Infinite Love with Kate
My self-healing journey, living with a facial difference and acknowledging I was drowning in my own darkness. Realizing everything I was doing in my past, wasn’t quite aligning with who I desired to be & feel, so I started changing the trajectory of my future by choosing to sit within & feel everything I was so scared to feel. I simply let go and surrendered to the process & trusted in myself & chose me!
Infinite Love with Kate
S5: Ep: 73 "What in the Shift Happened?"
Have you ever taken a road trip that turned into something far more mystical than you could have imagined? Join my sister and me as we recount our recent journey to Iowa, a trip that quickly turned into an adventure cloaked in mystery when an unexpected detour led us down an unfamiliar road. Despite having driven the route countless times, this diversion seemed to have a purpose of its own, guiding us through eerie small towns and ultimately to my brother's brewery in Dubuque. This experience left us pondering the significance of such unplanned moments and the hidden messages they might hold.
But the surprises didn't end there. Picture a massive airplane, frozen in the sky, defying the laws of physics—an unusual sight that sparked introspection and gratitude for life's unpredictable milestones. As December unfolds, we find joy in simple pleasures, like invigorating walks along the Mississippi River with four adventurous dogs, even as the bone-chilling winds try to deter us. Each day, filled with unexpected beauty and laughter, reminds us to cherish the moments we share and the adventures yet to come. Embrace the magic and mystery of the journey, and let's welcome the holiday season with open hearts and renewed spirits.
If you are ever in Dubuque, Iowa, feel free to stop by 7Hills Brew Pub, 11th St. Enjoy the ambience, amazing food and delicious craft beer!
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Welcome back to another episode of Infinite Love with Kate. Well, today's episode, well, the title is what in the Shift has Transpired and, honestly, it goes along with the title, because I'm not even sure my explanation of story time will do justice of the things not only myself but my sister experienced on our journey to and from Iowa over the weekend for the holidays. But before I begin, hello. I hope everyone is doing well. I hope that you've enjoyed family time or, if you're not, one to celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you just enjoyed time with yourself or with your family, giving thanks and gratitude for what you have in life. I know I did, extremely grateful for the opportunity to go see my brother and my sister-in-law and their beautiful children, along with my sister and her beautiful children and my parents. It was really, really nice. I'm even supporting the logo. My brother owns a brewery in Iowa Dubuque, iowa so I'll give a little shout out to Seven Hills Brew Pub. If you're ever in the area, go visit. Great food, great beverages, even though I don't drink, but I had them before way in the past and they're pretty tasty if you like craft beer or creative cocktails. But anyways, this isn't even the point of the story. So you ready for this? This is basically going to take you on a wild ride of spirituality and what in the shifts have transpired, because on our way back we even tried to figure it all out and we have no answers, none whatsoever. So here we go. I like how I said, here we go, I'm taking you along, so you're with me, buckle in, we're ready. So we're driving.
Speaker 1:It's a long journey, in my mind at least, to Iowa, and, to say the least, it's not exciting. In the beginning. Very same old, same old, same views, small towns, not much to look at, and then it gets a little bit windy. You go into the bluffs and I think I'm showing my age because I was getting a little queasy sometimes. Or maybe that's my sister's driving, we'll never know, but we were sharing our laughs. And then I was putzing around on my phone playing music. And then I was putzing around on my phone playing music, staring out the window, daydreaming, as always, or getting licked and attacked by my sister's adorable golden retrievers. But anyways, as we were driving, I had happened to look down for something and I hear my sister say when are we? Which is weird because we've driven this road 5,462 times. My brother has gone to university in Dubuque so we visited him over the years back and forth. Then he got married, he had children, opened the breweries, several.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, we know these roads, you don't get lost. You can't just leave a road. You'd have to truly make a huge stop off of a highway. Or in the beginning, when you're on Route 20, there's a few stoplights randomly and that allows you to, you know, exit and maybe hit up a restaurant or get a kiss, otherwise you are not getting off that small highway pretty fast. It's windy and there's no subtle, let's fear, to the right, you're off.
