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So, this week, we begin with a twist to create our common thought space for today. In the words of Isabel Wilkerson in her interview with Krista Tippet on NPR entitled The Heart is the Last Frontier. And I Quote, "With all due respect, I can't want to!" For some, this is the best of times. For others, it feels like the worst of times. For the wise, it is seen as one season in history. For others, it feels like an impending eternity of uncertainty. Words like 'us' and 'them' no longer define diversity but decree exclusion. Anger has become the overcoat that keeps our raw fear warm. Our country is like an ancient house. I love old houses. But old houses need a lot of work. And the work is never done. And just when you think you've finished one renovation, it's time to do something else. Something else has gone wrong. Sometimes, may need to look down in the basement to find the problem. We may need to go down into our metaphorical basement and see the historical causes and effects of things that need change. Only then can we make humanity-saving decisions. We must then intentionally add radical empathy to our solution. "Empathy is not pity or sympathy in which you look down on someone and feel sorry for them. With sympathy, you may be looking across at someone and feeling bad for them. However, empathy means getting inside of them, understanding their reality, and looking at their situation and saying not, "What would I do if I were in their position?" but, "What are they doing? Why are they doing what they're doing from the perspective of what they have endured?" Today, we are telling the story of one of Fairfax County, Virginia's organizations that has decided that it can want to… An organization that embodies empathy and hope! We are going to walk through the doors of Britepaths of Fairfax County. Britepaths is dedicated to stabilizing clients facing economic crises, fostering personal empowerment, and supporting the needs of children! This week's storyteller is Mr.David Joyner, the Development Manager of Britepaths of Fairfax County, Virginia. Be inspired, learn things, and share.
In this episode I explore the concept of compassion and self-compassion. I unpack what compassion is and why it's crucial in our lives, the incredible benefits of self-compassion for both mental and physical health and cover some ways you can begin to cultivate compassion for yourself and others. Special insights from the work of Kristin Neff and David Whyte as well as some books enrich the examination of compassion, shedding light on how self-awareness and compassion go hand-in-hand. Resources: Mindful Compassion by Choden and Paul Gilbert David Whyte on On Being with Krista Tippet and 3 Sundays in March The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Dr Kristin Neff https://self-compassion.org Leading Beyond the Numbers by Susan Ní Chríodáin
We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as close and personal to him as it could be when he was growing up — an apt expression of his parents' turbulent Mexican-American divorce. In his writing and in this conversation, he complicates every dehumanizing stereotype of Mexicans, "migrants" — and border guards. A deep truth of our time, Luis insists, is that “we miss each other.” He offers a vision of the larger possibility of our time beyond the terrible tangles of today: that we might evolve the old illusion of the melting pot into a 21st-century richness of “us." And he delightfully models that messiness and humor will be required.Luis Alberto Urrea is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. His books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction include Into the Beautiful North, The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter, and Goodnight, Irene.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in July 2018.______Sign up for The Pause — a Saturday morning companion newsletter to the On Being podcast season, and our mailing list for news and invitations all year round. Be the first to know as tickets go on sale for the On Being 2025 live national conversation tour.
Sign up to my WORD+mage ecourse or the Discovering Your Inner Symbols WORD+image MasterclassI am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.· Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.· We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.· We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it's problematic and why it's necessary.· Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O'Donohue.· Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.· She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?· How she discovered the beauty of our biology.· Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.More About Sushmita:Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita's spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language defined is the principal method of human communication. It consists of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture. It's a system of communication used by a particular community.Language is communicating with others and also how I communicate with myself. The language I choose to use is a large part of how my reality is shaped - and it's within this reality that I find - become aware - of my source.viewfinder is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new episodes and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Reflections* I use language as a tool in my creative practice.* Language can also hold me back.* Language challenges me to stay curious - a value deeply engrained in my creative practice.Resources* On Being, Clint Smith What We Know in the Marrow of Our Bones, Krista Tippet, * Clint Smith, more onConnectIf we haven't had the pleasure of meeting - I'm Lauren Sauder, an artist, writer, and mentor. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider writing a review. Here are a few more ways you can connect with me:* Download your viewfinder—Print it, cut it, and carry it with you.* The artist mixtape—a mix of books, playlists, and residencies to provide inspiration and company in the studio.* Receive letters from me—bi-weekly letters from me about what I'm working through in my creative practice and life.* Enlist me as your mentor—if you are interested in unlimited support and guidance to grow your creative practice.* Get in touch with me directly—send an email to laurensauderstudio@gmail.com.Share Get full access to Lauren Sauder at laurensauder.substack.com/subscribe
I'm simmering this summer with two words: MUSCULAR HOPE. Krista Tippet has inspired this adventure in idea. "I talk about hope being a muscle.It's not wishful thinking, and it's not idealism. It's not even a belief that everything will turn out OK. It's an imaginative leap, which is what I've seen in people like John Lewis and Jane Goodall. These are people who said: 'I refuse to accept that the world has to be this way. I am going to throw my life and my pragmatism and my intelligence at this insistence that it could be different and put that into practice.' That's a muscular hope. So, to your question, I don't always feel robustly hopeful. Depression is something I've struggled with. I've found the world an unbearable place for months at a time in the last two years. But at the same time I don't feel like there's a place in my work for my despair." Read the full interview here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/05/magazine/krista-tippett-interview.html Learn more about Summer, Fall and Winter Wise Circles → viralmindfulness.com/wise-circle
Joshua WhiteheadJoshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary where he teaches Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality. His book of poetry, full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. His novel, Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018), established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island. Jonny Appleseed was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. In Making Love With the Land (University of Minnesota, 2022), a book of essays, he writes in prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw, autobiographical, and emotionally compelling. Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly—even joyfully—maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial. His work is published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine. Robin Wall KimmererUniversity of Minnesota PressJohnny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadAlex Waters is the technical producer, audio editor and engineer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts including The Faith and Chai Podcast, Con Confianza and The Stand Unshaken Podcast. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living. He lives in Brooklyn can can be reached at alexwatersmusic12@gmail.com with inquiries.
Joyous richness awaits you in this journey of wonder, awe and high-frequency vitality. Beyond simply reducing stress, we travel deep into our Inner Beingness to find a new way of being alive. Our practice has matured to allow us to sense inner energies that nourish and enliven us, directing our focus to a new vista of possibilities and flows. We begin with the Orbit Breath, which enlivens and refreshes our nervous system. After our breath practice we engage all our focus and energy to find the wonder these inner energies and experiences. Listen to podcast On Being with Krista Tippet. Fresh ideas and hope from these two guests, Ada Limon, Poet Laureate of the United States and Dacher Keltner, author of Awe: A New Science of Wonder and Awe. 'Strands of Light' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)Disclaimer:Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice.
