Being Human with Kate Bowler

The Alli Worthington Show

Alli Worthington

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends! You are in for an absolute treat of a show today! The delightful and brilliant Kate Bowler sits down with me to talk all about how to move forward with life when it’s not really what you would have picked out for yourself. Kate is a New York Times best-selling author, podcast host, and associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke University. And she’s one of my very favorite humans. She shares her story of being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at a young age, what she learned during her cancer journey, how she really feels about the phrase “living your best life now,” and what we can do when unexpected changes in life turn our carefully laid plans upside down. Listen in to hear about: What happens when we distract ourselves from that muted ache that comes with just being a person What we sacrifice when we say we’re going to live in the present only What the Bible says about the human experiences, especially suffering What happens when we ignore our fragility in exchange for “living our best lives now” In this episode I answer this question: I recently parted ways with my best friend of 10 years, how do I grieve someone who is not actually dead? (45:09) Great things we discussed: 1. Particle Man 2. Friday Night Lights 3. Raising a Rare Girl 4. Vivino 5. The Ordinary Facial Mask 6. Standing Strong Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli www.alliworthington.com/katebowler2/

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect,
0:15.4	and I want to learn something from.
0:17.2	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.2	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business.
0:26.2	Welcome to the show today. Wow. You are in for an absolute treat. I am with the delightful
0:32.0	and brilliant Kate Bowler. Kate is a friend of the show. She's been with us before. She's
0:36.8	one of my favorite humans. And today we're
0:38.8	going to talk about how there's just no cure for being human. But more on that coming up. And after we
0:44.5	talk with Kate, I'm answering a question from you today. Today's question is one that really kind
0:51.6	of tugs at the heart. I think it's one that we've all felt before. The question is,
0:56.0	I recently parted ways with my best friend of 10 years. How do I grieve someone who isn't actually dead?
1:02.6	I'm going to tackle that because I know exactly how it feels and I do have some advice for you. Okay.
1:08.1	And that's it. Without further ado, here's my friend Kate Bowler.
1:16.9	Kate Bowler, you are quite fun to follow on Twitter and you tweeted something this morning that
1:23.5	I love. You said, it's Thursday. What Thursday is it for you? Rage Fest Thursday?
1:29.1	I'm celebrating crying at car commercials already this morning Thursday. People are grateful for their
1:35.2	Toyota and I'm apparently really happy for them. I'm so moved. I'm so moved by people's
1:41.0	surprise and joy at an unexpected four-door sedan. Yeah, they can't help it and
1:46.3	neither can I. I do think that sometimes we need to be okay with the fact that maybe we need a
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