A Year of Peace

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are you someone who makes New Year’s resolutions? Martha enjoys making one (yes, one) each year—and she always keeps it! In this episode of The Gathering Room: A Year of Peace, she talks about her resolution to increase her brain’s wellbeing by dropping demands that have an overriding feeling of negativity and tend to make her brain shut down. Research that has shown that our brains work best when we can answer YES to two questions: Am I safe? Am I loved unconditionally? After basic survival, Martha says, love is the next imperative. When we feel safe and we feel loved, it’s amazing how fast we can learn, how much we can create and do—and how much happier our lives can be. Tune in for the full episode to learn how to let go of the demands we place on ourselves for no good reason, hear about some of the demands Martha has dropped so far, and join her for her guided Space, Silence, and Stillness meditation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.4	Honestly, I mean, I always say this, but to have all of you here when you're all there is the miracle just never stops mind-boggling me. I am boggled and I'm so happy to be here with you.
0:26.1	It is a new year and I'm not supposed to date these things by saying it's the new year, but it is
0:30.7	and I'm going to date myself by saying it's the new year and saying this is I'm a life coach y'all. So New Year is, the New Year is kind of my favorite
0:42.8	holiday. I can't help imagining wonderful new things in the year ahead. And I always make one
0:51.3	New Year's resolution, and I always keep it for at least a year.
0:55.7	It was, if you read my last book, you may recall that the year I turned 29, I decided not to
1:01.7	tell a single lie of any kind for an entire year, and I did it. And my life went cablooey,
1:09.3	but it also became like the best thing I ever did.
1:13.2	And my therapist at the time said that my greatest mental illness is that I keep my
1:19.0	New Year's resolutions.
1:20.7	Well, I have thought of my New Year's resolution for this year.
1:25.4	And I'm thinking you all might like to share it or just to hear about it.
1:31.6	So the idea came.
1:33.4	I was talking to a mom who was reading a book called Low Demand Parenting.
1:39.0	So this is, the person who wrote this, like my friend, has children who are on the autism spectrum
1:48.0	and have very, very sensitive nervous systems.
1:52.1	And we're learning so much about all these neurodivergencies.
1:55.3	And I love this woman's take.
1:58.4	Her name is Amanda Decker.
1:59.9	And she had three sons, all of whom are on the autism
2:03.8	spectrum. And they used to do horrible things with any type of neurodivergent child that
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