Welcome to See'rs Be-ers, 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 we'll even be , 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.
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So today I'm super excited because I have had this spontaneous connection with a storyteller through Facebook and she said yes to coming on my podcast. And I just think that it's going to be lovely to see what gets revealed today in my short connection with her before the podcast. So thank you so much, Dina Schultz for joining me today and saying, yes,
My pleasure. My pleasure. I feel very , uh , I dunno , humbled I guess, but that you reached out to me or that people are reading the little snippets I'm writing and being so thrilled about them. Honestly, I'm, I'm speechless, obviously I'm stuttering. Like I I'm a little in awe and astounded and it's the reason I keep writing them to be honest, because I didn't know that it would reach out in that way to people so
Well, and as somebody who's read this story and we don't have to get into the story, but as somebody who reads something that expresses a vulnerability and authenticity about an observation of a situation, I think that those two things shine through and in a world where we don't always see vulnerability and authenticity, it's almost like it is a lighthouse that people are like, Oh, there it is. We need more of that. And I think that's part of the beautiful ness of what's occurring.
In some aspects of social media is people are able to connect in this really strange time in this really strange way and fill some of those needs for things like authenticity and vulnerability. So thanks for following the nudge and sharing those stories.
Yes. And I am picking up that, that exact feeling in the world. I mean, with all the things that have happened in the last year in 2020, and maybe when it became more real to people. So maybe the fall, I really started noticing that shift in social media instead of it being, you know, I mean, there's still plenty of memes and silly stuff and that's great, but there's more authenticity is such a great word.
I feel more of that from people like they're really needing that to reach out and be with people in a way that is, you know, the way our world went last year. And it's, it's still is, you know, like I am appreciating it because although in my work I see people and I'm interacting with people. I don't have my outside, you know, like stuff happening with people.
And it's, it probably is why I, you know, started writing that story and, or the stories or whatever, and being more involved on social media, which I wasn't before I was kind of a outsider. I was kind of a person who, Oh, that's interesting, but I didn't really respond much, you know, or as more of an observer. And I feel like it's shifted me that, you know, what went on last year and continues.
It kind of shifted me into being more hands-on if you will, like in the social media, which I , I really wasn't so much before. So it's interesting to observe that in myself and to shift something, to contribute. Yeah.
So tell us all a little bit more about yourself, Dina , if you could and share with the world a little bit more about who you are and what you do and what you love and,
Well, I love my horses for sure. I love my boys. I've had horses my whole life, basically like from my first little Shetland pony when I was around five and I have a teenage son that , uh, is if I can say my world in a way, right? Like he's such a great human and struggling so much with not having school. He's very, very social kid. And he's one of those kids where this has really hurt him. I mean, he's coming out of it and he's a , he's a strong soul.
So I guess, you know, he's coming out of it, but it really was hard on him and has been hard on him. So what I do, I mean, work-wise , I'm a nurse practitioner and I work in neurosurgery and that's also been its own little journey of path that converges with all my little paths and journeys of me, but it seeing people and helping people. And during this weird time has also been very different than it has been in the past 10 years because people are afraid.
And then they look to healthcare workers for not only helping them with their health or whatever's, you know , physically going on, but there's a lot of emotional, more need than there ever was. So I like being able to be part of the like right brain of that and the left brain of that. I like being the , the healthcare person and the person who sits with them for half an hour while they're in the hospital. Cause no one can visit them, you know? And , but I can , right .
So being able to do that in a way that means something different to the patients than it did prior to not being able to have visitors. And you know, it means something so much more to them. I think I get a lot out of what I think means something to someone else that I'm part of, you know, like I get a lot of happiness from that. It makes me feel good in that way.
Well, and it extends beyond the person in the hospital as a , as a family member who has had family go through procedures in the past and due to request of said patient and miles in between, we were told don't come. And it was because she did not have the energy to entertain us as visitors and just wanted the space and time to heal herself.
And so we were in a circumstance where we were fully surrendering care in all ways to the healthcare profession and so grateful for people who even outside of COVID took the time to, to honor that person. So it's, I think in that profession, this is a stereotype, but I think it does generate a percentage of that profession who enjoys that compassion care side of things, for sure, from what I've seen. So we all appreciate you.
I hope you realize that there's a global hub going out to you right now. Dina has a , as a representative of the healthcare professions on this podcast because it's huge. It's huge.
I , I , I feel it too. I really do. And being in the hospital during this time, you, I mean, anyway, I feel it just walking into the hospital. You, I think most, I , well, I guess I can't speak about other people, but I certainly feel it and I am really grateful for it. I think I'm going to be that person because that's who I am. You know, even if there's cranky, crunchy people, it's like, that's okay.
