Designed for Greatness with Candice Noss

DFG Podcast #27- Living Authentically with Teri Walthall
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Candice Noss: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Design for Greatness podcast, conversations with Candace to help you elevate your mind, body, and spirit, and own your divine greatness. Today you have episode number 27, my interview with Terry Walthall. Friends, you are in for such a treat today. Seriously, I cannot wait for you to get to know Terry, as you will quickly find out.

She is a powerhouse of love and authenticity. I met Terry Walthall on a speaker's cruise actually, and we just connected immediately. We became fast friends and we've stayed in contact. In fact, I met her for, um, lunch just a couple weeks ago when she was visiting Utah, and I love this woman. So let me give you a little bit about her bio.

Terry Walthall is a professional astrologer, intuitive, and motivational speaker. Terry brings over 30 years of experience in the teaching field, and six years as a personal coach, all rooted in a lifelong passion for understanding human behavior. For more than four decades, [00:01:00] Terry searched for the perfect life only discover, only to discover that real fulfillment comes not from perfection, but from presence, purpose, and deep self.

Acceptance. Okay. Listen, I love that so much by the way. Let me just say that again because I think there's so much power in that one statement. For more than four decades, Terry searched for the perfect life only to discover that real fulfillment comes not from perfection, but from presence, purpose, and deep, deep self-acceptance.

So good. We're gonna get into that a little bit more. Uh, today, Terry guides others using astrology as a tool for clarity, connection, and transformation. Her work is about helping people return to themselves because when we understand our place in the larger story, we can begin to live with intention, compassion, and confidence.

Okay. I am so grateful for this woman, and I'm delighted to share her with you. Terry is truly living into her greatness as she helps others live into authenticity. Terry, welcome to the Design for Greatness podcast, and I am so happy to have you with us.

Teri Walthall: Well, thank you, [00:02:00] Candace. It's so great to be here also.

I feel the same way.

Candice Noss: Awesome. Uh, I, I'd like to just jump right into your story. Of course. Uh, you, you spoke in your bio of chasing the perfect life. And, um, how that idea of perfection really wasn't even a thing or even fulfilling. Uh, would you expound upon this and kind of the journey that led you to where you are right now?

Teri Walthall: Oh, such a big question, but absolutely. I'd love to. Um, I. Astra astrologically. I'm a Virgo, and so that's kind of an introductory, and if you're not sure what that means, that means I do what I'm told very, very well, and I wanna do it as well as ever can be told. And so I was raised in a home where that was valued and my obedience was valued.

And so I tuned into obedience, and I was raised in a culture where that was also very highly praised and valued. So I did what everybody told me to very, very well. And, uh. Sometimes I've learned to discover that what they're telling me may [00:03:00] not be the best thing for me to do. What is new and different for me in this world?

Right? So at about the age of 45, which is about 10 years ago, not to give away trade secrets or anything, um, I was in my second marriage and having some of the same mental, mental and emotional issues I had had for the previous times in my life where I blamed it on the outside circumstances. So I was in an unhappy marriage for quite a while.

The home life that I RA was raised in was pretty tough. There was com competition abroad and not a lot of love, um, freely seen anyway. And so when then I was in my second marriage and thinking all of those problematic situations had been solved and then understood that I still had the same sort of challenges in my mind and in my psyche, I thought, okay, there, there must be something deeper to this.

And so that's when I leaned into. A different kind of therapy. I've been going to therapy for a lot, a lot, a lot of years. But this time I went in, uh, I figured out, I [00:04:00] learned about, is how I'll say that, the trauma brain and the trauma response. And once I finally understood that my traumas were not me, but they were kind of running the game as though they were me.

It opened my heart to, to be open to, okay, what then could really be me. And that's when I was introduced to a coach that believed in me and showed me what love could really be about. And she guided me to lean into my God and my higher self, uh, to really learn what love is about. And so that's kind of where that journey went.

And of course there's lots of details along the way, but that, that's the nuts and bolts of that.

Candice Noss: I love that. I, I I think something that you said was really profound. I think, uh, especially in the culture that I grew up in and, and I know our cultures are, are the same. There is a strict. Focus on obedience, and you do what I say, and you show up how I tell you to do.

And if you do that, then you'll be great. And we end up in this toxic perfectionism where we truly [00:05:00] have to be perfect and we have to be this outward expression of what our parents think is ideal. And if we don't, then we're bad, we're wrong, we're not worthy. And that is a really scary, tricky, awful place to be.

