How Connecting with People Enhanced My Self-Care

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.9 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Cam Morose, a Boston school psychologist, found Buddhism at a crucial time. He was struggling with anxiety that felt impossible to challenge. In today’s episode, Cam shares how Buddhism gave him the roadmap and energy to connect with others, challenge his inner critic and find deeper happiness.

References:
July, 2019, Living Buddhism, pp.56–57
“The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 1, p. 1000.
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, pp. 104

Cheat Sheet:
03:40 A friend’s life state inspires Cam to try chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
08:57 His anxiety reaches a breaking point
17:16 How connecting with others made him rethink self-care
29:00 Finding purpose in his career based on his struggles
40:58 A clear guide for living a happy and fulfilling life

Transcript

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0:00.0	From SGIUSA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability, the weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:20.1	You're interviewing for a job that you're really excited about. Once you head home, you're filled
0:26.1	with thoughts about all of the things that you could have done better. That old friend,
0:31.2	your inner critic is back and won't leave you alone. This week, we asked listeners how they
0:37.4	like to challenge their inner
0:38.7	critic. One of you said, I remind myself that I'm not my past mistakes and what I do now is what
0:45.2	matters most. Another wrote in that they try to practice more self-compassion. Chanting
0:52.1	Namyo Hōrengey Kyo has helped them reflect on mistakes as learning
0:56.6	opportunities. They said that while their inner critic hasn't completely disappeared,
1:02.0	chanting has helped them challenge their overly critical thoughts. Today's guest, Cam Morose of
1:07.9	Boston, knows the struggle of an inner critic well. From a young age, he battled
1:13.0	loneliness that really came to a head in college. Today, we dig into what self-care looks like
1:19.0	in Buddhism, challenging our inner critics, and how to create meaning from our struggles.
1:29.3	So my name is Cam Maros, and I live in Boston, Massachusetts.
1:35.3	I work as a school psychologist, and I am 29 years old.
1:40.3	Great.
1:41.3	It's so wonderful to have you here, Cam. I know today we're going to be talking a lot about your experience with mental health. This was like a big factor actually in your decision to start practicing Buddhism. So maybe we can start out with just like your life leading up to college and then how you encountered Buddhism.
1:58.2	Sure. So I guess starting early in my life, I didn't really have
2:04.8	real friends. You know, if you looked at my life from a bird's eye view, probably see me like
2:10.0	with a lot of people. I played a lot of sports. It was very active. So it looked like I had a lot of
2:14.5	friends in my life. But I didn't have anyone that I felt actually cared about me or that I could be vulnerable with.
2:23.4	And because of that, I struggled a lot with loneliness.
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