(BEST OF) Martha Beck Changes Lives With This Question
We Can Do Hard Things
Treat Media and Glennon Doyle
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. We are starting 2026 with a gift for you. Nothing says New Year's energy like Martha Beck. So today, we're revisiting our very first conversation together. Think of this as an invitation for an hour. Feel what you feel, know what you know, and then begin again. |
| 0:23.6 | Martha has always helped me with that process. She has helped me restart my life several times, |
| 0:30.3 | not from her advice, but from the way she constantly guides me back to myself. When I first |
| 0:36.7 | fell in love with Abby, I was the happiest |
| 0:38.8 | I had ever been in my life and I was also deeply afraid. It was like I felt this incredible |
| 0:46.6 | warmth and comfort and freedom for the first time, but my mind was telling me I could not have it. |
| 0:56.8 | My mind was trying to control it. |
| 0:59.2 | My mind was saying no, no, no, no, |
| 1:01.4 | while the rest of me was saying, yes, please. |
| 1:03.8 | My mind has always been a little stronger than the rest of me. |
| 1:08.5 | And it was winning. |
| 1:09.5 | So one day I called my friend Martha and I told her all of the |
| 1:13.7 | reasons why I was desperately in love and happy. And then I told her all of the reasons why that love |
| 1:23.3 | was impossible, why it couldn't happen, why my entire life would fall apart if I did try to make |
| 1:30.0 | it happen. And I was spinning and spinning and spinning, making a really strong case to Martha about |
| 1:34.9 | how none of this could happen. And she just said, Glennon, stop. I need you to remove yourself |
| 1:42.7 | from your head, which always makes an excellent case. |
| 1:48.0 | And I need you to get back into your body. |
| 1:49.8 | And for one moment, I need you to think about what feels warmer? |
| 1:53.7 | When you think about going towards Abby, going towards this love, letting yourself have this |
| 1:59.6 | love, do you feel warm or cold? |
| 2:01.5 | And I said, warm. |
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