You Can’t Escape Trouble, But You Can Stay Standing with Alli Patterson—Teacher, Author

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Trouble might be an inescapable part of life, but it's your reaction to it that will determine your final destination. With insight from her own struggle to stay standing after an affair, author and teacher, Alli Patterson, shares the lessons she learned about resiliency, forgiveness, and courage. Her new book, How to Stay Standing, is a primer for everyone looking to stay standing through the storms of life.

How to Stay Standing is available wherever books are sold. Purchase at this link to support Alli’s mission to get the book into the hands of incarcerated women. Promotion ends 2/10/23.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life. Today, it's going to be a little different. I say that all the time. Today is going to be a little different. I say that all the time. Today's going to be a little bit... I say it all the time. Because I get bored with the same old, same old. And today's different for a different reason, because I don't have my trusty sidekick dirt. Dirt is not with us. That's a real, real bummer uh he's home taking a bath finally i said do not come
0:40.6	back to work until you take a bath so he's taking a bath he's at home watching his kids but but
0:50.0	i have another personality plus with me somebody actually has a larger personality than dirt.
0:56.6	Allie Cat Patterson.
0:57.7	How are you, Alley Cat?
0:58.6	I'm good.
0:59.1	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:00.7	I was reading your book, your brand new book that comes out when?
1:04.3	January.
1:05.4	2023.
1:06.4	January?
1:07.1	Like what date in January?
1:08.1	January 24th.
1:09.3	Tuesday, January 24th.
1:10.7	January 24th. So I was reading your book
1:12.8	this morning. In your introduction, I love this. You talk about taking your kids to the beach and
1:21.1	building sandcastles and timing it so that the water comes in and fills up the mode at just the
1:27.3	right time and then eventually the water gets higher and fills up the mode at just the right time.
1:28.0	And then eventually the water gets higher and higher and wipes out all of your work that you guys have done.
1:31.9	And here's what you write.
1:34.1	You write, when the kids were young, the crying would begin when the end became clear.
1:40.8	They hated the thought of putting so much work into something that wasn't going to last.
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