Have you ever woken up to realize that life has been happening while you were on autopilot? This episode of Robbin's Nest promises to guide you through a metaphorical recovery room, where the aftermath of life's surgeries—be it a breakup, job loss, or personal grief—offers a path to healing and resilience.
Join in as we navigate the stages of recovery, acknowledging the pain yet celebrating the strength we gain as we wake up to our new realities. It's a journey of transformation, where each step, no matter how tentative, brings us closer to newfound clarity and purpose.
Together, we explore how life's unexpected challenges can become catalysts for growth. As we sit in our own recovery rooms, we monitor our progress, recognize new opportunities, and embrace the transformations that adversity brings. Whether it's fostering new relationships, pursuing innovative ventures, or finding a career that aligns with our values, these experiences mold us into more resilient individuals.
Tune in for an empowering conversation that encourages us to honor our healing process and the new beginnings that emerge from what once seemed like insurmountable crises.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to Robbin's Nest, the empowerment
podcast with nourishment for themind and spirit.
Welcome to the Nest.
Robbin Sexton (00:22):
I'm Robbin, your empowerment coach.
Welcome to the Nest.
I was thinking about people whohave to have surgery and after
this surgery, they have to gointo the recovery room.
When you have to go into therecovery room after having
surgery, it means that somethinghas happened.
Something either needed to beremoved, bypassed, or it had to
(00:45):
be fixed.
There was an event that causedyou to require surgery.
Something went wrong.
Have you ever had something gowrong in your life?
Parents getting older, gettingsick, pass away, children acting
up, or should I say it moreproperly, my children are not
(01:06):
behaving in the manner that Iwish they would, or just say it
like we say in the South theyacting up, your husband or wife
getting on your last nerve.
Something is not working theway that it's supposed to, so
you have to have surgery.
Something either has to beemergently removed or something
(01:29):
has to be fixed or sucked out ortucked in.
However, you got there.
Now you're in the recovery room.
You've already gone through thetrauma of it the pain of the
divorce, the grief of losing aparent or the grief of losing a
child.
Something was hurting you tothe point that your very
(01:51):
survival depends on having thesurgery.
In the recovery room is wherethey are waking you up.
You're trying to come back toreality.
You're a little disoriented.
You have oxygen in your noseand they're watching your vital
signs to monitor your heart tomake sure that you can safely
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come out from under theanesthesia.
Has anyone woke up and realizedthat you have been under
anesthesia?
You've been asleep for anextended period of time, numb to
something that is going on inyour life, and now you're coming
back to yourself.
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You're waking up.
I should have cut him off along time ago.
Now I'm woke.
I should have changed jobs along time ago.
Now I'm woke, I should havechanged jobs a long time ago.
I'm waking up.
As I'm waking up, I still feelsome pain.
I know that something has beencut.
I know it's for my own good,but it still hurts.
(03:01):
I know leaving the toxicrelationship is the right thing
to do, but it still hurts.
I know leaving the toxicrelationship is the right thing
to do, but it still hurts.
Losing my best friend was forthe best because we were not on
the same page, but it stillhurts.
In the recovery room they havephases: Phase one and phase two.
(03:23):
You have to understand somethings will take time to get
over.
There are some cuts that are sodeep that you may not be able
to jump up and run immediatelyafter the surgery.
My recovery is going to come instages.
Some days I feel strong, like Ican conquer the world, and the
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next day I may not even want toget out of the bed.
I'm recovering from an event.
I'm recovering from a trauma.
I'm recovering from therejection.
I'm recovering from losing thejob.
I'm recovering from losing thebusiness.
I'm recovering from the heartjob.
I'm recovering from losing thebusiness.
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I'm recovering from theheartbreak.
I'm bouncing back.
It may be slow, but I'm gettingstronger every day.
It may still hurt when I move,but I'm getting stronger every
day.
I may not be able to run like Iused to, but somehow the
healing is coming and I'm in therecovery room because the
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problem that made me go intosurgery has been removed.
The relationship is over.
I'm in recovery.
The friendship is gone.
We don't talk like we used to,but I'm in recovery.
I got new friends.
There's a new relationship.
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There's a new business idea.
There's a new invention.
There's another job that'shigher paying than the one that
I lost, that I was so upsetabout.
I'm in the recovery room.
However it happened, it mighthave been an emergency, it was
unexpected.
Something happened in your lifethat came so quickly that you
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had to go to surgery, and it wasemergent.
But now I wake up and I'm inthe recovery room and I'm
getting stronger.
I may have to take my time andwalk, I may be bent over, I may
have bandages.
That lets me know thatsomething happened, but I'm
recovering from it and when thehealing starts, when the healing
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takes place and when I'mfinally healed, I may see the
scar.
I may know that somethinghappened, but when I touch the
scar, now that I'm healed, Idon't feel the pain of it.
In my recovery I'm on my way toget stronger.
I know the surgery wasnecessary, I know the cut was
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deep, I know it hurt, but I'm inthe process of waking up.
I'm in the process of gettingstronger.
I'm in the process of goinghome and even recovering at home
.
Slowly but surely, I'll be ableto return to myself.
And when I touch the wound nowit doesn't hurt.
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That's how I know I'm healed,because when I touch it, when I
think about it, when somebodyreminds me of it, when I see the
old pictures.
It doesn't hurt anymore.
I had surgery, but my scar ishealed and it doesn't hurt
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anymore.
We're in the recovery room now.
We're getting over it.
We're getting stronger andwe're going to come back better
than we were before.
In the recovery room is theplace where I realize that the
problem has been taken away.
The problem has been taken careof and now I'm in my stages of
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recovery.
This is Robbin from Robbin'sNest.
We're in the recovery room.
We're coming back better thanwe did before.
Tyeasha VanBuren (07:18):
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