[00:00:03] Ellington Brown: Welcome to SpeakUP! International with Rita Burke and Elton Brown. Today we have author Ellen Edmondson who is going to read a excerpt from her book, A Place of Love and Life. A journey back to comparison and authenticity and making a positive contribution to the world. Ellen, the virtual floor is yours!

[00:00:31] Ellen Edmondson: Thank you! This reading is called The Colors of the Rainbow.

[00:00:37] Ellen Edmondson: The individual colors in a rainbow come together as one to offer visually appealing display of God's magnificence. Each of the colors at its source comes from white light. No single color is better or more brilliant than the others. Each is equally beautiful and contributes its part to display God's beauty.

[00:00:59] Ellen Edmondson: The same is true for the variety in life. All variety is impressive in its unique offering, but when viewed together, you can see the magnificence of God's presence throughout the world. Like the different races, cultures, religions, genders, places to live, creatures on the planet, political views, careers and occupations, ideas, concepts, life perspectives, et cetera.

[00:01:28] Ellen Edmondson: Differences are not wrong or bad. They're the variety of life that creates the beauty of your overall experience. Everyone in everything's unique contribution makes up the splendor of the world. However, the concept of sameness and uniformity humans push for and promote through rules, regulations, and limiting perspectives.

[00:01:50] Ellen Edmondson: Prejudices and biases lessen the brilliance of God's given gifts you have before you each day. No single color in the rainbow, outshine. The others all have equal value and bring the same benefits to the overall beauty of the rainbow. So it goes. For everything else, every race of people provides equal value, honor and beauty to God's world.

[00:02:16] Ellen Edmondson: No one is better, more brilliant than another. Those who are self-oriented and spiritually unaware are the ones who make differences a dividing point. On the contrary, differences are unifying in a strengthening point to display the exquisiteness of God's world without variety In your way of thinking or being.

[00:02:38] Ellen Edmondson: No great thing, event, or idea comes into existence. You are constantly on the leading edge with each generation developing new and improved ways of existing in the world and enjoying your physical reality. Embrace and celebrate the differences throughout your societies in the world yet know that this is where the beauty in life exists.

[00:03:01] Ellen Edmondson: Like the colors of the rainbow, all variety comes together to display the loveliness of God's creation. The reflection for this one is through embracing the diversity of human beings, we all find a sure way to true happiness, Malcolm Gladwell. 

[00:03:21] Rita Burke: Thanks for opening up SpeakUP! International today, Ellen Edmondson!

[00:03:29] Rita Burke: Our guest today, whose voice you've just heard as I said, is Ellen Edmondson. She is a multi-award winning author, spiritual messenger, and thought leader. She's dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their spiritual essence. Ellen's critically acclaimed book, A Place of Love Light, a Journey Back to Compassion, Authenticity, and Making a Positive Contribution to the World, has captured readers worldwide.

[00:04:06] Rita Burke: There's so much more that I can say about Ellen Edmondson, but as we say on SpeakUP! International, we prefer for guests tell their own stories. So welcome welcome, Ellen Edmondson to SpeakUP! International! 

[00:04:22] Ellen Edmondson: Thank you so much! 

[00:04:25] Ellington Brown: It's so good to have you here.

[00:04:27] Ellington Brown: I certainly have enjoyed our conversation before today and so I'm really excited to let everyone know a little bit about our conversation and I'm sure it will be inspiring for our audience. I'd like to start basically in your personal journey and awakening. Now in 2013 you talked about this spiritual awakening.

[00:04:59] Ellington Brown: I have two questions, first, how did it change the course of your life and what does spiritual awakening mean to you? 

[00:05:10] Ellen Edmondson: That's a wonderful question. This whole spiritual awakening that I had was me really coming into a different awareness and a different way that I looked at life and moved through life.

[00:05:24] Ellen Edmondson: How it happened for me was, it really started after the death of my mother. And in my book I talk about my backstory, which people can get even more about when at the front of the book, but. My mother passed away actually in 2010. I grew up Catholic and that was the basis, the foundation of my belief system.

[00:05:49] Ellen Edmondson: And so I was very always strongly spiritually connected. 'cause we were, my parents were about Catholics and we had to go to church every Sunday and all of that. So I believed in something more that drives life. And that's always guided me. When my mother passed away, my son was born three months before she passed away, and it really made me stop and really think about life in a different way.

[00:06:18] Ellen Edmondson: What did it mean? Why are we here? What is it? Where had was, had my mother gone, I always believed, like in our church system, we talked about eternal life, that there was something more, that there's a bigger intelligence driving everything. When that happened, that just really made me stop and question things.

[00:06:35] Ellen Edmondson: But I was grieving so much I didn't have time, to, I realized too, when that happened, after my mother passed away, I started experiencing things I couldn't understand. I started having some mystical, I people would call like mystical types of experiences, and I didn't understand why or what was happening.

