Hi, this is Monique Rhodes. Welcome to the In Your Right Mind Podcast, where we're learning how to be happier by working with our minds.
If you'd like to know more about what I teach, come to moniquerhodes.com, and let’s get you started on finding a happier way of living.
The Message I Received
- A listener wrote: everything feels like it’s falling apart.
- She’s exhausted. She’s trying so hard and nothing’s working.
- She’s beginning to wonder if it’s even worth continuing.
What This Moment Feels Like
- It’s a tight, heavy place.
- Doors keep closing.
- Plans unravel.
- You hold on by the thinnest thread of strength.
- It feels like walking through fog, or shouting into a void.
A Vital Truth
- Often, the moment you most want to quit is the moment things begin to turn.
- It’s not always dramatic.
- It’s often a slow, quiet shift you can’t see yet.
- Small cracks let light in before a whole door opens.
A Story I’ve Seen
- I worked with someone who left a toxic job to pursue a dream.
- She met rejection after rejection.
- Her savings shrank and her confidence cracked.
- Months later, an unexpected connection formed from something she had quietly put into the world months before.
- That connection led to work that became the life she wanted — not how she’d pictured it, but hers.
What’s Really Happening Beneath the Surface
- Something is often organizing itself quietly.
- Progress can be invisible.
- Silence isn’t always rejection.
- Lack of visible reward doesn’t mean nothing’s changing.
How to Stay if You Want to Keep Going
- Don’t rush yourself into false hope.
- Hold the small practice of staying: breathing, showing up, one step at a time.
- Let someone else hold belief for you when you can’t.
- Encouragement from another person is oxygen in the dark.
A Gentle Reminder
- You are not failing.
- You are not broken.
- You are in the passage of becoming.
- One day you’ll look back and see this was the beginning of something you couldn’t name then.
I hope this has been helpful. Come and join me in the Happiness Club. As always, be kind, take care, and go gently in the world.
