In this episode, Stacey shares a moving real-life encounter with a stranger in a wheelchair who, with two playful words—“Nice legs”—delivered a profound gift of perspective on a morning when his own aching knee felt heavy. Through this tender exchange, he explores the transformative power of self-enhancing humor, the choice to rise rather than shrink in the face of loss or pain, and how a single moment of connection can reframe our struggles and remind us of the freedom that lives in Viktor Frankl’s sacred “space” between stimulus and response.
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"'Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.' — Viktor E. Frankl
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