Encore Presentation of Lynda Carter on Taking Care of Yourself: Mind, Body, and Spirit
Lynda Carter joins long-time friend, Doro Bush Koch for this wonderful episode of Health Gig! Doro and Lynda sit down to discuss taking care of yourself: mind, body, and spirit, while opening up about grief, resilience, and the importance of friendships. Listen in as these dear friends catch up!
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Quotes:
The one thing about women's empowerment that’s very important to me is that it’s not about men's disempowerment. Lynda Carter
Grieving is allowing it to be instead of trying to stop it. It's just love talking. And if I stop that, then I'm also stopping the love I have for this amazing human being. Lynda Carter
I've been in recovery for 27 years. It was baffling. How could this possibly be that I cannot handle something in my adult life that everyone else can? Lynda Carter
Show Notes:
Lynda Carter: I sang everything I could. And then I joined a band at 14.
Lynda Carter: In nineteen seventy two, I moved to Los Angeles. I'd saved up my money.
Lynda Carter: I became a big attraction because of my age. I was really young and I could sing really well.
Lynda Carter: In about three weeks, I was Miss Phoenix, Miss Arizona, Miss World USA and then onto the Miss World pageant.
Lynda Carter: There's an understanding that is a kind of sacred and a beautiful thing, and I appreciate our long friendship.
Lynda Carter: There was an attempt to have this character on television a few years earlier.
Lynda Carter: That was the origin story of how Diana became Wonder Woman. And so I fit the bill. I tried out for the part and I got it.
Lynda Carter: I would say the best part of Wonder Woman were the stunts.
Lynda Carter: Then I got to do Estaria, which was in the last Wonder Woman, this mysterious new character in the world of DC.
Doro Bush Koch: You also just lost the love of your life, Robert Altman and everyone who knew him loved him. And so tell us about Robert.
Lynda Carter: I just lost him in February last year.
Lynda Carter: He went to a dinner and I sat next to him and it was, you know, it was it was "boom!" And he swept me off my feet.
Lynda Carter: What fortune and misfortune happens for, for life and death and this and that and just a myriad of life events that you go through.
Lynda Carter: He was able to be a beacon of light and a safe, safe place for me. And I can tell you that I think I'm so much a better woman for knowing him and being his wife.
Lynda Carter: If I let myself cry, if I'm bringing Robert up and I'm with friends or whatever, I will just tell them, let me just get through it.
Lynda Carter: I try to suppress it, it becomes a 90 foot thing, right? So I try to keep it in real size.
Lynda Carter: I just released a new single called Human and Divine, and it's on Spotify and iTunes and wherever anybody gets their music. And it's quite cinematic. I wrote it.
Lynda Carter: Particularly in grief, you just want to curl up. So I am, I force myself to get up, and I've been getting up here in Florida with the dawn and watch the sun rise every morning.
Lynda Carter: Start a routine in the morning, a routine that you follow that you start with what time you get up. You start with making your bed. And I find when you make your bed. It changes how you approach your day.
Lynda Carter: Try to get up at the same time and make your bed and then the next day, try to put something else in front of you that you're going to do as your routine so that it will start to build.
Lynda Carter: I am off of all bread and eat a tiny bit of pasta; because I just found that if I just go off of it because when I started eating a little bit, I put on pounds.
Lynda Carter: I drink a lot of stuff with ginger in it. It seems to help my joints a lot and just basically trying to be healthy and not be a slug and keep my body moving.
Lynda Carter: I've been in recovery for 27 years. And I didn't even start drinking until I was in my mid 20s.
Lynda Carter: It was baffling. I could not understand why I had this compulsion.
Lynda Carter: How could this possibly be that I cannot handle something in my adult life that everyone else can?
Lynda Carter: The thing about being in, not being in recovery or being an addict or an alcoholic. The problem is the shame, and that is what keeps people from getting help.
Lynda Carter: The only one that can do anything about it is the person that has the disease.
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