The Gentle Art of Letting Go

Letting go of the things that have hurt us isn't easy.  However it's necessary to live a beautiful and amazing life.  Letting go of the past is the only way to move forward. But how? Let's talk about the gentle are of letting go

Transcript:

Hello, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast Working on Amazing.

This is the podcast where we talk about the work that it takes to rebuild an amazing life.

And I am using that word rebuild specifically, because we're designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

Now, I believe several things can lead you to the point where it feels like you're starting over.

For me, it was divorce after a 20-year marriage.

For my sister, it was the very unexpected death of her spouse.

And for you, it's probably something totally different.

I think commonality is when all your hopes and dreams for the future, your plan for your life has totally gone up in smoke.

The rug has been pulled out from under your feet.

Your day-to-day life looks completely different than what it used to.

And it does.

It feels like you're starting over.

And that is a very overwhelming and itchy feeling.

So if that's you, I just want to say, I'm sorry.

I know what that feels like, and I know it doesn't feel good.

But I'm here to tell you, there is hope.

It gets better.

So many women have gone through this midlife curveball and come out on the other side better for it.

I promise you, promise you, it gets better.

And we're going to talk about how to do that.

OK, you are not alone.

You're actually in the right place.

So welcome, welcome.

I'm so glad that you're here.

Now, if you remember in the beginning, I said I focused on five areas when I rebuilt my life.

I focused on my spiritual health, my mental health, my physical health, my financial health and growth and goals.

And I said each episode would fall under one of those categories.

And some days, sometimes they might overlap a little bit.

I feel like today's episode actually touches all five categories.

It really does.

And today, we're going to talk about the Gentle Art of Letting Go.

Okay?

And that sounds so whatever, but let's break it down.

So when you've gone through a really difficult thing in your life, whatever has happened that makes you feel like you've got to start over, you probably have a lot of emotion about that.

That's very common.

That's natural.

I'm not here to guilt trip you for being emotional or upset or angry.

That's a very natural response.

I think I've said before, I was angry for a few years.

Like it took me a while.

Okay?

But when we realize that holding on to all this negative emotion is really bad for us, we have to make the conscious choice to start letting it go.

So for our spiritual health, it's not good for us.

I mean, the Bible talks about how we don't need to hold on to bitterness, and forgiveness is what, you know, God wants for us.

And we see these things, blessings and curses, life and death, choose life, and you got to let go of the negativity.

Spiritually, it's there.

Mental health, oh my word, it affects your mental health so bad to get sideways in your own head over things that have happened to you, over something somebody's done, or something that was beyond your control, that just feels so wrong, so unfair, so unjust.

And when we get sideways in our head, it affects every area of our life, doesn't it?

So it really, really hinders our mental health, our physical health.

How many diseases, how many problems that we have with our physical h