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Susan Cain on Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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Episode Highlights With Susan Cain
- What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up
- The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life
- Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy
- Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply
- What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativity
- The wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early age
- Strategies for learning to embrace the bittersweet
- Ways we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through this
- How we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativity
- Susan Cain - Her website
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
- Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.D
- Spring and Fall Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Her Bittersweet playlist on Spotify
- 483: Mark Wolynn on Why It Didn’t Start With You, Inherited Trauma & How We Heal
- The Next Big Idea book club
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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