You can't always get what you want.

If you try sometime, you just might find...

This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

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Anyone who's been around this rodeo known as life, a time or three, knows well that things don't always work out the way that you want them to. And sometimes truly horrible and

traumatic things can happen, even to very good people. And we are then left in the aftermath

trying to put ourselves back together again and make sense of what happened and somehow find our way forward.

So today's episode is devoted to your healing and growth and we're going to be talking about

how to use one of the most powerful and healing tools any of us have available, which is meaning making in the face of adversity.

So this one is for you. If you are currently struggling, if you are going through a breakup or a

divorce, or perhaps you've just lost someone close to you,

as so many people have in the plague years that we're living through.

But perhaps more broadly, perhaps you've lost a dream or your health or a job.

When any of us lose the most precious and important things in our lives,

it is so overwhelming and it is so painful and you don't even know what to do

sometimes when you're in the midst of this. And in these moments, this is when

finding our way towards meaning making can be the path out. It is a light in the

darkness. And sometimes it's a small light. Sometimes this is this tiny little like birthday candle

light that helps you put one foot in front of the other and just like basically keep breathing. Sometimes that's all we have.

And sometimes though, that light can turn into something very powerful, like a lighthouse

that leads you in sometimes even a completely different direction. But growth and healing happen when slowly and eventually we do

find meaning and adversity and start putting the pieces back together again, not just emotionally,

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