Welcome to Sears beers, knowers, and doers, a podcast about intuition. Do you know what that is? Intuition to me, is that inner sense for knowing that something is true and yet I have no proof, but there's so many definitions and there's so many ways it can come and go even to bring together and share with you. Some amazing guests, you have some amazing life stories and also some insights into how intuition can come. And I'm looking to gather those crows in the trees. I hope you're one of them.
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Thanks so much for coming on this journey with me super exciting today because I've got a person that I connected with years ago and we're connected again. And I'm so excited to share her with you. Her name is Cheryl MacDonald , and we just briefly reconnected again verbally because we've been connecting electronically and I'm like, oh yeah, old friend. Let's go. So Cheryl , could you share a little bit about yourself with everybody so that they can get to know you?
Sure. My name is Gerald McDonald and I'm a chiropractor and chiropractor plus now going more into the why our biology does what it does. It's 42 years old. I've been a chiropractor for almost 10 years now and mom of two 18 months and five years old.
That's busy. So 32 chiropractor school. How long has chiropractor school?
Four years. Four years. So
What was your previous?
My previous life was basically trying to figure it out. So I graduated university with a degree in French, German and international studies and knew that I needed to get more education to get to where I wanted to go in life. But I took some time to explore what that was. So I became a nanny and for a really wonderful family. And I did that for a long time. And as soon as I was on the track of trying to figure out what else he did, I realized I had to go back into the amount of science.
So I did that. So you went back to school. Did you like
That ? Yeah . Where were you in nanny?
I was in Boston. I loved it. I was supposed to go back, but I'm still very happy here.
And what took you, did the job take you to like, are you from new Brunswick? Where are you from?
Uh, so I'm from London, new Brunswick. And my parents moved to me to North Carolina when I was almost 12. Then from there, I was like, I want to get out of here. So I studied abroad in France, came back, moved to Boston as sort of that like adult life, getting away, going away and doing my own thing. And um, yeah. And then from Boston, I went to Portland, Oregon for school. So for chiropractic
School?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, everywhere is beautiful.
It's true. I smiled when you said North Carolina and the age you moved and your reaction to moving at that age. Because I lived in North Carolina from three months old to two years old and my parents fell in love with the place, so
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So we've traveled some of the same path and I moved to Nova Scotia when I was 12. And again, like you was like, oh my gosh, what have you done to me? And my parents loved her and I was like, okay, get me out of here. And so got out of Dodge to go to university. And I was like, okay, finally, a choice I made yay. I can be myself, you know, so I get it. So what was schooling abroad like?
Oh, I can , I think as a young child, I always wanted to go, like I was wanting to go to overnight camp and I always wanted to be away and it's like maybe adventure or have experiences. So for me, Finland was a non-English speaking country that I was allowed to go to for studies. And it was just like, I don't know. It's immersing yourself in someone else's culture. It's easy. She, yeah , there was. So
How old were you when you decided to go to Finland?
18 or 19? I turned 19 there. Yeah.
Wow. So Northern lights and all that fabulous sauna. Ain't you got immersed in that for how long?
It was three months. I really wanted to stay, even though I was crying because I had to come home. It was really beautiful there.
So did you get billeted or did you have to get an apartment? Like
It was with our university program, the exchange program. So we lived in dorm rooms or flats and we had sort of like a roommate. So I had a Finnish roommate who had been to the U S and so she spoke really good English. A lot of people in Finland speak really good English. So it wasn't that hard to find someone, but , uh, yeah, so the university set it up. It was quite easy. I mean, I was 19, so it was really like a paved, paved pathway.
Okay. Wow. How enriching, I mean, you get immersed totally in the culture, like you say, and some other random, random place, like what made you pick Finland?
There was England and France and Germany and Finland and choice. So it was just, it was the one that I was excited about. I didn't, I don't know. I just wanted to go to a non English . So my major was French and German and I was like, I dunno , I'll just throw any other language in there. That'd be great.
Yeah. Communicate with people from there .
No, it was, yeah, it was not necessarily the era of the internet that was kind of just taking up. So it did for awhile , but oddly enough, oddly enough, somebody I knew in Finland ended up being from the place where I went to study in France. So I met up with that person again. I was like, this is so random, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Cool. And so when you went to France, how long were you there? Three months. Again,
I know I was there for the whole year of school year. Didn't make that mistake again. And only going for three months.
