Hurry Slowly - On not forcing things

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Hi Friends-

I'm finally feeling some rays of hope return after a solid season of getting thoroughly dressed down by the universe. It's so painful to have our old attachments, defenses, and habits stripped away but I am learning that once they're gone we have the opportunity to open up to a new lightness.

Speaking of old habits, if you haven't already tuned in, the latest episode of Hurry Slowly is a reflection from yours truly on the dark side of habits — the anxious internal routines and dialogues that we perform and re-perform to keep ourselves from feeling safe, or to suppress our self-expression, or to feel unloved.

Listen to "Bad Habit Loops" here.

As I prepare for the new year, I'm renovating both my RESET and Hi-Fi courses. The plan is to relaunch both of them with rolling admission this coming January. That means the courses will always be open for registration and you can take them whenever you want, on your own schedule. If you've been curious about taking either of them, stay tuned for more details on how to book in January of 2023. : )

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. I'll see you in the new year.

Much love,
Jocelyn

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What Twitter can learn from Quakers. I enjoyed this recent opinion piece by Ezra Klein about the shortcomings of Twitter and its approach to fostering public debate: "It is a failure of imagination to think that our choice is the social media platforms we have now or nothing. I keep thinking about something that Robin Sloan, a novelist and former Twitter employee, wrote this year: 'There are so many ways people might relate to one another online, so many ways exchange and conviviality might be organized. Look at these screens, this wash of pixels, the liquid potential! What a colossal bummer that Twitter eked out a local maximum, that its network effect still (!) consumes the fuel for other possibilities, other explorations.'”

Liz Goldwyn: Sex, health, and consciousness. I found some good food for thought in this conversation with sex educator Liz Goldwyn. It made me curious to explore her new book: "I really think it’s a process of looking at the system itself and saying, 'Where did I learn this idea that my body needed to look a certain way? Or, I have to orgasm every single time? Or, sex has to only look like this? And why am I judging?' I think in those moments, then, you also start to look at yourself and think, 'Where did these judgments that I have on sex that doesn’t look like the sex I have come from? Is there something I’m missing out on here? Was this something I was taught by someone else who had a fear of this type of sexual expression or gender expression? And so is it, actually, not even my own belief? Is this a belief that I absorbed through the media, culture, friends?'"

Laughter is the best medicine. I've been thinking about the relationship between laughter and lightness lately and digging into a lot of new comedy and revisiting some classics. A few recommendations: Seasons 1 and 2 of Hacks, Yvonne Orji's A Whole Me, Hannah Gatsby's Nanette, Tig Notaro's LIVE, Jerrod Carmichael's Rothaniel, Maria Bamford's Weakness Is the Brand. And I'm cueing up some more new shows from this best of 2022 list.

America has a problem — the undoing of Kanye West. This episode of Still Processing is NYT critics J. Wortham and Wesley Morris at their best, analyzing the rise and fall of Kanye West with incredible subtlety and depth.

+ Meet the perennials.

+ A great interview with White Lotus creator Mike White.

+ Alan Watts on the principle of not forcing.

+ In support of crying on the floor.

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The artwork is from: MUTI, a creative studio based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Link ideas from: Tina Roth Eisenberg, Austin Kleon, Jessica Bozek, and TransClue.

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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, as well as Hi-Fi, a journey into the wisdom of the heart. I also host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about personal and collective transformation.

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