Apple Pie Playground with Valerie

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Apple Pie Playground, a show serving up slices of remembrance of who we are as sacred children of the spark, where friends gather for a little levity, add in some fun and self-reflection as we use play self-therapy tools that reawaken our authentic selves on this human journey together. Can you come out and play today?

  1. 2d ago

    Apple Pie Playground, August 9, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie Are you a daydream believer? What practice produces an easy alignment between the conscious mind and the subconscious suitcases we talk about? Why does it matter? Let's talk. The Inner Playground: Daydreaming, Consciousness, and the Practice of Loving-Kindness Summary Daydreaming as an Inner Creative Process Valerie begins by shifting from a brief follow-up about missing and exploited children to the episode's primary subject: daydreaming. She describes children's pretending and make-believe as natural forms of daydreaming and presents the activity as a bridge between conscious and subconscious experience. In her spiritual framework, she also connects daydreaming to the etheric body, life-force energy, and the mind-body-spirit relationship. She argues that daydreams can carry memories, feelings, wishes, fears, desires, and intentions into a mental space where they can be recombined. This leads to her broader idea that daydreaming is not frivolous but potentially formative. The episode therefore treats imagination as an inner playground where consciousness can explore possibilities and reorganize experience. Brain Plasticity, Manifestation, and Quantum Ideas Valerie discusses research she attributes to Harvard and says it suggests that daydreaming may affect brain plasticity and future neural responses. She interprets this as a possible natural mechanism for what spiritual communities often call manifestation, because repeated imagery may influence patterns of thought and perception. She then compares daydreaming with her understanding of quantum superposition, in which multiple possible states exist until one state is observed or selected. From that comparison, she develops the idea that attention helps organize experience and repeats the principle that energy flows where attention goes. She also describes daydreaming as a conscious anchor that allows some awareness of the outer environment while the subconscious is permitted to drift and contribute imagery. These scientific and quantum connections are presented as Valerie's interpretation and were not independently verified for the transcript cleanup. Imagination, Visualization, and Spiritual Cognition The episode develops a spectrum of increasingly directed mental practices beginning with ordinary daydreaming. Valerie says children's pretending can support flexible thinking, problem-solving, emotional regulation, and social empathy, and she portrays make-believe as a natural mental workspace. Daydreaming can then become conscious imagination, in which a person deliberately shapes the images, memories, feelings, desires, and intentions that arise. Focused visualization narrows that process toward specific outcomes or goals. Valerie next describes spiritual cognition as contemplative meaning-making, such as revisiting an argument in the mind in order to seek deeper understanding or imagine a healthier response. Across these practices, she emphasizes imagination, inspiration, and intuition as important capacities of an integrated inner life. Meditation and the Conscious-Subconscious Spectrum Valerie places transcendental meditation at the more structured end of the spectrum she has built from daydreaming through conscious imagination, visualization, and spiritual cognition. She describes transcendental meditation as a mantra-centered practice aimed at creating a highly integrated mind-spirit-body experience. She says these different practices share an association with alpha-wave brain activity, which she describes as combining focus with deep restfulness. Her larger concern is the integration of conscious and subconscious aspects of the mind, which she views as part of expanding conscious and source awareness. She encourages listeners to explore these practices rather than dismiss daydreaming as wasted time. At the same time, she acknowledges that stress, anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and sensory overload can make free-flowing contemplation difficult. Suffering, Acceptance, and Loving-Kindness When daydreaming or focused meditation feels inaccessible, Valerie turns to loving-kindness as a practice of compassion. Drawing on teachings she attributes to Pema Chodrin, she defines suffering in simple terms as struggle and connects struggle to difficulty accepting circumstances as they are. Loving-kindness, in her presentation, is a way of sitting with pain without immediately resisting, fearing, or trying to change it. The practitioner notices sensations, allows them to exist, and responds with compassion rather than judgment. Valerie distinguishes this inward movement from spiritual practices that, in her view, direct energy outward through activities such as astral travel or channeling. Her stated goal is to call the spirit inward and cultivate a grounded presence within the body. A Guided Practice of Compassion The episode concludes with an extended guided loving-kindness meditation. Valerie first asks listeners to settle comfortably, return to the breath when attention wanders, and allow sensations to arise without judgment, fear, or resistance. The meditation begins by offering safety, happiness, freedom from suffering, and compassion to oneself. It then extends the same wishes to loved ones, to people who are especially challenging to one's peace, and finally to all sentient beings. The repeated language is intentional and forms part of the meditative structure, reinforcing acceptance and compassion at each stage. Valerie closes by thanking listeners for sharing the practice, encouraging both loving-kindness and daydreaming during the coming week, and returning to the program's recurring theme of healing the child within.

