Showing Up in the Both/And of Life: How Counterweights Keep Us Standing with Shannan Martin

This week on The SHOW UP Season of The Mary Marantz Show, Mary sits down with Shannan Martin, author of Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World, to dive into showing up in the BOTH/AND of life… holding on to both the beauty and the horror of the world with both hands. The two talk about the power of community and practical ways to carry hope amid chaos. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the heaviness of the world, this episode if for YOU! In this Episode, you'll hear:

• Why poet Rainer Maria Rilke once said, ""Life is very singularly made to surprise us...where it does not utterly appall us."
• What it means to "carry the cosmos" without slipping into carrying the weight of the world
• The counterintuitive Theory of Balance that tells us to carry something hard… carry something equally heavy in the other hand.
• Why Shannan doesn't believe in chasing traditional "life balance" but instead embraces a push/pull approach inspired by Chef David Chang's interplay of complex flavors
• How strange it can be to buy flowers in a world on FIRE
• The MANDATE for Joy Shannan prescribes us as necessary to continue fighting for the cause of humanity
• Why the parable of the scattered seeds in the Gospel of Mark went from a "me" story to an "US" story for Shannan
• The reminder from Shannan's son that Jesus is the "God on the Ground" and what we have to learn from that.
• ...and seriously SO much more!