The Gathering Room: When Life Beats You Down

There’s a BIG difference between “hitting a rough patch” and feeling the Universe relentlessly pound you into the ground. In this episode, Martha recounts coaching a client who’s definitely in that latter category yet has remained remarkably clear of mind, heart, and spirit. She explains that sometimes life takes wonderful people and beats them down hard, over and over, in order to forge them like samurai swords. That the long, merciless process of being pounded by circumstances drives out parts of our psyches that are attached to illusions or untruths. Tune in for more insights about ego death, endurance, and the haunting phrase, “I smell God.” (This conversation originally aired on August 23, 2020.)