Last episode, we started unpacking what’s actually underneath the feeling of being trapped by your life. This time, we take the next step: working out whether the thing making you miserable is an unavoidable fact of your life...or a “should” you’ve become so attached to that you can no longer see another way. Because while you might not be able to change the school run, your workload, your children, your partner or the responsibilities sitting on your shoulders, but you may have far more choice in how you experience them than you realise.

We explore radical acceptance, the exhausting and often painful pursuit of trying to change other people, and what becomes possible when you stop fighting with the reality of what is. This episode will help you question the expectations keeping you stuck, find where you still have choice and flexibility, and begin experimenting with different ways of living the life you actually have, rather than continually suffering because it isn’t the life you think it should be.

In this episode we discuss:

* How to work out whether the thing making you miserable is a fact or a “should”
* Why your expectations of how life, motherhood or your relationship should be may be making you suffer
* What happens when you keep waiting for your partner, children or circumstances to change before you can be happy
* Why trying to control and change the people you love is exhausting for everyone involved
* The difference between accepting your reality and resigning yourself to a life you hate
* How to find more choice when you feel like you have absolutely none
* Why you might be stuck choosing the same “flavour” of life without realising there are other options
* What to do when you can’t change the responsibility, but desperately need to change how it feels
* How to pair the unavoidable parts of your life with pleasure, play and things that make you feel more alive
* Why radical acceptance might be the thing that finally frees you from fighting with your life
* How to stop waiting for your life to change and start experimenting with how you experience it
* The second step in our three-part pathway towards feeling less trapped and finding more freedom, choice and fulfilment


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