74: The Abandoned Parts of Ourselves

Published: March 31, 2019, 1:50 p.m.

What happens when we see and loosen the loyalties we may have carried since childhood but which no longer serve us? A conversation about adult development, freedom and finding out what's ours to do, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nIn this conversation we talk about adult development, about the loyalties to particular ways of doing things that we enter into during childhood, and about what it is to find ourselves free \u2013 to a greater or lesser extent \u2013 to pursue what is increasingly \u2018ours\u2019 to do in the world. Along the way we grapple with the many kinds of orthodoxy that shape us throughout life \u2013 family, religious, societal \u2013 and explore together how we might turn our loyalties to them into a bigger kind of loyalty which takes in life itself. We end with a consideration of the support and community that can help us find a life that feels true and real and which can joyfully welcome the parts of us that our loyalties \u2013 up until now \u2013 have had us turn away from.\xa0
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\nTurning Towards Life is a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. You can find the source text and more information on this conversation at https://wp.me/p4Tynu-gj and find more, including details about how to join us live, on our website http://turningtowards.life\n\n\n
\nPhoto by Bambi Corro on Unsplash\n