Woman Awake - Episode 100 -A life without pain is the biggest lie

Who sold us the lie that the goal is a life free from pain?

Who told you that we must avoid suffering at all costs?

How did we end up believing that our human existence is only a worthy one if its overflowing with love, joy, ease, grace and contentment - at all times.

I’ve had many moments of suffering - most of the ones in my adult years were the result of my own internal warfare. 

As Jewel so beautiful mentions in Joe Rogan’s interview with her recently - Anxiety is leaving your house, to go and look for the thiefs that you are so worried will break and rob your home. 

And I get this. I really do. 

I have had many moments in my life where unfounded, unnecessary anxiety has been the  reason for my own pain.

I remember once pushing a pram with a screaming baby up a hill on a cold winter’s day - nothing I could do would settle my little boy. This was my second time on the merry go round and I was fuming - at life, at god, at myself - that I was having a similar experience to the first. Unsettled baby, feeling at the mercy of so many elements out of my control.

I recall that in my mind I was having a very heated and vivid conversation with god - in fact I was fuming. “Why is it like this again. How did this happen? What have I done wrong? Why won’t you make this better?…. 

And on it went.

Until, that is, I was stopped short in my tracks. And I heard these words (who they are from I can only guess - my highest self, a guide, the goddess herself… it doesn’t matter).

But the words I heard were: “Why don’t you stop asking me to fix this and instead trying surrendering to it…”

These words literally stopped in short, half way crossing the road. Disbelief, astonishment, relief, surprise. 

And then I realised this - where did I get the message that any form of struggle and suffering is wrong? Makes me wrong? Isn’t ok? Is not and should not be part of my story.

Why was I fed expectations that life should be hunky dory, sweet as, cruisy and chilled ALL the time? When I was clearly, NOT a cruise and chilled person?

And I started to unpack this idea of surrender a little more - which by the way I had been working through for years at this point. It seems to be a reoccurring theme of mine.

Looking back throughout my life, my childhood I was witness to many moments of pain and suffering.

However, despite that, the story embedded is one that says pain and suffering must be avoided. If by some chance you do experience challenging times you must fight and push against it.

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Celebrating 100 episodes:

I'm so thrilled to offer you this little gift to celebrate 100 episodes on this podcast (One Woke Mama and also the latest Woman Awake iteration!)

This will be my last episode for 2021 so I wanted to offer you a way to nourish yourself and keep me plugged into your ears before I'm back on the mic.

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Show notes:

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Love + light,

Claire