Susan Cain on Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

What led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow up

The importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of life

Why the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joy

Connection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeply

What studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativity

The wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early age

Strategies for learning to embrace the bittersweet

Ways we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through this

How we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativity