Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast.

Today is going to be like a quickie of motivation, inspiration, and perspective.

Today I'm going to be talking to you about how a breakdown comes before a breakthrough.

And this could apply in really any area of your life.

Maybe it's in your marriage.

You're feeling like you're in a breakdown. Maybe it's in your health. You're feeling like you're in a breakdown.

Maybe it's in your health. You're feeling as though you are backtracking. Maybe it's with your profession and you're not happy. You're not satisfied or it's feeling challenging. Maybe with

kids. Regardless of the area, if you feel like you're in a breakdown, which I want to define for you,

one definition is a mechanical failure, but we're not talking about things that are mechanical.

It could be just a failure of a system or a relationship.

But also, I like this definition.

A breakdown is a failure to work or be successful or a division of something into smaller parts. So I know that

when I have experienced breakdowns, I almost feel as though something is falling apart, something

is dividing. There's part of something that's not working. And to be honest, I'll share with you

a personal breakdown this week, having several, to be honest.

But before I go there, I want you to actually presence for yourself.

What is a breakdown?

What is going on that does not feel as it should be or you hope it to be?

Now, acknowledge it, and I know it's not fun to be in that breakdown.

And what a lot of people do is they

resist the breakdown moments. Oh, this is hard. It's not what I want. I don't like this. I feel like a

failure and we can actually beat ourselves up or we can make the situation wrong and completely

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