Episode 354: Why I Am Doing This Podcast Episode Notes Why am I doing this podcast? Here is the semi-long answer to that question. It is more exciting when you hear me answer the question. The bottom line is that resilient relationships flourish with meaningful conversations. I knew that. I also knew that we learn best through stories. When we get the nudge to change, it helps to hear how others redefine how they lead as they redesign their businesses. I have had thousands of conversations since I started WeMentor in 1992 to change the leadership in this country and worldwide, and guest what? I needed a platform to capture those stories and share them with others. This podcast has been a gift from the source. It was divine intervention—a game changer. I had been looking for a medium to capture the conversations that I was having with clients. I didn't know when my search would manifest into something worthwhile and affordable, so I stayed on the hunt, gathering information as I went. A 2015 family road trip to the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming inspired and answered my search. This wasn't my first visit to the Tetons. I worked in the 1980s at the Grand Teton National Park one summer in between college semesters. On this trip, I wanted to show my old stomping grounds to my husband, Matthew Foli, and our 13-year-old daughter, Olivia (I mistakenly said 8 years old). I cleaned bathrooms and fire pits and painted picnic tables. I was proud to be the first woman to have a cabin and be in charge of 50 campsites at one location and a five-mile bike ride to clean about 20 other campsites by Jenny Lake Lodge. Movie stars stayed at the main lodge. I saw Angie Dickinson from afar. Angie was a movie star and became famous in 1974 for her role in Police Woman. A photographer took a photo of me biking at Jenny Lake for his travel brochure. A mouse was my cabin mate. I fed her breadcrumbs and talked to her. It was a fantastic summer hiking, biking, meeting people from all over the world, making new friends, and having friends and family visit. They could set up camp next to my cabin. One day that summer, my boss showed me a letter he had received from a camping patron who said the bathrooms were the cleanest she had ever used in a national park. I told him it must have been during the weekend my parents visited. My mom, bless her soul, she crossed over in 2020, helped me clean those dirty bathrooms with a toothbrush—the memories. An 'aha' moment surfaced during that 2015 road trip. To get to the Grand Teton National Park, we made a big oblong loop from Minneapolis to Wyoming and hit the Badlands in South Dakota on the way back. We drove through Iowa and then headed west through Nebraska. As we approached the upper northwest corner of Nebraska, we lost our radio connection and almost ran out of gas. Matthew took out his iPhone and plugged it in to listen to some podcast episodes he had downloaded before we left. We were getting into podcasts at that time. Krista Tippet's, On Being podcast captivated our attention. Immediately, I was enthralled by the lack of commercials and uninterrupted listening. My senses were alive. The On Being podcast focuses on immersive conversations and explorations into the art of living. This episode was about yoga. The audio was crystal clear, and Krista's voice was soothing and informative. I fell in love with the platform. The Grand Teton National Park was unrecognizable as we approached it. The Grand Teton mountains were still there, but the campsite areas had been totally renovated. Nothing of what I remembered was there; even the entrance to that park area was different. So much development has occurred since the 1980s. The only thing familiar to me was the gorgeous mountain views. Throughout the trip, podcasting thoughts stuck with me. St. Boniface Catholic French African Confirmation Class 2023 As soon as we got home, I researched as much as possible on podcasting and found I could afford...
Diane AltersDiane Alters is a lecturer in journalism at Colorado College. She has worked as an editor or reporter for several publications, including the Boston Globe, the Sacramento Bee and the Denver Post and is co-author of Media, Home and Family (Routledge 2004). Her exquisite book of poetry, Breath, Suspended, (Finishing Line Press 2022.) was described by a critic as, “What it means to write at the aperture of grief.”Edward HirschEdward Hirsch is a beloved American poet. Gabriel: A Poem, published in 2014, is a book-length elegy for his son. He has written 10 volumes of poetry and is the author of five prose books. His most recent book is 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. Edward Hirsch has taught creative writing and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a position he has held since 2002.Sarah J. PurcellAuthor, Spectacle of Grief, Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era and L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College.Alex WatersAlex is the technical producer, audio editor and engineer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts including The Faith and Chai Podcast and Con Confianza. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living. He lives in Brooklyn can can be reached at alexwatersmusic12@gmail.com with inquiries.
I will never forget one cold and dark February morning getting chills from head to toe while listening to Krista Tippet interview Trabian Shorters on her podcast On Being. Trabian was describing his visionary concept of asset framing. From social media to journalism, academics, and policy-making, asset framing is about seeing others' assets before you witness their deficits. Trabian discovered that as humans we have a habit of seeing others' problems and defining people in need by their problems rather than their gifts and aspirations. He realized that naming this task was necessary for healing, and for any family or world to flourish.Being raised by his steady grandparents and determined teenage mother taught him two valuable lessons. First, if he can love someone the way God loves all of us, he will be okay. Second, in life, there is no surrender and no giving up.It was this beautiful combination of determination and love that helped Trabian create his cognitive framework of asset framing. Trabian is a retired tech entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and former vice president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation where he was responsible for $300M in active grants and endowments in 26 US cities.His nonprofit, BMe Community, is an award-winning social impact network for innovation, impact, and storytelling. BMe includes more than 400 black leaders plus institutional allies committed to building “equity without stigma”.Trabian is one of the world's leading social entrepreneurs and the catalyst of a national movement to define black people by their aspirations and contributions first and foremost, then to secure their fundamental freedoms to live, own, vote and excel. Today on the Cracking Open Podcast, Trabian's intellectual research and massive heart teach us that all human beings are innately oriented and designed to heal and repair – it is simply in our nature. What a beautiful and hopeful world we would all live in if we could approach every human not by red or blue, the color of their skin, or gender identity, but by the deep knowing of Trabian's words – “You can't lift them up by putting them down.”Learn more about Trabian Shorters hereExplore the BMe Community hereTake the Black L.O.V.E. Pledge here Find Trabian on Social:InstagramTwitterLearn more about Molly Carroll hereGet your free Body Emotion MapFind me on Social:InstagramFacebook
Spring is the season during which the natural world revives and reinvigorates after the colder winter months. During spring, dormant plants begin to grow again, new seedlings sprout out of the ground and hibernating animals awake. What are you doing to revive and reinvigorate your dreams, your soul, your mind? What script are you creating? Does it contain thoughts like “I am not enough!” or “I am more than enough!”? Are you stuck between your no longer and you not yet? Or are you willing to take new risks and experience the vulnerability that comes with it? Do you understand that hope is a consequence of struggle? What is your mirror telling you? I invite you to take a listen to an NPR On Being podcast that I treasure and feel compelled to share between Krista Tippet and Brene Brown about Courage and Vulnerability. It is NOT comfortable, yet it is necessary to hear. It is one of those experiences, when you finish listening, you may say to yourself, Wow! I thought I was the only one. Take a listen, and get smarter. Then let me know what you think. Maybe we can continue the conversation around the Frankly Speaking with Tyra G table.
Krista returns from her summer in Berlin, where her present-day self reunited with the 25-year-old of the 1980s, at large in the divided city. Hear the reflections that emerged from her season of creative rest, and her beloved practices of contemplative reading and journaling.Pull on the thread of emergence with Krista and our Pause newsletter community as the next season of On Being takes shape: onbeing.org/newsletter. You can read the transcript of Krista's letter in our September 17 edition of The Pause.
