Sunshine in My Nest21 Tammi 2025

120. Reclaiming Quiet in the Busyness with Sarah Clarkson

The past couple of months I’ve found myself constantly overstimulated. Then I started to notice that every time I had a quiet moment I popped my air pods in to listen to an audio book, or podcast. I started to wonder if I was stealing from myself all of the moments of silence that would naturally have occurred in my day and filled them with noise. I picked up Sarah’s newest book and found the words were exactly what I needed.

In your opening, you said you’ve found beauty in the contemplatives, even though that isn’t what this book is about. I'm particularly interested in this because it's something that's been coming up in my own circles quite a few times. What have they shown you about quiet, and how is your practice different?

What do you “do” while you’re quiet? Or do you sit and stare off?

As humans, do you think we generally see “Quiet” as a negative or a positive? How has it been both to you?

A line at the beginning of your book caught my attention it was something “I began to wonder if at times my smartphone had become my replacement for the Holy Spirit, the ever-present comforter I turned to in times of fear.” How do we begin to rewire these impulses?

Many of us crave quiet, especially mothers, how do you find quiet in the noise of the little years?

How is quiet essential to our spiritual lives and well-being?

You’ve talked before about the part that OCD has played in your story. In your last book the telling of how you found your way to faith through beauty in the face of the darkness of OCD. Do you think the quiet you’ve learned to find has come in the place of the loudness of OCD? If so how do you think it’s taught you the value of it, or allowed you to point others to the gift of quiet?

You can find Sarah Clarkson's Book "Reclaiming Quiet" or follow Sarah on Instagram

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