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The Wellness Mama Podcast

Susan Cain on Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Episode Highlights With Susan Cain

  • What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up
  • The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life
  • Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy
  • Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply
  • What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativity
  • The wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early age
  • Strategies for learning to embrace the bittersweet
  • Ways we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through this
  • How we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativity

Resources We Mention

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to my Mubbys Podcast!

0:04.6

This episode is brought to you by ForSigmatic, the company that first introduced me to functional

0:09.7

and medicinal mushrooms and whose products I have been using for almost a decade.

0:14.4

Mushrooms are absolutely fascinating.

0:16.5

Being genetically closer to humans than they are to plants, the largest organism in the

0:20.1

world is a mushroom.

0:21.9

And mushroom networks allow trees and plants to talk to each other using something called

0:26.4

MyCoreasol Networks.

0:28.6

Many types of mushrooms are also well studied for their benefits to humans and widely used

0:32.6

in many ancient medicinal traditions and cultures.

0:36.0

Researchers found that mushrooms have high amounts of ergo thionine and glutathione,

0:39.9

which are both important antioxidants that help fight age-related decline.

0:43.6

I personally love eating culinary mushrooms any chance I get, but sometimes it can be

0:47.6

hard to work those into my everyday diet every single day.

0:50.6

And specific mushrooms have additional more targeted benefits, and that's why I love

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ForSigmatic.

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They have a wide variety of beverages that incorporate these amazing superfood mushrooms

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On a typical day, I'll drink a cup of their mushroom and juice coffee or matcha, with

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I also love winding down with a cup of their ratio lixer, which helps me fall asleep and

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