How to Hang in There When You Feel Like Giving Up

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Martha confesses that she—like many of us—is feeling the weight of the racial tensions across America, the worries swirling around the pandemic, the endless economic fears, and more. How do we persevere when things are this hard for THIS LONG? She explains that everything in nature pulses and, if you pay attention, you’ll notice times of pressure and times of letting go. Simply noticing this cycle makes it easier to bear. (Originally aired: July 20, 2020.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:07.0	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room. I'm Martha Beck.
0:14.0	No, okay, I didn't do it right. Sorry, director.
0:17.0	Welcome to the gathering room. I'm Martha Beck.
0:20.0	They didn't see the goofy face. That's excellent.
0:22.6	So now we can talk about today's topic.
0:26.6	Today's topic is how to hang in there when you feel like giving up.
0:31.6	And I expect that we have some folks who will chime in and sending questions about wanting to give up with a number
0:40.1	on a number of things. We just were planning to have family members come visit and we were trying
0:47.4	and trying to think of a way to do it with social distancing and face masks and everything. And
0:51.4	finally it just, it all fell through. And it was very, very disappointing.
0:57.0	And I found myself waking up and just wanted to roll over
1:00.5	and pull the covers over my head and go back to sleep,
1:02.9	which is very unusual for me.
1:05.6	So I thought, you know, here we all.
1:08.6	And I get up every morning, I read the headlines, and it's like, okay,
1:13.0	it got worse again.
1:14.2	All right, okay, it's worse again.
1:16.5	More COVID cases, more deaths.
1:20.6	They're finding people who got it or getting it again, and like, how bad can things
1:25.7	get?
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