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Oprah's Super Soul

Dr. Shefali Tsabary: The Awakened Life

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, clinical psychologist, parenting expert, and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Shefali Tsabary teaches us how to let go of traditional ways of thinking in order to become the essence of who we truly are. She explains how our essential “selfhood” is stripped from us, piece-by-piece, as we grow into adulthood. Dr. Shefali also makes a plea for what she calls “a case against parenting.”

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:25.1

I am thrilled I get to do this for you because you are about to hear from a parenting expert

0:36.1

who is in the 30 years that I've been doing interviews the best I've ever heard.

0:49.7

She is absolutely revolutionary and so evolved that her ideas are really a paradigm shift

0:59.0

that can change the world. Imagine if there were conscious parents who created awakened

1:08.7

families. Now that would be a breakthrough. Her name is Dr. Shafali Sabari.

1:18.5

And her session today is called the Awakened Self. Dr. Shafali Sabari.

1:41.8

We awaken when we become who we truly are. Each one of you here today answered the call

1:52.0

to go deep within yourself to enter your highest expression. Did you not? You came here today

2:00.8

to reclaim your lost self. Each one of us is searching, yearning for that special

2:08.1

something. Call it all, call it meaning, purpose, transcendence, presence, unbearable

2:17.0

lightness of being. We want nothing more than to feel the deepest connection within ourselves

2:26.8

and with others. To touch upon the wonder and abundance that we know is our sovereign

2:33.1

right to rediscover who we once were to reclaim the purpose for why we were born. This is why

2:45.0

we are here today, yes? But here, here is the grand irony, the great paradox of life.

2:58.3

What you are here to reclaim, you know, you had it once. Do you know that? Here that

3:08.3

you're seeking and searching for what that special something is, you had it once. You

3:16.0

had it as that child who knew its might, who had wonder, grace, presence, beauty, worth

3:23.9

significance. That child who was able to stop by every leaf and every petal and stare at

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