Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

After the First Marriage: Learning and Growing in Relationship: Dr Susan Orenstein on PYP 445 Jan 05, 2021

What can we learned from "failed" relationships that can help us succeed next time? Couples therapist Susan Orenstein talks about her work helping people move on and grow after a first marriage.

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Discover YOUR Optimal Diet and Lifestyle Through Data: Dr Casey Means on PYP 443 Dec 22, 2020

Tired of the nutrition debates? Confused about what YOU should be eating? Dr Casey Means of Levels Health shares the power of closed-loop data to change our lives - and health destinies - for the better.

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Plant Care is Self-Care: Yuvika Iyer on PYP 442 Dec 15, 2020

What are the best house plants for healthy indoor air? Which ones are easiest for beginners? What are the benefits to indoor plants? And how can we become more connected, calmer, and happier people through our co-nurturing relationships with these plants?

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Mind Hacks for Getting Through a Pandemic: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 440 Dec 01, 2020

Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic.

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The Queen’s Gambit, The Hero’s Journey, Veganism, and Exercise: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 439 Nov 24, 2020

Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero's Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened.

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Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438 Nov 17, 2020

Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics.

In this challenging conversation, we discuss how our cultures can traumatize us and predispose us to oppress other cultures. And how we can "digest" our past - collective and individual as a way of healing.

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Owning Our Health with Glen Merzer and Chef AJ: PYP 437 Nov 10, 2020

Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir.
Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.

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How Our Communities Can Get Healthy at Last: Eric Adams on PYP 432 Oct 09, 2020

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular.

We talk about the title - from Etta James, and not Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream" speech, as I first assumed - and the fact that, in Adams' words, "slavery never ended," and remains entrenched in the slave foods that are still harming Black people to this day.

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We Move, Therefore We Think: Barbara Tversky on PYP 431 Oct 06, 2020

Barbara Tversky argues that our thinking, and consciousness itself, arises from the experiences of our physical bodies in space.

Rather than being an afterthought, or just the province of athletes and dancers, spatial thinking is the foundation of all thought.

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Democracy Means a Healthy and Safe Environment for All: Jovita Lee on PYP 430 Sep 29, 2020

Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice.

The environmental movement has a long and shameful history of privileging certain parts of the environment over others. Specifically, it's focused on preserving spaces enjoyed by the rich, and where the rich live.

The result is a nation in which environmental racism condemns poor people and people of color - regardless of income and economic status - to lives cut short by chronic conditions caused and worsened by pollutants and climate instability.

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Outlasting Broken and Unjust Systems: Meryl Fury on Plant Yourself 429 Sep 22, 2020

Meryl Fury is a registered nurse and CEO of the Plant-based Nutrition Movement. And she's a fierce advocate for justice and sanity in a world lacking both.

Emblematic of her approach to life is the story of how she went vegetarian at the age of 15, to help her family make ends meet during the economic troubles of the mid-1970s. When her mother admonished her to continue eating meat to stay healthy, Fury refused, and even spat out the meat sauce coating her spaghetti.

Just as she outlasted her mother's insistence 35 years ago, Fury is still striving to outlast the broken food and healthcare systems that disproportionately harm people of color.

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The Younger Skin Diet: Rajani Katta, MD, on PYP 428 Sep 15, 2020

I think that having healthy, attractive skin is probably a lot more motivating to most people than a healthy heart, or liver, or pancreas. I mean, those organs are great and all, and important, but they're so, well, hidden.

Out of sight and out of mind, at least until they malfunction.

Skin, on the other hand - it's staring us in the face all day long. Hell, it is our face. And when our skin feels dry and paper, or sags, or gets spots and wrinkles, we don't like that one bit.

So the good news and the bad news is - our lifestyles can significantly affect the health of our skin. Diet, coping with stress, sleep quality - all these can fast forward aging, or slow it down, depending on our choices.

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Tiny Leaps Make Big Changes: Gregg Clunis on PYP 427 Sep 08, 2020

Gregg Clunis learned most of what he knows about persistence, strategy, personal development, and success from watching his immigrant parents struggle to achieve their dreams. Originally from Jamaica, Gregg and his family followed his father, who had been a professor and police officer in their native country, and worked as a migrant farm laborer in their new home.

Gregg was attracted to the self-help world, and quickly discovered that the tactics and messages were often at odds with his perspective, and that of his generation in general.

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Creating a Platform for Black Plant-Based Health Experts: Judy Brangman, MD, on PYP 426 Sep 04, 2020

Judy Brangman, MD, aka The Plant-Based MD, visits the podcast to talk about her labor of love, the Reclaim Your Health Summit.

The summit is the first one featuring exclusively people of color in the plant-based healthcare space. Eighteen doctors, a dietitian, and a fitness expert all share their wisdom and action plans with Dr Brangman, and with everyone who signs up for this free event.

