281: Connecting to the Present

Apr 16

It can be so easy to let your mind run wild and catastrophize during this pandemic time. What history has shown us is for some people, they can make meaning out of a situation and it can propel them to living a life full of revelations about their thoughts, actions, and results.

Today’s guest on the podcast is Myra Goodman, who co wrote her father’s memoir, Quest for Eternal Sunshine, a Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkness to Light. Mendek Rubin, Myra’s dad, not only survived a Nazi slave labor camp, he went on excel as an inventor, and went on his own journey from going from deep depression to inner joy.

During our conversation we discussed:

The physical pain and emotional pain her father endured in a Natzi slave labor camp c and later on in life
How Mendek was the first family member to be taken to a concentration camp and what happened to his family at Auschwitz concentration camp
How a previous relationship helped Mendek assigned a role that helped him survive the camp
What happened mid-life that made him not want to live a sub-human life
Myra’s experience of living on the Pathwork property and then abruptly leaving as a middle school student
The experience of writing Mendek’s memoir
How shame can manifest into physical pain
How Mendek went from jewelry inventor to inventor of agriculture equipment
How to quite down the nervous system
What the power of visualization can do for you

Links Discussed

Quest for Eternal Sunshine by Mendik Rubin and Myra Goodman

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Episode 227 with Lisa Kohn, Running Away from a Cult

Pathwork Foundation