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Ep. 277: When the Heavy Season Doesn't End
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- Relationships & psychology
Send us Fan Mail I thought this season would be over by now. Maybe you've told yourself something similar. Once we get through summer. Once this medical thing is figured out. Once my mom is doing better. Once my kid gets through this. Once work settles down. Once we figure out the money situation. Once I get through these appointments. Once fall gets here. Then I'll have room again. And here's the part that makes it so confusing — sometimes you actually do everything you're supposed to do in the meantime. You ad...
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Well, I thought for sure this season would be over for me by now. Maybe you've told yourself something similar. Once we get through summer, once this medical thing is figured out, once my mom is doing better, once my kid gets through this, once work settles down, once we figure out the
money situation, once I get through all of these appointments, once fall gets here, then I'll have room again. And here's the part that makes this so confusing. you actually do everything that you're supposed to do.
In the meantime, you adjust, you say no, you take things off your plate, you lower your expectations, you tell yourself, this is just the season that I'm in, and I can do hard things for a season. Except, then the season doesn't end, or it changes shape, but the heaviness doesn't
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