#259: That Sucked, Now What? Cultivating Resilience with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Themes: Grief, Loss, Transformation, Resilience, Anger Summary: Today I’m chatting with Dr. Neeta Bhushan, a world-renowned emotional health advocate and expert in the areas of grit and resilience. In this episode, we talk about her new book That Sucked. Now What?: How to Embrace the Joy in Chaos and Find Magic in the Mess, embracing the suck, and how to get back up after life inevitably knocks us down. Neeta has shared her thought leadership on international stages, is the host of her popular podcast The Brave Table, and has authored best-selling books such as Emotional GRIT: 8 Steps to Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Thoughts, and Change Your World. She’s also been featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC, Verve, Tatler Magazine and more. Talk about a powerhouse! Discover: The stoic practice of Amor Fati and how it changed Neeta’s perspective on the hardships she experienced as a young woman Using the pain of a rock bottom as fuel for transformation Actionable tools for building resilience 00:00 Intro 01:09 Neeta’s story of loss and grief 13:30 Finding magic in the mess 18:00 Amor Fati 26:00 Moving beyond the suck 37:20 The pain of a breakup 39:18 Taking action 44:01 Validation 46:11 Integrating all parts of yourself 54:03 Big ignite vs. small ignite moments 56:25 Spend time with a child 1:02:25 Healthy anger Links: Website | neetabhushan.com Instagram | @neetabhushan Book | That Sucked, Now What? Podcast | The Brave Table Sponsors: Open | Try Open for 30 days free! Go to withopen.com/createthelove and use code CREATETHELOVE to sign up. Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at createthelove.com/cards Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Most of us are conditioned to have this external locus of control where we are validated by the external world, our community, society, family, friends, what we see on TV and we want to be just like that versus folks who have a general internal locus of control where they are only looking within for their answers. They are
0:22.0	needing just the validation of themselves. Welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:30.8	They have my good friend and author, Nitha Bouchon. Not bad, right? You said that really good.
0:37.4	You know what?
0:38.0	Really good.
0:37.6	I feel like it's just, it comes easy with this cowboy hat too. I'm like, I've now done a couple episodes in a cowboy hat, and I feel like I should be like, ma'am, welcome to the episode. I feel like the accent just got a little thicker right when you said that. All of a sudden, I'm from the South. Someone once said
0:55.0	that I was trying too hard to sound like Matthew McConaughey. So maybe now, even though I was
0:59.2	like, never tried that. I don't think I could pull off his accent. It's kind of close. I would say
1:04.0	it's pretty close. Well, much obliged for you to be here today. And you're talking about something
1:09.4	that I think anyone and every human can relate to.
1:14.7	So Nita has a new book that's called That Sucked, Now What?
1:20.0	And I think we can all relate with that, with that feeling of, okay, how to embrace the joy in chaos and find magic in the mess.
1:31.5	That seems like a tall task, I think, when we're in the old suckety-suck.
1:35.9	You know, and I'll ask you this six months from now.
1:39.9	Yeah.
1:40.8	Right?
1:41.3	Yeah.
1:41.6	Right.
1:41.8	I know.
1:42.5	Because I'm about to have a baby.
1:43.8	I'm like, what's it like? I'm too tired to answer your Yeah. Right. I know. Because I'm about to have a baby. I'm like, what's it like?
1:45.0	I'm too tired to answer your question.
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