Saddle Up and Do Life Different: The Healing Power of Hope: How Mindset and Faith Help Us Through Life’s Hardest Moments

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Welcome listeners.

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Lately I have been asking

myself a lot about hope.

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I see Bible verses, I'm seeing articles

about hope and you know, how do we

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keep our hope in heavy times when

things are hard in our world, when we

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go through difficulties, whether it's.

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A divorce, a diagnosis, um,

something going on with your kiddos.

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How does Hope play a role in that?

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And I am so excited.

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I just purchased a book.

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So I will do another quick

little segment when, um, I get

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have read through this book.

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But the book is called Eight Ways

to Hope, and it's by William Miller.

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I'm definitely going to read, read it,

because what I'm learning is that hope

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really isn't just wishful thinking.

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It's like it's complex and it's about

a resilient mindset, which you know

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how much I talk about your mindset

and getting your mindset right.

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It's very tied to hope.

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So I wanna, I just wanna share this with

you, and I probably have talked about

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it before, and I did, I had, you know,

they caught stage one breast cancer.

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I had a really hopeful story.

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Uh, my dad kinda had a similar

story with his prostate cancer.

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So that's very hopeful.

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But what I want you to know, and this

is on my mind because I have to go

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to the oncologist just for a checkup.

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You have to go for those

checkups every year, but.

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I wanna let her know this too.

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What made all the difference

was how much hope my doctor had.

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So those words that we give people

and those beliefs are powerful

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if they can share those with us.

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And in my case, she was so well, everyone

I talked to is, you're gonna be fine.

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98% positive outcome.

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Um, I had to do chemo because

of what was feeding my cancer.

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It was called her two.

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It wasn't a hormone type of cancer.

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So, and then they do chemo, which is great

because then you know, they can keep it

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away, but not so great when you're really

terrified of, of going through that.

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And there are different kinds of chemo.

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And this one was hard, but

it wasn't the toughest.

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Um, but she told me, she looked me in

the eyes and she said, I think you're

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gonna tolerate this really well.

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I don't think you're gonna lose your hair.

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You're not gonna go bald.

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Your hair isn't gonna look the same,

you're not gonna keep all your hair.

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She was so positive and I

globbed on and I believed her.

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And as I read through this

article about this book.

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It was interesting because there

was a, a piece in there that

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said sometimes it is just better.

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And for me it was, it was really

odd because I'm a digger and

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a learner for some reason.

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When this happened to me,

I stopped and I just went.

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I prayed, I surrendered to God, and

I trusted my doctor, and I did not go

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digging around and I did not look at

anything else, and I just listened to her.

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I think that is exactly

what I needed at that time.

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So hope can change things.

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Hope can change your mindset when you are

hopeful, when you are grateful, there's

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not as much room for fear and anxiety.

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So, um, this article talked about how.

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What hope, why hope matters.

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And it, it's, it makes us better

problem solvers because we can use our,

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our brain better when we have hope.

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When we're not torn up in fear, we

can be more resilient and creative.

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It's also contagious, like I just

said, when my doctor was hopeful

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and I am so, um, so hopeful.

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For anyone who gets a diagnosis or is

going through something hard because I

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know what matters and I do believe it.

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I believe in the hope, I believe

in, in God answering prayers

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and, um, passing that hope along

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is so.

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It's fulfilling.

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It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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You know how, when you have hope.

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You're drawn toward better things.

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You see things in a better light.

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It just seems to project you towards that.

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I don't really get it.

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I don't know exactly how it works, but

I am here to tell you, it helped me.

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It helped me through

something really hard, so.

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I want you, if you are going through

something really hard or just

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kind of hard, I want you to have

gratitude and I want you to have hope.

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I want you to pray, and I want you

to believe that that's possible, what

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you're praying for, even if it's a

kid, if it's a kid with depression or

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whatever it is, keep your hope, keep

praying and stay around positive people

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because our words are so powerful.

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So I just, I felt so moved to get in and

talk about this today, and I just have

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to add that, okay, I'm doing divorce.

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Different on Tuesday that episode

came out and that is about postnuptial

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agreements, which was kind of interesting.

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Um.

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Go back and listen to that episode.

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If you're, if you're going through

a divorce or if you're married and

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you're going through a life change,

you're buying a business, you're

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gonna be staying home with the kids.

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It's really great information from an

attorney that I love, so I just wanted

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to recommend that to y'all as well.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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I am grateful and I appreciate y'all.