Love Your Story

Episode 223: Bitter or Better Rumi said, “The wound is the place the light enters you.” I love this gorgeous truth, the poetry of it, the truth in it, the hope of it.  In our times of suffering and trial it is often hard to see the purpose. Instead it’s the “why me?’ It’s the visceral jerking away from pain, it’s the scream. But if we realize that this too shall pass, and in its wake will be strength and color we don’t yet understand, we can hold to hope.  Join me today for insight from a war hostage, a woman who was hit by a car and had her leg paralyzed, and from a man who recovered from a truly traumatic childhood into an engineer of lives, too see how the wound is the place that the light enters you, and the importance of trusting the process.  I want to start with 4 truths today: You can’t get past the past until you accept it.  The process of growth is pushing past one wall after another, and often those walls are painful. Failure is feedback. It teaches us what not to do.  Don’t stare a