Why Community Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Change Your Life | Anne Lamott

Finding a way to have a bigger and more spacious life may involve community, may involve spirituality, may involve activism, who knows? You have to somehow. Get the help. to release some of the perfectionism because not a soul here is gonna do it perfectly. 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 thought 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.

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