"Quiet is a Place I Return To" | Sarah Clarkson (EP02)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This podcast is part of the Clear Intentions series of the show.
Note: I have listeners of all faith backgrounds that listen to the podcast. At times, this episode speaks to a christian perspective so if that’s something that doesn’t fit what you’re looking for, check out the other episode that dropped this week with Ginny Yurich or join me back here next Monday for a conversation that you don’t want to miss!
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In a distracted world driven by many screens and ceaseless activity, many struggle with a restless, disquiet mind. We yearn deeply for inward rootedness and calm, yet the cultivation of quiet often feels abstract and out-of-reach. Yet quiet is, and always has been, essential to life.
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Book: Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
- Book: The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
- Book: Tiny Perfect Things by M.H. Clark
- Connect with Sarah:
- Website
- Book: Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention
About Sarah |
Sarah Clarkson is an author and blogger who writes regularly about literature, faith, and beauty at SarahClarkson.com. She studied theology (BTh, MSt) at Oxford and is the author or coauthor of six books, including This Beautiful Truth. She has an active following on Instagram (@sarahwanders) where she hosts regular live read-alouds from the poems, novels, or essays that bring her courage. She can often be found with a cup of good tea and a book in hand in her old English vicarage home in Oxford, where she lives with her Anglican vicar husband, Thomas, and their four children
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| 1:10.1 | my idea of what quiet meant. |
| 1:11.6 | Because if it's something that is only for someone with a lot of time, a lot of discipline, |
| 1:15.1 | and the capacity to be really, you know, focused, well, I was never going to be quiet. |
| 1:19.7 | Quiet is not something I earn or attain. |
| 1:22.7 | It's something I return to. |
| 1:24.0 | It is already there. |
| 1:25.7 | It is something I relax into or return home to. Something I |
| 1:29.4 | realized very early in my motherhood was, if I stopped doing the things that made me me, then I would |
| 1:35.5 | just be flattening my whole self. What my children needed was not me to stop being myself in order to |
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