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Susie Larson Live

Dr. Curt Thompson on the how your deepest desires impact your life

Susie Larson Live

Faith Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7689 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Psychiatrist, speaker and author Dr. Curt Thompson talks about his book “The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community“. It’s a powerful conversation about the impact encountering beauty has not only on our body, but also on our soul. *Originally aired September 2, 2021*

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

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Here's the podcast from Susie Larson Live.

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Enjoy the conversation.

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This is an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

0:23.6

Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word and that heightens your awareness of his very real

0:38.4

presence in your life. Well, my middle son, Lou, has worked for years for an amazing boss

0:43.3

at an amazing company. He's had this restlessness in his soul over the years. I've heard

0:47.8

him, you know, he said this to me several times over the last number of years. I think I'd like

0:52.5

to own my own business. Do you think I have what it takes?

0:54.7

And I'm like, I know you have what it takes. He's much like my hubby. He's an infrastructure guy.

0:59.9

He's meticulous. He's very handy. And this restlessness has sort of just continued on in his soul,

1:05.8

even though he's got an amazing boss and an amazing company. Well, after some research and some wise counsel,

1:12.4

he decided it was time to take the leap of faith just to see what might happen. And he's

1:16.4

starting a contractor business. And I am telling you what, I am watching life spring up

1:21.9

before my very eyes, both in him and his wife, just working on their logo, getting things

1:26.0

all together, getting ready.

1:33.7

And it's so interesting because as he's stepping into this, he says, you know, he feels seen by God and affirmed by God and heard by God just because of the way the mentors and those of us

1:38.9

who love them are affirming them, really, and not just, we're not flattering. He really does

1:43.1

have what it takes to do this and i just think

1:45.9

it's powerful to watch life spring up for our very eyes because he's stepping into what i believe is a

1:51.6

god-given desire in his heart well my guest today says that underneath our deepest desire is a desire

1:57.0

to be known that god placed certain longings in our hearts. He created each of us in our

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