How Identity Can Affect How You Deal with Depression or Mental Illness with Kimi Culp
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Eric and Kimi discuss her journey to healing and how the role of identity can be helpful (or not so helpful) when dealing with depression or mental illness.
Kimi Culp is a TV and film producer and is the host of the award winning ALL THE WISER podcast. Kimi’s unique specialty is identifying and developing stories with soul. She has traveled the world interviewing hundreds of people and creating content that motivates people to live a happier, more fulfilling life.
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How Identity Can Affect How You Deal with Depression with Kimi Culp
- How her internal narrative shifted when she started talking about her mental illness
- The power of knowing we’re not alone in our struggles
- Owning the truth of who we are and also not letting it be your entire identity
- Understanding that we are many parts of the whole being
- The healing journey and how identity can take a more prominent role at the beginning
- The nuances of identifying what is depression
- How labeling depression can be helpful, but overidentifying with that label can be harmful
- The importance of adult friendships
- Comparative suffering
- Gratitude and how it is a powerful tool
- Her collaborative book, A Letter to My Dog
Links:
Kimi’s Podcasst, All the Wiser
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| 0:00.0 | I think so often when we're looking outward, whether we're judging or comparing or whichever |
| 0:05.3 | end of the spectrum we're looking at, it's all just so often a mirror of ourselves. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:21.4 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:26.1 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many |
| 0:32.5 | of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:35.8 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:40.5 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and |
| 0:45.1 | dampen our spirit. |
| 0:46.9 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:50.3 | It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:55.2 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
| 0:59.6 | they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:15.5 | People often ask me what podcasts I listen to, and one of the ones that I absolutely love |
| 1:20.6 | is the Bean Well Podcast. |
| 1:22.8 | The host Rick Hansen is one of the wisest people I know he's been a guest a couple times, |
| 1:27.0 | and he's joined by a son, Forest, and they are delightful together. |
| 1:31.5 | Each week they explore the practical science of lasting well-being. |
| 1:35.3 | Sometimes they do this with conversations with each other, and sometimes they have on world-class |
| 1:39.7 | guests, but it is always insightful. |
| 1:42.5 | They teach you how to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get |
| 1:47.0 | the most out of life. |
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