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103. How to Be More Alive with Cole Arthur Riley

We Can Do Hard Things

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Is Dignity the Bedrock of All of the Forces of Liberation?

In your book, why is dignity the bedrock? If you don't understand that there is something inherent that can't be taken from you, it makes it very hard to even want liberation. I was taught when i went to college, this very un new and, frankly, boring story about just this curse,. You know, this doom and gloom and the dark clouds rolled in. And so it complicates the story, i think, of shame and um an attunement and care in a way that's really beautiful. It's tenderness. But it's painful, because your dad, because it costs him something. Because he probably wanted to say, my darling, perfect daughter. You

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