Poetry comes up so often in my conversations these days. Our society in crisis seems to be desperate for it, without being able to name that desperation until a poem calls it out of us. For years, award-winning Poet David Hassler has been defining and redefining how poetry enters and moves people and communities. Show Notes:Jane Hirshfield (04:30)Poets for Science (04:50)Francis Weller - how we tend the dead is as important as how we tend the living (09:30)Prayer wheels (14:00)Buddhist principles of Right Absorption and Right Understanding (17:20)Maggie Anderson (21:00)Krista Tippet - poetry is the human capacity to articulate truth at the edges of what words can touch (22:30)Poems always acknowledge the limits of what can be saidTraveling Stanzas (23:10)Robert Bly - metaphor is how you say something true about a complicated thing (24:00)Donald Hall The Unsayable Said (24:30)The art of gathering (27:40)Maj Ragain - poetry is the means by which a place comes to know itself (30:00)Dear Vaccine (33:20)Naomi Shihab NyeFuture of social media (35:10)Jonathan HaidtWilliam Stafford - poetry is the kind of thing that you have to see out of the corner of your eye and it will disappear without favor (37:00)Richard Feynman's Ode to Wonder (39:00)Healing the Heart of Democracyby Parker J Palmer (42:00)Dear Ukraine (48:20)Marge Piercy (50:00)Pursuing a question (51:40)Lightning round (53:00)Book: New Self, New Worldby Philip ShepherdPassion: Dancing (Teju Cole - sitting in the dark waiting for something to happen)Heart sing: Staging Dear VaccineScrewed up: Salacious poetry for kindergarteners Find David online:Kent State UniversityTwitter: @DavidWickPoetry'Five-Cut Fridays' five-song music playlist series David's playlist
Recorded February 11, 2022, my conversation on this topic with Sarah Fejfar has been sitting in the can until a time when I was moved by timing to release it. That time is now. Topics How attending one event changed the trajectory of Sarah's life and caused her to dive deep into personal development and entrepreneurship so she could lead by example amongst her family and friends. How scaling a business with events allows women to step into a bigger leadership role within their communities How events deepen the intimacy you have with your community and can help you reach more dream clients, build loyalty, make easier high-ticket sales Make sure you stay to the end and consider taking Sarah's “Friendly Friday Reminder Challenge.” Sarah's Friendly Friday Reminder This weekend be intentional with your community and/or with your family and friends just like you would in an event setting. Plan for magical and memorable moments to happen. When you do, it's never disappointing. Mentions The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker: https://www.priyaparker.com/thebook Krista Tippet's podcast interview with Priya Parker the author of The Art of Gathering titled “Priya Parker — Remaking Gathering: Entering the Mess, Crossing the Thresholds”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/priya-parker-remaking-gathering-entering-the-mess/id150892556?i=1000537146183 Love is Just Damn Good Business by Steve Farber: https://www.stevefarber.com/ Brendon Burchard: https://brendon.com/ Sarah's Greenroom Central podcast: https://www.sarahfejfar.com/podcasts/greenroom-central-events-entrepreneurship FREE 5-day Virtual Events Challenge: http://greenroomcentral.com/ Let's Get Social! Sarah Fejfar Founder + Principal Strategist Website: https://www.sarahfejfar.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenroom-central-events-entrepreneurship/id1599775831 IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfejfar/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfejfar LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfejfar/ WHAT has YOUR attention? Let us know To contact us and/or leave us an audio message visit WhatHasMyAttention.com Produced by ImaginePodcasting.com dba Heard Not Seen Media, Inc. Podsafe Music Credits Shine All Night by AudioStock and Motion Array Royalty-Free Music. Dope Digging by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license
We are so pleased to share this next leg of Power Dog's adventure- a crossover tale with Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater. You'll love this bouncy, fun, and musically delightful episode, which is the first in our series to feature a different voice for one of the characters. Brsicoe the Space Horse is voiced by Jim Cheff, creator of Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater. You can read more about the show, a fellow Kids Listen member, here: Get to Know a Show: Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater. Other voices from Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater you will hear in this episode are Cara Alboucq as Mary Farfisa and Leslie Baker as WhichWay. The 'Listener's Library Song' was written by Jim Cheff and Cara Alboucq, and performed by Cara. Jim also illustrated our special cover art, and you can see more of his work at http://96thofoctober.com/creators/jim-cheff/ We end this episode with a special message from Mme. Kate the Aware Wolf of Time Yin, with immense gratitude to the wisdom, inspiration, and lessons from Viktor Frankl, Krista Tippet, Pema Chödrön, and Tara Brach. From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard. Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank's Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won't Give Up!” Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick. This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR. It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/powerdogadventures/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/powerdogadventures/support
Amidst all of the perspectives and arguments around our ecological future, this much is true: we are not in the natural world — we are part of it. The next-generation marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson would let that reality of belonging show us the way forward. She loves the ocean. She loves human beings. And she's animated by questions emerging from those loves — and from the science she does — which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. This hour, Krista draws out her creative and pragmatic inquiry: Could we let ourselves be led by what we already know how to do, and by what we have it in us to save? What, she asks, if we get this right? This conversation was recorded at the 2022 TED Conference. You can hear all of the talks coming out of the conference by following the TED Talks Daily podcast, wherever podcasts are found.Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities. She's one of the creators of the podcast, “How to Save a Planet,” and she co-edited the wonderful anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. She's also the co-founder of the All We Can Save Project.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
Amidst all of the perspectives and arguments around our ecological future, this much is true: we are not in the natural world — we are part of it. The next-generation marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson would let that reality of belonging show us the way forward. She loves the ocean. She loves human beings. And she's animated by questions emerging from those loves — and from the science she does — which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. This hour, Krista draws out her creative and pragmatic inquiry: Could we let ourselves be led by what we already know how to do, and by what we have it in us to save? What, she asks, if we get this right? This conversation was recorded at the 2022 TED Conference. You can hear all of the talks coming out of the conference by following the TED Talks Daily podcast, wherever podcasts are found.Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities. She's one of the creators of the podcast, “How to Save a Planet,” and she co-edited the wonderful anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. She's also the co-founder of the All We Can Save Project.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Ayana Elizabeth Johnson — What If We Get This Right?" Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.
The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. Yet her lifelong struggle with Crohn's Disease and her pioneering work with cancer patients shaped her view of life. Becoming whole, she teaches, is not about eradicating our wounds and weaknesses; rather, the way we deal with losses, large and small, shapes our capacity to be present to all of our experiences. That arresting notion, and the distinction Rachel Naomi Remen draws between curing and healing, makes this an urgent offering to our world — of healing we are all called to receive and to give.--YOU ARE INVITED!A Listening Party.Celebrating the first 20 years of On Being with Krista.All are welcome — bring friends and family.Visit onbeing.org/staywithus to register and learn more.--Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is founder of the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness and a Professor of Family Medicine at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Ohio. She's also a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at UC San Francisco School of Medicine, that's where she developed “The Healer's Art,” her course for medical students. Her beloved books include Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings. And in September, 2022, she will publish her first book for children: The Birthday of the World: A Story about Finding Light in Everyone and Everything.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in August 2005.
The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. Yet her lifelong struggle with Crohn's Disease and her pioneering work with cancer patients shaped her view of life. Becoming whole, she teaches, is not about eradicating our wounds and weaknesses; rather, the way we deal with losses, large and small, shapes our capacity to be present to all of our experiences. That arresting notion, and the distinction Rachel Naomi Remen draws between curing and healing, makes this an urgent offering to our world — of healing we are all called to receive and to give.--YOU ARE INVITED!A Listening Party.Celebrating the first 20 years of On Being with Krista.All are welcome — bring friends and family.Visit onbeing.org/staywithus to register and learn more.--Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is founder of the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness and a Professor of Family Medicine at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Ohio. She's also a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at UC San Francisco School of Medicine, that's where she developed “The Healer's Art,” her course for medical students. Her beloved books include Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings. And in September, 2022, she will publish her first book for children: The Birthday of the World: A Story about Finding Light in Everyone and Everything.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Rachel Naomi Remen — How We Live With Loss." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in August 2005.
As we approach nearly two decades of On Being, Krista shares a moment from the earliest years of the show that imprinted everything that followed. Hear Krista reflect on her 2005 conversation with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen — and the wisdom she encountered that accumulated across the years into all The On Being Project is today, and all we continue to become. You, too, can share a memory or experience from an On Being episode that has stayed with you, or made a difference. Record your reflection with ease at onbeing.org/staywithus, where you can also sign up to receive invitations and updates about all that's ahead as we take a new shape in the fall.Thank you in advance for this gift. We look forward to listening.
