The worst moments of our life are often the most transformational. 💖💕
I recently did a Tony Robbins course and charted out three main breakthrough moments in my life.
A breakthrough is moment in time when everything changes and the impossible becomes possible. It's usually triggered when you reach a threshold of pain where you simply cannot continue as usual and must make a change, both physically & mentally.
What can trigger a breakthrough?
Anything. A conversation, A book, a change in emotion, a belief, a mentor, coach, health issues.
This exercise showed that most of the time breakthroughs come through hardship by turning our greatest pain into our greatest strength.
A couple breakthroughs in my life that I struggled for a long time was eating disorders and relationship to food, fear of what would happen if I talked about my past, living in shame, unhealed trauma, and grief.
What triggered the change in all three of these things was my hair falling out and deciding things had to change. What helped make the needed changes in my life was hiring my own coach, reading a ton of self help, going down a spiritual path, plant medicine, therapy and changing my surroundings.
This journaling exercise made me realize that one of my greatest pains and source of shame (Hair falling out) was also the catalyst to some major growth. I would never had made some of these changes if it wasn't for my hair, and I wouldn't have made the connection if I didn't do this exercise.
Try this on yourself by asking the following questions and name the top three greatest breakthrough moments in your life.
1. What made the change possible?
2. What triggered the change in that moment?
The answers may surprise you!