Navigating Our Internal Journeys of Loss and Adversity with Tim Lawrence
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tim Lawrence, creator of The Adversity Within shares how we navigate the internal journeys of loss, adversity, and how we grow by putting ourselves in challenging environments.
Highlights
- How adversity creates ferocious internal resolve
- Putting yourself in intentionally constraining environments
- Why we don’t have to believe something inherently good about
- The difference between approval and acceptance
- Building foundations of empathy and compassion
- What causes us to confuse responsibility and blame
- Focusing on what we control vs what we don’t
- The masks we wear to hide our challenges
- Finding our way back into the light through service
Quotes
It takes balls to actually stand in your pain
It’s really hard to find meaning if you haven’t fully acknowledge what you’ve gone through
Acceptance is simply acknowledging reality for what is
I think hiding is responsible for unimaginable amounts of suffering in the world
I’ve learned to find strength in my weaknesses and love in my vulnerability
Through his words, Tim Lawrence helps people navigate life’s difficulties – grief, injury, depression, or loss – and learn to forge strength in the fire.
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| 0:00.0 | It takes balls to actually stand in your pain and I think that among all the people that I know |
| 0:06.3 | Who have suffered tremendous adversity in their life and I know quite a few |
| 0:10.6 | Those who do seem to grow, they understand that first of all their tragedy was not some |
| 0:17.4 | sort of divine blessing. |
| 0:19.1 | It wasn't a good in and of itself. |
| 0:22.4 | And second of all, I think it's very critical |
| 0:25.8 | for people to understand that when you suffer a loss like that |
| 0:29.3 | or a tragedy or an ever circumstance like that, |
| 0:31.8 | things are never the same. |
| 0:33.4 | Like you cannot go back, you literally cannot go back. |
| 0:36.8 | And that's really hard for us as people to grasp because I think that we are, |
| 0:42.3 | you know, revolutionarily programmed to want to feel safe. to |
| 0:43.3 | because I think that we are revolutionary early programs to want to feel safe and secure. |
| 0:45.5 | And there are a lot of very good reasons for that. |
| 0:47.4 | So if you suffer a significant loss, |
| 0:50.3 | you have to be able to accept the fact, not of but accept the fact that you cannot go back to the way that things were |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window |
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