Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have an interesting question for you today.

How would you like to never feel powerless again?

I think powerlessness, that place, that feeling that we can have sometimes,

is the worst place to be. We feel like we have no options. We feel like we are stuck. It's so scary.

It's wildly frustrating. It's all of the negative things, right? Feeling powerless. So I would like to offer a way for you to

not have that feeling. This is something that I do regularly when I know that slope, that slope leading me

to that feeling of powerlessness is appearing. It starts to make me

feel tense. It starts to make me want to hold my breath and I go, no, there is another way.

There is another way than dealing with this scary emotion. And what's interesting is that

it's actually being able to welcome, tolerate, and

notice negative emotion. So think about it this way. What we resist owns us, right? What we

resist persists is an old saying. So whatever it is that we're

resisting, say that we're resisting feeling embarrassed or we're resisting feeling rejected or we're

resisting feeling whatever comes up for you when you think about this, whatever negative

emotion you might be experiencing today right now this week. Are you able to welcome it? Instead of pushing it away,

instead of saying, I shouldn't feel jealous, I shouldn't feel anxious, I shouldn't feel stressed out,

I shouldn't feel, I shouldn't feel, I shouldn't feel. When we resist something, it owns us. I did a podcast episode

a while ago talking about how what we avoid owns us. Think about it. If you're avoiding a hard

conversation, that is owning you, that relationship that is just not healthy, that is kind of running

your life right now. Am I right?

The things that we avoid, the things that scare us, own us. So what if we can arms wide open,

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