Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

Life Tough? 😔 Embrace Self-Love! ❤️ In my episode with Scott Fried, we hit on some deep topics.

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker acknowledges that life’s pain is inevitable and emphasizes the importance of maintaining self‑love even when circumstances are difficult. Using a twist on the familiar nursery rhyme “Row, row, row your boat,” the speaker highlights an often‑unspoken verse—“row, row, row your boat, watch the water flow. Rowing’s fun. Rowing’s hard”—to illustrate that resilience involves recognizing both the enjoyable and challenging aspects of life. The speaker laments that this fuller perspective isn’t taught to children, suggesting a gap in emotional education that could help future generations handle hardship with grace and self‑compassion.

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It's not a surprise, or it shouldn't be, or it isn't to a lot of people. It is to some. When life hurts, it's faithful in its ways of treating us that is painful sometimes. And so in order to be elegant is to be able to still love yourself in the face of the fact that life is hard. Because there's that great— as much as I said that nursery rhyme, Row your boat gently down the stream. There's a lot of other verses, and one of the verses that we're not taught as kids is, um, row, row, row your boat, watch the water flow. Rowing's fun. Rowing's hard. This is what I know. We don't teach our children that verse.