3 Lessons From One of the Hardest Years of My Life

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever had one of those years where life seems to punch you in the face? Where one thing after another knocks you down, over and over, until you start to feel like you are never getting back up. Well, that was this past year for me. People I trusted betrayed me. Plus, I was living 150 miles away from my husband and son, alone in Boston during the week for work. I never saw my friends because I was too busy working. I wasn’t exercising. I wasn’t taking care of myself in general. Honestly, I felt really lonely all the time. And looking back at pictures of myself from that time, it’s easy to see all of that in my face. I think we all know that the greatest lessons in life come from the most challenging things that you face. And while it’s true, it’s not easy when you are in the middle of it. This past year taught me 3 invaluable lessons, and today I’m sharing them with you. I know you’re going to nod along because you know these lessons are true. I don’t know why they are so damn hard to learn, but my hope is that by sharing what I struggled through and what I learned from, it will save you the headache and heartache that this year put me through. Xo Mel In this episode, you’ll learn: 0:24: The gory details from the hardest year of my life 7:02: Lesson #1 from this year 8:30: The journal prompt that gave me a wake up call 11:43: How to identify the friction in your life and a major warning if you don’t pay attention 15:21: Lesson #2 from this year 16:55: How this podcast almost never came to be 22:36: The epiphany our son Oakley had 27:04: If you’re tired of your excuses… try THIS 28:49: Lesson #3 from this year 32:31: The mental health crisis I experienced this year and what it taught me For full show notes, go to melrobbins.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to an incredible life-changing episode of the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:14.0	Today's topic is the three lessons that I have learned from one of the hardest years of my life.
0:23.0	This has been a really freaking hard year for me.
0:31.0	And there are so many of you that listen to this podcast that are new friends of mine that have met me after the podcast has launched.
0:42.0	And you may find it surprising to hear that if I had to rate zero to ten, how hard it was, zero being, this was a cakewalk, ten being this sucked sour eggs,
0:57.0	this year would be about a 97 on a scale from zero to ten.
1:03.0	And if you listen to me today, you think, well, how could that possibly be? You've got one of the top ranking podcasts in the world.
1:11.0	You've come out of nowhere and are just crushing it, Mel. You seem to have it all going on. You're clearly a very positive person.
1:19.0	How could this possibly have been the hardest year of your life?
1:23.0	Well, you're seeing me after the hardest year. When you think about a lot of the kind of cheesy metaphors in life, it's always the darkest right before dawn.
1:37.0	It's always hard right before it gets easy.
1:43.0	And I think one of the things that's true about life is that life requires you to get lost right before you find yourself again.
1:55.0	And I'm not going to lie to you. It sucks when you feel lost. It sucks when life is hard.
2:02.0	There is nothing fun about it. I do not wish it on anybody. I also know that it is unavoidable.
2:10.0	There are going to be years of your life that are absolutely amazing and delicious and easy. And they're going to just flow like water flows out of a faucet.
2:20.0	And then there are going to be years like the year I just had that nearly suck you dry.
2:28.0	It's like the hits just keep coming. And so I'm going to just at a top level tell you some of the reasons why this year was super hard for me.
2:37.0	And even preparing to talk to you about this, thinking about what life looked like just over a year ago, I started to get emotionally triggered.
2:50.0	Just talking about how hard it's been makes me feel stressed out again.
2:56.0	I was so burnt out. I had been running on adrenaline for years. For two years, I had been living separately from my husband and our son because we had raised our kids in Boston.
3:12.0	And that's where my business was. And during the pandemic, remember that.
3:18.0	During the pandemic, our son made this decision that he wanted to go to school in Southern Vermont. And so my husband and our son were living with my mother-in-law.
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