Throwback: How Do I Find The Courage To Be My Own Guide?
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This episode was originally released September 23rd, 2016.
The Sugars often discuss letters dealing with very specific problems or struggles. In this encore episode, they take on a broader, more existential question: how to follow your heart. The Sugars discuss with the GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter India Arie, who shares how she learned to be her own guide.
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| 1:25.6 | Hi, Cheryl. |
| 1:26.6 | How are you? I'm doing great. We're going to do something a little bit |
| 1:29.5 | different today on this episode of Dear Sugar Radio. So often, as you know, our letters present us |
| 1:35.7 | with a specific situation or problem or struggle, and they're fairly focused. You know, this is the |
| 1:43.1 | trouble I'm in right now. And today we're going to read and answer a letter that's a bigger problem. And it's what I think that so many people share. I know I've had this struggle. You've had the struggle. Our listeners have had the struggle. And it's about something a bit more existential and yet very direct and very real in our lives. And that is how do we |
| 2:02.1 | learn to really trust ourselves after we have read all the books and listened to every |
| 2:08.0 | episode of Dyshika Radio and talk to therapists and friends, how do we at the end of that |
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