Christie Watson: The Absurdity (and Joy) of Midlife

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nurse and writer Christie Watson found herself in a grocery store fish-finger freezer and realized something was very, very wrong. Why was she so desperate for more? (And also, why was she so extremely overheated? Oh wait…hormones?) In this hilarious and hopeful conversation, Christie speaks with Kate about the importance of prioritizing joy in the face of our emotionally expensive professions and roles, as well as joy’s importance as we get older (and how lucky we are to age in the first place).

In this conversation, Kate and Christie discuss:

The intricate aspects of aging for women
The significance of nurturing strong female friendships
Making room for the absurd in our life

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Christie Watson on what nurses teach us about the language of kindness
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Elizabeth Gilbert on finding our "purpose" (and why that is a load of BS)

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0:27.0	Most of us know what it feels like to be frustrated with the U.S. health care
0:31.0	system, but much needed change is happening, as the industry is working
0:34.6	hard to move away from outdated payment models to a system that pays providers for the quality of
0:39.2	health care, not the quantity.
0:41.0	Called accountable care, this new approach prioritizes better patient outcomes and expanded access to care.
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0:50.8	To learn more, visit accountable for health.org.
0:54.0	Oh, hello.
0:57.0	So many people in this listening community have high-cost jobs.
1:01.0	It's one of the things that makes you all awesome in the most
1:06.8	definitional way, that there's a lot of emotionally expensive work going on. And maybe it's part of your job. Maybe you work in health
1:16.8	care or in education or therapy or social work or pastoring or some kind of lovely. or
1:25.0	or maybe it's life at home or some kind of lovely volunteerism.
1:26.0	Or maybe it's life at home that's full of caring.
1:30.0	You raise kids or you care-give for a spouse or child or aging parent.
1:35.4	But the bottom line is I don't ever have to convince any of you to care more.
1:42.0	You do it already. You see a need and then you meet it.
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