Steadfast Life Podcast & Blog
Allowing Disappointment
BIG BELIEF is just so scary because it creates opportunity for BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! I suppose you could just believe small, achieve small, love small, and live small, but if you're reading this - those kinds of solutions are not an option for you!
The best solution is to build your CAPACITY to feel disappointment so that when it does show up, it doesn't have such a devastating impact.
How do you do that? You FEEL it! You don't buffer it, you don't resist it, and you don't appease it. You ALLOW it.
In this episode Whit discusses the BIG DISAPPOINTMENT she felt after choosing the BIG BELIEF that she was pregnant. She holds nothing back as she walks you through the practical steps and the emotional experience of befriending her disappointment.
"As I continue to practice allowing ALL emotion, my life gets fuller, richer, and more authentic." - Whit
How to Overcome "Impossible"
As Whit and I get back to life after taking 12 teenagers on a 7 day wilderness adventure, we reflect on some of the insights that came up while the kids were staring at challenges with NO BELIEF that success was possible. Then what they learned as they leaned into the impossible hard enough to make it possible.
The key is the fuel ...the emotion ...the feeling that you are experience as you are taking on a difficult challenge. I KNOW you have a "mountain" of your own - that challenge in your own life that just looks impossible from here. I believe that these lesson learned in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California are the same lessons that help you to climb yours.