Lesson 12: Simplify

This season has been raw and real — filled with anger, confusion, trust, and even the violation of trust. Every lesson shared has been a look inside the forge, where memories and experiences are refined into clarity and strength. But behind every story, there’s also the challenge of reliving it.

In “Simplify,” The Timesmith brings it all together. He shares how dysfunction can be lived through, how numbness can be unlearned, and how peace can be found in the midst of chaos. More importantly, this episode is a reminder that brokenness doesn’t have the final word.

If you’ve followed along this far, thank you. Season 1 may be complete, but the journey of healing and clarity continues.

Remember:
 ✨ If you feel unloved, you are loved.
 ✨ If you feel lost, you can be found.

Welcome to the end of one season — and the foundation of what is next.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Have you ever been lost in your thoughts? Randomness? A thought pops into your head and you don't know where it came from. Many times it's your past. things that have happened that have not let you go. Why have they held on? Let's talk about that. Hi, I'm the Timesmith and welcome back. Thank you for joining me on my first season of Completing this season has been a little bit difficult. Trying to come up with an idea and actually seeing in what direction I want to head into just to finish. But for me, there's a lot to digest. Every episode is filled with memories and thoughts, how I handled it and what it did to me. Reliving some of it as I try to explain it is the challenge. I'm not entirely sure what it's done for you or what it's done to you. All I know is that living it has been a challenge. Explaining something over the course of 10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes for your listening ear is a whole lot different than when you live it. Explaining something in 15 minutes was also me living it over the course of years. I've tried very hard to explain it to simplify it that you may understand. Respectfully, I hope you understand that it's been a challenge to live it. That's what I love about reading. Sometimes when we read history, we could read a chapter that we can consume the words on the page over the course of maybe 30 minutes, 20 minutes, well, a short period of time. But also, we understand that those words on the page took years to complete, simplifying it. That's what today is. Let's simplify what I've been trying to explain over the course of the first 11 lessons. So if you're ready, let's step into the forge. We don't need to go down today. I just want to take in what this space is. I've explained to you the layout and without me even saying what's in here, I hope you can still visualize it. I always do. Many times I go around and I don't touch anything. The way it is, I leave it. I don't make any adjustments. I've already made the adjustments. I've taken years to place everything where it's at. And in sharing, sometimes things do get moved. And that causes a change in your life. That's caused a change in my life. Well, in order to explain better, I don't need to change anything. It's up to you to see it the way I show it. None of this is pretty. None of this is glamorous. And it's all been very hurtful. The anger, the confusion, the trust even in people, and the violation of trust. When we open ourselves up, better yet, when I've opened myself up, it comes at a cost. And the cost here is my sanity. I love to share because I care about people. But I also understand that it takes a bit of myself that's reserved for me and my peace in order to help. The good thing is, is that I don't need to stay empty. And neither do you. If you've questioned where my belief systems come from, and you might not entirely know, is yes, I am a Christian. Yes, I am a believer. And a lot of it has come from that. Believing that we can obtain peace, that we can have love, that we can be nurtured and embraced. Those are the things that we long for. In the midst of chaos, are you okay? In the most exciting moments, can you bring yourself down and find the balance? Well, as I've explained in the beginning, this place was a mess. And everywhere I walked, I would trip. I would trip on memories. And everything had a space. Everything had a reason. Everything was a circumstance. And most of it was unresolved. Functioning in your dysfunction was something that I learned. I always use the example of a child. I've seen children who break their legs when they're young or an appendage, but mainly the leg. And I see when they go through growth spurts, I've seen that leg stay short. I've seen them recover. And sometimes they recover with a limp, but that limp won't stop that child from running. There's still a dysfunction. And I'm not picking on children with disabilities. It's just something that I've seen. And even for those I hope that they find full healing. But it's functioning in a dysfunction. And the mind can be the same way. You can have a brokenness in your mind. I think that's what we see when people fabricate responses. It's not genuine. What we also see is in hard moments where people don't cry. In funny moments, people don't laugh. In blissful moments, they don't even smile. Or they become numb. I was numb. I couldn't respond. It was trained. I felt like I told myself, laugh now, because that was funny. Be sad now, because that was mournful. Well, you get the idea. Do you? Do you really understand? Do you understand that brokenness can transform a life? Do you understand how difficult it is to live a life that way? And that having to produce a mind and establish clarity and genuineness is at the forefront. There was nothing more for me to do than to organize my life. In order to organize my life, I had to understand it. And in order to understand it, I had to simplify it. If you look around, the counter, the stairs, elevator, even doors that lead up, upwards. A staircase that leads up. to better things and to this point I've only explained things that are down and dark the sad reality is that that's what most of my life is a place of thinking a place of overcoming darkness an evil that has gone through my whole body and I've spent over 40 years trying to get rid of it Now let me ask you, in your full consciousness, how long have you worked on it? Have you tried to get away from it? Have you tried to really understand it? Do you understand fully what happened? Well, I do hope that you're doing better today. And today's episode doesn't need to be long, other than that I'm still thinking about what I need to do to keep pushing this podcast forward, for you and for me. Simplify it. Simplify the things that are happening around you. Simplify the things that are happening within you. If you feel in love, you are loved. And if you're lost, you can be found. I am the Timesmith. This concludes Season 1.