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Sep 2021
53m 35s

25. You’re NOT A MESS. The world is.

Glennon Doyle and Audacy
About this episode

1. The viral note Glennon wrote to herself in her car this week—and how the world’s response confirmed that we’re all struggling right now.

2. How we tend to either Avoid the world’s pain or Be Consumed by it—and how to survive the overwhelm by embracing the Third Way.

3. What Glennon fears most as her oldest child leaves for college.

4. Why we can’t let the fact that we can’t fix everything keep us from doing something—and how Together Rising began.

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