A little ‘woohoo' for us! Perhaps it's a little preemptive to get excited about reaching our 9th episode, but we're doing it anyway! After almost a year of plugging away at our passion project, we're pretty proud of what we've achieved so far. We have listeners from 27 different countries and we're pumped to see how many like-minded people there are across the globe who care about this topic and want to create a positive impact and live responsibility whilst still existing in today's modern world. We're additionally proud of making it thus far because, fun fact, only a third of podcasts make it to 10 episodes -hence, the mini-celebration and the need to thank you, our listener, for being on this journey with us. In this episode of the Modern Idealist, we're going back to the core of why we started this, what it means to be an idealist living in the realities of modern day, and discuss some of the recurring conundrums we constantly reflect on. We share some of the great feedback we have received from our listeners so far and talk about some of the challenges and trade-offs when trying to live out our modern idealist values. *Subscribe and connect with us!* ✅ Follow Modern Idealist on: Spotify / Apple Podcast / Google Podcast ✨ Instagram: Modern__idealist ✨ Meryn's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merynwilletts/ ✨ Valerie's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-leung/ ✨ Email: ModernIdealistPodcast@gmail.com *Links for relevant content* > Podcast: On Being with Krista Tippet with Jonathan Rowson - Integrating Souls, Systems, and Society > The School of Life Dating Cards: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/dating-cards/ > The Human Aspect: https://thehumanaspect.com/ > Be more confident! video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thefemalelead_tova-leigh-dear-alyne-have-you-ever-heard-activity-6914285032152989696-8QVB?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/modernidealist/message
We're wrapping up our Faith Shakers series this week, and we hope you've found it as eye-opening and enlightening as we have to see what people of faith in non-traditional spaces have been doing to make the world a better, more thoughtful place. This episode takes us to yet another unique space where faith and art are being combined to great effect--and it's through poetry. In case you're having flashbacks to Shakespearean sonnets you had to study in high school, fear not. We're going beyond poetry to recognize the beauty in the lyrics we love from our favorite songs, to the way thoughts are constructed by deep thinkers like modern poet Maya Angelou. Language, words, and poetry have always been a tool deeply embedded inside any sort of faith search. So this week, we welcome a poet who also happens to be a theologian, and he's going to walk us through the powerful ways that poetry can bring healing, hope, and reconciliation, Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian whose work centers around language, power, conflict, politics, and religion. For several years, he was the leader of Corrymeela Community—Ireland's oldest organization focused on religious reconciliation. He's also the in-house theologian for the NPR show On Being, with Krista Tippet. Pádraig focuses on conflict resolution who dedicates his life to creating safe spaces for all people within the religious realm. He shows us all that communication, understanding, and landing in the gray space is the way forward and that we can all find our faith space, no matter who we are or where we come from. * * * Thank you to our sponsors! Betterhelp | Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/forthelove OSEA | Get 10% off your first order using promo code FORTHELOVE at oseamalibu.com Thistle Farms | Get 15% off at thistlefarms.org using promo code FORTHELOVE Thought-Provoking Quotes "Conflict can be the place for brilliant friendships to thrive, and experience electricity for themselves. So sometimes you want to amplify conflict because it's really fruitful, energetic, and creative. But when it gets violent, or destructive, or fruitless, then it needs to be resolved." – Padraig O Tuama “I have no interest in whether somebody does or doesn't believe in God. I have no interest in whether we agree. That doesn't interest me at all. I hope we don't, I don't agree with myself, so I don't really agree with anybody else.” – Padraig O Tuama "I have a deep interest in wondering, 'do the words we use help us make some kind of sense of the world?' And when there's no sense to be made, do the words we use help give our grief voice?" – Padraig O Tuama “So much of the work of peace can be undone by the peace field being partitioned, and segregated, and fighting amongst itself.” – Padraig O Tuama “I'm uninterested in neutrality. I am interested in fairness and trustability.” – Padraig O Tuama "If you were to gather all the authors of the bible, and put them in a field, I think they would hate each other at times. They would not agree with each other on this word of God, or the question of God. And as a result, I thought, ‘Oh my God, there's room for me.'" – Padraig O Tuama Padraig's LinksWebsite Facebook Instagram Twitter Connect with Jen!Jen's website Jen's InstagramJen's Twitter Jen's FacebookJen's YouTube
The visionary, next-generation organizer Ai-jen Poo says this of Tarana Burke: “There are just so many layers of hope that she brings to the world and to people like me, to survivors, to all kinds of communities.” Ai-jen and Tarana are the conversation partners for this episode of The Future of Hope. And what a conversation it is. We listen in on a brilliant friendship that has powered and sustained two extraordinary women who are leading defining movements of this generation that call us to our highest humanity. Ai-jen has been long ahead of a cultural curve we are all on now — of seeing the urgent calling to update and transform not just how we value the caregiving workforce of millions, but how we value care itself as a society. Tarana founded the ‘me too.' Movement. What you are about to hear is intimate, revelatory, and rooted in trust and care. It's also an invitation to all of us, to imagine and build a more graceful way to remake the world.Ai-jen Poo co-founded and leads The National Domestic Workers Alliance, is the director of Caring Across Generations, and co-founder of Supermajority. Among her countless awards, she was a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. She's the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Her previous conversation with Krista is “This Is Our (Caring) Revolution” — find it at onbeing.org and in your podcast feed. Tarana Burke has been organizing within issues facing Black women and girls for over three decades. Her many accolades include the 2019 Sydney Peace Prize and the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. She's the author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” These are words of the late legendary biblical interpreter and teacher Eugene Peterson. At the back of the church he pastored for nearly three decades, you'd be likely to find well-worn copies of books by Wallace Stegner or Denise Levertov. Frustrated with the unimaginative way he found his congregants treating their Bibles, he translated the whole thing himself and that translation has sold millions of copies around the world. Eugene Peterson's literary biblical imagination formed generations of pastors, teachers, and readers. His down-to-earth faith hinged on a love of metaphor and a commitment to the Bible's poetry as what keeps it alive to the world.Eugene Peterson wrote over 30 books including Answering God, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, and The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language. In 2021, a Lenten sermon series of his was published posthumously with the title: This Hallelujah Banquet: How the End of What We Were Reveals Who We Can Be. He served as the pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church for 29 years. He spent the last years of his life with his wife, Jan, at the home his father built in Lakeside, Montana, just outside Glacier National Park. That's where he was when he spoke with Krista in 2016, two years before he died at the age of 85.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in December 2016.
“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” These are words of the late legendary biblical interpreter and teacher Eugene Peterson. At the back of the church he pastored for nearly three decades, you'd be likely to find well-worn copies of books by Wallace Stegner or Denise Levertov. Frustrated with the unimaginative way he found his congregants treating their Bibles, he translated the whole thing himself and that translation has sold millions of copies around the world. Eugene Peterson's literary biblical imagination formed generations of pastors, teachers, and readers. His down-to-earth faith hinged on a love of metaphor and a commitment to the Bible's poetry as what keeps it alive to the world.Eugene Peterson wrote over 30 books including Answering God, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology, and The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language. In 2021, a Lenten sermon series of his was published posthumously with the title: This Hallelujah Banquet: How the End of What We Were Reveals Who We Can Be. He served as the pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church for 29 years. He spent the last years of his life with his wife, Jan, at the home his father built in Lakeside, Montana, just outside Glacier National Park. That's where he was when he spoke with Krista in 2016, two years before he died at the age of 85.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Eugene Peterson – Answering God.” Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in December 2016.
