En iyi Cool Life podcastleri (2024)

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Building muscle memory for your future self. Why I paused talk therapy. 23:56

6M ago23:56

23:56

I quit! I’m cured! Congratulations me! I’m perfect! Or why I am taking a break after 8 years of intensive therapy to stop looking at game tape of Ls and Wins and start experiencing all the ways I will be always be okay.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 163 27:24

6M ago27:24

27:24

This one is about how I use social media to tell me how to feel. And how I use other writers’ motivation to tell me what’s wrong with my storytelling when I need to trust my own intuitions around my emotions and my work processes. It’s also about happiness and finding meaning.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 162 20:06

7M ago20:06

20:06

You know what’s impossible to mask? Being a tourist who knows NOTHING. This one’s about how traveling makes me way more Autistic and how weirdly great it feels.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 161 21:51

7M ago21:51

21:51

Week two in Japan. This one is about enthrallment and how any intensely joyful feelings also hold grief. And how I’m reparenting my inner teen by revisiting the most hilariously, bizarre fashion wormhole.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 160 22:33

7M ago22:33

22:33

I am Japan and working MANIC hours and feeling spectacular. This one is about not immediately vilifying erratic behaviors and accepting quirks with humor, openness and loving support. This is about affording yourself grace and asking the question: what if I am not in trouble or doing bad things but instead I am CRUSHING.…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 159 19:36

7M ago19:36

19:36

You ever get burnout from trying to avoid burnout? I do. Plus, remedial affirmations for people who sorta don’t believe they work. The world is a sad, cruel place. Please be gentle with yourselves.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 158 23:27

8M ago23:27

23:27

When I say have a gentle day what does that mean? How does a dog wear pants? What does being kind to yourself and your cognitive needs actually entail? For me it’s been a lot of tiny things that I am never quite convinced is real or will make a difference. Also, how being tired makes me feel like I’m under attack and how that unfolds.…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 157 21:19

8M ago21:19

21:19

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom! The writers strike is over and what that means inside my brain. Bees! It means bees. Also, how you can have FOMO for F’d up bad things because there are so many bad things for authors and creators to contend with. And how to find some gallows humor and gratitude in all of it.…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 156 20:24

10M ago20:24

20:24

Guess what? I’m Autistic. What that means for even more gentleness and how I arrived at the decision to be assessed.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 155 17:08

1y ago17:08

17:08

This is about conversation and audience. Media platforms (RIP Buzzfeed and Twitter) as well as safe spaces to create story and work out individual truths. It’s also about banned books, how it feels to have banned books. Plus, how AI storytelling technologies are not it. Plus, the director Joanna Hogg and the feeling of unwritten dialogue.…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 154 16:35

1y ago16:35

16:35

This one is about what it’s like to feel your feelings. And how growing up as a Korean immigrant made feelings unsafe since anything outside of ‘gratefully chill’ was an insult to parental sacrifice. This is also about the Netflix show Beef.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 153 20:16

1y ago20:16

20:16

This one is about scheduling. And how for creative work, the line between social engagements vs career obligations can be confusing. Plus, how I can tell if I really REALLY don’t want to go to a work thing that masquerades as a fun thing.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 152 18:16

1y ago18:16

18:16

This one about how abundance feels dreadful and terrifying! And how to ease into the reminder that this is what it is to want and wish and actually do the work.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 151 15:52

1y ago15:52

15:52

Learning when to trust your instincts and when to listen but intentionally ignore them in order to seek growth and do scary, vital things (in my case, ask people for money).

