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Just saying the phrase “angel wings” gives me goosebumps now—and probably gives goosebumps to every single person in the amazing audience in Brisbane who heard me tell this story on the final night of my tour. I had to share the recording with you for this special live bonus episode!

I wish I could take you with me on every stop of my tours, because there’s always something different and magical. Every. Single. Time. The energy in the room never fails to wow me, and the final night of my tour in Brisbane, Australia, was no exception.

At the end of the show, I talked with three listeners and we shared so much vulnerability. We talked about fear, trauma, suffering, hope, miracles—all in the span of less than half an hour.

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“Go help those girls.”

That’s what my husband says to me whenever I go on tour, and I love it. I take it to heart. That’s really why I’m doing what I’m doing. And part of helping is doing exactly what I ask others to do—to be vulnerable, to seek higher vibes, to trust in the Universe, to treat ourselves with love and compassion. I want to share what I talked about with those listeners on my tour.

how can I get over my fear of vulnerability?

The first guest on stage had a dilemma that’s close to my heart. She completed a manuscript for a book, and she’s very proud of it—but she feels incredibly raw and vulnerable about the idea of submitting it to her publisher and letting it go out into the world. I’ve been there. She’s scared, but to her—and to anyone struggling with putting themselves out there in any way—I say that not putting yourself out there is far scarier. It means living a closed, unfulfilled life. It also means denying your light to the world.

For me, it helped to realize that my vulnerability is not only a service to me—it’s also a service to others. I told her to invite her reader in. Be present with her. Sit with her. Breathe with her. Understand what she needs and deserves. Then, when the book gets handed over, it’s no longer about the writer. It’s about the reader.

My response:

Vulnerability is my true strength.

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When I submitted my manuscript for Happy Days, my publisher said, “Gabby, we’re nervous for you. You’re sharing so much heartache and negativity in this book, and you’re not showing your true strength.”

I didn’t change a word of the manuscript. What you can read today is what I sent them.

While we were talking specifically about publishing a book, that goes for any creative project, or any process of the heart. Vulnerability is a gift to you and to whomever you’re being vulnerable with.

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“I’m feeling shame about taking medication for my mental health.”

The second listener to join me had experienced severe postpartum depression after the birth of her first child. She wants another one but is fearful, both of repeating the postpartum issues and that the words she spoke into the Universe after her first child was born (“I’m never doing this again”) will interfere with her chances of conceiving.

She’s also experiencing a lot of shame over her decision to try medication to treat her severe symptoms. She said, “I have been terrified about what it said about me if I was on medication.”

I’m so glad she brought this up. Sometimes people assume I’m anti-medication because I am such a big proponent of spiritual practices, but that’s not the case. As I told this listener, “There is zero shame in medication. When you’ve having a biochemical experience, no amount of yoga is going to save you. Go to the doctor. You being depressed, anxious and potentially suicidal is far more dangerous than a medication that has been extensively studied for safety. God works through medication and doctors, just as God works through other practices.”

I went on medication for severe postpartum issues, and when I was going to taper off, I was made to realize that I’m still working on the PTSD from that experience and medication is still beneficial for me.

To be clear, it’s not an either/or scenario. There are extremes on both ends: excessive reliance on medication or other substances, and excessive reliance on non-medical practices that don’t fully address the issue. I want everyone to find the right balance for them.

You can hear this whole conversation, along with the other recommendations I made to this listener, on the podcast. It’s worth it to hear what she said at the end that had the whole audience rolling with laughter.

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“How do I make the leap between where I am now and where I want to be?”

Our final guest was celebrating a birthday and said having this conversation with me had been on her vision board. (See? Manifesting works!)

She had a very clear vision of the life she wanted to lead, and yet she was still struggling to make what she called the “quantum leap” between where she was now in her life and where she wanted to be. She was still facing a lot of barriers and stress, and felt so far from her dream life.

My take: You don’t have to wait until things are perfect to experience elements of your dream life. It’s not like walking from one room to another where suddenly everything is behind you and it’s a whole new world. Like most of us, this listener had a lot of undoing to accomplish in order to feel free. You can have fun, experience joy and accomplish things WHILE you’re still going through the struggle and suffering and the process of achieving your dream life.

Then I went to pull a card for a reading for her, and the deck flew everywhere! Three cards ended up doing the card equivalent of raising their hands to be read. And I definitely know why.

The first:

my high vibe thoughts create health in my body, peace in my mind and love in my heart

That was sooo clearly meant for this listener.

The second: My productivity stems from inspiration. When I focus on what brings me joy, my tasks become effortless actions.

