We Can Do Hard Things 253. Is it Real Love or Spider Love? With Martha Beck
Oct 26, 2023
Life coach Martha Beck shares profound insights and practical guidance on finding purpose in midlife, using longing as a map, and distinguishing real love. They discuss topics like self-sacrifice, attachment, jealousy, listening, self-worth, intellectual analysis, and the compulsion to fix others. A mother and her son also share their near-death experiences of overwhelming freedom, love, and comfort.
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Follow Your Yearning As A Map
- Allow your longing and use it as a map to your soul's desire.
- Believe yearning can be fulfilled and let it guide your next steps in life.
Yearning Reveals Separation, Not Failure
- Yearning signals a part of you conscious of separation from love rather than a problem to fix.
- Recognizing your innate wholeness can make improbable loving outcomes possible.
Grieve Codependence To Gain Freedom
- Grieve relationships that were actually codependence and not love.
- Use grief to transform sorrow into liberation and compassion.