Episode Highlights With Susan CainWhat led her to write her book “Quiet” and why "Bittersweet" was an important follow upThe importance of joy and sorrow together for the fullness of lifeWhy the impermanence of life paradoxically leads to joyConnection of melancholy and love and why certain sad music can touch us so deeplyWhat studies show about the relationship between a melancholic state of mind and creativityThe wounded healer archetype and why a very high percentage of people we consider “the greats” in art or music had a huge loss, often of a parent, at an early ageStrategies for learning to embrace the bittersweetWays we can help our kids learn to accept the bittersweet as part of life and support them through thisHow we can inherit grief and trauma from past generations and how we can transform this into beauty and creativityResources We MentionSusan Cain - Her websiteQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan CainBittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan CainLetting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.DSpring and Fall Poem by Gerard Manley HopkinsHer Bittersweet playlist on Spotify483: Mark Wolynn on Why It Didn’t Start With You, Inherited Trauma & How We HealThe Next Big Idea book clubFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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