And I love that you were able to have the self-awareness to look at your life and say, interesting. These same things are happening. The common denominator is me. So I'm not a victim. I need to take ownership for this. And how, how can I shift?

Teri Walthall: That is huge. Right? That is huge. Getting out of victim, even sometimes victimhood to God.

Mm-hmm. We can, we need to be careful of that sometimes too. Right.

Candice Noss: Absolutely. Absolutely. So when you, when you figured out your, oh, I wanna say devotion to obedience

Teri Walthall: mm-hmm.

Candice Noss: What, what was the thing that woke you up to, to recognize that maybe the parents' ideal, who they were trying to mold you into wasn't [00:06:00] maybe the ideal for you?

Teri Walthall: Well, my coach pointed out to me. That singing is a gift that I was given for me.

Candice Noss: Beautiful.

Teri Walthall: And I was raised being told that my gifts and talents were to share with other people. To create a space out here that people could feel my I would my benefit. They would benefit them. Yes. That was an awareness that I could benefit me, like my gifts are for me.

And so that understanding probably was the first sort of chink like, okay, true that my gifts are beneficial, not true, that they have to be beneficial outside of me. Yeah. Piece of truth. Piece of not truth. So that started my filtering of like, okay, what other things have I accepted as true that are somewhat true and also have some things that could be, you know, shifted [00:07:00] according to my dictates of my conscience.

Candice Noss: I love that there's a quote from Thomas Jefferson that says, happiness is all about the internal journey to know ourself and the external journey in service to others. Yeah. And I believe our gifts are given to know ourselves. And like you're saying that the singing, it helps you connect to you, but also it does serve others too.

And our gifts are meant to be both. Um, yes. Knowing ourself and then serving others, both those internal and external journeys and

Teri Walthall: yeah, what a, I had those flipped, I had serving others and then maybe there'd be time left over for me.

Candice Noss: Right. Well, and

Teri Walthall: switch.

Candice Noss: And what, what I've found is learning to love ourself is critical before we can truly love others.

Will you tell me about the journey that you, that helped you learn to love yourself?

Teri Walthall: Oh, still on that one? I think we all are, aren't we? Yeah. [00:08:00] I mean, you know, it starts with the scripture. Jesus's new commandment is to love yourself as, or love others as you love yourself. And he kind of tosses that in there.

But I think it's an important caveat, like yeah, it's not an afterthought. It's not an afterthought. It's a qualifying statement. There you

Candice Noss: go. Yes,

Teri Walthall: yes. And so that same coach just in one of our sessions said, I don't think you feel loved. I was like, yeah. She goes, I can tell you're loving. Others feel loved by you, but I don't think it's getting into you all the way.

And that was the first realization that, oh, it could feel different than this sort of. Surfacey, uh, dependent on what I'm doing, relationship I had with love. And so I took it into my heart and I prayed to my God and I got some val validation that indeed it could be more personal and more individual for me.

And that was a while. That was, you know, six or seven years ago. And it's just been an ongoing sort of journey since then. Yes. Um, the, the reason I love astrology so much is that I have been taking [00:09:00] personality tests my whole life, trying to figure out why I am the way I am, and, you know, having all the people around me take it too.

I wanna know why you are the way you are and yeah, the internal journey to know yourself. There you go. Right? But astrology, you can't kind of cheat that. In fact, I, I can take the Myers-Briggs. I accept the challenge. I'm taking the Myers-Briggs right now, and if you tell me you want me to test as a director or an executor, I can take the test like that because I've taken it so much.

I know what the questions will end up to be. Right. And so astrology, you just can't really cheat that, right? It is what it is. It's information from God to us when we look at it that way, that can help us to understand better who we are and why we're here. And sort of this self-acceptance that I'm different than everybody else is intentional and on purpose.

Candice Noss: I love that

Teri Walthall: much less allowed, right?

Candice Noss: So.

Teri Walthall: Yeah.

Candice Noss: Well, and from what I've seen is until we feel the love of God for us, it's really tricky to love ourselves, and so tapping into the love of God for us [00:10:00] allows us to then love ourselves, which then in turn, I. And is the impetus to love other people. Correct. And it's this beautiful flow of, of love.

