Weathering Your Personal Winters: Finding Hope in Life's Changing Seasons

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Ever felt stuck in an emotional winter where nothing grows and everything feels cold and isolated? Or perhaps you're in a blazing summer of life where challenges burn hot and relief seems nowhere in sight. This powerful episode explores life's inevitable seasons and offers profound hope for anyone struggling through difficult times.

Robin takes us on a journey through the emotional seasons we all experience. When we're in winter—those periods of isolation, withdrawal, and emotional drought—we often forget that spring must follow. Those dark days when nothing blooms in our relationships, careers, or spiritual lives aren't permanent stops, but temporary stations on a continuing journey. The episode beautifully illustrates how spring's renewal brings fresh opportunities, new relationships, and the return of joy we might have thought was gone forever.

The wisdom doesn't stop with winter and spring. We explore summer seasons—those overwhelming periods when everything feels unbearably intense—and the promise that fall's cooling relief will eventually come. Through it all runs a powerful thread of hope: no matter how severe your current hardship, the next season is already on the horizon. Storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes in our lives never stay permanently.

Ready to shift your perspective on your current struggles? This episode offers both comfort for your present pain and hopeful anticipation for what's coming next. Remember: "Whatever season you're in in your life, know that it's not going to stay in that season." Your spring is coming. Are you ready to dress for the season ahead?

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Episode Transcript

Ty Wonder (00:01):
Welcome to Robbin's Nest, the empowerment podcast
with nourishment for the mindand spirit.
Welcome to the Nest.

Robbin Sexton (00:21):
This is Robbin, your empowerment coach.
Welcome to the Nest.
As I was thinking about what weshould talk about today, I was
looking at the seasons and we'rein winter and this has been a
hard winter as far as theweather.
But what about the stages ofour lives?

(00:42):
What about the stages of ourlives?
The sea, how the weather iscold and we have to begin.
We begin to isolate, we beginto stay in because it's too cold
to go anywhere.
Emotionally, have you gonethrough a winter when things
have dried up, nothing issprouting, nothing is growing,

(01:05):
nothing is blooming?
You feel isolated, you feelcold and emotionally, you're
trying to get warm.
Emotionally, you're trying tohold on to eat comfort foods in
the natural, but emotionally,are we trying to get some
nourishment that's going to warmus up emotionally In the winter

(01:28):
, when things slow down andpeople are not outside and
they're not smiling and happy?
In the winter, when you feellike you have to be inside
because it's too cold to goanyplace, what about that season
in your life?
It may not be winter outside,but what if it's winter in your
life and things are drying upand it's cold and you need

(01:53):
something to warm you, somethingto soothe you, are you reaching
for the right things in thisseason, but knowing that winter
is not going to last always andyou might be in a season where
everything is cold and you're byyourself and you're isolated
and you feel lonely and thingsare not sprouting in your life.
But you got to understand thatspring is coming.

(02:17):
Spring is coming when thingswill begin to sprout up and the
weather will change and we'llbegin to wear different clothing
, because spring is here andthere's new flowers and there's
new hope and there's newlivelihood and new relationships
in your life.
You start to travel, you beginto get out and begin to do

(02:37):
things that you couldn't do inthe winter season of your life.
Now it's spring.
You got to know that justbecause winter is here, now
spring is coming, your dressing,your dresses will change.
The way you dress will change.
The way you operate will change.
You'll be out having fun again.
Things will liven up, things inyour life will begin to bloom.

(02:58):
Spring is going to come and youhave to realize that during
that transition time, even inthe winter, sometimes spring
will sprout for a couple of daysand then you go back to winter.
But don't get discouraged whenyou go back to that winter
season because eventually, whenspring comes forth, this next
time that season will stay.

(03:19):
And then sometimes in our liveswe hit summer and everything is
hot.
Everything is hot in your life.
Everything is hot.
Some things it might beunbearably hot.
You're going through financialproblems, everything is
unbearably hot and you're havingdifficulty even catching a
break, catching some shade.
You want to catch the wind, youwant to catch something that

(03:42):
will give you some kind ofcomfort, something that will
cool you off a little bit.
And even if things are hot inyour life right now, you've got
to understand guess what baby?
Fall is going to come.
So don't get so discouragedbecause it's hot.
You're in a hot spotfinancially.
You might be in a hot spot inyour relationships, there might
be a hot time in your marriage,there might be a hot time on

(04:04):
your job.
But fall, just like every otherseason, is going to come.
We get to fall in weather andit begins to be beautiful
because the leaves are changing,things are beginning to cool
off.
We begin to go to the mountainsand we see the beauty of the
leaves and we see the beauty ofthe earth and how things are

(04:25):
beginning to change.
But at the same time, thingsare drying up because winter is
going to come again.
Whatever season you're in inyour life, know that it's not
going to stay in that season.
If you're having a hard seasonright now and things are drying
up in your life, if you'rehaving a season where everything

(04:46):
is hot and you feel like it'sunbearable and you can't catch a
break, just know the nextseason is coming.
Hold on, make sure you're readyfor the next season.
Make sure you're ready to dressappropriately for the next
season, because the next seasonis going to come.
Spring is on its way.
Things are going to liven up.
You will laugh again, you willhave fun again, you will go to

(05:09):
parties again.
Your life is going to liven upagain.
So don't get so caught up inwinter that you don't transition
to the spring in your life.
Whatever season you're in, weknow that all seasons are not
easy and all seasons are notpredictable.
There are storms that come,there are tornadoes that come,
there are seasons of hurricane,but guess what?

(05:31):
They don't stay.
That season always changes andthe next season always comes.
Let's get dressed and ready forour next season, because surely
the next season will come, nomatter what season you're in now
.
It feels bad, it might not feelcomfortable, you might be going
through hell, it might be sohot, but guess what?

(05:51):
You're going through it On theother side.
The next season will come.
Let's get ready.
Robin's Nest.
The next season is on thehorizon.
This is Robin from Robin's Nest.

Ty Wonder (06:04):
Thank you for listening to this episode of
Robbin's Nest Show.
Thank you so much for listeningand until next time be well.