The Nuanced Life
Summary: In a world that increasingly defaults to false dichotomies, we explore the messiness of living wisely —the choices, tradeoffs, priorities, and grace of living a nuanced life.
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We share more commemorations from listeners, including thoughts on breastfeeding, parenting, sex addiction, and grief. Talking about grief leads us directly into today's main segment. We ruminate on how we did and did not deal with our grief as a nation and as individuals after 9/11.
We love all the feedback we get from listeners. Today, we're sharing your thoughts on all sorts of things including parenting, grief, and friendship. We're also sharing several more of your commemorations.
We share more of your commemorative moments, which lead directly into our main topic: therapy. We discuss the benefits to therapy, as well as some frequent questions and concerns about it.
We got lots of great feedback on our episode on gender sex disappointment. In response, we share our thoughts on gender reveal parties and their impact. In our main segment, we discuss apathy and empathy in friendship and how sometimes age and experience can offer insight into being a better friend. We also introduce our new segment commemorating moments in your lives.
We love Diana Butler Bass's new book, Grateful. On Tuesday, we talked with Diana on Pantsuit Politics about civic gratitude. Today, we discuss a more personal understanding of what it means to deeply experience true gratitude.
We discuss Mike's feedback about being present during his wife's labor and Kelsi's thoughts on efficiency methods being applied to people, then dive into one of Sarah's most important nuance backstories: her experience with gender disappointment, grief, and worry about her future relationships with sons.
We catch up on your thoughts about previous episodes, covering ways the rules are broken (and whether the rules are valid in the first place), why companies need to stop glamorizing work and start embracing talent, how we're all the stars of our own dramas, and what to do when you feel judged.
Tsh Oxenreider on the nuance of simplicity
The Lazy Genius on our relationship with food.
We talk about conflating work with morality in ways that breed toxicity and unhappiness
Managing our energy
Sarah talks with Modern Mrs. Darcy blogger and What Should I Read Next? Host Anne Bogel
We talk about frugality as an expression of gratitude
Business Partnerships: How we make ours work
HGTV: Friend or Foe?