  2. Aug 2

    Apple Pie Playground, August 2, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie Our Children: the Greatest Case for Sovereignty There are eight million reasons to insist on sovereignty as a standard of care for human liberty. Don't know the eight million reasons? Let's talk. The Measure of a Civilization: Sovereignty Begins with Our Children Summary A Difficult Question for Humanity Valerie opens by acknowledging that the episode addresses a sensitive subject and asks listeners to approach it with compassion rather than judgment. Building on a previous discussion about the limits of fixed moral codes, she asks what single change would most improve the world for the human spirit. Her answer develops around fear, external control, and the loss of personal sovereignty. She frames the episode as an inquiry into whether humanity can evolve by relying more on inner spiritual knowing than on imposed systems of morality. The Playground as a Picture of Culture A lunchtime visit to a children's indoor play area becomes the episode's central metaphor. Valerie describes younger children peacefully absorbed in imaginative self-play until an older child enters and tries to organize everyone around his own game. His frustration, pushiness, and effort to control the group alter the emotional atmosphere. She interprets the scene as a small example of how fragile cultures can be when an outside force attempts to replace established patterns through pressure and control. Morality, Culture, and External Control Valerie expands the playground image into a broader discussion of cultural disruption, civil unrest, genocide, and what she calls cultural ethnocide. She questions whether moral language can be used not only as a guide to conduct but also as a weapon that pits communities against one another. In her view, family structures, religion, government, education, law, workplaces, and policing may all participate in systems that encourage compliance. She argues that cultures can lose their identities when people fear resisting outside narratives or surrender their decision-making to institutions. Religion, Fear, and Inner Sovereignty The episode then turns toward organized religion and its relationship to fear. Valerie argues that worshiping an external image of Christ can distract people from what she calls the Christ within and from their own spiritual power. She questions whether fear of death, condemnation, or separation from God makes people surrender their liberties and inner knowing. In her interpretation, limiting beliefs create a society that polices itself, while genuine sovereignty requires individuals to reclaim conscious choice and resist systems that manipulate morality or spirituality. Children as the Measure of Civilization Returning to the play center, Valerie says the innocence, creativity, and present-moment joy of the children reveal what humanity must protect. She proposes that the sovereignty of children's minds, bodies, and spirits should become a universal standard of care. The host then cites figures she says she found online concerning child marriage, childhood sexual abuse, missing children, and child trafficking. These figures are presented as reasons to confront cultural practices and institutions that permit harm, although the transcript does not independently establish or verify the statistics. A Shared Commitment to Protection and Change Valerie concludes by calling for a worldwide culture centered on family, peace, sovereignty, and the protection of children. She asks whether humanity can release painful histories, evolve together, and build common principles that do no harm. The episode presents conscious service, mindful decision-making, and heart-centered community as practical ways to create change. Listeners are encouraged to identify the issue at the top of their own list for a better humanity and to invest their energy in becoming part of the solution.

