Encore: How Do I Find The Courage To Be My Own Guide?

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars often discuss letters dealing with very specific problems or struggles. In this encore episode, they take on a broader, more existential question: how to follow your heart. The Sugars discuss with the GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter India Arie, who shares how she learned to be her own guide. This episode was originally released September 23rd, 2016.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:19.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:24.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:26.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:29.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:36.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:44.0	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:51.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:58.0	Hi Steve.
1:00.0	Hi Cheryl. How are you?
1:01.0	I'm doing great.
1:02.0	We're going to do something a little bit different today on this episode of Dear Sugar Radio.
1:06.0	So often, as you know, our letters present us with a specific situation,
1:11.0	a problem or struggle, and they're fairly focused.
1:16.0	You know, this is the trouble I'm in right now.
1:18.0	And today, we're going to read an answer letter that's a bigger problem.
1:23.0	And it's one I think that so many people share.
1:25.0	I know I've had this struggle, you've had this struggle, our listeners have had this struggle.
1:29.0	And it's about something a bit more existential and yet very direct and very real in our lives.
1:35.0	And that is how do we learn to really trust ourselves after we have read all the books
1:40.0	and listen to every episode of Dear Sugar Radio and talk to therapists and friends.
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