Hello, my beautiful bins and welcome to today's episode. This episode is talking about pain and

discomfort and how you can use that in your life. I'm talking about big pain like heartbreak and

breakdowns of relationships and, you know, loss and, you know, big, big, bad things that can happen in

your life, pain, and also discomfort,

like the things that you really avoid because they're not remotely enjoyable, so you end up

avoiding them for years and years and years when you've been telling yourself that you want

to do something. So I'm talking about both those things, how using that feeling and that

experience of pain and discomfort, how you approach that and what you do with

that can shape and will shape your life. Okay? All of us right now, every single one of us,

maybe with the exception of 0.001 is going through something, whether it's big or small,

whether you're going through something where you've noticed, oh, I just can never get out of bed at 6am or whether you're going through this horrible pain

of the breakdown of a family or a divorce or a terrible heartbreak. We are all dealing with something.

It could be a total failure in your career. It could be being fired. There's always something

that we are tackling in our lives. And I want this episode to show you that that is not something

to be avoided. And we are so primed to avoid pain and to avoid discomfort. And I'm going to explain to

you why we do that and what that is all about.

But we are so primed to avoid that we think because we're so used to avoiding it,

oh, stay away from that, oh, don't experience that, keep my walls up, protect myself from

that.

If I'm feeling it, quickly distract myself.

We think that that's the

way to go. And because we keep telling ourselves that, we avoid it even more. And when you avoid

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