Kate Bowler was 35 years old and wrestling with a cancer diagnosis when she worked to find optimism amid challenges. Now in remission, the New York Times bestselling author joined TODAY to talk about how to overcome tough times and experience joy and sadness together.
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Kate Bowler was 35 years old and wrestling with a cancer diagnosis when she worked to find optimism amid challenges. Now in remission, the New York Times bestselling author joined TODAY to talk about how to overcome tough times and experience joy and sadness together.
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No gold stars required. Just existing, eating snacks, and resisting the urge to optimize our personalities. | Kate Bowler
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No gold stars required. Just existing, eating snacks, and resisting the urge to optimize our personalities. | Kate Bowler
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Here is a blessing when you need permission to change: Blessed are you, dear one, when the world around you has changed. Everything is different now. Your body, your age, your relationships, your job, your faith, the things that once brought you joy, the way you exist in the world. The people you love and trust and rely on. Things have changed. And it would be silly to imagine you haven’t changed with them. You are not who you once were. Bless that old self. They did such a great job with what t
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Here is a blessing when you need permission to change: Blessed are you, dear one, when the world around you has changed. Everything is different now. Your body, your age, your relationships, your job, your faith, the things that once brought you joy, the way you exist in the world. The people you love and trust and rely on. Things have changed. And it would be silly to imagine you haven’t changed with them. You are not who you once were. Bless that old self. They did such a great job with what t
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Here’s to the saints among us—the ones banging their flashlight on the palm of their hand, hoping it’ll spark to life long enough to take one more step toward hope. Not ideal. But it’s working...kind of. | Kate Bowler
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Here’s to the saints among us—the ones banging their flashlight on the palm of their hand, hoping it’ll spark to life long enough to take one more step toward hope. Not ideal. But it’s working...kind of. | Kate Bowler
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Ok, it's 42 seconds. DETAILS. Moral of the story? Lent is not a 40-day glow-up, and don't you forget it. | Kate Bowler
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Ok, it's 42 seconds. DETAILS. Moral of the story? Lent is not a 40-day glow-up, and don't you forget it. | Kate Bowler
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It’s church—but make it child-sized. I was walking around cathedrals in Sweden and I saw a perfect and well-executed idea: kid’s church. Complete with candles, robes and...a coffin. Did I see a couple kids marry their dolls and then later host a tasteful burial? I did. Isn’t that genius? First of all, hilarious. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a sense of humor about church. But I loved how even the smallest hearts are invited to play with big questions: how we live, how we give, how we rememb
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It’s church—but make it child-sized. I was walking around cathedrals in Sweden and I saw a perfect and well-executed idea: kid’s church. Complete with candles, robes and...a coffin. Did I see a couple kids marry their dolls and then later host a tasteful burial? I did. Isn’t that genius? First of all, hilarious. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a sense of humor about church. But I loved how even the smallest hearts are invited to play with big questions: how we live, how we give, how we rememb
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Welcome to part FOUR of busting the myth of a “purpose-driven” life. Can you have too much purpose? Oh friend. YES. YES YOU CAN. You can be so over-purposed you’re practically oozing from the squeeze of it all. Because sometimes purpose doesn’t feel like clarity or peace—it feels like exhaustion in a thousand directions. You’re parenting, caregiving, replying to the group chat, uncrustifying sandwiches, keeping people alive, and occasionally hydrated. This isn’t a life—it’s a purpose parade with
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Welcome to part FOUR of busting the myth of a “purpose-driven” life. Can you have too much purpose? Oh friend. YES. YES YOU CAN. You can be so over-purposed you’re practically oozing from the squeeze of it all. Because sometimes purpose doesn’t feel like clarity or peace—it feels like exhaustion in a thousand directions. You’re parenting, caregiving, replying to the group chat, uncrustifying sandwiches, keeping people alive, and occasionally hydrated. This isn’t a life—it’s a purpose parade with
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Staying soft is its own kind of miracle. When it’s easier to go numb. When the news is too much. When your people need more than you feel like you have. When you’d rather protect your heart than let it break again. And still— you answered the text. you let yourself cry. you said “I love you” first. you asked for help. you forgave, again. you made soup. This is what it means to live with an open heart in a hurting world. Advent starts Sunday. A season for watching and waiting. For staying tender,
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Advent does not invite us to be optimists. It invites us to be people who hope. | Kate Bowler
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@timothyshriver has been showing up for people on the margins long before it was cool—American disability rights activist, film producer, former educator, and longtime Chair of @specialolympics. Oh, and he started a movement called UNITE. No big deal. In this week’s chat, we talk about how service isn’t just something we do—it’s how we get vulnerable enough to find what’s real. You’ll laugh. Admire his amazing hair. You’ll want to volunteer. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouT
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Our lives are rarely predictable or at all in our control. Sometimes what happens to us or around us can reshape our entire trajectory. Nicky Gumbel is someone whose life was dramatically changed. He thought he was going to be a very fancy lawyer… just like everyone else in his family, but that’s not what happened. Nicky became one of the pioneers of the Alpha Course where 30 million (!!) people have been introduced to Christian faith around the world. In this conversation, we discuss his reluct
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Grief makes us restless. It's a truth writer and @nytopinion editor Sarah Wildman describes so poignantly. Her daughter, Orli, was just 10 years old when she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer. Orli lived with staggering courage—and more procedures and pain than most adults will ever face—until her death at 14. Sarah’s essays on grief and caregiving are among the most piercing, tender, and unsparing things I’ve ever read. And today's conversation on @everythinghappens
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Raise your hand if you're "the fixer." The one who holds everything together. Makes the plans. Predicts every outcome (and acts accordingly). Carries the weight, emotionally and physically.🙋‍♀️ But what happens when that strength becomes a shield? One that protects you from yourself? In today's episode of Everything Happens with Amanda Doyle of the "We Can Do Hard Things" podcast, we talk about the pitfalls of fixing so hard it feels like control, cancer, parenting, and literally everything in
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Some days, saying yes to being alive feels like an act of defiance. When the world is heavy and your heart is tired, choosing to stay tender—to keep going, to keep loving—is its own kind of bravery. My guest today on Everything Happens is the queen of that emotional tightrope—my personal Canadian legend, Miriam Toews. You might know her from "Women Talking" or "All My Puny Sorrows", but today she joins me to talk about the heartbreak and humor of living with mental illness in a family, what it m
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Not ‘I can’t imagine what you’re going through,’ but I want to try—because you shouldn’t have to feel this alone. | Kate Bowler
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Sometimes life is just hard. No lesson attached. But will I try to squeeze one out of it anyway? Only time will tell. (probably) | Kate Bowler
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✨ Inbox zero. ✨ Protein pancakes. ✨ Enlightened parenting. ✨ Then my body was like: LOL, no. So now I’m aiming for one task, no tab explosions, and maybe a walk. Join me?? | Kate Bowler
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Not all of us will be presidents (or point guards), but Coach K. listening to his mom and dad against his will is literally the definition of "trust." Sometimes, we have to take the leap, even when we don't know the outcome. On today's episode of Everything Happens, the legendary Duke basketball coach sits down with me in front of a packed house at @dukeuniversity to talk about trust, leadership, and what makes a team great. This week’s Lent theme reminds us: things in this world are not as they
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If only color coding were the cure to being human. | Kate Bowler
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Does everything we do—every job, every hobby, every mildly traumatic Tuesday—have to be redeemed for some grand purpose? When did existing become a group project? One that needed monetization and commodification? | Kate Bowler
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