Um, that's, that's amazing. And so I love that you were able to take that to God in prayer and, and feel that in your heart and let that just permeate your being. And, and Yes,

Teri Walthall: in that vein, I had to learn what prayer for me was Right. I had to Yeah. Speak to that a little bit. All the way down to the basis of, okay, here's what they have said it should be.

Should be. What do, what is it for me? How is that the same again? What is true and what can I shift in my world? Right? And so I did have to overcome some belief systems and some programming telling me was a, what was allowed and what was not allowed in prayer, in my personal prayer, right? And part of that was I started singing my prayers.

Once I understood that, that's my connection, right? And so, and a lot of different shifting that way, I gave myself permission to figure [00:11:00] out what that meant for me.

Candice Noss: I love that.

Teri Walthall: That's really helpful.

Candice Noss: Well, and I know in my own journey, I, I love the definition of meditation as a higher form of prayer, and I was never taught meditation in my youth.

It's only something that I've come across in my adulthood, and it is to me, such a higher form of prayer, such an, such an easier way to connect than just, you know.

Teri Walthall: Yes.

Candice Noss: You know, the, the cookie cutter checkbox of a prayer. Uh, yes. So, and I love that you've sing your prayers. Are there, is there anything else that you've found that connects you really powerfully to God?

Teri Walthall: I mean, yeah, there's a couple things, but what you said, um, I wanted to speak to, we weren't taught to meditate, but we were taught to ponder. Right. So the truths are there, right? So it's not denigrating any, somebody that didn't Oh, yeah. No, I mean, and I know you, I know you feel the same way. That's why I can speak to that, right?

Yes, yes. There is a, there is this ability to [00:12:00] ponder, meditate, quiet space, right? Quiet space, receiving, um, setting time aside and being willing to let that time be as long, as much, or as little as needed on any different given day. Right schedules sometimes get in the way. Um, the needs of the day kind of get in the way, and I have the benefit of having all my children grown and out of my home.

So I have a little space in my head in the mornings. I don't have any demands, you know, the same kinds of demands as I did when my children were present. Um, but that I would say, uh, prioritize, prioritizing is a major key for me. And that's putting me first as well as putting God first, right? Me and God first.

Yes. And then whatever else happens, and then allowing each morning the routine to shift the routine is there, and which components of it I didn't have to, you know, I don't have to do A, B, and [00:13:00] C every morning.

Candice Noss: Hmm. I love that. That I did

Teri Walthall: figure out, right. If I feel like singing and I feel God's love in my body where I know I do, then that, that's when I'm ready to face my day.

Candice Noss: I love that. I, I think there's so much power in that because we tend to want. A framework or a specific way to do things. And as a human, I think we want to just be able to check, I did this, I did this, I did this. Okay, I'm good. Right? And it's not how, it's not how things work. Uh, we, we have to be able to go with the flow.

And sometimes it can take two seconds and sometimes it takes two hours.

Right.

Candice Noss: But being able to flow with whatever is needed and knowing, you know, maybe. Maybe I haven't read my scriptures for, you know, four days. That doesn't mean I can't still be connected. Um,

right.

Candice Noss: You know, there's, there's so many shoulds in, in society.

I, I just like, stop shooting on yourself. Right?

Teri Walthall: Yes. [00:14:00] And get, get your checklist. Yeah, absolutely. Listen to who you admire and get that checklist, but then take that checklist to God and you and God figure out what stays on the checklist. Right. And

Candice Noss: and different for different days. That's so powerful because sometimes we need to just be, and sometimes we need to do, and there's the yin and the yang and the give and the receive and the flow and yes, thank you for speaking to that.

I. So Terry, what would you say is your why? Like, why do you wake up in the morning? Why do you do what you do and what do you feel your mission is?

Teri Walthall: Oh, how much time do you have? I mean, it's interesting as I was thinking about that as you gave me that question to ponder, um, previously, because my Y has shifted over the years, of course, right?

I think that that is a healthy thing that the Y has shift. It used to be, and what started this, I'm gonna be healthier, is that [00:15:00] I didn't use to want to live, honestly. And, um, living felt too big and too hard. Yeah, and then something happened in our family that helped me understand that's kind of a family belief system that's going on, and I saw my children struggling and I saw my grandchildren being born, and I was like, nah, it's gotta stop those little babies.

I know I'm not in control of their lives and their destinies. However, if I can help clear away this family thing that life is so hard and has to be hard. I'm gonna do everything in my power to clear away that family belief. And so that's a big why for me, those babies and their parents, and how much I care about them.

