:shouldn't be like this. I must have done something wrong. Like
Jeri Tourand:and then I started to hear that voice and how judgy it was, wow,
Jeri Tourand:and how critical it was and recognized, this is not what
Jeri Tourand:love would say.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: This is not what love would say, yeah.
Jeri Tourand:And then the voice continue just, you know, because
Jeri Tourand:I've, I got to this point of surrender where I finally just,
Jeri Tourand:I remember just kneeling down and sitting in the shower and
Jeri Tourand:just letting the water beat down on me and crying and saying,
Jeri Tourand:like, I can't do this. I can't do this anymore, like take me or
Jeri Tourand:heal me or help me, because I can't see what I can't see. Wow.
Jeri Tourand:Don't know what I don't know. I don't know what else to do, what
Jeri Tourand:else to try? And the answer was just that I received is you have
Jeri Tourand:to love yourself. Wow, it already kind of identified, but
Jeri Tourand:then I was pissed off, because I'm like, right? I'm doing
Jeri Tourand:everything right, like,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: I'm doing all things.
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, and that I remembered the whole pono, pono
Jeri Tourand:mantra that I, you know, read about and used a little bit. So
Jeri Tourand:the first thing I did was forgive myself for not knowing
Jeri Tourand:how to love myself. And I'd already recognized that what I
Jeri Tourand:was saying to myself, that there was something wrong with me, was
Jeri Tourand:not helping. I. Right? You know, I need to fix this. I need to
Jeri Tourand:change this. And so I decided that I was going to continue
Jeri Tourand:using this whole pono, pono, remembering a course in Miracle
Jeri Tourand:says it's either love or cry for love. Whatever it is is love or
Jeri Tourand:cry for love. So I'm like for love, this numbness, these
Jeri Tourand:aches, these pains, the heart palpitations, this is all a cry
Jeri Tourand:for love. Whoa. And what am I meeting
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: it with resentment, way, frustration,
Jeri Tourand:anger, all the things, right?
Jeri Tourand:Just reinforcing that it's not good enough. It
Jeri Tourand:shouldn't be here, you know, pushing those parts of me away.
Jeri Tourand:And no wonder I was so split. Wow, yeah. And then I started to
Jeri Tourand:and then I got just those, those deep truths, just like, You know
Jeri Tourand:what? You resist, persist, yeah. I'm like, Yeah, I've been
Jeri Tourand:resisting these parts of me. I've been by judging them. And
Jeri Tourand:then I that was a huge light bulb moment where I realized
Jeri Tourand:that judgment is a form of resistance, yes, and what you
Jeri Tourand:resist persists. So I was like, I'm judging it. I'm trying to
Jeri Tourand:fix it, I'm trying to change it. I'm trying to get rid of instead
Jeri Tourand:of welcoming, these parts of me, No wonder I'm not healing, or
Jeri Tourand:whatever I perceived healing to be at the time, which is
Jeri Tourand:completely different now. And so instead of judging, I decided,
Jeri Tourand:what's the opposite? What's the opposite of judging? It's
Jeri Tourand:welcoming. So then I used the whole pono, pono mantra. For all
Jeri Tourand:those different parts of me that were crying for my attention,
Jeri Tourand:wow. And then ultimately, it just boiled down into I'm here.
Jeri Tourand:I love you. I'm listening, wow. So I would meet the heart
Jeri Tourand:palpitations that way. I would meet the fear, the frustration,
Jeri Tourand:the impatience. I'm here for you. You're allowed to be
Jeri Tourand:impatient. You're allowed to be frustrated. I love you. I'm
Jeri Tourand:listening. I love you more. Sometimes I'd ask, wow. And
Jeri Tourand:every night, that was my routine. So it became this self
Jeri Tourand:love ritual, wow, every single night to just do a body scan.
