If You've Felt Discouraged Lately, Listen to This One to Feel Different: Episode 124
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Can this be true, do you really feel discouragement or difficulty in life and within your relationship? Absolutely. If you have listened to this podcast before, you know that the point is not to avoid these types of feelings or even talking about them with your partner.
But it can feel difficult to shift out of this state even as an individual. Plus there are a lot of outside factors that contribute to life feeling hard. So is the goal to try and wait it out and hope that things get better? NO!
In this 10 minute motivational podcast you will get the one way to shift from this feeling of discouragement or difficulty. Once you start to feel positive momentum, it will be even easier to positively impact your partner and your relationship. But it does start with you, and that's what this episode is for!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Empowered Couples podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | And while this is normally when we do a solo episode, we just went on a family walk and we got inspired by a topic. |
| 0:09.5 | And so we're here together. |
| 0:11.3 | I want to jump in. |
| 0:12.2 | Yes, Aaron here. |
| 0:13.9 | And this is going to be 10 minutes of pumping you up, getting you back on track because you might have felt discouraged lately. |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah, and to be honest, we feel those times too. I think it does have a lot to do with the time |
| 0:27.3 | period, still sort of being quarantined. And honestly, just for me, just being in the same place, |
| 0:32.5 | like in our office, basically just all the time, not getting out there and involved in life but also |
| 0:38.4 | we've been doing more podcasts and a few other trainings where we've gotten a full |
| 0:43.9 | survey from couples and they're just sharing similar experiences like whether |
| 0:48.3 | it's bored or frustrated or feeling kind of discouraged not allowed things |
| 0:53.8 | changing and for some couples we talk to, |
| 0:56.2 | that's even with their partner or spouse. So let's just shift that. Let's all shift it right now together. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes. Okay. So if you're here because you want to shift from being discouraged, |
| 1:06.9 | here's what you've got to look at. What are you focusing on? |
| 1:11.9 | Yep, it's a matter of focus. |
| 1:16.4 | It is all about focus because now Aaron could geek out. |
| 1:18.3 | He loves like, I know I'm calling a geek. Listen to only have 10 minutes. |
| 1:19.0 | Right. |
| 1:19.5 | But there's real science behind where our emotions come from. |
| 1:24.8 | Okay, so if you are feeling discouraged, really you have to go back to |
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