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We Can Do Hard Things

283. How Glennon Transforms Sadness into Power

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.841.1K 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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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