I Still Say Yes to Life

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Sally Kohn: I like to be a person who says yes to life. That feels like kind of my default position. Then i went through this seeral years stretch where i was seen oaything, very influenced by productivity culture and grind culture. And so i had to spend about 18 months saying no to almost everything. And i hated it. I hated being the kind of person who said no. So i got a tattoo in the middle of that process that says yes. And i can see it every day, and it's in my friend's handwriting, and i love it. The yes is meaning is beauty is family, is connection, is creativity. But the no is

Shauna Niequist is the New York Times Best Selling author of many books such as Present Over Perfect, Bread and Wine, Cold Tangerines, and others. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

In this episode, Eric and Shauna discuss her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working.

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Shauna Niequist and I Discuss How to Discover New Ways of Living and …

Her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working
Why the word hospitality is important to her
What self-compassion means to her and how she practices it
Seeing out beauty as an act of prayer, worship, and resistance
Putting herself in the path of joy and beauty, giving herself the greatest chance to find them
How to practice being easily delighted
It’s ok for the joy of something to be that it feels like play
Seeing people different from you is a reminder that you can change and find a new way of being
How radical and freeing it is to consent to the reality of the way things are
The value of adding to our toolkit of ways we can help ourselves when we are struggling
What it means for her that sometimes saying no is in service to a much better yes