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And today is episode 180 with the title Healing Begins with Belonging. And I have the absolute honour and privilege to welcome Tenya Eichenberg. Tenya is a mind, body, energy facilitator who helps people clear, emotional and energetic blocks to heal, transform and thrive. And when I asked Tina to describe her superpower, she said that it is being able to empower others to release what no longer serves and step into their most authentic selves. Hello, Tenya, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited.

It's a pleasure. And I'm guessing from your accent, you're not in the uk?

I'm not. I'm in the. In the States, on the other side of the pond.

That side of the pond, yeah. Whereabouts?

I'm in Maryland, just outside of Washington, dc. Yep.

Been to New York? I've never made. I've never made Washington state or anywhere around there. So, yeah, one day. One day. Maybe in five years time. So it's coming up for Easter, you got anything planned?

My son is moving. My son is moving out of our home. My husband and I are going to become empty nesters.

Wow. Exciting.

Yeah, so that's happening. We're actually going to start moving him and his girlfriend in today and then they'll officially move everything in on Friday. So we're going to be helping them set up Friday and then we're just going to kind of enjoy the weekend with some Easter plans with where we get to meet my. Meet his girlfriend's family. So that's exciting. Yeah. And then probably on Easter, we're probably just going to chill out. We're going to stay at a campground and just enjoy each other's company for a day.

Reconnect to each other as, as life partners.

Yeah, that was, that's one thing that we've always strived to make consistent throughout our marriage. We'll be married 29 years this year together for 30. We have a 28 year old daughter and then our twins are 25 and we also have a granddaughter who's gonna be born within the next week or two. So lots of changes going on in this next week, next two weeks. But yeah, we always made it a point to, to put our relationship kind of the main focus of our foundation because we knew that one day our kids were going to move out and it was gonna be him and I that were gonna be left holding up the fort and we wanted to make sure that we had a good foundation for when we went into that, that space that we could support each other just as a couple.

Hmm. I mean you're probably say seven or eight years behind us. Our son was the final one to move out. Yeah, about seven or eight years ago. But yeah, our daughter's in her 30s, married our son's, he's in his 30s as well now and got a lot a long term partner which he's living with. So yeah, it's important to reconnect, isn't it? Because if you sit on the sofa looking at each other going, what are we worried about? What are we going to do now? It's a real strange feeling to go back to that time before children BC right when you used to lay in on a Saturday morning and go, well it's nothing to do today. We're just laze around. We could do whatever we want.

No one cares if we don't go out. Don't, don't, don't, don't put any clothes on today. No one's going to notice.