And then in the last couple of years, it's become a game for me. Uh, about two years ago when I was really sort of opening up to this work and figuring out I wanted to be an astrologist and add that to my [00:16:00] coaching, I started getting clients and my days started getting really busy and there were some demands.

And one day I said out loud, I sure hope I have the energy to fulfill the demands that are re and my tongue stopped and my, it is like somebody knocked me on the head and they gently sort of said, how about delights of your day? Hmm. And I was like, oh, can I have the energy to fulfill the delights of my day?

And then I just sort of understood, am I looking at 'em as demands or delights? I said I wanted these things to happen. I said I was ready for it, but I was perceiving them as demands instead of delights. Thank you. Right? Interesting. So, yes, I, that's a shift, right? And so now I'm accepting the challenge every day.

What delight is ahead of me today, and that is helpful in getting me out of bed.

Candice Noss: There's a, a quote once, and I'm gonna get it wrong, but it was something like a mother's prayer. [00:17:00] God give me the strength to enjoy all of my greatest blessings today. There you go, right? Yeah. Right. But what a shift in from a demand to a delight.

What a shift and that little tiny word shift.

Teri Walthall: Yeah,

Candice Noss: it, it changes the energy of the whole entire way you show up. And, and I think generational patterns are a big thing that we all have and that we all deal with. And if we can clear those for our posterity, if we can break those chains so that they no longer get passed on, and, and when it comes to like suicidal ideation, you know, and really feeling like I have nothing to live for and I don't wanna live.

That is, that is. That is not something to like, that is a huge thing. We need to fix that. And I love that. That has become part of your why, and I love that that has become part of your mission, um, for your family and, and also it, it ripples into, into everything as you show [00:18:00] up. And I don't think you're alone.

I, I, as I've spoken with so many people, a lot of times we get to that place where we're ready to call it quits. And that dark night of the soul is what wakes us up.

Teri Walthall: Right? Yeah.

Candice Noss: Um, there's a, there's a statistic that I think is so interesting and it's, it's multiple studies show the same thing that 75% of Americans feel that they have no purpose.

Mm-hmm. Um, and to me that's so sad because that having a purpose is what makes you want to live. That's what allows you a meaningful life, is you're fulfilling a purpose. Um, you know, we need contribution, connection, and growth. And that's. That's part of, of who we are. Can you speak to how you help people find their purpose and, and what that looks like?

Teri Walthall: Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Instead of, yeah. Um, yes. For me, again, back to astrology, back to who I actually am versus who anybody else thinks I am. I [00:19:00] think that people who are struggling with purpose may be trying to fit other people's versions of what they should be into their purpose. And truly dropping away from turns out.

I am good at obedience and I don't have to use it all the time. I don't have to let it run my life. I'm good at a lot of things. I, I'm great at cleaning a toilet. I don't do that all day, every day. I do that when it's necessary and then I'm done doing that, right? So knowing that that is something I'm good at doesn't mean it's my zone of excellence or where I wanna spend my time.

Right. So acknowledging the different gifts that were in front of me were helpful to me. My, my astrological chart told me my voice will transform. So again, kind of back to the singing, I don't mean to be repetitive about that, but that really is a gift and I love it. I have had this situation for most of my life that I'll be talking, I'll be saying just something in a regular voice, and all of a [00:20:00] sudden the whole room will sort of look to see who's saying that thing I.

And before it's been embarrassing, like, oh, I should have been quieter, or, you know, there's been some shame involved in that moment and seeing it in my chart in the way that there is transformation happening, whether it's mine or theirs, or theirs, or theirs, I don't know. I can't, you don't know. I can't know all of that.

I can trust that there is, when I'm connected, there's positive transformation going on around me because of the validation that I received. I love that. So that as astrological chart, right? So I'm not, the purpose thing is kind of an interesting thing, right? Because, um, I spun for a while doing nothing, looking for the purpose of my life.

And so honestly, Candace, I'm doing really good if I get a purpose of my day

in

Teri Walthall: my world right now.

Mm-hmm.

Teri Walthall: So my purpose is every day to [00:21:00] find the delight. I love, and if more than that happens, then you know. Cool.

Candice Noss: Right. But I think what, what you spoke to is really profound. Just that a lot of times people tell us who we are and how we're supposed to be, and we're trying to fit a round peg into a square hole, and it's not going.