We can all use those reminders, right?

in this episode, I’ll share:

  • The third card I pulled, which was clearly meant for the entire audience and everyone listening, and was the perfect way to end the show
  • The story the last listener inspired me to tell, which left me (and probably everyone in the room) with goosebumps
  • What made me tell this listener she was worthy of miracles
  • More on how to be vulnerable, move toward your dream life and confront shame

We packed so much into a short bonus episode, and it’s an amazing way to experience the energy and lessons of a live show, if you haven’t been able to make it to one yet. Don’t miss this.

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trauma, vulnerability and why I believe in miracles

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Hi there, Gabby here. This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I'm not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from a psychological or medical condition, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

All right, people. Listen up. Listen up. Listen up. I have the most exciting news for you today. Strap on your seatbelt. If you're already driving, you better have your seatbelt on. For years, I would get this same request over and over again from people on DMs or emails asking me to be their personal coach.

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host, Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Welcome back, my friends. Welcome back. Welcome back. As most of you probably already know, I was recently on tour in Australia. I was down under with my friends. My best friend in the whole world lives in Sydney. I will promise to make it a trip to do a live tour in Australia year over year because it's a selfish desire.

I go visit my best friend, Michaela, and I get to see all of our Aussie listeners and our friends. And it was beautiful and the live shows are really something special for me and I love connecting with people in real time. I love, in particular, the Q and As. I love to give these live talks. It's just really one of my favorite things in the world to do.

So I recorded a live bonus episode in Brisbane, and it was the final night of my tour. You can really hear it in my voice. I got sick on the road. It was like a really raspy voice. You have to bear with me in this episode, but I have to tell you, the energy was so incredible and the audience was so vulnerable and authentic and they just gave me so many gifts that I wanted to share it with you, even though my voice is a little shot.

So during the question and answer session of that evening, I Dear Gabby’d three people from the audience, and we shared a lot. It was very, very vulnerable. People were talking about fear and trauma and suffering and miracles, and one woman shared a story that literally gave me, Goosebumps and just brought me to tears.

And when the evening ended and I came off the stage, I just knew immediately that I had to share this really high-vibe talk. I texted Josh, our producer, and I was like, dude, we gotta share this one. He was probably massively asleep in the middle of the night. It was like morning or I don't know what time of day it was for him when I was in Australia, but I knew that this had to be an episode.

And so I want you to listen. It's so, so, so, so, so good, and there is amazing magic that happens. So don't miss it and enjoy this show.

GABBY: Welcome to my show. Welcome.

Another gorgeous outfit tonight. Hi, gorgeous girl. What's your name, sweetheart?

JANIKA: Thank you. Hi, I'm Janika.

GABBY: Janika. Nice to meet you. Gorgeous.

JANIKA: Nice to meet you too. Hello.

GABBY: You look like so good for TV with your green suit. Oh, thanks for joining my show. I'm really excited to be here today. You guys do I have like Ellen vibes right now, like a little bit. right?

JANIKA: Hi everyone. So Gabby, my question for you tonight is I went through a life experience where the rug was pulled out from underneath me and in hindsight, in the best possible way, right? It ended up being a really strong, powerful mode for alignment and my. Capital S came out to play and I connected with her again for the first time in a long time.

GABBY: So let me just make a little differentiator. So self is like the enlightened part of us. Self isn't, isn't the human. It's like an energy. Everybody got that? Self is God. Self is universe. Okay. So a part of you came out to play.

JANIKA: Yeah. So maybe if I rephrase it and say, I undid the layers so that my capital S was there with me again.

GABBY: You reconnected to Self. Excellent. Beautiful.

JANIKA: Yeah, I reconnected to Self. Yeah, and so that's been a journey and that capital S has been pushing me towards the edge of the cliff and is encouraging me to jump with trust and faith and know that I can fly and I'm scared, and it's manifested in a book that I'm really proud of and it's due to my publisher next week, and I'm scared to put it out into the world because it is my truth.

And I'm wondering, my question for you tonight is how do you surrender and lean into that trust and faith?

GABBY: Well, listen, putting ourselves out in print or in any way, shape or form brings up all of our parts, right? Don't do it. I'm not good enough. It's too scary. But what I will tell you is this. If you don't do it, it's far more scary, far more scary.

And so I want you to do what I do before I launch any book, I want you to sit in meditation. I want you to see your reader. Do you know who your reader is? Can you define that reader? Who is your reader?

JANIKA: I do. So my reader is a female who has lost her voice and wants to find it again.

GABBY: Beautiful. Okay. And how old is she?

