Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

So welcome, welcome, everyone, to yet another version of the Gathering Room.

We are going to do our meditation, but I'm going to wait for everybody to come in first

because you don't want to come in right in the middle of a meditation, and I'm just sitting here

staring. Today's gathering room is called Find Your People, because I have noticed recently

at my advanced age that I have traveled all over the globe, and there are a few people

that I really, really want to

hang out with, and it is worth any amount of effort to get to those people. But how did those people

find each other? I mean, really, how Roe ended up coming from Australia to meet me when I had

no idea she was on the road for it. There are all kinds of people in my life

that have come from a distance and should never have been able to connect with me at all.

So I was thinking when I was in South Africa, one of my friends there, I used to give her

coaching sessions when she was single and lonely and worried she always would be. And she really had a strong

sense of family and wanting to have one. And it's very difficult. I sometimes define yearning

is as loving something you don't yet believe. So she could feel what was meant to come in her life

and she yearned for it, but she was afraid

it wouldn't happen. So we did a lot of sessions and at the end of, I don't know, a few years later,

a couple of years, not long, she met the man of her dreams and they're married and they have two

gorgeous children. And then we ran, we sometimes run seminars together. And someone in one of

the seminars said, I'm afraid I'll never meet the right person or meet my people. And she said,

you could be sitting with a bag over your head at the top of Everest and your people would still

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