Beloved...You CAN Rebuild After Life's Storms?

Have you ever been caught in a storm that turned your life completely upside down, leaving you to pick up the pieces and start anew? Join me on this episode of Robin's Nest, where we explore the emotional and practical devastation that accompanies life's unexpected hurricanes. Using the recent North Carolina hurricane as a backdrop, we draw powerful parallels between natural disasters and personal crises, such as sudden job loss or the unexpected end of a cherished relationship. This journey isn't just about surviving the storm—it's about finding the strength to rebuild and thrive in its wake.

Listen as I share insights and strategies for navigating the aftermath of life's turbulent events, offering a comforting perspective for anyone grappling with loss, financial setbacks, or emotional upheaval. It's time to find resilience amidst the chaos and understand the steps required to reconstruct your life. Whether you're facing the loss of a loved one or dealing with the shock of a major life change, let this episode be your guide to transformation and recovery. Remember, you're not alone in this journey, and together, we can rise from the ruins stronger than before.

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Transcript

Ty Wonder of TyChi Productions: 0:01

Welcome to Robbin's Nest, the empowerment podcast with nourishment for the mind and spirit. Welcome to the Nest.

Robbin Sexton : 0:15

Welcome to Robbin's Nest. I'm Robbin, your empowerment coach. Welcome to the Nest, as we are in North Carolina and we've just experienced such a big storm that hit our region, impacted thousands of people. People lost everything. I begin to think about when storms come in our lives, when, out of the blue, something horrific happens and it impacts everything.

Robbin Sexton : 0:44

Have you ever had a storm come unexpectedly and it was not a small storm, not like a little rain that you drive and you're driving in one spot and it's dry, and then the next thing you know you keep driving and it has rained somewhere else and you can drive through that storm. It's interesting, because the pavement is dry on one side, but then it's not on the other side. No, this is not just a tropical storm, this is a hurricane. It's a big storm. It comes with a lot of wind and it comes with a lot of rain, and it comes with a tornado that has the ability to lift everything in your life up and turn it upside down. It is the husband that walks in after 15 years and says he wants a divorce. It's not just a little drip, it's not a drizzle. This is a full-fledged hurricane. It comes to interrupt everything in your life. It turns everything upside down. It's the sudden loss of a family member, a beloved mother. Out of the blue, it was unexpected and it hit your life and it turned everything upside down. And it turned everything upside down. This hurricane has come and tossed up roads where people can't drive anymore, they can't find food, they don't have electricity. What about in your life? Have you had a storm hit you out of the blue that turned everything upside down? It took you up in a whirlwind, almost like you're inside the eye of the tornado. You're inside the storm and it turns you upside down and you don't even know which way you're going. It has impacted your finances. It has impacted your emotions, it has impacted your children. It has impacted everything.

Robbin Sexton : 2:44

It's the kind of storm that comes to wipe you out. It can be deadly. It came out of nowhere. You didn't even have any warning. There was no beep on the radio. It was so quick that you almost didn't even get the warning signal on your telephone that something has come that has the ability to wipe out every part of your life. It impacts your job, it impacts your children, it impacts your finances. It's the kind of storm that comes to destroy you, to destroy your mental capacity, to destroy everything in you. It upsets your mindset. It upsets your money. It upsets your relationships with your family. It is a big mindset. It upsets your money. It upsets your relationships with your family. It is a big storm. It's a hurricane.

Robbin Sexton : 3:30

How many of you have had a hurricane hit your life and turned everything upside down? And now you got to rebuild. You got to start from scratch. You got to start from the beginning, because now you don't have anything. You don't have your ID, you don't have food. Everything is having to be shipped in Because you are in a place where you have lost everything Because of an unexpected storm.

Robbin Sexton : 3:54

It snuck up on you. You weren't expecting it. Everything was fine, it was sunny, you were good, you were working, you were happy, you were going out, you were having fun with your friends. But now it's time to rebuild. The storm is over and now you're looking at the remnant of what used to be. You're looking at all the things that used to be standing where your neighbors used to be, where your house used to be, and now you've got to figure out how do I start over after the storm, after the divorce, after I get over the shock that he wants a divorce. After I get over the shock that your wife walked out and left, after you get over the shock that the mistress is pregnant, after you get over the shock that you lost your job of 10 years and now you have no income.

Robbin Sexton : 4:51

After the shock of the hurricane, now comes the time that I need to start to rebuild. I'm looking around in confusion trying to figure out where do I even start? How do I start rebuilding again? But you got some people that come and they come together and they give you some aid. They'll let you talk to them and they'll give you some good counsel and say you know what it's going to. Be all right, I went through a divorce and I'm better now. I'm healed now.

Robbin Sexton : 5:22

So now I begin to learn how to begin to build my self-esteem back up. I begin to learn how to get my finances back together. I began to learn how to get my finances back together. I began to, day by day, sometimes hour by hour, having to rebuild after something impacted me to such a degree that it tore up everything, not one thing. It wasn't light winds, it was the kind of thing that the trees came and everything is destroyed in my life. I got to start rebuilding now. But now I have some help. I have some friends. I have some girlfriends that want to take me out and tell me that it's going to be okay. I have some people at work that are telling me who's hiring again and they're sending because you were so stuck in that one place.

Robbin Sexton : 6:36

Now I have to move, I have to change and I don't have a choice but to go through the open door, because the other door has slammed behind me. I don't have a choice but to go forward, because everything that was behind me is gone. So now I can rebuild my confidence and I can rebuild my finances. And now I got a better job. And now later, after I'm recovered, I look back and I'll never remember what my old house looked like, because the new house is bigger and it's better and everything in it is new. I don't have to fix anything because now everything in it is new and I don't have to begin to rebuild because now everything is new and I don't have to begin to rebuild. Now there's a new relationship and this man treats me like a queen and he don't even want to think about divorce.

Robbin Sexton : 7:23

Sometimes the storm comes to clear out, old debris, to clean out old things so that you can begin to build again. The hurricanes come, they destroy, the uproot, but it's not over, because I'm not dead. It didn't take me out. I'm still here, which means that I have another opportunity to rebuild. I have another opportunity to start again. New relationship, new job, new clothes, new car Everything's replaceable.

Robbin Sexton : 8:01

Well, when the hurricane comes, hold on, just know the storm will not last always. The sun will shine again, you will have a new relationship, you will have new friends, you will get new clothes and a new job. After the hurricane, after the storm comes, the clouds will leave, the sun will start to peek through again and you'll smile again. You'll laugh again, you'll go out again. You'll rebuild after the storm.

Robbin Sexton : 8:39

I'm going to rebuild because the storm does not last always. Joy is coming in the morning. I'm going to survive this storm, no matter how big it is, because it didn't take me out. I'm still alive. I'm still here, which means I have the ability to start over. I won't allow the hurricane, the big storm, the unexpected to stop me, to keep me from going to my next level. It might have come just to clear out the old, the old stuff I was holding on to and didn't want to let go of, and a storm had to come to take it away, just so I would have to rebuild. Just so I would have to rebuild, just so I would have to get into a better place in my life. Storms are going to come. They may come unexpectedly, they may be big ones, but it's okay. The sun will shine again and you will live again again, even through the hurricane.

Robbin Sexton : 9:45

This is Robin from Robbin's.

Robbin Sexton : 9:47

Nest. We're survivors, even after the storm.

Ty Wonder of TyChi Productions: 9:53

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