JANIKA: She could be any age. Okay. But she's old enough to have gone through an experience where she lost her voice.

GABBY: Okay. And you wanna help her find it again? Yeah. I want you to sit in your meditation and invite her in. And I want you to sit with her and I want you to breathe with her. I want you to feel her.

And you know what she needs because she's you. Right? You know what she needs. You know what she deserves, and I just want you to be present with her because then handing that book into your publisher is no longer about you. It's about her.

JANIKA: Yeah. I feel it's almost like I need to take me out of it sometimes and, and feel like it's a service to not only me. But my reader too. It's serving both.

GABBY: That's what I'm saying, baby. And listen, when I wrote Happy Days, anyone that's read it knows there's a lot of stories, there's a lot of heartache in that book.

And my publishers called me and they said, oh, Gabby, you know, we're nervous for you. You're sharing one negative story after the next. And you're not showing your true strength. And I responded, my ability to be this vulnerable is my true strength, and thank God I listened to that voice and not theirs because I didn't change a word.

The book you're reading is the book I wrote when I sent it to them. And so what I'm trying to say to you is to remember that your vulnerability, your ability to put onto the page some things that may feel really big for you to share, that's your greatest strength. And so if you focus on the reader and you focus on the gift that you're giving them, that strength can multiply, go help those girls.

JANIKA: That's the plan.

GABBY: That's how my husband says to me whenever I go out to a tour. He says, go help those girls. Bless you. Thank you, sweetheart. Yes. Let's take one more. Maybe two more. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's bring it in, Miles. Music. Yeah. Yeah. Girl. Hello, girlfriend. Lots of ladies tonight.

You look good tonight, girlfriend. Look at him. Good in your white. How you doing?

SOPHIE: I'm great. My name's Sophie. The question that I have for you today is I have a baby. He's 18 months old and I wanted him so badly, and he's beautiful and he's great. When I had him, I had horrific postnatal depression. I was hallucinating.

I would fall on the ground in the afternoon and not be able to get myself up. I live in a place called Byron Bay, which is very hippy. And I think where I come from, it's very much against medicine. And so the idea of taking antidepressants for me was so foreign. I ran and I yoga’d and I meditated, and I journaled, and I did all this stuff for 18 months trying to chase it out of me.

And like you've said, there was something in my brain that was missing, that yoga wasn't going to fix. And, eventually I found your talk and you talked about what happened to you, and it gave me the permission to go and see a doctor and to do that, so thank you for that. Where I'm at now though is I'm so great and I'm on this medication.

I feel so happy. But I'm trying for this second baby, and he's not, he or she is, isn't coming. And I'm scared that all of the things that I said in that period of, I'm never doing this again. How does anyone do this twice? And even just looking back at how I felt and how bad it was, I'm terrified, but I know in my heart I want another baby.

GABBY: First of all, thank you for sharing my story. Cause that's everything you shared is exactly what I went through and I am so glad that I've been speaking about it because—

SOPHIE: Yeah. I wouldn't have taken it.

GABBY: You're alive. Yeah. It's that serious. Anyone in the room who is or encounters a postpartum mother at any stage could be two years later.

18 months later and they're not getting better, and they're not well, and they're falling to their knees daily. I have visceral memories of my son seeing me on the floor and I kept screaming, I can't go on like this. I want to die. Wanting to walk into traffic. You tell them to get to the doctor and you tell them there is no shame in medication.

Medication can save their life. And in those moments when you're having a biochemical experience, no amount of yoga is gonna save you. So hear me because she heard me and I want you to keep telling the story. Okay baby? You carry the message. Now, of course you would be terrified to have another child.

Would you be open to staying on the medication while pregnant?

SOPHIE: Yeah, I'm well. I, I, that's a bridge I'll cross when I get to it. I guess that's, yeah.

GABBY: Maybe that's part of the decision that you might need to make because you can, yeah. You know, I'm not a doctor. Yeah. I'm not gonna give you any medical advice, but you can, you can stay on that.

These medications are safe with pregnancy. Talk to your doctor, not me. But maybe that is what you need to feel like there's a safety net for you to know that that's not gonna happen to you again, because lemme tell you something. I wasn't gonna let that happen to me again. No way. No, I never want to go there again and I'm still medicated.

I was actually just talking to this magical doctor in Sydney who I always visit when I come here and he does like crazy kinesiology. And I said, I wanna titrate off my medication. And he did all this kinesiology and my hand was going down. I'm like, I wanna titrate off my medication, hands going down. And he started working with me and he looked at me and he goes, you have to work on the PTSD from the postpartum.

