Move Forward Anyway

I didn't stay fixed on the ONE final decision, but I moved forward anyway, with many tiny decisions that eventually gave me the strength and the knowing that separation from my husband was the right thing. It was like collecting data for a science project except the project was me and the experiment was my life. By not remaining still, by moving forward despite, by trusting the unknown, more was revealed along the way.

It turns out, what I thought was a decision to end my marriage was actually so much more.

Self, SpritualityMolly ChansonDecember 18, 2019Podcast Comments

What it Looks Like Is Perfect

None of my life looks like what I had planned. A lot of the time I feel like I am starting completely over. I imagined many aspects of my life would be easier and more clear-cut when I took those steps down the aisle. I knew my husband and I would go through losing one another's parents. I knew we would raise children and share parenting triumphs and trials. I didn't imagine my marriage would look like this, but maybe what it looks like doesn't matter. Maybe what it looks like is perfect the way it is.

If the point of marriage is to feel love, I have. If the point of marriage is to support someone through thick and thin, I have. If the point of marriage is to create and nurture a family moving forward, we do.

Divorce, Recovery, RelationshipsMolly ChansonDecember 9, 2019Podcast Comments

One Small Thing

This month, I am challenging myself (and you) to do one small thing. Instead of piling a monstrous undertaking onto myself and my circumstance, and then abandoning ship when I can't follow through, I choose an attainable, close-up goal. I choose a honed-in view, something I can see and almost reach.

Health, Recovery, SelfMolly ChansonDecember 5, 2019PodcastComment

I Fall in Love Every Day

Our version of love, the story we've been told since we were little girls wearing ballerina slippers and watching Disney movies, this version of love is so... so... limiting. Our version of love sits in a gilded cage, created by us, and fed by fairytales. The story of the princess being rescued by the prince is one version of love. Maybe it's your fairytale, and maybe it even came true. Or maybe you are not a prince or a princess, and your version looks a little different than the woman sitting in the tower who waits for a man on a white horse to save her. Regardless, our attachment to love as a person, a relationship, or a rescuer, is only one version.

MotherhoodMolly ChansonNovember 4, 2019PodcastComment

The World Can Handle Who You Really Are

Don't be deceived, if you are on a journey to uncover your pain, if you are actively seeking a new lifestyle, a new perspective, or a new way of talking to yourself, the journey will look a lot like falling down and trying to get back up. The journey will look like you can't get it right - until you do. Removing layers of self doubt, self criticism, and self hatred takes a lot of practice. We've been so conditioned to play the role and not let anyone see our true nature that we are bound to feel and look uncomfortable along the way.

SelfMolly ChansonNovember 1, 2019PodcastComment