Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

The pain of changing… #suffering #changeyourlife #changeyourmindset

11 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a Josh Trent podcast episode discussing the emotional difficulty of personal change. Speakers reflect that becoming free from painful patterns requires the perceived prize (freedom) to outweigh the immediate pain of change, and that many only commit to change when their suffering becomes extreme; Josh recounts a catalytic moment when he cried to God on a golf course seeking a different life.

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Being free of things can be painful. The prize has to be greater. Whatever I've got to go through to get free, that has to be more desirable to me personally than continued suffering of maintaining my pain.
Is the pain of changing worse, or can I come to grips with accepting the pain of changing? Is it more serious than me not changing at all? And I feel like most people, they only get to that willingness when they're in extreme amounts of pain. That's been the case for me. What launched this podcast seven years ago was me crying to God on a golf course overlooking the Omni Carlsbad. God, like, show me where to go, please. I don't want to be here anymore. I want something different for this life.