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103. How to Be More Alive with Cole Arthur Riley

103. How to Be More Alive with Cole Arthur Riley

FromWe Can Do Hard Things


103. How to Be More Alive with Cole Arthur Riley

FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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Length:
89 minutes
Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this beautiful conversation–in which Glennon names Cole’s book “This Here Flesh” the Next Right Book–we discuss: 
1. What we learned from Cole’s insight that, “If you’re not in your body, someone else is.” 
2. A mind-blowing revelation about all of our own faces that we will never stop thinking about. 
3. Why the phrase “If you don’t believe you’re beautiful, no one else will” is horseshit.  
4. Why dignity is the bedrock to being alive–and how to find it when we haven’t been loved well. 
5. The connection between fear and awe–and how to practice wonder as a cure for despair. 

About Cole: 
Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the author of the NYT bestseller, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and The Washington Post. Cole is also the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body. 

TW: @blackliturgist
IG:  @colearthurriley @blackliturgies
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Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.