  3. Jul 26

    Apple Pie Playground, July 26, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie The Moral Equivalence of Sovereignty What serves an age of ascension to the greatest degree, morality or sovereignty? Hard to decide? Let's talk. Beyond Moral Codes: Sovereignty, Inner Authority, and Radical Responsibility Summary The Responsibility of Absolute Liberty Valerie opens by asking whether humanity is prepared for complete freedom and the total responsibility that accompanies it. She considers the possibility that human beings must pursue remembrance and enlightenment as individuals because humanity no longer functions through a unified consciousness. This independence, she suggests, may be difficult, but it may also be one of humanity's strengths. The discussion frames liberty not merely as release from restrictions, but as accountability for every consequence of one's choices. From External Control to Inner Authority The episode contrasts an external locus of control with an internal spiritual compass. Valerie argues that repeated submission to governments, regulations, workplaces, social expectations, and other external systems can gradually produce learned helplessness. She describes this process as a slow depletion of an “etheric battery” that represents inner integrity and spiritual capacity. The proposed remedy is to reclaim inner authority, release obsolete emotional and social baggage, and allow external reality to change through internal transformation. Sovereignty as Reciprocal Freedom Sovereignty is presented as absolute self-rule balanced by an equally absolute respect for the freedom and boundaries of others. Valerie describes this as a reciprocity of liberties and a mutually constrained form of sovereign self-expression. In this model, personal freedom ends where another person's freedom begins, creating a continuous cycle of responsible liberty. She connects this principle to bounded autonomy, mutuality, noninterference, and the possibility of a more harmonious social and spiritual order. Common Law, Jung, and Individuation The host brings the abstract idea of sovereignty into human experience through the common-law principle of doing no harm. She connects sovereign responsibility to Jungian concepts of personal authority, self-regulation, shadow integration, and individuation. The path toward wholeness includes bringing unconscious patterns into awareness, rejecting inauthentic habits, maintaining healthy psychological boundaries, reducing dependence on external approval, and developing discernment. Valerie presents these practices as ways of becoming accountable to oneself and to society. Beyond Morality Toward Radical Responsibility Valerie questions whether conventional moral codes can guide beings into higher spiritual states, proposing that externally imposed rules may eventually give way to radical personal responsibility. She explores the possibility that higher realms are ordered less by categories such as good and bad and more by resonance, frequency, and the capacity to enter particular dimensions of experience. In this framework, spiritual growth involves learning balance under difficult conditions, choosing heart-centered responses, and becoming capable of freedom without violating the sovereignty of others. A Guided Journey into the Subconscious The episode concludes with a guided Dixit-card exercise designed to move subconscious impressions into conscious awareness. Listeners imagine a person seated atop a towering stack of gifts while another person below offers a small present, then reflect on the figures' expressions, identities, motives, and surroundings. Valerie encourages listeners to record whatever arises without editing or judging it. The exercise reinforces the episode's broader themes of inner observation, conscious awareness, healing, and responsibility for one's internal world.

  4. Jul 19

    Apple Pie Playground, July 19, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie The Science of Staying in Your Own Lane How does staying in our own lane hold together a material universe? Sound silly? Let's talk about life's purpose. Finding Your True Lane: Purpose, Presence, and the Courage to Create Summary Creating Reality in the Present Valerie opens by describing creative reality as an overlooked spiritual gift available in every present moment. She encourages listeners to reinterpret difficult starts, restarts, and do-overs through letting go, renewed focus, and self-forgiveness. The episode presents attention as a major influence on moment-to-moment experience and invites listeners to imagine preferred conversations, emotions, and outcomes. Joy, curiosity, and alignment become practical ways to reconnect with the authentic inner child. This opening establishes the episode's central idea that people can consciously participate in creating a different experience of life. The Roadway Metaphor for Personal Boundaries A week of driving on newly paved roads without visible lane lines gives Valerie a metaphor for personal purpose and boundaries. She compares uncertainty on the highway with the difficulty of staying in one's own energetic and spiritual lane. Trying to satisfy everyone, control other people's choices, or monitor every surrounding lane can drain energy and cause a person to lose their own destination. The discussion asks listeners to trust others with their journeys while taking responsibility for their own direction. Staying in one's lane therefore becomes an act of focus, authenticity, and respect rather than isolation. Breaking the Subconscious Autopilot Valerie connects controlling behavior to subconscious fears involving unpredictability, vulnerability, and instability. She describes the subconscious as holding emotional conditioning, survival strategies, and automatic trauma responses that can shape how people navigate life. Habit and routine may keep people living from an energetic past, with very few fully conscious present moments. The episode proposes interrupting that autopilot by doing at least one new, novel, or different thing each day. Even small changes can restore conscious choice, imagination, creativity, and a clearer sense of direction. Purpose as an Organizing Energy The episode then interprets purpose through spiritual and scientific-sounding ideas involving energy, quantum mechanics, and entropy. Valerie describes purpose as a localized anti-entropy project that helps organize both an individual life and the shared material world. In this framework, apathy and stagnation weaken coherence, while intention, passion, and right action create durable patterns. She compares human cooperation to the organization of billions of cells that sustain a living body. The broader message is that purpose supplies energy, structure, and meaningful participation in collective reality. Service, Compassion, and Human Wholeness Valerie explores several philosophical and spiritual approaches to purpose rather than insisting on one predetermined assignment. Service repeatedly appears as a pathway toward a worthwhile life, compassion, awakening, and care for future generations. She discusses selfless action in Eastern traditions, caretaking roles in general descriptions of Indigenous perspectives, and Carl Jung's idea of integrating the shadow with the authentic self. Existentialist radical freedom is presented as another view in which people form their own purposes through choice. Across these perspectives, purpose is connected to service, wholeness, compassion, and harmonious participation in society. A Four-Part Exercise for Finding Direction The final portion guides listeners through a structured writing and reflection practice. The four stages examine the natural flow of daily life, the passions that animate a person, an unrestricted 'What If?' vision of the future, and the concrete sacrifices and uncertainties involved in taking action. Listeners are asked to identify first and second steps, visualize one month of purposeful living, and choose one small affirmative action for the following day. The exercise avoids immediate self-editing so that authentic first impressions can surface. Valerie closes by encouraging continued reflection, focused movement, and a purpose-driven life lived within one's own lane.

