From Family Secrets to Self-Discovery: How Understanding Our Past Heals Us with Carmen Rita Wong

That's the whole midlife crisis thing, right? It's because all of a sudden you like stop doing what the world tells you you're supposed to be doing and your parents tell you what you're supposed to be doing. And then you go out and you're like, I'm doing what I want. 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. Most of us spend our lives trying to simplify our story, make it neater or cleaner, or easier to live with. But the truth is rarely neat.

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