Write Your Story: What You Want Is Sacred (and Meaningless)

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🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

My five year old daughter recently asked me why sometimes we ask God for things and she doesn’t give them to us (I secretly love that she refers to God as female, even though we’ve never gendered God in our house).

As I processed the answer to her question — and thought about all the things I’ve wanted in my life but never gotten — I recorded this episode.

This episode is an in-real-time, thinking-out-loud kind of an episode. More of a “questions” kind of episode than an “answers” kind of episode.

But maybe, as I talk out loud to myself about what it means to want something and not have it, you’ll hear something that resonates with you that you can take with you on your own journey of wanting and not having.

What do you want that you don’t (yet) have?

The answer to that question might be a powerful invitation on a journey that will change your life forever.

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.
0:26.5	And write your, write your story, write your story.
0:33.9	Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast.
0:36.7	I'm Ali Fallon.
0:37.4	I'm your host. And on today's
0:39.2	episode, I want to talk about what to do when you don't get what you want. This is a topic that is
0:45.5	feeling personal to me right now because if you listen, you know all of this already, but the last
0:51.7	handful of years for me have been filled with lots of
0:55.4	disappointment around wanting things and then not getting exactly what I want. And maybe on the
1:00.1	face of it, it's like there are many times in life when we just simply don't get what we want.
1:03.9	And I think that's true, obviously, and simple and can be as simple as that. And also this conversation in our current culture around
1:13.9	visualization, manifestation, positive thinking, the idea that you can manifest something out of nothing,
1:21.6	there is some truth to that or that wouldn't be even appealing to us. I think there,
1:25.8	there is validity to that conversation and to that
1:29.0	idea. And this is why it's so compelling to us because we intuitively understand that we are
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