Laurie Parente on Spirit Teams, Light Language, and Life Purpose

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Rich Bennett 1:00
So what if your greatest transformation didn't begin until your 40s? Today's guest, Laurie Parente, is living proof that it's never too late to answer a higher calling. Laurie is an angel medium, intuitive guide, and energetic healer who didn't step into her spiritual gifts until later in life, when a powerful inner shift let her down a path of healing, alignment, and purpose. Since then, she's helped countless people reconnect with their inner wisdom, release limiting beliefs, and live more fully from a place of love and empowerment. With over a decade of experience, Laurie blends energy healing, guided meditation, angelic messages, and light language to support people on their journey of self-discovery. She's the kind of soul who makes you feel seen, heard, and safe, even when you're navigating your most vulnerable moments. So in this conversation, we're going to dive into Laurie's personal awakening. The work she now does of clients around the world and why healing isn't just about fixing what's broken, it's about remembering who you truly are. So grab your coffee, grab your water, whatever it is you're drinking, because Laurie's story might just awakening something in you too. So Laurie, first of all, how are you doing? And before I even get into the everything, I have to ask because I've had mediums on, but what is an angel medium? 

Laurie Parente 2:41
So it's similar in that I connect with people who have crossed, but the information comes through me through the angelic realm. So I'm tapping into something if you want to say higher, and that is where the information comes through my channel through the angelic realm. 

Rich Bennett 3:01
Okay. So when it comes to that, because when you read the books, you hear about the angel of death, you hear about the guardian angels. Are there that many different angels? 

Laurie Parente 3:16
There are. They're a legion. 

Rich Bennett 3:18
Really? 

Laurie Parente 3:18
Angels, yes. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 3:21
A hell in the world. You got to tell us all right. Walk us out of half. How did this happen? 

Laurie Parente 3:25
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me here today. 

Rich Bennett 3:28
Oh, my 

Laurie Parente 3:29
to 

Rich Bennett 3:29
pleasure. 

Laurie Parente 3:29
be here. I think like, like many of us, I was very connected as a little, little child. You know, I would, my angels were my playmates. They were my friends. And at some point, I'll round the age four or five, you know, it was the early 70s. It got a little bit less cute for me to be talking about angels all the time. And the people in my family and in my world started saying things like, you know, you're just about to go to school, maybe you don't want to be talking about this all the time. I think the combination came when I told the neighbor that there was a huge huge angel on the lawn. And that meant somebody was going to die. That really didn't go over, I mean, in my 

Rich Bennett 4:10
Oh, 

Laurie Parente 4:10
little five-year-old brain, it was like, oh, there's an angel. Somebody's going to die, right? But it didn't go over that well in the neighborhood. 

Rich Bennett 4:17
I guess not. 

Laurie Parente 4:17
No, no. And when I, I was always connected to angels and to spirits. And when I told my three-older sisters about the gentleman that hung out in the shower in our bathroom, my mom got quite upset because now I had three sisters in her bathroom because they were scared to be in ours, you know. It was just, it was so normal for me. 

Rich Bennett 4:40
That just doesn't sound right. I'm sorry. 

Laurie Parente 4:43
It was so normal for me, but then I went to school knowing that this wasn't normal, not everyone 

Rich Bennett 4:48
Right. 

Laurie Parente 4:49
perceived and felt and heard things that I did. And so as a little kid, when you're told how you view life is not normal, you figure out, well, then I must not be normal, right? So 

Rich Bennett 5:00
yeah. 

Laurie Parente 5:00
I became very shy, shut everything down, didn't want to do, have anything to do with it, refuse to talk about it. You know, there was little incidents all peppered through my life, and of course it was, I was still sensing it and feeling it, but I just wasn't sharing it. 

Rich Bennett 5:17
Right. 

Laurie Parente 5:18
In my early 40s, I just, I got sick, I had arthritis, I was, everything was falling apart, and I just got to the point where, uhm, I really was at a choice point. Like, do I want to continue with this life, or do I want to step into who I really am? 

Rich Bennett 5:37
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 5:37
And I, uhm, I had a dream, that I was meeting with my mom in spirit, and with a guide, and it was dreams I always had, and they said it's, it's time for you to choose. Like, are you done here, have you had enough with this, or are you going to, are you going to start listening, and are you going to start sharing? And I came out of that dream, and it was kind of like, you know, a frying pan moment over the head, Like, 

Rich Bennett 6:02
yeah. 

Laurie Parente 6:02
I'm just going to get sicker, and things are going to get worse, and things are going to fall apart more, or I can do something about this. And I immediately, uh, landed on a course on Medium Ship by James Bond Prog, and it just blew everything wide open. So he's an American medium, uh, based in California, he's been, 

Rich Bennett 6:22
Okay. 

Laurie Parente 6:22
yeah, he's been on the scene for a long time, and 

Rich Bennett 6:25
I 

Laurie Parente 6:25
just, 

Rich Bennett 6:25
thought I heard the name before, that's when you 

Laurie Parente 6:27
a, 

Rich Bennett 6:27
sit as 

Laurie Parente 6:28
yeah, 

Rich Bennett 6:28
and, 

Laurie Parente 6:29
so it just, uh, it blew me wide open, and I just started to open back up to everything. And I immediately started to connect to spirits, connect to angels, like, the first time I went in, it was like they were throwing a party for me. I was on this inner journey, and they're like, yay, she's back, she's back, you know, and, um, and it just kind of started there. So being somebody who was very intellectual, who, who worked in music production for a long time and teaching, I, I took every course possible known to man, you know, like I just needed to learn about everything. Um, and I learned about Medium Ship and, and quantum and benefit. Like I just took all these courses, but at the same time I was going within, and I was meeting with my guides and my angels and saying, okay, teach me, teach me how to open up again. Teach me how to work with energy. Teach me how to, how to bring in somebody spirit and bring in messages and not have them stuck to me like glue like teach me how to be in public and not see 500 dead people like it had to really come, I had to learn on the outer, but I also had to really learn on the inner. 

Rich Bennett 7:38
Okay. So what is the difference between an angel and a spirit and how can you actually tell the difference? 

Laurie Parente 7:47
So angels to me are like orbs of light, and they have a 

Rich Bennett 7:51
Okay. 

Laurie Parente 7:51
different feeling, they have a different frequency, um, and it, it feels different in my body when I'm connecting with them, and then spirits are more recognizable to me as they, they don't look much different than people. They will often present as a little bit younger than when 

Rich Bennett 8:08
they write, 

Laurie Parente 8:09
but they, they feel differently, they look differently. To me, it's really easy to, to discriminate between the two. 

Rich Bennett 8:17
So I got a backup a minute because you said you mentioned something that you were doing, which like, wait a minute, what? Music production? 

