How to Let Feelings Come and Go, and Not Just Call Them Negative or Positive

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"No feeling is final," she writes. "I grew up in a pretty structured home, which was lovely and i was happy." She's trying to loosen her grip on the sort of black and white, right and wrong, bad and good dicodomy of things. 'My personality, my myers briggs is i and f, j,' she says. "'What would it cost me to like say yes instead of no in this situation? Or to like take a beat and not be reactive?' I'm having to dial it back a little bit'

Maggie Smith is a poet and author of the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change, as well as Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Maggie’s poems and essays are widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

In this episode, Maggie Smith joins Eric and Ginny for a conversation about her poetry and learning about ourselves through life’s experiences

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Maggie Smith and Ginny and I Discuss Poetry and Life Lessons and…

Allowing feelings to come and waiting them out
Her black and white thinking and working with her judgment
Asking what’s really at stake and what is the cost of saying yes instead of no
Keeping our inner critic in check
How we can learn to parent ourselves
The suffering that comes from judging our feelings that come up
Her Keep Moving Journal with many writing prompts
The lessons we can only learn from living through the tough times
Her poem, Goldenrod
Her desire to capture what she’s observing by writing it down
How she processes and gets at things on paper
Her poem, The Hum
The importance of turning up the self-compassion and turning down the self-criticism
Her poem, Wild

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