Best Katie Hendricks Podcasts (2024)

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The Upper Limit Problem (Katie Hendricks, PhD) 55:44

7d ago55:44

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“The whole sense though, of the Upper Limit Problem, is instead of feeling good and then feeling bad, which is how we think it's supposed to work. You know, you feel bad, you feel good, and then you forget to go to your yoga class and then you start eating things that aren't good for you. And pretty soon, you know, you're off binging and you know, …

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Why Cynicism Makes Us Wrong (Jamil Maki, PhD) 56:08

2h ago56:08

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“In certain ways, our culture has glamorized the cynic. The person who doesn't have faith in others is seen as maybe wise or especially sharp. And it turns out that that's true in the research as well. If you survey people and you tell them about a cynic and a non cynic and ask them a bunch of questions about those two, most people, 70 percent will…

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The Unarguable Truth: How to Experience the Deliciousness of Your Realness 37:28

6h ago37:28

37:28

One of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger. In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions. Th…

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Finding Your Inner Mentor (Tara Mohr) 1:06:33

32m ago1:06:33

1:06:33

"I was feeling this self censoring and constant push pull in sharing my voice and just feeling quite afraid of going for things that I wanted and so I got really interested in that gap and started to work with people with those clients around the inner critic. And my first guess was like, oh, we're going to dig into their childhoods and find who wa…

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How to Have Essence-Rich Relationships 50:18

4h ago50:18

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So much of our existence is being in relationship with others. Partners, parents, children, siblings, friends, colleagues and even competitors on the pickleball court! We’re always dealing with people, and that’s why so many patterns emerge out in the wild when we’re with other humans. Relationships with others can be a source of stress and conflic…

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Reparent Yourself: How to Become Your Own Source of Love and Approval 41:44

5h ago41:44

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There’s a reason why it’s so hard to silence or ignore our inner critic. It’s the same reason why we doubt our own experiences and body wisdom. It’s also why we often feel like in order to be lovable we need to do more instead of just being ourselves. Childhood is our most sensitive phase. We’re like sponges soaking up everything around us with no …

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Why We Overthink (Amanda Montell) 47:10

2h ago47:10

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“Those of us growing up in consumerist society, when confronted with a problem, our tendency is to add a whole bunch of cumbersome variables to the equation. So, if we're experiencing pain in our relationship, I'll speak for myself, every time we were really, really suffering and not doing well. It did not occur to me once to break up. I was like, …

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Being Better Leaders (Jerry Colonna) 53:54

21d ago53:54

53:54

“Human beings trigger other human beings, right? My teacher and friend, Parker Palmer, likes to say, riffing on Socrates, "the unexamined life may not be worth living," but if you choose to live an unexamined life, please don't take a job that involves other people, right? And in classic Midwestern Wisconsin brilliance, Parker's got it, I mean, bec…

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6 Amazing Insights That Prove Your Body Is Smarter Than Your Brain 58:54

22d ago58:54

58:54

Our culture has taught us to put an emphasis on and trust only in the information we get from our brains. At best, we completely ignore what our bodies have to tell us, and at worst we treat our body and its sensations like the enemy. When we don’t tap into our body’s wisdom, we’re operating without the richest source of information available to us…

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Staying with Discomfort (Thomas Hübl) 54:53

12d ago54:53

54:53

“Many of us needed to suppress anger. And what you feel in your throat is an intelligent mechanism to suppress the intensity because it threatened the belonging, most probably the original family. And so when we say, oh, it's not that I cannot experience my anger, it was intelligent to suppress it at certain moments in my development or my life, to…

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Don't Fight a Transition, Let the New Energy In w/ Gay Hendricks 41:20

27d ago41:20

41:20

Most people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger. We’re being given t…

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Really Hearing Our Own Voices (Carol Gilligan): GROWING UP 54:17

1M ago54:17

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“What I became aware of when I started writing about resistance, and I thought, the healthy body resists infection. We have an immune system. And the healthy psyche resists a culture that's going to infect us psychologically, that's going to keep us from basically being able to function psychologically. And what I realized is that there is, I mean,…

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Finding Shadow in the Body (Thomas Hübl) 53:28

1M ago53:28

53:28

“I often ask, ‘so how beautiful are you when you need something?’ I call this the beauty of needs. And it's amazing how many of us don't feel beautiful at all when we need something. Like all kinds of other things come up: I'm needy, I feel ashamed, I feel young, I feel afraid, I feel whatever, I feel ugly. Sometimes a hundred people raise their ha…

