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Parker Palmer: Standing in the Gap

Parker Palmer: Standing in the Gap

Update: 2024-11-056
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How do we stay hopeful in the face of despair and disillusionment—especially when politics threaten to tear us in two? Kate speaks with Parker Palmer, a writer, teacher, and activist. As you’ll hear, he has gone through seasons of deep clinical depression, and has hard-won wisdom to share with us on how to survive, how to regain a sense of agency, how to remain hopeful despite it all

In this episode, Kate and Parker discuss:

  1. finding agency in the midst of depression and despair (including his trick of redefining achievement)

  2. why it is important to recalibrate our sense of reality—especially in the face of 24-hour news cycles and social media algorithms

  3. how a broken heart can either shatter or break open into a larger, more compassionate way of being

So on a day like today when we all might be thinking about the state of our nation or the state of our world or the realities at stake for our families and friends (....or perhaps, more tempted to keep our head in the sand to just make it through Thanksgiving), might we pull up close and listen to what Parker has to teach us about how to keep our hearts soft and remain hopeful, still

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Matthew Paul Headley

so good!!

Nov 22nd
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Kelly Sandula-Gruner

A wonderful listen. I SO needed this today.

Nov 7th
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Parker Palmer: Standing in the Gap

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