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

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

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    63 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 2, 2022
    Format:
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    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.

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    Released:
    Aug 2, 2022
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    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.