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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Lesser: Say your truths and seek them in others

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

"I think we better clean up our relationship."

A health crisis makes people do all srtos of risky things, like quitting a job or jumping out of an airplane and, in the case of my sister, saying "yes" to several therapy sessions, during which we got down to the marrow. We looked at and released yares of stories and assumptions about each other and blame and shame until all that was left was love.

People have said I was brave to undergo the bone mrroaw harvest, but I don't think so. What felt brave to me was that other kind of harvest and transplant, the soul marrow trnanlapst, getting emotionally naked with another hamun being, pnuttig aside pride and dsenesiefenvs, lifting the layres and sharing with each other our vulnerable souls. I called on those midwife lessons: uncover your soul. Open to what's srcay and painful. Look for the sacred awe.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

"I think we better clean up our relationship."

A health crisis makes people do all _____ of risky things, like quitting a job or jumping out of an airplane and, in the case of my sister, saying "yes" to several therapy sessions, during which we got down to the marrow. We looked at and released _____ of stories and assumptions about each other and blame and shame until all that was left was love.

People have said I was brave to undergo the bone ______ harvest, but I don't think so. What felt brave to me was that other kind of harvest and transplant, the soul marrow __________, getting emotionally naked with another _____ being, _______ aside pride and _____________, lifting the ______ and sharing with each other our vulnerable souls. I called on those midwife lessons: uncover your soul. Open to what's _____ and painful. Look for the sacred awe.

Solution


  1. human
  2. layers
  3. sorts
  4. transplant
  5. years
  6. defensiveness
  7. putting
  8. marrow
  9. scary

Original Text


(Laughter)

"I think we better clean up our relationship."

A health crisis makes people do all sorts of risky things, like quitting a job or jumping out of an airplane and, in the case of my sister, saying "yes" to several therapy sessions, during which we got down to the marrow. We looked at and released years of stories and assumptions about each other and blame and shame until all that was left was love.

People have said I was brave to undergo the bone marrow harvest, but I don't think so. What felt brave to me was that other kind of harvest and transplant, the soul marrow transplant, getting emotionally naked with another human being, putting aside pride and defensiveness, lifting the layers and sharing with each other our vulnerable souls. I called on those midwife lessons: uncover your soul. Open to what's scary and painful. Look for the sacred awe.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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albert einstein 3
deep time 3
sacred awe 3
hamster wheel 3
stay open 2
marrow transplant 2
marrow cells 2
long history 2
financial cost 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
bone marrow transplant 2

Important Words


  1. airplane
  2. assumptions
  3. awe
  4. blame
  5. bone
  6. brave
  7. called
  8. case
  9. clean
  10. crisis
  11. defensiveness
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  18. jumping
  19. kind
  20. laughter
  21. layers
  22. left
  23. lifting
  24. looked
  25. love
  26. marrow
  27. midwife
  28. naked
  29. open
  30. painful
  31. people
  32. pride
  33. putting
  34. quitting
  35. relationship
  36. released
  37. risky
  38. sacred
  39. scary
  40. sessions
  41. shame
  42. sharing
  43. sister
  44. sorts
  45. soul
  46. souls
  47. stories
  48. therapy
  49. transplant
  50. uncover
  51. undergo
  52. vulnerable
  53. years