If you're finding something meaningful in these weekly episodes, check out Calm It Down Deeper,

as you'll also get access to the morning affirmations. Two minutes of morning affirmations

every weekday to encourage you to put the first foot on the floor out of bed. Check it out at comment down

podcast.com and look for deeper. There's a noise in your house you've stopped hearing. The hum of

the refrigerator, the creek of the floorboard, the rattle of the window when the wind blows.

You actually don't notice it anymore. You've adapted.

Your brain has learned how to filter it out.

But it's still there and still draining you, still taking up space in your nervous system.

You just don't realize it until it stops.

Wait, are we doing house renovations?

No, we're going deeper than that.

Let's find out.

I'm Chad Lawson and let's comment down in three, two, one.

All right, honest question. What are you tolerating? Not the big things, not the obvious

problems that you're actively trying to fix, but the small things, the things

you've gotten used to, the things you tell yourself aren't a big deal, the friend who only

calls when they need something, or the job that drains you a little more each day, or the

relationship where you're always the one initiating, the habit that

makes you feel worse, but you keep doing it anyway. You've learned to live with it. You've

adapted, and you've told yourself, well, it's fine. But it's not fine.

It's just familiar.

And here's the thing about tolerating.

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