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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:37
Session 19: It’s Better To Talk Than Not To Talk. Start here 🌱
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You're not giving us a chance to know you and you're not also allowing for yourself to have an experience of sharing, of talking and of exploring and trust that when you want to say something that's really important to you, there's probably a place to hear that. I just heard a great storyteller talk about the prayer she gives when she teaches storytelling
Debra Barb
@RumpelSoulSkin · 3:57
And I do feel much improved physically from where I was a year ago. But I've lost a lot of relationships over the course of the pandemic and then the course of my illness for a year and a half. And I can't help but just feel, like, alone, and I can't help but feel like it's unfair. I didn't ask for it. And so that's a tough thing. It's a tough thing to talk about
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:24
And I can't imagine anyone in your life not feeling your compassion and empathy because of what you're going through, and not that you need a dose of that with this horrible condition that you're enduring. But sometimes we have to look at our situations and say, well, I guess I have to get better at this or learn this or whatever. And I guess at least that's how I cope with when Bad things happen to good people
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:06
And so she's got two or three options. Forgive me if you hear all the traffic. I'm in the morning rush trying to get to work. But those three options are to have vocal cord surgery, which is really expensive, and the recovery is pretty hard, and it's like any other surgery, it's got its risks and it doesn't always produce the desired results
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:13
Hi, Deborah. This is for Rumple Soul Skin. Deborah, isn't that is that the coolest name, y'all, rumple Soul Skin. Love it. Anyway, I was really touched by your response, thank God so much that you said resonated with me. And again, I'm not taking my advice of having little notes, so I'm going to probably sound very just join it and kind of jerky
prisha k
@prisha198 · 0:05
This was such an interesting topic to listen to, and I'm so glad you made us well on it
Debra Barb
@RumpelSoulSkin · 4:56
So it's given me a good breath of fresh air to sort of stop worrying about that so much about the old relationships and really maybe just be open to embracing new ones and have some faith that there's another tribe that I can join. So I went out for a late night walk about two or three in the morning a couple of nights ago, and I ended up at this 24 hours restaurant. I live in the city and I'm a single woman walking around in the city
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:56
But there are a handful of people, maybe, I guess, two women that I've met in the cycling club that I've become familiar with, and we'll talk with them and they recognize me and said hi, but it's been a long time. So I think it'll just take a little bit to get used to doing that again. But, yeah, I'd love to kind of get to know each other and become friends. That thank you for pulling me and that
Debra Barb
@RumpelSoulSkin · 4:47
I hope I see you in the inbox or out there on a bike ride soon. And I hope you have a great day. Thanks again. Deborah getting us to talk instead of not talk
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