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Finding Healing in Movement: How Country Dance Transformed Adia Nuna's Life

• Shelly Jefferis • Season 2 • Episode 112

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When Adia Nuno stepped away from her demanding network marketing business to focus on her family, she had no idea the void would be filled with overwhelming depression. Twenty years of unprocessed grief from losing her father as a teenager came flooding to the surface, leaving her contemplating suicide. Her unexpected lifeline? Country line dancing.

"It was like the healthiest drug you could ever have," Adia reveals as she shares how discovering country dance communities provided not just movement, but healing, purpose, and connection when she needed it most. From those first tentative steps on the dance floor to now traveling internationally teaching others, her journey demonstrates how our darkest moments can transform into our greatest calling.

What makes this conversation particularly moving is how Adia has come full circle with her original intention to connect more deeply with her children. Today, her son teaches dance alongside her, her daughter manages merchandise at events, and her youngest helps with logistics. "I've learned to incorporate my kids in a way that feels a lot more connected than it ever did before," she reflects.

Adia's "All Out As Is" philosophy encourages everyone to express themselves authentically while accepting where they are in their journey. Through her Country Dance Simplified program and wellness retreats, she's made dance accessible to people who never thought they could move that way, proving that healing often comes through unexpected channels.

"You are a prayer answered," Adia reminds us in her parting wisdom. "The person that you are, the existence that you have right now, the gifts that you bring to the world—you existing is an answered prayer." Whether you're a dance enthusiast or someone struggling to find your way through difficult times, this conversation offers hope that your unique expression matters more than you know.

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In Health,

Shelly

Speaker 1:

You know, we may never know the lives that we touch, we may never hear those stories, but we can be confident that when we are living in a way that's aligned for who we were meant to be, that those stories of the lives that we touch are just immeasurable. There's so many.

Speaker 2:

Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more to share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Words of Wellness.

Speaker 2:

I have a very special guest today and this is kind of our. I guess you could say take three. We've had a couple technical difficulties on my end, so I'm praying that all is smooth and goes amazing today. So, for whatever reason, we were meant to record this third time and it's going to be amazing. She really struck me as a very unique person. Not only is she beautiful, but she has been sharing her talent in dance in the wellness space, and what she does is she really focuses on improving someone's health and wellness through movement and through dance, and you all won't see her yet, at least not during this episode, but she's a beautiful dancer. Won't see her yet, at least not during this episode, but she's a beautiful dancer and I'm really excited for her to share her journey, because it's much, much more than just sharing wellness through dance. She has a story, a very impactful story, to share with everyone. So welcome, adia, I'm so excited to have you.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, I'm so excited to be here.

Speaker 2:

I know that. You know we've got to know each other just a little bit and we had some great conversation last time that we were chatting, so I'm really excited to to learn more and just to continue the conversation today and to let our listeners know what you're all about, because you are on a very I feel, very impactful and a beautiful journey.

Speaker 1:

Thank you. Yes, it's been quite the journey.

Speaker 1:

And for a long time I didn't talk about it, I just kind of existed in it, lived in it, survived in it and since I've been in this different headspace for a handful of years now, sharing it has really been a good next step for me and just hoping that what I share and you know, just letting when I share my stories or when I share my insights or lessons learned, I hope that it'll be a blessing to someone and help one of your listeners, or one of our listeners, you know, get to their next level and find peace and healing.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, and you know, I just recently did a recording my guest. Her focus is trauma and mental health and I'm just looking forward to having you share your journey because, ultimately, you found your calling and what you're doing now because of something you are going through in your life personally, and so I would love for you to share and it's just such a touching story and you know, I think it just goes back to. We can look back and connect the dots and realize that, okay, I went through X, y, z to get me to where I am today and you're a perfect example of that, because you are impacting lives and doing some amazing work because of a hard, challenging period that you went through, and so I just, I just that touches my heart and I just want to give you kudos for what you are doing and sharing your story. So I'm going to be quiet now so you can share what has brought you to where you are today.

