Dear Sugar: How Do I Find The Courage To Be My Own Guide?

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars often discuss letters dealing with very specific problems or struggles. This week, they take on a broader, more existential question -- how to follow your heart. The Sugars discuss with the GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter India Arie, who shares how she learned to be her own guide.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:11.6	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, don't you please...
0:28.8	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:36.8	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:44.8	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.8	Hi Steve.
0:52.8	Hi Cheryl.
0:53.8	How are you?
0:54.8	I'm doing great.
0:55.8	I'm doing something a little bit different today on this episode of Dear Sugar Radio.
0:59.8	So often, as you know, our letters present us with a specific situation,
1:04.8	or problem, or struggle.
1:06.8	And they're fairly focused.
1:09.8	This is the trouble I'm in right now.
1:11.8	And today we're going to read an answer letter that's a bigger problem.
1:16.8	And it's one I think that so many people share.
1:18.8	I know I've had this struggle, you've had this struggle, our listeners have had this struggle.
1:22.8	About something a bit more existential, and yet very direct and very real in our lives.
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