[00:06:55] Ellen Edmondson: Now, just to give a little backstory, I am a former senior executive. I went in the federal government, so I was very logic oriented and logic driven. So when this happened for me, it really shifted things, my whole perspective on life. But I realized that through all my growing up and having that strong spiritual foundation that was also led to me having these mystical experiences because I had things happen that I couldn't explain. But I have intuitive and mediumship types of abilities that came out during that time. And so it was after my son was, my mom died and my son was born. It was about three years later to deal with the grief.

[00:07:38] Ellen Edmondson: I started meditating, and when I started meditating it was just my chance to take a little break to center myself, check in, do some self-care, and really s figure out what was next, what the bigger meaning of life. Because I think we all get into those stages where you start questioning, why am I here?

[00:07:57] Ellen Edmondson: What does this all mean? What is my contribution? What is my purpose? So when you have those big shifts in life, but as I started meditating, it opened up. It just, it gave us space where I connected into that deeper part of myself and that deeper part of myself, which is actually where we connect with our higher source.

[00:08:20] Ellen Edmondson: And in reaching inward to really. Look at how I need to define me and what was going on with me and move through this tragedy, this trauma I was dealing with, and the heightened reality of being a brand new mom to this beautiful little baby boy. That's when the meditation opened up that place and that connection even in a grander way, and in like about nine days, I started having these amazing mystical experiences of being able to see and sense things and hear things and have all this mediumship and intuitive abilities come out. But I started also with what I was seeing and sensing and having these six sense experiences. I started getting the, this information coming to me that I started writing down. I started writing what I was hearing in my spiritual ears and in my heart.

[00:09:14] Ellen Edmondson: I started hearing these voices just talking to me. But it was all this loving, beautiful high wisdom and guidance. And so I started writing it down and writing it down and writing it down. And that's actually what became the basis of this book. So for 10 years I was meditating. I was writing down what I was hearing, what I was receiving, and I didn't know what was happening with me and my husband was like, you're one of the most logical people I know. 

[00:09:41] Ellen Edmondson: So we were doing some research to find out, 'cause I started doing what they're called automatic writing. And that's where I was writing down what I was receiving. We went and talked to a person, we took some intuitive development class, went in that direction 'cause that wasn't part of my upbringing. The person said, oh no, 'cause I'm thinking, this is weird. I don't know what this is. Why is this happening? And she's, and I was lovingly refre referring to it as I was like, I'm not going cuckoo berries, am I? And they were like, no, you're not going cuckoo berries.

[00:10:13] Ellen Edmondson: You have a gift and you need to share this gift. When I was telling her what I was getting and sharing the, you need to share it with the world. And so I started posting the writings that are in this book online on a website. And for 10 years I did that and people, every time there would be an event or something that happened in the world, I'd see spikes going up on the website of people looking at the, for the comfort and encouragement that these writings offered.

[00:10:40] Ellen Edmondson: And so that was it in 2023. Then I finally, I was, I always let myself be guided and led to what I need to do, and so I was being guided to pull it together and put it into a book to offer it out. On a larger scale, and that's the basis of this book. So for me, a spiritual awakening is really a, when you make that deeper connection to that, your soul and the wisdom, the higher wisdom that connects to us through our soul, because that soul space where you connect with your higher source, that's what's referred to in the book as a place of love and life.

[00:11:18] Ellen Edmondson: That's where we,

[00:11:19] Rita Burke: I like that. I like that! 

[00:11:21] Ellen Edmondson: Yeah, that's where we connect. 

[00:11:23] Rita Burke: It sounds to me, if you were deeply connected, like most of us to our mothers and her passing, based on what you said, made a huge shift in your life for the better, so to speak, based on what you're saying to us. Help us understand the role of a spiritual thought leader.

[00:11:47] Ellen Edmondson: A spiritual thought leader, I think, and you can have a thought leader in any industry or any field, but for me, a spiritual thought leader is just someone who is coming in and like with the way this book has come together and the wisdoms and the messages and the guidance that it offers is just me being willing to take the chance, of writing it down without worrying about what other people think about this and offering these new thought forms out there to help people to live and be better out in the world. And I've always felt that drive that connection, that's part of my purpose, is to offer the best of myself and the best of what.

[00:12:33] Ellen Edmondson: And it came through these spiritual writings. Offering that out to give people a new way of thinking about things. Embracing, new thought forms to help them live their best lives. And so that, that's the way I look into spiritual leaders offering new things that help us to live and be our best.

[00:12:53] Ellen Edmondson: If it elevates your way of thinking and processing and offers you a new perspective to help us as individuals and as a collective group of society and people to be. To live in a better state. 

