Hey everyone welcome to fun therapy with Mike Foster.

Where we learn how our setbacks can become our superpowers, and honesty

is always the best policy. I love the story of Elizabeth Henson and I share it often when I'm speaking

around the country and it's a it's a beautiful story of really what we're doing here on the fun therapy

podcast in this season.

It's a story of Elizabeth Henson going to do some spring cleaning and she goes into her closets and she finds this old

yucky green felt jacket stinks it's out of fashion, it has holes in it. And so she pulls it out of her closet and she takes it into the garage and she throws it into the trash can. But before she could throw it into the trash can but before she could throw it into the trash can and

discarded her son stops her and says hey mom can I have that green jacket

Elizabeth Henson looks at her son and says,

I guess, I'm not sure what you're going to do with this.

This thing is gross.

This jacket is old.

It's out of fashion.

It stinks. It has holes in it. It has no value.

But her son wants it. And so Elizabeth Henson gives her son this old green fuzzy jacket and her son takes it into his workshop.

And he gets out a pair of scissors and he begins to cut out this little frog body.

And he gets a ping pong ball and he cuts the ping pong ball in half to create two eyeballs.

And Elizabeth Henson's son was named Jim, and Jim Henson was making the very first

Kermit the frog that old green jacket.

That's what we're talking about. It's not that the pain and the trauma and the loss and the betrayal,

the bitterness and the anger and the crappy families that we may have grown up in.

It's not that the addictions or the affairs or the divorces or the the things that we have struggled through

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