Podcast 475: How sorrow and longing make us whole

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to bestselling author and speaker Susan Cain about sorrow and mental health, embracing bittersweet moments and feelings, how longing makes us whole, her amazing new book Bittersweet, and so much more! As Susan notes in her book, bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

1:55 Susan’s journey

5:45 What a bittersweet state of mind is & why its important

9:31 Epigenetics & inherited grief

17:45 The downsides of positive thinking

28:30 Mental health & sorrow

31:30 Why everyone should watch the movie Inside Out

35:30, 40:10 The difference between moving on & moving forward

45:00 How sorrow & grief can create meaningful connections

48:50 The deep joy & deep sorrow if being human

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Miss.
0:10.4	Do you ever wonder why you like said music?
0:13.8	Or why you react so intensely to music, art and nature?
0:18.1	And is there something powerful about embracing British Suite moments and feelings?
0:23.8	Or joining in the studio today to discuss why we should embrace British Suite moments
0:28.4	and how so-and-long can actually make us hold this Susan Cain, the author of the award-winning book Quiet
0:35.8	and the new book, Butter Suite.
0:37.9	Her tip talk has also been viewed over 40 million times.
0:42.6	In Butter Suite, Susan shows how a Butter Suite state of mind is the quiet force that helps us
0:48.6	transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own heartache,
0:53.8	she says we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination or neglect.
0:59.5	But if we realise it all, what all humans know or will know is lost in suffering,
1:05.6	we can turn towards one another. Let's begin.
1:13.8	Susan Cain, what an honour to interview you. I'm really, really looking forward to this interview.
1:18.8	Your work is phenomenal. You have been watched your tea talks,
1:22.5	it's been watched by millions globally, and I can totally understand why.
1:27.1	You have an incredible ability to tune in to talking about things that people don't like talking about.
1:33.0	And you have a beautiful way of handling it. And I'm so honoured to have you in the studio with me
1:38.2	today. So thank you so much. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much to you for having me and
1:44.5	big hello to all your listeners out there. Well, thank you so much.
1:48.5	Well, you've written a lot of books and you have a great back story as starting off as a lawyer
1:53.3	and in landing, a writing very deep books and your most recent one is but a sweet and how sorry
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