Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We need a modicum of vitality to simply be alive in this time. And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around, especially as we look to the young, is one manifestation of the gravity of the post-2020 world. How to name and honor this more openly? How to hold that together with the ways we've been given to learn and to grow? Who are we called to be moving forward? Dr. Vivek Murthy is a brilliant, wise, and kind companion in these questions. He's a renowned physician and research scientist in his second tenure as U.S. Surgeon General. And for years, he's been naming and investigating loneliness as a public health matter, including his own experience of that very human condition. It is beyond rare to be in the presence of a person holding high governmental office who speaks about love with ease and dignity — and about the agency to be healers that is available to us all. There is so much here to walk away with, and into. This conversation quieted and touched a room full of raucous podcasters at the 2023 On Air Fest in Brooklyn.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute.
0:03.8	Fetzer supports a movement of organizations that are applying spiritual solutions
0:08.0	to society's toughest problems. Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:14.2	We need a modicum of vitality for what simply being alive in this time asks of us.
0:22.2	And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around,
0:29.2	especially as we look to the young, is one manifestation of the gravity of the post-2020
0:35.8	world that each of us is carrying, even as we try to power through in the face of ungrieved losses
0:43.1	and unnerving change. I'm longing for us to find ways to name and honor this more openly,
0:50.0	because it is showing up sideways in our families and workplaces and communities,
0:55.4	even as we try to power through. I'm also longing for us to hold this more honest grappling
1:02.1	together with the questions of what we have been given to see and to learn.
1:08.0	Who are we now and who are we called to be moving forward?
1:13.6	I cannot imagine a more brilliant, wise, and kind conversation partner about all of this
1:20.2	than the surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Vivek Morthy. He is a renowned physician
1:27.0	and research scientist, and for years he's been naming and investigating loneliness as a public
1:33.2	health matter, including his own experience of that very human condition. And it is beyond
1:39.8	rare to sit with a person holding high government office who speaks about love with ease and dignity,
1:48.0	and about the agency to be healers that is available to us all. There is so much here to walk
1:54.9	away with and into. This conversation quieted and touched a room full of raucous podcasters
2:03.5	at the 2023 on-air festin Brooklyn, and I am so happy to invite you into that experience now.
2:12.0	I'm Christa Tippett, and this is on being.
2:20.8	It's important for me to quickly set the scene for you to take in what unfolds here.
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