  5. Jul 12

    Apple Pie Playground, July 12, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie From Quantum Darkness to the Light There's only one remedy to rid us of the dark, as a matter of quantum physics. Doubting that darkness has its own mechanics? Let's talk. Shining Through the Darkness: Certainty, Source Consciousness, and the Spiritual Battle for Human Freedom Certainty as an Inner Compass Valerie opens by reflecting on what she would most regret leaving unsaid and urges listeners to cultivate inner certainty during unstable times. She recommends meditation centered on trusting the heart, relying on divine timing, and affirming that all is well. Rather than waiting for encouragement from others, she frames life as an experience of mirrors and asks listeners to develop self-assurance, quiet reflection, and self-care. Manna in the Air and a Rejuvenating Earth Drawing on the biblical image of manna from heaven, Valerie describes healing energies entering the atmosphere and interprets unusual seasonal growth, humidity, and natural renewal as signs of planetary restoration. She acknowledges dangerous weather and urges listeners to remain safe, while also inviting them to notice beauty in the natural world and to experience the air itself as replenishing and restorative. A Spiritual Interpretation of Quantum Darkness The central teaching presents darkness not merely as a moral category but as an energetic disruption of light, vibration, resonance, and consciousness. Valerie connects these ideas to particle waves, electromagnetic fields, the human nervous system, toroidal energy, low-vibration states, and moments of heightened creativity. She repeatedly describes these scientific and metaphysical ideas as part of a larger effort to understand how consciousness can be diminished or restored. Humanity as Sacred Creative Light Valerie argues that the human spirit is already perfect, divinely sourced, and inherently creative rather than sinful or defective. She rejects teachings that blame people for suffering or portray spiritual life as the correction of a flawed essence. In her account, shame, trauma, and separation arise from a dark design that seeks to capture human creative energy, while the proper response is to reclaim one’s connection to Source and consciously choose light. The Battle for Freedom and a Renewed World The episode expands into a spiritual-war narrative involving dark entities, manipulated systems, damaged cities, ecological decline, lost sacred geometry, and forces that allegedly exploit human life energy. Valerie imagines healthier communities shaped by harmony, beauty, healing architecture, and higher consciousness. She calls for resistance to systems that no longer serve humanity and emphasizes daily acts of clarity, kindness, balance, breathing, and perseverance as ways to raise collective vibration. A Message of Endurance and Hope Near the conclusion, Valerie reads a message titled “We Are With You,” attributed within the episode to the White Hats. The message tells weary listeners that unseen protectors recognize their struggles, that delays should not be mistaken for defeat, and that a major change called “Day X” is approaching. Valerie closes by explaining that she wanted this episode to contain what she would most want listeners to remember: that they are the light of the world, that their inner connection is trustworthy, and that their perseverance matters.

