288: Cultivating a New Normal
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Atlantic recently posted an article asserting there won't be a clear end to the pandemic. Rather, the end for each of us will be as unique and differentiated as each one of us and occur on a different timeline.
Frequently, the yearning for "returning to normal" may be voiced by those around us, strangers or intimate relations, or we may be simply thinking such thoughts, constantly, as we grieve the parts of our lives we enjoyed that are no longer readily available or available at all.
However, even before the pandemic introduced itself and in what seemed for many to change our lives much like a light-switch, the psychological experts have been talking about this word that seems to roll off our tongues more often than ever before in recent times - normal. Writing in 2009 on Pyschology Today, "The fate of normality is very much in the balance," wrote Peter Kramer.
While speaking about individuals as to their neurosis or so-called normal behaviors and the perameters of what constitutes "normal", he shared a final thought which may help reframe how we strive forward in our current times as we are more broadly looking at an entire world, culture, etc. and what "normal", the new normal, may be:
Normality may be a myth we have allowed ourselves to enjoy for decades, sacrificed now to the increasing recognition of differences. The awareness that we all bear flaws is humbling. But it could lead us to a new sense of inclusiveness and tolerance, recognition that imperfection is the condition of every life.
—Peter Kramer, psychatrist at Brown Medical School
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| 0:33.0 | Now to today's episode. Welcome to the simple sophisticated podcast where |
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| 1:00.9 | LA, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 288th episode of the simple sophisticated and welcome to the day before a new season. Today is still summer here in the |
| 1:28.4 | northern hemisphere but tomorrow Tuesday the 22nd will be fall and just to give you a reason to visit the show |
| 1:37.0 | notes if you're looking for some inspiration as you step into the fall |
| 1:39.8 | season while this particular episode isn't about fall specifically, I wanted to include some fall |
| 1:46.0 | inspirational posts for you to check out so they will be found at the end of today's show |
| 1:51.5 | notes, The Simply LuxuriousLife.com |
| 1:53.7 | slash Podcast to 88. |
| 1:55.9 | But what are we talking about today? |
| 1:58.2 | We're talking about a new normal. |
| 2:01.1 | We're talking about how to cultivate a new normal. We're talking about how to cultivate a new normal and we're going to get into |
| 2:05.4 | that here in a minute. But today's Pateplazir is a simple decor idea that is completely |
| 2:12.2 | tailored to who you are and I offer some detailed |
| 2:15.0 | suggestions on how to create this because as we start to cozy in for the |
| 2:19.1 | season in the fall and even if I use these all year round so no matter what season you're stepping |
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