Speaker 1:

Oh, thank you so much for the thank you for the opportunity, truly so. When I, looking back you talk about connecting the dots I feel like dance has been always this little like gift from God, to like my life raft in different times throughout my life. So, for those of you who don't know me, I my name is Adia Nuno, my brand is Adia Dance, so that's how you'll find me just about everywhere, and I love teaching and sharing and creating opportunities for people to do line dance, country country line dance, country swing, country two-step and then lots of other different styles, and I do that in a variety of ways step and then lots of other different styles, and I do that in a variety of ways. Um, but the most recent way that I, that I kind of share my gifts with the world is in country dance events and conventions where people are able to come and learn and and grow in their dance ability. And then also, like I do, I do some training as well, some instructor training, but my point in the events is to definitely teach more than just dance or provide more than just dance, and I'll come back to this. But I always tell my staff this event is not about dance. It's about people. It's about every single person who's about to walk into our space and the impact that we get to have on their life. That's going to take them way beyond what happens this weekend. So but I'll come back to that and made a life decision that I didn't realize the the impact it would have like on my psyche, on my mental health, and that was that I had been um, doing uh, an online company, a network marketing company, and I had been growing in the business and everything was going well. But I was working a lot and for anyone who's done kind of network marketing companies, you know, the more you work, almost the more you have to work in order to keep everything growing and building.

Speaker 1:

And I had these big dreams and big goals. And I also have three children that I was homeschooling, and two sons and a daughter I you know at the time I'd have to really do some math, but I think my daughter was around eight or nine years old. She's my middle child and I just remember thinking like I, I had always had a goal to have a really great relationship with my kids. My parents were wonderful parents. I also don't feel like I was as close to them as I would have loved to be. I was one of five siblings and they were so busy living life doing all the things that needed to be done for the family and I just never felt like a super close connection with my parents. I ended up losing my dad when I was 15 in a in a free diving accident and in the ocean in Mexico. But hey, if you got to go, go do what you love, so, but that that was a huge, you know, a huge occurrence in my life, very traumatic to lose my father when I was 15 years old. All that to say, I really wanted to have a close relationship with my kids so that at any point they could look back and say you know, like I had a great relationship with my mom.

Speaker 1:

And so, at this time in 2016, I made this choice to leave the marketing company because I knew that if I kept on that path, my so much of my energy would be devoted there that I would miss out on having the relationship with my kids and specifically my daughter. Like I really wanted her to feel like safe and just have like a close relationship. And that has to do with lots of other past trauma that I went through and so. But making that decision threw me into a deep depression, because what seems to have happened is, as soon as I cleared the schedule of the thing that had been taking up the most amount of time and before that I had been doing other things that took up all my time as soon as I cleared my schedule, it was like every amount of hurt and pain and trauma that I had been shoving down for two decades came flooding to the surface and it was just this most overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and despair and pain and mourning.

Speaker 1:

It was like I didn't even realize I was shoving all those things down all that time. I know I didn't like if you could see me, I'm doing air quotes I didn't mourn my dad's death. I was like, oh man, that's terrible, that sucks. I cried a little bit and then the next day the sun rose and everyone got up and did their things and I was like, huh, the world just moves on, like there's no time for me to. Nobody cares that I'm, that my dad just passed away. Nobody cares, and I don't mean people in my immediate circle, but I mean the world in general. You know the communities, so that's always really, really challenging.

Speaker 2:

I don't know what the right word is, but that's always been really an odd thing. The world still continues. The world still goes on, even if we're going through a very traumatic event or a loss, like you did, and that it's always. It's always kind of an odd experience, isn't it? Like well, things are still happening, people's lives are still going on happening. People's lives are still going on, but not for us at the moment, and so so that's so interesting. So you kind of got into well, we're we're, life goes on, we're back into our routine. So I didn't realize it took you that long for for everything to start, kind of coming up to the surface, that's. That's amazing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So so it was. Uh, I was 15 when my dad passed away. It was about 20 years later that I put that pause on the business and literally just everything, everything boiled up and it threw me into a really deep depression, because it wasn't just the morning, like I said, it was like so many different emotions and experiences and just everything that I'd been suppressing, that I'd been ignoring, that I'd been coping with over time. I wonder if part of me feeling alone was that 15 year old Adia memory of the world goes on, the clock still keeps ticking. Nobody actually, either, very few people who care. And so when I'm in this depression, I didn't choose to involve other people in it. I went through it very, very much alone and for whatever, for whatever my subconscious reasons were, but it was, it was really dark. I definitely, like suicide is something I contemplated often. It was something that I felt like was one of the only ways out of this hopeless situation and and meanwhile I had also fallen in love with country music, just kind of, there was a song it was actually it was, you know, interestingly enough, it was Hunter Hayes and the song was called Wanted romantic song. But I, but I, I can imagine now, like why that song hit me so much? Because it was like someone sees you, someone cares that. This, I think the lyrics say like I want to make you feel wanted, and in a world where I felt like no one could even see the pain that I was going in, it would make sense that that song really kind of hit home for me. So, all that to say, I fell in love with country music as I'm in this depression. It wasn wasn't healing me, but it was feeding me something that was, you know, light and joyful and and as a result, I ended up a couple years later. So this is now 2017, late 2017.

