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Magic Lessons Ep. 208: “Leap Into the Fire” featuring Martha Beck

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

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I Threw My Life Away

Martha started doing what sorting out like knowing this? How old started knowing that? It was really when i was 25 and in my doctoral programme at harvard. My second child was diang tus very late in pregnancy, downsindrom and a. birth defect. All five doctors at the harvard a health center said that i had two weeks to decide on a termination or continuein. And so i didn't cave. I found my real response, and i threw my life away. They were right. The life i threw away suckedi i got back. Why every o ta didn't go into the fire, you come out with a new life, and it's better than

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