Mary Pipher, A LIGHT IN LIFE: Meditations on Impermanence
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by renowned psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Mary Pipher to discuss her radiant memoir in essays A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence, which focuses on resilience and finding light in dark times. Mary Pipher shares details of her lonely childhood (and the library books that saved her), what it means to feel “squishy” in times of sadness, and her thoughts on the pandemic-related loss of personal connection. She also touches on each of her previous books and expresses how wonderful it has been to be an “activist on paper”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
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| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:58.0 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Mary Pfeiffer is the author of A Life in Light Meditations on Impermanence. |
| 1:03.6 | She is a psychologist who has earned her title of cultural therapist for her generation. |
| 1:08.8 | She's the author of four New York Times bestsellers, |
| 1:11.5 | including reviving Ophelia, the shelter of each other, another country, and women rowing |
| 1:17.3 | North. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Welcome, Mary. Thank you so much for coming on moms |
| 1:22.2 | don't have time to read books. And in this case, moms don't have time to drop off their kids at |
| 1:26.8 | camp and be on time for |
| 1:27.7 | podcast morning. So welcome. Thank you very much. I'm really happy to be here, Zibby. I absolutely |
| 1:33.7 | loved your book, A Life in Light, Meditations on Impermanence. The way you write is just absolutely |
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