This is four and a half years later, honey.

SOPHIE: Yeah.

GABBY: And I've been holding onto that because I'm so terrified of what that was. So you are not alone in this and it is a beautiful and valuable bridge. You know, a lot of these doctors will say things like, you being anxious or you being depressed or you being suicidal is far more detrimental.

To a medication that's been studied and totally been shown to be safe. So I just, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. I'm not gonna tell you what to do medically, but I'm gonna say that there's a part of your system that needs some support. And so the other thing is, is I would highly recommend EMDR.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and it's great for trauma and it'll be great for this. And you know what? I need to recommend it for myself too. For this. I've been doing it for other things, but I need to do it for this because what it does is it stimulates both sides of your brain because you're either watching your finger, the finger go back and forth, or you have a buzzer in either hand.

Or a ringer in either ear and it gives you this bilateral brain stimulation. And when you are talking about a traumatic event or any kind of phobia while you have this bilateral stimulation, it actually opens up your brain's window of tolerance to actually reprocess the experience. And some people walk out of one session cured, some people it takes eight, nine.

And something like this, it could take eight sessions and you could feel like I'm feel free. And so we need to get that trauma out of the body. And out of your nervous system. And it may be that you decide that you give yourself permission to just commit to one way or the other with the meds, but do the EMDR first. And I hope that you feel no shame around the medication.

SOPHIE: I don't now. I don't now. But I think I was just scared that I scared my spirit baby.

GABBY: The wellness world almost took my life.

SOPHIE: Absolutely. And I—

GABBY: Because I was so in that story of I can ashwagandha my way out of this. I can take acupuncture, mediums. It took the first four months of my child's life and it almost took mine.

SOPHIE: Yeah, I was at an ice bath clinic recently and the host of it started waxing lyrical about inflammation and how everything can basically be cured by an ice bath. And I was sitting there and I was feeling my blood boiling and I'm like, don't be that girl. Don't say anything. Just shut up. Just shut up.

Don't say anything. And eventually, I put my hand up and I was like, the medical industry is not the demon, and I'm pretty sure if you got hit by a bus tomorrow, you would want a doctor and not an ice bath, but um.

And I, and I said I think with all due respect, I believe a lot of what you're saying is correct around the inflammation. But I had postnatal depression for 18 months and no amount of ice was going to help me. I needed medicine and I think sometimes, the wellness industry has a lot to answer for because I was terrified of what it said about me to be that person that needed or had to have medication.

GABBY: Hell yes, sister. Hell yes. I want you on every podcast. I want you out there. I, I mean, if and when you feel ready, you are speaking truth. You are gonna save lives by speaking this truth. And it, it's the same story that I made a commitment to share, and I'm gonna keep sharing it for the rest of my life.

Because you know what? God works through medication. God works through doctors. There's extremes on both sides. There's extremes in the ice bath. There's extremes in the medication. You need to be on your healing path, knowing what's right for you in your system, in non-extreme ways. You got me?

SOPHIE: Yes. Thank you.

GABBY: I'm happy you're alive. I wanna say one other thing about this topic though, just to wrap it up in the US recently a woman went into postpartum psychosis, which is where you and I would've gone if we hadn't.

You go mad and actually I'm not gonna retell this story cuz it's absolutely horrific, but these horror stories need to be in the spotlight because we need to continue to speak truth and we need to take away the stigma and the shame around the medicated path. I really want to encourage you to just pay attention to the people in your life and the people who going through suicidal ideation.

People who are struggling with addiction, no other human is responsible for your life, but pay attention to the lives around you, okay? Because right now all of this mental illness is a very high extreme, and sometimes medication is the answer. Okay?

I do believe that once you make these decisions and you do some EMDR, then like it really will help with your fertility.

But as I understand in my core, in my body, why that would be there for you, because I know what you've been through as you settle your system around this, do some EMDR. The baby's coming.

SOPHIE: I peed on the stick this morning and I was ovulating, so I shagged my husband before I drove up. So—

GABBY: That's the kind of shit I like to see here on Dear Gabby. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

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GABBY: All right. We will take one last person. Let's bring the music in. Shagged her husband before she came here. Yeah, girl. Welcome to my show. Dear Gabby, another sexy outfit. Wow.

My question is my question, I have five minutes on the clock and I gotta close out with a story. Yes, my love.

GUEST: So lovely to meet you.

So my thing when we're sitting down there was being visible. And it’s my birthday today.

GABBY: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. You don't want me to sing into the microphone?

GUEST: Thank you.

GABBY: And your thing is about being visible. Oh girl, you are visible.

