Life hack #30: Turning your pain into purpose

Life hack #30: Turning your pain into purpose

[00:00:00] Life hack #30 Turning your pain into purpose. So unless you've gone through a traumatic loss in your life, you might not understand the feeling of having this unresolved grief, unresolved anger, unresolved loss. And it can feel like a cyclone of energy that just like you carry with you. And sometimes you are looking for desperate ways to get that out of you.

You know, like some people like look for methods to release anger, release feelings in general, like sadness, like through tears, through journaling. But in general, there can be an overwhelming sense of pain. And what do you do with that? And so one of the biggest life hacks is to turn that pain into purpose.

And so if you look at people who have lost somebody to cancer or lost somebody to, to diabetes or whatever, and then you see them join like a run for the cure, you know, a marathon where they take pledges and raise money for, for the disease. This is a [00:01:00] beautiful example of how people can take pain, take loss and funnel it into energy that's positive.

and put it towards something so that they feel that they're at least trying to do something. They're trying to raise money for, for cancer research. They're trying to, to help, right? That's, that's a beautiful example. And so it is, it's a life hack because if you learn that you have the power to transmute energy, negative, grief, sadness, once you've processed it enough, you'll be able to transmute it into something positive.

If you're savvy enough. and this is where I think I wanted to explain why I did this podcast. And I should mention that this is a video version of this podcast. It is the only episode so far that I am actually looking into the camera and speaking. So if you're listening on like Spotify or Apple, click on the description of this podcast to get a link to the YouTube video, the YouTube version of this episode.

And you can see the really rare opportunity of where I'm actually looking and [00:02:00] talking and frankly showing some emotion. So the reason I am doing this Life Hack Your Break Up podcast is actually to turn my own pain into purpose. It's a turn my own life experiences, including a recent experience into something that is positive, constructive and actually available to help people. And it was when I was going through my most recent break up, which wasn't, wasn't that long ago. And it's a hard one. It's a tough one. And I had to learn, you know, to go to those life hacks and do those things to help me get through it. And so I remember thinking, well, this could help someone else, you know, and if it's helped me helping me, it'll help someone else.

So I should really be like writing this down for people. And so that's kind of how this whole podcast came about is I was realizing that there's people out there who are not sure what to do when they face significant grief and pain. And it can feel so overwhelming that people are at risk, right? During this process, my friend, one of my younger friends was [00:03:00] going through one of her, one of her.

Well it was her second relationship break up in her life? Okay. And so as empathetic as I was for my younger friend, I'm like, honey, I'm like, you're going to get your heart broken so many more times. Like, I, I hate, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but she's got some life to live still, uh, at her age. So, but what I realized was that she was, she was struggling and she was grasping for help.

And I realized that what I could do is tell her these life hacks, take a hot shower when you can't get your emotional regulation under control, the benefits of grounding and sitting on the earth. The truly transformational benefits of journaling and being able to get all of that crazy energy that won't stop ruminating and ruminating and circulating and putting it out on paper and giving you some peace.

And so I was giving my friend all these separate pieces of advice and I remember thinking, you know what, I want to give everybody this advice, anybody who needs it. And so I really hope that whoever has watched and engaged with this [00:04:00] podcast, I hope that you have found something in it for yourself, some value.

If you have, I would really ask you to please review this podcast, especially on apps like Spotify, Apple podcasts and Audible, because this is a new podcast and I'm trying to reach an audience of people who actually need the help. And so if you have a friend in need or somebody, you know that is going through heartbreak or we're going through a serious break up.

Please share the link to this podcast. It's available and so many different listening platforms and all of them are going to be listed in the description of this episode. And you can share it and give somebody the whole list and give them life hacks to make their pain lessen, to be able to take their power back, to regain the ability to emotional regulate.

And it would mean a lot to me that the pain that ultimately drove this project would be serving a very higher purpose of healing the world, you know, one break up at a time. So thank you for tuning in.