57. Walking Our People Through Hard Things with Kate Bowler

Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 5:01 a.m.

b'1. What we should STOP saying to people who are struggling\\u2014and what to say, or do, instead.\\xa0\\n2. How Kate received the support she needed because people were willing to embarrass themselves in their attempts to show up\\u2014and why we shouldn\\u2019t be scared of doing it wrong.\\n3. Kate offers some words to a Pod Squader feeling anticipatory grief\\u2014and how to accept that we can\\u2019t always make it okay for the people we love.\\xa0\\n\\nAbout Kate:\\nKate Bowler, PhD is a\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we\\u2019re capable of change. She is the author of\\xa0Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel\\xa0and\\xa0The Preacher\\u2019s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestselling memoir,\\xa0Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I\\u2019ve Loved)\\xa0and her latest,\\xa0No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the\\xa0Everything Happens\\xa0podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they\\u2019ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School.\\n\\nBook:\\xa0No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)\\nInstagram:\\xa0@katecbowler\\nTwitter:\\xa0@KatecBowler\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'