Super Soul Special: Anne Lamott: Three Prayers for Challenging Times

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Original Air Date: November 7th, 2018 New York Times best-selling author, public speaker and writing teacher Anne Lamott discusses what she says are the three types of prayers that can help anyone through challenging times. Anne says it's easy to thank God when life is going well, but when times get tough, she says feelings of anger or complete silence can also act as prayer. Anne believes as long you’re telling the truth of your heart, prayer can take on many forms. Anne talks about her book "Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair." The book is a humorous and profoundly moving meditation on the search for meaning and how we can make the wounded parts of ourselves whole again, stitch by stitch. Anne also opens up about her own recovery from addiction and her ongoing commitment to appreciate the sacred in everyday life. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe
0:07.2	that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to
0:13.6	be more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the
0:19.8	deeper world around us starts right now. And Lamont was born in 1954 to San
0:27.2	Francisco intellectuals Kenneth and Dorothy Lamont. She was the middle child and
0:32.2	their only girl. Her father, a writer, was raised in Tokyo to Christian
0:37.3	missionaries. It was a religious upbringing that he found cold and unsupportive.
0:42.6	So when he had a family of his own, he turned away from religion and God,
0:47.0	encouraging Anne and her brothers to instead put their faith in books in music
0:53.4	and nature. They were a family of non-believers, except for Anne. As early as age
0:59.7	five, she says she secretly began to pray, believing in her heart that someone was
1:05.3	listening. I'm so happy that you're here, you know? You're a person I was so
1:09.6	excited to meet. I actually followed on Twitter. Oh, thank you. I'm one of your
1:16.0	followers. Thank you. Yeah, it happened for like over a year now, I think. Yeah. I
1:21.2	just started last March, I think. Yeah. Now it's my life. Yeah, it's your life.
1:25.4	You give, you give really intelligent, thoughtful, writer-like tweets, I must say. Oh, thank you.
1:31.4	Yes. And also so happy to talk about this book, Help Thanks Well. It's so
1:37.2	interesting that so many of the teachers that have appeared on Super Cell Sunday
1:43.7	come from parents who were atheists. Yeah. Your parents were too. My parents were
1:49.2	atheists. My mom was raised in Liverpool. She was actually baptized Church of
1:53.1	England with her twin sister and then she came over here and she I think to
1:57.7	have my father's love and respect sort of renounced the belief of not just
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