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Want to Expand Your Energy? Complete Your Incompletions 32:49

1M ago32:49

32:49

For most people, when our brains feel sluggish or clogged up, the first thing we do is reach for the coffee. But there could be an entirely different reason why your creativity and energy are getting all tangled up. From to-do lists that never end, to decisions we’re not making and actions we’re procrastinating on - incompletions are a drain on our…

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Signs of High Intuition (Carissa Schumacher): GROWING UP 1:31:01

1M ago1:31:01

1:31:01

“When you have a feeling, you can recognize when it's a feeling, when it's a knowing, a lot of knowers, especially automatic channel writers, are like, did I write this? Was I channeling? Did Mary Magdalene write that, you know, where is this coming from? And so they do have the tendency, knowers, to really second guess themselves some of the time …

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The Life-Saving Power of Friendship (Mark Nepo) 45:55

2M ago45:55

45:55

“The real meaning of ‘remember’ is to put the members back together, to make whole. So a lot of times we go back in time to a special time or a special moment and nostalgia is wanting to go back there, as if there's something there that we lost. And the true value of memory is to touch that moment and see where it lives or is dormant in me or you n…

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Choose, Practice, Recommit: This Is What It Takes to Have Great Things 36:40

2M ago36:40

36:40

We live in an instant gratification culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to just skip to the good part. We’re looking for that button that will magically fix everything wrong with our lives. Well, the truth is, the journey is just as beautiful as the destination we wish to arrive at. We expect great things to just magically app…

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The Long-Term Implications of Sleep (Harvey Karp, M.D.): GROWING UP 54:20

1M ago54:20

54:20

“I remember a wonderful psychologist was talking about, we shouldn't, should on ourselves. Don't should on yourself. And it's all of what I should do. And there's a big lie for new moms, which is that when the baby is born, you should take care of the baby. You're the best person. You're the mother. There's no one else who's going to take care of y…

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The Deconstruction of Belief (Sarah Bessey) 59:22

2M ago59:22

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“One of the things about practices that I love is this notion of it's not perfect. I haven't got it mastered, just by the very word, it's implied that I'm working it into my life and out of my life and through my life, almost like in my mind, I'm picturing like a woman who's like kneading it into bread dough. And so then there's the room. There's r…

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Shift in the Moment: The Most Powerful Way to Diffuse An Inflamed Interaction 38:03

2M ago38:03

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Whether it’s an aggressive interaction at pickleball or a misunderstanding at work, our biggest lessons often come from not-so-pretty moments…if we choose to shift and learn. When we feel attacked by other people, it might feel justified to have a knee-jerk reaction and kick back, but we can accomplish a lot more by making another choice. It might …

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The Critical Need for Deep Connection (Niobe Way, PhD): GROWING UP 1:00:16

2M ago1:00:16

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“You can't be independent if you're not deeply connected. So what happens to a child that's not deeply connected? What actually happens? Guess what happens? They don't feel the confidence to be able to take risks. They don't feel the confidence to go out and be self-sufficient. They don't feel the confidence in doing it. So we're actually backbitin…

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The Table Stakes of Good Relationships (Stan Tatkin) 51:08

2M ago51:08

51:08

“Our anger is “I'm angry because something happened that I feel was unjust or unfair” And if it continues, then I want my justice and you know, our injustices from childhood turn out to be society's burdens because I want payback here, even though you had nothing to do with it. So, hate and love go together because they're both strongly bonding con…

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I’m Sorry For Being Great: Tall Poppy Syndrome in Women 36:58

2M ago36:58

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If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable and squirmy about celebrating your accomplishments, you have tall poppy syndrome AKA an upper limit problem. Unfortunately, because of how we’ve been conditioned to focus on others, women are more likely to struggle with this. You’ll often find us downplaying our greatness, making ourselves smaller, and having a lo…

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Coming Soon: Special Series on Growing Up 1:20

2M ago1:20

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Hi, It’s Elise, host of Pulling the Thread. Starting next Monday, I’m doing another special series—this one is about growing up, and no, it’s definitely not just for parents. It’s mostly about re-parenting, or understanding the driving factors of how we all come to understand the world. You’ll hear from four very different voices about childhood, s…