Because I just feel like I really, really believe not even, I just feel like, I believe like really deeply that everyone is on their own journey, their path.
And I get so much out of just sort of observing that, even if it's something that's way out of my realm of like, wow, I would never think or do or act, or, you know, like instead of, you know, being judgmental about that or, or, you know, screen scrunching up my nose and getting a look on my face, that's like , you know, I don't do that anymore. I can't say that I didn't when I was in my teens and my twenties, when you get that, like, you know, everything and you are everything.
And , um , but to be able to reflect on that, what I was and see where I am now, and it , it's not even a like choice in the sense of today, I'm going to not be judgmental and I'm going to go out into the world. And if I see someone holding a flag in some certain way and that figuratively, literally holding some sort of flag, I'm not going to look at it and scrunch my face and, you know , look down my nose or whatever. I don't even make that kind of choice anymore.
It's just organically like what's happening in me. And it's very, very interesting cause I'm kind of an observer of myself as well as being myself. Right. So when I'm observing, I'm like, wow, like you just did that like naturally, like that just happened. And , and you're really okay with it. And I, my self conversations. Yeah, I'm really okay with it.
Like this is beautiful because what an empowering place to be really, That's a very empowered place to be. So hopefully that can inspire somebody to dive into that if they're not in that space at this time, because it's , it's a place of empowerment. I would say, that's the word that pops in my head because you're not losing power to a situation you're not being hijacked and triggered by a situation you're just sitting in it and observing so
Right. And I even check on myself like really, but you really are. Okay. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Okay. You know, and it still, it still gets me. Sometimes I seeing that myself, you know, in that way think, wow , I really am where I wished to be when I was 20, when I was teen or maybe even when I was in high school, I remember delving into transcendental meditation and thinking, you know, I was going to be so heightened in myself and it was mechanical. It was reading about it.
It was, I am that like telling myself and I am, and I do, and I, this, but it wasn't organic. It was all from the chest up. So to speak, you know, like a deep, but I, you know, at that age you're naive or at least I was, and I, I really believe that and I'm kind of bouncing around, but, and I thought I was better than the people around me in some way, because I had this sort of transcendental, you know, way of being and you know, and it's when you're forcing that thought, You're not it.. Yeah.
Process-driven versus being, yeah, totally awesome. It's so true. And I think that's called integration. Like there's, there's, there's doing and understanding, and then there's integration almost like you can do the process. You can understand the process, but when you're actually are , do like being and doing it without having to step A is this step B is that step C? Is this when you're ? Yeah. It's, it is very cool.
And that applies to so many aspects of our , whether you're cleaning out of the toilet for the first time and , or you're learning a new process at work or whatever the case may be. Yeah, totally. So I'm going to shift gears a little bit. How does intuition come to you? Cause you've , you have a , this observer has an awareness and just through reading your stories, there's, there's like a connectedness that everything's connected and yeah.
So I just, in your observation, have you observed how intuition shows up or, or comes to like, perhaps it doesn't come, you just do everybody's different.
Yeah. Um , you know, it's shifted in my life like intuition when I was younger, it was like just a knowing. And I don't know that I remember feeling anything I re I , I do remember the one of the first times I had a moment of intuition that I observed in myself from the outside. I remember it to this day. Like you remember, you know , um , you know, those flashbulb memories of something that was either awesome or scary, or w they , they just make this flashbulb imprint.
And so I remember that, I remember when it felt, and it's different than it is now. Like now I feel it, I feel intuition. It's kind of in just my whole body, I guess, where my body feels something. And sorry, I have , for lack of being able to really put words, cause it doesn't really have words all the time. Yeah. Right . No. So it's something that I feel in my body and just almost there's heat to it.
And since I really believe in kinesthetics and I believe in thermodynamics and quantum physics and , you know, I, I believe in all of that. So when I feel that warmth in my body, I know there's a physical, molecular thing happening that's in, it's connected to whatever it is I'm having an intuition or feeling about. So I feel my body first, feel some heat.
And when I was younger and I used to feel something like that, I used to get panic attacks because I knew something was happening, but I didn't really know what it was. And I would have these panic attacks that I would have to go shut myself off from everything, like go into a room because I couldn't take the, whatever. I thought it was emotion or feeling or whatever was around me. That was going on was so intense to my body. I would have a panic attack.
