Write Your Story: Learning the leverage of “I Don’t Know” (Part 1)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Human beings don’t deal well with uncertainty, which is why a mystery draws you in and why a cliffhanger on a TV show can keep you watching well past your bedtime.
Your brain is wired for answers.
Yet life is full of uncertainty. So how do we manage this tension?
When a story is unfolding and you wonder, “how will this end?” Or when the big questions of life go unanswered and you lie awake wondering, Who is God? What am I here for? What does all of this mean?
How do we handle not knowing?
In today’s episode, I want to share a practice I’ve been using that is helping me live with the inevitable uncertainty of life.
But I’m not just living with it. I’m using it as leverage to unfold into the fullness of myself.
Check out the episode and I’d love to hear what you think.
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Pick up the pieces of your life, |
| 0:07.6 | put them back together with the words you write, |
| 0:10.5 | all the beauty and peace and the magic that you'll start to find. |
| 0:15.1 | When you write your story, |
| 0:17.5 | you've got the words inside, don't you think it's time |
| 0:20.6 | to let them out and write them down, |
| 0:22.9 | uncover what it's all about. |
| 0:26.4 | And write your, write your story, write your story. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Alley Fallon. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm your host. And on today's episode, I want to talk about a topic that I know I have talked about before, but I have more to say about this. And I have, I have things to, I want to talk about it in a little bit of a different way than I've talked about it before. And I think this is going to be really meaningful for you. I know it has been meaningful for me, |
| 0:54.5 | and it has really helped me to think about my life extremely differently, especially when I'm in |
| 1:00.3 | a period of time that has a lot of uncertainty to it. So the way I've talked about this subject before |
| 1:05.1 | is this idea of not writing the ending to a story too soon. When you're in your life and you're in that place in the story |
| 1:12.1 | where you don't know what the ending is going to look like yet and you haven't had your |
| 1:16.1 | quote unquote happy ending, it is so tempting to want to write the ending now. Because, and I'm going to |
| 1:23.4 | argue this today on this episode, that writing the ending now ends the discomfort of sitting in |
| 1:29.8 | the uncertainty. And yet, when we write the ending too soon, we miss out on so much. When we create |
| 1:36.9 | those foregone conclusions, we a short circuit the process that life has us in, whatever we were here to learn in the story, |
| 1:46.4 | like whatever kind of transformation was trying to take place in the story, we short circuit |
| 1:50.2 | that. We also maybe write the ending in a way that is not as good as it could have been if we |
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