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We're still doomscrolling, so we're still releasing goofy, bantr-y episodes about tropes we cannot quit! This week, we're talking about a very specific one that we adore — Waking up Married! We talk about Vegas, about why you shouldn't drink and espouse, about The Hangover, and about how…when a trope ain't broke, you definitely shouldn't fix it.This episode is sponsored by Christi Caldwell, author of For Love of the Duke, and BetterHelp Online Therapy.Next week, we've got a trailblazer episode! Our next read along is Diana Quincy's Her Night With the Duke, which was on our Best of 2020 year-end list! Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or at your local bookstore. You can also get it in audio from our partner, Chirp Books!Show NotesYou might be wondering how Las Vegas became the wedding capital of America.Jen and Sarah have some strong feelings about phones! The rotary phone was a real trip. Back in 1996, when Jen was in Houston doing TFA, they added 281 to the Houston area codes (yes, she said zip code on the pod, but you know what she meant!), but by now we're over having area code pride. Meanwhile, we still want to know why international dialing is so expensive.I'm sorry to report that we don't ever think we'll have a Fated Mates Discord, and whatever Quordle is, that's not the way Jen's brain works.Help us make a Fated Mates glossary by filling out this form. You should all listen to On Being with Krista Tippet, which is a podcast dedicated to answering questions about what it means to be human.It's not wonder kid, it's wunderkind. Just ask Nate. Not that kind of Prince Albert. The Hangover is a very funny movie.
No conversation we've ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O'Donohue's voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.John O'Donohue was a poet, theologian, and philosopher. He authored beloved books, including Anam Ċara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. To Bless the Space Between Us, a collection of blessings, was published posthumously. A wonderful book drawn from his voice in conversation, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World, was published in November 2018.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty” Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.
No conversation we've ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O'Donohue's voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.John O'Donohue was a poet, theologian, and philosopher. He authored beloved books, including Anam Ċara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. To Bless the Space Between Us, a collection of blessings, was published posthumously. A wonderful book drawn from his voice in conversation, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World, was published in November 2018.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in February 2008.
In today’s episode, we’ll be speaking with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has reached millions worldwide via his ten books, including the best-selling Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and A Hidden Wholeness. His latest bestseller is On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old (2018). Palmer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and 13 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. I first learned about Parker Palmer through Krista Tippet, as I was a part of the On-Being weekend at 1440 Multiversity many years ago, and was moved by his books. -------- We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His book, “Let your life speak” and what he means by the phrase: "living the life that wants to live in me." ✅ How he made the decision to create his own path as a teacher and a leader ✅ How he knew that he was not going to go down the conventional road ✅ “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It's a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” ✅ How he decided to take creative risks ✅ In his book, Let Your Life Speak, he talks about how leaders can cast both shadow and light, and a few shadows are: insecurity about identity and worth, and the belief that the universe is a hostile battleground. ✅ His time with the Quakers and how it shaped him ✅ How his journey through the depths of depression shapes his life You can learn more about Parker Palmer here: https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/parker/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.
In today’s episode, we’ll be speaking with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has reached millions worldwide via his ten books, including the best-selling Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and A Hidden Wholeness. His latest bestseller is On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old (2018). Palmer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and 13 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. I first learned about Parker Palmer through Krista Tippet, as I was a part of the On-Being weekend at 1440 Multiversity many years ago, and was moved by his books. -------- We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His book, “Let your life speak” and what he means by the phrase: "living the life that wants to live in me." ✅ How he made the decision to create his own path as a teacher and a leader ✅ How he knew that he was not going to go down the conventional road ✅ “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It's a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” ✅ How he decided to take creative risks ✅ In his book, Let Your Life Speak, he talks about how leaders can cast both shadow and light, and a few shadows are: insecurity about identity and worth, and the belief that the universe is a hostile battleground. ✅ His time with the Quakers and how it shaped him ✅ How his journey through the depths of depression shapes his life You can learn more about Parker Palmer here: https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/parker/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.
In this interview, I spoke with Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a writer, TED speaker, and the bestselling author of several books, including: “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking”, and “Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get More Things Done.” This conversation focuses on Oliver's most recent book: 4,000 Weeks, which is about making the most of the very brief amount of time we all have here on the planet. There have been few books that have impacted me as much as this one, and if you can apply some of Oliver's insights and perspectives, they have the potential to dramatically transform your relationship with time, into one that feels life-giving, rather than crushing. It's not just me either. Adam Grant has called it “The Most Important Book Ever Written About Time Management”, while Krista Tippet says: “It invites nothing less than a new relationship with time – and with life itself.” You can learn more about Oliver's work at www.oliverburkeman.com, follow him on twitter @oliverburkeman, and get a copy of the book here. --- This episode is brought to you by The Weekend University's Day on Human Nature Online Conference, taking place on Sunday December 19th 2021. This will be a full day of interactive talks with leading psychologists, professors and neuroscientists exploring the hidden forces that drive human behaviour, with sessions on: - Does Altruism Exist? Attachment, Neurobiology & Optimal Wellbeing - Dr Graham Music, PhD - Fate or Free Will? The Neuroscience of Human Potential - Dr Hannah Critchlow, PhD - Twin Studies & The Nature vs Nurture Debate - Prof. Nancy Segal, PhD By attending live, you can interact with world class speakers and leading academics in real time, get your questions answered in the Q&A sessions, connect with like minded participants during the conference, and get lifetime access to the recordings and all available materials from the sessions. Additionally, The Weekend University guarantees an excellent learning experience. Therefore, if you attend and aren't fully satisfied with the day, you'll get a full refund - no questions asked. As a listener of the podcast, you can get a discount on your ticket, if you go to https://bit.ly/human-nature-2021, and use the discount code: POD when registering. --- Interview Links: - Oliver's website: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/ - Oliver's book: https://amzn.to/3cxS8BL - Get our latest psychology lectures emailed to your inbox: http://bit.ly/new-talks5 - Check out our next event: http://theweekenduniversity.com/events/
Pico Iyer is an esteemed journalist and essayist, and an explorer of inner life — for himself and in 21st-century society. For this episode in our Future of Hope series, he draws out writer Elizabeth Gilbert and “her sense of hope based not on a confidence in happy endings, but the conviction that something makes sense — even if not a sense that we can grasp.” Pico's questions and Liz's answers are all the more poignant given that both of them have recently suffered deep losses. These two friends delve into what it means to retreat into smallness, and grapple with a complex understanding of hope, as the world continues to overwhelm.Pico Iyer is the author of many books, including The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. His latest is A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations.Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of beloved non-fiction books including Big Magic and the global sensation, Eat, Pray, Love. Her novels include: The Signature of All Things, and, most recently, City of Girls.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.
