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Live Well. Be Wise
Deepening the well-being conversation---the podcast that finds the Gold in your stories of hardship and the connection to Wise action and lived Wellness!
Hosted by Kari Lyons-Price & Dorrinda Carlson
"Hey Dorrinda, let's do lunch."
"Ok, any special occasion?"
"Nope, just wanna connect and feast in your presence." (oh and I also have an idea for a podcast?!)
I waited until lunch was settling into our bellies before hitting Dorrinda with the idea. She was in! The brainstorm began and while we both work in the field, we quickly ruled out a Wellness podcast because of how overdone they already are. Besides we felt they were only skimming the surface with the repeat loop of ''expert" advice, gimmicks and trends. We wanted to go deeper.
What's the real story I wondered, "how do some people manage to be well amidst all kinds of hardship and others with every resource known to humankind, can't even catch the tail of wellness."
All my life I've been fascinated by thoughts, beliefs, mental states and the general power of the mind (also because I'm a trained therapist)! Especially in its relationship to our health and well-being.
What is that thing within us that motivates us to be well? We're not talking about a health goal or a number, a state that is achieved. We're talking about wellness as a state of mind; contentedness, balance, or an optimal state of being.
And then the vision fully landed...
Here at Live Well. Be Wise, we are on a mission to engage with people beneath the "doing" and the products, to find out how wellness is a living, breathing, personal thing that gets shaped through life itself!
Told directly to you by the individuals who have lived it. No experts, no products, and no judgment. Raw, powerful, real life stories told by everyday people about how they met the challenges and hardships of life and came out the other side.
At Live Well. Be Wise we answer the questions:
- how do we learn and grow through the storms of life?
- what is the wisdom process? how do we cultivate it on purpose?
- And...how does our wisdom process inform our wellness?
Live Well. Be Wise is based in North Central Washington State and is a community-based podcast. This is a place to hear the stories of your neighbors. To celebrate diversity in all ways and to bridge the divide between us; culturally, economically, politically and personally.
Value Driven:
- We feel our most profound learning is from one another and that we are not alone on this human journey. We are fueled by that belief and the deep desire to reconnect the divide within us and between us. Seeds of wisdom are inside every one of us, and when we share that learning out, it expands, sparking inspiration and possibility for us all.
Through the shared human experience called, "story" we hope to connect each of us to one another. To recognize parts of ourselves in our neighbors story. And to allow this shared humanity to be an anchor for building connection, community and goodness, one day at a time.
Reach out, share your story, be inspired to cultivate your own wisdom path through hard things. We are 100% in this together!
Kari & Dorrinda
Live Well. Be Wise
"The Voice of My Emotion"
This interview takes place in 2 parts: Part I is here & Part II coming soon!
Today we hear from community member Juan Pablo Suarez. He shares about learning to live in the present moment and how living in the past or in the future keeps us from being happy.
We talk about what it means to live an authentic life. He says, “One day I woke up and decided to be myself.”
Juan Pablo also shares about the deep impact suicide and death has had in his life. We unpack the family pattern of how work was non-negotiable and about pushing past your limits. He believes these patterns contributed to the early deaths of his uncle, his grandmother and his father. His wish is not to repeat their mistakes.
Juan Pablo works at Rural People's Voice where he is a community organizer. He says if I can share and open myself to others, maybe I can inspire others to express themselves. He wants people to know, it’s okay not to be okay and there is strength is owning your emotions. He is creating a platform to help people share their stories. He is currently collecting letters of people’s stories for this project called, “Al borde del collapso."
Resources: 1. Book- "Entre los rotos / Among the Broken" by Premio Mauricio Achar 2019. 2. Juan Pablo’s passion project: La Voc de mi Emocion presents, "Al borde del colapso" Find out more & follow on TikTok!
Spanish: En el episodio 5, exploramos el Bienestar y la Sabiduría a través de relaciones fallidas, errores familiares y lo que significa ser vulnerable.
Esta entrevista consta de dos partes: ¡La Parte I ya está aquí y la Parte II próximamente! Hoy escuchamos a Juan Pablo Suárez, vecino y miembro de la comunidad. Nos habla sobre aprender a vivir el presente y cómo vivir en el pasado o preocuparse por el futuro nos impide ser felices. Dice: "Cuando siempre deseamos algo más para ser felices, no disfrutamos de lo que tenemos y no vivimos el presente". Hablamos de lo que significa vivir una vida auténtica. Dice: "Un día me desperté y decidí ser yo mismo". Este pensamiento lo infundió en valentía. Dijo que después de esto, todo en su vida comenzó a cambiar. Sabía que tenía que actuar para estar más presente. Juan Pablo también habla sobre el profundo impacto que el suicidio y la muerte han tenido en su vida. Analizamos el patrón familiar de cómo el trabajo era innegociable y sobre superar los límites. Nunca aprender a descansar. Cree que estos patrones contribuyeron a la muerte prematura de su tío, su abuela y su padre. Su deseo es no repetir sus errores. Juan Pablo aprendió a sentir y, en los momentos difíciles, se dio cuenta de que expresar sus sentimientos (incluso cuando son vulnerables) lo hacía más vivo y conectado con su yo auténtico. Juan Pablo dijo que ir a terapia para comprenderse mejor realmente lo cambió todo.
Juan Pablo es un joven emprendedor. Dijo: "Descubrí que me gusta mucho intentar ayudar a la gente y, en el proceso, me ayudo a mí mismo". Si puedo compartir historias y abrirme a los demás, tal vez pueda inspirar a otros a expresarse. Al final, quiere que la gente sepa que está bien no estar bien. Y que la fuerza reside en mostrar las emociones.
Juan Pablo trabaja en Rural People's Voice, donde es organizador comunitario. Lleva sus perspectivas de vida a su comunidad creando una plataforma para ayudar a las personas a compartir sus emociones e historias. Actualmente recopila cartas (escritas a mano) con historias para su proyecto "Al borde del colapso". ¡Síguelo en TikTok!
Recursos:
-Libro que le cambió la vida: Entre los rotos (Premio Mauricio Achar 2019). Disponible en cualquier tienda de libros.
-El proyecto de pasión de Juan Pablo: La Voz de mi Emoción presenta "Al borde del colapso". ¡Descubre más siguiéndolo en TikTok!
