Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. So today, uh, the gathering room is called Let It Stay. I may have spoken about this before,

and I know I spoke about it like an hour ago on the call for the summer course I've been doing

called the Wayfinder's Compass. And I know we talk about it in our community on wilder community,

but I'm going to do it again because

I need it. And the theme is it's called let it stay. And I take that. It's not. Oh, when you can't

let it go. Right. Okay. So when I was depressed and miserable, which describes the first half of my life, I used to complain on, you know, not, not, I thought I was being pretty, pretty respectful of other people's privacy, but they felt like annoyed by how much I asked.

How do I feel better?

And a lot of the times people would say, well, if you're depressed or you're anxious,

just let it go, Martha. Let it go. And I would say, I don't have it. It has me. How do you let go?

It's like, I have been pinned under a mudslide. Well, let it go. I didn't know how to let it go.

And it took forever for me to figure out that they were giving me exactly the opposite of the

right advice. Remember, I often say here and other places, the opposite of the thought that

makes you most miserable is your next step toward enlightenment.

Well, it drove me crazy when people would say let it go because I couldn't let it go.

But I didn't think of the opposite for years.

And when I did, it changed my life completely.

And the opposite thought is simply let it stay.

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