72. We Can Do Hard Things
Insource
Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A few episodes back I talked about how sometimes we make things harder than they are. We tell ourselves something is hard, and that keeps us from taking action. We call ourselves stuck, when really we’re just afraid to move through or past the hard.
That is not what I am talking about today. In today’s episode I explore the idea that sometimes, it is *supposed to be* hard.
Losing weight and prioritizing health: sometimes hard
Building a business and chasing your goals: sometimes hard
Repairing a relationship and allowing yourself to be vulnerable: sometimes hard
Working through your trauma and healing yourself: sometimes hard
But, the way our brains are set up for survival means that when things feel hard, our brain thinks we need to hit the eject button immediately. We don’t. Sometimes, we need to let them be hard and do. it. anyway.
Join me today as I share with you the process you take your brain through as you let the things the matter to you, to sometimes be uncomfortable.
See you inside💥
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| 0:00.0 | I don't like comparing myself to yesterday or a year ago because I'm here today right now and my 100% today looks different than my 100% yesterday. |
| 0:08.6 | Like when I'm running right now I'm training for a marathon. I'm not running as fast or as frequently or as |
| 0:15.0 | effortlessly as I was 10 years ago when I used to run a half marathon every |
| 0:18.4 | month. Okay and I'm not the same human. |
| 0:22.8 | And also as you're building your goals or you're working on |
| 0:25.7 | repairing relationships or you're working on intimacy or you're working on your body or |
| 0:29.8 | whatever, it's easy to compare to other people as well, you are walking your own race. |
| 0:35.0 | And we've got a lifetime to cross the finish line. Oh well-a-wala-wala-w welcome to the InSours Podcast. Hi guys I'm Ashley your host for |
| 0:56.9 | today and I wonder what you think about the title of this because it wasn't very long ago. I think it was in |
| 1:05.2 | December maybe. I did a podcast that was something about like what if it's not that hard. |
| 1:17.4 | And today's title is it's supposed to be hard, but hopefully after you listen to this it'll all make sense. Sometimes our brain thinks thoughts that makes circumstances more challenging that don't need to be, |
| 1:28.3 | right? So go back and listen to that episode and you'll hear what I mean right because sometimes when we think things are hard |
| 1:36.2 | like when I told myself oh my God it's so hard making new friends as an adult right |
| 1:40.3 | okay it's episode 66 you can go, what if it isn't hard? |
| 1:44.0 | When you tell yourself something, it's so hard to make friends as an adult, it's so hard to lose weight, |
| 1:48.5 | it's so hard to find a life partner, whatever, we end up making it harder for ourselves. |
| 1:53.4 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about certain times, |
| 1:56.6 | and this is generally in the pursuit of a goal |
| 2:00.0 | where it feels hard and our brain perceives that as a sign that we're not supposed to be doing it. |
| 2:08.8 | So this came up because I had with a one-on-one, actually a couple of my one-on-one clients today. |
| 2:15.0 | Both of them we talked about sort of their fitness and health goals and one of them is just actually they both kind of recommitted |
| 2:26.1 | recently to getting back into movement and eating well and so they're both |
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