[00:13:06] Rita Burke: So does that way of thinking, that new way of thinking, then does it clash with your previous sense of spirituality?

[00:13:16] Rita Burke: You said you were raised the Christian Catholic. 

[00:13:19] Ellen Edmondson: Oh, not at all. Because for this book, it's, when you read it, I've had people of all different religions reach out to me about this book because it is definitely non-denominational in nature. It's not about a religious perspective or viewpoint, it's about spirituality.

[00:13:38] Ellen Edmondson: It's about how we show up in the world and how we all have these common experiences across. It could be across any type of religion. 'cause my thought, any religion that espouses love and us being out there and being our best and helping being of service to others and living in our best light and our best way of being.

[00:14:00] Ellen Edmondson: That's what I believe at the core religions. They do that now. The religion is just the vehicle. I look at it as like a wheel. The in the center of the wheel is divine love. That's what we're all striving for. Now, whether you get there through Catholicism or Baptist or Protestant or Muslim or Buddhism what, whatever it may be.

[00:14:25] Ellen Edmondson: It's a community that supports your perspective and you being your best. And if it gets you to get to that place of love, but having that personal connection to that divine source, then that's fine. Be whatever religion you wanna be, but live in the bigger perspective. That love is the driving and guiding force for everybody and behind.

[00:14:48] Ellen Edmondson: And when you put that behind all of your intentions and your actions and thoughts and your deeds. That's when you're gonna show up in your most authentic, compassionate self and help bring your best to the world. And when you bring your best, you help empower and inspire others to be their best as well and show up in that way.

[00:15:08] Ellington Brown: I think it's wonderful what you are doing with your book and how it seems to get people to feel good about themselves, which is. Wonderful. I think we, especially in this day and age where we are right now, we really do need all of the positive affirmations that we can get so that we can stand in front of a mirror and say these affirmations out loud.

[00:15:39] Ellington Brown: Can you share a powerful moment or story from your book that seems to deeply resonate with your readers. There's always this one affirmation I'm gonna call it that you may have in your book, and that one seems to always is on the top 10 chart. I don't care how many weeks the book been out or not. This has been the number one quotation that they. 

[00:16:11] Ellen Edmondson: Wow that's a very good question. It's I'm gonna say there's so much, because the book is set up in a devotional style way. You can pick it up any day at any time and just open it and let the message that you're meant to receive it for the day.

[00:16:25] Ellen Edmondson: That's one of the things that I get a lot of feedback on and have gotten comments on the style of the book, on how it's set up, how it provides inspiration for folks. It makes them, I've had so many people say it, reading this book, I didn't realize I needed it. It's like having a warm hug, soul hug, it provides that kind of inspiration that you need.

[00:16:49] Ellen Edmondson: It just helps to you to stop and think. And once, one of the biggest honors for me is some of the other books it's been compared to, and some of the other authors, like I've had people say, it's if people have heard of Jesus calling the Devotional by Sarah Young. It's been compared to that. And conversations with God by Neil, Donald Walsh. It's like a cross between those types of books. When you read this, it's, you're reading it as if you're sitting down and having an intimate conversation with your higher source, talking directly to you, giving you guidance and wisdom to help along your way. And that's how it came to me to write. I was writing down what I was receiving from this loving energy of with these messages, and that's the experience that people are having. I can give you a really quick personal story. After the book had come out and I was doing an event, and once the doors opened, a young lady came in and she came right over to me and found me and she said, you're the author Ellen Edmondson, and she said you wrote your book.

[00:17:49] Ellen Edmondson: She said, I've been in therapy for years. I've been struggling with things and she said, I got your book, and I started reading and meditating on passages from this book, and she said, I started going back to my, I was working with my therapist and my therapist said, we've been working on everything with you and you've still been struggling.

[00:18:08] Ellen Edmondson: She goes, your book has given me the breakthrough that I needed. To start healing in a way that I hadn't been getting, just working with my therapist in all these years, and that it touched my heart. It just took my breath away. I was like, oh my gosh. And, but I was like, that's the power of what I'm so happy about is that, and I offer this to anybody.

[00:18:32] Ellen Edmondson: When you get these inspirations, when you get these. Thoughts that come to you, or sometimes you think it might be a little straight, follow it because you are not given an idea that you're not meant to bring into the world you are. Any thought inspired thought you get is your higher source saying, you know what?

[00:18:50] Ellen Edmondson: I choose you. Go forward and bring that to the world because you're meant to. And don't think about if it's weird or strange, just do it because somebody on the other end of this idea I'm giving you is gonna be helped by what you bring out for me into the world. 

[00:19:08] Rita Burke: But it's interesting, isn't it, that very often when something is different, it's labeled as weird.