Jeri Tourand:And, yeah, yeah, welcome it all. And then I one day, I noticed,
Jeri Tourand:geez, I haven't had any attacks. I haven't been to the hospital
Jeri Tourand:for a while, and I don't know when the turning point was,
Jeri Tourand:like, it just, you know, it just shifted, yeah, and then within
Jeri Tourand:like, a year, I didn't have any symptoms. Wow. I felt amazing,
Jeri Tourand:and I and so I know that that self love ritual, very being
Jeri Tourand:very committed to myself and to prioritizing myself and
Jeri Tourand:everything that was showing up outside of me, you know, like
Jeri Tourand:people don't prioritize me. I don't matter to anyone. I'm not
Jeri Tourand:good enough, right? That was all, all those beliefs that were
Jeri Tourand:actually causing the external experience of that, right,
Jeri Tourand:reinforcing my beliefs, right? I really do believe that, you
Jeri Tourand:know, our beliefs are out pictured in front of us, and you
Jeri Tourand:know that we're, we're inadvertently the cause of our
Jeri Tourand:experience, right, in our reality, which is a beautiful
Jeri Tourand:gift, yes, because otherwise we wouldn't even see what our
Jeri Tourand:blocks are and what those beliefs are that are, you know,
Jeri Tourand:blocking us from really being the love that we are expressing
Jeri Tourand:it, really Opening to it. And that really did become my
Jeri Tourand:purpose. Wow, was always kind of in me thinking like, Why can't
Jeri Tourand:people just love each other? But then that that split, thank God
Jeri Tourand:for it. Yeah, because I developed the tools that I know
Jeri Tourand:work self love and forgiveness. So first I became a self love
Jeri Tourand:and forgiveness coach, because that's what, what worked to
Jeri Tourand:integrate, that was the those parts Yeah, and heal that rift
Jeri Tourand:between my head and my heart, this, this self judgment,
Jeri Tourand:judging myself and not, not prioritizing myself, yeah? And,
Jeri Tourand:you know, all these things that cause this big split, and where
Jeri Tourand:I didn't trust myself, I kept I had so much self doubt, so we're
Jeri Tourand:seeking outside myself all your time, right? And then so
Jeri Tourand:frustrated and pissed off that it's not working. Yeah, nobody
Jeri Tourand:else does have your answers, Jeri.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: you have the answer.
Jeri Tourand:gee, who are you? Right? There's a reason that
Jeri Tourand:Guru is spelled that way.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, my God, I love that. Yes. Oh, Jerry,
Jeri Tourand:there's so much about your story that I want to talk about. The
Jeri Tourand:first that I want to highlight, because to me, this is such a
Jeri Tourand:potent realization. Is that everything that happens either
Jeri Tourand:comes from love or a cry for love. And I love that you
Jeri Tourand:brought that up from A Course in Miracles, because I think a lot
Jeri Tourand:of times it's very easy for us to see somebody showing up in a
Jeri Tourand:way and being like, what are they doing? How could they be
Jeri Tourand:so? Mean, how could they be this or that? But if we understand it
Jeri Tourand:from the position that that's a cry for love. Oh, boy, does that
Jeri Tourand:ever allow us to step in to support that? So that's the
Jeri Tourand:first thing. The next piece you spoke about was this whole idea
Jeri Tourand:of this like self love ritual and HO pono pono. And I want to
Jeri Tourand:make sure our audience knows what ho pono pono is, and what
Jeri Tourand:your self love ritual was, because I have a feeling that a
Jeri Tourand:lot of people are like, Well, what does it look like to love
Jeri Tourand:myself? Like, what does that even mean? And you said, you
Jeri Tourand:know, I'm eating healthy, I'm exercising, I'm showing my body.
Jeri Tourand:I love it, but yet rejecting these parts of yourself, and I
Jeri Tourand:think that's a big problem for most of us, you know, we love
Jeri Tourand:the juicy, alive, good pieces, and then some of the shadow
Jeri Tourand:pieces of us were like, oh, you know, pushing those away, and
Jeri Tourand:that causes, even on a cellular level, this battle that ensues,
Jeri Tourand:and your body was fighting for your attention, that cry for
Jeri Tourand:help. So would you share with us a little bit about the whole
Jeri Tourand:pono? Pono and your self love ritual?
