When life throws you a curveball, do you spiral into fear or step into presence?

In this episode of Ten Minutes to Less Suffering, discover how to handle unexpected events without overwhelm, manage anxiety in real time, and shift from panic to clarity using one powerful mindset tool: maybe.

Learn how to
Stay present during crisis
Release the need for certainty
Stop catastrophic thinking
Let go of control without giving up your power
Make flexible plans in uncertain situations
Access your calm, wise mind under stress

Unexpected challenges such as health scares, family stress, job changes, or difficult news are part of life. The difference is not what happens. It is how you respond. When you embrace uncertainty instead of fighting it, you open yourself to resilience, better decision making, and new possibilities.

Maybe everything could still be okay. Maybe you can handle this. Maybe the best is yet to come.

Listen now and learn how to stay grounded when life feels unpredictable.

Lastly, you can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, The Gift of Maybe: Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times (including a new audiobook), A Year Without Men: A 12 Point Guide To Inspire and Empower Women and my new Audiobook,  Maybe Everything Is Okay, A Parent's Guide To Less Stress and Worry. Also you can check out my new Maybe Cards: A Path to Stress-Free Living or my new digital Maybe Journal.

 Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace.

 

Poem: When the Ground Moves

This was not the life I ordered.
Not the morning I expected.
Not the news I was prepared to hear.

And yet — here it is.

The ground shifts.
The air changes.
The future rewrites itself in a single breath.

My mind wants guarantees.
It wants a map,
a promise,
a clear ending.

But life does not offer certainty.
It offers moments.

And this moment is alive.

Alive with choices.
Alive with strength I have not yet measured.
Alive with something rising in me
that fear cannot name.

I can collapse into what if.
Or I can stand inside what is.

I can argue with reality.
Or I can meet it.

Right here,
with my heart open.

Uncertainty is not a void.
It is a doorway.

It asks me to grow larger than my plans.
It asks me to trust the part of me
that has survived every other hard day.

I do not know what happens next.

But I know this —
I am still here.
Breathing.
Thinking.
Choosing.

And that is power.

Maybe this bends me.
Maybe this builds me.
Maybe this leads somewhere
I cannot yet imagine.

The future is not written.
It is waiting.

And I will meet it
awake.