Speaker 1:So we're driving and driving, and then she says says that, she says where are we? And I thought, okay, well, maybe we would have gotten a detour closer to Galena when you get closer to Dubuque, but we were nowhere near this yet. I just in my head I'm thinking we've been on the road for a while, but we haven't been on the road that long, so of course she's like Google it. We didn't have my brother's new address yet and we kind of made a game out of it. I sent a message to my mom, my sister-in-law, my dad and my brother and then 45 minutes had gone by and I told her. I'm like who do you think is going to respond first? I'm like let's make a bet, but anyways, we figured well we can always put in the brewery address. So we did and there it pops up. We are on a small road parallel to the highway, about maybe 20 to 30 miles away from 20, which is what we were on With no explanation.
Speaker 1:Neither of us can explain how we just managed to kind of run further north, as if heading to Wisconsin instead. And we're just looking at each other. And I'm quiet now because in my mind my soul knew there was a shift, but my human self was like we need to solve this and you can't do both. But I was really really quiet and really determined to figure out the explanation. How do you explain the fact that she had looked down, looked up and noticed? I had looked down, hadn't even noticed yet, but until she said something where are we? Where have we just transmuted ourselves to? Where have we just shifted and placed ourselves? And why this road? And there were some small towns that felt a little energetically. I would say I was taking a bath. The vibes were very eerie, but there was purpose to these roads and I'm not sure what yet, at least it was for a reason. Well, anyway.
Speaker 1:So it took us kind of through Wisconsin all the way back and we got to cross the Mississippi River, ride over a small island in the middle of Mississippi, and then we were on 11th Street which, ironically, is straight there facing my brother's brewery. Normally if we come we come from another bridge and then you just have to pass the main road. You can see it off the main road, but this one took us straight past Seven Hills Brewery Pub, which was just cute in a way and like different, I don't know. I just I kind of smiled and giggled to myself because I was like what else can we do? I don't even understand what the purpose is quite yet, but there is a greater purpose and that's the key. Don't hold tightly on trying to figure it out. And I know that my little human self was like I'm going to solve this. Yeah, no, I sat there for a while and then, luckily, I got distracted by food there's always food. So we get to my brother's place and we explain to everyone, like, what happened and we're like huh, anyway.
Speaker 1:So the next two days were exciting. I mean, the kids had fun. They were all hanging out. I was exhausted. I snuggled next to my sister. It kind of felt like the Griswolds Christmas vacation. You know, we're all trying to find beds to sleep in, we're kind of taking over their kids' beds, and so my sister and I snuggled, but two golden retrievers laying on top of you is not what I call the best adventure. I mean, hey, we made the most of it. I had my other nephew, my older nephew, making fun of me. He's like TJ, you're snoring. I was like. I don't know if I was snoring or if I was just gasping for my breath because I had an 80-pound dog laying on top of me.
Speaker 1:But at some point I woke up and I sat up trying to shift and move my little, my body into a tight little spot where I could find maybe some reprieve, some comfort. And I, I guess I moved so fast that I had whacked my forehead off the bunk bed railing and I pretty much saw birds and fell right back asleep. I woke up the next morning telling my sister that I was like I don't care, it's 530 in the morning. I'm like I'm up, I'm going to. Woke up the next morning telling my sister that I was like I don't care, it's 530 in the morning, I'm like I'm up, I'm going to get up and I'm going to go stretch, because I literally just wanted my body to experience movement. So later on we end up going out to my brother's restaurant, the Burpub, and that was cute, the whole energy.
Speaker 1:I love the vibe. I've always loved the vibe of that place and I'm so proud of my brother and sister-in-law for what they do, the commitment, the love they pour back into the community. It's amazing. It's amazing to see how far my brother has come and I'm very proud of him for everything that he does for his community, for his family. Oh, but before I even go on to that, so my sister-in-law love her. We always tell my brother if we had to choose, it might be the sister-in-law that gets picked.