Jeri Tourand:I love Ho’oponoponoo. It absolutely
Jeri Tourand:changed my life. And so that, you know, it's a Hawaiian
Jeri Tourand:forgiveness mantra process to return us to our original form,
Jeri Tourand:which is love, yeah. And so the four phrases are, I'm sorry,
Jeri Tourand:please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Those phrases, it's a
Jeri Tourand:frequency, it's a vibration. And some people take it a little bit
Jeri Tourand:too literally, like, I'm sorry. I'm saying I'm sorry to the
Jeri Tourand:perpetrator. Like, but it's not that, like, maybe it's, you
Jeri Tourand:know, I'm sorry for for hating you, for wanting bad things to
Jeri Tourand:happen to you. Like, that isn't who I am. So it's really
Jeri Tourand:returning to that original form, that original self, just like,
Jeri Tourand:you know, the story of Michelangelo and the David, you
Jeri Tourand:know, chipping away at all the blocks until the David revealed
Jeri Tourand:itself. It was already there, right? This love you already are
Jeri Tourand:that already there? Yeah. So, like Rumi says, It's not about,
Jeri Tourand:you know, finding love. It's like seeking for the blocks and
Jeri Tourand:releasing the blocks to the love that you already are. So what is
Jeri Tourand:preventing you from freely expressing being and receiving
Jeri Tourand:this love that's already infinitely present? It's already
Jeri Tourand:here. We just are all blocked up, all these protectors and all
Jeri Tourand:the safety, augmented beliefs,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: all the stuff, yeah,
Jeri Tourand:totally, it's a whole Ho’oponopono is the is the
Jeri Tourand:one that chips away at that beautiful and just, you know,
Jeri Tourand:I'm sorry for believing that I should be different than I am.
Jeri Tourand:Ah, right. I forgive myself for believing that my mother should
Jeri Tourand:have been different than she was and my father. I forgive myself
Jeri Tourand:for believing that life should be different than it is. Ah,
Jeri Tourand:right? And so there's your resisting. You know, we suffer
Jeri Tourand:in direct proportion to how much we resist, what is
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: yes we let me say that again, we suffer in
Jeri Tourand:direct proportion in resisting, what is
Jeri Tourand:yeah to how much we resist, what is and so what
Jeri Tourand:if we could just welcome what it and the foundation is trust,
Jeri Tourand:right? Trusting that really the universe does have your back,
Jeri Tourand:that the source that I know, Gus, right, what you call it,
Jeri Tourand:God with your sword, you know, really is always supporting you.
Jeri Tourand:It's to grow and evolve and to become more of who you already
Jeri Tourand:are by helping you identify. What are those blocks? What are
Jeri Tourand:those belief systems that are holding you hostage, like we're
Jeri Tourand:holding ourselves hostage we are, and then when we start to
Jeri Tourand:just, you know, acknowledge it, welcome it, apologize to our
Jeri Tourand:inner child for holding on to this hatred, this anger, this
Jeri Tourand:for being mean to ourselves, and, you know, projecting it
Jeri Tourand:onto others, and you know, all this crazy that happens that
Jeri Tourand:isn't even crazy, because it's we were a child when it first
Jeri Tourand:started. So we're innocent and so. Really, you know going back
Jeri Tourand:and embracing your innocence, that we really did the best we
Jeri Tourand:could what we knew, so did our parents and men apologizing.
Jeri Tourand:Geez, I'm so sorry for carrying this for so long, for hurting
Jeri Tourand:myself with this. So we're really, we're not if we're
Jeri Tourand:someone hurt us and did something that wasn't loving
Jeri Tourand:toward us, and we say, I'm sorry, please forgive me. No,
Jeri Tourand:I'm sorry for hating you. I'm sorry to my inner child for
Jeri Tourand:carrying this vibration of anger and hatred that prevented me
Jeri Tourand:from receiving love, that prevented me from moving on. So
Jeri Tourand:it's about freeing yourself to move forward. It's not do they
Jeri Tourand:deserve forgiveness.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: It doesn't really have much to do with
Jeri Tourand:them. The whole pono pono is for you, for us.
Jeri Tourand:I deserve to be free, yeah. And so I started to
Jeri Tourand:slowly release the blocks through a whole Ho’oponopono
Jeri Tourand:meeting those parts of me that were crying for my love and
Jeri Tourand:attention, whether it was mental anguish, emotional anguish, a
Jeri Tourand:physical ailment or pain, and you know, and apologizing for
Jeri Tourand:whatever I might have done or failed to do, or for not seeing
Jeri Tourand:and not arriving for it sooner, and asking for forgiveness and
Jeri Tourand:then having gratitude, like thank you for showing me you
Jeri Tourand:know like that you are that you're suffering, yeah, and for
Jeri Tourand:helping me to learn how to love you more like every single part
Jeri Tourand:of me. Can I love it? Can I welcome it? Can I bring it back
Jeri Tourand:into my heart
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: and have appreciation for it.
Jeri Tourand:Totally, yeah,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: that's what I love about this methodology. The
Jeri Tourand:thank you is the receiving, the receiving, the wisdom, the
Jeri Tourand:growth, the knowledge, whatever it was in that experience, even
Jeri Tourand:if we don't exactly know what that is yet.
