Girl, Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis Ep 34 - The choice to live a better life is up to You

Constantly Under Construction with Donna Harris

Are you discouraged because you think you should have been more successful, met certain milestones, achieved certain goals by a certain time or specific age? Today we fiercely reject that lie! Get ready to listen to this episode more than once because I’m positive you’ll want to hear (again and again) encouragement for authenticy, choosing joy, and doing the hard work that Rachel Hollis has to offer.

As I dreamed about this podcast, I had the desire to share encouragement, hope, and real life stories that would help people feel inspired.

I wanted people to crawl out of the hole of despair. I wanted people to reconnect with pain and suffering to see that God is in that plan and it’s sweeter than we could ever have imagined. And when it comes to my guest today, I wanted people to know that the choice to live a better life is up to you. There may be things in our life that we cannot control but there are so many things that we have the power to change and it’s with that sort of motivation that I'm thrilled to share with you, my guest, Rachel Hollis.

You’ll get so much encouragement from Rachel, but in the most real way. She sets out to tell the honest truth…even in the messy times. And she highlights the importance of WOMEN, not just men, showing the full gamut of truth. Keeping it real, keeps life authentic for all of us; Leveling the playing field for all women is the encouragement that we see from Rachel, balancing out the good with the bad. And not just on social media, but in REAL life! It’s important to realize that sometimes we work too hard for the perception of a good life online instead of a good life in person.

We slash lies from Rachel’s book that will bring you freedom. One lie was: I need a drink. Drinking as a habit of numbing…but not really acknowledging that numbing became a problem for Rachel. You’ll love to listen to Rachel explain when she realized that she wasn’t just having one drink but maybe more to survive each day. And how she has allowed to let the truth of ugly reality of her life set her free.

Listen to this episode to catch all the adrenaline pumping shots of encouragement that Rachel has to bring ...I’m not joking, be alert. We seriously roll through our convo like dialogue on a Gilmore Girls episode!