Speaker 1:

I ended up walking in my first country bar looking for dance opportunities, like there must be some sort of dance that goes with this style of music. Little did I know there's a whole world of dance line dance, two-step, country swing, all sorts of dances that go along with this music genre and so my world was just kind of opened up and I, for the first time in a long time, I found this happy place and I went to my first country bar. They were doing a dance. That was exciting for me because I had have a movement background, so being a cheerleader, being a Zumba dancer, former gymnast, like I could. I had move ability, but it took something that was impressive for me to actually catch my interest and it did. I ended up going home being so excited about it, practicing what I learned.

Speaker 1:

When I was there. People were so welcoming, they were high-fiving and encouraging me and telling me I could leave my stuff, you know, at their table. You know, hey, you're welcome here. Just made me feel welcome and seem like this group of strangers who I'd never met before. And so, between the community, the music, the dance, it just kept me coming back and it led me to experiencing my first dance convention, which opened the world of dance even further, because I thought that the line dance existed in a country bar. Turns out there's conventions and it's all over the world and it's such a widely known and loved activity.

Speaker 1:

And so I was inspired to actually create my own event. Because my friends in the bar, I thought like this is going to be a hard sell for them to go from paying $5 for dancing all night to paying $150 for dancing over six days, even though financially it makes a ton of sense. It's a great value, but still it was a different level of commitment and mindset. But I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is so life-giving and soul, like just feeding me with like everything I ever wanted, like, and it was an expression of. I was able to express emotions, not only for the music that I love, but also through dance. And I just want to say for anyone listening who's like that sounds amazing, but I'm not a dancer. I'm telling you, line dance is one of the most easy entry types of things you could ever do, whether you have two left feet or five left feet, like, literally, this is the style for you. So, like, talk to me, we'll talk about it later, but just sort of throw that out there. It's not because I was a great dancer that this felt good to me. It's because of what it had to offer. So I created an event that was kind of like a bridge between what happened in the bar and what happened in the convention world, because I wanted my friends to see it and make the make the uh, the connection a little bit easier, and so that kind of launched me into everything I'm doing today with big events, national, I travel internationally and teach.

Speaker 1:

But as I began to heal. So that was really began my healing journey. Um, I mean hope was revived. I mean hope was revived, I mean confidence in myself was revived. And once I was able to be okay off of the dance floor not just while I was on the dance floor, which so many of us we like live for the dance floor Because life is so challenging it's like if I could just get there, as soon as I walk in those doors, as soon as I step on that floor, everything melts away. It's like the healthiest drug you could ever have. It's wonderful. But I wanted to be okay off the dance floor as well.

Speaker 1:

So once I was okay off the dance floor, I started pursuing deeper levels of healing. I did. I started with Catherine Zinkina's Manifestation Babe Academy, which was, I mean, absolutely incredible and and and provided me so much insight on why I had gone through what I'd gone through and just helped me to really heal on a very, very deep level. And so as I, as I healed now off the dance floor and really became this, this person that you see in front of you right now, I realized that, like I wanted to help other people in that same way, or at least in a similar way and I have their attention. I've got this captive audience that are coming to my event. What can I do to provide something so that they, too, can start their healing journey off the dance floor?

Speaker 1:

I knew what I was providing on the dance floor was amazing, and I could only, I could only imagine the stories that were coming out of it.

