Why Bother: The Call to Discover Your Fully Alive Self - with Jennifer Louden
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With much of the world under quarantine, I was wondering if today's episode on the Daring to Rest Podcast with bestselling author Jennifer Louden, whose new book Why Bother: Discover the Desire for What’s Next comes out next week, would resonate with this moment of challenge and unpredictability.
Why should we be talking about desire when everyone is focused on survival?
Here’s why: because if you’re safe, in a stable household, and feel a call to re-evaluate what is meaningful in your life, then this current pause on life as we know it may be the ideal time to discover the desire for what’s next.
As Jennifer says, “If there is a stirring in you that something is being re-evaluated, if there is relief that you are not having to do something that you were doing before quarantine, if there is a feeling that desire has been something you’ve wanted to know for a long time” then the Why Bother book is just what you need to start that conversation.
I’m super-excited for you to learn from Jennifer’s deep well of wisdom!
We’re in a huge “Why Bother” moment right now, reckoning with what we care about, and what it means to live and to engage in our lives. Maybe you’ve been playing it safe, and this deep pandemic pause is coaxing you to believe that you can live a new more satisfying story.
What if during this time of quarantine, we decided to stop putting so much effort into being unfulfilled, judgmental and self-doubting in our lives? Jennifer Louden reminds us that “we can learn do it differently.”
Maybe this breakdown moment is just that opportunity to break through to a fully alive you.
Join us on this episode for this daring conversation.
Key Takeaways
How to enter any moment and find the desire for what’s next.
Why we’re not afraid of change, but our brains evolved to keep us defended.
Learn a powerful map to discovering your fully alive self.
Listen to Jennifer share two stories from her book, one about the time she was on Oprah and her lesson on enoughness.
Why desire is a one-word feminist manifesto.
What a healthy relationship with desire looks like and the three parts of desire.
Why the question of “Why Bother” is important for women right now in a pandemic world.