You have Choices - How to End your Suffering by Lowering your Expectations | Episode 144

Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery

I got a message from a long-time listener asking for this topic in a podcast episode because she could really use some guidance on lowering your expectations. Turns out, I have 4 episodes on lowering expectations, and it’s been a huge part of my recovery and a foundational piece to my sobriety. That’s why episode 144 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast is about the choices you have that can end your suffering by lowering your expectations!

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In this episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing the importance of lowering your expectations and actionable steps you get to take right now to change those expectations to live a more peaceful life.

Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:

• How I look at the serenity prayer to help me understand why I need to lower my expectations and only focus on changing myself, and how I cannot change others’.
• How I needed to lower my expectations around my brother, who is one of the smartest people I know but who doesn’t live up to his potential and my expectations of him, and deal with him as he is.
• The key differences between lowering your expectations and lowering your standards, and how the key to ending your suffering is NOT lowering your standards and it really depends on your values and setting boundaries.
• The power in understanding my part in things and keeping the focus on myself is where the power is.

I don’t know about you, but I am fucking done with suffering. I want to get to peace. Hopefully, this episode helps you get closer to peace too. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.

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Expectations episodes:

#31 Overcoming unrealistic expectations

#77 Getting rid of expectations after the fact

#88 Expecting Fairness

#131 Let go of your expectations of others and meet your own needs

Other episode

#62 GET To vs. HAVE To

#124 Why and How To Stop Falling In Love With People's Potential

Ashely Montagu quote:

“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between that which we are capable of becoming, and that which one has, in fact, become.”