Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael Be Back with.

I'm the host of the Take Back Your Mind podcast Life Question of the Week. Today we have a question from Stephanie and she's hailing from Germany. I was recently in Germany a few weeks ago speaking at the greater festival is my joy to be there.

Stephanie asked this question. I've gone through a relationship breakup and some painful family

issues that were a huge blow to my ego and caused me to lose my sense of who I am and what gives me joy.

As I try to recover from these situations and regain my sense of joy, I realize how much I am

identified with my ego mind and a lot of the thoughts about my life and self-worth seem only to feed my ego.

Whenever I start to feel good about myself, it's ego thinking. I'm so great because of my

looks, my intellect, the money I make, the apartment I can afford, the car I drive, or even the

spiritual knowledge I have attained.

How do I get to a place of true joy and satisfaction that's not based on ego?

And how do I healthily integrate my ego so it serves me?

Thank you for any light you can share on these questions.

Stephanie, this is a profound question.

It's beautiful.

First of all, there's a statement I've said over the years that a bad day for your ego

is a healthy day for your soul,

meaning that what you have just gone through in terms of the relationship,

in terms of the family issues, that knocked you to your knees, so to speak,

was a healthy soul awakening.

It provided you the context to see

that a lot of your happiness was ego driven,

like you said, your looks, how much money you make,

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