Turn Your Deepest Pain Into Your Greatest Breakthrough | Dr. Lisa Miller

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Dr. Lisa Miller reveals why depression in young adults is often not a disorder to medicate, but a spiritual calling demanding we wake up to deeper meaning. She shares how the exact place where you feel the most pain becomes the doorway to discovering your true purpose.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.4	If someone is feeling completely depressed or the symptoms of depression or just an emotional weight, they can't seem to get off their back.
0:22.1	And they are thinking to themselves, you know, the relationship I'm in, it's just not working,
0:27.4	or I'm getting into relationships and getting out of them, and they just don't seem to be working.
0:32.3	The career I'm in, it's just like draining my energy.
0:36.7	I'm just not, I don't feel healthy. I don't feel good. I have a lot of negative thinking consistently, and it's hard to get these thoughts out of my mind. How does someone start to find a meeting and purpose when they have no clue where to start? Yeah. Well, I do think therapy is valuable, but it's only a piece of the story. And if you're in terrible pain, medication can be helpful, but that's only a piece of the story. And if you're in terrible pain,
0:54.9	medication can be helpful, but that's only a piece of the story. Because that hunger,
1:00.3	that yearning for a deeper significance and deeper connection is actually your innate, inborn,
1:08.0	spiritual hunger. And hunger is a divine hunger. It propels us on a quest. And we all have it.
1:15.2	Nobody's left out. Nobody's not spiritual. One spiritual brain, we all have it. We can trace it in
1:21.5	your genes. This is yours. But how do we discover it? People want to know how do I get to that?
1:28.3	Well, right where the pain is, is the portal of entry.
1:32.3	Where was your pain?
1:34.3	My pain was here.
1:36.3	In your chest, in your heart.
1:37.3	I could feel it in my chest because I had a broken heart.
1:41.3	And my question, which was held in my mind and my body and my soul, was love
1:47.0	real. And because God is love, I wondered, is God real? And that is a pretty bitter question.
1:57.0	Not only do we ask this at 19 or 20, we ask this again at midlife, and we ask this again as elders.
2:03.6	There's three bridges, and we can't get around it.
2:05.6	Really?
2:06.3	Because spirituality is inborn, and like any inborn quality, just like we change and look different at 19 and 45 and 85, our spirituality kicks in.
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