How to Navigate the Complexities of Caregiving with Kathy Fagan
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- Exploring the complexity of emotions within us and how our choices feed into that:
- How to navigate caregiving and its unique challenges
- How can we better understand the multiplicity of feelings and desires inside of us
- How the process of writing can allow you to process and find distance from tough emotions
- The challenges in accepting aging and mortality
- How paying attention is critical in both creative endeavors and in life
- The importance of staying curious and unafraid to face sorrow
- How can we explore the nuances of trust and care in relationships
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| 0:00.0 | I really do believe if one wants to be an artist of any kind, certainly a writer, and maybe just like a human being, |
| 0:07.8 | who is self-aware and aware of the world around them. Attention is our best offense and defense. |
| 0:15.1 | I mean, it is the skill that we need to most cultivate, it seems to me. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:30.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:34.6 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us, |
| 0:41.6 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, |
| 0:48.0 | or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and |
| 0:54.0 | dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, |
| 1:00.1 | consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 1:05.9 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm Jay Shetty, and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most |
| 1:29.1 | incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Haw, Lewis Hamilton, |
| 1:35.3 | and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories behind their journeys |
| 1:40.5 | and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their lives |
| 1:44.8 | so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart |
| 1:49.6 | Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon. |
| 1:54.8 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is poet Kathy Fagan, whose work has appeared in |
| 2:00.4 | venues such as The New York Times, Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, |
| 2:06.5 | The Academy of American Poets, Poem a Day, The Push-Cart Prize Anthology, and Best American Poetry. |
| 2:13.3 | Kathy co-founded the MFA program in Creative Writing at the Ohio State University, |
| 2:18.5 | where she teaches poetry and co-edits the journal OSU Press Wheeler Poetry Prize series. |
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