Ep. 68 | 🍿Comment Chaos: COVID Censorship, Safe Spaces & Speaking Up Anyway
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Hey legends. Welcome back to a comment chaos episode. I feel like it's actually been a little while since we've done one of these. So I'm pumped. And first of all, if you're watching this on YouTube, you will notice I've got more plants in my room. Look there, there, there. There, there's also some on these shelves up here. I've just been craving having plants and life. Oh, and there's beautiful flowers next to me as well. I'm just, I'm loving the vibe of all the greenery at the moment.
Anyway, today we're going to go through some YouTube comments on some recent episodes that we have done or even actually some that are resurfacing. So there's comments coming up on episodes that are from last year, from months and months and months ago, and I just want to give the time and space to actually respond to some of you because I Um, as you know, I really appreciate when you take the time out of your day to comment on any of the social media platforms.
So we're going to go first to, remember, I actually did one on the COVID vaccine. So the episodewas actually called the COVID vaccine [00:01:00] backlash, Chantel Kelly's fight for truth. So. That was like very early on. In fact, off the top of my head I think that was episode 5. I don't know why I randomly remember episode numbers. Pretty sure it was episode 5. But someone here has written, I think the name is Mel.
I'm halfway in your post and sounds like the same as New Zealand's crazy stories I have witnessed. So many people have been silenced and afraid to speak out here. A hundred percent. Agree. Thanks Holly. Thanks Chantel. One hundred percent.
And so I've responded there. It's crazy. Hey, and yes, I heard NZ had some very interesting times. Insane. Actually. Cheers for joining in the convo and for being here. I have to admit, I love that more and more people are speaking up about 2020 COVID worldwide. Like I, I really love that because. If you were like me and you were someone that was like, something's not right about all this, whether it was the lockdowns, the, the forcing of the vaccine, I did not agree with that at all.
I [00:02:00] feel like people have a sovereign right to choose whether they were going to have it or not. And if someone wanted it, they should not be shamed. And if someone didn't want it, they shouldn't be shamed. That was my stance right from the very beginning. But yeah, if you were like me and you're like this, none of this is adding up.
Like there is so much forcing and coercion and all of that. It was almost seen as dangerous at the time to talk about it, like for real. And if not dangerous in physical danger, even though there was that some people were literally beaten up for their point of view, if it wasn't physical danger, it was.
The danger that I think gets at the core of every human being, and that is being pushed out of society, being pushed out of the pack of the tribe. It's very tribal. It's like tribalism days, right? That is one of the biggest fears of most people is to feel like an absolute outcast in society, to be shunned, to be pushed away.
And so it very much worked on the general population when it came to the way that [00:03:00] they lived. Orchestrated it. Right. And so I love that more and more people are speaking out about it. Now, you know, even though it's been years down the track, it's still getting talked about. And sure, we may be like, oh, we're sick of hearing it, but, but no, there needs to be accountability on these governmental.
You know, people that, that enforced a lot of this on the institutions, on those that were in authority that honestly abused their power. Some had good hearts. I will say this, some had good hearts and a good people and didn't know best and did the best with the knowledge that they had at the time. Not all of them were corrupt.
Not all of them were paid off, right? Some just genuinely thought they were doing the right thing. And even though I don't agree, I can understand where they were coming from. Whereas the ones that were corrupted, the ones like Anthony Fauci's who made a shit ton of money off this, I have a lot less compassion, if at all, to be honest.
Yeah, they need to be held to account. So I like that. It's still being talked about today. So thank you. Thank you for your comment. Then I did, uh, this was [00:04:00] actually a short clip that was titled the problem with safe spaces. This wasn't from the episode, the full episode that I did on safe spaces. I have done a full episode on it.
This was from the one where I talked about how we've got two kinds of mindsets and two kinds of camps when it comes to mental health, where you're either in the. What is predominantly known as the boomer camp, and I made it very clear in that episode. I'm not mocking you if you're a boomer. I actually see a lot of strength from the boomer camp.
That mindset of just get on with it, just toughen up, just move on, don't talk about it. Like there is a strength in that, but it did become a massive weakness. The other side of the camp is, is the camp that it seems to be more what is going on now, which is just wallow in it all and just wear every label you get as your full identity and just You know, everything's a trauma, woe is me, which gives me the right to be a shit human being type of thing, right?
Whereas I think the middle ground is awesome. Take something from both of those because yes, trauma is a real thing, right? Trauma is a real thing. We all have things that are stored [00:05:00] in our bodies and I don't like to overuse the word trauma, but I'm going to use it for this. We all have stuff in our bodies that needs to be processed at some point.
