Frank Bruni: Adapting to Loss

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Every problem New York Times columnist Frank Bruni faced had a simple fix. Doctors offered reasonable solutions for reasonable problems. Preventative care guaranteed future health. That is, until he woke up one morning without vision in his eye. This experience forced him to rethink how much of life is in our control and how to live fully in the face of unfixable problems. In this conversation, Kate and Frank discuss: Letting go of the idea that life is a series of choices and learning that there are things we can’t fix How the lacquered lives we see on social media deny us the fuller picture of each other’s problems Importance of finding the things that light up our lives and taking the hard stuff bird by bird, vine by vine. *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days is out now. Learn more, here. We have free Lent guides for you to use by yourself, with a group, or with your church. Click here to get started. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I used to think that life was a series of choices.
0:07.8	You pick a college, and then a major, and then a career.
0:11.6	You pick a spouse, and then you pick when you'll start your family.
0:15.8	You pick vacations and friends and all your dreams and ambitions.
0:20.3	You pick a Starbucks order, because hey, that's who you are.
0:24.3	But then.
0:25.8	But then.
0:27.6	Everything ever really seems to go according to plan.
0:31.1	You lose your job, where your marriage falls apart.
0:34.9	You never find that partner or have that baby.
0:38.0	You get sick, or they're gone.
0:41.2	And you realize life is no longer one that you can so easily control.
0:47.6	This is the Everything Happens podcast, and I'm Kate Boller.
0:52.3	And I had this realization when I was about 35, and I was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon
0:57.2	cancer.
0:58.6	And suddenly my life wasn't one that I picked.
1:01.6	It was just picked for me.
1:04.0	And I wondered, where do you go from here?
1:07.2	When our choices seem so limited, when our futures are hard to imagine, when you realize
1:13.2	that life might always feel like loss after loss after loss.
1:17.9	We don't want to fake positivity, or live in denial of what it means to get older.
1:24.5	So how do we live like this?
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