Sometimes healing doesn't happen because you finally understand what happened. Sometimes it starts when you decide you're going to do something different.
In Episode 64 of The Middle Child Podcast, Royal Boles gets real about healing fast, changing your life, and what it actually takes to create a sudden shift when you're tired of being in the same place.
After talking about wanting to rush her healing in Episode 58, Royal shares what she eventually learned: sometimes you have to stop waiting to feel different and start changing the way you move through your everyday life.
For Royal, that meant getting back into the gym, changing her mornings, spending intentional time with God, going to therapy, meal prepping, working, podcasting, spending time with family, and filling her days with things that helped her become comfortable again — but in a healthier place.
She talks about why discipline comes before devotion, why therapy requires you to actually participate in your own healing, and why getting uncomfortable can be part of becoming the person you're trying to become.
And then there's the bigger question:
What would happen if you suddenly shifted the way you were living?
Maybe you need to change your routine. Maybe you need to rebuild your confidence. Maybe you need to redirect your attention. Maybe you need therapy. Maybe you need to get back to something you used to love.
Whatever it is, healing doesn't mean pretending the pain never happened.
It means deciding that the pain doesn't get to control what you do next.
Royal's message in this episode is simple: if you want something different, you have to be willing to do something different.
Sometimes the shift doesn't happen slowly.
Sometimes you have to make a sudden shift.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — The 4 AM Gym Crowd Hits Different
00:52 — Why Royal Is Doing a Solo Episode
02:14 — We're Living Through a Sudden Shift
02:58 — Why Royal Wanted to Rush Her Healing
03:17 — The Moment She Realized She Had to Change
04:08 — Getting Back Into the Gym
05:29 — The Shift Her Mind, Body & Emotions Needed
06:05 — Changing Her Routine From the Inside Out
07:24 — Discipline Comes Before Devotion
09:07 — The Cheat Code to Healing Faster
10:03 — Getting Her Life Back
11:00 — Therapy, Theology & the Tools to Heal
12:05 — You Have to Participate in Your Healing
13:19 — Taking Your Healing Seriously
14:32 — What Does It Mean to Shift Suddenly?
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