Toni Bernhard on Living with Chronic Illness

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This is Toni Bernhard’s second time as a guest on the show and we’re so glad to have her back. She is a former law professor at the University of California, a practicing Buddhist for 25 years, and the author of many books including the one she and Eric discuss in this episode, How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion. Eric and Toni talk about her experience living with chronic illness, what she has learned and what she now has to teach others about how they might suffer less amidst their own experience with chronic pain and other long term health conditions. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Toni Bernhard and I Discuss Living with Chronic Illness and… Her book, How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion How we can feel our emotions without necessarily feeding them That pushing feelings away in aversion just makes them stronger Repressing emotions intensifies them Her own experience with chronic illness The three components of pain Examining the meanings that we give things The liberating Zen teaching of “Don’t know mind” What to do when things don’t go our way Why it can be so hard to be kind to ourselves That being sick is part of being alive, not because you’re not doing something wrong Toni Bernhard Links: Toni's Website Facebook Calm App: The app designed to help you ease stress and get the best sleep of your life through meditations and sleep stories. Join the 85 million people around the world who use Calm to get better sleep. Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription (a limited time offer!) by going to www.calm.com/wolf Best Fiends: Engage your brain and play a game of puzzles with Best Fiends. Download for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Skillshare is an online learning community that helps you get better on your creative journey. They have thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people. Be one of the first thousand to sign up via www.skillshare.com/feed and you’ll get a FREE trial of Skillshare premium membership If you enjoyed this conversation with Toni Bernhard on Living with Chronic Illness, you might also enjoy these other episodes: Toni Bernhard (2016 Episode) Living with Chronic Pain with Sarah Shockley See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Life is a mixture of joys and sorrows, of getting what you want, and not getting what you want.
0:14.9	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:16.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.5	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.1	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.3	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:36.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.9	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.4	But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.4	Our actions matter.
0:45.8	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:50.7	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:55.1	how they feed their good wolf.
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