Thoughts vs Circumstances

Finding Yourself in Motherhood · Oct 16, 2026 · 24m

Today I discussed a more advanced tool that can be useful. It is important to first really understand the model before trying this new tool.

To illustrate, I give three examples of thoughts that can be really challenging. The examples I give are

1. A cancer diagnosis sucks

2. Raising a medically complex child is challenging

3. Serving a mission is hard

I talk about each of these and point out that they are thoughts but sometimes in order to gain any awareness or leverage over them, we need to just treat them as a fact. If it's a fact, then we can come up with a new thought that can create a…