{"id":2653,"date":"2023-08-21T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2023-08-21T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:08:29","slug":"palabras-intraducibles-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/08\/21\/palabras-intraducibles-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Untranslatable words: struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will know that every now and then, I write about a sentence I find difficult to translate, either from English to Spanish or vice versa (if you\u00b4re curious and want to read those articles, you\u00b4ll find them under the category called Untranslatable<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I\u00b4m not bringing you a sentence, but a word, more specifically, a verb: to struggle<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spanish dictionary says struggling can be translated as fighting, confronting or tussling with something<\/strong>. And yes, it\u00b4s something along those lines, but with a few more nuances, I think. Maybe because (at least in my head) most times, that \"something\" is not a physical thing, but a situation or challenge we don\u00b4t know how to manage, so we experience some suffering as we attempt to overcome it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo gallery in Wordpress gave me this visual representation of struggle<\/em>, and I thought it was spot on: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rope could represent anything, real or symbolic (or imagined!) that we are confronted with, and towards which we feel we have no resources.<\/strong>. I think it\u00b4s a really interesting metaphor because the rope as such doesn\u00b4t have a life of its own; it all depends on what we do with it: we can keep tangling it more and more until we end up paralyzed, or we can untangle the knots bit by bit, one after the other, and break free. It\u00b4s almost as if that fight, that confrontation, that tussle, deep down, was with ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u00b4s a thing I would like to make very clear: this happens to all of us<\/strong> at one point or another, or rather, at many points throughout our lives. It\u00b4s a part of life itself. That\u00b4s how we learn, how we grow, how we evolve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One story that often comes up around this topic is that of the butterfly<\/strong>: part of its metamorphosis involves coming out of the cocoon, which takes a huge effort; it\u00b4s a real struggle. Anybody looking from the outside would think it\u00b4s going to die without achieving it. But the butterfly achieves it. And it has to be the butterfly itself, on its own, because that\u00b4s how its wings become strong, to be able to fly. If someone, with all their best intentions, had opened the cocoon earlier to let it out, it would have stayed weak and would not have survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, we all have to follow our own path and experience our own transformations<\/strong>. But do we really need to have such a hard time? Or watch others having a hard time, without helping them? Well, one thing we can do is treat those moments in life like what they really are: phases of growth, completely normal. And yes, we can help, but not by trying to resolve the other person\u00b4s problems from the outside, but by respecting their process, and accompanying them so that they can find their own resources and solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this quote summarizes it really well; it\u00b4s the first cornerstone of co-active coaching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.
People are not broken and do not need fixing and have their own innate wisdom on how to live life. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What I mean by this is that, leaving out certain exceptions where there\u00b4s a pathology or disorder (in which case it\u00b4s necessary to consult a psychiatrist or psychologist), in general, all we need is a bit of time, support and self confidence<\/strong> to overcome the challenges that are put in front of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, and self discovery, lots of self discovery<\/a>, it always helps \ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los que ya llev\u00e9is un tiempo leyendo este blog sabr\u00e9is que de vez en cuando escribo sobre una frase que me parece dif\u00edcil de traducir, o bien del ingl\u00e9s al espa\u00f1ol o viceversa (si ten\u00e9is curiosidad por leer esos art\u00edculos, los encontrar\u00e9is en la categor\u00eda de Intraducibles). Hoy lo que os traigo no es una … Continue reading Untranslatable words: struggle<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es lo que te est\u00e1 costando ahora mismo? \/ What are you struggling with at the moment?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4990,5145,5001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiracion-inspiration","category-intraducibles","category-palabras-words","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-GN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/ventanas-al-mundo\/","url_meta":{"origin":2653,"position":0},"title":"Windows to the world","author":"binarybea","date":"14\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Esta semana o\u00ed un comentario en la radio que me pareci\u00f3 curioso: dec\u00edan algo as\u00ed como que muchos j\u00f3venes de hoy en d\u00eda consideran que se puede saber m\u00e1s de c\u00f3mo es realmente una persona por los libros que posee que por su perfil en redes sociales. \u00bfT\u00fa qu\u00e9 opinas?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/category\/diario-journal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/reto-de-30-dias\/","url_meta":{"origin":2653,"position":1},"title":"30-day challenge","author":"binarybea","date":"31\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 opinas de los retos de 30 d\u00edas? \u00bfAlguna vez has hecho alguno? 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