Maggie Smith on Poetry and Life Lessons

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Smith is a poet and author of the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, as well as Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Maggie’s poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

In this episode, Maggie Smith joins Eric and Ginny for a conversation about her poetry and learning about ourselves through life’s experiences

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Maggie Smith and Ginny and I Discuss Poetry and Life Lessons and…

Allowing feelings to come and waiting them out
Her black and white thinking and working with her judgment
Asking what’s really at stake and what is the cost of saying yes instead of no
Keeping our inner critic in check
How we can learn to parent ourselves
The suffering that comes from judging our feelings that come up
Her Keep Moving Journal with many writing prompts
The lessons we can only learn from living through the tough times
Her poem, Goldenrod
Her desire to capture what she’s observing by writing it down
How she processes and gets at things on paper
Her poem, The Hum
The importance of turning up the self-compassion and turning down the self-criticism
Her poem, Wild

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Maggie Smith, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Writing for Healing with Maggie Smith (2021)

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0:00.0	We're making the world. It's not separate from us. The world we live in is not something that's being done to us, right?
0:06.6	It's something we're making every day. So how do we make it?
0:17.5	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:19.5	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.
0:24.0	Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:41.5	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:45.0	But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:53.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:13.0	People often ask me what podcasts I listen to, and one of the ones that I absolutely love is the Bean Well Podcast.
1:21.0	The host Rick Hansen is one of the wisest people I know. He's been a guest a couple times, and he's joined by a son, Forest.
1:27.0	And they are delightful together. Each week they explore the practical science of lasting well-being.
1:33.0	Sometimes they do this with conversations with each other, and sometimes they have on world-class guests.
1:38.0	But it is always insightful. And they teach you how to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life.
1:47.0	There's a lot of shows out there about how to build a better life, but very few of them are as enjoyable, wise, and often funny as this one is.
1:56.0	So listen to Bean Well, wherever you get your podcasts.
2:00.0	I'm Emily Nagaski, host of The Come As You Are Podcast.
2:04.0	Some of you may know me from my best-selling book Come As You Are.
2:07.0	I've been a sex educator for 25 years, and I have been asked every question you can imagine.
2:15.0	Each week on the show, I'll answer your questions about sex with science.
2:19.0	My hope is that this show will teach people to feel more confident in their bodies.
2:24.0	Listen to Come As You Are on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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