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We Can Do Hard Things

279. Amanda’s “Rebuilding Year” + Playfulness + Your Questions

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda answer your questions and attempt to do ‘easy’ things – sharing about their personal lives and on topics like parenthood, personal growth, and playfulness.  Discover:  Why Amanda’s declaring a “Rebuilding Year,” what it means, and whether you might want one too; Abby’s advice on how to unlock playfulness; Why trying to be ‘good’ is a waste of time and what to strive toward instead; and  What your preferred roller coaster seat reveals about your personality.

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0:00.0

Welcome to We can Do Hard Things.

0:13.0

Yes.

0:14.0

We are doing them.

0:15.0

Let's do a check-in.

0:17.0

Okay?

0:18.0

I want to know how my wife and my sister are doing.

0:22.0

Abby, I'm going to ask you first because what I keep hearing from people who listen to this

0:29.3

podcast and love us very much are these two words and those words I hear are more Abbey.

0:39.6

Get in line. All God's children want more Abbey.

0:43.0

Oh my gosh.

0:44.0

I know.

0:45.0

That's lovely that people want more of me.

0:48.0

I'm great.

0:49.0

Yeah, life is happening, our kids are doing wonderful. So much of my contentedness is is doing all the things that they want to be doing with their life.

1:03.0

What does okayness mean?

1:06.0

When you say you want the kids to be okay, what does that mean?

1:10.0

Well, I know that like, life is weird weird especially when you're going through teenage

1:14.8

hood and young adulthood and I think that the stresses and the courses of life that all

1:22.0

three of them are on.

1:23.4

I think happiness, striving towards happiness,

1:26.8

I don't believe in that.

1:28.0

I think striving towards embodiment

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