How to Live in the Space Between No Longer and Not Yet | Suleika Jaouad

Physical pain is not something that we always have control over. Suffering is something we do have agency over to some extent. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. There's an old saying, when one door closes, another opens, and I believe that's mostly true, but what often gets left out is the dark hallway between them. The part where the first door is shut and the next door hasn't opened, and you don't know how long you'll be standing in it. Selika Jawad calls that the place between no longer and not yet, and she has spent a lot of her life there, through leukemia, relapse, and a life she couldn't plan.

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