You Called, We Listened: Your Stories, In Your Words: Messages from For the Love Listeners

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Today, we’re flipping the mic and featuring you. We’re playing some of our favorite listener messages—stories full of hard-won wisdom, midlife revelations, and honest moments about what we’re letting go of and what we’re saying yes to now. This episode is a reminder that we’re not in this alone—your voice matters, your story counts, and we all grow stronger when we listen to one another. If you have a thought, story or question you’d like to share with us on the show, leave us a message over at jenhatmaker.com/podcast and we might play your message in an upcoming episode. Thanks to Alice, Ann, Sarah, Ashley, #1 Becky, and “Badass Becky” for showing up with your beautiful, funny, and powerful messages. Oh—and yes, we address a certain someone’s commentary on our bare midlife feet. A new dress code might be pending… Highlights & Quotes: “We can rotate in every good tool, the language, the therapy, the embodiment work, the community, medication, if that's appropriate, we can literally onboard every good tool and it still hurts. It's not that they're not magic tools. They don't make hard things end abruptly. They just help us see it through. They help us get to the other side of it.”– Jen Hatmaker “I do sometimes want to reach for rage. I want to burn shit down. I want to kick walls over. I want to scream and pull my hair out. I want to shake people senseless. And I'm not sure that that's the most powerful response.” – Jen Hatmaker “If we don’t counter-balance messages of cruelty, disenfranchisement and dehumanization, if we don’t respond in love, those will become the norm. They’ll slowly take over.” – Jen Hatmaker “Sometimes, I just have to make a to-do list of everything that I can think of that I already did just so I can cross it off immediately, just for a tiny boost, to hack my brain into believing that I can do the next five things.” – Amy Hardin “I think we're at our best in the second half of life. We know the most. We've experienced the most. We're smarter. We're better. We're wiser. That is the true story. – Jen Hatmaker Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Reclaiming Your Power: Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts on Living a Life of Passion and Purpose - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/reclaiming-your-power-moms-demand-actions-shannon-watts-on-living-a-life-of-passion-and-purpose/ Camino de Santiago - https://santiago-compostela.net/ Midlife Isn’t a Crisis, It’s a Comeback: Maddie Corman on Being Accidentally Brave - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/midlife-isnt-a-crisis-its-a-comeback-maddie-corman-on-being-accidentally-brave/ Betrayal Trauma - https://www.verywellmind.com/betrayal-trauma-causes-symptoms-impact-and-coping-5270361 Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/ Books by Brené Brown - https://amzn.to/3FgwnIt The Tears of Things: Living Prophetically in an Age of Outrage with Richard Rohr - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/the-tears-of-things-living-prophetically-in-an-age-of-outrage-with-richard-rohr/ Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts - https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-cuts-6292f48f8d4025bed0bf5c3e9d623c16 Kendra Adachi - https://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/ Escaping the Productivity Trap: Kendra Adachi’s Lazy Genius Perspective - https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/escaping-the-productivity-trap-kendra-adachis-lazy-genius-perspective/ Frances Mayes - https://www.francesemayes.com/ Connect with Jen! Jen’s Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy.

Topics

• Love & Compassion
• Purpose & Calling
• Self-Control