Jonathan Asner lost his career, home, marriage, and his 19-year-old son. He chose to grieve with love instead of suffering, describing the inner work required to sustain that choice through profound trauma.
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What if the work that you've been putting out, the noise that you've been disturbed by and not been able to listen to the signal, what if that's the work that's going to continue you forward?
So I had 3 emotionally devastating things happen to me all at once, and I literally for 5 years went to bed wishing I didn't wake up.
13 years before his son died, Jonathan lost everything— his career, his home, his marriage.
And then in 2018, he lost his 19-year-old son, and that I made the conscious choice to say, I'm gonna grieve with love versus suffering. And this is Jonathan Asner.
He's one of America's biggest self-love coaches, bestselling author. And today we're gonna talk about that the inner work that we keep avoiding is the work that all of us need. But Jonathan shares that how the way he chose love over grief, over suffering, the work he did earlier was what led to this moment for him.
Let me tell you, this isn't easy work.
It isn't.
Inner work is not easy work. You know, that exam in life is not easy. It is, it is not for the faint of heart.