Miles of Books: The Joy of Solitude + An Oasis in Time

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Introverts, extroverts, and everyone in between: This thought-provoking episode provides justification for taking some alone-time and recharging. Coach Liz Waterstraat talks with host Sarah Bowen Shea about two books: The Joy of Solitude: How To Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World by Robert J. Coplan and An Oasis in Time: How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life by Marilyn Paul. Especially useful: Coach Liz shares numerous strategies for solitude. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! No more pins: Get 20% off, including AMR 3-pack, w/ code AMR2025 at BibBoards.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on allIQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Bibboards for supporting this episode.
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0:23.5	Welcome to Miles of Books.
0:25.1	I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shea,
0:26.8	and I'm talking today with Coach Liz Watershraught about nonfiction books.
0:30.9	Hello, Liz, and congratulations on your podium age group finish at Iron Man World
0:35.9	Championship last month.
0:38.4	This is the first time we've spoken since you accomplished that amazing feat. So just massive kudos to you. Oh, thank you so
0:44.5	much. I appreciate that. Yes. All right, but that's not what we're here to talk about. I might
0:49.2	pull you into a conversation about it on an upcoming another mother runner podcast. But today we are talking
0:55.4	about two books. And it seems to me the theme is reconnecting and recharging. You can correct
1:02.3	me if I'm wrong once I tell folks what the first book is. It is a new one. It's called the
1:07.5	Joy of Solitude. How to reconnect with yourself Yourself in an Overconnected World by Robert
1:13.2	Coplin.
1:14.3	Yes, we are, we're just diving into the cave by ourselves today.
1:20.1	And we're going to talk about solitude.
1:23.7	How's that for selling it?
1:27.4	Yeah, here we are in our echo chamber. Anyhow, so... How's that for selling it? Hello.
1:29.7	Yeah, here we are in our echo chamber.
1:30.5	Anyhow.
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