Jeri Tourand:So like, so I that with each of the phrases like,
Jeri Tourand:Okay, I'm sorry. That's like the frequency, the vibration of
Jeri Tourand:compassion, yes, and responsibility, you know. Please
Jeri Tourand:forgive me. It's like taking your power back. Yeah,
Jeri Tourand:accountability and yeah, you know. And then thank you.
Jeri Tourand:Obviously, we all know that gratitude is is huge to
Jeri Tourand:incorporate some sort of a gratitude or appreciation
Jeri Tourand:practice into your self love ritual. And then, then it's also
Jeri Tourand:completion, you know, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Jeri Tourand:And this is complete, and so it is. And then, of course, love,
Jeri Tourand:right? The highest vibration, this divine, you know,
Jeri Tourand:remembering that we are, that we're not separate than that.
Jeri Tourand:And that really is the healing, right? It's the reuniting with
Jeri Tourand:your truth. So self love is, you know to know thyself is to love
Jeri Tourand:thyself. You already are that, yeah, and so it's actually just
Jeri Tourand:bringing all your parts back into your heart with this
Jeri Tourand:softness, with this compassion and understanding, which is
Jeri Tourand:forgiveness, right? Understanding, how I can
Jeri Tourand:understand how you could be the way that you are given
Jeri Tourand:everything that's happened, how you could get bitter and how you
Jeri Tourand:could carry hatred like, you know, offering some compassion
Jeri Tourand:to those parts and then bringing them into your heart to be
Jeri Tourand:resolved, yeah, and integrated, we come back to this wholeness,
Jeri Tourand:and we start to, you know, recognize that we are, that we
Jeri Tourand:start to experience ourselves as that, as that, oh, that really
Jeri Tourand:is self love, right? Is knowing that you already are, yeah,
Jeri Tourand:love. So it's kind of, you know, I always kind of went from the
Jeri Tourand:top down, a little bit like bringing in that unity
Jeri Tourand:consciousness and connecting with and just unifying, you
Jeri Tourand:know, connect with the trees, connect with whoever's in front
Jeri Tourand:of you. They're the most important person, including you
Jeri Tourand:in the mirror. Yeah, whatever's now. Can we love that can we
Jeri Tourand:welcome that, and can we trust that it's perfect, that
Jeri Tourand:everything is happening perfectly.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: So here's a question for you, because you
Jeri Tourand:talked about trust being fundamental in part of your
Jeri Tourand:process. So your self love ritual was ho pono pono. You did
Jeri Tourand:that consistently, and that started to shift things, because
Jeri Tourand:you started to love yourself more and so really inviting.
Jeri Tourand:Then what if our trust has been so annihilated? Like, what if,
Jeri Tourand:like, everything that has shown up in our life has been, like,
Jeri Tourand:messy and awful, you know, what are some of the things that you
Jeri Tourand:did to anchor into that trust? Like, how did you know you could
Jeri Tourand:trust again, or what were some of the things that you did to
Jeri Tourand:help you to build that trust muscle?
Jeri Tourand:I didn't know that I could try. So it's interesting
Jeri Tourand:because I realized after what the tools actually were that I
Jeri Tourand:was using, because I started out as Ho’oponopono, right? Yeah.
Jeri Tourand:And then I realized, Oh, my God, this is like, it's a practice
Jeri Tourand:of, like, trusting myself. It's a practice of, it's presence
Jeri Tourand:practice. What if my loving presence is the healer? What if
Jeri Tourand:that's all anybody needs, because my presence is Love, and
Jeri Tourand:Love heals. Love is the ultimate solvent and dissolver of all
Jeri Tourand:that is in love. Yes, so me, just what burned my trust back?