Speaker 1:

I would hear about some of them, but I but I knew if a story like mine could come out of this, then there are countless others as well, whether I know about them or not. And so this is where I started to incorporate more of like a wellness aspect, and I ended up hosting my first dance and wellness retreat this past January, and the premise was dance is what brings us together, but we're here to really work on our mindset and our hearts and our souls and our passion and our purpose. That's really what it was, and so we actually did lots of other activities, not just dance, although we did make sure to dance. So, but it was just really neat being able to kind of combine those two, and now that's more of something that I'm trying to incorporate more regularly, which is like wellness aspects into my dance events and then, outside of that, I also incorporate those like just in my social media and in other that I'm doing my podcast, my trainings, all things like that.

Speaker 2:

I just I love your journey and I love everything that you are doing. And just a quick question so the event you put on in January is that where your all out wellness was birthed. Was that your first all out wellness event?

Speaker 1:

Oh, what a great question. So I would say that was the very first all out wellness event. Yes, um, I created so my brand is, or my brand, like slogan, is all out as is. And the whole reason behind that, or the the um, the story behind that is well, first of all, say, it's supposed to be an encouragement to encourage anyone and everyone to live all out your way, to not dim your light, to do what makes you happy, what makes your soul feel so alive, uh, whatever that may be. And then the as is is just recognizing that we are all on a journey to become the best version of ourself, but wherever you're at right now is exactly where you're supposed to be. And so to first love yourself and second, to recognize that people are not on board with that, that's okay. They just may not be, they may not be supposed to be part of, like your journey at the moment. Maybe they were at one point and they're not in the future, or something of the sort. So that's what the all out as is is.

Speaker 1:

So I have, I've been building, I built that brand around dance. First, because when I first started, and as I was in those moments of deep healing on the dance floor. I literally just closed my eyes and just dance and let my arms go, and, and there were a lot of people that were very inspired by that, like what is she doing? Like this doesn't look like the line dance everyone else is doing. Like well, it is, I'm just being more expressive and just letting my body do what it wants to. And then there was a couple people very, very small amount, but you know, sometimes the negative naysayers are so much louder than your positive cheerleaders. And so I had a couple of naysayers and they were just like you're showing off, you're trying to get attention, what are your intentions here? And I'm like huh, I'm just, I'm just trying to heal here, like they're literally. I had no intentions for anything except for like wow, something is changing in me and I'm going to continue this. So. But I decided to turn that negativity into a brand and make it a statement and make it a slogan and make it a vote of confidence for and a message to everyone to dance all out their way, and so so that was kind of the beginning of where all out came from.

Speaker 1:

But then, as I did, started doing the mindset and working on my my own healing journey. I also got into life coaching. I took a certification program. I'm like to me. I didn't want those things that I do the dance and the wellness to be exclusive. I wanted to figure out a way to incorporate them more. So the retreat was the first event, but before that I've created a guided journal. I've started to post more regularly inspirations, sending more emails that have a little bit more of a wellness focus and just starting to kind of weave it in. So I think some people are super on board. They see what it's about, they're excited, and others don't even realize sometimes their soul's being fed in a way they didn't even know they need. So that that's so important.

Speaker 2:

Not not everybody is able to do that. So good for you for doing that and I just love how you branch out, you know, in different directions, but it's all, it's all the same. And I can so relate to what you're saying, because that's a big reason why I created the Moms who Flourish community to combine years of wellness with the years of motherhood and bring it together and, like you're saying, to serve others and to impact others. And you know that you have a gift to share and you have been doing that and it's just such a beautiful way because, like you're saying, the dance dancing is a form of expression and you're releasing emotions.

Speaker 2:

And I think the beautiful thing about country line dancing is also it's kind of safe, right. It's like, I think, where people get a little bit stopped up like even my husband, just to dance freely, he feels like he's not a good dancer and I always tell him you're really you're a good dancer, you're good, you know. But I think with the line dancing it's just, it gives you that movement, so it almost feels safer because you're following this and it's not totally intricate I mean it can be but, like you're saying, I think you have a, I think you had shared with me. You have a, a course or a video that kind of breaks it down. So they were saying, like you said earlier, anybody can do this and I, so I love that too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I created a like a mini series program called Country Dance Simplified, and that's exactly what it is. I try to simplify the country dancing. So a line dance, even a basic line dance, can still seem very overwhelming to someone who is brand new or already has programming that says they can't dance or stories about themselves. So I break down the moves step by step, like individually. Like you just learn a single move, you learn what it's called, you learn how it feels and after learning a few of those, then we put those together to make the line dance and a dance that you'll be able to do on just about any dance floor. And I do the same thing for partner dancing. So we take some basic footwork, a couple really simple moves, and give you the opportunity to practice them, whether by yourself or with a partner. And so it is. That I know of. It's the only thing that exists that is kind for this type of style, at least in the collection of, like a little series.