[00:19:16] Rita Burke: And weird is one of my most unfavorite words because it, it puts a label and it puts a negative perspective on things. And if it's different, as you said earlier, it's neither, it's not bad, it's just different. And so I want you to talk about the fact that you work with parents as well. In your bio, you state that you work with parents.

[00:19:43] Rita Burke: Elaborate somewhat in that for us, please. 

[00:19:46] Ellen Edmondson: Sure. Because I do have intuitive and medium mediumship abilities. I have to go back and I'll tell you this story, which leads into how I started working with parents. Because not only do I have. These abilities. But at the time that my gifts were opening my little 2-year-old son, his gifts were opening as well.

[00:20:07] Ellen Edmondson: And children have this ability, it tends to, children are so pure and connected and it tends to run in families. So as we were trying, my husband and I were trying to figure out how to work with these new talents that I had that were coming out. We started noticing things with my son and people would be.

[00:20:26] Ellen Edmondson: Amazed at how much, like children, when they have imaginary play friends or they start talking about things that you don't, you know, that they, how do they know that, that's them being connected. My son at two, almost 18 months, or he was 18 months, almost two, actually started talking about when he was here before.

[00:20:47] Ellen Edmondson: One night he was talking because he heard sirens go by and he was like, getting getting all nervous and scared and anxious and I was like calmed down what's going on? He's when he heard it, it triggered him. He said, I was running, he is like, when I was older now, he didn't watch TV or anything, so we knew he couldn't have heard this like from off a TV or anything like that.

[00:21:09] Ellen Edmondson: "When I was older. I was running from these bad men. They were chasing me and they chased me into a building. The building was on fire and he said, and when I went into the building, he said, my body died, but I didn't. He said, you and dad were there, but you weren't. You and dad, you were other people. He said, I went he said, I didn't die.

[00:21:31] Ellen Edmondson: I went to the nowhere place and I waited in this nowhere place. Until you and dad", he's like talking about now, he said, "until you two came back together", he said, "so I could be your son and you took a long time to get together" and we did get married older. We looked at each other and we were like, wow, he's talking about something and I didn't even know we had just started learning about this. There were other experiences after. One night he was running upstairs at two. My mother was had passed because she passed three months after he was born, three and a half months. And he was racing upstairs to go to bed. And I was like, why are you racing?

[00:22:08] Ellen Edmondson: You normally don't wanna go to bed. He said, because grandma comes to play ball with me at night. And then one other last experience I'll share real quick is that he then it was like a year and a half after my mother passed, my father-in-law passed, and then he started having trouble sleeping at night because he said grandpa was in his room.

[00:22:27] Ellen Edmondson: So he was very sensitive in picking up on the fact that he had loved ones that were all around, supporting him, loving on him, but he could feel and sense it just like I start, could start feeling a sense of things. Long story short, we didn't know how to help him. We ended up on a TV show to help us to figure out how to help to support him.

[00:22:49] Ellen Edmondson: And it was a show that there were other parents with children who had these sensitivities as well. It was called Psychic Kids. In 2019. But we, they brought in experts and people to help us to understand how to work with our son with his abilities, like how to understand it 'cause we didn't understand a child 'cause we were still trying to figure it out even with me.

[00:23:09] Ellen Edmondson: But with that, after we did that show we've always been, my husband and I and our family is all about service and how do we pay back the help that we got. How do we extend it back? So we knew there were 15 other families that were experiencing the same thing and not knowing how to work with children with these sensitivities.

[00:23:29] Ellen Edmondson: So I started a parent, a website called Highly Intuitive Kids for Parents with Children who have these sensitivities because we said if there's 15 other families across the country, there's a lot more. And I started a Facebook group, parent Facebook group, and we had people reaching out. We actually have people from around the world.

[00:23:50] Ellen Edmondson: Who have joined this group, parents who are looking for support, looking to communicate, you know, talk to others. And I offer, I go locally talking to local communities. And when we got out there and started speaking, I've had teachers and counselors and different folks coming up talking to us because I got a sponsor that we go around locally doing events to, to share the signs of a highly intuitive child and you know how to work with them and talk. And so that's what, that's how it all started with getting parents involved because it's like, children are so un jaded, they're, when they're young and they're so pure and connected, that a lot of times people don't realize that sometimes the experiences that they're having are these six ends experiences.

[00:24:36] Ellen Edmondson: Children will have 'em up until they start school. Very clearly have them. And it's not until after they get in school and start learning more logically that they shut down that intuitive creative brain and they have to start learning A, B, C 1, 2, 3. And that moves you further away from that right brain intuitive way of thinking.

[00:24:57] Ellen Edmondson: So that, that's the backstory. But I will tell you that how I got involved, got involved with this, but my son. After he was on the show and I was trying to, one day he came home from school. I'm trying to encourage him to be confident 'cause he had gotten bullied, sometimes the kids didn't understand what he was talking about 'cause he was so connected and he would talk about things that were way above their head. 

