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Maybe, like me, you have a hard time remembering where to begin on those long days when nothing feels right. You don’t have the bandwidth to try and dig through the latest podcasts on your phone, can’t remember where you saved the three articles friends sent last week, or the name of the book you saw on social media yesterday. And yet. . . you could really use them today. A podcast with tips to resource yourself, an article with some helpful advice, a book: anything to remind you — you are not alone in your struggle.
To help, we’re going to post a podcast, talk, article, guided meditation, or book each week. We won’t, ever, include anything we haven’t listened to or read ourselves. Mostly current, sometimes older . . . always a place to begin.
We’d also love to hear what’s helping you. Tag us (and follow) on twitter, post on our Instagram or Facebook pages, or email us directly: resources@taketwojournal.com.
Let’s support each other on this path.
— Kate
Podcast: On Being (date: 5.7.20). Krista Tippett and musician Devendra Banhart discuss the book: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chodron
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. . . The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
— Pema Chodron
Guided meditation: “Facing Fear with Compassion” by Elizabeth Gilbert on Insight Timer, author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear and Eat Pray Love.
“Ask yourself: ‘what are the words I wish someone would say to me right now, if the most loving, supportive, strong person in the world was here to take care of me?’. . . and then write those imaginary words down.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Book: Untamed by Glennon Doyle, 2020, which reminds us to stop trying to meet others’ expectations and to trust our own inner guidance.
“Feeling all your feelings is hard, but that's what they're for. Feelings are for feeling. All of them ...and that doing it right hurts sometimes.”
— Glennon Doyle
Article: “How to Stay Optimistic When Everything Seems Wrong” — NYT, 4.29.20, by Kristin Wong. Interview with Stephanie Marston, psychotherapist and author of Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World.
“One of the keys to becoming more resilient is to practice compassion both toward ourselves as well as towards others. . .One of the keys to doing so is to interrupt recurring cycles of negative inner dialogue.”
— Stephanie Marston
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