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Steven C Hayes on PYP 425: How to Liberate Our Minds Aug 31, 2020

Steven C Hayes is the originator of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, take your pick), one of the most important psychological approaches of the past 100 years.

Why the high praise? For several reasons:

ACT is evidence-based
ACT is learnable
ACT is actionable
ACT can be practiced and shared by pretty much any human in any role, unlike most therapies that require degrees and certifications.
ACT is built from the ground up from fundamental theories of human cognition and behavior
ACT seeks to create mental health, rather than simply address mental illness

In our conversation, we tackled the question that has vexed so many philosophers: Why is it so damn hard to be a human?

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Behavior: Mark Faries, PhD, on Plant Yourself 424 Aug 25, 2020

A key role of medical professionals whose job it is to help their patients and clients change, is to frame messages to maximize the odds of desired behaviors. Unfortunately, most medical professionals have been trained to communicate in ways that actually reduce patient self-efficacy by challenging their autonomy and undermining confidence in their competence.

On today's podcast you'll discover how to talk so patients will not only listen, but adopt positive new behaviors and maintain them in the face of ongoing temptation.

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What We Know About COVID-19: The Science Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423 Aug 18, 2020

Michael Rothberg, MD, returns to Plant Yourself to share the latest actual scientific understanding of COVID-19. We spoke first in mid-March, when we didn't know much. Fast forward five months, and we now know a lot, but in the US at least, we're ignoring most of the science and suffering for it.

I've been as confused as anyone else, daunted by epidemiological models I can't evaluate for accuracy, overwhelmed by social media fights about masks and free speech and hydroxychloroquine and vaccines and government overreach that have riven the plant-based community, and befuddled by competing claims of conferred immunity and how long it might last.

So I got Michael on the Zoom and peppered him with my questions.

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The Stunning New Science of Breathing: Dr Ryan Robinson on PYP 422 Aug 11, 2020

Ryan Robinson, DDS, is a unicorn in the medical world: a dentist who helps people open up their airways and learn how to breathe properly.

Breathe properly? What are you talking about?, I hear you say. If I'm alive, then I must be breathing properly, right?

Not exactly.

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Are Your Mutual Funds Building the World You Want? Marco Vangelisti on PYP 421 Aug 07, 2020

If you're fortunate enough to have savings, you've probably thought about how to invest them responsibly.

The standard answer is to stick your money into no-load mutual funds that track the market and leave it there for as long as possible. Low risk because of the diversification. Low fee because there's no genius managing your money, just an algorithm. And high return because over the long term, it's almost impossible to beat the market.

What could possibly be wrong with that?

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Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy: Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD on PYP 420 Aug 04, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is not a great time to be pregnant, according to my guests, Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro of The Pregnancy Advantage. It is, on the other hand, a terrific time to prepare to get pregnant.

How does a woman do that, other than paint the nursery, give up booze, and buy a copy of What to Expect When You're Expecting?

By getting healthier, detoxifying her body and environment, and taking other personal actions that contribute to a healthier world for the next generation.

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Healing from Racism with Bianca and Michael Alexander: PYP 419 Jul 28, 2020

I reached out to Bianca and Michael because I was turning into an asshole.

Specifically, I was full of rage and outrage and judgment at all the racists out there.

And the fact that I was right, and on the side of right, and standing shoulder to shoulder with people of color, and fighting against systemic oppression that has been going on far too long - just made me more of an asshole, to be honest.

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Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100: Marta Zaraska on PYP 418 Jul 21, 2020

For the last 7 years, I've worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management.

Turns out I may have been missing the most important determinants of health - the social ones.

Marta Zaraska has written a book that is fun, fascinating, scientifically sound, and socially revolutionary. In Growing Young, she argues that eating well and exercising are all well and good, but spending time with friends, cultivating a positive attitude, and helping others are far more powerful (and enjoyable!) determinants of health.

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Empowering Black Health with Lisa A Smith: PYP 417 Jul 14, 2020

Lisa A Smith is a serial entrepreneur who's made it her life's work to empower the Black community with information, skills, and philosophies that support health, peace of mind, and mutual support.

Ms Smith is the founder of the Black Health Academy, creator of the Pharm to Table course, and executive director of the 7000+ member Plant Based Nutrition Support Group operating in Detroit (see below for an interview with the founder, Paul Chatlin).

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Empathy is Stronger than Fear: Glenn Murphy on PYP 416 Jul 07, 2020

Glenn Murphy returns to Plant Yourself to talk about how we can self-regulate our emotions and actions during a time of great societal upheaval and division.

We talk about our own impulses to "fight" with others, and where there's a messy intertwining of good intentions and unresolved psychological issues.

We discuss the physiology of the stress response, particularly as it relates to the shame and guilt that accompanies some of our attempts to right wrongs and redress injustices.