Cyndi Mesmer – colleague, mentor and friend to Danielle. She's first and foremost a wife and a mom of five. She's a therapist and owns her own group practice called Art of Living Counseling based out of Illinois. She also works at the Allender Center, based out of Seattle, WA, and wears many hats as a teacher and trainer as well as story facilitator. Cyndi is an avid reader and loves to hang out with her kids. Cyndi is doing well, just came off of a 4-day intensive at the Allender Center called Story Workshop where they engaging trauma stories and teaching. It's both a blast and so much fun as well we exhausting. She likens it to deep sea diving; you go down deep and then have to come up for air every once and while before going back down. She's well but really busy. Danielle says it feels like the mental health field is slammed during this ongoing trauma of COVID. Cyndi enthusiastically agrees it is slammed! Initially when COVID hit she felt like they bought into the idea that it was just going to be three weeks, and then we'll be back at the office and everything will be well. But three weeks turned into six weeks, then three months, then here we are [18 months later] and it just keeps going. “In many ways, it turned the world upside down.” She is experiencing in her practice within the mental health field a huge influx of people needing care. Her view is that the trauma that has been embedded in people bodies that normally stays hidden—under coping mechanisms and other techniques to suppress, ignore or avoid—has come to the surface during COVID. She sees this playing out for her clients in their family dynamics, their marriages, with people struggling with depression and anxiety and are now seeking help. Cyndi doesn't know many therapists that don't have completely full practices—everyone is full. She herself has a 45 person wait-list and finds herself emailing around every week to see if there are any therapists in her network that have room for new clients. She's even trying to hire new therapists for her counseling group to in order to try to meet the demands for mental health care. And it's not just adults who are looking for care—Cyndi says adolescences are having a really hard time.Maggie asks if Cyndi if the actual work she does with clients has changed at all since the pandemic start. Cyndi thinks people now are more “raw”; they are showing up more authentically and eager to do the work that they need to do because of the unprecedented levels of distress they are feeling. Before people before the pandemic would come to therapy for “crisis resolution”– to fix an immediate issue—but they didn't really want to get to the underside of what's actually causing their symptoms or to engage the embedded trauma in their bodies. They would come for a few sessions and feel better and be gone. But with the pandemic, everyone's schedules, routines and nervous systems are getting triggered and changed. What seems like it would be restful—being more at home and slowing down—has actually unsettled people and created a significant amount of distress for their nervous systems. Everyone is exhausted! The people who are coming to therapy now are doing really good work because they are more ready, raw and eager to do the deep work of engaging the underlying trauma. Danielle has felt like a mental health emergency responder. She says is it like the past trauma shows up in ways that creates internal activation; People want to get regulated and to learn to self-regulate knowing that the isolation could continue. What comes with that, Cyndi says, is confusion. People are asking, “why am I experiencing what I am experiencing? They can name that we're in a pandemic or that their kids are now at home when they would have been at school, but there is so much more going on and people don't really know what is happening. Now they are willing to unpack the hard stuff. Maggie says the disruption that occurred globally with the pandemic triggered internal disruption for people on the individual level. Pre-pandemic people normally on a regular everyday basis have good coping skills, tools, resources and mechanisms for getting through the day. But when the world turned upside with the pandemic, the disruption caused their coping skills to not be as effective. This left people wondering, “what is happening to me?”Some of those defense mechanisms, Cyndi said, were actually built into structures—they were tied to our routines and schedules. “We are routine structured people: we operate really well, our bodies operate well, when we have routine, structure, a typical schedule we follow. I think our bodies like that. I think our bodies operate best like that.” And when the pandemic hit, it disrupted and upset our normal routines and schedules and our bodies didn't know what to do with that. Her schedule changed: Now, she goes to her office once a week when she used to go 4 times a week. And when she's home. she has to contend with her kids being home when she didn't have to do that when she was at work. Her body is confused because it used to be when she was home, she spent time with her kids but now she's working from home most days. It's a big shift and change. Cyndi believes all the change is activating people's nervous systems, their embedded trauma and their attachment issues. The profound sense of isolation is what she thinks triggering people's attachment issues—their anxious-ambivalent attachment, their avoidant attachment. The language she uses is that the younger parts of people that are embedded in the very neurons of their bodies are being activated and are coming up to the surface. She says this feels like a sense of powerlessness, looming fear and indecision (not knowing what to do).Danielle said even when she's in her office she feels the attachment with her kids—she says when she comes out of a therapy session with a client and sometimes she'll have 40 text messages from her kids with emojis of hearts, smiley faces, more hearts. In that moment, she can't make sense of it, but she says she needs to know from them; “what is going on? Is there an emergency?” Danielle says even folks with children and adolescence in their lives feel their attachment is disrupted with those kids. The patterns and normal healthy patterns of relating are disrupted. This is what came to mind when Cyndi mentioned the increase in adolescence in therapy. Cyndi names that kids being taken out of school for so long was very hard for them. For her own children (one out of school, one senior in college, two in high school and one in junior high) she wonders how much they really learned last year online. Not because the teachers weren't doing an awesome job trying to teach virtually, but more around the fact that their brain was offline. How much information did they take in? She's seeing high levels of anxiety, not just in her own kids but in the adolescence she sees in her practice. They felt anxious during the [lockdown part of the] pandemic wonder what is going on with our world, feeling anxious they can't be with the friends. Now that they are back at school there is a high level of anxiety about how re-enter: will I have the same friends? What will school look like now, with everyone wearing masks? Cyndi says they are holding so much anxiety in their bodies. Even her college student struggled significantly when COVID and decided to return home to take a year off because it was too much. Kids are really struggling. Cyndi says kids are also picking up on and are aware of all the anxiety that parents and other adults are feeling. Sometimes parents are working from home now and she says some marriages do really well with both parents home and some don't; Some marriages function really well because someone (or both) go to work. She is seeing a rise in domestic violence, more fighting going on at home. Kids are confused when they have a parent working from home and try to engage them; “hey come watch a movie with me” or “let's go for a bike ride,” but the parent is actually working. It's a lot of turmoil and disruption happening in homes.Cyndi says she is grateful that people are reaching out and are asking for help. Some of the new clients she took on during the pandemic she had only been meeting with virtually. So now that she's seeing clients in person again she's realizing she'd never met them in-person before. That was true for her and Danielle—they would talk all the time on the phone and built a friendship but didn't actually meet in person until they recently attended an in-person intensive training. It's weird. Maggie agrees, the only words that seem to fit this strange season are weird and disruptive. Every relationship within family systems have been disrupted: marriages, parents and their kids, kids going to school, kids staying at home. It is no wonder that there is so much confusion when we're in such chaos! Maggie asks Cyndi, when she works with adolescence, how does she help kid re-engage their bodies?Part of it is giving them language, Cyndi answers, to help them process, make meaning around their experiences and to connect to their bodies. To be able to teach kids and adolescences how to identify where in their body they are feeling, what does it feel like and then validate what they are feeling. And it's not just kids that need language, adults do too! There is comfort and validation in being able to name what your body is telling you. Then next step after identification is to honor what you have come to know about your embodied experience and to say, “Thank you, body for communicating that to me.” It is helping them to find the answer to “How do I create a sense of peace and calm for my body and to soothe in healthy ways?” We talk a lot about body work: Knowing what is happening in our bodies and how to care well for our bodies. Danielle adds, we are built to co-regulate, to be with other people. And not just one person, but a village. When there is so much anxiety pent up in a family, co-regulation becomes more difficult. It then becomes disruptive for kids to navigate and readjust when they go to school. Danielle asks if Cyndi works with families and what do you do when a family comes to you?Cyndi says, yes she work with families. Her experience has been that a child will start showing symptoms, the parents don't know what to do with