Here’s the pep talk you need if you have an injury, broken bone, illness, setback…Today I broke my foot. Not even anything interesting or sexy. Just walked straight into a piece of coral on a beach in Bali and split my toe open, and it got me thinking about every injury, illness and firing that ever rerouted my life. This one is about learning to look at your setbacks and say “what a gift.”
Took me 16 years to learn this and I’ll teach you in 15 mins. I broke my toe this week...so here’s the pep talk I gave myself, and will now give to you to save for a rainy day.
This would be funny story on its own, except I broke this exact same toe at 19, and back then it completely wrecked me.
Same injury. Sixteen years apart. Two entirely different women.
That gap is what this one is about. Why the universe keeps picking rest days for women who refuse to choose their own, and the shift that took me from why is this happening to me to what a gift, without any of the toxic positivity nonsense.
If you are currently in something hard, an injury, an illness, a loss, a job loss you did not see coming that stopped you in your tracks, press play.