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Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker, and activist who is world-renowned for his many insightful books, including Let Your Life Speak and Healing the Heart of Democracy. With Sounds True, he has most recently contributed to the anthology Darkness Before Dawn: Redefining the Journey Through Depression. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Parker discuss his own passages through clinical depression and the meaning he derived from them. They also speak on the modern cultural taboo surrounding depression, and how depression is actually an innate part of the life journey. Finally, Parker and Tami talk about how depression can act as \u201ca befriending force pushing you down onto safe ground\u201d\u2014an agent that can help course-correct a life lived \u201cat altitude.\u201d (86 minutes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5485,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[385,381],"tags":[170],"contributor":[745],"class_list":["post-5144","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-self-compassion","tag-insights-at-the-edge","contributor-parker-j-palmer"],"yoast_head":"\nWelcome To The Human Race | Insights at the Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Listen to this Insights at the Edge podcast exploring welcome to the human race. 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