There's No Obstacle-Free Version of Your Life

You keep telling yourself you'll relax once this part is over.

Once the pain eases. Once the house sells. Once the money settles. Once the uncertainty finally lifts and life goes back to normal.

But what if it never does? And what if that's not the problem?

This week, the Lemonettes skip the obstacles they overcame a decade ago and wrapped up in a pretty bow. They talk about the ones they're living in right now. A hip surgery canceled one week out. A young horse who looked straight into Amanda's eyes and asked, "Is this okay?" A life on the road that started out feeling like freedom and slowly began to feel like a cage. A longing for financial freedom that keeps showing up in new disguises.

Inspired by Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle Is the Way and the ancient wisdom of Stoic philosophy, this conversation sits right in the middle of the Serenity Prayer. What can you change, what are you being asked to accept, and how do you tell the difference while it's still happening to you?

No neat answers. No spiritual bypass. Just five women being honest about what's in front of them and asking a different question.

 

THIS WEEK'S REFLECTION

Instead of asking how quickly you can get past what's in front of you, try sitting with this:

What might this obstacle be asking me to become?

 

RESOURCES MENTIONED

- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday 
- Also by Ryan Holiday: Ego Is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, The Daily Stoic
- The Serenity Prayer
- A Course in Miracles
- Abraham Hicks, on learning through contrast
- The Two Arrows teaching (the first arrow and the second arrow of suffering)
- Wayne Dyer and the Tao Te Ching

 

WORK WITH THE LEMONETTES

💛 Amanda (Spiritual Counseling): amandasnyder123@gmail.com
💛 Drusilla (Spiritual Counseling): djtalley@comcast.net
💛 Melissa (Business & Marketing Coaching): melissa@dugan2.com
💛 Morgan (Spiritual Counseling): morgan@lovelightmorgan.com
💛 Penny (Performance Coaching): coachpenny@me.com

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