Revisited: We Cannot Heal Alone In The Loneliness Epidemic with Rabbi Sharon Brous

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Grief can paralyze us. Most of us aren't given a manual about how to comfort someone grieving or how to ask for help with our own pain.

That's why I wanted to revisit one of my favorite conversations, with Rabbi Sharon Brous. I talked with her about being present to someone else's pain and what it means to heal together in the loneliness epidemic.

Considered one of the most influential rabbis in the U.S., she founded her own congregation and has led multiple White House faith events. In her book, The Amen Effect, Sharon explores how grief and heartbreak can be gateways to truly seeing each other.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Loneliness and disconnection are rampant in our society today and it's not just
0:05.8	affecting young people it's affecting all of us so I wanted to revisit one of my
0:10.8	favorite episodes with Rabbi Sharon Brows. She talks about
0:15.1	togetherness and support and how we can give to each other away, frankly, that I've never heard
0:20.7	before. I learned more from this episode than I have for most other episodes that I do,
0:26.2	and that's why I wanted to bring it back.
0:28.5	This is a bit of optimism.
0:40.6	I was very keen to have you on to talk about human connection, but we seem to be an epidemic of loneliness, of loneliness, depression, anxiety.
0:45.0	A, is that true?
0:47.0	And then B, is there an antidote?
0:50.0	The answer to both of those questions is yes in my opinion.
0:54.0	I think one of the one of the things that we're learning now
0:58.0	is that loneliness is not only attacking our spirits, but also attacking our bodies.
1:03.9	I see it as a rabbi as a kind of spiritual malady.
1:07.7	And I've really witnessed this
1:09.2	over the course of the last 20 years
1:11.0	of pasturing to a community and just seeing what brings people in the door when they say,
1:16.8	you know, I really need to talk to you and also what makes people flee from community.
1:21.1	We can see the pain that this kind of loneliness and
1:23.9	disconnection is causing us spiritually. About 11 years ago I was introduced to the
1:29.0	work of Dr. John Kuchyopo who wrote the book, who wrote, really wrote the book on loneliness and he spoke about the science of
1:36.2	loneliness and the way that loneliness also attacks the body and that what
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