S2 Episode 11: If It Didn’t Hurt, You Wouldn’t Grow: The Purpose of Emotional Growing Pains

🎙️ Season 2, Episode 11: If It Didn’t Hurt, You Wouldn’t Grow — The Purpose of Emotional Growing Pains

💥 You’re not broken — you’re stretching. And that ache you feel? That’s not failure. That’s your future unfolding.

In this powerful episode of the Get Up Show Up Never Give Up podcast, we’re unpacking the emotional, psychological, and biological truth behind growth:

It hurts — because it’s working.

Whether you’re healing, letting go, outgrowing your old life, or stepping into your next level, Season 2, Episode 11 is the reminder you didn’t know you needed:
If it didn’t hurt, you wouldn’t grow.

🔎 Inside this episode:

• What neuroscience says about why change feels chaotic
• 5 undeniable signs you're experiencing emotional growing pains, not setbacks
• Why your nervous system mistakes peace for danger — and how to retrain it
• The Inner Expansion Method — a grounded framework to manage discomfort
• Journal prompts, identity rewiring tools, and how to stop second-guessing your breakthrough
• Real-life research on how discomfort builds long-term emotional resilience
• What to say to yourself when you want to give up
• How to stop regressing when growth gets heavy — and what to do instead

🧠 Featuring Research From:

• Stanford University (Predictive Coding & Change Resistance)
• Harvard Medical School (Emotional Agility & Identity Transition)
• University of Michigan (Disruption Recovery & Resilience)
• Dr. Andrew Huberman (Familiarity Bias & Brain Rewiring)
• Dr. Nicole LePera & Dr. Brené Brown (Healing, Vulnerability & Nervous System Support)

🔧 Implementation Tools You’ll Walk Away With:

• The 3-Why Loop to stop going backward when you're tired
• Cognitive Reframes to turn breakdowns into breakthroughs
• Micro-Safety Rituals to regulate your nervous system in hard moments
• A letter-writing exercise that reminds you how far you've come
• A mindset upgrade to stop mistaking grief for failure

👂 This episode is for you if:

• You’re healing but feel more lost than empowered
• You’re growing and it’s starting to feel heavy, lonely, or confusing
• You’re stuck in between the old you and who you're becoming
• You’re wondering if the discomfort means you're off-track
• You're ready to normalize pain as a part of rising

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Because growth isn’t supposed to feel easy — it’s supposed to change you.
And the more it stretches, the more you’re becoming the version of you that your future deserves.