Letting Go to Find Real Joy

I've come to realize that finding real joy involves a lot of failure, moments of doubt, exhaustion, boredom, and seasons of not knowing what the fuck comes next in your life.

Finding real joy requires facing fears, having courage, being brave, and knowing that whatever happens, or whatever comes your way, you're going to be fine.

Finding real joy requires you to heal, to really get to know yourself, and at the end of the day it requires you simply making up your mind to choose joy and happiness because life is short, and you want to feel good.

But in order to let go, you first need to find acceptance and simply be okay with what is, and that sometimes is never easy. Letting go of your old self to make room for your new self is never easy.

Whether that be a job, a spouse, a home, a loved one, a business, a friendship, unhealthy food, an addiction, or even the way you’ve been living your life, letting go is never a walk in the park. Letting go can be painful and excruciating. It can be emotionally exhausting and not for the weak or faint of heart.

A death is occurring.

What you once knew to be normal is now gone, and in the end that’s a beautiful thing. It makes room for the new to be born, but it's the in-between stage that's the most difficult. It is dark, it is scary, it is lonely, but it is in fact necessary in order for you to be the best that you can be.

Letting go of what no longer serves you or your purpose will be one of the hardest decisions one must make on this journey through life, but it's a decision we eventually come to, as that's the direction our own soul wants us to take.

And that's the thing about change.

Do you choose to cling to what’s no longer working, or do you let go so you can be free and see what is next for you?

That decision cannot be rushed, nor can it be forced. It is not a decision that can be made by someone else because only your own heart will know. When the timing is right, you’ll know when it is time to let go and make your move forward. But it's in the letting go where fear can sometimes paralyze you. The only job of fear is to prevent you from making the next right move forward because it will do everything in its power to keep you stuck right where you are.

But know that if your heart and soul whisper one thing and you never let go and say yes to that deeper part of yourself, you will never reach higher ground. You must see and recognize fear, but move forward anyway.

As you move into unknown territories, stress, worry, and self-doubt will rear their ugly heads, trying everything in their power to stop you from taking that next right move forward. You waver back and forth. You start and stop. You question whether or not this is the right thing to do. You go back and forth, coming up with different case scenarios, only driving yourself a little more crazy searching for the answers. You beg, plead, and bargain. The dust needs to settle before the answers will come to you, and it’s in the waiting season where patience, trust, and acceptance are cultivated.

The waiting season is hell.

It is in the stillness of nothing, and often deep pain, you will come to know and trust the beauty, the safety, the comfort, the guidance, and the support that have always been with you.

Then there comes a tipping point. There comes a time where there is no looking back, for it’s time to soar higher and make a decision. You must play your part and take action. It is either now or never, for your life and happiness are now on the line. When you’ve reached this stage, success is no longer questionable. It’s a concrete fact, and fear no longer exists.

Oddly enough, when you do let go and take the leap of faith forward into the unknown, it’s perfect timing.

You stop.

You breathe.

You cling tightly to a little whisper from within, knowing that you will be just fine, understanding that we must let go in order to go higher.

But know this… it’s never smooth sailing.

It’s never perfect.

We sometimes have to go backwards in order to go forward. We must lose something in order to gain something even more valuable, and oddly enough, what feels like going backwards is actually you being propelled forward in life.

So in those moments where you circle back around, know you will make up for lost time.

Know all those tears shed were worth their weight in gold.

Know that all those roadblocks, detours, and failures were meant to strengthen you.

You will come to understand that you never failed, but rather you only came out a winner.

For everything is leading you to the same place. A place of love, health, freedom, peace, wholeness, purpose, truth, victory, and a space of happily ever after.

Let go, for you can’t do it in your own strength.

Let go and release your attachment to knowing every little detail.

Let go, and let God carry you the rest of the way.

You’ll sleep much better at night, knowing you’re in very good hands. For if you’re still here on this earth, the best is yet to come.

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Additional Reads:

Wake Up and Live - 101 Days of Deep Inner Work to Transform Your Life

Rising Higher - 101 Days of Rising Happy, Healthy and Free to Serve a Greater Good 

Personal Power - 101 Day of Relentless Action Forward

Life Worth Living - A 28-Day Guide to Inner Peace, Love, and Joy

Meet Lindsay Rose Martin

Lindsay’s journey is a powerful reminder that you don’t need to fit the mold to create a wildly successful life. In fact, her story is one of boldly taking leaps of faith, proving that true happiness, health, fulfillment, joy, purpose, and abundance come when you transform your mindset, change your thoughts, and courageously follow your own heart and soul.

As a driving force for positive change, Lindsay is a best-selling author and the creator of transformational coaching and audio programs that have impacted thousands worldwide. With her raw, magnetic energy and deep spiritual insight, she inspires growth and real, lasting transformation through her compelling presence, expertise, and emotionally powerful messages.

Lindsay helps people awaken to their inner power and create lives that feel happy, healthy, and purposeful. She guides them to become conscious creators of their reality by aligning their energy, thoughts, and beliefs with the life and relationships they truly desire.

Drawing on years of real-world experience in the corporate world, as a mother, speaker, health and fitness coach, yin yoga and meditation teacher, entrepreneur, business mentor, teacher of presence, high-performance coach, and spiritual medium, Lindsay blends intuition, mediumship, and grounded strategy. She helps people access their authentic truth, gain clarity, build confidence, and create alignment, abundance, and lasting success in ways that are rooted in lived experience, not just theory.