The Resilience Myth with Soraya Chemaly

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Years ago, when Nora was in the worst phase of her life (dead husband, dead dad, lost pregnancy) she heard a lot of people describe her as resilient. Those people meant it as a compliment, but to Nora it didn’t feel that way. She was tired, grieving, and lost so much in her life- the “resilience” people saw was often just…the privilege she had to survive it. So when Nora got the new book, The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly, she devoured it. In this episode, Nora and Soraya talk about different ways to think about resiliency and how celebrating it can be a little toxic. We are still on hiatus! But this episode in the main feed was brought to you by our TTFA Premium subscribers. Since the hiatus, we’ve been producing two episodes a month for people who support us on Patreon and Apple Premium (join in your Apple podcast app). If you want more TTFA, consider joining us on one of those platforms. _ Check out Nora on YouTube! __ Find all our shows and our store at feelingsand.co. — Find TTFA on social: TTFA on Instagram | TTFA on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McInerney and this is terrible. Thanks for asking. In March
0:08.6	2024 we announced an indefinite hiatus and it is not over it is still
0:14.8	indefinite but we are going to be back in our main feed
0:21.0	sporadically when we have something special to share with all of you.
0:25.8	So this episode is made possible, sponsored by our premium subscribers, People who subscribe on Apple Plus through the podcast apps
0:37.6	on Patreon on both of these places we are still putting out two episodes a month both places have the full archive of our shows but
0:47.2	Patreon is more of a community we do fun little events and chats in there and both are of course totally optional.
0:56.5	But that support does make it possible for this work to be more sustainable for our team both emotionally and financially and for us to make this
1:08.0	episode available for everyone.
1:10.7	If you would like to join the Patreon, there is a link in our show description or you can just go to
1:17.2	Patreon.com slash TTFA if you want to join through Apple Plus, through the podcast app, and get bonus content and just back catalog,
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1:35.0	There is a word that I've hated for a long time, a word that many other people seem to love or at least like a whole lot, a word that has warmed its way into our collective consciousness and simply won't leave a word
1:55.4	that I didn't think about much at all until people used it to describe me and the
2:02.2	sound of it felt like running into a plate glass window, which is yes, something
2:07.8	that I have done more than once.
2:10.0	When they're clean, they're very hard to see.
2:13.2	You can understand why so many birds fly into them.
2:17.2	I get it.
2:18.8	The word that I'm thinking of,
2:20.2	the word that I so strongly dislike is resilient and I am going to tell you right now why I hate it.
2:32.4	Because when people said to me, you're so resilient after I'd lost a
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