How Talking About Adversity Inspires Positive Change

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

According to psychologist and author, Kelly McGonigal, listening to someone else's story of resilience and overcoming adversity can have a positive effect. Listening to someone's "restorative narrative" can inspire strength and courage in you. In addition, if you're the person doing the storytelling about your own traumatic event, and you both acknowledge the difficulty as well as the how it transformed you in positive ways, you are more likely to have better health outcomes. In this light, Andrea tells her breast cancer story and shares the four profound ways it has changed her three years later. Shownotes: http://yogalandpodcast.com/episode73

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 73 of Yoga Land.
0:35.0	So I am eeking out this episode in the last week of October.
0:44.1	As we all know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
0:48.3	And each year, as I get further away
0:50.6	from my own breast cancer diagnosis, which was three years ago, I like to
0:55.1	reflect and look back.
0:56.8	And I was diagnosed at this time of year.
0:59.7	I was diagnosed September 2nd, 2014, you never forget your cancer anniversary.
1:06.7	So it's a very fitting time of year for me to kind of go into personal reflection mode. But I've been putting this off. I've been thinking about this
1:14.8	talk and this live essay for close to a year and it's a really, really hard one to do for several
1:21.6	reasons. The first is the obvious reason. It's just sort of hard to talk about your own personal story when they're still challenging feelings around it that you know might always be there. The second thing is that, you know, I feel incredibly fortunate
1:36.3	about my personal diagnosis and my personal experience and I think in some ways I feel guilty sometimes because like I got off easy so far.
1:46.8	You know I didn't have to do chemo, I opted not to do a total mastectomy, I feel really, really healthy and well right now.
1:56.4	So I realize that my story is not everyone's story and I realize that there are people out there
2:03.8	going through treatment right now, various phases,
2:06.7	people going through other conditions and diseases
2:09.3	and suffering.
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