283. How Glennon Transforms Sadness into Power

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Glennon, Abby, and Amanda respond to a listener’s question about how to find yourself when you’re at your lowest – diving into how to embrace and move through sadness, the gifts of the low times, and what they tell us about our future selves. Discover: Why feeling anything depends on an understanding of its opposite; The true colors of sadness; Why Abby has come to believe that sadness is “kind of cool,”& how she’s navigating her current grief; How to find joy and love yourself the most through a time of sadness; and Why sadness is an open floor plan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to We can do hard things.
0:10.0	Abby's already mocking. Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:15.3	Abby's already mocking me.
0:17.2	Did you want to say something? Are you just going to sit there and pretend like you're me
0:20.1	and make faces?
0:21.9	And I love you so much.
0:25.0	Are you feeling a little spicy today?
0:28.0	I think a little bit, yeah.
0:29.0	Okay.
0:30.0	A little chippy today?
0:31.0	Yeah, I'm feeling a little chippy.
0:33.0	Oh, God, help me.
0:35.0	So you guys only get this for an hour, but I have it for the rest of the day.
0:38.0	You love it.
0:39.0	All right, here's what we're doing.
0:41.0	This is gonna be interesting. You know what? Let's just kick it up. Let's hear from Allison.
0:47.6	Hi, Glenn and sister and Abbey. My name is Allison and here is my hard thing. The thing that I want us to discuss as a community,
1:00.0	something that I feel is missing in the mental health sphere is how do you love the darkest,
1:08.0	status version of yourself?
1:11.0	The state that I'm currently in is there's a lot of really
1:14.8	wonderful moments but they're broken up by like the lowest feelings I
1:20.1	think I've ever had and for the very first time I'm struggling to love myself. I just don't see any part of myself when I'm that low or that bad. I just don't know what to do. So if we could touch on that and if there's anything
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