44. LIVE COACHING: Pain vs. Suffering
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Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In life, pain is inevitable. But suffering is always optional. Of course it doesn’t always feel that way. When we’re in pain and suffering it can often feel like we have no choice. But we do. We always do.
Sometimes pain is appropriate. Grief is appropriate. Sadness is appropriate. But suffering truly has no upside.
In todays episode, I bring you part of a live coaching call I did with one of my clients who was diagnosed with a chronic illness. She feels as though so much of her life is out of her hands, and that much of the future she had planned for herself is no longer an option. And while those things may be true, it is the resistance of them, the “things shouldn’t be this way” thinking, the “this isn’t fair” thinking that is added to her pain.
Join us as I help her move from suffering, back into pain, and ultimately into peace- with the pain and without. I hope you can see part of yourself in her story and find a way to grant yourself more peace in the face of pain.
See you inside💥
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| 0:00.0 | And the suffering is optional. |
| 0:02.0 | Pain is inevitable. |
| 0:03.4 | We are going to experience it. |
| 0:04.7 | And what I'm trying to do here is not teach you how to only feel happy, |
| 0:08.7 | good, harmonious vibes all of the time. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm trying to teach you how to find resiliency and feel things on purpose, right? |
| 0:17.9 | If you get some sort of diagnosis or something that completely changes the trajectory of the future you had planned for |
| 0:24.0 | yourself grief and sadness feel appropriate. Pain is a part of that. Processing of it |
| 0:29.3 | it's an important part to your human journey, but are you adding suffering? Oh well oh welcome back to the in force podcast it. It's me, Ashley, your host, and I've got someone joining me |
| 0:56.5 | because today I'm sharing with you a portion of a live coaching session with one of my one-on-one series clients. This client in particular, I just adore, |
| 1:09.8 | I love, I really adore all my clients, but she just has the most pure heart, the kindest soul, and she was diagnosed with lupus. |
| 1:18.7 | So now she's living with chronic illness. |
| 1:20.5 | And a lot of our sessions have revolved around how to cope with and make peace with and |
| 1:28.7 | still find joy again in your life when you've got something that causes grief and sadness, right? |
| 1:37.0 | So you'll hear us sort of talk about the difference between pain and suffering because there's a lot of things that we experience |
| 1:45.4 | where pain is appropriate, where it's necessary. It's part of our human experience, but then we tend to add on a layer of suffering in regards to the pain. |
| 1:58.4 | And the suffering is optional. |
| 2:00.6 | Pain is inevitable. |
| 2:01.6 | We are going to experience it. And what I'm trying to do here is not |
| 2:04.6 | teach you how to only feel happy good harmonious vibes all of the time I'm trying to |
| 2:10.5 | teach you how to find resiliency |
| 2:13.7 | and feel things on purpose, right? |
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