the child so they send them to therapy so that the child can be “fixed.” But usually, it's a parental or family issue. She said what she finds difficult is getting families to join the process of change. Often times what comes up for the child is caught up in their family dynamics, their role in the family. When she invites parents to look at the family system, they don't want to. They just want their kids “fixed.”Maggie says that feels true and it's a perfect segue into Story Work. What Maggie hears Cyndi saying is that with families there's an invitation for the parents to do their own work. Maggie asks Cyndi what is the different between story work and therapy?Cyndi loves Story Work. She is currently doing 5 story groups a week and says it is super fun for her. She even does one group with young adults. Cyndy says that Story Work is an invitation to bring a particular story to look at and engage. She usually asks people to bring a “young story” (from formative years, 5- 18 years old) because how someone shows up today in the present is based on what happened in the past. “The past is always showing up in the present.”Participants write a story and then they stay in the context of that story. Which is very different than therapy – it can go all over, the present, the past, etc. Story work stays in the context of the story where there may have been harm. What we're looking for in the story is where is the person bond? Where do they carry the most shame or complicity? What we've found in story work in the context of trauma or harm is that we didn't get good attunement, containment or the offer for repair. This trauma is then embedded in the very organs and cells of our bodies and we end up shifting our style of relating to try to cope with that. Staying in the context of the story can bring better awareness and better understanding of the characters in the story. Cyndi says having a group bear witness and speak into their story with kindness and care, offering attunement, containment and repair can actually shift their narrative and bring a sense of healing. This doesn't change the past, but it helps them to see a clearer picture of what happened in the context of the story which leads to more agency and freedom to change the here and now.There is a sense of understanding why we are the way respond the way we do in the present as a result of our experiences. The ways in which we were harmed impacts how we show up today. Story work is kind mystical, she says. And she's aware that you have to experience it to really get. Many times, she'll invite a client to engage in a story group and people are often put off with the thought of sharing their personal story with a bunch of strangers. But she continues to ask them to try it because she knows what goodness can come through story groups. So much change happens in a short amount of time. Once they experience it, they're hooked. It creates significant change; more change in 12 weeks than in a whole year because you're getting access points from all over the place as others engage your story and as you watch other people's story receive care. It's just beautiful she says. Danielle does story intensives with a colleague for couples and groups of people with the agreement that they are in regular therapy outside of it so they have somewhere to do back to. She says, the movement is incredible! She sees more openness and ability to move someone forward with story work. Maggie adds to what Cyndi said about story work in that you have to experience it to really grasp it: when we're harmed in relationship, healing will also happen in relationship. There is something so powerful about the seeing and caring eyes of others while doing story work. Of course in therapy you have your therapist kind and caring eyes, but to have the others speaking and looking into your story—because they think and see things differently than you do—it brings new awareness. “There is so much power in the group dynamic that happens in story work.”Cyndi agrees and adds that another thing that happens when you do groups is over time people start playing their family roles. This creates fun group dynamics to play with. When you start showing up in story group with your family dynamics it gives people a safe and trusted place to try new styles of relating and to get help with not self-sabotaging. “There are so many different layers to doing group work that is not only in regards to story work but also the group dynamics that play out in the here and now.” When someone comes away missed or hurt by something that was said and they bring it back to group, there's an opportunity to experience repair. Danielle asks about Cyndi's trainings. Cyndi loves story work and story groups – her deepest desire is for there to be more story groups going on. “My feeling is that story groups are how church should be.” She has been a part of church since she was born and when she does story groups it feels like church to her – holy and scared. When she does trainings, her goal is to train people to do story groups all over the place. I train pastors, lay people and therapists to engage stories well. This is different than just saying things to make people feel better. To really engage a story well, it creates disruption because it invites people to grief and to name people in their story. It is hard work. She does consultations – one-on-one teaching someone about story work and how to do it. She also does trainings twice a year with folks who have already had some training in story work, maybe from the Allender Center and desire to grow and hone their skills. It is a place to practice facilitating stories and build on what they've already learned. This Spring she's invited three of her friends, Danielle, Jenny McGrath and Adam Young, doing intense training, engaging their own story as well as how to form your own story group. Training, supervision, coaching as well as guidance on how to start their own story groups in their spaces. Connect with Cyndi, join one of her story groups or sign-up for a spot for her Spring Training at www.artoflivingcounseling.comShe has hybrid options: both online and in-person Cyndi is reading: Brain Talk by David SchnarchCyndi is listening to: ON being with Krista Tippet, Adam Young's Podcast called The Place We Find Ourselves, The Rise and Fall of Mars HillCyndi is inspired by: her kids. They are constantly teaching her new things.
The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to say, ran straight through his parents' Mexican-American marriage and divorce. His works of fiction and non-fiction confuse every dehumanizing caricature of Mexicans — and of U.S. border guards. The possibility of our time, as he lives and witnesses with his writing, is to evolve the old melting pot to the 21st-century richness of “us” — with all the mess and necessary humor required.Luis Alberto Urrea is an English professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published in nearly every genre, including nonfiction, memoir, short stories, historical novels, poetry, and even an award-winning mystery story, and has been called a “literary badass.” His many books include Into the Beautiful North, The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter, The Tijuana Book of the Dead and The House of Broken Angels. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Luis Alberto Urrea — Borders Are Liminal Spaces." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.
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Danielle and Maggie pick up the previous episode's conversation around comfort vs. distraction/numbing. Maggie says there's a great temptation to “get out of our bodies” because this season is so long, so uncertain, there's anxiety and fear; it's seemingly unbearable.Things that bring us comfort are things that will invite us into our bodies. Distraction and numbing are ways to dissociate and escape reality; they make us no longer present. Danielle gets a general feeling or sense after a conversation, then allows herself to give it words. She has been collecting candles, lighting them and purposefully pausing to watch the flame waver. Tiny things that bring her comfort. She's also been more aware of the Sunday iPhone usage data -- she sees that and it motivates her to limit the number of hours she spends on social media. She tells herself, don't hop on, what do you want to do? Lay down, push shoulders back. Maggie agrees, that iPhone usage notification on Sundays is so convicting! She thinks it is probably time for her to reinstate good boundaries regarding phone usage, especially on weekends. Maggie also has been using candles, when she lights them she recites “I have set the Lord before me always, because He is with me I will not be shaken” (from Psalm 16:8) and is reminded how many times in scripture God's presence is symbolized with fire. God is with me, whether I am aware of his presence or not.”Another practice Maggie is doing is good body-kindness care, specifically baths. Trying to invite herself into that space by bringing her book in there with her and told herself to at least read an entire chapter before getting out. Because she created this space, she came out more refreshed, more willing to engage, less stressed or hurried. “I need to slow down enough to where I am inviting myself to stay.” It's not perfect but the practices are good and we should do them, but there is no reason to berate ourselves if we don't do them frequently, or long enough or “the right way.” It is a mindful assessment of our heart, mind and body. There need be no self imposed restrictions on that space. Danielle says even just listening to Maggie brings her comfort knowing that she too is working on staying present. Danielle says there is something about just picking up the phone and calling someone to chat; the voice to voice contact connects us to our humanness and she feels the longing for another person. Maggie acknowledges there seems to have been a cultural or social shift that says texting is an okay place to have meaningful, important conversations. We can miss someone over text. Danielle asks about Maggie's crazy cat -- Like many others, she adopted a pet during covid. This particular cat is feral and was found under Danielle's house. Kids named him Cosmo and he's a legitimate ankle