The Hidden Cost of Your To-Do List (And How to Take Your Life Back) | Courtney Carver
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Feeling overwhelmed by life's relentless demands? Courtney Carver, author of Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want, reveals a transformative approach to embracing a softer, more intentional way of being.
Discover how simplifying your world and giving yourself permission to truly rest can revolutionize your well-being and help you rediscover the person you were born to be.
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| 0:00.0 | The world doesn't feel gentle, but it seems to have been getting increasingly more chaotic |
| 0:07.4 | and really so much harder to trust ourselves or come back to ourselves or even know ourselves |
| 0:16.4 | with the height of the... |
| 0:18.6 | A leading expert on simplicity, compassionate minimalism, and living well, Courtney Carver is the height of the... A leading expert on simplicity, |
| 0:23.0 | compassionate minimalism, and living well. |
| 0:25.8 | Courtney Carver is the founder of Be More with Less and the simplicity space, |
| 0:27.5 | and the author of Soulful Simplicity and her new book, |
| 0:30.3 | Gentle, An Invitation to Reclaim a More Gentle Approach to Life. |
| 0:34.1 | I looked at the people I loved and wondered why I didn't put that same |
| 0:41.9 | measurement system on them as I did on myself. Like I thought, and I always think they... I'm going to be |
| 0:51.0 | thinking about that for a little bit now. Little bits of trauma all day long about things that are going on in the world. |
| 0:59.9 | Like, we're just freaking ourselves out for no reason. |
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| 1:19.6 | ensures you'll never miss an episode. Now on to the show. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is |
| 1:24.9 | Good Life Project. |
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