This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment,

empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I am your host Terry Cole.

I'm super psyched that you decided to hang out with me today. I'm going to be talking about

disappointment. What do we do when we have massive disappointments in our lives.

I've been getting a lot of emails from people talking about feeling like they get stuck

sort of in that disappointed, angry, sad place, or someone had written in talking about how one

disappointment seemed to sort of lead to other disappointments. So in this

episode I'm going to be talking about the six steps from a therapeutic point of view,

the things that you can do to sort of bounce back from disappointment while also integrating what you learned from the

disappointment. So much of the time we want it to be I'm disappointed because this person is an idiot, right?

I'm disappointed because, you know, the world is against me and this isn't happening in my favor.

And what I find in my own life and in my practice is that there is way more to it most of the time.

And so within these six steps, you will learn that honoring your feeling is super important but then we move

into how you can integrate it and learn what it is that you need to learn.

So let's just start with what is the first thing to do when you find yourself in this

experience of being severely disappointed in something a situation what you thought would happen, that didn't happen.

What is the first thing, now really think about it and be honest, I find the first thing for me

is I get angry. So I'm pissed. I'm angry and a lot of times because I'm too

healthy to sort of blame other people fully but I'll be angry at myself.

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