GUEST: I know. I can't believe this. And you know, I actually never even normally celebrate my birthday, so this is massive.

GABBY: Okay. You're here. Huge.

GUEST: But you've been on my vision board for years.

GABBY: Yeah. So here we are.

GUEST: So my question is, it's like we have this awareness of all of these things, these blockages, these self-sabotages, these limiting beliefs.

And you have that awareness, you know what's stopping you from being able to move forward to the new you like living this amazing life. It's like you can see this version of you on a parallel life and you just need to quantum leap and merge into that person. But how do you do it? It's like looking at a jigsaw puzzle on the table and it's a million pieces and it's like, how do you put it back together?

GABBY: What did I teach you tonight?

GUEST: So much.

GABBY: Take one of the things I taught you tonight that resonates with you. You don't have to decide now and practice it for 90 days. 90 days you can create change. And then the next 90 days, add another one of the things I taught you tonight and do it for another 90 days and then at that point open up one of the books or another teacher's book.

And do it for another 90 days. And then another 90 days. And then another 90 days. And then do it for the rest of your life. You know why? Because we got a lot of undoing to be done so that we can be free.

GUEST: Yeah.

GABBY: And it's not work. You can have a lot of fun along the way. You can do a lot of great things in the world, even in the midst of your suffering.

You can have a lot of fun even in the midst of suffering. Two things can be true. I'm going through some stuff and I'm doing some really good work on myself. Two things can be true. Yeah. I'll take a card for you.

GUEST: Thank you.

GABBY: Let's see what we get here. Hmm. I think I need to hold these cards. Hold on. Okay.

Lot of cards just fell. Let me just see which one I get to. Okay, let's see. Oh, there's two. Oh my God. Okay, well here you go. My high vibe thoughts create health in my body. Peace in my mind, and love in my heart. That's for you. That's for you. That's for you.

My productivity stems from inspiration. When I focus on what brings me joy, my tasks become effortless actions. Oh, there's a third one.

You get a card. Woo. It flew and landed. I hope I didn't hit anybody. Okay. Was that what you needed, honey? Yeah. Yeah. The answer's yes. Okay, and what a perfect card to close with right now. Ready? The more I honor my inner light, the more I brighten the world. I choose to shine. I choose to shine.

GUEST: Beautiful.

GABBY: That's the message. Choose to shine.

GUEST: Thank you.

GABBY: So good. I went through a period 10 years ago where I was not choosing to shine. And I was really stuck in that story of if I don't do it, nobody else will. And I was really a workaholic. I didn't have the support that I needed. I was unaware of my trauma from my childhood.

I was living in PTSD, unaware of it completely. I was in Germany and I gave a talk and I got on a plane right after that talk and I went to London. My London talk bombed. I went off the plane onto the stage, bombed the talk, felt so bad about myself. This is my art. I felt so upset with myself. I then got on an overnight flight to Toronto to do another talk, and I was on that flight and I just said, universe show me a sign that I am on the right track, cuz I do not feel like I'm on the right track right now.

I got to Toronto, I sat in the green room and I was the last speaker of the day and I was in the green room. Nobody else was there and I started to meditate and I felt my extremities started to just expand and it felt like angel wings just lifting off of me. I got onto the stage and those wings came with me. I just felt that energy just flying off the stage just like this, and it was just so expansive.

And I got off the stage and I'd gotten back into my art and I felt so good. And I looked at this, one guy was in the green room with me and he was packing up and everybody else had gone and he picks up this charm off the table.

And he says, Gabby, for whatever reason, I think this is for you. And he hands me this charm and it's an angel wing. And on the other side it says, believe. And I looked at him and was like, yeah, dude, that's totally for me. Thank you. So I got my sign from the universe and I got on my plane and I went home, and a year later I went back to Toronto to give another talk.

And I was in the book signing, giving my book signing, and this young woman runs up to me and she's like, Gabby, Gabby, I saw you last year in Toronto and it was like angel wings and you were just so amazing and angelic and I left this charm for you in the green room. And it said, believe. And I said, oh honey, that was definitely my charm.

I want you to take this with you. No matter how much you may have suffered, no matter how much you may be struggling, even in this moment, I want you to believe, I want you to believe in your power to heal. I want you to believe in your ability to care for all of the parts of who you are and ways that you never felt cared for.

And I want you to believe in miracles. I want you to believe that you are worthy of miracles. Thank you so much. Thank you, Brisbane. Thank you, Brisbane. Thank you, Brisbane. Thank you, Australia. Thank you for being with me here on my last night of my tour.

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