What a Car Accident Taught Me About Pain [304]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this personal and anecdotal episode, I reflect on a recent car accident that changed my perspective on pain, resilience, and staying present. Drawing from my own experience of navigating physical injury, emotional turmoil, and life's unexpected disruptions, I want to share some valuable lessons on accepting pain and choosing who we want to be in the midst of it.
Key Takeaways
- Pain is a Universal Experience: Everyone faces pain in various forms. Adjusting expectations helps to navigate life’s inevitable challenges.
- Choosing Who to Be in Pain: While we can't control painful circumstances, we can choose our response and who we want to become in those moments.
- Faith and Resilience: God is present in our suffering, showing us how to lean into pain and live authentically.
- The Value of Lament: Acknowledging and naming our losses is essential. Lamenting is not about toxic positivity but about truthfully addressing the pain while moving forward.
- Staying Present: Focusing on the current moment can alleviate overwhelm and help manage pain one step at a time.
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- My newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
- Flying Free is my online membership program designed for Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip and support you through this program.
- Flying Higher is my online membership program for Christian women interested in 10Xing their self-development progress.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free Podcast, |
| 0:11.0 | a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to episode 304 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | This podcast is going to be a little bit different because I was in a car accident five |
| 0:31.4 | days ago at the time of this recording and I broke my right arm, which is my dominant arm, |
| 0:37.1 | and I can't use it for anything right now. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm going to have surgery next week. But in the meantime, I am unable to use it, and it's very |
| 0:45.8 | difficult. It's impossible for me to type. I can't drive. There's a lot of things I can't do |
| 0:50.6 | anymore because my right arm is incapacitated. So usually with these podcast episodes, I will script them out in advance, the ones that I do on |
| 0:58.4 | my own. |
| 0:58.9 | Even the interviews, I script out the questions in advance. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, sometimes when I'm interviewing someone, questions will come to my mind in the moment, |
| 1:06.7 | which I ask. |
| 1:07.4 | But for the most part, I really know, you know, where I'm going to steer an interview. |
| 1:16.2 | And when I'm doing one of these by myself, I know exactly what I'm going to say and I say it because it's all scripted out in advance. I feel like that keeps me on track. It keeps people listening. |
| 1:21.6 | It keeps me from going off on tangents that are unnecessary, which I very much tend to do when I'm just left to my own devices. |
| 1:32.9 | And that's the way I like to do things. However, I can't do that now because I can't type. |
| 1:38.0 | I suppose I could dictate into my phone. I have been doing some dictating, but dictating is the same thing as just talking off the cuff. And if I'm going to dictate, I'm not going to dictate |
| 1:42.3 | and then, you know, go and read my dictation. |
| 1:45.4 | I'm just going to talk off the cuff. |
| 1:46.8 | So that's what this episode is going to be. |
| 1:48.1 | It's just going to be me. |
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