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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