Glennon Doyle: First the Pain, Then the Rising

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author Glennon Doyle asks what would happen if we stopped being afraid of our pain. The founder of the online community Momastery and president of the nonprofit organization Together Rising, Glennon takes us on what she calls the “journey of the warrior,” explaining there is no easy way out when it comes to life’s challenges. “The willingness to dwell in our discomfort and truly listen is how we turn our pain into power,” she says.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.6	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:27.6	When I first read Glynne Doyle's book Love Warrior, I felt like I knew this girl. She was
0:36.2	funny and she was wise and she felt like a friend. To me, Glynne spoke for so many people
0:44.5	who don't feel brave enough to speak their own truth. And after sitting down with her
0:50.3	on Super Soul Sunday, I now call her a Super Soul visionary. She is. Glynne Doyle, Melton
0:58.1	Session, is titled First the Pain, Then the Rising.
1:02.8	Hello, Super Soulers. Holy cow, here we are. Okay, so I have a couple questions for us
1:19.2	today. The first one is this. How would our lives and our relationships and our world
1:27.0	transform if we stopped being so afraid of pain? What if we just once and for all decided
1:34.4	that we were strong enough for the pain in our lives, so instead of hiding from it, we
1:38.3	just rushed straight toward it and allowed our pain to become our power. So I'm a person
1:45.4	who hid from pain for the first half of my life. When I was 10 years old, I looked out
1:50.9	at the scary world and I decided that I was too weak for it. So I dropped out of life
1:56.8	and into bulimia and then alcoholism. Until I was 25 and found myself on that bathroom
2:03.4	floor, shaking and holding that positive pregnancy test and finding myself decide that I
2:10.3	wanted to become a mother. But at that point, I'd been an addict for 15 years, so I didn't
2:17.6	even know how to be a human being. So I decided that my best bet would be just to fake it,
2:23.8	to just look around for other women who seem to be adulting successfully and just copy
2:30.8	them. So my criteria was that I looked for women who were wearing scarves.
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