VIDEO
What Cancer Taught Poet Mark Nepo | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network
By
Mark Nepo — 2013
After three years, two cycles of cancer and an aggressive series of chemotherapy, poet Mark Nepo's body was weak and broken. Still, he could feel his spirit growing stronger, his perspective shifting and his heart opening wider. See more...
FULL SUMMARY
After three years, two cycles of cancer and an aggressive series of chemotherapy, poet Mark Nepo's body was weak and broken. Still, he could feel his spirit growing stronger, his perspective shifting and his heart opening wider. Watch as Mark shares the biggest lessons he learned during his battle with cancer.
03:25 min
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TEACHER
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- Personal Development (91)
- Spiritual Awakening (88)
- Talk Therapy (86)
- Spiritual Growth (83)
- Anxiety (57)
- Self-Mastery (56)
- Depression (50)
- Romantic Relationships (47)
- Self-Development (44)
- Communication Skills (40)
- Honoring Emotion (38)
- Living with Illness (38)
- Suffering (38)
- Athlete Well-Being (35)
- Resilience (34)
- Self-Care (34)
- Self-Discovery (33)
- Finding Meaning (32)
- Fear (30)
- Self-Reflection Practices (30)
- Self-Healing (29)
- Awareness (28)
- Building Character (28)
- BIPOC Well-Being (27)
- Spiritual Life (27)
- Anger (26)
- Self-Actualization (26)
- Courage (25)
- Illness and Injury (25)
- Parenting (25)
- Spiritual Development (25)
- Vulnerability (25)
- Acceptance (24)
- Stress Management (24)
- Trauma Healing (24)
- Authenticity (23)
- Mind-Body Connection (23)
- Self-Realization (23)
- Consciousness (22)
- Endurance (21)
- Facing Own Death (21)
- Imagination and Creativity (21)
- Inner Peace (21)
- Decision Making (20)
- Human Potential (20)
- Self-Love (20)
- Women’s Well-Being (20)
- Enlightenment (19)
- Meditation (19)
- Memoir (19)
- Mindfulness (19)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (19)
- Community Healing (18)
- Marriage (18)
- Offering Support to Others (18)
- Work Challenges (18)
- Buddhism (17)
- Grief (17)
- Habit Formation (17)
- Intimacy (17)
- Physical Health (17)
- Search for Purpose (17)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (17)
- Chronic Pain (16)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (16)
- Goal Setting (16)
- Gratitude (16)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (16)
- Letting Go (16)
- Love (16)
- Shame (16)
- Compassion (15)
- Entrepreneurship (15)
- Fatigue (15)
- Growth Mindset (15)
- Inner Life (15)
- Life Challenges (15)
- Presence (15)
- Stress (15)
- Black Well-Being (14)
- Empowerment (14)
- Forgiveness (14)
- Leadership (14)
- Neuroscience (14)
- Self-Acceptance (14)
- Self-Compassion (14)
- Friendship (13)
- Insomnia (13)
- Negative Self-Talk (13)
- Psychology and Spirituality (13)
- Self-Worth (13)
- Spiritual Healing (13)
- Well-Being (13)
- Empathy (12)
- Habits of Mind (12)
- Happiness (12)
- Mindfulness Practices (12)
- Positive Thinking (12)
- Spiritual Practices (12)
- Work Relationships (12)
- Caregiver Well-Being (11)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (11)
- Diet and Nutrition (11)
- Neurodiversity (11)
- Peak Performance (11)
- Perception (11)
- Self-Esteem (11)
- Values (11)
- Activism/Service (10)
- Addiction (10)