Laurie Parente 8:28
Yeah, so I'm a musician and I was trained as a classical pianist and 

Rich Bennett 8:33
Oh, 

Laurie Parente 8:33
then I taught and then I did a lot of music production and musical theater and. For corporate events, like that was what I was doing, and it was slowly, it was killing me, like it was, 

Rich Bennett 8:47
really? 

Laurie Parente 8:47
yeah, I was just living under so much stress couldn't sleep had depression, anxiety, everything was falling apart, like it just wasn't the path I was meant to be on, and. Life wasn't working out, you know, 

Rich Bennett 9:02
I guess with the arthritis to it's kind of hard to play the piano wasn't 

Laurie Parente 9:07
yeah 

Rich Bennett 9:08
okay, 

Laurie Parente 9:08
and none of that exists anymore. 

Rich Bennett 9:12
I'm with you. I'm the same way because I use to play bass and I had to stop because the arthritis. 

Laurie Parente 9:18
Oh no, I meant the arthritis doesn't exist in me anymore. I played. 

Rich Bennett 9:22
Oh 

Laurie Parente 9:22
yeah, like. 

Rich Bennett 9:23
Wait, 

Laurie Parente 9:24
what? No, I mean, once you once I got to the root of what was causing all of these problems in me physically, then I was able to clear them. 

Rich Bennett 9:33
How in the world did you do that with arthritis? I mean, I know the when I go to the chiropractor, that helps me. 

Laurie Parente 9:39
Right. 

Rich Bennett 9:40
But there's times, especially, you know, if rain and all that, I can feel it. 

Laurie Parente 9:44
Right. It's, it's, I mean, everything is energy and everything is happening on an energetic level in our physical body. So when we have symptoms, when we have disease, when we have blocks in our energetic system that comes up as physical as physical things. And so when we get to the root and we do the work and we do the healing, we're able to clear things. 

Rich Bennett 10:06
Oh wow. 

Laurie Parente 10:07
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 10:09
Okay. So, all right. So you actually help heal people from arthritis and what? I'm asking what now this blows me away now. 

Laurie Parente 10:21
Right. 

Rich Bennett 10:21
Because I've talked to a lot of people that, you know, use different things, whether it be the holistic approach or whatever with all types of different, not just arthritis, but anything, even tapping. Yeah. I've heard about. So what are some of the things that you can actually better yet better yet, what is one of the strangest things that you've been able to help heal? 

Laurie Parente 10:49
So I always say that you are the healer in your life. If somebody's coming to me, it means that they are ready to work through something and heal. And I'm just helping to facilitate helping to open up the pathways for them. So I work a lot with shamanic journeys where we will go in and we will find the root of where this came from. And normally lots of times, it's between the ages of zero and seven where we can kind of pinpoint where this, where this emotion. If you've ever read Dr Bradley Nelson's like the emotion code, how emotions get stuck in our in our tissues, we can find it. And then we can work on clearing it. And sometimes it'll clear right away. And other times it will take longer, it just depends where the person is on their journey and what they're willing to trust in. 

Rich Bennett 11:39
Now that's not the raky day, right, 

Laurie Parente 11:43
No, so I was training in quantum healing, but it's just it's raky. I mean, this can be done with 

Rich Bennett 11:51
completely. 

Laurie Parente 11:51
raky to, it's there's tons of methods, right. Like once you start to look into it, people are working with all different kinds of methods 

Rich Bennett 12:00
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 12:00
that help people to release things that are stuck in their physical and energetic bodies. 

Rich Bennett 12:06
All right. So what is, you said quantum healing, what is that? I never heard that. 

Laurie Parente 12:12
So it's working within the quantum field. And it's, it's, if you follow anything with Dr Joe dispenser, he's probably one who, who explains it, the easiest to understand. And so in the quantum field, it's. It can be explained as as everything exists. And nothing exists. And when we, we tap into the right kind of energy that we're looking for, then we can, we can change what we're, what we're manifesting in our lives. It's very fascinating. 

Rich Bennett 12:43
Are you going to start doing this until you're in your 40s? 

Laurie Parente 12:47
So it's been good 15 years now. And like I said, I took 

Rich Bennett 12:51
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 12:52
every course imaginable. 

Rich Bennett 12:54
No, no, no, no, I ain't buying that. You're going to, you're trying to tell me that you're in your 50s. 

Laurie Parente 12:59
I am. I just turned 57. 

Rich Bennett 13:01
No way. 

Laurie Parente 13:02
That's a good light, hey. 

Rich Bennett 13:06
You do not look like you're in your 50s. 

Laurie Parente 13:09
Well, 

Rich Bennett 13:10
that's amazing. 

Laurie Parente 13:10
I lead a really calm, really peaceful life. No. 

Rich Bennett 13:14
Okay. 

Laurie Parente 13:15
Very different from what I used to lead. And, you know, you, you find out that when you're calm and when you're peaceful, I think that you start to, your body just kind of relaxes in so many ways. 

Rich Bennett 13:27
Helps you look younger. 

Laurie Parente 13:29
Possibly could be the makeup could be the light. 

Rich Bennett 13:34
I need to do this. All right. So you work with people around the world. 

Laurie Parente 13:39
Yes, my business really exploded during COVID. You know, zoom became a thing. And, and I mean, it was a thing but it became a bigger thing. And people were, were looking to change their lives. They were realizing the way that they were living wasn't working. 

I just kind of started from there. So I have clients all over that, that come to me just just to, you know, the big thing is just getting to the core of who they are authentically what lights them up. 

Rich Bennett 14:11
Right. 

Laurie Parente 14:11
And also really connecting them to what I call their team and spirit. So they can work with their team and spirit to, to, you know, bring in that wisdom and that connection and those messages and all that fun kind of stuff. 

Rich Bennett 14:27
And part of this is also the angelic healings. 

Laurie Parente 14:30
Yes. 

Rich Bennett 14:31
I'd 

Laurie Parente 14:31
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 14:32
explain what angelic healing is. Because I, to me, with a medium, I would think that's completely different from the healing side. 

Laurie Parente 14:42
So I think, you know, we've spent a lot of time categorizing things in our human world. It has to be this way or this way. But when we deal with the spirit world, it's all kind of one. Like we're tapping into something beyond what we have here, something beyond what we have language for or comprehension for. And so everyone ends up using their own method. They do their work, they do their healing work, they take, you know, they study with teachers, both human and beyond the veil. And then they come into how it works for them. So for me, it's really that angelic presence that when I'm working with people comes through. And it's also, you know, a channeled language that comes through me, which is called light language. And I don't know if you've ever encountered that, but it's a, it's a channeled language. That's an energetic language that bypasses the thinking brain and goes straight into the energetic body. And so it really activates quick healing when people are ready for it. 