And then we feel like, well, we're messed up and we've messed up somehow. Or by, I'm messed up. We, I call it the messed up mentality. And, and then we think, well, then we must be messing up our purpose and we have no purpose. And so being able to have that. Um, astrology chart to look to. And I think that that's so interesting how the stars were at the day of your birth determines so many of your gifts and talents and strengths, and that is a beautiful thing to then look to the stars and look to God and say what are, like, what is the.

The hole I'm supposed to fit into. I am, what is my peg? Am I a circle, square star? And I love [00:22:00] that, that is able to give us such God-given direction. Um, if people don't understand about the stars and about God's making of the stars on our day of birth, can you speak to a little bit of that and, and how that, how that does connect us to the divinity within us?

Teri Walthall: Yeah. Um, I love that you said it determines the, the moment determines our, our gifts. And can I just correct that to define Please, please, yes. Doesn't determine we have agency. You still, you can have the same, in fact, I was gifted twins. I don't have twins, but there was a twin in my home early on when I was learning astrology, and she was like.

Me and my brother are twins, but he is so different than me. You cannot explain that in astrology. That can't be possible. I'm like, well, let's look, and it just so happened that you can explain it. They were born right on the cusp between one astrological sign and the other Virgo and Leo, and those two signs are very different [00:23:00] from each other, and so he leaned into his Leo gifts and she leaned into her Virgo lifts.

Gifts. Excuse me. So there's still totally agency and complete choice in the matter. Yes. Yes. It just makes sense to me that we, we are natural beings in a positive way in that the earth is a natural earth. The sky is a natural means God made it sometimes. Yes. And so therefore, if he was that thoughtful in putting us together, which we easily believe.

Then how does it make any sense that he then just said, okay, stars, do whatever you want and plans, do whatever you want. It just doesn't make sense to my head. So this is, um, we have through the years been, um, told that it is sort of, I. Taking power out of God, God's hands and interpret and maybe interpretation, right?

Maybe there's some challenge with that. I don't do, uh, predictive astrology, [00:24:00] although I'm not saying that anybody who does is not, you know, of the light possibly, I don't know. But what I will, what I believe it is good for is understanding more about me and what's possible for me and where's my zone of excellence as opposed to my, what I can be good at.

Candice Noss: Hmm. I love that. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying that for, for everybody. Mm-hmm. Uh, okay. I have just a couple more questions for you before we wrap up. Okay. I, with me, I talk about the mind, body, spirit and how those, that trifecta, those three things that make us a human, they first need to be in alignment.

Um, and then we're able to step into that place of love, love, love for God, love for ourself, love for others. And then we can step into who we really are. So I would like to speak for a second to our mind. The mind is the battlefield. That's where we have to take ownership for our thoughts. And I just would love you to speak to your mind and [00:25:00] how you've learned to align your thoughts.

Teri Walthall: Intelligent discrimination of my thoughts.

Candice Noss: I love that.

Teri Walthall: That came to me in a book about six months ago and I'm like, that's beautiful. That's exactly intelligent discrimination. I get to choose. Yes. I think the ego gets a bad rap sometimes. Um, so I'll back up. About 10 years ago was the first time I heard of sort of mind, body, spirit.

My whole life growing up I had heard body. Spirit, a glove. The glove analogy, right? The glove is the spirit and this is the body, and they will separate. I heard of two. I never heard of three. So then when three was introduced to my understanding, I was like, oh, mind, mind is its own animal. And some people label that ego.

Ego and say, I'm saying we need that mind to calculate our grocery list to. Show us how [00:26:00] to build houses. We need the intelligent part of the mind. Yes. The ego part just can't drive right. I should not use the same part of my mind that I need to. Um, I. Formulate mathematics to tell me if I'm lovable. Those two things are not in the same part of my mind.

Right. So just understanding that Yes.

Candice Noss: Yeah. I, I teach it the higher brain versus the lower brain. Yeah. And we want the higher brain driving. The lower brain is, is a powerhouse for habits and keeping things flowing, but we need to operate from our higher brain or else. We end up sabotaging

Teri Walthall: Well, so for me, understanding the lower brain's trying to keep you alive.

Yeah. It's not interested in progression at all. It wants you to stay alive. And if that's enough for you, then cool. That's enough. You know, I don't want to judge anybody who wants to hang out there, but that's what it's for. It's to keep us alive here on the earth and if we want to progress, we gotta shift into that higher brain.

