We Can Do Hard Things

118. Cheryl Strayed: Don’t Let Your Dreams Ruin Your Life

Aug 2, 2022

01:03:13

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The Pursuit of Happiness Keeps Us From Happiness

02:28

We Can Bear the Unbearable

01:35

Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty

01:56

Introduction

2min

Can We Get a New Dog?

2min

I Love My Mom, but My Kids Don't Want It.

2min

My Mamma Died, You Were Baers in College?

4min

How Do You Live in the World Without Your Mother?

2min

I Love You, You Choose Straight

4min

I've Strayed, I'm Running Away From My Suffering

2min

What Happened to Me?

3min

The Blue Nile Anniversary Sale

2min

10.

The Biggest Lesson I've Learned

2min

11.

We Can Bear the Unbearable

2min

12.

Don't Let Your Dreams Ruin Your Life

6min

13.

The Pursuit of Happiness Keeps Us From Happiness

2min

14.

How Do You Write a Best Selling Book?

2min

15.

Linked in Jobs - Find the People You Want to Talk to Faster and for Free

3min

16.

Longing Is Eerie When You're Young

2min

17.

What Are You Seeking Now?

2min

18.

I'd Love to Hike So Much

2min

19.

How Do You Survive Walking Meditation?

2min

20.

Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty

2min

21.

We Can't Banish Our Inner Terrible Someones

3min

22.

You're Never as Good as You Think You Are

2min

23.

The Two Diconomes, I Can't Go On. I Will Go On

6min

1. Why Cheryl chose Strayed as her last name – the only one not given to her by a man.

2. How she ruined her life when her mom died, and how we can bear the unbearable.

3. Cheryl’s greatest lesson from her 3-month hike of the PCT, and her mom’s advice she uses everyday.

4. How to make peace with our ITS – “inner terrible someone” – who lives in each of us.

5. Why and how Cheryl is now exploring: “Can I be happy if my kids aren’t?”

About Cheryl:

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, as well as the bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch.

Wild was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern.

Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a TV show for Hulu and will star Kathryn Hahn.

In addition to writing her widely acclaimed essays, stories and scripts, Strayed has hosted two hit podcasts for the New York Times — Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars, which she co-hosted with Steve Almond.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Brian Lindstrom and their two teenagers.

TW: @CherylStrayed

IG: @cherylstrayed

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