Rich Bennett 15:46
So I guess, because we talked about the arthritis and everything. But I would think with what you do, do you get a lot of clients that are also going through anxiety and depression, right? 

Laurie Parente 16:00
Anxiety, depression, grief, grief, which is usually umbrella for everything. Because I say we live in a grief, a literate society, we don't do grief well. And it's such a big constellation of, of emotions, and it gets stuck in a lot of places. So a lot of grief. And then people are just really wanting connect more deeply with themselves. And they want to, they just have this feeling that there's more to them and there's more to life than this 3D human world that we're living in, you know, going to work and getting a paycheck and coming home and doing it all again the next day, they just feel that there's more and they want to open up to more. And I find that people come to me when they're feeling stuck or when they're 

Rich Bennett 16:47
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 16:47
feeling like there has to be more to life than 

Rich Bennett 16:51
this. Alright, so when you start, first of all, I got AS. What kind of dogs? 

Laurie Parente 16:56
She's a, she's a staffie. 

Rich Bennett 16:58
That's only one dog. 

Laurie Parente 17:00
That's, she's a, it got a really loud bark. a 

Rich Bennett 17:05
She's 

Laurie Parente 17:05
rescue. She's very, very protective. She's a type of people. 

Rich Bennett 17:10
Oh, okay. 

Laurie Parente 17:11
American Staffordshire Terrier. 

Rich Bennett 17:13
I knew that. I was just testing you. That's all. I love dogs. Oh, my God, I forgot where I was going with this now because all this stuff you're telling me just blows me away. Oh, so with, with the angelic medium part, not 

the healing part. So do people actually call you up? I hate the term sayons. 

Laurie Parente 17:40
No, 

Rich Bennett 17:40
But. Okay, 

Laurie Parente 17:42
no. 

Rich Bennett 17:42
all 

Laurie Parente 17:42
right. No, I mean, right when I started 

Rich Bennett 17:45
not to do 

Laurie Parente 17:46
doing, 

Rich Bennett 17:46
readings 

Laurie Parente 17:46
no, 

Rich Bennett 17:46
or anything, right? 

Laurie Parente 17:47
So I do like intuitive readings where people will, you know, come in and, and they have a question about life. But 

Rich Bennett 17:54
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 17:54
I am always very, very set on will connect to the highest and best guidance for everyone concerned. I only ever had one incident where I in a meditation and, and something came in that didn't feel right to me. And I just said to my angels like, I'm not interested. So that's your job. Take care of that. I'm not interested in connecting with anything that isn't of the light. And so I've never seen anything again. 

Rich Bennett 18:22
Alright. So when you started doing this, not when you were a kid, but when you, back in your 40s, supposedly you said, 15 years ago, I still don't believe you. 

Laurie Parente 18:33
Give my day. Was 

Rich Bennett 18:35
there any pushback or criticism? Whether it be from family members or friends when you started doing this? 

Laurie Parente 18:42
Absolutely. When I started because I had resistance still to it, I had a 

Rich Bennett 18:47
lot 

Laurie Parente 18:47
of resistance to work through myself because of everything that I'd been through in life, right? So, 

Rich Bennett 18:52
yeah. 

Laurie Parente 18:53
When I first started sharing, I would, oh, okay, I'm going to keep this private for a little bit here. And that's what I always say to clients. When you're first starting to open up to the spirit world, just kind of keep it to yourself. It's like this little baby you're protecting. But when I got to the point where I was like, okay, this is me, this is who I am. I'm going to tell anybody who listen, what their reactions, their reaction, that's when it really started to open up. And I remember being with friends out for dinner, and they were very resistant to, to the change. And I just, all of a sudden, brought through a message from his mom and they just went, oh, okay, so this is real. Right? 

Rich Bennett 19:35
Wow. 

Laurie Parente 19:35
and it opens and it's about cracking people's hearts open to the knowing that when someone dies, our relationship doesn't have to end. It's meant to continue. And it's meant to take on a new phase. Of course, it's going to be different. Of course, we'll always wish they were here. But we are not meant to stop those relationships. We're meant to dive into it and say, okay, now what does our relationship look like? 

Rich Bennett 20:02
I had one point, and I don't even know, it was doing COVID, but a young lady of ours, she says she can see things. And she asked me to go into our bathroom, take a photo of me looking in the mirror and send it to her. 

She sensed two people standing over me. She said, one was an angel with red hair, which right away, I just assumed that it was because we lost our first daughter. And to this day, I've always said she is my guardian angel. The second one she said was a tall gentleman in a military uniform, which that went through me off at first my father's not tall. My brother's tall, but he went AWOL, and I was doing COVID five years ago. Never mind. I'm thinking, yeah, so he wasn't alive at the time. But my sister could say that that was my grandfather. Have you at any time? Do you sense that when you look at somebody, can you just look at them and see like there's a guardian angel there? I always say on your shoulder, but you know what 

Laurie Parente 21:27
right, right. So when I am open, yes. 

Rich Bennett 21:32
I mean, 

Laurie Parente 21:32
So part of my process was learning to really be able to when I'm open and when I'm closed. So when I make the decision, it came, it took a little while to realize I was in charge. Because when you're fully open, you've got spirits coming to you all the time, right? And I just thought, well, if this is my path, then I'm meant to be going up to people who are strangers and saying, you know, your father's here. And you know what? And then once I realized that I was in charge of this gift, I learned how to shut it down. And I open it when I want to open 

Rich Bennett 22:08
it. How hard was that to learn how to control? 

Laurie Parente 22:11
Not hard once. It's funny, you know, in the things that are really challenging for you when you get really ready for them, they're super 

Rich Bennett 22:18
easy. Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 22:19
Yeah. It was super easy. When I was like, wait a second, I'm in charge of this. I get to see when I want to see. 

Rich Bennett 22:27
I've always found this stuff amazing. And I know you guys, there are some people out there that don't believe in all that. But to me, I've always believed because there's just got to be somebody's out there or people are out there watching over us. And 

Laurie Parente 22:46
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 22:47
I know. I'll be honest with you, I never heard of an angelic medium, just medium. 

Laurie Parente 22:56
Right. 

Rich Bennett 22:57
And because you hear about the spirits and everything. Actually, oh, okay. 

Laurie Parente 23:02
It's 

Rich Bennett 23:02
Because 

Laurie Parente 23:02
coming. 

Rich Bennett 23:04
this stuff amazed me. So with it, because you see spirits and angelic angelic angels. 

And you hear people say, well, sometimes the spirits are stuck. That's why they're not angels yet. Have you experienced that? And if so, have you? I mean, is that the true thing or 

Laurie Parente 23:25
to me, there's a there's more of a distinction between 

Rich Bennett 23:29
okay, 

Laurie Parente 23:30
those in humans, um, from what I perceive, and sometimes, I think, sometimes there can be like energy that's stuck, like, like leftover kind of energy that's stuck, but I, um, How do I put this? To me, the people who are like dealing with paranormal things and all that it, 

Rich Bennett 23:55
um, 

Laurie Parente 23:56
where are you, where are you focused, then the energy grows. If you're giving a focus to that energy, then it starts to expand and 

Rich Bennett 24:04
right. 

Laurie Parente 24:04
and become more of your reality. Right. So if that's, if that's what you're doing, great. For me, I'm going to focus on on the angel in the light. I can say that one time I was staying in a hotel, um, couldn't sleep. It was an older hotel, and I could just feel that there was like stuck energy in this hotel, and I knew that I wasn't going to sleep unless I helped to clear it. And 

Rich Bennett 24:27
Okay. 

Laurie Parente 24:27
I just got this image because my angels are funny. Um, I've just like this absolutely huge Hoover vacuum cleaner, just vacuuming up the walls outside of this hotel, and just sucking everything out. And then I was like, okay, thanks. Now I can sleep. So I think there's just like leftover energy 

Rich Bennett 24:50
patterns. Right. 

Laurie Parente 24:50
In places. 

Rich Bennett 24:52
So you keep mentioning your angels, do you? Is it always the same angels that are with you? 

Laurie Parente 24:58
So for me, there's some main ones. I 

Rich Bennett 25:01
Okay. 

Laurie Parente 25:02
they're kind of like my team. And when I 

Rich Bennett 25:05
people, 

Laurie Parente 25:05
teach 

Rich Bennett 25:05
you got good employees. 

Laurie Parente 25:07
Right. Well, I'm the CEO. Yeah. I sometimes think people try to get, they get a little bit in the weeds like, is this archangel Raphael? Is this archangel Michael? Is this my mom? Is this like, and so I just say my angels. And then I know that the guidance that is needed comes through. And I will sense different angels. But for me, it's more just like being that open conduit for the guidance. 

Rich Bennett 25:35
Actually, with what you do, what are some of the biggest 

misconceptions and myths about what you do? 

Laurie Parente 25:46
Hmm. I don't know if I've ever really thought about that. I I, you know, there are there are people who are always trying to debunk something or other. Right. And I never really pay attention to it. I think one of the maybe one of the biggest myths is that you're either born a medium or you're not. You can either connect or you can't. And I say, you know, everyone can connect. Maybe not everyone's going to do the work that I do, but they can connect with their people and their team. And so, and it and it is a skill. And it's something that you can you can develop. It's like like building muscles. There are certain steps you can take and you can. And I think maybe the other one is that you you have to do it the way that everyone else does it. The time that it works is when you find out what works for 

Rich Bennett 26:41
you. 

I've always found this stuff amazing. I had actually she's not many angelic medium but I had another young lady on twice 

Laurie Parente 26:52
This 

Rich Bennett 26:53
who's a medium. And then I went on her show and she did a. I always say reading now. I don't know if that's the proper term or not. 

Laurie Parente 27:00
Sure. 

Rich Bennett 27:01
Yeah. Oh of me and I mean I I was blown away. 

Laurie Parente 27:07
Right. 

Rich Bennett 27:07
By you know, by everything that she got corrected. It's like. 

Laurie Parente 27:14
Right. 

Rich Bennett 27:14
Wow. But never an angelic medium. And to me, that it. 

Even the weird thing is and well, I don't know if it's weird. I mean, maybe just be comfortable. But with what you do because a lot of times when you just say medium people can be tense about that. About talking to a medium. 

Laurie Parente 27:36
Right. 

Rich Bennett 27:38
Angelic medium. I feel so comfortable talking with you. And it's weird. But I feel like I've known you for a long time. It's like you just put off this. I want to say like an aura. 

Laurie Parente 27:53
Right. 

Rich Bennett 27:54
That just makes people so relaxed. 

Laurie Parente 27:57
It's I think it's it's an easier way for people to be comfortable. If we look at you know, the major religions of the world, every single one has angels. Everyone has talked about angels. Everyone knows what angels are. It's part of our psyche. So when we meet somebody who's who's channeling that that angelic frequency, you know, people will say to me, people, I know you or I've I've seen you before or, you know, you feel like home because because we all have this that we have these great, wonderful protectors and guides with us. And when we see it, we feel it. We connect into it. We go, oh, that's I get it now. 

Rich Bennett 28:42
Alright, sir, Laurie, I'm gonna ask you something that nobody's probably asked you before. 

Laurie Parente 28:47
Oh, exciting. 

Rich Bennett 28:47
And there's a there's a view listening. If if you can't see this, but Laurie's got a beautiful painting behind her behind her. And she's got it looks like something else with heart with wings. Can you explain those? 

Laurie Parente 29:07
So the wings, this is the full, you can only I see a little bit of it. The wings were were gift from from a teacher. 

Rich Bennett 29:15
Oh, Nackens. Okay, I moved the button. I can see it all. Oh, yeah, it is pretty. 

Laurie Parente 29:18
And the painting, very interestingly, I had a student reach out to me and said, "My friend has painted a picture, and I think you need to see it." A portrait. And I went on Instagram and saw it and went, "Oh my gosh, that's me." This painting is me, because my spirit's name is Golden Heart, and it has this big heart aura. And then I see things through my third eye and has this, and when I see energy, it comes in almost like waves of confetti, spirals of confetti. And so I contacted the artist, and it was quite expensive and I said, "How would you like to be in my program and we'll do an exchange?" And she became a client, we, she's in Ontario, we weren't sure how it was going to get shipped, and then 

Rich Bennett 30:10
and 

Laurie Parente 30:11
it just happened that her friend's dad had a shipment coming of, "I don't know what," and it was coming to Calgary, and they asked if they could put it on the truck. And so I went to this industrial area of the city and went to pick this up, and this lady said, "I have never, we have never shipped a painting before, like they were shipping toilets or something, you know?" And just the whole way it worked out, and so now this is Golden Heart. 

Rich Bennett 30:34
That is, it is beautiful. It's amazing how things work out. 

Laurie Parente 30:37
Yeah, and so this artist taps into people's spirit and paints them. 

Rich Bennett 30:45
But she painted this before she knew 

Laurie Parente 30:46
you? Yes. Yeah, she just had a dream, it came to her, she painted it, and then, yeah, it's 

Rich Bennett 30:53
gross. 

Laurie Parente 30:53
pretty 

Rich Bennett 30:53
That is so wild. Wow. 

Laurie Parente 30:57
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 30:59
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Laurie Parente 32:32
You know, there's, I mean, there's been many instances 

Rich Bennett 32:34
out? 

Laurie Parente 32:34
of healings. 

