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The Spiritual Perspective

175: Kris Carr, Bestselling Author, on Why She's NOT a Mourning Person and How to Navigate Loss & Grief

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Kris is a New York Times best-selling author, and her seventh book offering, I’m Not a Mourning Person, cements her status as “a force of nature” as quoted by O, The Oprah Magazine. She joins us today to explain how cancer was the catalyst for her venture into wellness and beyond, and we begin our conversation with Kris explaining why she is still so passionate about writing after already having numerous written accomplishments. After taking us through a day in her life, Kris shares her chi...

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And I think we live in a very hack it to pieces, optimize yourself to death society.

0:10.8

And for the vast majority of people it's not attainable or desirable.

0:17.0

And when something is so out of reach, what happens is we don't even lift a finger, right?

0:25.1

Because we don't think that we could possibly do it.

0:28.6

And so I try to teach a very simple, sustainable approach to filling your well.

0:36.2

And attending your garden is just attending that inner ecosystem, the rivers and the stream

0:41.2

and the soil and the beautiful terrain by,

0:44.6

is there one thing that you can do each day

0:47.3

or even as beautiful that you said?

0:49.8

My dad's oncologist would tell us,

0:51.8

don't take it one day to time't take it one day at a time,

0:53.4

take it one step at a time,

0:54.8

because sometimes one day is too much.

0:59.5

Hello, friend, and welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I am Light Watkins, and I interview

1:04.8

interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary

1:08.5

leaps of faith in the direction of their path their purpose or what they've identified as their mission in life, and in

1:15.4

doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people

1:21.8

who've either heard about their story or who witness them in

1:25.2

action or people who have directly benefited from their work. And today I'm in

1:30.6

conversation with someone whose work I personally admired for a very long time.

1:35.5

She has had a positive impact on millions of other lives through sharing her personal story

1:41.0

of navigating cancer for over two decades. Her name is Chris Carr.

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