Just Sit With It
Living with intention, particularly amidst the noise of adult life, can feel elusive at best. Without even noticing, we get swept up in the noise as we try to just put one foot in front of the other and check off the next task.
I don't want to live like that.
I want to mine the full depths of my and our adventure in this world.
Whether it’s in a book, song, poem, podcast, or coming out of somebody’s mouth - I often hear or read some wise words that shake something awake inside of me. The words might be affirming, challenging, the perfect capture of a hard to describe idea, or a swift kick in the pants. When I take the time to just sit with it…to pause and think deeply about the words and about my relationship to those words…that’s when I’m able to find the meaning that helps me think and act differently. So in this podcast, I’ll bring that experience to you - wise words that a range of people from all walks of life have shared about living a more intentional, deeply experienced life. And we will have some dialogue with others around what those words might mean. It will be a structured space where we can slow down and maybe even get disrupted in ways you and I were needing.
Just Sit With It
Carol Thompson AKA Mom - Finding Ourselves and What Matters Through a Shared Cancer Experience
In what can become the normal chaos of adult life, few things cut through the noise like receiving a cancer diagnosis. There's not many families that haven't been touched by cancer or life-threatening disease of some sort, and my family is no exception. My mom and I both were diagnosed with cancer within the same week in September of last year. In this discussion, we explore how that cancer experience has changed us in some fundamental ways. And we look at a poem about cancer's limitations - it's a poem that has offered us some inspiration for how we want to be present in the cancer experience and in our lives more generally. Mom discusses the large role that faith and community have played in lifting her up through this experience. What better way to bring a podcast to life than with the person that brought me to life?
Catch me at matt@justsitwithit.com and justsitwithit.com.