I wanted to thank you. Um. The name of my business is Unity Healings, and I got that name about [00:27:00] five years ago in a, you know, in a moment of inspiration. And I love that because I have always known, unified is better than individual. Yes. And, but I have to admit, that was before I understood the strength of individual.

So I was giving too much to unified. Right. And then you spoke at the Rejuvenate You Conference, and that was the first time I had heard your trifecta of Body, mind, spirit. And it just because I was thinking about changing the name of my business actually right about that time period because that's to everybody else and I don't get to, and then I realized.

When my body, mind, and spirit are unified, that is also necessary. Right? So it's unification on these different levels that I still am such a, such a strong, um, and strong support of. Yeah,

Candice Noss: I love that. Thank you. Thank you. And I love intelligent discrimination of thoughts. It's beautiful. That's exactly what we have to do.

We have to, you know. Reject the lies, claim the truth. Take ownership for what we choose to think and believe. And [00:28:00] that is, is so powerful. Thank you. Uh, okay, so let's speak to the body piece. How, how do you use, you told me you feel God in your body. Speak more to that and, and how your body is your antenna that allows you to receive inspiration and intuition and, and how do you love your body?

Just speak to your body for a second.

Teri Walthall: I will do that. Um, thank you for that opportunity. Again, back to astrology. There's another, um, there's an astrological system called human design, which I would love to talk to anybody about 'cause I could talk about it forever. But I learned in human design that my touch is my superpower.

I learn through my physical body. And so therefore, all the times I had shushed the natural man who I've been told my, in my upbringing was an enemy to God. Because the urges that, you know, there's a place where that's true. Like leaning into those physical urges as opposed to up, you know what I'm saying?

True. Exactly. Both. [00:29:00] So I had shut down natural man. I had shut it down completely and I was, I only felt confident when I was covered head to toe. And then I understood that. What's going on inside the body matters as much as how the outside looks and is responding to other people around me. Yes. And so I started to learn about the emotions and that's where trauma brain kicked in.

Like what's trauma and what's my actual emotions? And learning to understand that when I was tasked to learn where God's love happens for me and my body, I was like, well, that's easy. When I'm listening to spiritual music, I get tingles down my arm. Or when I'm in testimony meeting my heart and my bosoms swell, and I feel that feeling in there.

But then I was like, but is that personal or is that collective right? I, I, I had to figure that out for myself. And so in my prayer moments and in my prayer journey is when I felt, I asked my God, where do I feel my messages from you, as opposed to from the collective, which [00:30:00] are also beautiful feelings to have.

And. And in a few weeks time, I was led to a scripture that gave me information that allowed a feeling to happen in my specific body. And I never say where, because I, you know, we kind of tend to copy those we admire, right, or whatever, or we wanna learn whatever. But for me, that's in a different place in my body than when the tinglings happening and when the bosom burning is happening.

And those are beautiful feelings, and I still love those feelings. Those are not specific to me. Mine is in a different place, and so I, I challenge everybody. Where do you feel God's love in your body? Somebody at church at one time was challenging a decision that we were trying to make, and the one, somebody in the presidency is like, I just, it just hurts my stomach to think of that decision and across my mind was like, oh, is that where you get inspiration when your stomach's hurting?

Is that your inspired feeling? And she was like a weird question, but she thought about it smart. She's like, no, that's not my inspired feeling. That's fear [00:31:00] talking, right? And so I won't tell you which way we went on the decision, 'cause that doesn't matter for the story, but it just helped me be aware. But are you, you know, what, what feelings are happening and what are you telling yourself they mean?

And is that what they actually mean? Yes. How you feel in your body matters. We are told our body is a temple and I go to the temple to learn and to gain instruction. I don't go there to keep it pretty. So I don't keep this temple pretty, as much as I use it for learning and gaining instruction and communicating with my God.

And if that translates to that, I'm happier and, and more pleasant, then great. Sometimes it doesn't.

Candice Noss: Well, and I truly believe you have to love your body in order for your body to give you those messages that it can give you. If you're despising your body and you hate your body and you don't like how it looks, and you're mad at your body and you feel like your body's broken, you're not able to receive in your body those messages that, that are so important.

So truly learning to love [00:32:00] and appreciate that and, and then really asking, okay, where being present in our body fully in our body. To receive.