  6. Jun 21

    Apple Pie Playground, June 21, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie How Radical is your Spiritual Responsibility? How does greater spiritual responsibility avoid the traps of self-sabotage and victim mindset? Let's talk Choosing Freedom With Radical Responsibility A Playground for the Inner Child The episode opens by framing Apple Pie Playground as a place for healing the heart and reconnecting with the divine inner child. Valerie reminds listeners that the inner child represents the authentic self, the essential consciousness that connects the spirit to source consciousness. She also thanks BBS Radio and encourages listeners to support the station’s funding drive. Freedom as a Sacred Responsibility Valerie introduces the central theme of the episode by asking whether listeners are truly prepared for the responsibilities that come with physical freedom and spiritual enlightenment. She describes liberation as a matter of the heart, sacred consciousness, and energetic sovereignty, emphasizing that freedom requires right action and conscious participation rather than passive expectation. The Painful Lesson of Self-Sabotage Valerie shares a personal experience in which she reacted strongly to disturbing information heard in a digital broadcast setting. As she spoke, the energy in the room intensified into shared distress, leading her to recognize how quickly fear and defensiveness can undermine a message of love, peace, and high vibration. She uses the story to examine self-sabotage as a cycle of the ego mind that erodes self-trust. The Three C’s and the Practice of Awareness The episode presents “consciously command calmness” as the three C’s for avoiding self-sabotage. Valerie explains that when uncertainty rises, the ego may try to regain control through fear-based reactions, self-isolation, or victim thinking. She encourages listeners to pause, observe their thoughts, remain mindful, and realign the subconscious mind with conscious awareness. Radical Responsibility and Sovereign Living Valerie identifies responsibility, specifically radical responsibility, as the focal point that brings thoughts, words, intentions, and right action into alignment. Drawing from existential ideas attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre and Henry David Thoreau, she argues that sovereignty requires owning 100% of the reality one creates. She connects this responsibility to faith, spiritual freedom, New Earth consciousness, and humanity’s readiness to shape a new social and spiritual future. The Dixit Card and Subconscious Reflection The closing portion of the episode guides listeners through a Dixit-card reflection meant to invite subconscious insight. Valerie describes a star-filled sky, a crystal ball full of clouds, a golden fish swimming inside it, and a cat watching with intense focus. She invites listeners to notice the emotions, associations, and meanings that arise, then closes by thanking listeners, encouraging support for BBS Radio, and inviting them back to the playground the following Sunday.

