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Vibrant Happy Women

Happy Bit: How Those "Life Sucks" Moments are Actually a Signal (and a Gift)

Vibrant Happy Women

Jen Riday

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes our lives just don't feel "right." We just feel blah, or angry, or depressed... just plain out of alignment.

Instead of viewing this as a horrible thing, what would happen if we can view this as a SIGNAL - an opportunity to make a shift and get things back into alignment.

That difficult moment suddenly becomes an opportunity... and a gift.

 

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0:00.0

Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. I was talking to my daughter Lorelei last night. She's

0:07.4

almost 10 about the Anne of Green Gables books. I loved those as a kid. I loved the series as well,

0:13.3

and I think she needs to read them. But it occurred to me. We can get a free copy of Anne of Green Gables

0:19.5

from Audible and listen to it together in the car

0:22.6

and around the house. And I'm really excited. And I want to remind you that you can get a free

0:27.3

audio book from Audible through my unique link. Just go to Vibrant Happybook.com and you'll get a free

0:34.3

audio book and a 30-day free trial membership. Again, that's at Viborantshappybook.com.

0:40.2

You know those times in your life when things seem to be going fine and then you take a breath

0:45.4

and realize, whoa, things are not fine anymore. You just feel out of alignment like your life is not right.

0:51.3

Sometimes the thing that gets us there is a series of unfortunate events,

0:55.8

like the book title, a series of things going wrong and we just hit this new low point.

1:01.3

And I used to think those low points were awful, but the more I work with women and listen to

1:05.9

their stories, I'm starting to see that those low points are kind of a signal to you that

1:10.6

something needs to change. You start to are kind of a signal to you that something needs to change.

1:12.4

You start to feel kind of gloomy and depressed or frustrated and angry or whatever it is.

1:20.1

It means maybe this is a signal that you need to change something or shift something.

1:24.8

So I want to help you view those things with new eyes.

1:27.4

In fact, I just emailed with a

1:28.7

friend yesterday who mentioned going through menopause. And she's perimenopausal. She's not done yet,

1:34.8

but she's going through that change. And she said she was viewing it with this eye of negativity

1:40.5

as all these things going wrong in her life and that her skin was changing and

1:46.0

everything just seemed awful. But then she realized, you know what? This is a chance for her to

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