Bronnie Ware: Living Without Regrets

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Bronnie Ware is an author and speaker whose bestselling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, is based on her time as a palliative care worker. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Bronnie outlines these five major life regrets with Tami Simon and discusses the experiences in end-of-life care that inspired them. Bronnie explains how most regrets arise from a lack of courage and why people are willing to share so openly during their last days. Tami and Bronnie speak on the healing power of sharing our most vulnerable selves, even if it's in a letter that we never send. Finally, they talk about maintaining trust in the flow of life and why happiness is ultimately a choice.(61 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.0	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:07.0	Today my guest is Bronny Ware. Brony is an author, songwriter, and motivational speaker best known for her writings about the deathbed regrets shared with her during her time as a palliative care worker.
1:26.4	These writings were expanded into a book which has now been translated into 27 languages and is called the top five regrets of the dying.
1:37.7	In this conversation, Brani shares with us these top five regrets and how at the core it really comes down to living a life
1:48.5	with tremendous courage. Here's my conversation with Bronny Ware. Brani to begin with you're incredibly well known for writing a blog post that then became a book called the Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
2:18.4	And to start our conversation, I'd love to know what led up to you writing that now famous blog post.
2:27.0	I just finished working with dying people and I'd set up a songwriting program in a women's jail and an
2:38.1	editor of the magazine said to me why don't you write an article for the magazine
2:42.2	and tell us how that all came about about
2:44.9	teaching the songwriting in the jail.
2:47.1	So that was what followed on from looking after drawing people.
2:50.5	And so I wrote the article handwritten with it, just a pen and a piece of a cup of
2:56.9	chival disciding. And as I finished the article I thought, why aren't I writing more I love writing and at the time I was trying to
3:06.7	break through into the singer-songwriter world and loving songwriting but really
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