Five Lemons Laughing

Morgan Lemly Turner

Five women on a spiritual journey together. Join Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan and Penny, as they share their personal experiences of applying spiritual principles & practices in their daily lives... The lemons discuss their breakthroughs, breakdowns, insights, and challenges, always with lots of laughter & compassion. As authentic as it gets, these are the lemons making lemonade.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO ·  VIDEO

    When Rejection Is Actually Alignment

    We all know the sting of rejection. A door closes. An invitation gets declined. Someone chooses someone else. And the voice in your head immediately whispers: You're not enough. But what if that's not what's happening at all? In this episode, the Lemonettes reframe rejection as alignment in action — the moment your frequency says "this doesn't match who I am," and the universe listens. We talk about: 🔹 Why taking rejection personally keeps you stuck in people-pleasing cycles 🔹 How your energetic bubble attracts and repels exactly what's meant for you 🔹 The difference between "rejection" and "redirection" 🔹 Real-life examples of how quickly faith kicks in when you stop making rejection mean something about your worth 🔹 The practice that actually helps: gratitude, curiosity, and staying in your power even when things fall away This isn't about toxic positivity. It's about learning to read what's bouncing off you as information, not injury. What falls away often isn't loss — it's alignment taking shape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍋 FEATURED TEACHINGS A Course in Miracles: Holy Spirit solutions (win-win-win outcomes) The power of gratitude practice in faith Michael Singer on heart vs. mind (fear at the root level) "Rejection is God's protection" reframed as frequency alignment 🍋 CONTEMPLATION QUESTIONS When have you mistaken redirection for rejection? What's currently bouncing off your bubble that you're resisting? How does your nervous system respond when something falls away? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES 💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com 💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net 💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com 💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com 💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE & STAY CONNECTED Leave a review. Drop a comment. Follow us on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Your transformation is our greatest joy. 🙏 #SpiritualGrowth #ReframeRejection #ACIMInsights #PersonalTransformation #FaithAndTrust

    46 min
  2. 27 APR

    Whose Voices Are You Listening To?

    The voice in your head running stories about what people think might not be yours — it might be an echo of how your parents spoke about others. In this episode, we explore inherited patterns, forgiveness, and the freedom that comes from recognizing whose voice is actually speaking. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   🍋 Have you ever wondered why you're so afraid of what people think? The voice in your head running stories about gossip, judgment, and what people think might not be coming from them at all. It might be an echo. In this episode, the Lemonettes explore how the way your parents and caregivers spoke about other people quietly became the inner dialogue running your life — and how recognizing those inherited patterns is the gateway to releasing them. We talk about the connection between parental judgment and the constant fear that people are talking about you. We share personal stories of inherited comparison, bias, and criticism. And we get honest about the benefits we get from staying afraid — the victim identity, the excuse to stay small — and why releasing those actually heals the whole system. You'll hear about steps toward freedom: awareness, questioning, forgiveness, vulnerability, and turning it over to something larger than yourself. We explore Jennifer Hadley's forgiveness work, The Four Agreements, and A Course in Miracles principles on how what we think becomes what we attract. Most importantly: you don't have to work it from both sides of the coin. Heal your own patterns, and watch the external shift naturally.

    47 min
  3. 17 APR

    Love Serves All, But First It Tests You

    After 90 days, Drusilla and Melissa share how their year-long intentions to "love" and "surrender" are being tested—and why difficulty is exactly what spiritual commitment looks like. A raw conversation on internal conflict, nervous system work, and learning through purpose instead of pain.   When you declare "love" as your intention, you don't get protection from challenge—you get invited into it. And when you commit to "surrender," you discover that letting go doesn't feel like relief. It feels like standing in the fire. In this check-in episode, Drusilla and Melissa return to share the three months since setting their year-long intentions. They talk about how those commitments are showing up in marriage, career, friendships, and their own nervous systems. Drusilla walks us through the forgiveness letters, the internal conflict work, and the moment she realized that all conflict is internal. Melissa shares her surrender experiment—losing her home and car, but finding the most comfortable beds she's ever slept in, the best food she's ever eaten, and a stability she never had when she thought she had everything. They discuss why your mindset matters more than your circumstances. Why the body is the hardest place to surrender. How nervous system regulation unlocks the spiritual work. And why getting to the other side of difficulty is where you actually develop faith. This is a conversation for anyone who's declared an intention and then wondered why it immediately started pushing back. It's for anyone learning that love and surrender are not gentle concepts—they're invitations to show up differently in the face of everything that scares you. Resources: A Course in Miracles Lesson 78 The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer Jennifer Hadley's teachings on learning through purpose  The Having

