Surrendering my old identity — and finding myself, by Catherine Reitman
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As an actor and a new mom, Catherine Reitman felt pulled between two competing identities. To capture her frustration, her sadness, her truth, she wrote it all down. In sharing her darkness, she found a way to turn a light on for someone else.
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| 0:00.0 | My mom is an extraordinary beauty. |
| 0:07.0 | She was once an actress. My mom is an extraordinary beauty. |
| 0:21.6 | She was once an actress and a director and a model. |
| 0:26.6 | And as her career was just brightly unfolding in front of her, |
| 0:33.6 | she sacrificed everything to have me and my brother and my sister. |
| 0:39.5 | She told my dad that she didn't want to miss our childhoods, |
| 0:42.5 | that she wanted to give us everything that she had not received as a child. |
| 0:47.6 | And she did. |
| 1:03.5 | Catherine Reitman plays Kate Foster on the sitcom Working Moms. In fact, she actually created the show to help her through a time of great transition. Her meditative story reminds us of something |
| 1:09.9 | profoundly important. |
| 1:11.6 | Sometimes we have to live our way into the shoes we're already wearing, |
| 1:16.6 | into the person we're becoming. |
| 1:19.6 | In this series, we blend immersive first-person stories with brief mindfulness prompts from me. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm Rohan, your guide, take in Catherine's meditative story. |
| 2:00.4 | If there's any tension around, knowing it and letting it be here. |
| 2:05.6 | If there's any chaos, letting there be chaos. |
| 2:10.6 | And if you can notice any calm, any steadiness, any stability, knowing that too. |
| 2:20.3 | Aware of everything. allowing anything, radically honest. |
| 2:24.3 | The body relaxed, the body breathing. |
| 2:30.3 | Your senses open, your mind open, meeting the world. |
| 2:37.0 | ...the world. I started off as an actor, |
| 3:00.7 | a largely rejected one, if I'm being honest. |
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