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Dec 2022
11m 20s

🎄 Holiday Inner Peace and Joy Practice

Chel Hamilton | Meditation Minis
About this episode
Back from the archives by listener request... Holidays always seem to bring up expectations of how they "should" and "shouldn't" look and feel. What if we use the next few weeks as an opportunity to practice really being with what IS in the present moment, and to find the JOY and LOVE in it...? Empowering.

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