2019-07-04
1 小时 6 分钟My guest today, Jennifer Pasteloff, pretty much spent the better part of her adult life believing she was a bad person because of a single sentence that came out of her mouth when she was eight years old and what unfolded shortly after that.
She navigated the next chunk of years, moving in and out of deep depression, anxiety, trying to control what happened in her life through her eating, and at the same time, without letting anyone know, was slowly losing her hearing and interacting with the world in a very different way.
That led her eventually to a series of moments that she describes as a rope being dropped into a well that allowed her to climb back up and try to be human, to reclaim her own humanity, to redefine her life, and to explore what it means to be human and to be alive.
As she was doing that, she began to write about what she was experiencing in a very real and vulnerable way and share it publicly and realize that other people felt the same way.
And that built a substantial.
She would not love the word following, but a lot of people resonated profoundly with what she was writing and sharing the journey she was on.
She began teaching.
She began working with people on leading retreats called on being human, and that has led to a new memoir called on being Human as well, which is beautifully written that details a lot of this journey.
In today's conversation, we drop into some of the big moments of awakening, the points of departure and inquiry along the way, and how she is still very much in this adventure of trying to figure out what it means to be human and share it with others and help others along the way.
So excited to share this conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So it's so good to be sitting here with you today.
This is the.
We are recording this right after your, I guess, kind of launch party.
Launch event.
Yeah.
New York City, which it sounds like.
It was just incredible.
It was.
And I'm.