This week we talk to Toni Bernhard about not getting what we want

Toni Bernhard was a law professor at the University of California—Davis when she became very ill. Since then she had dealt with, and helped teach the world about how to deal with chronic conditions.

She is the author of How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers. Her second book is titled How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow. Her latest book is How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness.

 

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In This Interview, Toni and I Discuss

The One You Feed parable

How we are forming our personality as we go

The malleability of the mind

Our inability to be nice ourselves

How it feels good to be nice, kind and compassionate

Her journey through illness

Learning to handle not getting our way

How hard dealing with chronic illness is

How most of our suffering comes from our reaction to events, not the events themselves.

Building a life within our limitations

Dealing with things that are out of our control

How pain and sorrow are inevitable but suffering is optional

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