Holiday Bonus Re-Issue: Glennon Doyle Melton

 

This week we talk to Glennon Doyle Melton about staying open to life

 

 In This Interview Glennon and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• Having to get through the bad stuff to get to the good stuff.
• Being terrified of pain.
• If we work with our negative emotions we can transform them into something beautiful.
• The benefit of sitting with our negative emotions.
• Learning to use envy as a positive tool.
• Losing ourselves to pretending and addition.
• The continuous journey of valleys and mountains.
• Being "brutiful".
• How pain is a harsh but great teacher.
• How a broken heart is not the end of anything, it's the beginning.
• Using pain as fuel.
• The mantra "staying open".
• The power of service and art.
• We can numb our feelings and hide or feel our feelings and share.
• The power of the words "Me Too".
• How getting sober is like recovering from frostbite.
• Getting sober is hard but being sober is wonderful.
• The benefit of being forced to our knees.
• How no one is allowed to try and give you perspective in the middle of your pain.
• Bringing our whole selves to all our roles in lives.
• Surface conversations leave us lonely all the time because everyones surface is different, at deeper levels we are all the same.
• The fear of being honest about who we are.