Speaker 1:Just saying she's pretty awesome, she works at a health spa, she does Reiki and she invited us for a foot cleansing. Okay, I don't know. I've never experienced this. In my mind I'm thinking, oh, is this where you put your feet in the little minnows you know, gravitate towards them? She's like no, but that's a cool experience. I said she's like no, you basically put your feet, you know, in a bucket of water and it pulls all your toxins out and you can see the colors as they change. I'm like, oh, that's pretty gross Totally. See the colors as they change. I'm like, oh, that's pretty gross Totally. I was like cleanse my root chakras please.
Speaker 1:So she kind of, you know, treats us to this little special occasion and my sister and I are just sitting there taking pictures as these stages are going by and I'm like I was pretty impressed. Mine didn't change color for a little bit and I look over at my sister's and it looked like an oil spill. So I looked at her and said, girl, you need some cleansing. But then mine, you know, turned toxic and I was just amazed, I, you know. And then I drank my little positivity and then she asked if we wanted the vitamin B shot. So we said, why not? I mean, we were kind of just spoiled thanks to her kindness and it was really cool to see where she worked I mean I'm talking Zen and we got to tour and we got upstairs to her little Reiki area Sound bowls and the glass windows and just overlooking this very small, what would you say?
Speaker 1:It's getting built progressively, so it's a tiny town, but you could tell it's growing. It was just the coolest thing, the scenery, I mean. Obviously I love being in this big city. However, put me in a smaller area, ever put me in a smaller area. Dense wood, give me the water, the trees I am sad, you don't need you know, I can survive anywhere. I just that's usually my vibe and, like I said, I mean I'm higher energy so I luckily I can handle the populated areas, but I do need my breaks. So this was pretty cool, pretty cool to be in that vibe. So, anyways, so we get back and then we go out to dinner and that was a lot of fun and my youngest, maxie, my nephew what a dick. This kid could be a comedian. I don't even know the things that come out of that little man's mouth and the dimples to go with it, like he could commit a crime, and I probably would still just want to give him a hug because he's so darn cute and he's just, he has so much to say about life and it's just so unique and profound, yet hilarious. So that's a big shout out, big shout out to the family this weekend.
Speaker 1:So here's where part two comes along with the shift, we're driving home and we are basically on a mission to figure out how this happened. So we've been on the road for a while and it almost seemed like we were going really fast. There was no traffic, nobody was headed that way, yet time was going really fast. There was no traffic, nobody was headed that way, yet time was going really slow. It usually takes about three hours, anywhere between three hours and three and a half hours, to get there. So I was on my phone, I had my earbuds, so I was, I had all the proper things with me.
Speaker 1:This time On the way there, I didn't have my earbuds, I didn't have my mask, so I was like all ready and set to. You know, take a nap if I needed to, or just put on my music, so I didn't have to listen, because I don't. If my sister had her radio on, I didn't want to interrupt it by having my phone on. So I like to be polite like that. So I had my earbuds in and I was listening to music, or, obviously, you know, jamming through the TikTok, depending on whether or not my Wi-Fi went to work throughout the bluffs, and we're driving and we're looking at each other and we're like this makes no sense how we were shifted. It makes no sense. There literally was absolutely no way. So we have the proof in the pudding that we definitely definitely were moved from one highway to another that ran parallel but ran north, and I, you know, in my mind I hear north node.
Speaker 1:So of course, you know, I'm on the TikTok side of things and I'm looking up these stories of other people that this has happened to, and the most recent ones were, you know, of a woman and then a guy who was shifted to his small town neighborhood that he, you know, he grew up in. He was crying while he was telling it because it made no sense where he was driving was nowhere near this small town that he grew up in, and then he just happened to look down, look up and poof. Same thing with a woman Look down, look up, poof. So it was just wild to me that this happened to us and luckily she was there and she and my sister was, and I was there for her to witness this, like it wasn't just one of us to then, you know, tell anyone like, hey, this happened, and be like oh, yeah, okay, where it's like, no, we both can't quite understand it. There's no explanation as to why this has happened. So, as we're driving and we're making all of these realizations, now we're getting closer to Rockford Illinois, if you know. You know that means that we are getting closer to going to another highway, you know, which means that we're halfway home.