Jeri Tourand:Was it consistent? Showing up for myself? Ah, I love this
Jeri Tourand:answer is, how do you develop trust with anyone? Right time,
Jeri Tourand:quality, time in proximity, getting to know them, listening
Jeri Tourand:and so, yeah, it wasn't like I intended to trust is the
Jeri Tourand:foundation I have to learn to trust. Yeah, it was that. It was
Jeri Tourand:like an accidental discovery that spending quality time with
Jeri Tourand:myself, holding space for myself, listening to myself
Jeri Tourand:showing up consistently at the same time every night before I
Jeri Tourand:went to sleep, that that the parts of me that were that
Jeri Tourand:didn't feel safe to go, that I thought were bad and I needed to
Jeri Tourand:get rid of well, but guess what? They let go of you, but only
Jeri Tourand:when they're loved enough. Yeah, because they're your protectors,
Jeri Tourand:right? And so as soon as they like my consistent showing up,
Jeri Tourand:yeah, then they started to let go. They start to recognize,
Jeri Tourand:okay, I can trust you, yeah? So I started to trust myself, Wow,
Jeri Tourand:and to trust that, wow, life really is happening perfectly
Jeri Tourand:for my growth, for my evolution. And so quality time in
Jeri Tourand:relationship with yourself and with source, right meditation,
Jeri Tourand:sitting in stillness, just being present with what is. Then
Jeri Tourand:you're also developing a trusting, loving relationship
Jeri Tourand:with existence, with life. And so if you have difficulty, if
Jeri Tourand:your trust has been rattled, which most of us, you know, it
Jeri Tourand:has. We went through covid, and let me tell you, it's been
Jeri Tourand:pretty hard to trust anything or anyone. No, yeah, all the scams
Jeri Tourand:and all that. So it's one of my, you know, signature workshops is
Jeri Tourand:how to trust yourself. I love different strategies, but really
Jeri Tourand:that's kind of the foundation. It's just like, consistently
Jeri Tourand:show up for yourself and just listen. Just be there. You're
Jeri Tourand:prioritizing yourself, yeah, yeah, and you're in that trust.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: I think this is a brilliant response, because
Jeri Tourand:what happens when we do create the space for ourselves and we
Jeri Tourand:do start to listen is that we actually build our confidence.
Jeri Tourand:We actually discover deeper layers of our truth. I mean, the
Jeri Tourand:list goes on when we hold that container for ourselves and
Jeri Tourand:folks. This doesn't need to be hours long. Like this can be
Jeri Tourand:like five minutes, like that whole pono, pono for Jerry,
Jeri Tourand:probably only took her five or 10 minutes every night, you
Jeri Tourand:know, but she consistently created the space for her to be
Jeri Tourand:with herself in a loving embrace, and that naturally
Jeri Tourand:built the trust, you know. I often say faith precedes
Jeri Tourand:evidence, and so whether you knew it or not, Jerry, you know,
Jeri Tourand:you at least were able enough to lean in and say, Okay, I'm just,
Jeri Tourand:I'm going to just do this thing. Oh, wait, now I'm seeing it's
Jeri Tourand:healing me. Oh, now that's really building the trust. And
Jeri Tourand:now I'm going to keep doing it more, and now I'm going to learn
Jeri Tourand:how to facilitate and teach other people how to do it. So it
Jeri Tourand:brings us into that. And so we're like, so anchored in that,
Jeri Tourand:in that trust. So I love that, and thank you for sharing that.
Jeri Tourand:I want to kind of expand a little bit more as a love mentor
Jeri Tourand:and guide. You know, when you are working with people, what
Jeri Tourand:are some of the fundamental pieces like? Are there any like,
Jeri Tourand:few little golden nuggets that you're like? They just need to
Jeri Tourand:know this, they just need to know this, or they just need to
Jeri Tourand:know this. I mean, I know we've covered a bit of some of the
Jeri Tourand:tools that you use, but I'm curious to know if there's stuff
Jeri Tourand:that comes with a service for you. Of like, if I would have
Jeri Tourand:known that back, then it would have changed everything. What
Jeri Tourand:are those things?
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, yeah. There's so many where,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: like, two or three Max,
Jeri Tourand:yeah, okay, what we perceive is in the way. That
Jeri Tourand:is the way,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: yes,
Jeri Tourand:whatever reminder, yeah, yeah, whatever we think is
Jeri Tourand:in the way. Go there, like, and welcome, welcome it and sit with
Jeri Tourand:it. And there's, there's some gold in there for you.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: I love it. Like the obstacles are part of the
Jeri Tourand:path, folks, yeah, so don't be there and are, yeah, right.
Jeri Tourand:Like, most of us are, like, trying to bypass the obstacle,
Jeri Tourand:but it is the. Obstacle that has the golden nugget. I kind of
Jeri Tourand:think about, like, video games when I was a kid, and you'd have
Jeri Tourand:to, like, go over the coins to collect the coins. It's like,
Jeri Tourand:the obstacle is the coin, and you've got to, like, jump on the
Jeri Tourand:coin and get into it in order to receive the value of it. And so
Jeri Tourand:that piece, I think, is so important. Thank you for that.