  7. Jun 14

    Apple Pie Playground, June 14, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie We're coming into a new hope! Light at the end of the tunnel may look different for each of us, but we can see it. Is it disclosure or peace-building or inner child optimism? Let's talk Disclosure, Silver Linings, and the Divine Child at the Doorway to a New Earth Returning to the Playground Within In this episode of Apple Pie Playground, host Valerie welcomes listeners back to the space of remembering the divine child within. She thanks BBS Radio and frames the program as a Sunday afternoon gathering for healing, authenticity, and inner-child awareness. Valerie opens by acknowledging that many people may feel grumpy, irritated, or emotionally squeezed, suggesting that old hurts, traumas, and irritations are being released energetically. Her first message is simple and direct: self-care is essential. The Winds of Change and the Need for Gentle Self-Care Valerie describes the current moment as one of intense change, where people are being asked to stop resisting what no longer serves them. She encourages listeners to be gentle with themselves when they feel like they are failing, moving too slowly, or unable to keep up. She suggests that the world needs people who can anchor divine light, peace, strength, and groundedness. Even quiet, private acts of staying centered are presented as meaningful contributions to humanity. Disclosure Day and the Conversations Humanity Needs Valerie then turns to the movie Disclosure Day, which she says she previewed the previous week and has now seen. She recommends the film but avoids revealing the plot. She says the movie is full of imagery, symbolism, and layers that are likely to spark reflection and conversation. In Valerie’s view, humanity may need these conversations because they contribute to the larger disclosure experience. She suggests that people’s reactions, feelings, and discussions create a kind of collective imprint that may influence how non-terrestrial disclosure unfolds. A Dramatic White House Event and Symbolic Alignment Without going deeply into details, Valerie mentions a dramatic event connected to the White House and a UFC 250 fight, describing it as highly symbolic and connected to a broader energetic power shift. She says it appears to align with a kind of spell reversal and a series of symbolic events unfolding over time. Valerie encourages listeners to research the event for themselves, pay attention to what is being revealed, and especially notice the opening scene of Disclosure Day, which she says has an interesting alignment with the current event. Roswell, the UFO Museum, and a Personal Disclosure Moment Valerie shares a personal story from a family trip to Roswell, New Mexico, where she visited the International UFO Museum and Research Center. She describes walking through the museum with souvenirs in hand when an older man approached her and repeatedly said, “You believe,” and “You know the truth.” He gave her a lapel pin, and to her own surprise she answered, “I do know.” Valerie says she still remembers the encounter clearly and considers it her own disclosure experience, even though she does not fully understand what the man believed she knew. Disclosure as the Bridge From Darkness to Light Valerie broadens the Roswell story into a reflection on disclosure itself. She suggests that non-terrestrial disclosure may eventually reveal a fuller picture of the human experience, including things people may know subconsciously without realizing they know them. She asks whether disclosure and truth-telling may be necessary for ascension, serving as a bridge between a dark world and the light. For Valerie, revelation is not just about outside information; it is also about healing what has been hidden inside the collective and individual human heart. Silent Struggles and the Promise That Life Will Stop Getting Harder Valerie shifts into a compassionate message for listeners who may be struggling with uncertainty, family responsibilities, health concerns, relationships, mental health, finances, or the search for their place in the world. She asks listeners to sit with her and hear that life will soon stop getting harder. She encourages small practices of peace: a few minutes with coffee or tea, a few moments of stillness before work, gratitude before bed, self-care, or a daydream allowed to unfold. She presents love as the light at the end of the tunnel and reminds listeners not to give up on themselves. Ancient Souls, Star Seeds, and the Mission of Light Valerie delivers an expansive spiritual encouragement, telling listeners that the source of creation designed their spirits for superior things. She says humanity stands at the doorway to a new Earth, and that listeners are part of a mission to turn the cosmos from dark to light. She names many identities and archetypes, including ancient souls, galactic guardians, Jedis, angels, mermaids, Martians, creator races, sacred bloodlines, higher-dimensional beings, trueborn Terrans, lightworkers, and star seeds. Her message is that those present now are “the ones we have been waiting for.” Silver Linings and the Wisdom of the Inner Child The final major section is an expressive play exercise about finding the silver lining in difficult situations. Valerie explains that children naturally have cognitive flexibility because they are less attached to rigid outcomes, expectations, and past-driven thinking. As people grow up, she says, they often lose resilience, optimism, adaptability, and curiosity as their brains become trained to predict, control, and judge experiences. The inner child, by contrast, can help people return to curiosity, flexibility, and openness. A Four-Box Exercise for Healing and Reappraisal Valerie guides listeners through a four-part exercise. In the first box, they list three things that give their lives positive meaning. In the second, they recall a time when one of those things was threatened. In the third, they identify the silver linings that came from that disappointment or difficult situation. In the fourth, they ask how their inner child might have responded to the same challenge. The purpose is to practice cognitive reappraisal, loosen rigid expectations, and recover the ability to find hope, curiosity, and light in cloudy moments. Heading Home With Hope Valerie closes by connecting the silver-lining exercise to disclosure and the unfolding new Earth experience. She thanks listeners for reflecting, expressing themselves, and spending time on the playground. She also thanks BBS Radio and reminds the audience to return the following Sunday at 1 p.m. Central Time. The closing message is warm and restorative: reflection is medicine for the soul, and sharing insight helps heal the child within everyone.

