Episode 401: SOUL CARE SUMMER - Aundi Kolber, "Try Softer, Part 1"

Episode 401: SOUL CARE SUMMER - Aundi Kolber, "Try Softer, Part 1"

June 1, 2026 · 33 min · Season 17 · Episode 401

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Aundi Kolber discusses her book 'Try Softer' and the importance of self-compassion in dealing with pain.

Most of us were taught, somewhere along the way, that the answer to pain is to push through it. Try harder. White-knuckle it. And for a long time, that worked — until it didn't. Aundi Kolber wrote Try Softer as a love letter to her younger self, and in this conversation with Michael and Julianne Cusick, she unpacks what it actually means to pay compassionate attention to your own experience — not as self-indulgence, but as the very thing Jesus modeled in taking on a body. They explore why our...

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