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Susan Cain on Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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Episode Highlights With Susan Cain

  • What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up
  • The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life
  • Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy
  • Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply
  • What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativity
  • The wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early age
  • Strategies for learning to embrace the bittersweet
  • Ways we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through this
  • How we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativity

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Content provided by Katie Wells. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Katie Wells or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Episode Highlights With Susan Cain

  • What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up
  • The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life
  • Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy
  • Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply
  • What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativity
  • The wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early age
  • Strategies for learning to embrace the bittersweet
  • Ways we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through this
  • How we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativity

Resources We Mention

  continue reading

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