From Sad Pick Me Girl to Alchemist
Aug 13, 2026 · 28 min · 9 segments
What if the reason you feel disconnected from yourself isn't because you've lost who you are—but because you've been too busy, overstimulated, and distracted to hear yourself? In this episode, I’m…
Brooke HunterGuestAnd it's in funny timing.
I listened to something this weekend about how we are so overloaded with information right now on social media and it's at our fingertips and it's almost like we're getting all this dopamine high.
And I think that this brings us back to, I want to say the old ways, because you're going outside, you're walking and you're really taking a break from life.
scrolling on your phone ideally right and I think in any intuitive practice the more you can steer clear of your phone the better and it's a way to quiet the noise and I really want to encourage people to do that because a lot of people will say I don't have time but we all have time to scroll on our phones we all have time to do these mindless activities that we don't even realize take so much of our time because we're like oh I'm only going to scroll for 10 minutes and then all of a sudden it's 20 minutes later when you could have gone on a small walk and done an intuitive practice that is so much better for your mental health and overall well-being than the temporary dopamine hit that you get from scrolling on your phone
yeah yeah it's the thing I love about this is you can take just one card with you.
You can pick out whatever is speaking to you and do it whenever you have time.
So like we went for a walk yesterday morning and I have one prompt that's for a water droplet and to actually see like the morning light reflecting on the water droplet on a leaf.
Here it is.
But like committing to something that's going to really be good for you is difficult.
Right.
And the way that it works is you have the separate cards for the particular environment that you're in.
So you pick one, like you were saying, whatever one that calls to you or multiples.
And the idea is that you're looking for these things.
So then you're paying attention more to their environment and your surroundings.
Right.
Yes.
And it's in funny timing.
I listened to something this weekend about how we are so overloaded with information right now on social media and it's at our fingertips and it's almost like we're getting all this dopamine high.
And I think that this brings us back to, I want to say the old ways, because you're going outside, you're walking and you're really taking a break from life.
scrolling on your phone ideally right and I think in any intuitive practice the more you can steer clear of your phone the better and it's a way to quiet the noise and I really want to encourage people to do that because a lot of people will say I don't have time but we all have time to scroll on our phones we all have time to do these mindless activities that we don't even realize take so much of our time because we're like oh I'm only going to scroll for 10 minutes and then all of a sudden it's 20 minutes later when you could have gone on a small walk and done an intuitive practice that is so much better for your mental health and overall well-being than the temporary dopamine hit that you get from scrolling on your phone
yeah yeah it's the thing I love about this is you can take just one card with you.
You can pick out whatever is speaking to you and do it whenever you have time.
So like we went for a walk yesterday morning and I have one prompt that's for a water droplet and to actually see like the morning light reflecting on the water droplet on a leaf.
Here it is.
But like committing to something that's going to really be good for you is difficult.
Right.
And the way that it works is you have the separate cards for the particular environment that you're in.
So you pick one, like you were saying, whatever one that calls to you or multiples.
And the idea is that you're looking for these things.
So then you're paying attention more to their environment and your surroundings.
Right.
Yes.
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