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Going from Racist to Anti-racist with Dustin and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 415 Jun 30, 2020

Dustin and Josh LaJaunie have amazing transformation stories. They went from obese to fit. From junk food addicts to plant-based eaters. From hunters to vegans. From sedentary to active.

And, as you'll see and hear, from racist to antiracist.

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The Role of Science in Public Discourse and Racial Justice: Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MDs: PYP 414 Jun 24, 2020

Team Sherzai, aka Dean and Ayesha, join me on the podcast to talk about the role of science and scientists in dealing with all the false statements propagated on social media (as well as, occasionally, traditional media).

What the Sherzais value highly about science is the holy grail of falsifiability; the challenge that every theory and finding implicitly makes to other scientists: prove me wrong!

They also appreciate the inherent humility that is baked into true science, as well as the imperfect nature of knowledge at any given time.

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The Key to Human Resilience with Scott Carney: PYP 413 Jun 16, 2020

Most of my work as a health coach involves helping people respond differently to stimuli.

That is, develop the ability to make different choices when confronted with tempting foods, tempting environments, tempting people, and tempting sensations, emotions, and thoughts.

Think about it - NOT having that ability basically means you're a robot, a machine. If you can't control your responses, you have no freedom.

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How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease: Richard Kwok on PYP 412 Jun 09, 2020

Richard Kwok is an environmental researcher who studies the effects of environmental pollution on human health. He's also my neighbor, and we met while cleaning up litter and quickly discovered a lot of interests in common.

While the environment doesn't often change our genetics, it can have huge impact on our epigenetics, or how those genes get expressed in our bodies.

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The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis: Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD on PYP 411 Jun 03, 2020

Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness.

Dr Jankovic Weatherly is a real stickler for evidence of efficacy, whatever modality she's exploring or recommending. Which makes her a very reliable podcast guest, especially when talking about topics not fully embraced by mainstream medical practice.

And, she's a mom struggling to homeschool two children in a New York apartment while working full time from home.

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Tidings of Comfort or Joy: PYP 410 May 29, 2020

One day my grandfather punched someone in the face over some disagreement. The recipient of the blow, wounded more in pride than body, wobbled to a seat on the curb and began yelling, "Iodine! Police! Iodine! Police!"

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Staying off the Trauma Train with Shay Seaborne: PYP 409 May 26, 2020

Shay Seaborne is a trauma survivor, educator, and activist dedicated to demystifying trauma and helping people heal from - and with - Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD).

In our far-ranging conversation, we covered the origins of trauma, the mistaken societal beliefs that reinforce trauma and get in the way of healing, and ways of empowering trauma survivors to reconnect with their bodies.

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How to Succeed at (Small, Heart-Centered) Business with Mark Silver: PYP 408 May 19, 2020

Mark Silver helps solo entrepreneurs and micro-businesses thrive through heartfelt business practices. The tagline for his company, Heart of Business, is "Every act of business can be an act of love."

I wanted to pick Mark's brain on behalf of the many listeners who are in some kind of career limbo in the age of pandemic - unemployed, underemployed, unsure about the future, sick of being a cog in the capitalist system, tired of relying on yucky tactics to make payroll - and want a way forward that meets their needs and is in service of a More Beautiful World.

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Do You Want to Play a Game?: PYP 407 May 14, 2020

One of the hot trends in behavior modification is gamification - that is, turning our goals and activities into behavioral chunks in order to win points and, sometimes, prizes.

Gamification has its place, but there are a couple of pitfalls to watch out for.

How best to gamify, and when not to - these are the subjects of today's podcast.

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Why I won’t “wish you luck”: PYP 406 May 13, 2020

Often a coaching client will end a session by saying, "Wish me luck" after setting a goal and making a plan to achieve it.

In health coaching, this phrase is a huge red flag that the client is going to fail.

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The Magic of Fiber with Will Bulsiewicz: PYP 405 May 12, 2020

What's the most important dietary rule? Is raw better than cooked food? Why shouldn't I always avoid foods that give me an upset stomach? This conversation with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, author of the just-published Fiber Fueled, will make you rethink everything you know about the link between diet and health.

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When There’s Nothing More to be Done: PYP 404 May 11, 2020

Sometimes I hear from clients that they've done all they can, and they can't move the needle. They're stuck. They've hit a plateau.

And there's simply nothing more to be done.

What do we do then?

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Changing Your Thinking Isn’t Enough: PYP 403 May 07, 2020

Say you want to stop eating junk food, or drinking soda, or watching porn, or whatever.

Maybe you've read a motivating article or seen a video, or gotten a scary medical result, or just got fed up at your current reality.

So you set an intention, and then… you end up doing the same thing again. And again.

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How to Eat Less During a Pandemic: PYP 402 May 06, 2020

Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we're often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse.

