Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have a powerful thought for you today.

What if normal isn't normal at all?

But it's been normalized because of perhaps the influences in your life, because of our greater

culture, because of what you've learned, adopted or inherited in terms of your beliefs. Let's dive

into this today because people are far more powerful than they realize.

Do you think having just a relatively satisfying marriage is normal?

Do you think a job that pays the bills that you don't enjoy is normal? Do you think having identified pain in your body sometimes that you're just chalking up to age or maybe your mattress is normal? What if we raise our standard? What if we decide, I want a really conscious, beautiful

partnership? What if you want to love and be thrilled by your contribution you make it work,

whether that's your job, whether it's a side hustle, whether it's something else all together.

What if when it comes to identifying what it is that might be causing you some suffering or

pain, you don't settle and put up with it, you take an action, get to the bottom of it,

figure it out, and live beautifully pain free.

Normal is just repetition that nobody questions.

And look, if you're surrounded by people who only have mediocre marriages or jobs that they

tolerate or situations in their life that seem stressful and awful, but hey, they're just like

everybody else, right?

Wrong. That's where dangerous normalization

comes in. People tend to call things normal when they're just familiar, when it's not

necessarily disrupting anybody, when it's widely accepted. I've had this experience in my life

when things are going so well in certain situations and I'm so happy and I'm like, gosh, I really

have to tone down this joy because it's not normal. And then I think to myself, what if I'm the

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