2017-12-18
55 分钟For me, it's not even about having a simple life or being a minimalist.
Like, I just don't care about either of those things.
It's about having a life.
Having a life.
That's what I wanted from all of this, and it's exactly what I got.
Back in 2006, Courtney Carver was living the life.
She was rising up the ladder in the world of advertising, building a career, and a life with all the things she wanted, until she started experiencing physical symptoms.
Eventually that led to a diagnosis of MS, multiple sclerosis, and that led to a deep and profound reexamination of her entire life.
What she realized really quickly was that stress was a massive contributing factor to her experience of symptoms.
And the next big leap that she made was that stuff, the accumulation of things.
Actually, what she thought was sort of the thing that you aspire to get through success was actually creating a massive amount of stress in her life.
So she became an evangelist for simplification.
And through her own process of reexamining and simplifying, she was able to completely change her life and also completely change the experience of symptoms of miss that led her to become a really powerful evangelist for simplification.
She has a new book out now called Soulful Simplicity, which details her journey.
And we dive into this, into the moments of awakening, into the really tough conversations and decisions that she made along the way and how that changed not only her, but her relationships as a partner in life, as a parent, as a professional, contributing to the world and the way that it's changed her body and her health in major ways.
Really excited to share this conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
It's so fun to be hanging out with you.
We've known each other for a number of years now.
I am kind of in a fun position too, because I know a bit of the backstory of why you're here.