Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you want to know something funny that makes me laugh when I think about it?

It's the lengths that we will go to to avoid challenges, to avoid struggles, to avoid discomfort, to avoid something

going perceived as wrong. We will do anything sometimes to avoid what we understand to be

stress, suffering, struggle, challenge, thinking that that is the way to access peace.

If that's you, if you're feeling that way right now, maybe you're hoping something doesn't

happen or you're trying to manipulate or control a situation so that you won't be challenged

or stressed.

Think about this.

Hasn't the peace that you've attained in your life over time?

Hasn't that really only come from earlier challenges that you faced?

Earlier challenges, struggles, stressful situations that you dealt with and survived?

Isn't it paradoxical that we avoid things that bring us peace because the temporary nature of them

scares us? But we know once we've dealt with a job loss, once we've dealt with grief, once we've

dealt with being at a very unfamiliar situation, once we've dealt with X, Y, Z, fill in the blanks,

you know your own personal history. Those experiences are what made you strong, what gave you

self-trust, which is the foundation of inner peace.

Trusting, you know what? I got it. I'm going to be okay. I figure things out. Look at the past as

proof as evidence of this.

Avoiding challenges might seem safe in the short term, but number one, it doesn't work.

When has it ever worked for you long term?

And can you, even when it, even when you don't feel like it, even when it scares you, even if you're in the

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