Speaker 1:

But it is made. It is not made for dancers, it is made. It is not made for dancers, it is made for non-dancers or people who are new to dancing or who just like the idea of it and don't think that they could do it. I'll tell you, shelley, I've never met someone with two left feet, no matter how many times they've told me that that's their story, so thank you for asking about it. I hope that so many people will find joy and confidence through Country Dance, simplified so, and I'm excited to cheer everyone on as well.

Speaker 2:

I love that. I can't wait. I can't wait to do it. I know I said that last time and I feel like I it's a little bit of a busy season right now, but I think I'm thinking maybe once school's back in session and things I you know I jokes, I joke about things settle down. They never settle down, but I'm excited to to check that out for sure and and have my husband do that, do this series too. I think it would be really fun, really fun.

Speaker 2:

And for our listeners I think this is the exciting thing too is, like you said, you travel all over sharing these workshops and and doing lessons, and and I and I recently was looking at your schedule I'm like this is so much fun.

Speaker 2:

So, for anyone who maybe isn't local to us, you know you can go on to adia's site and I will be sharing all of our contact information, so check it out and see if something is close by, because this I know, is going to be any event that you put on. It's again, like you said, it's not just the movement, it's the expression of the movement, but it's also the, it's the, it's the mind, body, spirit all combined, and I think I shared with you before that. You know my background. My parents were both. My mom was a singer, my dad was a musician. I mean, we grew up with music and it's always been a big part of my life and I'm that type of person that can hear a song and get emotional from the song. So I can completely appreciate what what you're sharing and what you're doing and I just I'm so impressed you're sharing and what you're doing and I just I'm so impressed.

Speaker 1:

I really am, Thank you. Well, I wanted to backtrack a little bit, if it's okay, because my whole reason for, like, quitting the network marketing oh, just to kind of close the loop, if there was a loop that was open the reason why I feel like it threw me into a depression also was because, like, everything just started to disintegrate in the business. So, between the disintegration of the business, all the residuals to all the emotions, it was just this crazy storm. But you know, my reason for doing it was because I wanted to have a relationship with my kids, and more than my parents had and more than I was even having, especially as they moved into their adolescent years. And it's been so neat to incorporate them even more into, like, all the stuff that we're doing, that I'm doing with dance, and so, even though my plate is a lot more full than it was when I had first left everything, uh, it's really cool that I'm able to incorporate my kids now also.

Speaker 1:

So my oldest son he works. He actually started dancing as a result of the events that I put on. He went to one, was inspired and, as a 19-year-old, started dancing and now he is an all-star in West Coast Swing. He's an all-star in our country swing and so it's like really neat that he's not only involved in dance, he teaches with me. We travel together and teach and dance. It's like a thing like I thought my son was going to graduate high school and I may not see him for a few years and our relationship would be non-existent, until one day he realizes that you know he's got a mom who loves him, but no, instead we hang out all the time and he also is involved in.

Speaker 1:

I have dance floors that I rent out and portable dance floors in Southern California and he helps manage that part of the business. My daughter she helps sell my merch when we're at events. She's the friendly face behind the counter with her little puppy in her hands, talking about the sizes of the clothes and why they need this journal and just making people feel like seen and special. And then my youngest he actually he's 15 and he ended up helping with like parking at the event. So I had wanted to leave that other you know the other business that I had been working so I could have more time with my kids. And even in the midst of building another business. I've learned to incorporate my kids in a way that they it feels a lot more connected than it ever did before.

Speaker 1:

So I just want to encourage any of those moms out there.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, that makes my mom heart so, so happy and I, I can so relate. Oh my gosh, it's just, that's just beautiful how they're involved with you. I just, I love that so much and I think it's really important for listeners too, because I know that I've been involved in network marketing. But I've always family first, no matter what. And you know, I just heard someone talking the other day about this very topic where there were some old leaders maybe there's some still like that that will say, oh, it's okay if you miss this event or this event or that event, because later on you're gonna have so much time. No, no, no, like I knew from the get go, I am not missing my children's events ever and nobody tried to tell me that. But I just think it's important that we get involved in these different businesses and I got involved so that I could do it from home and be present with my family. And it's a beautiful thing to know that you can branch out and do what you're doing in your business and incorporate them even more. So I just love that.

