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Radio Headspace

How to Meet Uncertainty with Courage

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We often think healing means escaping what hurts. But today, Dora offers a different approach: what if the very thing you’re avoiding is the path to clarity? Through a story about a pandemic meditation retreat, she explores how meeting discomfort with presence unlocks new resilience. Sometimes, the way out is through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you have a pixel 10, you may get asked a few questions.

0:05.0

Like, what is that?

0:07.0

How did you do that?

0:09.0

And can we use your camera instead?

0:14.0

Ask more of your phone.

0:17.0

Google Pixel 10.

0:19.0

At Space Studio. Google Pixel 10.

0:24.4

Headspace Studio.

0:36.6

Hello, welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Dora here.

0:39.3

So here's a thing about uncertainty. It can feel awful. It's not romantic, it's not poetic, it's not a peaceful pause.

0:45.3

It's sweaty palms, shallow breathing, a nervous system that keeps scanning for safety,

0:51.3

because we're wired to want to know, to make a plan, to predict what's next,

0:57.2

and when we can't, we feel lost.

0:59.7

There was a time in my life where I kept trying to meditate my way out of that discomfort,

1:05.1

to get calm so I could solve it.

1:07.4

But then I came across a meditation that did something completely different. It didn't ask me to fix the feeling.

1:12.6

It asked me to turn towards it.

1:15.6

And that changed everything.

1:17.6

We're taught that the way to feel better is to get away from what hurts.

1:21.6

But sometimes healing begins when we turn toward the very thing we've been avoiding.

1:26.6

Because what if that feeling isn't the

1:28.8

problem? What if it's the doorway? Early on in the pandemic, I did a virtual meditation retreat.

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