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, yeah. And then one of my mentors, Derek
Jeri Tourand:rydella, used to say the workshop you've been living is
Jeri Tourand:the one you're meant to be giving. And that comes back over
Jeri Tourand:and over again to me too, because, you know, people say
Jeri Tourand:you find your purpose in your pain and but then people are
Jeri Tourand:locking in pain too. So not necessarily, yeah, but it's so I
Jeri Tourand:really liked more the the workshop that that you've been
Jeri Tourand:living like, what have you overcome? What have you
Jeri Tourand:discovered? And I discovered these tools, and without even
Jeri Tourand:realizing, until many, many years later, that the tools is
Jeri Tourand:an acronym and the foundation, the T is trust, and then the O
Jeri Tourand:is observed. So I learned I started to just like I'd go into
Jeri Tourand:my body and I'd observe the sensations so that I'd know
Jeri Tourand:where to direct my attention. Which is energy, yeah, right,
Jeri Tourand:which is really what was needed, right? Is just a cry for love
Jeri Tourand:and attention. Your attention is your love. It's like it.
Jeri Tourand:Attention energizes, right? Then I became very masterful at just
Jeri Tourand:observing sensations, the constrictions, the where my
Jeri Tourand:energy is flowing freely and where it isn't, yeah, and then
Jeri Tourand:the second Owen tools is open. And so then I would and open to
Jeri Tourand:it that so there's the welcoming, right? So I would
Jeri Tourand:welcome what is welcome. Welcome sadness, welcome guilt, welcome
Jeri Tourand:shame, welcome pain, all the parts what happened, physical,
Jeri Tourand:mental, you know, emotional, so and then open to it. Because
Jeri Tourand:when I was judging it, I was locking it in, that's right. And
Jeri Tourand:so opening to it is like welcoming it, and now it can
Jeri Tourand:move, yeah, and now it can complete and it can let go,
Jeri Tourand:yeah. And so that then I practice with a pen, you know,
Jeri Tourand:practice like observing and opening to this pen,
Jeri Tourand:recognizing, you know, it's made of the same stuff I am. It's all
Jeri Tourand:energy. And then all of a sudden there's this unity where it was
Jeri Tourand:like the separation starts to dissolve between you and a pen
Jeri Tourand:or a tree or a person, or you and yourself, you right? And so
Jeri Tourand:once the separation and you remember, you know that you're
Jeri Tourand:reminded that there is no separation, there is no they,
Jeri Tourand:there is no perpetrator and victim, and things just resolve.
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, right. They dissolve and get resolved as you evolve into
Jeri Tourand:love, as you step into the love that you are. And then so
Jeri Tourand:trusting, observing like trusting that everything is
Jeri Tourand:happening perfectly. This too is life supporting me about
Jeri Tourand:everything, everything that's like my mantra, and then
Jeri Tourand:observing that witness consciousness opening so that
Jeri Tourand:there can be some completion. We don't have everything all locked
Jeri Tourand:up in these judgments and ideas. Now a sudden, we're back to the
Jeri Tourand:space of the space right where healing takes place, the space
Jeri Tourand:of infinite possibility, the space between the notes and
Jeri Tourand:music, the space, right? That that's everything. It's the
Jeri Tourand:biggest part of you, the space in between. And then from there,
Jeri Tourand:the L is love, because it just automatically starts to flow
Jeri Tourand:because you're open. That's it. And love and action is service.
Jeri Tourand:So the S is service in tools, right?
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, I love that. So you just gave us a full
Jeri Tourand:acronym, trust, observe, open, love and service. Yes, there's
Jeri Tourand:your tools formula everybody for you to take with you and lean
Jeri Tourand:into as part of your self love process, or to apply it to
Jeri Tourand:anything in life. Really couldn't be,
Jeri Tourand:yeah, and that's, you know, it's funny, because it
Jeri Tourand:just keeps in my coaching, like we we always go back to those
Jeri Tourand:tools. I have a whole, you know, six week tools program where we
Jeri Tourand:focus just trust for a week, just observing for a week. The
Jeri Tourand:trial of therapy that I studied with the Zen Buddhist master
Jeri Tourand:really uses all those tools. So it keeps coming back to these
Jeri Tourand:tools that these are the tools to help you to reside in the new
Jeri Tourand:paradigm that is love led, rather than fear based, moving
Jeri Tourand:from ego to soul, moving from fear to love. If you're in a
Jeri Tourand:time of transition, if you're in that liminal space, or my
Jeri Tourand:coaching client today called it
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: purgatory, yeah. So I call that purgatory. Oh,
Jeri Tourand:relationship, Purgatory, work purgatory. There's all sorts of
Jeri Tourand:purgatories we can be in,
Jeri Tourand:you know, let's face it, between then, these are
Jeri Tourand:the tools that will, you know, help you to take that leap, I
Jeri Tourand:guess it is, you know, into what's possible. Yeah? And
Jeri Tourand:remind you that hell like it's it's not that. It's not that far
Jeri Tourand:away. It's actually already here, already here, just losing
Jeri Tourand:the blocks to it and you don't even have it's not even a
Jeri Tourand:release. It's not even like people say, you know, Can you
Jeri Tourand:clear this for me? Can you release this for me? I like it
Jeri Tourand:takes the edge off, yeah? But it's not about clearing it. It's
Jeri Tourand:actually about welcoming it and integrating it, right? Which is,
Jeri Tourand:so we're learning, right? We're learning. We are learning stuff
Jeri Tourand:we've been taught. You know, isn't really the answer, right?
