Oprah Winfrey: BROKEN OPEN

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Job loss, addiction, a break up, the death of a loved one, illness… these are the kinds of struggles that have the potential to break us wide open. Oprah says that before you ask the question Why me, Why me? Realize that nothing is happening out of order. Your life is always speaking to you. When that wake-up call comes, understand that it’s your life trying to push you in another direction… onto the next leg of your journey. Don’t resist. Instead let the truth break you open. No experience is ever wasted. In this episode of Super Soul, Oprah sits down with acclaimed spiritual teachers: Elizabeth Lesser, Gabrielle Bernstein, Father Richard Rohr, Ali McGraw, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Caroline Myss, Lewellyn Vaughn Lee, Reverend Michael Beckwith, Elizabeth Gilbert, Glennon Doyle, Michael Singer, Iyanla Vanzant, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Pema Chödrön, Cheryl Strayed, Deepak Chopra and Adyashanti to reveal the true meaning of what it means to be broken open and what to do when those life-challenges arise. Interviews with these talented writers, speakers and thought leaders are excerpted from Oprah’s Emmy Award-winning show Super Soul Sunday. You can also find this compilation and other insightful conversations, in Oprah’s best-selling book The Wisdom of Sundays.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now.
0:25.4	One of my favorite questions to ask on Super Soul is, what is the lesson that took you the
0:30.5	longest to learn?
0:32.4	The responses are always thoughtful, unique, and deeply personal. My own answer to that
0:37.3	question has taken a lifetime to learn. I've struggled with my weight for much of my adult
0:42.8	life, and I now realize I've been lying to myself about it for just as long.
0:49.8	My mind is something I abhor, and lying to yourself is the worst.
0:56.8	The deepest part of myself I think I always knew that I was using food to repress my feelings.
1:03.4	Any hint of discomfort or agitation that could lead to confrontation or rejection or
1:09.8	anyone being upset with me would cause me to eat.
1:14.7	And after talking to so many people on the Oprah Winfrey show and Super Soul Sunday, I
1:19.4	knew my emotional eating stem from a childhood spent getting punished for expressing my feelings.
1:26.6	After a few weapons, as they were called in my day, I learned quickly how to push my emotions
1:31.4	down. I understood, even as a six-year-old and a five-year-old and a four-year-old, that
1:38.5	my feelings would not be validated. So even though I knew the root of my weight issues,
1:44.9	I only recently discovered how to fix them.
1:50.6	As a spiritual seeker, I understand that this journey requires you to not only embrace
1:55.5	all that is whole and good in your life, but also to continually examine the long, buried
2:01.6	wounds hidden beneath your carefully crafted surface.
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