Super Soul Special: Frank Bruni – The Beauty of Dusk

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Original Air Date: March 23rd, 2022 Oprah sits down with New York Times journalist and best-selling author, Frank Bruni, about his book The Beauty of Dusk. Frank shares his experience after waking up one morning blind in his right eye due to a stroke. He explains the insights, the vulnerability and mindfulness practices he applied through the diagnosis and states that, "We all have a choice to focus on what we’ve lost or on what remains.” 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	Oprah's The Life You Want class.
0:05.0	You can watch the full class and participate in others in the monthly series on Oprah Daily.
0:11.0	Come.
0:12.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey welcome to Super Soul Conversations the podcast I believe that one of the
0:18.8	most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present. Your journey to
0:28.0	become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:36.0	Hello, hello, and welcome everybody.
0:40.1	Hi, we have people with us
0:41.8	from all around the world and from all corners of the United States.
0:44.8	This is so fun. Everybody ready to talk vulnerability.
0:50.4	I wrote that what I wanted from today's class was to offer you all aha moments that leave you
0:57.1	feeling fully ready to become more vulnerable with the people around you as well as with yourself. It seems that our
1:04.6	culture and our vocabulary has put such a negative connotation on the word
1:10.4	vulnerability.
1:12.8	You all notice that?
1:13.8	That's why so many people are anxious or fearful of sharing and being vulnerable.
1:19.2	The dictionary says easily hurt or harmed.
1:21.9	Who wants that?
1:23.0	Susceptible to physical or emotional attack?
1:26.0	Who wants that?
1:27.0	It's no wonder so many people have a serious fear of being vulnerable.
1:32.0	When really what we mean here is that vulnerability
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