in Cooperstown next month to help educate and empower families when dealing with school districts and your child with a disability.
Free!
Family Empowerment Series
Cultivate a Daily Gratitude Practice
This podcast is a brief one. Comedian Max Jobrani discusses a daily practice to help cultivate and pay attention to the small experiences we have each day that make life special. Give it a listen! https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/maz-jobrani
MARRIAGE!
Here is a great conversation about marriage. It deals with some of the why’s and how’s about the difficulty of sustaining a well-balanced and satisfying married relationship. I highly recommend you give it a listen.
Therapeutic Effect of Writing
I’ve always recommended to people that when struggling or reckoning with big ideas, troubling or confusing emotions, getting them out of your head and onto paper can help.
It helps us elucidate the myriad thoughts that swirl about our minds and through the (often) more linear process of writing, we can work through and make sense of our messy minds. We can also look more objectively at our thoughts and ideas with a new perspective, as an outsider, and evaluate them anew.
Check out this podcast episode for further exploration of this idea.
Capital vs. Community?
itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556
I think this is a fantastic interview discussing the American relationship to money and business. Where is has been, is now and may be to come.
It’s the episode with Anand Giridharadas.
The Power of Connection
This podcast by Invisibilia, discusses the positive effect that hearing our loved one’s voices have on us as compared to receiving a text message from them. We experience a rush of oxytocin, the “love hormone,” which leaves us with a positive, relaxed, or connected feeling. SO- what’s the point of all this? In this fast-paced age of constant communication, we send many text messages which foster connection, but for a deeper, more powerful effect, reach out to loved ones by voice message. Click the link to listen to this 16 minute segment: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia
Contemplating Death and Our Legacies
I just listened to (yet another) podcast. TED Radio Hour entitled Dying Well.
Death, it’s a topic I’ve thought about off/on for years. Oftentimes I’ve thought I had an understanding as far as what I believe happens when we die, how I would like to be honored, and subsequently remembered after I’ve left this life. After listening to this episode, I’ve decided that I’m still not positive- after all can we ever be sure?
Nonetheless, it was thought provoking and has prompted me to talk more with my loved ones about my thoughts, desires, and intentions; and find out more about theirs.
Give it a listen and let me know what you think.