#190 - If I Did That, I Can Do This with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz - a podcast by Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

How is it possible after so much change and unpredictability, we can still hold deep trust that we’ll be ok? 

I’m not sure I have the answer to that… other than: it just comes. 

Daily practice. 

Deep commitment to riding the waves of it all. 

Not denying any of the steps - even the awful messy ones. 

And then coming back to - look how much I’ve already been through. 

I remember more than a decade ago, when I began this inner work, whenever I would be in the depths of overwhelm with my newborn baby, I would have to remind myself of all the times I got through a challenge. 

I would think back to my days as a Japanese-illiterate exchange student in a Japenese-only speaking family and all-girls school at just 15, and the inner strength and resilience that took… 

And I would, quite literally, BREATHE THAT KNOWING BACK IN AGAIN. 

If I did that, I can do this. 

That was my mantra. 

It was my mantra then, when I had a baby who wouldn’t sleep and wouldn’t feed…

And it’s been my mantra again when that same baby has gone through so much over the past 12 months. 

And as my marriage ended. 

If I did that, I can do this. 

How do we trust we’re going to be ok?? 

The only answer I have to that one is… 

Because I remind myself that I was then, and so I will be now, over and over again.

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