Rich Bennett 32:34
Right. 

Laurie Parente 32:34
The one that sticks out for me the most is a woman that was almost in her 70s, and she had headaches her whole life. And she'd been to every doctor, done everything, and she was just on medication, and she woke up every day, and took a pill and dealt with this headache. And we were in a, you know, shamanic journey, and we were talking about letting go of those feelings of unworthiness, and it got a little bit deeper than that. And then she messaged me two days later, and she said, I just realized, I don't have a headache. 

Rich Bennett 33:08
Wow. 

Laurie Parente 33:09
Right. And so it's always so amazing to me when we have something that's just part of our story. Like, I have headaches. That's life. Here we go. I'm going to have a headache. I'm going to wake up and take a pill. And that's my life. And then there is an opportunity to shift those stories. We don't have to hold on to those stories always. So that, you know, healings like that are always kind of blow my mind. But the thing that I think I love the most when I watch people connect to their people. When I teach them 

Rich Bennett 33:38
is 

Laurie Parente 33:38
how to connect, especially if they're trying to connect with somebody that they didn't have a great relationship with and there's there's things to work out. And that first time that they connect and I can see it on their face and they start to cry and I can feel it in their energy opens up because they are connecting to their person. And now I know that that portal is open and they will continue with their relationship. And when you do that, it changes your grief, right? It changes your life. It changes how you perceive life. It's a game changer. 

Rich Bennett 34:17
With, because everybody's different, but do you ever run in? Well, I guess you want to run into it because they want to come to you otherwise. But 

Laurie Parente 34:28
only on Facebook. 

When people set behind their, their computers on Facebook and, uh, 

Rich Bennett 34:37
Oh, 

Laurie Parente 34:37
we 

Rich Bennett 34:37
then keep 

Laurie Parente 34:37
leave, ask the comments, 

Rich Bennett 34:38
working 

Laurie Parente 34:38
those 

Rich Bennett 34:39
on. 

Laurie Parente 34:39
people, those the only ones, but I don't pay any attention. 

Rich Bennett 34:43
Uhm, how can connecting with our loved ones in spirit change our perspective on life? 

Laurie Parente 34:50
Yeah, so we were just, just, just, uh, touched on that a little bit. When you know that your relationships go on. 

And you know that, and this has to do with saying you know we're a grief illiterate society. When you can connect heart to heart, soul to soul, and then start to grow that relationship. All of a sudden, it changes your perspective on death. Because what is our biggest fear in life? What do we try to avoid? 

Dying, right? 

Uhm, so it changes your perspective on death, because you know, be on a shadow of a doubt, that you go on. And it changes how you see life, because now you're like, okay, this is not all there is. There's more to this, and I can really tap into my loved ones for wisdom, and joy, and, and help, and, and messages, that are really going to help me in this life here. 

Rich Bennett 35:40
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 35:41
And I find a lot of people when they get to that point, they will stop doing anything in their life that feels unaligned. And they will start pursuing the things that really bring them joy, that really light them up, that really open them up to that being authentic and who they are and who they came here to be. 

Rich Bennett 36:02
The other question I have for you, which I love this one, what advice do you have for someone who wishes to connect with their guardian angel or angels for guidance and support in their daily 

Laurie Parente 36:18
So on some level we all know our angels, whether 

Rich Bennett 36:21
life? 

Laurie Parente 36:21
we're conscious 

Rich Bennett 36:21
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 36:21
of it or not. And so it's for me, it's all about setting the intention about being grateful and tuning in, finding a way to calm your thoughts, and I know this is probably the biggest objection I hear. People will say, I tried to meditate and it didn't work. I couldn't stop my thoughts. And my guides, as I said, they're funny. They will say, um, you don't want to stop your thoughts because if you don't have any thoughts, you're dead. 

Rich Bennett 36:49
Oh, 

Laurie Parente 36:49
Okay, you know, if you're not thinking, you don't want to do that, you want to be here. And so it's not about stopping your thoughts. It's just about finding ways to calm your thoughts and move your energy down into your heart and setting the intention, you know my angel, I know you're here, I know that you're guiding me and loving me and helping me and supporting me. And I would like to get to know you and then just sitting and listening with your whole body, you know, what do you sense, what do you feel, what do you hear, what do you see. And it will start to, sometimes it takes a little bit of, of trust more with yourself for it to come 

Rich Bennett 37:24
right. 

Laurie Parente 37:24
through like I said, give it, give it a couple of weeks, do this every day, just for a couple of minutes, and then and you will start to get messages and you will start to get knowings. And everyone taps in differently. Some people will see clearly. Some people will hear. Some people will have sensations in their body or their hair on, you know, on their arms will stick up or, right, just notice what's going on in your physical body and then follow that. Oh, okay, so I see the arms are sticking up on, or the hairs are sticking up on my arms, that how you communicate with me. And just have a conversation with them, like you would with anyone else. 

Rich Bennett 38:04
I, Wow. 

Laurie Parente 38:07
right. 

Rich Bennett 38:08
That's the, you know, it's funny. You say that because one of the things I've been doing podcasts for 10 years, 

Laurie Parente 38:14
good for you. 

Rich Bennett 38:15
One of the things I would love to do and I know it's probably not possible. But then again, I don't want 

Laurie Parente 38:21
anything's possible. 

Rich Bennett 38:22
I was going to say nothing's possible. I would just love to be able to sit down like we're doing here and have a conversation with somebody whether it be an angel or a spirit. I just, 

Laurie Parente 38:36
right. So 

Rich Bennett 38:37
because there's so many questions, you know, that, 

Laurie Parente 38:40
right, 

Rich Bennett 38:40
I would have, but that they would also have. I'm sure, 

Laurie Parente 38:45
right. 

Rich Bennett 38:45
And in a way you get to do that. 

Laurie Parente 38:47
I do. What a magical life. You know, when you're trying to connect in with, with, with spirits. And I never want to put anybody on the spot. But are you up for it? 

Rich Bennett 39:00
Me? 

Laurie Parente 39:00
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 39:00
Oh, absolutely. Okay. I was not ready for this, but 

Laurie Parente 39:05
But 

Rich Bennett 39:05
hey. 

Laurie Parente 39:05
if you know, I always, so if you want to think of somebody that you'd like to connect with, and just start to bring them to mind, like what they look like, start to really, you know, even maybe see what they're wearing, what the color of their hair, just, whether you see it clearly or you just kind of like, okay, I know what they look like bringing them in. And what that does is that brings them close to you, because you're thinking of them and you're bringing them in. And then if you're able to just close your eyes, 

and just imagine with a big smile on your face that you're smiling them into your heart. You're taking them from your head into your heart because your heart is where you connect and just feel that they always say "smile me into your heart" and now feel their energetic hug and see where you feel sensations on your body from this person. 

