Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.

I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

If you are enjoying the podcast, we would so appreciate it if you would go and give us a review.

We love this recent review by Kim, who says, House of Joy, will have you deep thinking one moment and belly laughing the next.

Such a great podcast to listen to, especially if you're wanting to enhance your life with joy, purpose, and meaningful connection with others. Thank you so much for

that review. Thank you everybody for listening and for all the encouragement that you have sent

our way since we rebranded to House of Joy. All right, let's dive into today's episode. Today we are

talking all about painful sentences. We all have painful sentences

in our head that are causing us suffering, and we are going to dive into that today. Before we

do that, though, I wanted to thank you so much for all of your amazing feedback on our episode about God's

will.

That was episode 172.

You guys have sent us the sweetest encouragement and told us that on that episode, it really

helped you see things differently and that you really enjoyed listening to our take on being in God's will. What does that mean?

How complicated is it? Go listen to that episode if you haven't yet. So we are in a series on

finding emotional freedom, and this is part three. So if you haven't listened to the first two

parts, you definitely will enjoy those.

The first part was about emotional avoidance and the high cost of ignoring your life. The second

part, which was episode 171, is all about the powerful gift of negative emotions and what they do

for us. And today we are talking about the thoughts, beliefs, sentences that cause those negative

emotions, that cause so much of our suffering.

You have a sentence right now in your head that is causing you pain.

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