  8. Jun 7

    Apple Pie Playground, June 7, 2026

    Apple Pie Playground with Valerie Title: The Cosmic Shift and our Self-care What does the body need as we shift into celestial warp drive? How do we calm the nervous system and find rest from the energies of our human evolution? Let's talk. Rest, Remembrance, and the Garden of Self-Care A Sunday Invitation to Remember the Inner Child Valerie opens this episode of Apple Pie Playground by welcoming listeners into a space of self-therapy, remembrance, and healing for the heart. She thanks BBS Radio for its worldwide work and frames the show as a Sunday afternoon opportunity to let the inner child come out and play. From the beginning, she places the episode in the context of personal choice, breath, conscious awareness, and the unfolding of what she describes as a cosmic shift into a bold new future. She thanks listeners for the mindfulness, meditation, and Christ-consciousness work she believes they are anchoring into the shared human experience. Disclosure, Cosmic Energy, and the Call to Rest Before moving into the main self-care theme, Valerie discusses the upcoming movie Disclosure Day and describes it as a playful, exciting way to introduce a truth connected to humanity’s broader cosmic experience. She then shifts into the energetic atmosphere of the week, comparing it to Star Trek warp drive and describing an intensifying force of Source consciousness raining down on people. Rather than urging listeners to push harder, she emphasizes rest as the correct response when the body, mind, or spirit feels overwhelmed. She connects rest to the idea of Shabbat, a national pause, and the larger spiritual teaching that the weary mind is like a rudderless ship. Spiritual Anchors and the Power of Being Valerie reflects on watching the Roseanne Barr Podcast and describes Roseanne as an example of a spiritual anchor, someone whose power comes not from activity but from knowing, presence, and grounded being. This leads Valerie into the central idea that many people may be missing their mission by searching outside themselves for what they should be doing, when their real contribution may come from who they are and what they embody. She describes listeners as anchors of universal love, equanimity, and God’s truth in the human experience, especially during a long and tiring journey. For those who feel weary, lonely, or doubtful, she repeats the message that what they most need is rest. Little Things, Love, and the Emotional Desert The episode then explores how peace, love, and service are expressed through small actions rather than grand gestures. Valerie says that a hug, a smile, holding a door, listening, asking how to help, saying thank you, and saying sorry all matter because they reveal the authentic self beneath conscious awareness. She compares these small actions to mortar in a foundation and describes reality as being built from micro-expressions of energy. From there, she introduces the idea of the emotional desert: a state of emotional neglect or self-neglect where the inner garden has dried up, leaving a person numb, burned out, overstimulated, or unable to feel hopeful. Nervous System Burnout and Restoring Inner Regulation Valerie explains emotional burnout as also involving the body and nervous system, describing how stress, anxiety, depression, panic, and numbness can lead to dysregulation. She discusses fight-or-flight responses, hyperarousal, hypoarousal, physical stress cascades, and the breakdown of healthy communication between body, brain, and spirit. Against this picture of an emotional desert, she offers the hopeful image of the spirit as a garden where calmness, harmony, and balance can fall like rain. She encourages listeners to restore safety, unity, connection with spirit, and conscious awareness through small practices that rebuild the nervous system from the inside out. Micro-Habits, Vagus Nerve Care, and Meditation as Flowering In the practical closing portion, Valerie offers tools for nervous system support, including naming emotions through the “Name it to tame it” technique, using longer exhales in deep breathing, massaging the arches of the feet, grounding barefoot on the Earth, using the 5-4-3-2-1 sensory method, using manageable cold-water temperature changes, and humming or singing to create calming vibration. She also recommends a quick vagus nerve reset video by Dr. John Saunders and encourages listeners to research methods that work for them. She closes by returning to self-care, observation, rest, and meditation, quoting Osho on meditation as a flowering that grows from one’s totality, before thanking listeners and BBS Radio and inviting everyone back to the playground.

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Apple Pie Playground, a show serving up slices of remembrance of who we are as sacred children of the spark, where friends gather for a little levity, add in some fun and self-reflection as we use play self-therapy tools that reawaken our authentic selves on this human journey together. Can you come out and play today?

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