2018-03-12
58 分钟The pain itself.
In the hospital, I would have told you before that surgery that I lived at a nine or a ten.
I didn't have a clue that it could be so much worse.
Like, I was like, oh, I thought I knew pain.
Just kidding.
Like, this is a pain I didn't know was possible.
So when I opened the door to welcome today's guest, Ruthie Lindsey, I literally was greeted with a ray of light, a sort of a.
A human bundle of joy and lightness, which is pretty incredible considering that along with all of that joy and radiance and beautiful service and sense of just love, she lives in constant pain.
Physical pain that is progressively getting worse every year.
When she was 16 years old, after living what she would describe as a pretty charmed life, she was in a car accident that left her in a hospital for a month with a rewired upper spine.
Everything seemed to be going along fine until about five, six years later when everything fell apart and her world was turned upside down yet again.
How she's coped with that, what actually happened, how it sent her into a very dark place for many years and the decision that she made and the trigger that it would take two, have her respond profoundly differently to a pain that, as we sat and had a conversation, still was very much a part of her everyday, every moment experience was something that rattled me, that inspired me, that endeared me, and that gave me hope that we can experience pain and suffering as all of us either have or currently are, or at some point will and still live a deeply connected, meaningful, and potentially even joyful life.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
I was a really sweet, good kid.
Like, I just.
I made friends really easily and things came just pretty naturally.
I was.
I had a hard time in school, but not socially.
Like, I.