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Befriending reality: hope in hard times with Jenny Gaitelband


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Befriending reality: hope in hard times

with Jenny Gaitelband

Hi Reader,

What if pain, in all its forms, was not a sign that you’re broken, but a deeply intelligent signal inviting you back into life, as it is, right now?

In this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast, I am joined by psychotherapist, Three Principles-based mentor and coach, Jenny Gaitelband, to explore how a deeper understanding of the mind can bring comfort, beauty and hope even in the harshest of human experiences.

From war, loss and Post Traumatic Stress, to everyday anxiety about work, money and relationships, Jenny shares how seeing the principles behind experience has transformed her practice, her parenting, her marriage and her relationship with her own history.​

Together, Jenny and I reflect on the shift from trying to fix what is “broken” in people’s pasts, to becoming genuinely curious about what someone longs to create now – their “soul wish” – and how life is constantly nudging us through feeling, like checking a heat spot in your boots before a blister develops.

We talk about befriending reality, allowing pain to move through when there is safety, and recognising that everyone is a perpetual work in progress, equipped with the same creative capacity to meet whatever life brings, one conversation at a time.​

A question to sit with: Where in your life might you be resisting what is, and what becomes possible if you relate to your pain as an intelligent guide rather than a problem to eliminate?

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