558: How to Navigate Big Messy Emotions & Live Your Best Life | Kris Carr
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/558kriscarr
Kris Carr (IG: @crazysexykris) has been called a “force of nature” by O Magazine and was named a “new role model” by The New York Times. Kris is also a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100, recognizing the most influential thought-leaders today.
She is the subject and director of the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer.
Kris teaches people how to take back their health and live like they mean it. Her work will change the way you live, love and eat!
Kris' brand new book is I'm Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Commit to not abandoning yourself
- Movement is powerful
- Writing is therapeutic
- Why not get busy living?
- The biggest warning sign of all
- I’m not a mourning person
- How Kris processed her Dad’s terminal diagnosis
- Be willing to make mistakes
- The 5 pillars of wellness
- Practice courageous acknowledgment
- Keep talking about your loved ones
- How to navigate caregiving for aging parents
- Trauma lives in the body
- Kris went from cancer survivor to thriver
- The power of acceptance
- Talk about death
- Be intentional with your time
- Form a fierce radical friendship with yourself
- Make your golden years now
- Be willing to ask for and receive help
- Important lessons from Kris’ Dad
- Normalize emotions
- The underlying layer of anger
- The idea of emotional literacy
- What is anticipatory grief?
- Develop your own support system
- Knowing when good enough is good enough
- Healing relationships after death
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Related links:
Kris Carr - I'm Not a Mourning Person (book)
Follow Kris Carr on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Crazy Sexy Cancer (documentary)
Kris Carr - Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor (book)
Listen to Dr. Gabor Maté previously on TUHP (episode #259)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm healing and I can be healing and dying at the same time. |
| 0:05.8 | It's a really magical out of world, out of body experience. |
| 0:10.1 | I know what my support system looks like and I want to encourage you to develop your own |
| 0:15.1 | because this thing that we're experiencing can be very lonely |
| 0:18.6 | and it can also be very life-affirming in some ways. |
| 0:21.6 | It does change us. We will never be the same and that's not always such a bad thing. |
| 0:26.3 | So find your support and don't isolate. |
| 0:29.9 | And so I'm building new experiences around heartache and I didn't know that I could do that. |
| 0:34.9 | I didn't know grief would give me that opportunity but it does. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 558. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:51.9 | Each week I'll bring you long-form conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:57.5 | This week I'm chatting with Chris Carr. |
| 0:59.8 | Chris has been called the Force of Nature by O Magazine |
| 1:03.0 | and was named a new role model by The New York Times. |
| 1:06.3 | Chris is also a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 |
| 1:09.9 | recognizing the most influential thought leaders today. |
| 1:13.6 | She is the subject and director of the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer. |
| 1:18.6 | Chris teaches people how to take back their health and live like they mean it. |
| 1:23.0 | Her work will change the way you live, love and eat. |
| 1:27.1 | Chris's brand new book is I'm not a morning person, |
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