Elizabeth Lesser: Say your truths and seek them in others
Elizabeth Lesser: Gerçeklerini söyle ve bunları başkalarında ara
Elizabeth Lesser helps her readers and students transform their lives after brushes with pain, adversity and life's myriad problems. Full bio
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for all of them.
throughout my 20s.
ev doğumu yapan bir ebeydim.
valuable and sometimes surprising things,
bazen de şaşırtıcı şeyler öğretti.
who's fainted at the sight of blood.
babayı ayıltmak gibi.
that stuck with me or guided me
başladığım zaman,
and started other jobs.
rehberlik eden şeyler olmadı.
with a unique worth.
gelmesi inancıydı.
to describe that spark,
that comes close to naming
"ruh" kelimesini kullanırım,
İngilizce'deki tek kelime.
as a snowflake,
of things happen to us
eccentricities and authenticity.
gizlettiren birçok şey olur.
of our time uncomfortable in our own skin,
şekilde o kadar çok zaman geçiriyoruz ki
authenticity deficit disorder.
Özgünlük Açığı Bozukluğu.
from laboring women.
öğrendiklerim.
şu şekildedir.
it has to stretch from this
that would happen
son verdiğinde ve açıldığında
of the universe took notice
bir şeyleri fark etmiş de
or painful things happen to me
bir şey olduğunda,
what I learned from the mothers:
öğrendiğimi hatırlarım.
bir ders vardı.
from Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein concluded
hayat deneyimimizin
experience of life
is this whole other dimension
tamamen farklı bir boyuttur
and the future merge
ve gelecek birleşerek
this state, this dimension,
hours and hours,
zorunda kaldım,
I took with me from midwifery.
or painful, try to stay open.
açık kalmayı dene.
step off your hamster wheel
kendini tekrar etmekten çıkıp
throughout my life,
bana yardımcı oldu
important job of my life thus far.
gerçekten bana yardımcı oldular.
came out of remission
kan kanserinde,
was a bone marrow transplant.
kemik ilik nakliydi.
we found a match for her,
bir eşleşme bulduk,
I was my sister's perfect genetic match,
bir genetik eş olduğumu öğrenince,
there's lots of things.
bir sürü şey vardır.
and there's protection.
assembling many of those first layers
ilk katmanların çoğunu
olduğumu öğrendiğimde,
is pretty straightforward.
in the cancer patient
yok ediyorsun
marrow cells from a donor.
değiştiriyorsun.
uyum sağladığına
engraft in the patient.
her şeyi yapıyorsun.
transplants are fraught with danger.
dolu olduğunu da öğrendim.
through the near-lethal chemotherapy,
kemoterapinin üstesinden gelseydi,
yüz yüze gelebilirdi.
a long history of love,
geçmişimiz vardı,
of rejection and attack,
daha büyük ihanetlere kadar
to bigger betrayals.
the kind of the relationship
in all kinds of relationships,
türde ilişkisi olan insanlar gibi
teredütteydik.
the dangers of rejection or attack,
tehlikesini öğrendiğimde,
transplant up to the doctors,
doktorlara bıraksaydık
to call our "soul marrow transplant?"
bir şey yapmış olsaydık?
we had caused each other,
yüzleşseydik
öğretecek miydi?
I turned to my parents' holy text:
ailemin kutsal metnine yöneldim:
gerektiğini açıklamak için
why we should visit a therapist
nakledilmeden önce,
and transplanted into her body.
I made up in my head."
onu hiç affetmedim."
yaptığımızı söyledim,
in our heads that kept us separate.
hikâyeleri kafamızda dolaştırıyorduk.
of each of those cells
çekirdeğinin içinde
for the rest of your life,"
şunu söyledim:
dönüp dolaşacağım."
our relationship."
getirmeliyiz."
do all sorts of risky things,
riskli şeyler yaptırır,
or jumping out of an airplane
konusuna geldik.
konuşup rahatladık.
to undergo the bone marrow harvest,
çektiğim için cesur olduğumu söylediler
of harvest and transplant,
with another human being,
olarak açılarak,
our vulnerable souls.
birbirimizle paylaşarak.
after the harvest.
hücrelerim ile buradayım.
farm-to-table event --
masaya koyuyorsun.
more and more time together.
vakit geçirmeye başladık.
this kind of work.
ya da hatta değer vermiyor.
of real life and important work.
bir aksaklık olarak görüyoruz.
and the financial cost --
konusunda endişeleniyoruz.
seems to have forgotten all about.
bir çeşit para birimiyle ödendim.
was the best year of her life,
hayatının en güzel yılı olduğunu söyledi,
tatlı olmadığını söyledi.
we had done with each other,
she'd always needed to say.
şeyleri söyledi.
şeyleri yaptı.
with the people in my life.
konusunda cesur hâle geldim.
I sought the truth of others.
başkalarının doğrusunu aradım.
the final chapter of this story
midwifery had trained me.
yılından sonra,
the doctors could do.
başka bir şey yoktu.
a couple of months to live.
birkaç ay verdiler.
görebiliyordum.
bizim kanımızdı.
to the pain of our past,
bağlı olacağız.
with just one of them.
bırakarak ayrılacağım.
for a life-or-death situation
that matter to you,
zorunda değilsiniz.
of first responder,
the first courageous step
meslektaşlarımızla yapabiliriz.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Lesser - Wellness specialistElizabeth Lesser helps her readers and students transform their lives after brushes with pain, adversity and life's myriad problems.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Lesser's first book, The Seeker's Guide, chronicles her years at Omega and distills lessons learned into a potent guide for growth and healing. Her New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (Random House), has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Her latest book, Marrow: A Love Story (Harper Collins/September 2016), is a memoir about Elizabeth and her younger sister, Maggie, and the process they went through when Elizabeth was the donor for Maggie’s bone marrow transplant.
Lesser cofounded Omega Institute in 1977 -- a time when a variety of fresh ideas were sprouting in American culture. Since then, the institute has been at the forefront of holistic education, offering workshops and trainings in: integrative medicine, prevention, nutrition, and the mind/body connection; meditation and yoga; cross-cultural arts and creativity; ecumenical spirituality; and social change movements like women's empowerment and environmental sustainability. Lesser is also the cofounder of Omega's Women's Leadership Center, which grew out of the popular Women & Power conference series featuring women leaders, activists, authors and artists from around the world. Each year more than 30,000 people participate in Omega's programs on its campus in Rhinebeck, New York and at urban and travel sites, and more than a million people visit its website for online learning.
A student of the Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, for many years, Lesser has also studied with spiritual teachers, healers, psychologists and philosophers from other traditions. In 2008 she helped Oprah Winfrey produce a ten-week online seminar based on Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth. The webinar was viewed by more than 8 million people worldwide. She was a frequent host on Oprah's "Soul Series," a weekly radio show on Sirius/XM, and a guest on Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday." In 2011, she gave a TED Talk, "Take 'the Other' to lunch ," in which she called for civility and understanding as we negotiate our differences as human beings.
Lesser attended Barnard College, where she studied literature, and San Francisco State University, where she received a teaching degree. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, in Palo Alto, California. Early in her career she was a midwife and birth educator. Today, besides writing and her work at Omega Institute, she lends her time to social and environmental causes and is an avid walker, cook and gardener. She lives with her family in New York's Hudson River Valley.
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