- Addiction Recovery (10)
- Divorce and Breakup (10)
- Female Empowerment (10)
- Identity (10)
- Motivation (10)
- Psychology (10)
- Self-Reckoning (10)
- Speaking Your Truth (10)
- Spiritual Quest (10)
- Criticism and Rejection (9)
- Death and Dying (9)
- Exercise (9)
- Family Dynamics (9)
- Freedom (9)
- Integrative Medicine (9)
- Joy (9)
- Mental Health Challenges (9)
- PTSD (9)
- Situational Depression (9)
- Sleep Disorders (9)
- Spiritual Direction (9)
- Suicide (9)
- Trauma (9)
- ADD/ADHD (8)
- Asking for Help (8)
- Betrayal (8)
- Brain Health (8)
- Confidence (8)
- Conflict Resolution (8)
- Energy Healing (8)
- Faith (8)
- Fellowship and Community (8)
- Focus (8)
- Guilt (8)
- Healthy Eating (8)
- Hope (8)
- Managing Energy (8)
- Self-Reliance (8)
- Tibetan Buddhism (8)
- Trust (8)
- Chronic Health Conditions (7)
- Curiosity (7)
- Disabled Well-Being (7)
- Dysfunctional Childhood (7)
- Embodiment (7)
- Healing Approaches (7)
- Intuition (7)
- Self-Control (7)
- Sex (7)
- Sudden Weight Change (7)
- The Divine (7)
- Work-Life Balance (7)
- Accepting Love (6)
- Anger Management (6)
- Clinical Depression (6)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (6)
- Diamond Approach (6)
- Failure (6)
- Global Challenges (6)
- Inner Strengths (6)
- Journaling (6)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (6)
- Loneliness (6)
- Mysticism (6)
- Performance Anxiety (6)
- Performance Pressure (6)
- Positive Psychology (6)
- Positive Self-Talk (6)
- Self-Pressure (6)
- Visualization (6)
- Withholding (6)
- Yoga (6)
- Young Adult Well-Being (6)
- Alcohol Addiction (5)
- Body Image (5)
- Breathwork (5)
- Children’s Well-Being (5)
- Conscious Evolution (5)
- Creative Well-Being (5)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (5)
- Despair (5)
- Ego Transcendence (5)
- Epigenetics (5)
- Integrity (5)
- Intention (5)
- Interdependence (5)
- Kindness (5)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (5)
- Men’s Well-Being (5)
- Motherhood (5)
- Neuropsychology (5)
- Oneness (5)
- Racial Healing (5)
- Sacred Feminine (5)
- Soul Mission (5)
- Spirituality and Health (5)
- Aging (4)
- Autoimmune Disease (4)
- Burnout (4)
- Christianity (4)
- Collaboration (4)
- Compassion Fatigue (4)
- Connection (4)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (4)
- Disconnection (4)
- Eating Disorders (4)
- Feminism (4)
- God (4)
- Grace (4)
- Indigenous Well-Being (4)
- Jealousy/Envy (4)
- Loss of Appetite (4)
- Mindfulness Meditation (4)
- Moral Philosophy (4)
- Neoshamanism (4)
- Non-Duality (4)
- Nonviolence (4)
- Nutritional Medicine (4)
- Personality Typing (4)
- Psychedelic Research (4)
- Racial Justice (4)
- Science and Spirituality (4)
- Shadow (4)
- Sleep (4)
- Social Justice (4)
- Spirituality and Politics (4)
- Veteran Well-Being (4)
- Wholeness (4)
- Zen Buddhism (4)
- Abandonment (3)
- Affirmations (3)
- Archetypes (3)
- Body Positivity (3)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (3)
- Chronic Anxiety (3)
- Codependency (3)
- Comparing Belief Traditions (3)
- Competition (3)
- Connection with Nature (3)
- Doubt (3)
- Goddess (3)
- Guided Meditation (3)
- Higher Calling (3)
- Insight (Vipassana) Meditation (3)
- Latinx Well-Being (3)
- Manifestation (3)
- Neuroplasticity (3)
- Passion (3)
- Psilocybin (3)
- Regret (3)
- Rest (3)
- Self-Expression (3)