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Understanding Your Energy (Prune Harris) 58:52

2M ago58:52

58:52

“So when we think about this, what is the aura? Many people have an idea of the aura as something that is around you and a lovely bubble or sphere of energy. Maybe you've seen pictures of an egg shape, but what's really important to understand about the aura is that it comes from inside you and it's only as strong as your vitality. So you can think…

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How to Build Your Inner House of Happiness w/ Marci Shimoff 40:38

2M ago40:38

40:38

Recent stats show only 20% of women say they are truly happy, so it’s clear that we’re in the middle of a huge unhappiness epidemic. For centuries, we have been conditioned to abandon ourselves, not pay attention to what we need and externalize our experiences. No wonder so many of us live in a constant state of angst. In order to make happiness ha…

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Where the Brain and Mind Meet (Karl Deisseroth, M.D., PhD) 53:52

3M ago53:52

53:52

“What optogenetics does is it's an engine of discovery. It helps us identify what matters, what's causing things to happen in the brain. And we know now the cells and the connections make these powerful motivations and drives manifest. That opens the door to any kind of new treatment, right? If you know the cells, then you can look at the DNA and t…

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How to Regain Your Intuition If You've Lost It 34:27

3M ago34:27

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Intuition is something every single human being has access to. That wise and timely inner voice that seems to drop information from nowhere and *just knows* something we don’t. Though it may feel like information coming from another realm, it’s actually coming from within. It’s just another sense we’ve been given, and it takes many forms. You feel …

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To Transcend and Include (Ken Wilber) 1:20:47

3M ago1:20:47

1:20:47

“All growing up stages are the product of scientific investigation of the stages of growing up that people go through. And those are all defined in third person terms because they're the person or thing being spoken about. When we talk about the archaic stage or the magic stage or the mythic stage, if you look within right now, you can't see any of…

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How to Become an Active Participant in Creating Your Health w/ Dr. Mary Pardee 38:59

3M ago38:59

38:59

In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place. For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what’s going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in t…

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Working with the Divine (Nicole Avant) 49:58

3M ago49:58

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“I really think that the past, we can go back to it and we definitely learn lessons because I'm always a hindsight person. So in hindsight, I'm always thinking that, okay, what could I have done better? But the past experiences for me, I've learned as I've gotten older, is to grab the lesson. And hopefully there's a blessing in there too. And then …

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How to Switch Your Inner Language From Criticism to Self-Love 30:49

3M ago30:49

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Words have so much power, not just in the definition but also in the force behind them. Some of the worst things we say are to ourselves, and we often don’t even know it’s happening. There’s a reason why we’re so good at addressing ourselves negatively. Our culture teaches us to stay in check, not to get too full of ourselves and it also teaches us…

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Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA 51:38

3M ago51:38

51:38

“I think we need each other. I say this all the time, there are some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move them through. And I think that's what we need. We need to come together in spaces to heal, not just to consume together or to watch a movie together, but to feel together and to have human emotion in r…

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The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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“This is the richness of the traditional wife explosion, right? There's this simple idea that you get to choose. Now you're choosing to emulate a situation that's a fiction in that those women didn't choose anything. They had to dress like that. They had to live like that. They had to be nice to the men like that, because they had no bank accounts.…

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Conscious Ink: How to Solidify a Moment With Meaning w/ Frank Gjata 35:38

3M ago35:38

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Whenever we make a commitment, set an intention or create an affirmation, we often need a little reminding, and words do that so effectively. Some people write words that remind them of the commitment on Post-it Notes or in journals. That’s because words can be a powerful anchor that brings us back to what matters. They can be metaphors we can appl…

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Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA 47:22

3M ago47:22

47:22

“Here's what I would say: peace will happen when people invest in cultivating peace as opposed to war. Peace will happen. And one thing I know, for me, I know peace, I know I will never see it, but maybe I can put something in place to where I leave something here and my children's, children's, children's grandchildren can nibble off of and feed on…

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Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil) 53:35

3M ago53:35

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“There are studies showing that, once your basic needs are met, and you're not worried about losing your house, losing your health care, increases in money don't significantly increase happiness, right? So I think, you know, money helps alleviate the very real biological primitive fear of you're gonna die if you don't have shelter and food and in o…

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Wellbeing Starts With Curiosity: How to Nurture Yourself Daily 39:52