So it's as simple as that. 

So I didn't ask you who connected to. I didn't I didn't need to know but you thought of somebody who smiled them into your heart and you felt them energetically and that opens up that communication. 

Rich Bennett 40:26
And I could feel the hands on... 

Laurie Parente 40:30
There you go. 

Rich Bennett 40:30
On my back. 

Laurie Parente 40:31
There you go. So whoever you tried to connect with because I you know now this is your opening. So anytime bring them to mind. Smile them into your heart. that movement from your head to your heart because we don't connect in our heads. We connect in our hearts. And then see you felt that that touch. That's that energetic hug and then you can go "okay I'm happy you're here. I'm glad you're here." Let's chat. So that is your opening. And see it doesn't have to be hard and I think in so many ways we've been taught it has to be hard but it's not hard. It's not hard. It's just different. 

Rich Bennett 41:09
And the the thing is too because you hear a lot of I believe and keep it the memories the good memories and I always look forward to going to bed at night because of those memories become dreams. And what you just had me do there and it it was with my older brother. I'm always seeing him and my parents in my dreams. 

Laurie Parente 41:36
Right. 

Rich Bennett 41:37
And it feels so good. The only one I haven't been able to channel in yet if that's the right term 

our daughter that we lost because she was still born. 

Laurie Parente 41:49
is 

Rich Bennett 41:49
I mean but I mean I I don't I'm gonna have to try that that you just 

Laurie Parente 41:57
yeah so 

Rich Bennett 41:58
I'm gonna have to try 

Laurie Parente 41:59
that. That's those dreams your people will come to you in your dreams and that's always so comforting and lovely and you have an opportunity to do that while you're awake as well. And that's that's pretty exciting. I do find that people have a harder time with children that they've lost just because it's so painful. It's so painful and that pain creates a bit of a resistance so take some time with that one. 

Rich Bennett 42:25
And the thing is because I'll be honest with you when I lost my older brother that was very painful to me because he was he was my best friend he was an idol. I always idolized him but there is I can't tell you how many times him and even my and my mother I can smell them. 

Laurie Parente 42:48
Right. 

Rich Bennett 42:49
Like like they're here. 

Laurie Parente 42:50
So that's. 

Rich Bennett 42:51
So 

Laurie Parente 42:52
when I was talking about some people hear some people see 

Rich Bennett 42:55
yeah. 

Laurie Parente 42:55
some people smell. And that's that's a we call these inner sentence the Claire sentences so I'm a Claire 

Rich Bennett 43:02
Okay 

Laurie Parente 43:02
census so I know if you've heard of Claire audience Claire 

Rich Bennett 43:05
yeah 

Laurie Parente 43:05
yeah 

Rich Bennett 43:05
good 

Laurie Parente 43:05
so that's called Claire Alliance and it's a type of of a way that you sense so when you sense them around and you smell something our tendency is to go oh I know they're here because I smell them and then not go any deeper and I always encourage people I say go 

Rich Bennett 43:20
deeper 

Laurie Parente 43:20
deeper they're here 

Rich Bennett 43:22
talk 

Laurie Parente 43:22
for 

Rich Bennett 43:22
to 

Laurie Parente 43:22
a reason like okay I know you're here why are you here do you have something to share with me like go deeper and then just get quiet and again I imagine that energy down to your heart where you'll connect and listen for answers 

Rich Bennett 43:39
and that we're talking about that part what's something that you wish more people would understand about healing mediumship or even the spiritual journey or all three 

Laurie Parente 43:54
well how long have you got oh my gosh that's 

Rich Bennett 43:56
good 

Laurie Parente 43:56
that's a big question 

Rich Bennett 43:58
I don't have anything else scheduled for the rest of the day until this evening 

Laurie Parente 44:04
You know, I think we were taught that there's five senses, but we have these outer senses and we also have these inner senses. And I wish people understood that they're just as natural as our outer senses, if not more natural, that our intuitive senses, our inner senses, our clear senses, whatever you want to call them, are meant to help us to guide us in this life, to help us stay on track with whatever we've decided to come here to do. And once if I think if we were all taught when we were little to hold on to those senses, the world would be a completely different place, and we wouldn't have these healing journeys that are some trauma happened when you're four, and you're figuring it out when you're 72, you know, we would we would figure it out when you're four. And so I wish people knew that this was just a natural part of life. 

Rich Bennett 44:58
Yeah, 

Laurie Parente 44:59
yeah. Sorry about my dog. 

Rich Bennett 45:01
Oh, no, that's all right. 

Laurie Parente 45:03
Life. 

Rich Bennett 45:04
I wish I had a dog still. The, no, but I mean, 

I don't know why a lot of people are just afraid to, I don't want to say open up. 

Laurie Parente 45:18
we've been taught that it's that it's the dark arts that it's something that we should fear that it's something that you know, and I mean, even, you know, not long ago, people were being burned for talking like things about this. 

Rich Bennett 45:30
Well, 

Laurie Parente 45:30
So, so there's a lot of what we call the witch wound. There's a lot of fear. And when you keep people in fear, not to, you know, go down this lane too much, but it's easier to control them, right? 

Rich Bennett 45:44
Look at the news. 

Laurie Parente 45:45
Yeah, I don't watch the news, 

Rich Bennett 45:48
but it neither 

Laurie Parente 45:50
neither do I right 

Rich Bennett 45:50
or do I, 

Laurie Parente 45:51
but when you teach people that they have an inner power, an inner way to navigate life, then you can no longer control them with, you know, whatever you're trying to sell them. So I wish people knew how powerful they truly and how much agency they can have in their own lives. 

Rich Bennett 46:14
I tell you one thing, I cannot wait to talk to my daughter tonight. go. 

Laurie Parente 46:18
There you 

Rich Bennett 46:18
Not my, not, I mean, well, my other daughter, I talked to her all the time, but the one to pass. 

Laurie Parente 46:24
Right? 

Rich Bennett 46:25
I'm serious, I just, because I never tried that, but, or, would you have me try, I've never tried that before, and it just seems so easy. 

Laurie Parente 46:34
Right. 

Rich Bennett 46:34
and 

Laurie Parente 46:35
It's, 

Rich Bennett 46:35
I think maybe that's why I've never been able to, 

Laurie Parente 46:39
Yeah. We overthink it, right? And there's 

Rich Bennett 46:41
yeah. 

