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I have talked about surrender and surrendering on this podcast before. In fact, I think my first episode

of this awakening series focused on surrender as an ongoing spiritual practice. I want to

follow up on that episode and keep exploring this concept of surrendering and letting go

in response to a listener email

that recently came in.

So let me read you the email first, which I got permission to do from the listener who sent

this, and then we're going to break it down as we go.

And as always, I extend my deepest gratitude to this listener for being willing to share

her vulnerability and her words with us.

So here's the email.

There's this concept of letting go in situations where you might feel triggered by something on the outside,

letting go when a situation outside of us creates conflict inside of us, and to stop protecting parts of us that feel fear.

My question is, in a situation where someone repeatedly does something that triggers us,

how do we both let go and keep our boundaries if we're supposed to no longer care about that

specific situation? If we let go, are we no longer supposed to pay attention to anything that's bothering us?

Am I not supposed to let myself feel?

Should I just ignore it, even if I keep seeing a repeated pattern in my life?

For example, I have difficulty setting boundaries because of the way I was raised,

so it's a little hard for me to understand if I should

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