There are daily small struggles and there are also tsunami level pain that will roll in.

We live through easier and harder seasons without always realizing the season we're currently

in and that that season will inevitably shift.

Whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not. There is so much in this

life that is outside of our direct control. Now that being said, if I had the magical power to

control all of education in the West, not a one of us would have gotten past elementary school, much less high school

without a class on letting go and controlling what you can and letting go of the rest.

Because this right here that I'm talking about today, this letting go of control, this holding

ourselves in principles and integrity through the hardest moments

of being alive is something life will require of all of us again and again and again and again.

Hello, welcome to the show. This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm your host,

Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist. And on today's throwback episode, we're talking about letting go or getting

dragged. All right, y'all. So whenever I pick out a throwback episode, what we're really doing is we're reflecting.

And reflecting is something that often makes sense to deeper people. When I listen to a throwback episode or I look back on my life, a few things come up for me.

And I wonder, when you reflect, what comes up for you. Listening to this episode from 2019,

it really does make me a little sad and nostalgic. It does seem true. We feel it that those

COVID years change something, something fundamental about the world and the way we relate to one another, the way we

move through it. It's difficult to name exactly. It's hard to put a finger on, but we do feel it,

especially sensitive people. Listening to the me of 2019 makes me face some of the grief of that

time for what has been lost from our culture,

from our lives. Pre-COVID, my empathic energy seemed to draw in many, many strangers.

Nearly every time I went out in public, someone would approach me to tell me something very deep about

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