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Hi, everybody. Welcome to Coach's

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Corner. So I've just

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got a quickie for you today because it's

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really been on my mind and it's been

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coming up a lot. And I want to

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talk to you about the difference between being

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strong and enduring.

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So in our society,

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being strong is a

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badge of honor. It's something we're

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often praised for, especially after we've been

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through a difficult time or difficult

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circumstances. People are like, oh, you're so strong,

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you're so strong. Oh my gosh, you're so

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strong. And we praise ourselves for it. We

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go through something difficult and we say, you

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know what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I'm

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going to be stronger because of this. So we talk

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about our trauma and we're like, oh, it's made me

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stronger. And that is true.

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But let's just actually dissect

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what strong really means. So

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going through difficult things does make

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us stronger in the sense that

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it makes us more resilient. And

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resiliency is a very

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healthy quality of being a human

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being. Because with resiliency, we

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learn how to problem solve. We learn

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that we can be knocked

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down and get back up. We

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learn that we don't have to take

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everything so personally. It's

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much different from pushing

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through something and enduring

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something and then calling

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ourselves strong because we've

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actually just stuffed down

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and suppressed the feelings.

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So let's unpack this a little more. Most

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of the time when people use

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the word strong to describe themselves

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or someone else, what they're

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actually describing is someone who has

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gotten to the other side

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of something and it didn't kill them,

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right? It's like made you stronger.

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But what's really going on inside a

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lot of the time is that

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person has just survived. So

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surviving alone

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doesn't make us strong. That

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means we endured something. And

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in that enduring, we've probably ignored

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a lot of the feelings that

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were just too overwhelming to feel

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or that we didn't have time

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to feel because we were in

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survival strategies. And often when there

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is a big trauma or change in our life, we

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have to be in survival first. But

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if we don't then allow ourselves to

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collapse, allow ourselves to go into vulnerability,

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allow ourselves to feel all of them

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that we couldn't feel because we had to be

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strong and had to just look

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through the day for ourselves, for our

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family, for fill in the blank. If

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we don't actually allow space to crumble,

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to allow all those feelings to come

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up, then what we've done is

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we've just endured. And

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enduring doesn't create true strength and

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true resilience. Authenticity

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does. Authenticity does. Being

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willing to fall apart,

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being willing to collapse, being willing

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to allow space for all

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those feelings that come up so we can actually heal.

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So I just

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want you to think about this and reflect

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on it and feel into it in your

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body. Are there things that

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you've been quote unquote strong about

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that really you've just endured? So

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you're still, even though you've gotten to the other

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side of the experience, you're still carrying the trauma.

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You're still carrying the feelings.

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You're still carrying the unprocessed emotions

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and thoughts and feelings. And

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that's a heavy load. And

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so what I'm going to invite you to

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do is to invite in

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more vulnerability. First with yourself

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and then with others. Let

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go of the badge of honor of being so strong.

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Realize that you've probably been enduring. Go

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for true strength, which

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isn't about just getting to the other side

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of something. and isn't about

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just surviving because the pattern I see

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with people who do that and

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are praised for being strong is

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that inside they

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feel anxiety, they

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feel uncertainty, or they

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even feel numbness or apathy because they've

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had to switch off such a big

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part of them in order to endure

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what they've endured. And

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sometimes endurance is the best choice because we don't have

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the space, we don't have the skills, we don't have

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the tools, we don't have the resources, we don't have

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the right support to really

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allow ourselves to go into true

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vulnerability, collapse, and resilience. And

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that's okay. Sometimes we need to be strong that way.

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But eventually we need to

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realize it, go back and go,

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okay, I'm out of survival,

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I have the resources and support, it's

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time to stop enduring and

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actually really be vulnerable

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so I can find true strength.

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So consider that this week. Consider it

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right now. Where in

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your life are you being strong? Or

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where have you been strong? And

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where can you lean in

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to more vulnerability and honesty

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with how you actually are feeling or

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have felt in the past? Before

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I sign off, I want to remind you

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again that we are now enrolling for ReConnect,

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And you really get to be held in

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enduring pattern, and those of you

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who know personality patterns, I'm not just talking

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about those of you who do that personality

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pattern all of us have endured at

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times in our lives and qualities and strengths.

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All right everybody, that is Soul Coaches

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Corner for today. If you have any

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I'm sending you so much love and many blessings. Until next

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time.