She’s someone who truly understands the value of writing your own story in life and writing it well. My guest today is Lori Gottlieb - one of the wisest women I have ever met. “If we don’t rewrite our story, we relive our story.” – Lori Gottlieb We can’t always keep bad things from happening - COVID-19, the death of a friend, mental illness - but we can control how we respond to those things.
Do we let those moments define us? Or do we rewrite our story?įriends, we have much more agency than we realize, and it all has to do with our mindset. When bad things happen, we are faced with a choice. And if you’ve gone through something traumatic, that experience can easily sabotage your happiness. It’s like you’re just being thrown around life without any control at all. Those things can feel so binding and make you feel so small. It becomes even more challenging if you struggle with mental illness, like depression or anxiety, or have experienced trauma in your life. When we do that, we let shame, fear, or anger become the authors of our own story. When bad things happen, it’s easy to become victims of those circumstances and feel like we have no control. Often, we move through life as if we had no agency. Actor Harvey Fierstein once said: “Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
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