Ep. 70 - Getting unstuck and redesigning your life | Dave Evans

Most of us have felt stuck at some point in our lives. This interview with Dave Evans will help you move forward. Together with Bill Burnett, he wrote the book “Designing your life: how to build a well-lived, joyful life.” They also founded the Stanford Life Design Lab, where they teach one of the most popular classes there.

Dave also knows about suicide loss. At the age of nine, he lost his father to suicide. He was only 49 years old at the time. Decades later, in a painful search for his own identity, Dave found himself rebuilding the gaps in his father’s storyline. “You can’t know who you are if you don’t know whom you came from,” he says.

In this interview, Dave talks about the many ways we can reframe our life situation so that we can free ourselves of what the authors call “dysfunctional beliefs,” myths that prevent us from designing the life we envision for ourselves.

For those who struggle with suicidal ideation, these dysfunctional beliefs could be something like “there is no other way out,” or “I’m not good enough.”

Dave also addresses suicide grief and the places where families get stuck after loss, which can be, for example, by feeling guilty or feeling engulfed by the “what ifs” that often come after the death of a loved one by suicide.

This interview is profound and illuminating. It is helpful to all of us.

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