And because you don't know what it is that I think is why you have a panic attack, your buys like what's good for, when am I having a heart attack and my having a , you know, so , um ,
Sharing that because I think intuition and anxiety go together sometimes. And so thank you for sharing that.
And it, but it can change because I think for me anyway, the more I understand anything for that matter, the less anxiety there is around it, or the panic or the whatever. And so when I was younger, it was heat body, all this then panic attack. I need to remove myself like as much as even I went through a phase in a very young life, my young wife always wearing gloves because I would touch something.
And I would like feel the, this heat, this rush of sort of like whatever was happening with the person who maybe was leaving a trail or something. I know that sounds right .
No, no, no, no, no. You keep talking because there's people feel that stuff Yeah. Good .
So at a young age when I didn't understand it, so then, like I said, I would have panic attacks. So then I started finding ways to protect myself from, from this is younger. Right. So I had worked gloves like re except for sleeping. Right. I couldn't touch a door knob without like, and then I started realizing that things would come in that way through metals, you know? And again, I'm very naive about this.
I'm not where I am today, where I think, Oh yeah, metals, because I understand the physics , but, you know, but then as a young, you know, 10, 12, 13 year old, I, you know, would wear gloves all the time and then it would be less. And somehow I associated, the more I protected my bike , the less panic attacks I would have. So I would, you know, I was the person in 80 degrees wearing the turtleneck with gloves because I was not in, you know, I'm in my fifties.
So that's, you know, several, a couple of decades or so ago. And that just gets moved down , like some psych issue, you know, like what's, you know, this girl needs some help or, you know, and I understood. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I still can today, but I think there's enough of people like that around and, you know, social media. I mean, there's people talking to each other and sharing experiences.
And so it's like, I I'm hoping that means there's more a feeling of, I don't know about understanding, but a feeling of welcomeness. Like it's okay. You know , it's possible even like , yeah,
Thank you so much for sharing. Cause I you're the first person to share this in 70 podcasts and I've known, I , my knowing has known that those triggers energetically exist and they can create outcomes like you had. And I so appreciate you sharing that because there are a lot of people on the planet. I mean, people make a living, the old psychics would make a living, reading a ring . Right. How is that different than your experience besides understanding and channeling The outcome right. Right.
Not to say one is the other or the other is the other, but just the transfer of energy in the energetic. If I can call it energetic maturity, I don't even know that that's a word or aptly describes it, but I think you get my point when people hopefully will get my point with just understanding how all the way. So thank you. Thank you for sharing that. That's huge, but I interrupt. So just put an exclamation point behind your points . So I'll , I'll let you keep going.
How is your intuition evolved? Cause it sounds like it's evolved.
Definitely would do not have panic attacks anymore. That once I started, I had this, I had a few events moments happen that happened with another person who could validate what was happening. So let me, I'll tell a story that will kind of understand it . I think will explain what I mean. So I had a friend, I think I was around 17 or 18 and we became very close and she talked a lot about this kind of stuff. And we resonated on things where we didn't really even need to talk.
Like we just kind of understood and I always attributed it to her. You know, her whole family is kinda like this and they're just really, I guess I didn't even have the word for myself of intuition, but they're just intuitive people and they kind of meditate and they kind of do these things. And you know, I was again around 17. And so I didn't have the words about it. I mean, just, just to back up in my life, I was young when I was emancipated at 15 and I was homeless.
And so I kind of went through some things that I look back and I think, Oh , that's where that little miss of information that other people, my age, might've just kind of known by being in with a family or whatever, you know? So sometimes I didn't really have words for things that I was experiencing. And so when I became friends with this girl and her family, I could see how they were and I was like that, but I didn't really know what it was. So back to the story.
So one time she was really, really upset about something and we lived in the same apartment complex. So she lived on the same floor, but like three doors down. And I was laying sort of in that dozing state where you're in connection with everything, but you're not asleep, but you're not awake. And I saw her upset and crying. And then I saw her walk to her ironing board and cut off these purple sweats and then put them on.
And so she had these like Knickerbocker sweats or whatever that she just cut off. And then I saw her leave her apartment and knock, knock, knock at my door. And that got me out of my state. And I opened it. She was standing there in those purple sweats that she just cut off. Oh my God. Okay. So now I have a person I can validate that I'm actually, and that's a little different than an intuition. I kind of digressed, I guess . No, not necessarily.
No, no. Like , you know, there's a big, it's a big, yeah , for me, it kind of validated that feeling that I get that warmth, that thing that happens in me that used to cause panic attacks. Like I started to understand it even better. And you know , I stopped having panic attacks when I was probably around 15, I think, 14 or 15. So it isn't completely, you know, responsible for like, Oh, there it is. Panic attacks gone.
