How to Overcome Insurmountable Odds

Life presents us opportunity after opportunity to grow and learn. What we do with those opportunities is totally up to us.

The stories that move us to the biggest action are the stories where the main character has faced incredible odds, overcome them and took the lessons away - and then turned those lessons into life-altering changes. Denise Schaad, is an amazing example of how we can still live the best life we could ever dream of despite destructive environments or life experiences.

“Our spiritual journey is the key to finding ourselves within the chaos.” -Denise Schaad

It’s All In The Journey

Denise was born into an environment ripe with sexual abuse, domestic violence and trauma on all fronts. None of this was in her control. Even if you’re reading this and have never experienced the level of trauma that Denise has, it’s important to recognize that so much happens to us that is beyond our control and learning that truth, and then using it to grow as a person and an author is so important to your journey.

Denise shared her story because she knew there was so much healing she could share with other people. But before she ever got to that point, she had to heal herself first and make herself whole.

Author Breakthrough: Your audience can sense whether or not you've done the hard work and the self-healing, and often makes or breaks your success as an author if you cannot practice what you are preaching.

Letting Go of Outcomes

I recently spoke with International Bestselling Author Kristina Liu about how we should be focused on strategy over expectations, and Denise and I ended up talking about something very similar. The thing about expectations and outcomes is that the actual reality of a situation can often be much greater than we give it credit for. We often limit ourselves by expecting too small of an outcome.

It’s better, as an author, to heal yourself, determine who you are, build a strategy around that and let it go where it will.

“The beauty of that is when you practice this, you will find that the more you are able to do it, the better things come. I’m always surprised when I let go of that perception and say, “Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. Once you change that dynamic, once you are able to stop manipulating, great things zoom in. When we step out of our own, it moves in our own minds on how we perceive things should be. That is when we start to have fun.” -Denise Schaad

I tell authors all the time how amazing things show up when they are willing to let go of outcomes. Denise’s book is in pre sale now, she’s making amazing strides, she’s got this incredible journey she is sharing - and none of that would have happened without all the rest of this work that we’re talking about.

Setting Others Free

We all have relationships in our lives that are less than perfect. The more we hold onto those, the harder it becomes to heal. Our perceptions of people hold them in that place of how we see them, and traps wounds without letting us heal. It’s like holding someone hostage to our own story.

As long as we paint someone as the person who irritates us, they will always be that person and it will always be easy to see every interaction from that perspective. As soon as we release that perception, we free them to become someone else in our story - or not in our story at all - and we create space for ourselves to heal from that trauma or irritation.

The journey of healing to overcome insurmountable odds is a journey that often aligns with an amazing story. If you love this and want more, do not miss this conversation with Denise Schaad.?