[00:25:16] Ellen Edmondson: I was like, even some adults wouldn't understand what you're talking about. And I was doing this work, and I'd started doing some readings and working with people, but keeping it quiet because we didn't, not everybody understands this, the level of this kind of ability.

[00:25:30] Ellen Edmondson: But I was helping people who were grieving and going through, trying grieving, uncertain about things. But he looked at me and he's mom, when I'm telling him to be confident about who he is, and he's looked at me, he said, mom, I can't be me until you be you. Stop hiding! 

[00:25:45] Ellington Brown: Wow! Wow! That's really a amazing story about the, it's like you have this third eye as it is that you are able to see things, hear things that a lot of humans don't have the opportunity or that experience.

[00:26:07] Ellington Brown: So how do you guide individuals? Struggling from grief because it sounds like this is how you got into this whole thing of writing what you were receiving. So how do you guide individuals that are struggling with grief and uncertainty to find peace and clarity?

[00:26:31] Ellen Edmondson: That's a great question because there, there's quite a few people who actually. See, I always say everyone has this intuitive connection, this level of ability to some degree. Some people are more sensitive than others. A lot of folks come to it through grief and through some kind of a trauma, a illness, a death in the family some kind of major shift, loss of job that's still another form of grief, some kind of major shift.

[00:26:59] Ellen Edmondson: And it's when you let you, when you get to that point of really. Question. I think your purpose and you start tying into something bigger. So when I work with people, they come to me and we sit down. I've actually started, I'm an intuition coach, so I work with people on how to connect back to that.

[00:27:18] Ellen Edmondson: It goes back to that compassionate, authentic part of themselves. When you connect into that and you get in the quiet, I teach people how to meditate, how to get quiet, and you let yourself connect to that space. You can connect to your loved ones who are around. Everybody has loved ones who attached departed loved ones that are attached to them.

[00:27:42] Ellen Edmondson: Everybody's got somebody. And the thing is, you start to realize when you let yourself sit in the awareness of how they communicate with us in a different way, it is just a different, these bodies aren't meant to last forever. They're going to, they're gonna go away. But energy never dies. Our soul, the essence of who we are, it never dies.

[00:28:03] Ellen Edmondson: It only changes form. And that energy is all around us. Love never dies. And that's how you may hear somebody your mother's favorite song come at the, on the radio just when you're thinking about her. Or you might hear, I know when my mother passed, we started having lights flicker in the house.

[00:28:21] Ellen Edmondson: The radio would come on and on. I knew it was her. People are gonna, he have these different types of experiences where you may smell somebody's cologne or perfume and they're not in the room, but that's just them making themselves known to you in a different form. They speak in a different language and I just help people to connect with them.

[00:28:41] Ellen Edmondson: And I do it through through verbal readings, I also do it through art. When I had my awakening, my abilities opened up. I started and I was writing down the information I was getting. I was told after some weeks that in six months I would start drawing pictures for the spirit world. And so I can draw people pictures of people's departed loved ones and help to bring messages back in that way as well.

[00:29:07] Ellen Edmondson: But people have this ability, it's, it is not as strange as folks think. And that's what even working with the parents, I. 15 to 20% of the population has this kinds of sensitivity and our true impasse and intuitives. And that's something part of, I feel my purpose is helping to bring this understanding, normalize this a bit more, and really to help with our children who are coming in so much more connected nowadays that people don't understand that.

[00:29:39] Ellen Edmondson: Some of these behaviors think are really maybe unique or it is just they're really connected in a bigger sense of being connected to the divine intelligence that's heightened sensitivity. 

[00:29:53] Rita Burke: We're speaking with Ellen Edmondson. And on SpeakUP! International, as we seek to inform, inspire and educate.

[00:30:05] Rita Burke: And I know for a fact that Ellen's story and her experiences are helping us to do those things today. How do you teach a highly sensitive child? To navigate their way in this world where kids can be sometimes so mean-spirited, this highly sensitive child that's experiencing things that are no one else has experienced.

[00:30:35] Rita Burke: How, what are kinds, some of the steps, some of the ideas that you say to them, this is how you respond when you're in this world. 

[00:30:44] Ellen Edmondson: It's really teaching them because there are some of the children that are, they have a different way of thinking and processing. And so some of the things that I talk to parents about in, in the parent group and when I'm out locally and talking with them is, the signs to look for, you may have a child that can't be in groups because being around a lot of people, a lot of energy, they melt down.

