Hard Times: Episode 8
The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
Brooke McAlary
4.6 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today Brooke and Ben are talking about hard times. Or more specifically, how to deal with the emotional heaviness that comes from living through really difficult things.
Digging into this feeling of heaviness, they discuss how they're trying to acknowledge and accept the challenges, as well as the tools they use to help them move forward. They also talk about practical ways to protect ourselves when things feel hard, why limiting social media is a powerful way of drawing boundaries, the impact of gentle activism, why rage-cleaning can help process anger, the rebelliousness of finding joy and why pairing all of these things with action is so important.
Hopefully this conversation shows that it’s okay to look for and hold onto joy in amongst the difficult times.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Tortoise. |
| 0:05.5 | The podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | All about the possibilities of slow. |
| 0:13.6 | I am your host, Brooke McCallory, and I'm joined by your co-host and my co-host, Ben McCallory. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. How you doing? Very well McCallory. Hello. Hello. |
| 0:22.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:22.5 | Very well. |
| 0:23.4 | Very well. |
| 0:24.0 | Good. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm in a positive mood, which is very much at odds with the title and subject matter of this episode. |
| 0:32.6 | But also, not too at odds, because I actually think they are the same, like different sides of the same coin. |
| 0:38.1 | Okay. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.4 | I think it's my hope with this conversation is to show that when things feel heavy, we can still, |
| 0:50.0 | like it's still okay to feel joy and to feel feel positive and yeah that's honestly what I hope to get out of it so you know what I'm looking forward to digging in |
| 1:00.9 | I was just going to say end of the episode you've already done it well done see you next month no yeah I'm looking forward to digging in me Me too. Me too. Let's do it. All right. |
| 1:21.7 | So lately the world seems like it's lurching from one crisis to another on top of one another. |
| 1:38.0 | We've got wars and conflicts and post-pandemic fatigue and economic and economic uncertain, you name it, |
| 1:41.6 | and basically that's what's going on. |
| 1:41.8 | Yep. |
| 1:44.2 | So it feels very heavy and you thought it was a good time to talk about dealing with this heaviness on the podcast? |
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