Your Life is Already Telling the Truth

Episode 8 of Growing Up Late explores awareness, avoidance, and the uncomfortable process of waking up to our own lives.

Jeannie reflects on a powerful “168 Hours” exercise that revealed the gap between what she said mattered and how she was actually spending her time. From unopened bills to podcast procrastination, she explores the universal human tendency to avoid discomfort — and the surprising emotional cost that avoidance carries.

Along the way, she shares stories, insights, humor, and hard-earned perspective about:

• living on autopilot
• turning on the observer
• procrastination and vulnerability
• recurring life lessons
• why awareness is ongoing, not one-and-done
• and how even chaos may contain “a pony in there somewhere.”

This episode is thoughtful, funny, psychologically observant, and deeply human — a reminder that your life may already be telling you the truth, if you’re willing to listen.

In this episode:

• Anthony DeMello’s “wake up” story
• The 168 Hours exercise
• Why our behavior reveals more than our intentions
• “The carrying cost of avoidance”
• Podcast resistance and perfectionism
• Pema Chödrön on recurring lessons
• Looking for the pony in difficult seasons

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