Melody Beattie
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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That's such a great point. I think being flexible right now, being flexible in our ideation and our opinions in our what we expect of life every day, we need to be so flexible. Otherwise we're going to run into that resistance.
And then that need, I mean, the more we can actively be flexible every day, the better, not flexible with our values necessarily, but flexible enough to go with the flow of life as it shifts and changes at astronomical levels. And I think it's going to keep doing it for a little bit longer. Yeah.
Absolutely. We can be passionate as long as we're open. Sometimes we can just be so sure we know things. And we've maybe reached a certain level of understanding, but we don't necessarily really know it yet. And we're about to learn. I mean, life can be a very exciting journey. And I don't like to just throw that out because it can get very cliche-ish.
But it can be even now as we're challenged, as we're challenged. It's an exciting time for each of us to be alive. It is a challenging time. It's going to challenge us at levels we've not been challenged before. Yay. Yeah.
And the reason we've been getting all these superpowers from recovery since the 1970s is not so we can keep them on our vanity in our bedroom and use them when we want to do a powder puff on our face. It's because we're really going to need them. We're going to need these personal skills. It's not all been about nonsense. It's happening for a reason. So Do yourself another favor. We all do.
Keep track of your own growth. Don't just go out in that garden and look at how that plant has grown every year. Go out every month or every time you do something or you feel good about something you've done, you know, a little pat on the back doesn't hurt. We can, you know, humbly keep trying and we can humbly feel good about the good we've done. Keeping in mind, that's just my opinion today.
I'll let you know.
I will let you know. Until then, just please keep being yourselves.
I think that would take more time than we have in this podcast. There's another book and follow this one. And it's called Living by Spirit. I don't want to mix the lessons up too much. But waking up at age 70 and having to start completely over again as a single woman in LA and 70 years old. So there's been a few challenges with that, you know, concerning surrender, concerning acceptance.
And then starting over again. I don't know if y'all have had to do it. I'm guessing the answer is yes. Is it? I never thought I'd have to do it again at age 70. And I would say for the most part, most days I'm pretty chill with it. I'm pretty good with it. Although sometimes I do feel like I've been hogtied and I'm just laying here trying to get out of the ropes.
I would say that is the biggest challenge I'm facing right now. Waking up alive, being told that you have life, a lot potentially of life left at age 70 in LA has been the biggest challenge that I've had to face.
I think you're wonderful, too. I think the group is wonderful. And it's been my pleasure to share light with you.
That's pretty much how my home felt when I realized I had to start over at age 70. I... I wasn't gangbusters for it. And it wasn't necessarily pleasant, but it was surrendering to and going through the process of getting comfortable with it. And sometimes it felt like I was being burned with lasers, you know, on my brain, on my spirit, on my emotions.
It's not always that painful, but sometimes it is. Sometimes it can be brutal. Life can actually be brutal in moments, but we get through them, don't we? The storms do pass. We get through them and... If we're looking, we'll see that we've grown, we've changed, and we will feel a little more confident in our ability to surrender to and trust life.
And start cleaning it and straightening it out as fast as you can.
It is. When I started, uh, redoing my life at age 70, I also started remodeling my home. And remodeling your home while you're living in it is like making the bed while you're in it. It is just horrendously uncomfortable. And yet I was that uncomfortable within myself. And I had to be patient. And the most important thing I had to realize is if I couldn't be happy,
No one.
No one.
Well, we were told we didn't have homes. Yeah. But we could clean up their homes. Yeah. And keep them nice and cozy. I know, I know, I know. But the good news is we're being evolved. We're being changed. We're growing. That's right.
Yes, please. All right, I will. She'll be thrilled.
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