Tag: Health

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• “An ordinary life as become synonymous with a meaningless life”
• You can’t hear what she has to share too many times and in too many ways and this presentation is another great one
• “Love and belonging are irreducible needs of [humans]”
• Research shows that: “Our capacity for whole-heartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted which is terrible but truthful”
• “Vulnerability is the path to [everything good about being human]”
• “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection”
• “I know what is like down here and you’re not alone” (Empathy)
• “You wanna sandwich?” (Sympathy)
• “Sympathy is how we respond when we don’t want to be vulnerable”
• “Blame gives some semblence of control even if it blaming ourselves”
• “Blame is discharging pain”
• “Accountability is a vulnerable process”
• “Empathy is not scripted; it is about being present and engadged”
• “Rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection”
• “Shame is I am bad; guilt is I did something bad and the outcomes are hugely different”
• “Shame corrodes the part of us that believes that we can change”

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• “equally fatalistic answers yet more creative”
• “on the verge of bliss and picturing something horrible happening”
• The fatalistic response if not universal
  • Is a symptom of the universal
  • We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability
• “Vulnerability is absolutely at the core of fear and anxiety and shame and very difficult emotions that we also experience”
• “Vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, of love, of belonging, of creativity, of faith”
• “Perfection is a tool to protect ourselves”
• “Faith – vulnerability = extremism”
• “Spirituality is inherently vulnerable”
• “We live in a culture that tells us at there is never enough (goodness)”
• “We are not extraordinary enough”
• “Somehow an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life”
• “In our ordinary life in ordinary moments is where we can find the most joy”
• Numbing society
  • Most addicted, medicated, obese, in-debt, adult cohort, busy society
• “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up”
• “You cannot selective numb emotion”
  • Numb pain, numb joy
• How to recover
  • Practice gratitude
  • Stop and be thankful for what we have
  • Honor what is ordinary about our lives
  • The people we love
  • Play, community, nature (honor what is ordinary)
• If don’t experience those good things, our reservoirs will be empty when the bad things happen

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• Three counter-intuitive things
  • Talk to yourself like you are someone you love when you are feeling unworthy
  • Reach out to someone you trust
  • Tell your story
    • Shame cannot survive being spoken
• Shame requires: Secrecy, silence, judgement
  • Antidote: Empathy

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