I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

by Shauna Niequist

We learn to grab joy and delight when we can. We learn that we don’t control plotlines, even ...

fast and fake. But none of that lasts; what lasts is the long game.

my body and my spirit have a knowing that my mind doesn’t have. My mind thinks it’s the boss of things, and for many years it was, but so much of my growth over these past years has been about learning to listen to my body and my spirit, to trust them instead of

my body and my spirit to go and perform and move, no matter what they need or desire.

Aundi Kolber’s wonderful book—was “try softer.”

Kristin Neff’s work on self-compassion, that the research is clear: we do better work—we’re actually more productive, not less productive—when we tend to ourselves with kindness and compassion than when we try to motivate ourselves through fear and shame.

I’m such a fan of repertoire cooking—having a handful of things you always make when people come over because that hit of familiarity, of taste memory, is so important,