If we don't, it's going to keep sending us messages in our body that can be in pains that can be an illness. It can be in. Um, unexplained things that can be in relationship breakdowns, all sorts of things, right? But also let's take something from the boomer camp from that tough as nails camp of, yeah, at some point though, you can't just wallow in it at some point though, you've got to get on with life.
That's why I love the middle ground. So this short clip was the problem with safe spaces, and I, I alluded to the fact that I think most safe spaces these days are just bubble wrapping people. But, and I will get into it in a second. Actually, let me read the comments. So this is from Tim. Tim is an avid listener on YouTube.
Tim, if you're watching this, hello, legend. This is Tim Bennet. He is awesome. He has so much really thought provoking things to say, and I really appreciate you, Tim. So he said, I'll start this by saying, I don't like the idea of safe. [00:06:00] Safe spaces or trigger warnings. I agree. I do like to be in environments that make me feel emotionally safe.
I would also agree and I am going to give my response. But I don't mind people disagreeing with me or giving me constructive feedback. It's just how they go about it. Telling me you did this wrong and this is better, and this is a better way of dealing with it is perfectly fine. Being told to F off isn't.
Yeah, I agree safe spaces like everything else. It started with good intentions, but now it's gone too far. Agree. One of the reasons I resigned from my last job a few weeks ago. And yeah, I agree with you, Tim. So I said, well, so well said Tim, there is absolutely a time and a place for safe spaces. And this is the point that I'm personally wanting to make.
For instance, to heal, we need safety in our bodies first. The issue is when people only want to stay bubble wrapped forever. And will only surround themselves with environments that feel safe, which equals never being challenged, never coming out of their [00:07:00] comfort zone, never facing fear with courage, only having an echo chamber where you all think the exact same way.
And if anyone says anything different, they are an unsafe person and apparently attacking, etc. That's where it's no longer helpful. I see a lot of it these days, sadly. So the point that I want to make is two things. One, to heal, to bring, uh, what's the word, homeostasis to our bodies, if you want to come at it from a body lens, to have any way of being able to move on from an event.
And I don't just mean move on as in like pretend nothing happened. I mean, actually integrate it. That's probably the word I'm looking for. To be able to integrate an experience, to be able to integrate our past, to be able to integrate something that we're facing. And to be able to overcome it or to move on from it or to continue on in life without being so affected by it.
We do need to feel safe. So it's very difficult to heal without that safety. So for instance, [00:08:00] I do spinal energetic sessions. The premise behind it is we all have our own innate intelligence, right? It's the thing that gets our digestion working. It's the thing that tells us to go to sleep when we're tired, right?
It's nothing that we have to consciously think about. It's just there and it's, it's continually working and it's continually guiding us. It's our innate intelligence. We have energy. This is not woo woo. This is bloody science. We all have energy. Yes, we are a physical body. Yes, we have a mind. We also have an energetic field.
Okay, everything, everything is made up of energy. This is. Science, right? I'm not going into woowoo realms here, but the premise behind it is whatever, whatever happened in our life when we felt unsafe and that stored that experience in our body, right? That was a protective mechanism. That wasn't a bad thing.
The experience we may deem as bad, like some people face, as I've said a million times in episodes, very dark, very horrible things in life, but our body kicked in [00:09:00] as a protective mechanism. So for instance, Someone today may have a chronic illness or maybe they have chronic pain in their body, right? And it doesn't necessarily make sense.
Like maybe they haven't had a car accident or they haven't fallen downstairs. And it's like, why does, why is my, my back feel like it's broken? Why can't I walk properly or whatever it is, right? So there's something that is stored in the body that doesn't make sense for their current life experience, or they haven't had a physical issue to cause that, right?
What that is often is it's a protective mechanism that the body went into at a time and place in your life as a way to protect you and it's stored emotionally or it's stored mentally or it's stored spiritually in our energetic field and it comes out as a physical ailment. It comes out as a physical sign or symptom because it goes through the different layers.
What may start off in the spiritual layer then goes through the mental, the emotional, and then the physical. So when something expresses itself from a [00:10:00] physical layer, it has already gone through those other layers, right? And if we haven't heard the little whispers from our body, from, from our energetic field, from our innate intelligence, eventually it does come to a physical condition.
And no, that doesn't mean life threatening. It can be in small ways, right? But what I'm trying to get at is our body protected us. That's not a bad thing. It was the best thing it could do at the time. But that exact same innate intelligence that went into protective mode that protected us at the time, we can also tap into that today.
And that innate intelligence, I truly believe. And it is the premise behind spinal energetics, which was created by, um, A doctor, a chiropractor in Melbourne, she's incredible. She also says that that exact same innate intelligence can then reverse it, can then actually correct it, because there is safety that is brought to the body.