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah, you know, it's, it's so great that you're
Jeri Tourand:bringing this topic up because, you know, we I still do
Jeri Tourand:clearings in some of my work, but I'm clearing away the extra
Jeri Tourand:sediment, not the stuff that there's still value in it for
Jeri Tourand:them. And I think that's something we see a lot of though
Jeri Tourand:out there is like, people are like, Oh, I'll get rid of that.
Jeri Tourand:I'll get rid of that. It's like, whoa, whoa, let's stop getting
Jeri Tourand:rid of all the gold, because beneath the pole, or whatever it
Jeri Tourand:is you're perceiving that to be, is the gold. That's the value.
Jeri Tourand:And I wanted to add to this too, because you kept bringing up
Jeri Tourand:space. And when we create space, we heal naturally. It doesn't
Jeri Tourand:require hard work. And I think people have this understanding
Jeri Tourand:that healing is hard work. It's not that's that's not the hard
Jeri Tourand:work, that the hard work is creating the space and being to
Jeri Tourand:sit in the space for any length of time, that's the hard part.
Jeri Tourand:So I just felt like I needed to share that
Jeri Tourand:and that, think that is one of you know, those
Jeri Tourand:nuggets too. They bet you know, because I realized by making
Jeri Tourand:that space for myself and creating that space, and it's
Jeri Tourand:uncomfortable as heck to sit with all the the pain and the
Jeri Tourand:and the the grief, like there's so much grief.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Oh, so much grief. Yeah,
Jeri Tourand:well, it so, yeah, you have to be willing to be
Jeri Tourand:uncomfortable and and get comfortable being uncomfortable,
Jeri Tourand:because that's a part of the process,
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: part of the mastery too, right? That's part
Jeri Tourand:of our evolution that we're being invited.
Jeri Tourand:Yeah? And one of the realizations for sure, that
Jeri Tourand:I had was, you know, when I was like, Why aren't I healing?
Jeri Tourand:Yeah? Then the answer that came, it's like, well, healing takes
Jeri Tourand:place in your presence, not in your absence. Jerry, you're not
Jeri Tourand:even here, you can't heal in the past. You can't heal the future.
Jeri Tourand:Heal in your busyness. You need to make the space.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah. So can't heal in your head either, right?
Jeri Tourand:Like, it's a, like, the whole meal deal. Oh, yeah.
Jeri Tourand:And so then, all of a sudden, there's also this
Jeri Tourand:mantra that came, like, every you know, every time I make the
Jeri Tourand:space, I get it's like healing. I am the space where healing
Jeri Tourand:takes place. Like the space healing takes place, my presence
Jeri Tourand:is that, ah, like, what if that's all anyone needs needs.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: What if that's all anyone needs?
Jeri Tourand:And here I thought, you know, when I first
Jeri Tourand:started coaching, there was I had to have these tools. I had
Jeri Tourand:to have the answerable things. No, I have to know how to be
Jeri Tourand:present. First, with myself, yeah, number one, base for all
Jeri Tourand:the things that are uncomfortable. And then I can do
Jeri Tourand:that for another. And guess what? It lets go. It starts to
Jeri Tourand:just let go, because there's a safety that we never had just
Jeri Tourand:being formed.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: So there's the trust. That's it. Yeah, building
Jeri Tourand:that again. I love that you said that. What did you say healing
Jeri Tourand:are I'm creating space for healing to take place. I think
Jeri Tourand:that's like a beautiful affirmation that like I am the
Jeri Tourand:presence creating the space for healing to take place.