[00:31:11] Ellen Edmondson: Even like coming home from school after being around other kids all day long, they may come home, younger children come to home and cry. Older kids, like my son he's soon to be 15, but he still comes home and he sleeps because it's a lot of energy around them. For children, you have to teach them how to protect their energy because they are sensitive and how to make sure that they don't take on a lot of, because these children can also feel the emotions of other people as almost like their own, children as well as adults who are sensitive and you have to know how to put yourself. Do a lot of, I teach parents and children visualization because a lot of this works through the power of our mind, our thoughts create things.

[00:31:57] Ellen Edmondson: And I always tell my son what you think about, you bring about, but you can create. Use your mind to help you to protect your energy field. And so I like on our website, the Highly Intuitive Kids website, there's lots of books and references out there for parents and even for parents to get for children.

[00:32:16] Ellen Edmondson: Just knowing the signs of do kid can kids do they just know things that you wouldn't think they would naturally know? Do they seem, sometimes you hear children being referred to as wise old souls. They've been here before! They, they have, they just those innate knowing very connected to nature and animals.

[00:32:35] Ellen Edmondson: There's, so there's different signs out there. But with the children, the big thing for them is, especially when you're a sensitive and you have these kind of gifts, is for parents to normalize it, not make them think it's weird or feel like it's different or something's. Wrong.

[00:32:54] Ellen Edmondson: Don't talk like that. Don't, don't mention that. But instead, create an environment where it's just oh, okay, tell me more. Be supportive of it, normalize it, and then teaching, getting with an someone. If you're not yourself, it, this tends to run in families, but if you're not intuitive or not in touch with that part of your yourself is getting.

[00:33:15] Ellen Edmondson: Them with someone and the parent with someone who can help talk you through it and work through how to support your child with this and how to even just grounding. Some children get classified as a DD or A DHD may not necessarily be the case because the, it may be the environment of the school or the, they're just on energy, intuitive energy overload and those are things you have to look at.

[00:33:40] Ellen Edmondson: The being able to tell the difference. And how to work with the child. And I've had grown adults when we go out and talk that say, oh my gosh, I wish I had this information. I was that child. And I'm still that person now and still trying to learn how to work with all of this, my sensitivities. 

[00:33:56] Ellington Brown: That is an amazing place for individuals to be, especially when you are young and you have no clue as to what's happening.

[00:34:07] Ellington Brown: But you think it's normal. So you just, you just go about your day and when you have these other interactions, you just include them in and you just move forward. Interesting. So how has it, how, being a podcast guest, we did talk a little bit about that before we started this, our conversation.

[00:34:29] Ellington Brown: So how, being a podcast guest, how has that allowed you to amplify your message of hope and transformation? 

[00:34:42] Ellen Edmondson: Oh, this it's been wonderful being a podcast guest and sharing it. Because these messages, the way they came through to me, I knew, and reading them, I knew they weren't meant to stay with me.

[00:34:56] Ellen Edmondson: And the beauty of these messages, my hope and my goal. Is being a podcast guest and just getting it out there as widely and broadly for people to hear about it and understand these men messages. There's something in this book for anybody who's open-minded and willing to embrace in what it has to talk about, and it talks about compassion, it talks a lot about love and how being, showing up as our authentic self not showing up. As the beauty of our soul here to express something. We were created for this purpose, for this time. That's why we're here at this time. Even in our chaotic times, we're each meant to help bring something to the calm and to the direction that we're supposed to go.

[00:35:47] Ellen Edmondson: And so any opportunity I've been given to be able to talk about this has been amazing. I get comments back about, I'm so glad I found this book. I'm so glad I found these messages. Because it's really helping me to think about how I'm showing up and how to be a better person. How to do things differently, how to do things better.

[00:36:08] Ellen Edmondson: It's just, and there's a beautiful letter in the front of the book that's written, that's like a call to action, to humanity for everyone to show up and do better and be better in the world and to make it a better place for everyone. 'cause that's really, we're all here to be. Show up as our best selves and be of service.

[00:36:29] Rita Burke: So it sounds to me as if your bottom line is to help the people you interact with to shine much like you are shining through your book and through your work. And there's no question the content in your book resonates with people, with your readers. I want to know, and I would like you to share with our audience. Maybe the best piece of advice you have ever been given.

[00:37:02] Ellen Edmondson: I would say that's a beautiful question. I love that! The best piece of advice I've ever been given. There's been a couple pieces, but I think it's really the whole premise of this book and that's to really just to be yourself. Go out, show up. Be yourself and don't be afraid to put you out there.

[00:37:28] Ellen Edmondson: Even if sometimes you might have this unique experience or thought, trust me, somebody else has had it too, on some level of form that's gonna be able to learn or be or receive the help or the information that you put out there. I. Showing be you show up and be you and put yourself out there.

