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Alua Arthur: Why Thinking About Death Helps You Live a Better Life
“Death creates context for our lives… How we die creates the period at the end of the sentence but it is the period that makes it a sentence at all.”
Living in the Spirit of Friendship
“Couples need to learn to be friends, to live with each other in a spirit of friendship, to take the quality of friendship as a guide through the tangles we have made of love.”
The Space, the Bridge, and the Encounter
Hedy Schleifer and the power of connection: “Our relationship lives in the space between us. It doesn’t live in me or in you or even in the dialogue between the two of us. It lives in the space that we live together.”
The Power of Vulnerability
Brené Brown is a researcher and storyteller who’s spent two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy. Her 2010 TED Talk on vulnerability took the world by storm and since then has been viewed and shared by millions. It remains a delight to watch, and foundational concept to the therapy work I do.
What Really Matters at the End of Life
BJ Miller is a physician whose passion for hospice and palliative care stems from his own near-death experience.