What if the experiences that change us aren't the ones we push through and conquer, but the ones we allow to transform how we live and love?
In this Insights episode, I’m reflecting on my conversation with Lottie Moore and the very different way she approaches challenge, ceremony and transformation.
Lottie spoke about the contrast between “bro state” and “bliss state”. One treats the fire as something to defeat, the fear as something to break through and the experience as proof of individual strength. The other invites us into relationship with the fire, the land, the people around us and the experience itself.
It's a powerful distinction.
Because an experience doesn't automatically become wisdom simply because we lived through it. We have to stop long enough to integrate what happened and ask what it has changed within us.
For Lottie, that question is: “How does this affect how I love?”
In this episode, I explore:
- why the experience itself is not the transformation
- the difference between conquering life and entering into relationship with it
- how loving hard becomes an antidote to performance, individualism and “bro state”
- what it means to stay present when love cannot fix the outcome
- why the most important measure of an experience may be how it changes the way we live
Perhaps living our legacy is not about collecting extraordinary experiences: but allowing the experiences that matter to deepen our relationship with life, change how we stand beside others and shape what we are brave enough to love.
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