From Darkness to Divine Connection: She Surrendered to Faith | Rachel Platten EP 913

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0:45Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

1:00What do you think is the difference between putting all the weight and pressure on you to do a good job and perform versus allowing God in your life to deliver? I don't have to do anything. I have to show up. I have to show up and I have to be the clearest vase that I can. God is the flowers. My job is literally just to be the clearest vase for people to see them. And that's hard work. It takes hard work to be a clear boss, but I can do that. I can't shine and shimmer. I can't guarantee people will love me. I can't be delightful and perfect and pleasing, right? But I can do my work to be a clear boss.

1:34I can meditate. I can do my breath work. I can have therapy. I can work out. I can keep my body healthy. I can keep my mind healthy. That's my job in being a clear boss, right? And the pressure's off other than that. My job is not, what are I going to come off? What is the success going to be? What is the result going to be? It is literally just to be the best version I can. When did you start this practice of giving it up to God? In the middle of the darkest depression, when I had no other choice. A couple years ago? Yeah, a couple years ago when I was completely at a loss on my knees in the studio that you came to a couple times on my knees in the middle of the night at 2 AM.

2:12My baby had had 105 degree temperature that night. She was two months old. My husband had a passing a kidney stone. I wasn't sleeping. I was absolutely at the lowest. My uncle just died. I was at the lowest I've ever been in my life. I was terrified. I didn't know how to keep going. And I screamed on the floor of my studio, mercy, mercy, I'm done. Mercy. And this song came out of me. This song mercy came out of me at two in the morning like all at once this rush this answer of of music i felt a presence that i never felt in my life and i've always written with something but i didn't know what it was that was flowing through me and that night i knew without a doubt that that beautiful piece of art came through that pain there had to be something bigger than me in this world that was listening.

3:10And from then, I just was so hungry for it. And I sought it out. And I asked and I searched and I implored God, keep showing yourself to me. Please, please, please keep delighting me. Keep helping me, keep healing me. And he did over and over. And music came, music came, music came, like so much music. Did you have a relationship to God before then? I think I did, but I didn't know him and I didn't know. I didn't understand that he was actually listening to me and right there and right here in my heart. And that it was someone that I didn't have to go through someone else to get to. That was the other thing about LA and that this world that we're kind of entrenched in that I think messed me up.

3:57I kept thinking there needed to be this intermediary to get me to God. Like, okay, I'd go to a medical intuitive or an intuitive or a psychic or a Reiki person, they connect me. And I was so desperate for it that I'd go all the time. Like, I want that. I want to understand how to reach, you know, my creator and you know how to do it for me. So you do it. And I'd ask people to pray for me for things. And like, because I had so much fear and that's where the aloneness felt like. What were you afraid of? Being alone, like being that no one would be there when I went to ask, that no one would hear me.

4:30Like, do you feel loved by God? Do you feel a connection? Yeah, I do. I didn't always, though. I mean, growing up, I felt very insecure. Me too. Very alone. Yeah, me too. I used to go to the principal's office all the time in elementary school and just say, I wish I were dead. I wish I were dead over and over again, because I felt like no one cared. Obviously, my parents were there for me. Obviously, like, you know, my siblings, but it's just, you know, I just felt alone and it didn't probably matter how much someone loved me. I didn't know how to receive the love probably also. And so for years, it wasn't until maybe 10, 11 years ago when I started my healing journey where I felt a deeper sense of love for self and love for God.

5:15Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that. Of course. Yeah. But it's challenging. I know the feeling. And so everything for me was driving, you know, I can relate to you because I was driven for so long to succeed to feel loved and accepted. Exactly. But then it never felt like enough. Never felt like, oh, I'm not getting what I truly want. So let me go get more. Right. And keep accomplishing. Exactly. And things started to shift for me 10 years ago where I said, I want to create my life based on a vision that I have to serve people. Yes. And if I have a dream to write a book or something else. And I can still go for goals, but it needs to be in the service of others.

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