Like it was a process of understanding what was going on in me, but having the like physical validation of that. And, and so from that point on, I started seeing, or feeling like intuition was actually could be kind of tangible, even though we , we, we talk about it like a thing we can't really explain and how does it happen and it's, but when you think about that, it , it is really a molecular happening or at least I believe that it's kind of a molecular absolutely level. Yeah .
It is tangible, right. It is tangible. So that's how it's evolved for me is, but I , I have more belief in myself about it. I have more trust. I have a belief that is so deep that I'm okay talking about it like 20 years ago, I'd be very picky. Okay. That person no way they they're just going to think I'm crazy. And that person okay. That's we can talk, you know, now I just am , right. Yeah . Yeah.
Lovely. Oh my goodness. And you know, you touch on something there that I get goosebumps about in terms of the evolution of trust in yourself and in what information, quote unquote, you're receiving, however, it comes to you and how sometimes that external validation is needed to kind of transcend the distrust.
But at the same time, the growth that occurs once we get that trust in ourself and the self-esteem is not the right word, but the, the, again, I guess, self trust or empowerment or, or just comfort, I don't know what the right word is, but you get what I'm saying. The coming home of I'm solid in who I am kind of thing that can happen just with that tool of intuition is so, so important, I think for people to get ahold of. So yeah, really, really cool.
Yeah. I think that's why with horses because they live, I mean, in my opinion, they, that's what they embody that like all of their body is that and it , you can see it. So it's kind of a physical feedback or, you know, my, my brain is, is a science brain. So I really like physical, real, physical kinesthetic kind of feedback. I , I don't need it. Like I used to when I was young, but I really like it.
It is another sort of comforting layer and horses to me are that, so they helped me remember that I am. And again, since we're using intuition and the word Intuit, intuition, it reminds me that I am that. And that I've always been that that's who I am. Let me just say, I think everybody is, it's just where, like I said, in the beginning, like where is it? Is it down in your feet still? Okay, well you have some time and it's, and it's okay.
We all, it's going to travel through our body as it does in this lifetime or many lifetimes. And it's going to eventually, you know, law of thermodynamics. I mean, it's going to come back round and it's right . It's going to happen. So
Right. Well, and the horses are that physical feedback loop that validation as well of , well , you're on the right path or oh No, you're not being so clear and consistent with yourself there. So yeah, it is interesting. Like you've planted some nuggets today to give people who are still kind of on the fringe, in that very physical, like it, the intuition may be in their feet. Like you say to go check out thermodynamics , go check out the science of intuition. Like go check it out.
Cause there's so many places now that didn't exist before to gather that information and put it through your own filter. Does it resonate with you? Do you have a place to do external validation? Horses are one venue, but there are many other venues to validate externally, but your own intuition should be the final, the final hiring committee, so to speak or whatever you want to call it. But your own intuition is the one that trumps everything else. So, Oh my goodness.
Dina , this has been fantastic. Thank you so much for saying yes, because like I said, at the beginning, when we were just talking how each podcast is kind of like Christmas morning for me, because I never know where it's going to go. And each time I'm just like, wow, I knew I was excited for a reason.
People are so fascinating that you're, you're doing this and reaching out all over the world and creating the like , you know, we talk about physical and non-physical , but the physical platform for people to just be like and say, whatever it is and it's okay, whatever it is is good. It's great. It's awesome. And it doesn't really matter if they're, if they're in their feet or their chest or wherever they are with it, there's a layer to share.
And I was equally or am equally excited that you know, that you're doing this and I kind of do a little meta think of myself and think, gosh, could I do, I don't think I'd be ready do that with a stranger? Well , well, here I am, I'm doing it. So I have to, you know , kind of still at the gum , a little talk with myself, like, Hey, what do you mean? You're Doing it? Oh yeah. Okay. You're right . Yeah . Yeah. And I mean, I'm gonna put this back at you. You've already done it.
It just happened to come out of your fingers on Facebook, on a feed. You know, it comes in many ways, but I've encouraged so many people to do podcasts from this venue. It has been kind of fun because many people just start with this as their first step into delivering their own messages. Right. And this whole podcast is to inspire people wherever they're at to listen to their intuition and all the different ways it can come.
And so if this gives you a nugget to go forth and do something, I will be excited. So, yeah. Cool. Well, thank you again today for sharing, we will see where this goes.
Thank you for having me.
until next time Dina.
Yes until next time.
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