What made you choose Oregon? Like, are there, there's a few chiropractic schools in the United States? I would say,
Yeah, there's eight there's 18 or 19 schools. It was a school that was highly recommended by the person who was giving me that, understanding the deeper understanding of what chiropractic was. And she didn't go to that school, but she always wanted to. And when I looked into schools , um, everybody has it , uh , Kennedy unique philosophy, and it just was the one that I was most excited about at the time, given my background and given, just wanting to be a little bit more medicalized.
We learned everything at that school. Like we could draw blood, you can take blood labs. It was really this interesting mix of the chiropractic practice with like a medical background,
Functional medicine.
A lot of, a lot of colleagues went into functional medicine
And now, you know, 10 years full on chiropractic itching itching earlier than that, when you were pregnant, maybe, I don't know. Maybe you were birthing two things at the same time. When did you get the German new medicine itch?
The German new medicine age. It was a natural curiosity. And I legitimately have no idea when that happened, but it's always something that's been on my mind. It probably, yeah, it was probably around my first child just knowing that I think beforehand . So like we're allowed to talk personal stuff here
Up to you. What you want to share. Cheryl, going to the world,
I was diagnosed with a cervical pre-cancer and I knew from you from my personal choices, but I wanted choices and I felt like I didn't have choices, but alas , I got pregnant with my first kid and that was really, really good. Cause they said, you know, you might not be able to carry a child after the surgery. And so I was like, oh, well I just so happens that I was supposed to go into surgery. And I found out a week before that it was
Oh , bumpy.
Yeah. So that doesn't mean that I got the, to choose sort of the medical path that I wanted to, but it was, it was definitely gave me time to put things into perspective and don't learn more things and yeah. And, and then as life would have it a few years after he was born, it just came onto my lap. Like a patient came in, said, do you understand the connection between like the stress of the mind and the physical symptoms of the body? And like you believe that?
And I said, well sure, of course, you know, not really know like what I was saying yes to you, but knowing that there was something to it and they introduced me now to my instructor who has like just this amazing wealth of knowledge and experience in how the body heals itself.
Yeah. Yeah. I , um , it's practiced German, new medicine. I have not per se studied German new medicine, but I am highly aware of German, new medicine through people I've crossed paths with and how they have , they have studied it. And our conversations are always so interesting.
And seeing to me, health is like looking into a many faceted diamond or prism and you can get to the same place in a whole bunch of different ways, depending on how you look at the prism, but there is always a deeper meaning or a deeper connection to what you see on the surface. There's always something inside what you see on the surface. And yeah, so Germany ,
I really like the prison analogy. It's just, it is like all these different facets of health are kind of part of the same prism . Right.
And you know, I, I work with energy emotions, mental, physical, spiritual, but I don't come at it from the German new medicine perspective. But when I overlay knowledge that I gained from people who have German new medicine, I'm like, oh yes, that also applies . Yeah.
From each other, from each other, in the knowledge that we have different approaches. I was talking to somebody the other day was highly religious. And as I was talking to him, he's like, what are you talking about? You're like, you know, I call myself, I want natural. I want nature to lead. Doesn't mean I always get that. Right. It's just that, that's my ideal that if we can study that, we can understand it in depth, but to me as a better life.
But he was like, wow, your approach is different, but it gets to the same place as my approach, you know, it's really cool.
Um , yeah. And to me underpinning, all of it is the divinely led process, which gets me to intuition, right? Like underpinning all of it, whether it's an Aboriginal source or, you know, the Finnish sauna or German new medicine, or, you know, emotion code or whatever, or Bach flower remedies or energy medicine or the food you eat, like all of it is divinely intervened to me. So , so
Exactly was I used to put a lot of weight right on nutrition. You sort of, I think in learning, you put a lot of weight in one area only to find out that that's not the whole story. It's not the whole truth. So for me, like in my early, early twenties, it was all about nutrition. And I thought, man, I feel so amazing focusing on nutrition, realizing that that is a part of the story of , it's not the whole part of the story.
So, but yeah, like I wouldn't want to go back and say that I want to live on Cheetos again, Knowing that he's still do need to eat, but maybe not so strict.
