Iliza Shlesinger: Laughter is the Best Medicine

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is refreshingly candid, especially about things many women can relate to, like the sheer exhaustion that comes from juggling life's demands (dare we say, it's like a badge of honor?), pregnancy loss—a topic that often remains in the shadows, and how our accounts of self-care really go off the rails when bubble baths become the solution to all of life’s problems. In this conversation, Kate and Iliza address: A plan to make laughter a national healthcare plan (just kidding) How comedy connects us with one another Redefining self-care into something a little more practical This conversation is brought to you by Aspen Ideas: Health and was recorded on location in Aspen, CO. CW: miscarriage Everything Happens is brought to you by Cologuard®. Are you 45 or older? Start screening for colon cancer with Cologuard, an effective and noninvasive screening option for adults 45 and older at average risk for colon cancer. Rx only. Learn more at Cologuard.com/everything Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here. Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:45.0	Oh hello. My name is Kate Bowler and this is Everything Happens. So I started saying something a couple years ago as a way to sum up my theory on life and started saying have a beautiful terrible day.
1:06.5	Yeah, it's partly because I can never quite manage the awkwardness of being honest, but they felt like there's just something there, right?
1:16.1	That life is just gorgeous, and it's also usually profoundly difficult simultaneously. I was in the midst of a really frankly
1:28.6	garbage season of unending chronic pain. I just I was having very weird symptoms from this joint
1:37.8	disorder that I have and sometimes my body just does not work the way it should and I couldn't figure out a way not to just
1:47.0	chase pain from one joint to the next and I was trying everything. I was right back to that sort of season where sometimes you find yourself seeing every single
1:57.7	specialist and repeating the same story over and over and over again but with a lot of hand
2:01.7	gestures.
2:03.3	I know so many of you know this reality about how much time it takes up being in pain
2:11.1	and what it costs you emotionally, mentally, physically.
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