The Courageous Life

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On Tending to the Unfixable & Finding Beauty Anyway | Lisa Olivera

On Tending to the Unfixable & Finding Beauty Anyway | Lisa Olivera27 Aug57 min

Emotional pain, of all kinds and magnitudes, is part of life. We’ll never be able to find ourselves free of it; no meditation or amount of therapy will cure us of the harder parts of being alive. Celebrated author and therapist, Lisa Olivera has confronted this reality for years, weaving her exploration of it throughout her popular SubStack, Human Stuff. She reminds us that the practice of turning toward the ache with care—reverence, even—might be one of the most meani...