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How to Use Our Senses To Connect with Others and the World with Gretchen Rubin

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How to use our senses to connect with others and the world

In This Episode, We Discuss How to Use Our Senses To Connect with Others and the World and …

  • How we can learn to utilize our five senses to more deeply connect with the world
  • How the brain acts as an editor as it processes what we experience
  • Why we need to awaken our attention to experience things more deeply
  • How exploring the world through your senses to experience life more vividly and playfully.
  • How sensory experiences are a meaningful way to connect with others.
  • Keeping a “5 Senses Journal” as a useful tool as a form of appreciation
  • How to elevate everyday moments with heightened sensory awareness techniques.
  • Why sharing impactful sensory memories with others can foster deeper connections
  • Understanding how sensory environments shape behaviors and decision-making processes.

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer
Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project. Her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She hosts the top-ranking, award-winning podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” where she explores practical solutions for living a happier life. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

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How to Find Inner Calm and Happiness with Gretchen Rubin

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How to Find Solace in Discomfort with Danusha Laméris

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Find Solace in Discomfort, and …

  • How we can discover unique ways to approach discomfort and uncertainty for enhanced personal growth and creativity.
  • Recognizing the significance of small acts of kindness and acknowledging progress in life.
  • Why finding simple beautiful things can be powerful and can help us through grief or difficult times 
  • How humor can be the bridge that connects joy and grief
  • Learning to be present with ordinary things broadens our appreciation for them
  • How being willing to ask questions and going deeper can bring clarity and understanding
  • The importance of remembering that the “not knowing” can be where good things happen
  • Sacred envy and how it is tied to your deepest values that can push you toward what’s uncomfortable
  • Delving into our fears, desires, and values as we chase after personal aspirations.
  • Exploring the intricate dance between hope and resilience during ever-changing situations.

Danusha Laméris is a poet, teacher, and essayist.  She is the author The Moons of August, which was chosen as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Award.  She’s also the author of Bonfire Opera, (University of Pittsburgh Press, selected by Ed Ochester for the Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize, and recipient of the 2021 Northern California Book Award. Some of her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, and Orion. Winner of the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, she is a Poet Laureate emeritus of Santa Cruz, California. 

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The Power of Poetry with Ellen Bass

How to Connect More Deeply with the World with James Crews

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How to Find Peace Amidst Emotional Storms with Maggie Smith

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Find Peace Amidst Emotional Storms, and …

  • Her desire to find peace, calm, and stability for herself and her family
  • Why it’s important to keep asking questions, even when the answers may keep changing
  • The challenge of going through a big life change and not expecting clear answers
  • How looking back through your past can bring clarity to where you are and who you are now
  • Staying open and curious when life is challenging is what keeps you from being stuck.
  • Learning to work with and quiet the loud inner critic
  • Why investigating and taking responsibility for your own role in relationships is so important.
  • How we hold every version of ourselves throughout life
  • Understanding that having realstic expectations in relationships can bring forth peace
  • How writing about your own life experiences can give you new insights and understanding
  • The importance of allowing yourself to feel and process difficult emotions

Maggie Smith is the author of several books including Good Bones, Goldenrod, and Keep Moving:  Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change.  Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and many other publications.  Maggie’s poem, Good Bones, went viral internationally and since then has been translated into over a dozen languages and featured on the CBS primetime drama, Madame Secretary.  Her latest book is a memoir titled, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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Poetry and Life Lessons with Maggie Smith

Writing for Healing with Maggie Smith

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How to Connect More Deeply With the World with James Crews

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In This Episode, How to Connect More Deeply with the World, and …

  • How poetry and writing can be a spiritual practice
  • Recognizing the feeling of joy and aliveness that comes from ordinary moments
  • How inspiration can come from the practice of just showing up
  • Why fear is a regular companion on any creative journey
  • The importance of nurturing our inner life and spirit
  • How self compassion is about embracing whatever comes up within you
  • Why it’s important to create a regular practice for whatever brings you joy 
  • How poetry can hold both the sorrow and joy at the same time
  • How poetry helps navigate a deeper understanding and knowledge of ourselves and the world. 
  • Why embracing vulnerability and curiosity enhances creative growth

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion.

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Connecting to What Matters with Mark Nepo

The Art of Poetry and Poems with David Whyte

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How to Incite Joy with Ross Gay

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Incite Joy and …

  • His “delight” project was about learning to pay attention
  • Discovering that joy and delight are abundant if you are looking and paying attention
  • Defining joy and all that accompanies this profound emotion
  • How talking about joy and gratitude helps with the difficulties in life
  • The importance of laughter and how it connects us to joy
  • Why we need to slow down and listen to our bodies
  • How busyness is a way of avoiding or escaping 
  • How writing can be a tool for self discovery and gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new book is Inciting Joy:  Essays

Connect with Ross Gay: Website

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How to Practice Self Compassion with Dr. Shauna Shapiro

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In This Episode, We Discuss How to Practice Self Compassion and …

  • How what you practice grows stronger
  • Why your attitude and how you pay attention is so important when it comes to mindfulness
  • Understanding the 3 important pillars of mindfulness: intention, attention, attitude
  • How having a mindfulness practice prepares the mind for learning
  • Why shame stifles our ability to learn and grow
  • How we can learn to remember to practice mindfulness by developing daily habits
  • The question you can ask yourself in the morning to prime your mind to look for the good throughout the day
  • Distinguishing between self-improvement vs self-liberation
  • How our intention is a direction, not a destination
  • Understanding that perfection is not possible, but transformation is
  • The 5% principle and the benefit of taking very small action
  • How to practically implement intentions
  • The wide range and many benefits of having a regular meditation practice
  • Her practice of “Good Morning, I Love You”

Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a professor, best-selling author, clinical psychologist, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and compassion. She has published over 150 journal articles and 3 critically acclaimed books translated into 16 languages. Her most recent book is called, Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy

In this episode, Eric and Shauna Shapiro talk about how we can cultivate transformative mindfulness through daily practices that nurture kindness and compassion towards ourselves.

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Self Compassion with Kristin Neff

Effortless Mindfulness with Loch Kelly

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