Yeah. 80 20, even our nutrition has changed in our lifetimes to be inclusive of genetically modified stuff and inclusive of more pesticides. And you know, the stuff that is labeled differently is the closer to the earth stuff, which is kind of bizarre.
But , um, it is, it's, it's an awareness that the closer to the earth stuff is actually closer to real oddly, we get into patterns that there can be a comfort in knowing I'm doing my best and whatever you can afford, if you're doing your best, that's awesome. This isn't about food shaming, but it's about also being aware that we can do tiny little things, whether it's soaking fruit and vegetables and vinegar, we can do tiny little things to be supportive.
If we get curious and that curiosity opens the door for intuition to lead you, places
Like intuition, it's just such a fascinating, fascinating topic. I'm fascinated by it right now. It's a funny story. When I went to school, you start to learn and you're very much in that head space of my brain has the power and my brain and my conscious brain have learned the things that are going to serve. Right? And you walk away from intuition in a lot of ways because you're shoving this information into your brain and you're giving it priority.
And you're saying that it's more important because you have to get through the program, you have to answer the questions, you have to pass the task . Right. And then, you know, for some people, maybe their heart has like, is always in it and it's ever present and intuition is ever present. But for me, it was really hard to get back to the heartbeats intuition. And so it was people coming in and I just wanted to like learn more. And I still do that.
I'm like, tell me, it tells me more because I'm always opening my mind to, to the energies in the world that aren't measured through science. So it was actually in school that somebody had said that just because we can't measure it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Right .
Was that a fellow student or was that a ,
It was a practitioner, a chiropractor. He came into help with that mindful niche .
Incredible meant to show up in that class
Very much so.
So in your new awareness, that intuition is an equal partner to the brain or whatever kind of partnership, 20, 80, 80, 20, whatever kind of partnership it is. How do you receive it in your essence? Like, do you hear it? Do you feel it, is it other people giving you messages? Is it music? Like, how does it, how does it work for you? And it can be 87 different ways. So how does it work?
Yeah. In my personal life, I'm just trying to be more aware of things that come in. So, you know, it's a song in the morning and right now CBC is playing the sun in the morning every morning, share the vision, share the mission. And I'm like, oh my gosh, thank you. Thank you. Um , so you know, all the symbols, all the signs, all the, all the numbers, you know, just being more aware and cognizant that things don't come to me by accident.
They come to me on purpose and I've been really blessed with that. And then aside from that, you know, when I'm in practice, I've learned recently that I'm a storyteller. So I'm trying to just open my mind to the stories that come into my head, dragging me through it . Am I supposed to take this?
It's a truth. Maybe have you shared it before?
So I'm a storyteller and I'm learning that that's okay. Yeah . They don't have to talk about the science that I can share to experience and through stories.
The frog in the throat is interesting to me because that's not how you've practiced before it's been sharing the science. And so becoming more true to essence is sometimes a shift that requires removal of stuff that used to block it from happening innately. Cool. Very cool.
So I am going to ask you if there's stories you want to share about how intuition has shown up in your life and you know, how this storyteller thing, maybe if you want to share that part, because I'm, goosebumpy again, how this story teller epiphany arrived in your , in your world, because it sounds like it is a pivotal thing for your journey to go ahead.
Yeah. So I had my baby Clara at like two weeks before this whole storm of events happened. And I basically was, I want to say, not bedridden , but I was at home just trying to make it work to entertain like the five-year-old and my husband was home. It was phenomenal. Fantastic. But anyway, I ended up on tick tock, tick tock, for some reason just kept like fulfilling me with spirituality and , and so on and so forth. And all of a sudden human design came my way.
And that really, really rocketed me into, oh my gosh, this resonates with me. I'm an investigator. I like to throw myself into new situations. So if I like experienced a thing as a failure, it's really just more of a lesson. Right. I just got to know who I was on flop work. And I got to be excited about the things that make me me. And instead of comparing myself to everybody else, I get to hone in on who I am, which is quite honestly the journey that I'm really excited for everybody.
You know , it's me being a chiropractor is not trying to take away some pain. It's trying to help them find their best life. So human design was really pivotal in that. I got the books, I was reading in depth about who I am. And yeah, even if it was just little blurbs on people from Instagram, just giving free information. It's so there's so much out there
Without a doubt. I had this chat yesterday with people. I was giving a seminar to on muscle testing, which is a gateway intuition. If you're not connected in one head space . And we were talking about like, the two people I was dealing with were both Pisces. And they were like, both of them were like, Gavin , there's parts of that. That don't resonate with me.
