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Calm it Down

The Practice of Letting Go

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8895 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You thought you let it go. The hurt. The anger. The person who left. You did the work. You moved on. But then something reminds you and you're right back there. Feeling it all over again. Here's the truth: letting go isn't an event. It's a practice. Let’s open this up as we Calm it Down in 3...2...1.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You thought you let it go. The hurts, the anger, the person who left, the dream that didn't work out.

0:10.8

You did the work, you processed, you moved on, or so you thought. But then something reminds you.

0:20.6

Maybe it was a song or a smell or just a random Tuesday afternoon.

0:25.6

And then suddenly, you're right back there, feeling it all over again.

0:34.6

And you think to yourself, I thought I let this go.

0:42.3

I thought I let this go.

0:46.3

I'm Chan Lawson and let

0:53.3

come it down in three, two, one.

1:02.0

I want to share a really important detail with you.

1:06.1

Letting go is not an event.

1:10.2

It's a practice. You don't do it once and you're done. You don't arrive at

1:16.5

some final moment where the thing no longer touches you. You let it go and then you let it go

1:24.3

again and again and you let it go again.

1:29.9

Because grief, it returns.

1:32.9

Anger.

1:33.8

It resurfaces.

1:36.2

And old wounds, they reopen.

1:40.4

Not because you're letting it go wrong,

1:43.7

but because that's just how it works.

1:46.7

Letting go is something that you practice, not something you complete.

1:54.0

I mean, we treat it like letting go is, it's like a finish line, right?

1:59.0

Like once you cross it, you're're free the past is behind you the pain

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