biter, waiting in the hallways to pounce on people's feet. Danielle says it's comforting to know we can still laugh together. In general, Maggie says there is a push and pull around traditions this holiday season because many of the normal traditions she and her family do can not be done this year due to restrictions on gathering. It is forcing her to evaluate them and to add more meaningful ones for this year. For instance for Advent this year she really wanted to do something with her entire family rather than participate in an advent scripture reading plan or devotional that she would in previous years on her own. Her sister-in-law recommended Advent conversation cards with the kids, and it's been a beautiful new tradition for her family that has provided an avenue for deeper, more meaningful conversations at dinner. As far as end of the year traditions, Maggie usually assesses / looks back on the previous year and sets goals for the coming new year. She has historically used Jennie Allen's Dream Guide / Inventory which is a look at four categories of life: spiritual, work, relationship and [personal]. In it you spend time looking at how you did in those categories this year and how you'd like to be different (or the same) in the coming year. Like many others, she had high expectations for 2020 and virtually none that she set out to do happened the way she wanted them to. Looking into 2021, she is taking into account her capacity and her limitations with kids still being at home for school, and setting goals/dreams that can be done from home. Because of this, she is intentionally not planning to “crank down hard” on herself and demand a lot of herself in this coming year. Danielle's holiday traditions have also been altered and new ones added. A new thing her family is doing is every Monday, they vote on what they're making for dinner plus a very special dessert (just a little extravagance!). They've also been making it a point to rent a movie occasionally. Its the small things. Her kids have been drawing and coloring like crazy and they've been putting them all up over the house. Since they could not gather for Thanksgiving she dropped off pies at friends' house. She plans to do the same for Christmas to feel like they continue to feel connected to those around her. Danielle says she doesn't even remember her expectations from the beginning of 2020. At some point she stopped planning too far ahead and just relied on her gut feeling, people around her and current events to inspire her work and creativity. For 2021 she doesn't know what to expect but she knows there will be goodness, that grief won't end, that there will be hope but she's not sure what that will look like. And she expects that her family will make more memories. Maggie thinks it feels good to not expect too much when so much is still uncertain. It's a protective mechanism to not put too much ahead of us as far as expectation to avoid more disappointment amidst the disappointment we currently feel. Danielle says she is holding an openness to bigger dreams though she's not sure what they are. Maggie uses her pictures on her phone as she writes her “year in review.” What a great comfort it was for her this year to see there was such goodness in the midst of such a difficult season. She said “It was good to realize that we're not totally down and in despair.”Her goals for next year will be ones that can be done from home: Workshop and webinars online that can be done from home that will still grow her, stretch her, increase her skill set, etc. Potentially pursuing grad school, doing workshop intensive (perhaps with the enneagram), continued growth in her own story work, wrapping up cert II at the Allender Center and applying for the externship…. All this knowing that some of her availability is depending on what will happen with the kids (will they go back to in-person school). Danielle will finish up the externship at the Allender Center this coming her. She's been dreaming about offering therapy and story work to more people, offering trainings potentially. She wants to say yes when she can. She's been intentional about doing the work she does with getting outside consulting and supervision. She wants to invest in different trainings… She also is planning to participate in a marriage seminar from home, knowing the pandemic has put such strain on marriages. Maggie thinks the marriage seminar will be a great opportunity to look inward when so much of the pandemic has forced us to look outward -- the kids, pandemic, school, family, gatherings, etc. Maggie says she is also looking forward to expanding what she offers, potentially a race and story group, as she is finding other ways to engage story with groups. So much of her training this year at the Allender Center has been around group story work and Maggie wants to use some of her training to help others engage story. Starting with yourself first knowing that what you learn can be used to benefit others. Danielle is reading: The shining affliction by annie rogers Danielle is Listening to: Hamilton non-stop, Pentatonix Christmas Album, Mariah Carey Christmas, The Allender Center Podcast, On Being with Krista Tippet, Sandra Van Opstal Instagram Live, Aly and Jo Show. Danielle is inspired by her kids: they've been creating art related to current events and religious theme. Maggie is reading: Two Towers from the Lord of the Rings. Reading daily news.Maggie is listening: Pentatonix Christmas, early 90s hip hop and R&bMaggie in Inspired by her kids' remarkable resilience. They're not wrestling with disembodiment like adults are.
Cathy and Todd discuss how fear can be helpful if we are willing to listen and look at what's it's trying to say, but destructive if we live from constant state of fear by blaming and dehumanizing. They discuss Dr. Bessel van de Kolk's book, The Body Keeps Score, and his interview with Krista Tippet on the Being Wise podcast, and how trauma becomes lodged in our bodies and what we can do to move it through. Cathy and Todd share examples of trauma and disconnection from Million Little Things, 8th Grade, The Haunting of Hill House, and the way our current administration is dehumanizing immigrants and people seeking asylum at the border. And if you are reading this on Tuesday, Nov 6th – GO VOTE.
Cathy and Todd discuss how fear can be helpful if we are willing to listen and look at what's it's trying to say, but destructive if we live from constant state of fear by blaming and dehumanizing. They discuss Dr. Bessel van de Kolk's book, The Body Keeps Score, and his interview with Krista Tippet on the Being Wise podcast, and how trauma becomes lodged in our bodies and what we can do to move it through. Cathy and Todd share examples of trauma and disconnection from Million Little Things, 8th Grade, The Haunting of Hill House, and the way our current administration is dehumanizing immigrants and people seeking asylum at the border. And if you are reading this on Tuesday, Nov 6th – GO VOTE.
Would it be crazy or the best to base an entire year of business decisions on what Bono would do? Answer: the best. I am a huge fan of Lisa Anderson Shaffer and Zelma Rose and when she told me that she decided back in January to use Bono as a guide for all of her creative and business decisions, I knew I had to have her on the show. In this week's episode, you'll find out why she chose Bono, what she learned from him, and how it's made a difference in her creative work and life. You'll also hear us talk about how this fits into the Raise Your Hand Say Yes way of life in such a perfect way. Get excited, because this is a good one! Show Notes: Truth Teller Webinar RSVP Inner Circle offer (doors open 9/13!) Say yes to my newsletter Let's be friends on Instagram! How to be Remarkable podcast Lisa & Zelma Rose: web | social Bono's appearances on Charlie Rose: 2016 interview2013 interview2005 interview2001 interview Seth Godin's interview with Krista Tippet for the On Being podcast
We loved sitting down with CJ Casciotta to talk about what it means to embrace our weirdness. CJ is a creative director who has worked with brands like Whole Foods and charity:water to help them tell their stories. He now has his own podcast called "Sounds Like a Movement" where he has talked with people like Seth Godin, Krista Tippet, and Tony Hale. Listen to this episode and learn how to embrace your weirdness, because "in a sea of same, weird wins."
"When I was looking for love, I was looking to be loved." Krista Tippet, "Becoming Wise"
Cathy and Todd discuss the life-changing mindfulness research of Ellen Langer, author and professor from Harvard who has been researching mindfulness (and mindlessness) since the 70's. She defines mindfulness as paying attention and being able to notice new things, while recognizing that experiences are based on the words and ideas that we attach to them. Ellen Langer was interviewed by Krista Tippet for the On Being Podcast. They also talk about different ways of dealing with sibling rivalry. Todd unveils his new technique in dealing with children being unkind towards one another.
Cathy and Todd discuss the life-changing mindfulness research of Ellen Langer, author and professor from Harvard who has been researching mindfulness (and mindlessness) since the 70's. She defines mindfulness as paying attention and being able to notice new things, while recognizing that experiences are based on the words and ideas that we attach to them. Ellen Langer was interviewed by Krista Tippet for the On Being Podcast. They also talk about different ways of dealing with sibling rivalry. Todd unveils his new technique in dealing with children being unkind towards one another.
Cathy and Todd discuss the life-changing mindfulness research of Ellen Langer, author and professor from Harvard who has been researching mindfulness (and mindlessness) since the 70's. She defines mindfulness as paying attention and being able to notice new things, while recognizing that experiences are based on the words and ideas that we attach to them. Ellen Langer was interviewed by Krista Tippet for the On Being Podcast. They also talk about different ways of dealing with sibling rivalry. Todd unveils his new technique in dealing with children being unkind towards one another.
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