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This week we welcomed Dr. Sayantani DasGupta to Intentional Conversations!
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- We all have the power and responsibility to tell our stories.
- Narrative erasure is a type of psychic violence, when her own children were experiencing it, she couldn’t stand back and let it happen.
- Human beings make sense of ourselves through story. They’re particularly powerful in moments of transition, deep personal or cultural change. In medicine, there has been a kind of belief, that although stories are a part of central healing, we can’t train for them.
- The ability to attend to story is not mythical or magical, it is trainable.
- It isn’t the teller's job to educate on the story, it is the listener’s responsibility to listen to learn.
- Be ready to live in a way your children are safe is health. The ability to be free from violence, is health. We are all in the work of improving our communities, personal and national health.
- The person seeking healthcare is to speak, speak often and speak loudly. If something feels wrong, even on an intuitive level, it is time to seek another opinion.
- Do healthcare in community.
- For those going into a profession of listening, it requires you to be on a constant journey of education. It must be approached from a position of humility, not mastery. Every human being has elements that are unknowable, but we can approach with humility and ask “What do I need to know about you?”
- Stories are good medicine!
- We have to dream something into existence before we can make it.
- Actively, together, dream for a more healthier world. We are deeply powerful in community with one another.
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:
TedTalk - Narrative Humility
Docs With Disabilities Podcast
The Nocturnists Podcast
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