Wanting More Does Not Make You Ungrateful
from Midlife In Full Color Hosted by Brita Doubroff
S1 E4 I Want More: Honoring Desire in Midlife Without GuiltBrita Doubroff reflects on how saying “I want more” became fraught after a church leader told her she was “never satisfied,” leading her to edit herself and later realize she had been gaslit by a narcissist whose affairs were eventually exposed. She argues that women must be careful who gets to interpret their longing, because desire doesn’t negate gratitude: both can be true. Using her mother’s unfulfilled wanderlust and her own visceral pull toward travel, she encourages listeners to notice recurring longings and name what “more” truly means to avoid chasing busyness, purchases, or drastic reinvention when what’s needed could be meaning or small protected time. She offers four discernment questions about honesty vs escape, persistence, what’s underneath the desire, and one brave but caring next step, ending with a weekly exercise pairing gratitude with readiness for more.00:00 Wanting More00:23 Never Satisfied02:47 Gaslighting Revealed04:48 Gratitude and Desire05:38 Inherited Wanderlust07:47 Responsibility vs Longing08:56 Name Your More10:44 Four Guiding Questions12:46 Midlife Time and Truth13:41 One Brave Step16:01 Closing Encouragement
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