Laura Delano
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735 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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Like, buy this, take this, do this.
And I think it's so embedded in us that pain and discomfort is a problem to fix, that we
We've lost literacy in being with pain.
Literacy isn't the exact right word for it, but in some ways it is because the language of pain, pain is telling us something about our lives that sometimes requires action and sometimes just requires listening.
But quick fix, consumerist culture...
quick fix mental health culture, you know, robs you of that opportunity to actually listen.
And so I know for me coming off the meds, which I did way too fast, and I'm sure we'll talk more about tapering and all of that, but I had no idea what I was doing.
I put myself through a lot of unnecessary pain because of how quickly I came off.
But as I navigated withdrawal, like then the real work began because the drugs were out of my system now.
And now I had to like actually learn how to be with myself and be with my mind and be with my pain after running from it for like half my life at that point.
I think so.
And I think we are in a disembodying culture.
So between the meds and the screens and the processed food, we are all set up by default to basically disconnect from our bodies, from our senses, from our full capacities as vital human beings.
And it takes...
effort to you know like opt out of the default setting to not start that med to not you know go for that box of processed food because it's you feel too tired to cook yourself a meal i think is weird people actually get pissed off when you tell them just change your food
what the real story is here, because this is a symptom, what you're describing is a, not to use a medicalized word, but like a symptom of a much deeper crisis that we're in.
And that is modern industrialized society is like not sustainable for human thriving.
And I think we are all from a young age in so much discomfort and pain and, and alienation.
We aren't designed to sit in desks under, you know, fluorescent lights and,
Hour after hour after hour, day after day after day.
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