It's easy to say, "Just eat less," but it's not that easy to do.

In this short episode, I share three strategies for reducing caloric intake without feeling deprived.

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Gardening Our Way Through Calamity with Will Bonsall: PYP 401 May 05, 2020

Will Bonsall is a self-described "back-to-the-land hippie homesteader," and author of two extremely important and prescient books: Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical Self-Reliant Gardening, and Through the Eyes of a Stranger, an adventure novel that explores what a sustainable society might look like following what he calls "the calamitous times" of the 21st century.

I took the gardening book off the shelf as soon as my family and I returned from South Africa, as we were several weeks behind in setting up the garden for this year, and I foresaw a need to grow "calorie crops" like wheat, buckwheat, corn, and sunflowers in addition to the usual tomatoes, basil, okra, pepper, onions, eggplant, and summer squash.

The introduction of the book caught me off-guard, as it was speaking specifically about the societal collapse that is occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not specifically as in "coronavirus from Wuhan in March 2020," but in terms of the cascade of breakdowns that will threaten our food and energy supply, and leave people to fight over scarce resources.

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The Power of Incantations: PYP 400 May 01, 2020

In the Jewish tradition, we say "Blessed is the righteous judge" upon hearing of a death.

That's pretty much the opposite of how we may feel at that moment. We'd rather lash out at the unfairness of it, rather than praising the deity that ordained the death.

So that incantation gives us the space to choose a response, rather than be jerked around by our default reactions.

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Exploring Digital Spirituality with Gregory Grieve: PYP 399 Apr 28, 2020

Meditation apps have become a huge market. Headspace, Calm, 10% Happier, Insight Timer, and others promise stress relief, better health, and even spiritual contentment to users.

Gregory Price Grieve, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studies the nexus of spirituality and digital media. He recently published an article with Beverly Maguire, professor of East Asian religions at UNC Wilmington, titled, "Meditation apps might calm you – but miss the point of Buddhist mindfulness."

In the article, the authors argue that the for-profit app industry has packaged Buddhist technology in a way that totally flips the underlying goal of Buddhism on its head.

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Liberating Humans and Animals with Michael Schwarz: PYP 398 Apr 21, 2020

Michael Schwarz is the founder of Treeline Cheese, a plant-based cheese company dedicated to ending the suffering caused by the animal-based dairy industry.

He's also the child of one of the great heroes of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Harry Schwarz.

In our conversation, we try to connect the dots between political activism and vegan cheesemaking, between standing up for human rights and creating a company to reduce demand for the products of animal abuse.

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The Power of Diversity: PYP 397 Apr 17, 2020

One of the factors that weakens any system - a garden, a community, a nation - is lack of diversity.

Monocultures provide economies of scale, but also opportunities for scaled disaster. A messy, diverse ecosystem is far healthier and more resilient.

Today I talk about how we support diversity in our garden, and why the messiness and inefficiency is more than compensated for in terms of yield and risk management.

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Gardening with Nature: PYP 396 Apr 16, 2020

Today I talk about one element of my gardening practice and philosophy: working with, rather than against nature.

This includes growing perennials, mulching with wood chips, and refraining from unnecessary tilling.

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Investing for an Uncertain Future: PYP 395 Apr 15, 2020

Those of us in one kind or another of "limbo" - life, career, relationship - are all facing the same question: what do we do with our time and energy right now to support our future?

When the future is so uncertain, our old "default" answers can feel insufficient.

Today I talk about my own "investment philosophy" with regard to time and energy.

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Self-Care: PYP 394 Apr 14, 2020

Some of us have had more time for self-care over the past few weeks than we even know what to do with. And we're loving it.

How can we take advantage of this time to make ourselves, our families, our communities, and our societies healthier and more compassionate?

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Homecoming: PYP 393 Apr 13, 2020

How we got home from South Africa.

Returning tomorrow with a clear and rested head, for all new daily episodes.

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Corks in the Stream: PYP 392 Apr 08, 2020

We may be going home tomorrow. There are dozens of unknowns, and we have little to no control over any of them.
I'll stay in touch as I can!

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Weaving a Web of Generosity: PYP 391 Apr 07, 2020

In tough times, you might expect people to hunker down and hoard what's theirs.
We see some of that these days, for sure.
But we also see incredible displays of generosity. I personally am benefiting from the generosity of my listeners as I broadcast from lockdown in South Africa.
Today I talk about how generosity benefits us as givers and receivers.

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Training Montage: PYP 390 Apr 06, 2020

People are comparing their experience of lockdown as an endless repetition of Goundhog Day, the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a man trapped in the same day over and over again.

What I recall about that movie was, once Bill Murray's character makes peace with his situation, he uses it to better himself.
Piano. Ice sculpture. French. And lots of other skills and interests

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