- Sexuality (3)
- Social Anxiety (3)
- Social Responsibility (3)
- Synchronicity (3)
- Toxic Relationships (3)
- Transpersonal Psychology (3)
- Traumatic Grief (3)
- Unconscious Bias (3)
- Unfulfilled Career (3)
- Willpower (3)
- A Course in Miracles (2)
- AAPI Well-Being (2)
- Access to Education (2)
- Acupressure (2)
- Acupuncture (2)
- Adaptability (2)
- Altered States (2)
- Attachment Theory (2)
- Autism (2)
- Belonging (2)
- Biofeedback (2)
- Christian Mysticism (2)
- Conscience (2)
- Dark Night of the Soul (2)
- Death-Positive Movement (2)
- Dementia (2)
- Dharma (2)
- Economic Justice (2)
- Ego (2)
- Enneagram (2)
- Environmental Justice (2)
- Forest Bathing (2)
- Gender Challenges (2)
- Gender Justice (2)
- Genetics (2)
- Guided Imagery (2)
- Hero’s Journey (2)
- Holism (2)
- Hospice (2)
- Hypnosis (2)
- Incarceration (2)
- Inner Child (2)
- Inspiration (2)
- Jungian Analysis (2)
- Karma (2)
- Laughter Therapy (2)
- Life Force Energy (2)
- Life-Altering Injury (2)
- Massage (2)
- Megavitamin Therapy (2)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (2)
- Movement Meditation (2)
- Native American Beliefs (2)
- Near-Death Experience (2)
- New Relationships (2)
- Optimism (2)
- Othering (2)
- Passive-Aggressive Behavior (2)
- Play (2)
- Poetry (2)
- Post-Traumatic Growth (2)
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (2)
- Psychoanalysis (2)
- Relationship with Money (2)
- Religious Experience (2)
- Ritual (2)
- Self-Discipline (2)
- Somatic Practices (2)
- Spiritual Crisis (2)
- Storytelling (2)
- Subconscious (2)
- T’ai Chi (2)
- Transcendent Experience (2)
- Transitions (2)
- Unity (2)
- Wake-Up Calls (2)
- Work Ethic (2)
- Afterlife (1)
- Aromatherapy (1)
- Art Therapy (1)
- Awe (1)
- Building Culture (1)
- Chakras (1)
- Child’s Anxiety (1)
- Child’s Autism (1)
- Chronic Fatigue (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Cognitive Psychology (1)
- Compassion Meditation (1)
- Cross-Cultural Parenting (1)
- Digital Life (1)
- Dreamwork (1)
- Drug Addiction (1)
- Ecospirituality (1)
- Emotional Labor (1)
- Existentialism (1)
- Flower Essences (1)
- Following Bliss (1)
- Generosity (1)
- Hatha Yoga (1)
- Heartmath (1)
- Herbal Supplementation (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Hinduism (1)
- Humility (1)
- Identity Shifts (1)
- Imposter Syndrome (1)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (1)
- Infidelity (1)
- Inflammation (1)
- Intergenerational Trauma (1)
- Islam (1)
- Jewish Renewal (1)
- Judaism (1)
- Kids and Sports (1)
- Kundalini (1)
- Kundalini Yoga (1)
- Leaving a Religion (1)
- LGBTQIA Children (1)
- LGBTQIA Parents (1)
- LGBTQIA Sexuality (1)
- Lifestyle Medicine (1)
- Living as an Empath (1)
- Longevity (1)
- Lovingkindness (1)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (1)
- MDMA (1)
- Memory (1)
- Mentoring (1)
- Midlife Crisis (1)
- Misophonia (1)
- Mythology (1)
- Narcissism (1)
- OCD (1)
- Panic Attacks (1)
- Patience (1)
- Philosophical Approaches (1)
- Postpartum Depression (1)
- Prayer (1)
- Pregnancy and Childbirth (1)
- Productivity (1)
- Qigong (1)
- Quantum Physics (1)
- Race and Gender (1)
- Racial Discrimination (1)
- Raising Daughters (1)
- Reiki (1)
- Relationship with Time (1)
- Reproductive Health (1)
- Self-Hypnosis (1)
- Shamanism (1)
- Smoking Addiction (1)
- Social Presence (1)