Speaker 1:I always like to look at my destinations with little milestones of like markers, like, oh, this means we're here, or oh, this means we only have 20 minutes. That's just how I survive life. And all of a sudden, my sister points out there's a plane and that plane looks huge. And you know, of course I look up. And, by the way, I was struggling already because I am five foot, I am one of those amazing little people that sits in a car and when you're leaving at the wrong time and by wrong time I mean the sun rising, sun setting and you're stuck at that level, that high level of sunlight, direct sunlight in your eyes, where the visor does nothing. I literally threw on my hood and held it down because I was so sick of holding my hand up like this, and so, by that point, I had my hood on, I just looked silly and I'm looking down. And you know, she's like look up. And, of course, like I do it so quickly, I forget, like bam, I do it so quickly, I forget, like bam, sunlight in the eyes, so I finally see it. I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa, like this plane.
Speaker 1:It felt like when you're close to an airport I was just where was I? I'm trying to think of, like I think, LA, I think I've seen it in LA where if you stand in a certain spot you can watch planes, and I can't even think of where I was. I don't know why. I can't think of the name of the place, the island I was just at last year, but you basically could stand on the beach and watch this plane and they look. I mean like you could just touch it. Obviously not, but but that's how surreal it is, because you know you're further away and we didn't even realize there was an airport. So there was an airport in Rockford and I'm telling you again, in the 5,462 times that we've traveled back and forth to Iowa, we've never, ever, ever witnessed a plane. And if there was one, it was way up, that it was so small, but this was so big.
Speaker 1:So we're watching this plane coming at us because my sister says something weird like God, I hope they don't have to land on the highway, because it just didn't make sense, like, why are we seeing this plane coming at us? Why is it so freaking big? If I had 20-20, I probably could see in the window who was sitting in the planes, but I don't. So we both kind of she's driving and I don't know how she followed it, but we're both kind of like eyeballing it and looking to the right. And I look out the right side of my window and I'm like Erin before I can say anything because in my head I'm thinking did time just stop? Is that plane stuck in midair? Because I know we're moving, I know they're moving, we literally watched how fast they moved, they were flying and all of a sudden we're looking and it's not moving. Shit you not, it's not moving. And before I could even spit it out again, my sister's like is that plane stuck? And in my mind it's almost like someone pressed the remote control and paused that plane midair. And again now my mind is like okay, this is heavy. How are we both seeing this? How are we both witnessing this? I could not stop looking at that plane. It never moved until we finally got out of sight. Now, I've seen many planes while I'm driving and they still, they still move. While you're moving, they're moving. So make it make sense.
