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Podcast Episode: Exploring Gratitude In Daily Life
Pip: There's a site out there asking what gratitude actually is, where it comes from, and whether you can lose it over a lemon of a motor home — and the answer, it turns out, is yes, but you get it back. Mara: That's Gratitude Squared, and today we're moving through the personal practice of…
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Podcast Episode: Healing, Repair, And Uncertainty
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been quietly building something unusual — a framework for thinking about illness that starts not with disease, but with everything your body is getting right this very second. Mara: That’s exactly the territory we’re covering today — from the biology of repair and what happens when misfires persist, to what it…
Keep readingPart Seven: Picking Hope From Your Garden Within
As you traveled through these six conversations, what question has been quietly growing within you? An experienced Gardener knows: This knowledge is similar in biology. Gardeners do not expect perfection: Yet every spring, gardeners begin again. Our bodies are not so different from a garden. Our metaphors begin organizing our conversation. Not explaining. Organizing. They…
Keep readingPodcast Episode: Part Six: Living
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been building a framework for understanding biology, medicine, and what it means to live inside a body that keeps surprising you — and this episode sits right at the center of that project. Mara: The territory today is what the series calls living with uncertainty — how healing works when it…
Keep readingPart Six: Living
What have we discovered about healing? Living systems keep repairing, adapting, healing, and sometimes surprising us. Healing is a process inside of uncertainty. Medicine supplements the body’s own response when the need for repair becomes urgent. But biologic and medical repairs typically strive for continued living, without certainty. Therefore, biologic and medical repairs are probabilistic…
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Podcast Episode: Biological Misfires And Hidden Healing
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been building something quietly unusual — a series that asks you to feel wonder about your own biology before it asks you to feel anything about disease. Mara: That's the territory across these recent posts: what biological misfires actually are, why the body succeeds so overwhelmingly often, and how wonder might…
Keep readingPart Five: The Persistence of Misfires Over Time
We have seen that the body is remarkably successful at repair, and that medicine often extends that success. Yet one question remains. Why do some biological misfires persist while others disappear? This question shifts our attention from discrete events to a focus on time itself. The Biology of Time Biology is often described as a…
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Podcast Episode: Biological Misfires And Hidden Healing
Pip: Gratitude Squared has been quietly building something unusual — a series that asks you to feel wonder about your own biology before it asks you to feel anything about disease. Mara: That's exactly the territory. The posts move from the philosophy of what a "misfire" even means, through the body's repair systems, and into…
Keep readingWhen the Repair Crew Cannot Finish the Job: More About Biological Misfires (Parts Three And Four)
Every second of every day, countless repair crews work quietly throughout your body. DNA is copied. Proteins are built. Damaged cells are repaired. The immune system searches for abnormal cells. Most of this happens without our ever noticing. Occasionally, however, a biological misfire escapes detection. That is when medicine is asked to join the repair…
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