{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Begin Again with Winston Faircloth","title":"The War IS Over","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":833,"description":"Episode 10: The War Is Over\nThe Release Movement, Opening Episode\n\nRecognize ended with a question: what would it look like to formally thank what has carried you this far, and then let it go? Episode Ten begins answering it — not with a technique, but with a true story. Winston takes listeners back to the fall of 2021: a compass that arrived in the mail from a grandmother long gone, a four-day personal retreat built around a friend's daughter's wedding, and the quiet, unglamorous internal war that had to end before any letter could ever be written.\n\nIn This Episode\n\n•  The compass — an envelope from Winston's late “Grandmother Alice”, found by his sister among family heirlooms and mailed to him exactly one week before a trip he didn't yet know would matter this much.\n•  The real shape of the four days in Effingham, Illinois: a Friday coaching intensive with Erica Vinson Sterns (who assigned Falling Upward, or at minimum its ‘Discharging the Loyal Soldier’ section), Saturday's wedding, a quiet unstructured Sunday, and a Monday coaching intensive with Teresa McCloy — all spent at Teresa and Dale's family farm.\n•  Why the crossroads moment doesn't feel like clarity — it feels like a fight — and why the question ‘is this really for me?’ is a signpost, not a warning sign.\n•  The distinction between a truce and a resolution: naming that ‘the war is over’ was not yet the letter, not yet forgiveness, and not yet healing — just the decision that a fifty-year-old vow no longer needed defending.\n•  A tease toward a future episode: the porch of the little house, a blank journal page, and the first words Winston ever wrote directly to the part of himself that had been standing guard for over fifty years.\n\nFeatured Poems\n \nHundreds of poems availble at https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections\n\n•  Tour Day 593: “Moment” (opening) \n•  Tour Day 995: “Truce” (closing) — written especially for this episode. \n\nMentioned in This Episode\n\n•  Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LXy7Jem68qZBGsT-ncYREEbUWRlBetIsvhnIqohh-3E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZTY1/MGQ3ZWMyZTQ4OTVi/YjRjMTFiNDY5MWY1/MDNmZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}