#234: Finding Myself in the Unlikeliest of Places

Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Self-love, Body-image, Mental Health, Body Image, Relationships, Women's Health, Self Love, Advice For Women, Self Love For Women, Love Yourself, Education, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

I went to Cuba knowing it wouldn’t be a typical vacation, but I wasn’t prepared for just how profoundly it would move me. To every question I asked my tour guide, the answer was almost always, “It’s complicated.” They say you will leave Cuba with less answers and more questions— here are some of mine: How can something be equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming? Where is the boundary between suffering and resilience? How does history encapsulate both truth and fabrications? Why do we cling to binary thinking when life is a spectrum of endless complexities? How can humans be simultaneously broken and whole, like mosaics made of shattered multitudes? Cuba was a lesson in coexistence—where beauty and struggle, joy and pain live side by side. It reminded me that we, too, are complex and layered, yet capable of holding contradictions within us. I hope you get to experience this beautiful island one day too. Mentioned In This Episode... Ep. 126: Travel That Makes You a Better Person with Chelsea Glass, Founder of Heart of Travel Chen Lizra’s TEDx talk: “The power of seduction in our everyday lives” Check out Heart of Travel, an ethical travel company that does tours all over Latin America and use code MARY150 for $150 off your next trip.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women, though all self-lovers are welcome here.
0:07.4	I'm your host, Mary Jolkovsky. I'm an author, speaker, retreat leader, and all-around self-love advocate.
0:14.4	And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.
0:20.1	Hey, hey, just a quick personal note before we dive into this
0:23.5	episode, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with just my gratitude and joy and lessons and all
0:31.1	the inspirations that I gained from my recent trip to Cuba. So I just finished recording this
0:36.8	episode. And I don't really have the
0:39.9	capacity to do it again, but I want to because I feel like my thoughts weren't organized or
0:47.6	concise. And I don't know if any of this makes sense. And I feel like in some ways I overshared
0:52.6	and then in other ways I didn't share enough.
0:55.8	But really, even if you don't listen to this entire episode, which I don't expect you to,
1:01.1	all I really hope that you receive from it is that there is so much to discover about yourself, about the world around you.
1:14.8	There is so much joy to be felt amidst pain.
1:19.3	There's so much to be felt.
1:22.4	That's what it is.
1:23.2	There's so much to be felt.
1:25.1	And life is long.
1:26.7	They say life is short, but life is the longest thing
1:29.3	that you will ever experience. And it's complex and layered and nuanced and meta and so many
1:36.0	things are happening at the same time. And it is all a lot and you are whole, you are complete, you are worthy, you are wonderful, and I hope that you
1:48.0	find people and places that reaffirm that for you. Okay, now let's get into this episode,
1:56.2	finding myself in the unlikeliest of places, aka Cuba.
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