Megan Devine | It's Still Okay to Not Be Okay
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
There’s something big happening that few people are really talking about in a meaningful and constructive way. A sense of loss, on so many levels, even if there’s also hope and excitement. We hate talking about this stuff, but it’s so important.
Whenever I’m grappling with any kind of loss or grief, whether around a person or even just a broader sense of freedom, connection, humanity, or possibility, my go-to person is my dear friend, Megan Devine, who also happens to be today’s guest. Megan is a psychotherapist and grief advocate. She's the author of the best-selling book, It's OK that You're Not OK, and the new guided journal for grief, How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed.
Megan was on the show back in 2016, but I asked her to come back after a conversation we had about how so many of us are carrying an unacknowledged sense of loss and grief right now. I wanted to explore what that does to us, what it means for us, and how to work with it in a way that owns the reality, and also allows us to be changed, and move forward from a place of greater understanding, and maybe even lightness and grace. And, that’s what we dive into in today’s conversation.
You can find Megan at: Website | Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | So there's something big happening that few people are really talking about in a meaningful |
| 0:11.3 | and constructive way. |
| 0:13.0 | A sense of loss on so many levels, even if there's also hope and excitement we hate talking |
| 0:19.4 | about this stuff, but it's also really important. |
| 0:22.7 | Whenever I'm grappling with any kind of feelings of loss or grief or I'm just kind of anxious |
| 0:28.0 | or agitated and I don't understand why, whether that's around circumstance or a relationship |
| 0:34.9 | or even just a broader sense of freedom or connection, humanity, possibility. |
| 0:39.1 | My go-to person is my dear friend Megan Devine, who also happens to be today's guest. |
| 0:44.7 | Megan is a psychotherapist and grief advocate. |
| 0:47.9 | She's the author of the best-selling book, It's Okay, That You're Not Okay, and the new |
| 0:52.4 | guided journal for grief, How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed. |
| 0:56.2 | Megan was on the show back in 2016, but I asked her to come back after a conversation |
| 1:01.8 | that we recently had about how so many of us are carrying this un-ignolaged sense of loss |
| 1:08.0 | and grief right now. |
| 1:09.6 | I wanted to explore what that does to us, what it means for us and how to work with it |
| 1:15.0 | in a way that owns the reality and also allows us to be changed and move forward from a place |
| 1:21.2 | of greater understanding and maybe even lightness and grace. |
| 1:25.6 | And that is what we dive into in today's conversation. |
| 1:28.9 | So excited to share it with you. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:42.8 | So as we have this conversation, you are hanging out in L.A.A. area. |
| 1:48.0 | I am sitting on the back porch of a cottage in Western Massachusetts. |
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