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

Published: Oct. 31, 2022, 9 a.m.

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Episode Highlights With Susan Cain

  • What led her to write her book \\u201cQuiet\\u201d 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 \\u201cthe greats\\u201d 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

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