Mariska Hargitay

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409 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jun

Mariska Hargitay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And when we can tolerate our pain, that's when it dissipates.
And so I practiced that a lot of saying, I'm strong enough to go through this.
And that's what changed everything for me really is that I would practice when I felt sad instead of avoiding it and putting on the frozen smile, I'd be like, I'm really sad.
I'm really sad.
And I would sit in it and I would cry.
But when we cry, we feel better afterwards.
And something happens chemically even in our body where the grief leaves.
And so I've had a lot of practice of sitting in my grief and sitting in my trauma and learning how to talk to myself, but mostly learning to tolerate pain.
And every single time when I sit in it and lean toward it is when it starts to dissipate.
And so now when I'm sad, I go, wow, I'm really sad right now.
And I give it to myself.
I don't put on a smile and I don't pretend.
I cry a lot and I like it because it's true and it's authentic.
It doesn't make me weak.
It's inconvenient.
It's inconvenient.
We're just human beings.
We're trying to figure out the human being was designed that way.
So I think that when we do cry, a little piece of the grief goes and
You know, the only way out is through.
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