[00:37:51] Ellen Edmondson: And don't play small because when you play small, all the people who are on the other side of how you can help them, when you show up in the fullness and the bigness of you, they're not being helped. When you think when you have imposter syndrome or you think, oh, I shouldn't do that, or Why, nobody's gonna listen to me, or people are just gonna think I'm strange.

[00:38:13] Ellen Edmondson: It's not about that. It's about showing up and doing it anyway and knowing that's why you're here. That is your purpose to fully be you and fully do that. And I think the other piece of advice is don't sweat the small stuff. A lot of times we get in our heads and we overthink things and we have to realize that.

[00:38:38] Ellen Edmondson: Anything that we're going through, anything that we're experiencing, this too shall pass. And when it does pass, you're always gonna come out smarter, better, wiser, more enhanced from whatever experience you've gone through. And so look at everything as a as a growth opportunity. It's not a right or wrong, it's learning growth and evolution.

[00:39:03] Ellen Edmondson: That's what we're here for. Learning growth and evolution is not about judgment and being right and wrong, but did you grow from it? Did you learn from it? And how have you become a better person because of it and then paying it forward? 

[00:39:20] Ellington Brown: I think that's a good piece of advice, and I think that works for everyone!

[00:39:26] Ellington Brown: Doesn't matter where you happen to be in life. I think if you follow those three things that you suggested I think everyone would live better lives, and in fact, we all would be a lot happier and being a little more inclusive with individuals with special abilities. So how do you maintain a personal connection with your audience through Instagram and Facebook?

[00:39:57] Ellen Edmondson: Yes, I have a Facebook page. It's. A pla Ellen Edmondson, a Place Love and Light and Instagram. Same thing. So if you people go to my website, ellenedmondson.com, it has the connection points for all of that information. But that's the website that started this all and every. You know every, week, there's regular still blog articles going out, information being out, just continuing to push out the positivity and getting people to, when we have so much other things coming at us and negative and chaos coming at us.

[00:40:33] Ellen Edmondson: My goal and what I feel. I'm being guided to do is try and create that, those places where people can come. And that was the original intent all the way 11 years ago when this started, was to create a place where people could come and find, even if it was just a little nugget of something positive that they could take with them into their week or into their day and help them to, maybe create a little shift.

[00:41:00] Ellen Edmondson: And then when you, it's that ripple effect and you create that for one person. It ripples out because everyone that you touch in a positive way touches somebody else in a positive way, and then it just carries on that we're all a ripple and touchpoint for each other and be a positive one.

[00:41:16] Ellen Edmondson: That's what that's the ideal versus anything less than that. 

[00:41:20] Rita Burke: Yeah, I like that we are all ripple and touch points for each other, so I'm going to get really personal now, miss Ellen. I want for you to share with our audience three things that you admire about Ellen Edmondson. Tell us three things that you like, you admire, you cherish about yourself.

[00:41:44] Ellen Edmondson: That's three things I like or cherish about myself. I would've to say that I've always, one, I've always had a big heart. I've always believed in the power of, even from the time I was a little girl, I always believed that I was born to make a big difference in some way. What did it look like? I don't know, but I just knew that love was always something in my heart that guided me.

[00:42:15] Ellen Edmondson: I always believed from the time I was a young child, that why I would sit and question. Why do we treat each other? Why do people treat each other bad when it's so easy to be kind and loving to each other? Why do we do that? And so for me it was the three things that it is just my big heart, my thoughts of service, and how we can always be a better group of people, as individuals, be our best individuals and be the best collectively.

[00:42:46] Ellen Edmondson: And how we all even from a young age, I always knew that we are all guided by something bigger and connecting into that and staying connected because when you let yourself connect to that loving guidance, that loving big divine energy that really drives our lives, that's when our, that's when it, everything flows differently.

[00:43:11] Ellen Edmondson: I would say that's, those are the three things. It's just, it's my perspective, my heart, and my desire to serve and just understand that we're meant to experience joy here. Even in the tough times when you can look for the good things that come out of the tough times. For me, that's the presence, and I use the word God.

[00:43:29] Ellen Edmondson: I always tell people, use whatever label resonates for you, God's source, divine love whatever the word is. But even in the worst times. When there's something good that you find comes out of it, I always stop and say, thank you, God. Because that's God making itself known to you in that moment that it's there for you, supporting you, loving you, guiding you, helping you.

[00:43:50] Ellen Edmondson: People that may not always think of it that way, but I've always had that kind of perspective. So that's I, those are my guiding things and those are things I like about me. 

[00:44:01] Rita Burke: Your answer to the next question may have been threaded or woven through everything you've said so far, but I'll still be brazen and asked this question.

[00:44:14] Rita Burke: What do you do to bring joy into your life? To put a smile on your face? What do you do? 

