[Unedited] Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, as a species. She has cultivated a reverence for the human nervous system. She tells truths about our bodies that western medicine itself is only fitfully learning to see. This quiet conversation is not just revelatory, but healing and calming. It holds startling prescience about some of what we're navigating now. And it offers self-compassion and simple strategies for finding ease within ourselves — and with each other — as we live forward from here.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.7	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:18.8	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.7	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:25.2	Up next, my conversation with clinical psychologist Christine Runyon.
0:30.3	She sheds light on the psychic and physiological and spiritual effects of a year of pandemic
0:37.5	and social isolation.
0:39.6	What's been happening in our nervous systems?
0:42.5	This is the complete, unedited version.
0:45.3	There is always a shorter, produced version wherever you found this podcast.
0:51.2	I'm really, really looking forward to talking to you.
0:54.1	Why don't I tell you the story of how this came about as we start?
1:04.0	Yeah, so I had been having the experience, which every time you talk to people now about
1:16.5	this experience, they're having some version of it.
1:19.0	But just noticing this dislocation and disembodied, confused, general feeling, this feeling like
1:30.9	my memory was disrupted.
1:32.7	I'm not thinking clearly.
1:37.8	My days, I kind of will suddenly fall into this really dark, emotional place, which almost
1:46.9	feels like depression, which I've experienced.
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