Ep 33: Give Yourself Permission To Survive
Run, Selfie, Repeat
Kelly Roberts
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I've been going through the journal I kept after my younger brother Scott passed away. Towards the end of that first year, I started writing about whether or not I'd ever be able to find happiness again. Because up until that point, I had struggled to understand both how I felt and how I thought other people wanted me to act. And eventually, I realized that it was up to me to give myself permission to feel happy again.
Permission. It’s a tough one because I think we all fall into this trap of expectations. From breakups, divorces, getting fired or let go, to even falling short of a goal, sometimes we act the way we think we're supposed to act or feel the things we think we're supposed to feel instead of just letting ourselves cope.
So, let's talk about what it means to give yourself permission to not just survive, but thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to episode 33 of the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast, where we talk about life with the side of running. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Kelly Roberts, and today's episode is probably going to be a heavy one, so grab some toilet paper or a box of Kleenex, and let's do this. |
| 0:19.5 | I say toilet paper because we never had Kleenex in the house growing up. |
| 0:24.0 | We always used toilet paper to blow our noses or wipe away our tears because |
| 0:27.1 | Kleenex is really expensive and we didn't have money for that stuff. |
| 0:31.2 | So when my brother died and people for some reason always brought tissues to our house |
| 0:36.4 | so that they could use them. |
| 0:38.0 | It always made me a giggle. |
| 0:40.0 | That's what I think about. |
| 0:41.5 | I think of tissues. |
| 0:42.9 | I mean, even today, I still reach for toilet paper if there's tissues available. |
| 0:46.7 | Anyways. |
| 0:49.7 | I was going through the journal that I kept the first year after my brother passed away. |
| 0:58.0 | And as devastating and difficult as it is to push through it, which it is, it's actually been really enlightening. |
| 1:06.5 | And so much of what I write about in this journal is a lot of what you'd expect. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm very sad. |
| 1:15.0 | But you can kind of see how I deal with my grief over the months. |
| 1:19.4 | And towards the end of it, I came upon a passage that I wrote and I talked about how I didn't think I'd ever be happy again and that I felt |
| 1:32.0 | pressure to be to be sad or to always be grieving and how I was really struggling with how I was |
| 1:42.8 | acting for other people and it's funny because so much of, so much of |
| 1:47.0 | the journal is, is like totally unfiltered. But reading that passage, it really brought me back |
| 1:53.4 | to the first time that it ever happened that I was kind of being, I was told how I needed to act |
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