Laurie Parente 46:41
all these methods and there's all these ways. And that actually came through me. I had a friend who, who lost a child to suicide. And so there was so much pain and so much resistance. And she just wanted to connect with her so badly, and, and my angel said, make it simple. Smile her into heart and, and she just went, whoa, and she connected with her right away. And so when we take away all the fear and we take away all the resistance and we kind of, sometimes we have to say, okay, if I could get beyond this pain of losing them just for a second and, and try this method to connect and trust that it will work, then it starts to lessen that pain. I mean, we're always going to miss them. We're always going 

Rich Bennett 47:26
to. Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 47:27
Yeah. To wish they were here. And honestly, what's coming through me right now, and I've seen this before with, with stillbirths is they often come to teach us about grief and grief is love. Right. When you get right down to it, grief is love. And so it opens our hearts to a, to a deeper love. So then the children that come next or, or that came before, they, they benefit that deeper, open hearted love. 

Rich Bennett 47:56
Oh, 

wow. You know, and the thing is when we lost her at the time, my side of the family, there was a lot of heat going on. My, I think my parents were actually divorced at that time, living down a, and they came up here and it brought everybody back together. 

Laurie Parente 48:19
Right. 

Rich Bennett 48:20
Again. And my other daughter wasn't born yet. 

Laurie Parente 48:23
Right. But 

Rich Bennett 48:26
my, my daughter has, it's like 

Laurie Parente 48:30
she's connected to her though. 

Rich Bennett 48:32
And with, yes. 

Laurie Parente 48:32
Connected to her. Yeah. She's been talking to her since she was little. 

Rich Bennett 48:36
Yes. 

Laurie Parente 48:36
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 48:36
Yeah. And I say, Laurie. 

Laurie Parente 48:40
Now I'm opening up. We're in trouble now, Ridge. 

Rich Bennett 48:42
No, don't live, don't live for me about this. But so, so my, my daughter, somebody bought her a, a doll, a stuffed doll or whatever. Um, which is wearing like a nice looking Irish dress and the dolls got right here. Just like, well, the daughter lost it. And my current daughter does as well, current daughter. But whenever her, my wife go away, I'm miserable. I hate being at home by myself with Alton. So my daughter will always give me her and she even named it Maggie. 

Laurie Parente 49:18
Yeah, it's not you. Right. 

Rich Bennett 49:18
Give me her Maggie, does she guys you got to put her in bed with you and it helps me. 

Laurie Parente 49:24
It helps you sleep and helps you 

Rich Bennett 49:25
Yes. 

Laurie Parente 49:25
be with her. So, uh, interesting to see you'll have to let me know how it goes connecting with her because, uh, what's coming through me now is that, you know, there's an opportunity for you to get more comfortable being alone, being just 

Rich Bennett 49:41
Mm 

Laurie Parente 49:41
with 

Rich Bennett 49:41
hmm. 

Laurie Parente 49:42
you and that she's there to help you to to figure that out. 

Rich Bennett 49:46
Oh, she definitely does and it's because I'll sit there and when I like, I'm hugging her like a baby almost like a little kid doesn't teddy bear. 

Laurie Parente 49:58
Right. And so you've got that, uh, you know, that, that need to wanted to be the dad to that child 

Rich Bennett 50:06
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 50:06
that you never had the opportunity in, in this life, but she's, she's here. She's present. And so that's kind of filling that, that void a little bit if you want to call it that. 

Rich Bennett 50:16
Wow. All right. So when's the book coming 

Laurie Parente 50:19
out? You know, that's like, here's a third person who's asked me this. And I say, you know, if I could, if I could get a publisher and help me to work with it, maybe I need to put that out to my angels. How to figure that out, then, you know, I'd love to write a book. 

Rich Bennett 50:36
Publish it yourself, self-publish 

Laurie Parente 50:39
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 50:39
everybody. 

Laurie Parente 50:40
I mean, I've read a lot of books that are self-published and, and talk to people and I would want 

Rich Bennett 50:48
see 

Laurie Parente 50:48
to 

Rich Bennett 50:48
editing 

Laurie Parente 50:49
It's 

Rich Bennett 50:49
process. 

Laurie Parente 50:49
the editing, right? And so a lot of the public, I don't know, I'm a voracious reader and I don't know if you've noticed this lately, but now it's like, I can tell when a book's been edited by AI, you can feel 

Rich Bennett 51:01
Yup. 

Laurie Parente 51:01
it. And there's mistakes that AI can't quite catch and you think, okay, so someone wrote this, ran it through AI and then published it. And I would rather work with someone human. 

Rich Bennett 51:14
Oh, yeah, real editor with that. And there are a lot of, because I talk to authors all the time. And the worst thing you want to do is edit it yourself. 

Laurie Parente 51:26
Yeah, you need somebody to work with for 

Rich Bennett 51:29
sure. Yeah, I mean, 

Laurie Parente 51:31
you get too close to the material. 

Rich Bennett 51:34
do. You do. It can be hard. 

Laurie Parente 51:36
You 

Rich Bennett 51:36
Just, you know, just like doing this. So before I get to my last question, is there anything you would like to add besides your website and how people can get in touch with you, and of course, you also have to share all the services that you offer. 

Laurie Parente 51:51
So when I first started this work, my angels were just said, keep things simple because you never know where things will go. So my website is loryprante.com. And I'm on Instagram at loryprante, you know, so and my YouTube, which is just kind of a fledgling little channels at loryprante. I put out some guided messages on there. 

I do I always say if anybody's interested in working with me, come to a Thursday morning meditation. You can come live or you can listen to the replay every Thursday morning, nine am mountain. I offer a 30 minute meditation. It's, yeah, for the price of a coffee, come and come and meditate with me. We'll go on a journey. We'll talk about whatever's coming up in the collective. And you'll know how it feels to work with me. And if you want to go further than after that, I offer one on one sessions and I also after like a 12 week one on one container. 

Rich Bennett 52:48
Alright, so this is not my last question, but when it comes to meditation, I love meditating. Where's your favorite place to meditate? 

Laurie Parente 52:57
Outside. 

Rich Bennett 52:58
Uh-huh. 

Laurie Parente 52:59
When the weather's nice, I have a meditation bench. Um, and then I have a chair in my room right across that that I meditate in when it's not nice. But outside for sure. 

Rich Bennett 53:12
Yeah, I'm the same way. And matter of fact, I plan on I can't tell my wife this because she'll probably tell me I'm not, I'm putting a hummingbird garden out there for her. And then one of the other things I want to do is a meditation garden. 

Laurie Parente 53:25
Beautiful. 

Rich Bennett 53:26
Just because there's nothing. When you meditate out in nature. 

To me it's the best meditation 

Laurie Parente 53:34
Because 

Rich Bennett 53:34
now. you're it's not I don't need 

Laurie Parente 53:38
And 

Rich Bennett 53:38
to. 

Laurie Parente 53:38
hummingbirds hummingbirds are our spirit for sure. If you've ever spent time with a hummingbird, you know that they are not of this world. 

Rich Bennett 53:46
I tell you, all right. So you I've told this story before, but you're going to love this. Have you ever seen a hummingbird moth? 