Teri Walthall: It's just like any relationship, right? Any relationship where you go around telling it it's dumb and you want different things from, it would not, right? It's a relationship.

Yes, absolutely. Yes. I love that. Well, we've, well, I, one of the things that I've had to do, I've been give, given the gift of doing is love songs. I sing love songs to myself and sometimes I do it while I'm looking in the mirror and every time I feel like a warm, yummy, oh, I wanna get this feeling from my husband or from my kids, I think.

Oh. Or could that song apply to God from me to God, from God to me? From me, to me. Like those love songs can go all kinds of ways. We, again, we assign the meaning, right? I. A

Candice Noss: hundred percent. A hundred percent. And that mirror talk is so powerful. I love that. Thank you for sharing. Well, we've talked a bit about how to stay spiritually connected, and I loved what you said about, you [00:33:00] know, not having to do it the same way every time, but just really tuning into God and what do I need today to be spiritually centered.

Is there anything on your heart that you'd like to share concerning the spirit that we haven't spoken to yet? Just to stay spiritually connected.

Teri Walthall: Um, Einstein said the biggest, I'm gonna mess up the quote now 'cause I'm thinking about it too hard. But the biggest challenge of any of us face in our lifetime is to decide whether we live in a friendly or a hostile universe.

Hmm. And that very much applies to spirituality. If I approach my God, expecting him to condemn me, expecting them to tell me what's wrong with me, that what. To tell me what needs fixed about me, I will receive a very different download than if I approach my God thanking him for the gifts I have, and expecting the love and the upleveling that I can get from those connections.

When I [00:34:00] give my brain the job of showing me what's wrong with me, my brain will do that job beautifully. Mm-hmm. Or what's wrong with the world? Or what's wrong, you know, like that. It is kind of tricky that we don't know that our brains get in the way of our spirituality, but they do.

Candice Noss: Oh, they do. That which you focus on expands.

It's a natural law. It's a divine truth.

Teri Walthall: So for me, understanding that I was giving God the task of showing me what was wrong so I could fix it, when that shifted into showing me what's good and happy and light filled. So then I can be a light in the world. That's a totally different experience.

Candice Noss: A hundred percent.

And one thing that I have learned so powerfully is the adversary speaks to us in shoulds and in, um, not enoughness and what's wrong. And, and God speaks to us in invitations and in, um, offerings and in its [00:35:00] possibles. And, and to me that's, that's kind of what you're speaking to there. And I, I love, I love that.

Teri Walthall: I very rarely get stopped doing that from God. In fact, almost never, right? If it's something that's gonna hurt me, occasionally I have, but almost never stop doing that. Why are you doing that? What's wrong with you? Those are not from God. Those are not messages from God. I.

Candice Noss: No. Again, that intelligent discrimination of thoughts, it's so

Teri Walthall: powerful.

Candice Noss: There you go. Yeah. The mind is the battlefield. The heart is the prize, and when we live with thoughts that open our heart and connect us to God ourself and others, it's, it's beautifuls

Teri Walthall: awesome. It's gonna be beautiful. Absolutely. Yeah.

Candice Noss: Okay. Will you offer a free 30 minute astrology introduction? Tell us a little bit about that, and if anyone would like to work with you, how they get ahold of you, Terry.

Teri Walthall: Very good. Thank you for that. Again, astrology changed my world, so, um, people who are not, I have found that [00:36:00] people who don't understand astrology think that they are only where the sun was the moment they were born. Where the sun was in the sky is your astrological sign. So because the sun on September 4th was in Virgo, that makes me a Virgo.

And I think most people know that about themselves. What they don't understand. I know that

Candice Noss: much. I'm Taurus, that's about it. Yes. Yeah.

Teri Walthall: But if I look at your beautiful, not stubborn cell, I see that there must be something else there. So where the moon was, where all the planets were, where the, where the asteroids were also matter.

So when I learned that I am double Virgo. My moon, my son, and my ascendant or rising is um, one of the big three. And then the moon, where the moon was, that's your big three that people will, um, refer to In astrology. I have double Virgo placement, but I also have Libra, and the Libra is the balancing and the fair [00:37:00] police of the chart.

And that just was like, oh. That's why when we were little, my mom would hand me the knife to cut the birthday cake because she knew I would get those slices exactly the right shape and size so that everyone would have just the right size of cake because I had some Libra in my chart. Right. And so that was just, I understanding that that is, there's more than just that, um, your son.