Jeri Tourand:I am. Let me be the space where healing takes
Jeri Tourand:place.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: Yes, let me There we go. Let me be the space
Jeri Tourand:where healing takes place. I love that, Jerry, you have so
Jeri Tourand:much divine wisdom in you. I had the privilege of attending one
Jeri Tourand:of your master classes with the tools acronym that you shared
Jeri Tourand:today. So I'm so glad you shared it, because it was so impactful
Jeri Tourand:for me, and I know we just skim the surface, but I hope all of
Jeri Tourand:you listening have taken notes or digested some of this, at
Jeri Tourand:least, and you can apply it to your day to day, and at minimum,
Jeri Tourand:I hope you feel the love coming from Jerry and me, because
Jeri Tourand:that's certainly a big piece of how I want to show up in the
Jeri Tourand:world, and I know how Jerry wants to show Up in the world.
Jeri Tourand:So Jerry, if our audience is listening and they're saying,
Jeri Tourand:Oh, can we take part in that tools workshop? Or what have you
Jeri Tourand:got in store? What would you like to share with everyone in
Jeri Tourand:terms of next steps?
Jeri Tourand:Yeah, I absolutely. I mean, I do have
Jeri Tourand:the tools program, the five day, one tool a day, that. Is
Jeri Tourand:available. And I'd say the next step, though, is to just book,
Jeri Tourand:you know, book some time with me, and then we can assess what
Jeri Tourand:the best next step is.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: No fee for this. Jerry's just opening her heart
Jeri Tourand:to all of you, if you resonated with anything Jerry shared. And
Jeri Tourand:I'm telling you, she is one of the most, I would say the most
Jeri Tourand:brilliant facilitators that I know in terms of expressing and
Jeri Tourand:clarity, and I've witnessed that. I've been a student in her
Jeri Tourand:in the Tools workshop, you will not be disappointed. And so I
Jeri Tourand:really want to encourage you to take advantage of that if you
Jeri Tourand:felt some resonance, and that all that contact information, of
Jeri Tourand:course, will be in the show notes for all of you guys, so
Jeri Tourand:that you can explore so complimentary time with Jerry.
Jeri Tourand:Yes, please sign me up, and space is so good. Here's what's
Jeri Tourand:so beautiful about you. Jerry and I recently had an experience
Jeri Tourand:like this. I just want to finish with this story, because it was
Jeri Tourand:really powerful for me. I recently met somebody actually
Jeri Tourand:was Dr, Kevin Preston, I met him in person just a couple weeks
Jeri Tourand:ago, and I did a podcast interview with him. This man
Jeri Tourand:showed up in such love that it reflected back to me the areas
Jeri Tourand:in which I could up the ante on the love for myself. So it was
Jeri Tourand:so brilliant. He didn't do anything particularly other than
Jeri Tourand:show up fully in love with himself, and that unlocked in
Jeri Tourand:me, deeper layers of love for myself. And he's just one
Jeri Tourand:example. You are another one. And so when you get to spend
Jeri Tourand:time with Jerry, as I have, you will unlock new layers of love
Jeri Tourand:for yourself just with her presence. So I wanted to finish
Jeri Tourand:with that. I got goosebumps saying that, and so that's
Jeri Tourand:always my sign that I'm right on track and in speaking truth. So
Jeri Tourand:I hope you can receive that, Jeri, because you unlock layers
Jeri Tourand:of love in me every time I see you on social or we have a
Jeri Tourand:chance to interact. And so it's so powerful. And I think
Jeri Tourand:oftentimes we forget, we forget that just allowing ourselves to
Jeri Tourand:love ourselves has a massive ripple effect, massive ripple
Jeri Tourand:effect. So thank you for loving yourself and helping us to love
Jeri Tourand:ourselves too well.
Jeri Tourand:Thank you, Deanne. I love the way you worded that.
Jeri Tourand:Oh, that was, yeah. I got the chills right along with you.
Jeri Tourand:Yeah. And you are definitely a true speaker. And you, you speak
Jeri Tourand:to my heart, and you open things, and you've, you've
Jeri Tourand:helped me and inspired me so many different ways. I
Jeri Tourand:absolutely love you so much.
Jeri Tourand:Rev. Rose Hope: so much too. So I received that thank you and
Jeri Tourand:for everyone listening, I hope you feel that love like I said,
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