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Oct 2024
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Rainn Wilson With Tim Shriver on Need a ...

GINA RYAN
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Sharing an episode of Need a Lift? a show that focuses on bringing people together during a tough time in our culture.


Host Tim Shriver talks to wise guests who have transformed painful moments in their lives into purpose through their spiritual rituals and practices. Guests like bestselling novelist Min Jin Lee on why she creates complicated characters who hold the secret to our transformation, and Olympic athlete Michael Phelps and his wife Nicole discussing the importance of cultivating an inner life in competition, mental health and in their marriage.


Need a Lift? is truly the antidote to the hatred and despair we’re all exhausted of hearing, giving us hope that change is possible.


In this episode, The Office’s Rainn Wilson explains that we can quiet the world's chaos and deal with our collective sense of overwhelm by believing in something bigger than us.


Find more episodes of Need a Lift? at https://link.chtbl.com/needalift?sid=anxietycoaches

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