Today I Am Alive

Why Our Suffering Isn’t Wasted


Listen Later

“There are times when a single phrase can literally alter the course of your entire life.” Margaret takes you on a journey to understand the gifts and blessings of overcoming suffering. Discover how to change your situation, control your response and choose love, compassion and forgiveness over pain.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

  • Our thoughts and feelings are shaped by our conditioning, our beliefs, our knowledge, our experiences, and our present state of mind. We each have the inner awareness of freedom, the power and choice of how to respond to any given thought, emotion or any given situation that arises in our life.

 

  • If you're not able to change a situation, you can control how you choose to respond to it in the present. 

 

  • The challenges we face and the obstacles we overcome do not have to hold us back. Instead, they become part of our story of redemption. Gifts, blessings and healings to live a purposefully filled life and to empower others. 

 

  • When suffering is overcome, it is replaced with valuable gifts of love, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude.

  • We are the producer, the author, the director, and the actor of our thoughts and feelings. We can make new choices from suffering or whatever life throws in our way with meditation, creativity and imagination.
  •  

    BEST MOMENTS 

    “My mind began to shift. It was an instant awakening in the present moment and I have the choice, I am in charge and can change my thoughts and feelings.”

    “Every one of us is flawed. Life is a gift.” 

    “I am grateful for the mistakes I made and the lesson life is teaching me to grow.”

     

    CONTACT METHOD

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.aberdeen

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretaberdeen/

    Email: [email protected]

    ABOUT THE HOST

    A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Today I Am AliveBy Margaret Aberdeen