#7: Stop waiting for life not to be hard

Episode 7 of the Smiling Again podcast, hosted by Kim Moore, titled "#7: Stop waiting for life not to be hard" was published on August 13, 2021 and runs 23 minutes.

August 13, 2021 ·23m · Smiling Again

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Summary

In this episode I'm very fortunate to speak with Alissa who is living in the US on the Jersey shore, the idyllic Jersey shore that we've all seen on TV. The mom of two young boys, Alissa has had different relationships in her life, loving someone with an addiction. She lost a younger sibling, a brother, to addiction last year. She was also married to an alcoholic. Alissa shares her story of her transformation journey, the decision to work on herself everyday to build a happier life. She talks about how every day, she wakes up and makes a choice to still do the work and, and to still keep going. Alissa shares how she started with small steps and just one thing - going to the gym. I started with the gym taking 45 minutes for myself. I work on my health because I had young children and I wanted to be healthy and I wanted to be able to keep up with them. And that was my first thing that I decided to do. And what ended up happening was so beautiful. It was 45 minutes a day and I went five days a week. And in those 45 minutes, I wasn't depressed. I wasn't sad. I wasn't thinking about my life. I wasn't worrying about what the next catastrophe was going to be or what tomorrow was going to look like. So I ended up having 45 minutes a day free from my own life. And in those moments that when I came back to my life, I longed for more moments like that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

In this episode I'm very fortunate to speak with Alissa who is living in the US on the Jersey shore, the idyllic Jersey shore that we've all seen on TV. The mom of two young boys, Alissa has had different relationships in her life, loving someone with an addiction. She lost a younger sibling, a brother, to addiction last year. She was also married to an alcoholic.

Alissa shares her story of her transformation journey, the decision to work on herself everyday to build a happier life. She talks about how every day, she wakes up and makes a choice to still do the work and, and to still keep going.

Alissa shares how she started with small steps and just one thing - going to the gym.

I started with the gym taking 45 minutes for myself. I work on my health because I had young children and I wanted to be healthy and I wanted to be able to keep up with them. And that was my first thing that I decided to do. And what ended up happening was so beautiful. It was 45 minutes a day and I went five days a week. And in those 45 minutes, I wasn't depressed. I wasn't sad. I wasn't thinking about my life. I wasn't worrying about what the next catastrophe was going to be or what tomorrow was going to look like. So I ended up having 45 minutes a day free from my own life. And in those moments that when I came back to my life, I longed for more moments like that.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.