Speaker 2:

I know that the businesses that I've done through the years, a lot of times it has been because of my children's ages.

Speaker 2:

So when they were babies, I had a franchise where we worked out outdoors and they were in the stroller with me. So we had about four or five years of doing that together, and then there was a time frame where I was in charge of their PE program at their elementary school. So I just I love what you're sharing and, like I said, it makes my mama heart so happy because these moments are so few and far between, like it goes by so fast and we can't go back in time, and so you're, you are a perfect example of of really, you know, just taking that in and being in the moment and including your children, and I just think that's really, really beautiful. And I, you know, for listeners, I know it's not possible for everyone to be able to do that with their their day to day lives or their jobs, necessarily, but I just think it's so special what you are doing and how great. And I saw the picture of you and your son dancing and it's just so beautiful. It was in Italy, right.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, we just came back from Italy a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, total dreams. I didn't even know I had come true. I love it.

Speaker 2:

Well, I just I think that you know for our listeners that you are a true, a true inspiration. And we don't know, you know, like you're saying, it was a dream, you didn't know that you had, and look what's happened and you've just been following this journey and I just think it's. It's so heartwarming, it's really beautiful. So, thank you for what you're doing Truly. Thank you for allowing me to share. Yeah, I'm so happy we got to connect and do this and I just I can relate to you on so many levels and I just again, going through what you did with your dad, I understand that completely and I'm sure he's been smiling down on you all of these years to see what you're doing now and again, kudos to you, too, for following your heart, following your heart and sharing your gift with everyone and really impacting lives. It's really beautiful.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, shelly. I appreciate that reflection. I'm excited to continue doing so and, like I said before, we may never know the lives that we touch, we may never hear those stories, but we can be confident that when we are living in a way that it's aligned for who we were meant to be, that those stories of the lives that we touch are just immeasurable. There's so many. So, to everyone out there, whatever it is that you're doing, keep on keeping on. You're making a difference, you matter you. You're uniquely you. There's no one else in the world like you. No one else can bring what you bring and offer what you offer. So let me send that encouragement out.

Speaker 2:

Amen, that is beautiful. Well, I think we want to close on that. I don't even know if I want to ask you if there's any more you want to share, because that was just so perfect but I think, yeah, I could go on and on, but I but I would love to leave listeners with that I'd love to leave people with that message.

Speaker 1:

You know what actually? There's this one thing I'll add to it. I was listening to a meditation the other day and I want to share this affirmation that I received during that time, and is that you are a prayer answered. Somebody at some point probably multiple, multiple people over timelines have prayed for you. The person that you are, the existence that you have right now, the gifts that you bring to the world. Like you, existing is an answered prayer.

Speaker 2:

That's so perfect and so very true. You just never know who you're going to touch and what lives you're going to touch, but you definitely are. And, like you said, you won't always hear, but you know that you are. So thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

Thank you. Thank you, Trulia, for having me for this opportunity.

Speaker 2:

It's been really wonderful. And again to all our listeners, I will add Adia's information in the show notes and look her up, like, definitely go to her Instagram page and see what she's all about. You will see. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful dancer and she has a beautiful heart, as you are hearing today. And check out the locations where she'll be teaching, and I get excited because I see a couple that are close to me, so I can't wait to be able to attend one of them. And, as always to all of our listeners, thank you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for being here and do something for yourself and your wellness today. Go do a little bit of country line dancing and have a beautiful, blessed week, and we'll see you next time on Words of Wellness. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you gained value and enjoyed our time together as much as I did, and if you know someone who could benefit from today's episode, I would love and appreciate it if you could share with a friend or rate and review Words of Wellness so that more can hear this message. I love and appreciate you all. Thank you for listening and if you have any questions or topics you would like me to share in future episodes. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me through my contact information that is shared in the show notes below. Again, thank you for tuning in to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I encourage you to do something for you, for your wellness, on this day. Until next time, I hope you all have a healthy, happy and blessed week. Thank you.