Ep. 010 - Two Lawyers Care for Their Souls

On this tenth episode of Break Form, in addition to talking about
what's been happening in their respective lives (Sarah gets
crafty in anticipation of her son's first birthday, itches
to write, and has an (awake) dream involving a bear. Annette
remembers what makes legal work stressful as she attempts to
balance contract work while building her business and trying to
write), Sarah and Annette get soulful by discussing Thomas
Moore's book, Care of the Soul.


Unlike self-help books which tout quick fixes and five-step
programs for increasing happiness, Moore, a Catholic monk
turned psychotherapist, writes that care of the soul "is not
a project of self-improvement, nor a means of being released from
the pains of human existence. It is not at all concerned with
living properly or with emotional health. Soul is its own purpose
and end. We know we are well on the way to soul when we live with
attachment to the world and the people around us, and when we
live as much from the heart as from the head."


Join us as we discuss how attention to rituals, symbols, dreams,
and everyday poetics help deepen a sense of soul.


References:



Care of the Soul, Thomas
Moore: https://www.amazon.com/Care-Soul-Twenty-fifth-Anniversary-Cultivating/dp/0062415670


The Soul in Depression, On Being with Krista
Tippett: https://onbeing.org/programs/the-soul-in-depression-mar2018/


More Money, More Problems - Dear Sugars:
http://www.wbur.org/dearsugar/2017/06/20/dear-sugar-episode-thirteen-rerun


The Special Challenges of Highly Intelligent and Talented
Women Who Are Moms, Belinda, Seiger, PhD,
LCSW: http://highability.org/the-special-challenges-of-highly-intelligent-and-talented-women-who-are-moms/



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