Laurie Parente 53:53
No. 

Rich Bennett 53:54
Okay, so it's a, you look at a hummingbird moth. It's looks like a like a miniature hummingbird, but it's got like wings almost like a moth or a butterfly. 

Laurie Parente 54:07
Okay. 

Rich Bennett 54:08
And we have this butterfly bush out back, and it only looks like a bumblebee, but with the long beak. And I'm looking at the butterfly bush, I'm gonna say, "Is that a bumblebee?" So, I got closer and I'm looking at, I was like, "Oh, that's a butterfly moth." 

Laurie Parente 54:24
Wow, 

Rich Bennett 54:24
and it allowed me to Pettit. 

Laurie Parente 54:28
How did that feel? Pettit was really soft, 

Rich Bennett 54:31
It, in all honesty, I don't know I don't remember, because I was just so shocked that it allowed me to Pettit, 

Laurie Parente 54:39
right? 

Rich Bennett 54:40
and it's just we, you know, we, when you become one with nature, 

Laurie Parente 54:46
uh-huh. 

Rich Bennett 54:46
A lot of times, you just mislead, like last year, we had a ton of monarch butterflies on that bush. And monarch butterflies have no problem getting on you and walking on 

Laurie Parente 54:57
Right. 

Rich Bennett 54:57
you, but I've never really sensed them how it felt, I'm 

Laurie Parente 55:01
so 

Rich Bennett 55:01
gonna, 

Laurie Parente 55:01
this is, this is one of those instances where I say go deeper. 

Rich Bennett 55:05
Oh, I'm 

Laurie Parente 55:06
if, 

Rich Bennett 55:06
going, 

Laurie Parente 55:06
if a butterfly is going to land on you, it's not just, "Oh, look, there's a pretty butterfly and it landed on me. There's a reason that it landed on you and there's a message there for you for sure." 

Rich Bennett 55:15
"Oh, I don't have to do that. Yeah, maybe, 

Laurie Parente 55:17
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 55:17
maybe I can get the hummingbirds. Well, the hummingbirds don't

yeah, they do land." 

Laurie Parente 55:21
They do just, you know. 

Rich Bennett 55:23
The perch. I'll have to put somehow another build a perch and put it on my shoulder or something. All right, son Lorry. I'm, I do something different now when it comes to the last question, and I've had a couple guests on and the question that they picked somehow another aligned with what we were talking about. 

Laurie Parente 55:43
Of course. 

Rich Bennett 55:44
So, so I have, I have 50 questions and I have no idea what's what. So pick a number between one and 50. 

Laurie Parente 55:55
23. 

Rich Bennett 55:57
23. 23. That's my daughter's age, you two. 

Okay, it's actually a good question. What's a part of yourself that you're still exploring or trying to understand? 

That's a deep question. 

Laurie Parente 56:20
That's maybe going to take just a little minute. 

You know what? I don't know if I can answer that. I'm trying to think if there's a part of me that I'm still exploring, it might be more to do with, you know, I'm always looking to, to deepen we have four children and I'm always looking for ways to deepen our relationships like every day. How can I deepen this more? How can we go deeper? So I would say that's probably going to be a lifelong exploration as a mom. 

Rich Bennett 56:59
That's, and that's always changing too. 

Laurie Parente 57:02
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 57:02
Because then 

Laurie Parente 57:02
Always. 

Rich Bennett 57:03
next thing you know, there'll be grandkids, 

Laurie Parente 57:05
then 

Rich Bennett 57:07
oh yeah, there's, and kids nowadays, it's kind of hard to figure out what they want to do. 

Laurie Parente 57:13
Right. And if I can share something really quick, because things will, I'll be impressed with certain things is that my daughter is now, she's 22 and she spent four and a half months solo backpacking through Southeast Asia between her bags. 

Rich Bennett 57:28
Wow! 

Laurie Parente 57:29
Masters. And at first of course, she's our youngest. I was very, you know, worried tracking her location, you know, doing the whole mom thing. And my guides came in and they showed me that as parents, it's a very difficult thing to do, but they showed me, but what worrying about her was doing to her energetic field, how it was kind of collapsing her and making her feel less confident in her choices, because I was constantly sending worry. And so they showed me the difference between that and between sending like, you know, you've got this. You're doing a great job. I believe in you. I trust you. I think this is going to be wonderful for you. And they showed me the image of her just standing up straight and her aura opening up and she just became this light. And I knew from that point she would make beautiful choices. 

Rich Bennett 58:24
Wow. Sending those positive vibes to her. 

Laurie Parente 58:27
Right. Instead of the worry was really diminishing her 

Rich Bennett 58:31
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 58:31
and her trip could have totally gone a different way. 

Rich Bennett 58:35
You know what? That's something I think parents need to do. 

Laurie Parente 58:38
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 58:39
We were too quick to criticize our children or anybody in general, or especially when it comes to anxiety and depression, tell them or they got to get over it, they got to try this, they got to try to everybody's different. 

Laurie Parente 58:54
Right. You 

Rich Bennett 58:56
just build the encouragement out 

Laurie Parente 58:58
I believe 

Rich Bennett 58:59
of 

Laurie Parente 58:59
you 

Rich Bennett 58:59
the positive. 

Laurie Parente 58:59
have the tools to work through this and I'm here to walk beside you. And I'm not saying it was easy to stop worrying about her. But they gave me such a concrete image that whenever I did, I was able to go, OK, no, we're not going there. Right. 

Rich Bennett 59:14
Yeah. 

Laurie Parente 59:15
So I think we've been taught, you know, you're a parent, you're going to worry for the rest of your life, and we need to change that dynamic. That story. 

Rich Bennett 59:22
Yeah. I love that. 

Laurie Parente 59:24
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 59:24
Well, Larry, I want to thank you so much. If you ever want to get rid of that painting, I can tell you the address to sit. No, I'm joking. 

Laurie Parente 59:31
I can. Yeah, the name of the artist if you want to get one done for yourself. 

Rich Bennett 59:36
That could be interesting. 

Laurie Parente 59:38
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 59:38
Yeah. She. Yeah, I'll do that. That could actually I would love love to get the artist on as well. I love talking to different artists. 

Laurie Parente 59:45
She's fantastic. 

Rich Bennett 59:47
And she's out of you say Calgary or Ontario 

Laurie Parente 59:50
Ontario. So she's in Niagara Falls. 

Rich Bennett 59:56
Okay, that means my wife will say, Oh, good. We can finally make a trip up there since you never been there. 

Laurie, thanks so much. It's been an honor. 

Laurie Parente 1:00:06
You're so welcome. I'm so grateful for the time we've shared your great questions and it's been fun. 

Rich Bennett 1:00:11
Thanks. 

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