Sarah Faith Gottesdiener on Facing Mortality and How You Can’t Just “Love and Light” Your Emotions Away [episode 109]

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and human sharing her experience of the world through design, writing, and collaboration in many forms. In this conversation, we talk about:

  • What it’s like to live life with chronic illness
  • Working through the anger and rage of misdiagnosis
  • How facing morality hurdles you into a void
  • How diagnosis can be relieving in a way, to know that your intuition was right all along
  • How you can’t just “love and light” emotions away
  • How you have to descend in order to cycle through
  • How healers are really helpers to our own inner healer
  • How when you receive a diagnosis, it puts into perspective your self-commitment and healing
  • How living in trauma can become your new normal
  • The meaning and messaging behind words
  • Why calling forth the divine is such a radical way to shift your day
  • How to allow yourself to feel the full spectrum of emotions
  • How we can be ourselves without projecting toxic perfection on each other

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Image creit to Lani Trock