And I'm like, yeah, but that's because on the astrology side you have two other plants that are two other signs that are part of who you are in a large way. And, and then in the numerology side, there's that, and could be like a five, which has nothing to do with the , the fish or whatever, you know, like or whatever. Like we just, and then I said, human design is another whole avenue where you're like, oh, this part also makes sense.
And so we are also that diamond with so many facets and so many unique, different perspectives on things and how, when we're born, we are given identifiers. We have a birthday , uh, a time planets or certain places, numbers or certain ways, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Not to mention like last year in versus JD ,
Like what kind of Chinese animal you are like in your calendar? Yeah. The aerobatic thing is a whole nother thing. Human design is like, if , if you think horoscopes or deep human design is like a chasm in the ocean,
I take my daughter out for a while . I'm like, I'm just missing exercise where it's not like I'm getting out. And my dad called it the moment that I was going out for a walk. And I was like, okay, I'll chat to him. He either talks or he doesn't talk. Right. But we ended up having like a two hour chat. I was ultimately, I was like, what time was I born to have things at six in the morning, but I know it's after supper. So anyway, he comes back and he's like, I think he was six or eight.
And then I talked to him and I'm telling him, like, I'm just really curious about this human design thing, because it really feels like it's lighting me up. And it's giving me an understanding of my purpose. I'm really connected with that huge in my life this year, he said, Cheryl, I'm going to share with you two Bible passages. And I was like, okay. Yeah, sure. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. It's overwhelming to me. I'm just not there yet.
Okay. So he reads them and he reads this passage and it's like, Psalms . And he's like, this is literally the Bible telling you that you were born at the exact time you were born in , in God's plan. Do you know? I can't, I can't do the conversation justice because it was too long ago for me to remember verbatim. But he said, that was me reading this morning. I was like, talk about intuition and like coincidence not being, you know, happenstance that they're very synchronous synchronicities.
I'm full of goosebumps. Again. I'm like on a roll here. It just keeps coming in waves, Sheryl . It's awesome. These phones are my little truth, a highlight underscore my exclamation point things . So are there any other stories you want to share about how intuition has shown up and giving you any, any other insights?
I mean, what you've already shared is phenomenal and I'm so excited for you that you've , you know, you're on this new course of, of becoming more of who you are, but is there anything else you'd like to share, speak to everybody about in terms of tuition ,
Um , in this chasm between being a chiropractor and not being able to shut up about all this other stuff like, you know, so in human design, specifically looking at your incarnation cross to see if that really lights you up, because it just, is this paragraph on potentially like just guiding you into what you really are , are vented to it . It lit me up, it lit a fire under me to say, okay, this is my direction right now. Is that the
Storyteller?
So that's the, it's the storytelling . It's a little bit more of that. I, I love the chiropractic work, right? People come in and I'm like, here is an adjustment look, it's way better. But I've always really liked to explain and empower people to taking that to the next level and saying like, okay, I can empower you to feel less pain. I can empower you to understand why you're experiencing this pain and the fact that you don't have to live with this your whole life.
There's so many things that we've made up in our lives. This stories , the beliefs that we've made up. And now it's going onto this even bigger story of wanting people just to get, to get to you like the juicy, juicy, juicy stuff. Because to me it's all about love. It's all about spreading sharing, promoting loves . And that's like, that's, that really feels like my colleagues . I don't want to label it chiropractor, but it's taking on a more of a coaching type title. Yeah .
Awesome. Spreading the love is a huge purpose in the world, so, yeah . It's awesome. Good. Thank you so much for today. This has been fantastic.
No , I'm so excited and talking about this stuff, it's it came at just the right time. I'm very thankful that you reached out and that we're connecting again.
Me too. Me too until next time.
Thank you so much for giving us your time today. We truly appreciate our guests for sharing their stories and insights about how intuition has impacted their lives. And I'm so grateful for Peter trainer for his time and giving me this original music. It's now your turn. It's your turn to listen and act on your own intuition and help make the world a better place until next time, keep seeing being, knowing, and doing. If you like this podcast, please share it.
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