So safety, my whole point is, in order to heal, in order to [00:11:00] reverse something, in order to bring homeostasis back to the body, and to correct what may feel like it needs correcting. There needs to be safety. So I'm not negating that. When I talk about safe spaces seem to be for just bubble wrapping people.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about groups that are set up that are designed to maybe help a group. So maybe, I'll try and think of an example. Maybe you can think of, okay, just off the top of my head, let's say a domestic violence, Victim group, right, could be awesome for a time and a place in somebody's life, whether it's a male or a female, because males can also go through domestic violence.
I'm an ex police officer. I've seen this. It's men and women. It's not just women that are victims. So let's just say there's a men's group and there's a women's group and they are both groups are for victims of domestic violence. That could be incredible for a time and a place and a stage in their life.[00:12:00]
When they've been through severe trauma, when they've been through severe cases of domestic abuse, domestic violence, and that group makes them realize, I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one, and you can all help each other to move through that. Where that would become bubble wrapping and actually a problem is if they stay in that group for the rest of their life.
And I don't mean just remain friends because that could be cool, right? That could be awesome. I mean stay in that group and just talk about everything that went wrong in their past relationships. For the rest of eternity and all they do is just talk about the past over and over and over and if somebody else Even dared to mention that hey, maybe we can heal maybe we can start to integrate some of these experiences and have healthier relationships and Blah, blah, blah.
Maybe they'll be like, you are attacking and you are an unsafe individual. You're not welcoming this group. That's what I'm talking about bubble wrapping. And that's just one example, right? I don't even know if those groups exist. They probably do, but when you stay in that and you never intend on moving out of that [00:13:00] group, or you never intend on moving out of that training or that whatever it is, then essentially you are bubble wrapping yourself because you are seeing the outside world as unsafe.
I don't want to be a part of the outside world. I only want to be in this group. Who are going to validate my pain, who are going to validate my experience for the rest of life. And I get their sympathy and I get their empathy forever. That's non helpful again. So that's what I'm referring to. When I say things like, you know, if you're only surrounding yourself with environments that feel safe, where you're never going to be challenged, and you never come out of your comfort zone again, and you never face fear with courage again, like it's, it starts to go from a place of safety to, it's actually no longer safe for you, because you're not growing as a human, you're being bubble wrapped. And then just a really sweet comment, so I can't pronounce the name, but someone has said, I've been following your YouTube channel for a long time, and honestly, I've learned a lot from each video. Your regular upload of educational content is truly admirable. Thank you so much. And I want to say I [00:14:00] am regular.
I am really consistent with this because I, I, I love the community. Like, honestly, I love you guys. I genuinely love the interactions that I have, no matter what the platform, whether it's messages, emails, I honestly really enjoy our community. I really enjoy this. Platform. I love speaking to you on YouTube or being in your ears.
If you're just listening on a podcasting platform, I really love it. And yeah, as I've said a million times, I just love engaging with you guys. There are so many more comments I could go through. I just like, honestly, just so you know, there is so many and I often do respond if you can't see me on YouTube right now, cause you're listening on from your podcasting platform.
I'm just scrolling through all different comments from, you know, whether they're recent or ages ago, I do get quite a few. Cause obviously. It's not just full length episodes, but it's also the reels, like the shorts on YouTube and things like that. And then there's TikTok and Instagram, but yeah, I just don't want these to become a super long episode, [00:15:00] but next comment chaos, I'll go through a particular episode and just discuss comments from one particular episode.
Anyway, love your guts. We'll leave it there. Thank you so much for being here. And I appreciate all the love in regards to, um, A recent passing in our family. I actually have the funeral coming up this weekend and I'm actually honestly looking forward to it. I think it's going to be as sad as it is. I think it's also going to be a celebration of her life and yeah, there's one of those things.
Hey, grief can hit you at any moment and um, I think one of the best things you can do for someone that has passed on. You know, I, I don't believe it's the end of a life. So if you're experiencing this yourself, I don't believe that, you know, yes, it's painful because we can't physically see them here in a human body, but they're still, they're still there.
Their energy is still there. Energy can't die. It just [00:16:00] transforms into something else. So yeah, if you're also facing grief, whether that someone has passed or it looks like someone is passing that you love dearly, I just want to send you all the love in the world. Grief can hit you out of nowhere, but I think one of the best things you can do is celebrate that individual's life and remember The most beautiful things about that human.
Oh my god, it's gonna make me cry Remember all the beautiful things and the funny things like that's something I've been doing lately is just Reminiscing on the funniest things she used to say she had the best jokes even up until literally the day before she passed She was cracking jokes. So yeah, anyway, love your guts.
Thank you so much for being here I hope you have an awesome week and we'll chat next week. Bye
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