{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"True & Tried Podcast","title":"What Disappointment Is Really Doing to Your Heart","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3998,"description":"I want to ask you something before we get into this.When is the last time you actually stopped and thought about disappointment? Not anxiety. Not depression. Not grief. Disappointment specifically.Because here is what I have noticed. We talk about all the other things. We have language for them, resources for them, and whole therapy industries built around them. But disappointment quietly sits underneath all of it, weaving itself through the whole story of our lives, and most of us have never once stopped to examine what it has actually done to us. And I think that is a problem.It Goes Further Back Than You ThinkThink about the little girl who did not make the team. The teenager whose heart got broken for the first time. The woman who got the diagnosis she feared, lost the baby she prayed for, watched a marriage fall apart, or simply never got the life she pictured.Disappointment is not just a feeling you have in the moment and get over. It does something to you. It shapes the way you think about yourself, the way you relate to other people, the way you trust God. And most of the time we do not even realize it is happening because we are too busy surviving to stop and look beneath the surface.That is what this conversation is about.What Keeps Getting My AttentionA few years ago I read a book called Inside Out by Dr. Larry Crabb and it genuinely changed how I see myself and the people around me. There is a framework in it called the iceberg and I keep coming back to it because it explains so much.The basic idea is this. What happens to us on the outside is only the tip of what is actually going on. Beneath the surface we carry pain in our hearts from those experiences. Pain that shapes us, that drives us, that quietly produces behaviors and patterns we often cannot explain. And beneath that, if we are honest, there is sin. Not just outward sin that other people can see but sin of the heart. The stuff we would never say out loud.As victims we are vulnerable. As...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WlxAXbg_7zfr-DJgrWBdW-gYLFDFJoqbtFie2z0GEJo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82YzQx/OGJhMGMzNTczMDc3/YmY4NTJlMWU0YmU1/YzJjNi5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}