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 150 17:07

1y ago17:07

17:07

This is a reflection on Adderall and creative work. And where I’ve landed on taking it as it relates to writing my novel. And how much I’ve learned in eating disorder recovery about how to frame struggles with neurodivergence. TL; DR self-loathing quickly outlives its usefulness as a tool or energy source!…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 149 19:14

1+ y ago19:14

19:14

This one is on how I want ADHD medication to be a magical solution that doesn’t affect other aspects of my brain. And how seductive it can be to believe that my unmedicated state is a purer kind of creativity.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 148 19:24

2y ago19:24

19:24

This one is about emotional sobriety and drama addiction. And what dread and doom feels like in my body. Plus, the stunning revelation that I have been a maniac with my mom and not solely the other way around.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 147 11:33

2y ago11:33

11:33

My memories are coming back. They’re not chronological and they don’t feel profound but as there’s been more healing and thawing and the fear is lessening, glimpses of my adolescence are returning. I’m remembering what it was to be inside a body I hated in a family I loathed and being totally petrified and overwhelmed and I am so grateful! It’s alm…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 146 8:21

2y ago8:21

8:21

This is about moving as an emotionally sober person and how it sucks that I’m not totally dissociated but how I know it’s also better for me.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 145 17:03

2y ago17:03

17:03

How I was diagnosed with ADHD and how being medicated and genre-aware of this hostage situation known as MY BRAIN is helping me be gentle with myself. And also how, as a dissociative person, diagnosis seems wild unreliable since it requires me to be the one who knows how I’m FEELING.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 144 15:25

2y ago15:25

15:25

You ever have total semantic satiation around words like depression or anxiety? How I define the terms so I actually know when they show up in my body and my thoughts. When I’m convinced everyone is mad at me and that’s why I can’t make a decision? Depression. When I stop chewing, talking, clenching, smoking long enough for my teeth to chatter? Anx…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 143 11:16

2y ago11:16

11:16

Do you ever cry and then sort of watch yourself cry and don’t believe yourself? Like, it doesn’t make sense that you’re still feeling some type of way about a thing or else that you can’t possibly be feeling so awful about the one super obvious thing because that means you’re textbook and also possibly boring or unhygienic or mentally unwell or tir…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 142 14:15

2y ago14:15

14:15

How I do affirmations so as not to eye roll myself to death when I say them. Also, a few observations around how feelings move and become trapped in my body. TW: binging and purging.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 141 21:24

2y ago21:24

21:24

Eating your grief vegetables, mourning apocryphal parents and trying to race back to work to minimize feeling.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 140 11:55

2+ y ago11:55

11:55

When the feelings around being tired makes you so much more tired… and perfectionistic and critical. Aka the one where every time I say “tired” take a drink (of water).

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 139 15:24

2+ y ago15:24

15:24

So wait, I have to grieve and STILL have an eating disorder and ADHD and a hilarious narcissist mother? Surely I deserve a reprieve. On feelings of butthurtness and the lack of a pause function for other dynamics.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 138 14:24

2+ y ago14:24

14:24

My dad died last week and yesterday we had his funeral. This one is on grief.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 137 11:38

3y ago11:38

11:38

There is a wonderful, abundant thing happening in my writing career and I’m finding myself resorting to false modesty and derisive, catastrophic talk when I discuss it with other people which is only freaking me out! Do you do that? What is that? Do you know how to stop?

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 136 10:21

3y ago10:21

10:21

The way I can also weaponize gentleness to isolate, restrict joy and keep my life small. And how it’s often a weird trick I use to indulge in workaholism and achievement addiction.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 135 11:24

3y ago11:24

11:24

This is about my personal misconceptions around self-esteem. And how I confuse it with ego. And how collectivism and the immigrant experience as an Asian-American makes it really hard to know what you want. Plus, the dysfunction inherent in immigrant households with intergenerational trauma.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 134 15:23

3y ago15:23

15:23

This is about how all feelings are complicated. How most joyful things are bittersweet and how love is almost painful to hold in your body. I also talk about how leisure and pleasure isn’t modeled for a lot of us in immigrant families and how difficult it is to get out of a transactive mindset about careers.…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 133 18:35

3y ago18:35

18:35

I am in Texas with my family and feelings loom large. This is about how perfectionism can afflict every moment and decision. And the contradictions inherent in loving a deeply flawed family in real time vs loving them as a platonic ideal from afar.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 132 17:32

3y ago17:32

17:32

I have been an author for four years as of this day. This is about how making art is teaching me how to receive love without feeling as though I owe everything back. This is about true abundance and how I felt like I knew what the word meant but also really didn’t.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 131 16:55

3y ago16:55

16:55

A lot of people have been asking what can we do? What if the action you can take is small, self-serving, scary and ultimately entirely radical? What if instead of doing, what if, in this moment of trauma, you let yourself be?