So what I would like to offer to help people understand is to teach them about their big three. Their sun, their moon, and their ascendant, and there's a whole bunch more. But the other one that was so impactful for me was the Chiron, where your Chiron, that's spelled C-H-I-R-O-N, where your Chiron placement is, can tell you about your wounding, your challenge that you brought with you to this earth as opposed to happened to you because you are somehow less than or deserving of this negative behavior.

So I was walking around, um, from the time I was [00:38:00] little, not knowing where my place was, not feeling, um, belonging, not feeling acceptance. And then I went to a retreat and learned about astrology and also learned about acceptance in a group of people with similar light filled ob um, objectives in life and mindsets, right?

And so I felt a sense of belonging that I hadn't felt before, partially because I understood. The feelings of not belonging were not because I didn't actually belong and they were not because I was doing anything wrong, nor was anybody else doing anything wrong. Hmm. There was a mirror being held up for me to show me that I needed to clear this.

And I just love that I, before that I had been hostessing uh, retreats and since then I've hostess retreats and created spaces where people could feel belonging because that's the flip side of that wound. Hmm. That was my wounding. And when I figured out that that was, you know, why and whatever, now I can help to create [00:39:00] places where people actually belong because that's the gift in that.

Right? So seeing why that wounding was there and how it could benefit others was a beautiful understanding for me. So I would love to offer a 30 minute, um, understanding like that to anybody who wants to, um, take advantage of that. Um, the place you can. Reach me is my name, Terry dot walthall@gmail.com.

You can just reach out to me directly through email. I also have a Stan store account, so STAN, some guy named Stan is offering. Mm-hmm. His website is a host platform, so I have a Stan store back slash Terry Walthall, and I hope the link will be down below.

Candice Noss: We'll, we'll post the, it'll be in the notes.

Absolutely. That's

Teri Walthall: where you can, um, book schedule, just, you know, reach out there and schedule your 30 minute appointment. Um, and I'll teach you a little bit about astrology and then your specific Sun, moon, ascendant, and a little bit about your Chiron. I love it.

Candice Noss: I love it. [00:40:00] Terry. It is so beautiful to think about living authentically, to utilize the tools that God gave us with the astrology.

I don't understand well, but I'm excited to do my own 30 minutes with you. Um, but to truly understand that and let that help us live authentically, authenticity is one of the highest vibrations. And when we live authentically, we, we truly live into our greatness and are able to use that greatness to serve this world.

And that's what it's all about. Isn't

Teri Walthall: that, isn't that amazing that we've recently understood that authenticity is up there with love and gratitude as far as high vibration? Like it really truly is scientifically shown. Yes. Yes.

Candice Noss: Well, and it's because are you loving authentically? Are you grad? Are you gratitude authentically?

Right. It can't just be lip service, it can't just, it has that authenticity is what allows that high vibration. Yeah. So, yeah. Um, okay, so we'll wrap up here. Is there anything left on your heart that you wanna leave us with before we close?

Teri Walthall: I think [00:41:00] we've covered it beautifully. Thank you so much for this platform to be able to share what is on my heart.

I appreciate it so much.

Candice Noss: Yes. Well we just are so grateful that you have inspired all of us and um, thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Candice Noss: Thank you for joining me today. Wow, what a gift. To be enlightened and inspired by Terry Waal, my beautiful cruise bestie. Terry is such a powerful example of choosing to own her divine greatness and then use that greatness to serve this world in wonderful ways. I love how Terry learned to determine who she is, not by her parents' standards and ideals, and not by obedience to their mandates or to cultural norms, but she found who she was by looking to God.

I love how she figured out how to pray in her own ways, in ways that truly allowed genuine connection. I love that. I think it's so crucial to realize that [00:42:00] Terry learned how to determine. Who this divine love, that she was able to then figure out where God's love was in her body and how this opened her up to so much more light and truth.

Terry gained powerful insights into her divine identity by using the tool of astrology to validate her gifts, strengths and talents, as well as her woundings and trials. It's so neat that this was able to shift everything for her, the astrology, and I'm excited to examine my own astrology chart with Terry.

I'm thrilled she's offering this to all of my listeners. May we all live more authentically into our greatness and use that greatness to live an impactful, meaningful life of fulfillment. Friends, if you enjoy this podcast, please do me a favor and subscribe to it. Take two minutes and just rate and review it if you would.

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