How to See the Good, Again

Jesus Over Everything

Lisa Whittle: Author, Speaker, Founder of Lisa Whittle Ministries, LLC

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this concluding episode of the “Love & Clarity” season for The Jesus Over Everything podcast, Lisa Whittle dives deep into the challenge of finding true joy during difficult seasons, especially around the holidays.

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0:00.0	maybe your life is a 10 out of 10 right now. Hashtag blessed, you wouldn't change a thing. It couldn't be any better. I hope so. But far more of us are in the midst of something hard or we're coming out of it or we will be going into it even if we don't realize it right now. And we truly want to be able to see good, but quite honestly, we just don't.
0:22.0	Maybe not right now.
0:23.1	We don't even know how to get there.
0:25.0	We need a perspective shift and change.
0:28.4	I hope to bring that perspective today and making that shift to seeing the good today on Joe.
0:42.9	Okay. on Joe. Well, we're close to Thanksgiving and we're around the corner from Christmas and holidays
0:47.8	are supposed to be a lot of things, supposed to be festive, supposed to be fun,
0:53.8	supposed to be full of love and joy
0:55.3	and good things. But holidays are often the very hardest for people in grief. And even if not a
1:02.2	season of grieving, seasonal depression hits during the holidays. And often just this sense of
1:08.6	why am I not happier right now, just sort of that, that weight and that
1:13.2	heaviness. I can relate to feelings like that. That season of life for me at my age as a woman
1:21.3	sometimes, but also just in general, I'm a person who for most of my life has struggled to be fun-loving and even often positive.
1:33.7	It's just not my natural bend to be in that space. I wish it was. I think there's a lot of my life
1:42.8	that I have thought, why can't I be more joyful? Why can't I be more
1:48.3	sort of fun-loving and positive? And it's just something that I felt like has plagued me for a lot of
1:56.7	my life. I think a lot of that for me has been a combination of chronic perfectionism.
2:03.1	There can be sort of 10 good things going on in my life, but I will often focus on the one thing
2:10.2	that is not perfect. Or it might be that I am over-analyzing the dumb thing that I did or said,
2:17.5	then my day that is perfectly good other than that is just now not as good.
2:22.3	I have seen those memes that have floated around social media that have shown like a person line in bed that, you know, their eyes are like white as saucers and they're like overthinking the dumb thing that I said
2:35.4	18 years ago. That would be me. That is very true to form. Or it might be something more for
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