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 130 17:48

3y ago17:48

17:48

Is being more of an asshole an antidote to non-confrontational Asianism and resentment? Maybe? But maybe not in the way you’d presume.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 129 20:08

3y ago20:08

20:08

On healing in the absence of apology.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 128 10:15

3y ago10:15

10:15

On the failings of Asian parents and how that makes us desperate to protect them.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 127 16:44

3y ago16:44

16:44

This one is about the utility of feelings. And how feeling feelings can seem so pointless and how ripped off I felt yesterday about recovery and healing and therapy when all the work can still lead to depression and despair. I only want to feel feelings if it leads to healing or “better creative work” and maybe that mindfulness is the recovery. And…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 126 12:43

3y ago12:43

12:43

This is about being Asian in America on this day.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 125 12:09

4y ago12:09

12:09

This is about codependency and the ways in which I thought I was passive, meek and overly accommodating when in fact I was in manipulating, controlling and playing the victim. This is GREAT news. I can’t change the way people act or the way they perceive me but I can change my behavior.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 124 18:37

4y ago18:37

18:37

This is about optics and allyship. And this instinct to create a moral issue out of actions. It’s about virtue signaling and authenticity and how you are the only one who knows the tone with which you’re doing things. This is about how I am surprised at my own discomfort, shame and fear around acts of dissent. This is also for people who can’t prot…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 123 14:03

4y ago14:03

14:03

Does good news around your career immediately make you panic and feel wretched despite also being aware that you better feel grateful because how dare you? This is about how professional anxiety and how imposter syndrome is universal but also a weirdly egocentric tact to take. Maybe people don’t expect you to RULE at something you’ve never done bef…

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 122 12:03

4y ago12:03

12:03

This one is about mothers.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 121 15:52

4y ago15:52

15:52

This is about how watching nature documentaries can get you out of dissociation and remind you that you are a living, breathing animal that has physical needs. And a gentle call to interrogate any personal mythologies or made-up stories about how long things actually take.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 120 19:58

4y ago19:58

19:58

This is about how my routine in the morning and evening are what’s holding me together in this time. Because my natural inclination is to abandon my body and the present moment whenever things get tough.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 119 13:26

4y ago13:26

13:26

This is about stinginess. And how I’ve been noticing a parsimonious quality to what I’ll let myself enjoy during this lockdown time. Austerity measures are all around us and economic insecurity is so real but are there small acts of kindness to self that aren’t verboten as outrageous indulgences?

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 118 17:38

4y ago17:38

17:38

TW: This one is about eating disorders. Specifically binge-eating. And how to invite some gentle mindfulness around meals during a time when food is loud for everyone.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 117 9:28

4y ago9:28

9:28

This is about how it’s beautiful and sunny outside and how I can ruin my own mood so easily by being my neighborhood’s self-appointed hall monitor. It turns out that ruining your own mood does not actually change anyone’s opinion or behaviors.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 116 15:09

4y ago15:09

15:09

This is about wanting to try on every tight-fitting pair of pants because I’m dissociative and I want to change the channel in my brain to create chaos. Basically it’s about weird highs or random self-harm thoughts that don’t serve you.

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Hey, Cool Life! Episode 115 16:01

4y ago16:01

16:01

This about how creativity, in the time of a pandemic, is indifferent to agendas and ambition. And how to go slow, allow for receptivity and just trust that the work will take shape as long as you gently do a little each day.

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