4M ago39:52

39:52

Being kind to ourselves is an ongoing conversation, and one of the ways it expresses itself is through the things we do to nourish ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ultimately, our ability to fully experience and express our essence is hinged on our daily habits and practices of self-care and self-love. We can think of each of these …

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Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, Ph.D): TRAUMA 47:05

4M ago47:05

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“There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type of therapy that I do not agree with. I think it, not all the time, but it can be harmful, again, in somatic experiencing, we titrate the experience, we touch into a sensation in our bodies that have to do…

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Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke) 58:28

4M ago58:28

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“In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very beautiful thing, but it gets so inappropriate online where you can go into Elise's messages and say, “by the way, I saw you liked this, you should be liking this, prove yourself to me…

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Movement...the Most Powerful Way to Reclaim Security in Your Body w/Erica Hornthal 45:27

4M ago45:27

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Our bodies are the vessels we occupy from the start of our lives, but so many of us feel disconnected in this home we have within ourselves. If we live in our bodies, how can they feel so foreign to us? For a whole lot of reasons, we’re taught to ignore body wisdom even though it holds the most potent information about ourselves and how we move thr…

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A Toolkit for Working with Your Trauma (James Gordon, M.D.): TRAUMA 1:02:03

4M ago1:02:03

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“Now the tragedy, in one sense is a tragedy, that often people only become open when they've suffered horribly when that is both the tragedy of trauma, but also the promise. It's one thing to be trauma informed. It's another thing to inform our experience of trauma with some kind of courage and some kind of hopefulness for profound change. That's w…

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The Complexity of Weight Loss Drugs (Johann Hari) 1:34:30

4M ago1:34:30

1:34:30

“I realized I think there's a few things that are in our heads that are so deep in the culture. One of them is the idea that being overweight is a sin. It goes right back to if you look at Pope Gregory I in the 6th century when he first formulates the seven deadly sins, gluttony is there, it's always depicted with some fat person who looks monstrou…

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When It’s Not a Whole Body Yes: How to Locate Yourself and Make a Choice 35:49

4M ago35:49

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You’ve likely heard about the “whole body yes” and “whole body no”, and maybe even practiced using these to make your decision-making process a little easier. But choosing is really hard when we don’t feel that nudge from our body wisdom, and we just feel “meh” about the whole thing. When it’s not a definite yes or no, we’re stuck in limbo, and tha…

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Coming Soon: Special Series on Trauma 1:25

4M ago1:25

1:25

Hi, It’s Elise, host of Pulling the Thread. Starting next Monday, I’m doing another special series—this set is about trauma, specifically trauma and the body. You’ll hear from four important voices in the space. We’re going to start with Dr. James Gordon, who works with groups all over the world who are in crisis, helping them move their experience…

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Loving the End (Alua Arthur) 51:54

4M ago51:54

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“When we can pause for a moment and rifle through all that noise to figure out what the root of the fear is, then we can be with it in a meaningful way, rather than just let it run our lives. And a little bit of fear of death and a little bit of death anxiety is totally normal, for all of us. I mean, it's that thing inside that tells you not to kee…

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Making Friends with Your Feelings: The New Way of Leadership w/Diana Chapman 45:20

4M ago45:20

45:20

The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no. The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy…

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On Telling The Truth (Nell Irvin Painter) 47:36

4M ago47:36

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“But one thing the whole “Karen” thing did, which I think was very good, was that it pointed out the existence of spaces Ostensibly open to everyone, but not, and then patrolled often by white women saying you don't belong here. And she got a name, and people with that name wince and rightfully so, but without that wince-worthy kind of situation, I…

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Moving House Can Be Magical: How to Play With Transitions 40:56

5M ago40:56

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Moving house, they say, is one of life’s most stressful events, but it doesn’t have to be. Sure, it stirs up a ton of emotions and learned patterns, but with the right awareness and intention, it can be a magical time and a beautiful voyage to a new world. We can discover new parts of ourselves, deconstruct feelings as they come up, and treat the m…

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When it's Time to Leave (Joy Sullivan) 56:12

5M ago56:12

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“What is that instinct that might be asking me to do something really unadvisable or radical or leap outside the bounds of my own life? And that's the space by which I think we move forward in life. And that's the space in which I think we move forward honestly on the page and in writing. And I tell people, you know, what is it that you want to exp…

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