[00:44:24] Ellen Edmondson: I always make sure. I make time for me and balance is key because life gets busy and we're running in so many different directions all the time. But the big thing for me is slowing down. Like when I mentioned before about how even when I lost my mother and had my baby, I started meditating.

[00:44:44] Ellen Edmondson: I gotta take time to get quiet and center myself and connect. To me, my own spirit, and when I connect with my spirit, I know I'm connecting to my higher source. And that's why like this book, it means so much to me because it helps you to do that, which brings me joy, which has brought me in. And that kind of quiet time, connecting time, it's brought me joy.

[00:45:11] Ellen Edmondson: These meditative writings that I put together brings me joy to put that out to people, but I think that's the biggest. Thing is that you've gotta, in the overall scheme, you gotta make time, self care, self, you gotta make time for that. And when you make time for you to be your best you can't help but put your best out into the world. 

[00:45:32] Ellington Brown: Everything that you said. I agree. Your book, which is also. On Amazon and everyone that's read this book, what takeaway would you want every reader to have when they walked away from your book or your work?

[00:46:01] Ellen Edmondson: I would want them to have, that's a wonderful question. This book is set up in a way. That it takes you on a spiritual journey. And this book is about personal and spiritual growth as you go through it. So it starts with the, for earlier chapters on spirituality and on love and on purpose, and then it starts with the, and with understanding how we're connected to the world and like the spirituality connecting into that, how important it is.

[00:46:29] Ellen Edmondson: But then it takes us into, the path of, understanding our purpose and how love drives everything, gives us the foundation, but then it goes into our self-mastery, self-awareness, our inner journey. And then it gives you information about that. And then the last third of the book takes you through then acting, going through your inner journey, how it then shows up out in the world, how you can put out that positivity.

[00:46:56] Ellen Edmondson: So if people are on a, a journey, a quest of trying to understand, heighten their spiritual journey and improve where they are, their, just their outlook or having some kind of a support or a guide. This book is a wonderful place to do that because it does lead you through there. So my takeaway for people is if you wanna have some kind of inspiration, support, just new perspectives.

[00:47:26] Ellen Edmondson: That helped to feed your soul and feed your mind and feed your spirituality that this is a great book to start with. 

[00:47:38] Ellington Brown: Thank you so much, Ellen, for being with us! We have, had wonderful conversations with you. Not just this conversation, but the one that we had before was absolutely amazing.

[00:47:52] Ellington Brown: And today we got an opportunity to talk a little bit about your personal journey, your awakening in 20 13. We've got to talk a little bit about your book, A Place of Love and Light that is, that's everywhere you can even find it on Amazon. Spiritual insights and coaching. We talked a little bit about what tools you can use to provide spiritual healing and growth.

[00:48:23] Ellington Brown: Talking about children that have these highly they're considered highly intuitive kids and they have to be monitored and supported in such a way. So that they grow up to be happy and productive individuals. And we talked about that and how your book plays a special role in that development of children, your work as a spiritual leader, connection with your readers and your listeners.

[00:48:55] Ellington Brown: We can go on and on about the things that we talked about, because. We did talk about a lot of things, and a lot of it was intertwined with one another, so that made it even better. But thank you so much for being with us. It was well worth the time and the effort.

[00:49:16] Ellington Brown: And the next book that you write, which I'm sure the, individuals from other dimensions are going to continue to talk to you. And so you're gonna have to write these things down that they're telling you to give to us. Please let us know. We would love to have another conversation about that book and, how you plan on it affecting adults and children.

[00:49:44] Ellington Brown: Rita, do you have anything you wanna add to that? 

[00:49:47] Rita Burke: I just wanna say a hearty thank you to you, Ellen, for being so candid and transparent and authentic as you shared your journey, your story, your awakening with us. There's no question that I've learned a lot and I've been inspired and I'm sure our audience will be as well.

[00:50:09] Rita Burke: So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

[00:50:11] Ellen Edmondson: Oh, thank you both so very much. I truly appreciate this opportunity and for people just to know that the spoken word is one thing to have the written word in paperback. The audiobook will be coming out in, I'm sure it will be out in April. So that'll be available for people who wanna just pop it in the car and listen to it, or, your in between things is nice to be able to hear the words and it resonates in a different way even when you hear the spoken word.

[00:50:38] Ellen Edmondson: And that my second book will be out later this year. And it's gonna be a deeper dive on this one. It's called a, it's gonna be called a Place of Love, light, and Learning. And it's gonna be taking it and how we can integrate this more into our lives. So I'm looking forward to that being released later this year as well.

[00:50:54] Ellen Edmondson: And and still just continuing to share the words about all of this, the messages. 

[00:51:00] Ellington Brown: Thank you. Thank you. And don't forget you said that you're gonna come back after you write that book. So please, keep us informed! 

[00:51:09] Ellen Edmondson: Absolutely!

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