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Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Television:
Part One- Judging Amy

When I was laid up in bed in several years ago with bronchitis, I started watching two hours of Judging Amy reruns every day, and somehow I got hooked. After a few weeks, I couldn't justify lying in bed until 2 in the afternoon, so I began taping the episodes every day, and then watching them at night or catching up in weekend marathons.

If you aren't familiar with this show, it's about a Juvenile Court judge (Amy) who is in her 30's and lives at home with her mother (Maxine) who is a social worker, and her 10 year old daughter (Lauren). While I found the courtroom scenes, the social work stories, and the love triangles intriguing, I still wasn't quite sure why I was so drawn to this show.

A few of my inner voices were intent on judging me for this prime time obsession. Can't you find something better to do with your time? This is ridiculous. You are becoming a TV junkie. How juvenile are you anyway?

But I felt, somewhere deep within me, the need to keep watching it. It felt like this was more than a television show to me, and I decided to trust the other inner voices who nudged me to keep watching. I decided to trust my intuition, and to develop a "wait and see" attitude. So I continued to watch the show.

Not too long after this, I did a SoulCollage® reading where I asked a question of my deck, and then drew 4 cards. Interestingly enough, THREE of those FOUR cards had something to do with the topic of mothering.

As I continued the reading (writing some I Am The One Who's... for each card, and then letting each card speak to me about my question), I discovered something wonderful!

Here is part of what the Divine Mother card "said" to me as part of this reading: Good, truly deep mothering is not something that you ever received, although your mom's intentions were good. And so you are now struggling with the process of inner mothering. I can help you with this. Watching Judging Amy is helping you too. Do not brush it aside as "just another TV show..." You are receiving much wisdom and insight from watching Maxine with Amy, and Amy with Lauren...  Embrace what you are learning there. Be glad of it and grateful for it too.

I was completely startled to see those words coming from my hand, and from the voice of the Divine Mother! Of course! It became clear to me as soon as I wrote those words. Crystal clear. From then on, whenever I watched the show, I had more of a focus, and the lessons I learned on what it means to lovingly mother myself came faster than I could write them down!

I love telling this story about myself because it's a clear reminder of how I can and should always trust my intuition... and never judge myself for where my soul is leading me, even if it's guiding me to watch television! My soul truly DOES know what will serve me best.. all I have to do is listen and follow.


  

 
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Do you have a SoulCollage® card for the part of you who trusts your deepest intuition? If not, be on the lookout for images that speak this truth to you.

And now... take a look at the television shows you are drawn to. Is there one that you resist watching but that brings you pleasure, even if you don't know exactly why? Try, for one day, to stop the inner critical voices that might be telling you to stop watching it. Notice which inner voices are urging you to watch it. Trust them. Go on and watch it. Be open as the weeks and months go by for the lessons that winging their way to you on the stories that the show is telling.
 
 
 

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