284: Finding Strength in Pain
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Can you imagine if your mother died of a sudden brain aneurysm, your young husband died of a heart attack, and then your father-in-law passed away from cancer all in the span of 9 years? This is Amy Morin's story, and she has since turned her immense grief and suffering into strength and balance. Death, pain, battling with emotions are the focus on this week's Yoga Talk Show.
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Listen & Learn:
- How to train your brain to think realistically about your situation
- Why we need to learn to control our emotions
- The importance of positive action during crisis, regardless of how you feel
- Why death and dying are so taboo and yet ever-present
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and the author of, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. Her advice has been featured by numerous media outlets including Time, Fast Company, Success, Business Insider, Oprah.com, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, and Today. She also appeared in a Red Bull TV show called Visions of Greatness.
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| 0:40.0 | I lost a childhood friend recently. His name was Martin and we grew up together |
| 0:47.8 | we were teenagers together in California and I hadn't seen him in about a decade |
| 0:51.7 | so it really came as quite a shock. |
| 0:54.4 | And like anybody, when these things happen, it kind of grabs the web of life and snaps back |
| 0:59.6 | at you, and you re-evaluate your priorities, the people in your life, the way you're spending your time. |
| 1:06.0 | And so this has been on my mind for the past few weeks and I've been doing different reading and different explorations as I often do. |
| 1:12.0 | And I've been looking in a lot about grief and about death |
| 1:15.0 | and about dying and about mental health. |
| 1:17.0 | And these are issues that I think a lot of us, myself included, |
| 1:21.0 | tend to avoid and we tend to put them up for some future date until |
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