You’re NOT A MESS. The world is.

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

1. The viral note Glennon wrote to herself in her car this week—and how the world’s response confirmed that we’re all struggling right now. 2. How we tend to either Avoid the world’s pain or Be Consumed by it—and how to survive the overwhelm by embracing the Third Way. 3. What Glennon fears most as her oldest child leaves for college. 4. Why we can’t let the fact that we can’t fix everything keep us from doing something—and how Together Rising began. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, it's Glenin. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Just want to start this
0:14.8	episode by saying, good luck to you. Good luck to you. We are recording this episode two days
0:22.2	before I drop my son off at college. So today is Doomsday Eve Eve, okay? And I am in the midst of just
0:40.8	some real deep feelings that I'm not really sure I can even isolate before I knew of Chase's
0:50.6	existence. So I got sober the day I found out that I was pregnant with Chase, okay? It was on
0:56.3	Mother's Day 19 years ago. And so before that day, I was not who I am today, okay? I was an
1:12.8	addict. I was a food addict and an alcoholic addict. I was, I had no sense of myself at all. I
1:20.2	had no, I hurt people, I lied to people, I stole, I just was just a really, really lost human being. I
1:29.7	had no North Star. I had no self really. And so the day that I found out I was pregnant with Chase,
1:38.5	well, I just, I guess is the first time I ever wanted something more than I wanted to just be
1:45.7	numb. And so I decided that I wanted to become a mother, which meant that I was also going to
1:54.6	have to become like a human being, right? And so the way that I became a human being is that I just
2:05.8	constantly asked myself consciously at first and then subconsciously, okay, what would this kid's
2:13.4	mom do? Every decision that had to be made, every in my work, in my life, in my was just like, okay,
2:22.0	I would look at this little child. Because you know, I think the universe just kind of looked at me
2:29.4	and was like, oh, bless her heart. Like we are, we are going to have to give her the easiest child ever
2:35.6	first. Because she, she can't handle a normal person, right? She's just learning to become a normal
2:43.1	person. So we're going to have to give her this child that is like this little Yoda of a person,
2:48.6	okay? This like, and I'm not lying, right? You guys like she's just, oh no, he's, he's objectively
2:54.2	just exceptional. He's just this gentle, wise, beyond his years, little human who has been so
3:04.9	patient with me. And you know, he's the child who he's very rarely pushed the boundaries of anything,
3:13.7	but he, no, in his, I mean, it worth me. But once he was, I told him to stay inside this little
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