    37 min
  4. 6 APR

    Rage Without Collapse: Standing with Women in the Shadows

    A note on what you're about to hear: We know the apparent contradiction. A Course in Miracles teaches us that love holds no grievances, that anger is never justified. And yet here we are—five spiritual women, grounded in ACIM, sitting with our rage. This episode doesn't resolve that tension. It lives in it. Because some truths require us to hold paradox: we can be devoted to forgiveness AND outraged by systemic harm. We can believe in the illusory nature of the world AND show up as witnesses to suffering. We can stay rooted in love AND refuse to spiritually bypass what's happening to women right now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this episode, we move from thought to action—and sit with the tension between spiritual faith and the "real-world" exposure of violence against women. When the Epstein files drop, when Gisèle Pélicot's trial reshapes how we think about consent, when young men grow up in a culture that celebrates dominance—how do we, as spiritual women, show up? We're talking about the difference between spiritual bypassing and genuine presence. Between feeling powerless and realizing you have choices in your own sphere. Between rage that's justified and rage that consumes. Key Takeaways: 🍋 You have power in your choices—your money, your attention, your voice, your vote. 🍋 Standing up doesn't require changing the whole system. It requires changing what you participate in. 🍋 Collective healing starts with "let it begin with me." 🍋 Rage and love can coexist. Anger and grace are not opposites. 🍋 What you focus on multiplies. Choose wisely. Resources Mentioned: Gisèle Pélicot's trial, The Manosphere documentary, The Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, R. Kelly case, A Course in Miracles, 12-Step recovery Work with the Lemonettes: Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): lovelightmorgan.com / morgan@lovelightmorgan.com Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com

    41 min
  5. 30 MAR

    What Would Love Do? Showing Up as a Spiritual Student in a World on Fire

    "I need do nothing" — it's one of A Course in Miracles' most quoted teachings. But what does it actually mean when the world feels like it's cracking open? All five Lemonettes gather for an honest, grounded conversation about what spiritual students are really called to do right now. Meditate? March? Both? From vibrating love to voting with your pocketbook, this episode goes deep on inner work as world work. Every thought is a prayer. Where is yours pointing?   Are we supposed to light a candle and scroll past the chaos? Or is love actually calling us to something more? In Episode 170, all five Lemonettes — Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan, and Penny — come together for a timely and spiritually grounded conversation about what it means to show up as a spiritual student right now. The episode weaves together teachings from A Course in Miracles, Conversations with God, and David Hawkins to explore one of the Course's most abstract teachings: "I need do nothing." The conversation moves through personal shares on where each host feels Source nudging her — from Penny attending national marches and working her neighborhood, to Morgan feeling a quiet excitement as old systems come to light, to Melissa stepping off the political treadmill from abroad and cleaning up her side of the street, to Amanda learning, slowly and uncomfortably, to get comfortable with peace. Key threads: the holographic universe principle, the idea that every thought is a prayer, the epidemic of loneliness the ego feeds, and the reminder that one person vibrating love counterbalances 750,000 in fear. Let there be peace on earth — and let it begin with you.

    45 min

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Five women on a spiritual journey together. Join Amanda, Drusilla, Melissa, Morgan and Penny, as they share their personal experiences of applying spiritual principles & practices in their daily lives... The lemons discuss their breakthroughs, breakdowns, insights, and challenges, always with lots of laughter & compassion. As authentic as it gets, these are the lemons making lemonade.