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[Unedited] Parker Palmer With Krista Tippett (On Repossessing Virtue)

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Parallels Between Psychological Depression and Economic Depression

"I don't understand much of this which I don't think makes me that different from most of the people hearing the news," he says. "But somehow it hasn't seemed counterintuitive that it continued to fall because one thing I do know is that it was at such an artificially elevated level." He recalls a conversation with you about how in the middle of a depression, a psychological depression, you had a therapist who said: 'Could you think of your depression as a friend which is bringing you down to earth ground on which it is safe to walk'

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