Speaker 1:Someone said something about the optical illusion. I said no, no, there's no optical illusion. There's can't. You can't tell me there's an illusion in that one, because I've I've stared at the sky long enough I've stared at, because I've I've stared at the sky long enough. I've stared at planes moving. I've stared at planes while I've been in moving objects trains, cars, boats. You see it, you see the movement, it makes sense and it feels right. This did not feel right because my mind could not make sense of it. It literally stopped. Big plane, big plane, just midair stopped and I just it's heading towards Iowa, we're heading towards Illinois, you know, and I just looked at my sister just some kind of energy moving out that way. I don't know what that is, but that's I don't know if it's a portal, I don't. I don't know what type of shift that was, I go, but it was meant to be. I go. The fact that you and I, together, shared the same energy, same energetic field of what the shift, as I like to call it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so these are my stories, I'm sticking to them and if you could tell me otherwise unless you have something greater to tell me, I would love to hear it. Please feel free to message me in here on YouTube or go to my platforms. There is a little button that says message. Leave a message. I would love I always love to hear people's feedback Good, bad, ugly, sad, all of it. I'm open for it, I'm open to receiving and I'm thankful. I'm thankful you're here to listen to this chaos of what I call the last couple days. But yeah, it's the first of the month, happy December 1st. I woke up feeling like a million bucks. However, I got a new pillow, and this pillow is, thanks to my sister-in-law, just allowing me to sleep face down again on my stomach. You can tell I'm healing because I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 1:It was like I've been wanting to get out, even though it's flippity-dippity cold out. I've been wanting to get out to walk, and especially after a big meal. You know, I mean that Thanksgiving meal was huge, or it's just. I don't have an off button and I love food. Could be that too. I guess Honability, fine. But I told my brother. I said can we go for a walk? He said sure, so we had dinner early, so it was still light out and I think the sun was setting. So we took his dog yeah, three dogs, three golden retrievers and he took me up and down. Well, not realizing this was like a hilly area. Luckily we weren't out too long, we were at the dog park, but it was very up and down incline and it did a good number on my surgical areas.
Speaker 1:I definitely felt it when I got back and I mean, I have the green light to go work out and I've been wanting to work out. Of course this is when the weather gets really crazy, but I've been desiring to just kind of get out and run. I haven't quite ran yet. I was happy enough to get out and do this walk and I got back and I actually had to have them stop twice because I was like oh, one, I'm out of breath. Two, that was a lot of food I ate. And three, definitely a feeling on my scar line. So we got back and I was grateful. I did a lot of stretching after that and then I was still hungry because, god forbid, I work out and walk off some of that weight I ate. So of course I was hungry. I'm a champion of food, just if you don't know. But if you do know, you're nodding your head, smiling and laughing at me because you're, you know, you know, you know.
Speaker 1:But so the next morning we all wanted to go for a walk, including my dad. My brother had taken my dad out. They went down earlier than we did, so we went. My brother's like do you want to go over a mile? Three miles. Now we knew that we had a busy day because we knew we were going to go get our feet detoxed and then we were going out to eat. Because we knew we were going to go get our feet detoxed and then we were going out to eat. And I also was, I think, the only person that looked up the weather and noticed that it was in the teens. So I was like, what mile sounds great. Everyone kind of looked like just a mile. Yeah, they were lucky because he took us to Mississippi River.
Speaker 1:Now in the fall or late spring, this would be stunning, the most beautiful walk. So it's just one narrow strip, long strip, a mile long that you walk, probably a half mile, half mile there, half mile back, and you just walk and you're surrounded by the river on both sides, but we were also surrounded by very intense winds and the cold from the Mississippi River. It was freezing. We had my dad oh, I forgot. So we had four dogs, so we had my dad's dog. That's my best friend and even she was looking at me like no, it's her dog, although I'm pretty sure she was ready to jump into that icy, virgin winter rip and my dad was like she's on her own. My sister and I look at each other like we would save you.
Speaker 1:But we also said it would be nice to put our feet in there. We didn't do it, don't worry, it's just because I didn't want to be. Really I was already frozen, I had no lips, and so we got to the end and it was really really pretty, just, and it was really really pretty, just the colors, the way the sun was reflecting, that's a really cool vibe. So then we got back and we did our whole foot cleansing, detoxing, vitamin B shot, and that's it. That's my last two days, the past two days. Honestly, all this in two days.
Speaker 1:It's been wild and I've loved it. And I love that it's December 1st and after this I get to start putting out my Christmas decorations, but I'm also going to go back to work tomorrow. It was nice having a whole week off, but I'm ready. I'm ready for, you know, the next couple weeks before we're on our next Christmas break and I just, I just love it. I love where life leads and it's funny Because I have no idea where it will take me, but I feel like Every day is a new blessing and I get to share it with all of you. So thank you For listening to this Wild and crazy what the shift has transpired episode. Love to all of you and have an amazing day, take care.