Lily Allen recalls ‘painful lesson learnt’ after David Harbour marriage split reports

Lily Allen recalls 'painful lesson learnt' during stint at treatment facility  Miss Me? Podcast

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00:00I guess that's to give myself and the other listeners some sort of life wisdom.

00:06I love the podcast. I listen to it every week. It's like my little getaway from life over here

00:13when I'm missing home. So thank you. Well, I think that everything, you know, everything bad

00:17that happens, like, you know, something generally good comes from it. You learn something from it,

00:23right? So I guess that's, you know, a positive spin, you know, that we have these tower moments,

00:29don't we? Where, you know, something follows. The evidence of one's life is the blueprint for

00:37the fact that obviously all is meant to happen in the way it happens. I feel like if we didn't

00:43go through pain, we'd be quite blank people. Oh, you know, when I was in my treatment center,

00:48there was this one thing that I read in this book about self compassion, which really stood out for

00:52me. And I feel like I might even get it as a tattoo, which is suffering equals pain times

01:02resistance. Hang on. Hang on. Suffering equals pain times resistance. Aha. Yeah. But you can't.

01:14Yeah. God. And now we get to letting things go. You have to sit with the pain and confront the

01:20pain and accept the pain. Love the pain. Caress the pain. Caress it, you know. Okay. Yeah. You've

01:28got to be like, this is painful. Like, it's okay. It's okay to be for things to be painful and for

01:34you to be able to feel pain. Don't try and bat it away.