- Social Psychology (1)
- Spiritual Fasting (1)
- Sufism (1)
- Tapping/EFT (1)
- Tarot (1)
- The Unconscious (1)
- Transgender Well-Being (1)
- Vitamin Supplementation (1)
- Weight Concerns (1)
- Zen Meditation (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Adyashanti (6)
- Ken Wilber (6)
- Tara Brach (6)
- don Miguel Ruiz (5)
- Gerald Jampolsky (5)
- Jack Kornfield (5)
- Karen Casey (5)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (5)
- Noah Levine (5)
- Ram Dass (5)
- Sally Kempton (5)
- Jean Shinoda Bolen (4)
- John C. Parkin (4)
- Karla McLaren (4)
- Lori Gottlieb (4)
- Mark Nepo (4)
- Pema Chödrön (4)
- Stephen Levine (4)
- Thich Nhat Hanh (4)
- Bruce Lipton (3)
- Daniel Amen (3)
- Daniel J. Siegel (3)
- Debbie Ford (3)
- Gay Hendricks (3)
- Jeff Foster (3)
- John Welwood (3)
- M. Scott Peck (3)
- Marianne Williamson (3)
- Matt Kahn (3)
- Naomi Osaka (3)
- Reginald Ray (3)
- Shakti Gawain (3)
- Tony Robbins (3)
- Adam Grant (2)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (2)
- Amishi Jha (2)
- Andrew Weil (2)
- Chögyam Trungpa (2)
- Claudio Naranjo (2)
- Deepak Chopra (2)
- don Jose Ruiz (2)
- Eckhart Tolle (2)
- Edward Hallowell (2)
- Elizabeth Lesser (2)
- Gabor Maté (2)
- Gary Chapman (2)
- Gary Zukav (2)
- Hank Wesselman (2)
- Howard Thurman (2)
- Jack Canfield (2)
- Jarvis Jay Masters (2)
- Jay Shetty (2)
- Jean Houston (2)
- Jeff Brown (2)
- Jessica Dore (2)
- Joanne Cacciatore (2)
- Joe Dispenza (2)
- John Bradshaw (2)
- John Gottman (2)
- Judith Blackstone (2)
- Judith Orloff (2)
- Julia Cameron (2)
- Karen Johnson (2)
- Kathlyn Hendricks (2)
- Kenneth Robinson (2)
- Lama Surya Das (2)
- Lisa Feldman Barrett (2)
- Mark Manson (2)
- Martha Beck (2)
- Melanie Joy (2)
- Michael Bernard Beckwith (2)
- Michael Phelps (2)
- Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (2)
- Neale Donald Walsch (2)
- Oliver Sacks (2)
- Paramahansa Yogananda (2)
- Peter A. Levine (2)
- Peter Russell (2)
- Phillip Moffitt (2)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2)
- Rick Fields (2)
- Robert A. Johnson (2)
- Stan Tatkin (2)
- Steven Johnson (2)
- Swami Mukundananda (2)
- Wayne Dyer (2)
- Zainab Salbi (2)
- Adi Da Samraj (1)
- Alan Cohen (1)
- Alan Watts (1)
- Alice Walker (1)
- Amma (1)
- Andrew Holecek (1)
- Andrew Solomon (1)
- Andy Puddicombe (1)
- Anita Moorjani (1)
- Anthony de Mello (1)
- Arianna Huffington (1)
- Audre Lorde (1)
- Barbara Marx Hubbard (1)
- Bernie S. Siegel (1)
- Bessel van der Kolk (1)
- Blaise Aguirre (1)
- Brian Tracy (1)
- Brian Weiss (1)
- Carol S. Pearson (1)
- Carolyn Baker (1)
- Chalene Johnson (1)
- Chan Khong (1)
- Chip Conley (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Cynthia Bourgeault (1)
- Dan Millman (1)
- Dane Rudhyar (1)
- Daniel Goleman (1)
- Dannion Brinkley (1)
- David J. Wolpe (1)
- David R. Hawkins (1)
- David Spiegel (1)
- David Whyte (1)
- Deena Metzger (1)
- Donna Jackson Nakazawa (1)
- Dorothy Day (1)
- Dorothy Firman (1)
- Edgar Cayce (1)
- Elaine Aron (1)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (1)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (1)
- Eric Maisel (1)
- Esther Perel (1)
- Ethan Nichtern (1)
- Gangaji (1)
- Harville Hendrix (1)
- HeatherAsh Amara (1)
- Helen LaKelly Hunt (1)
- Hyla Cass (1)
- Iskra Lawrence (1)
- Iyanla Vanzant (1)
- J. Krishnamurti (1)
- Jacqui Lewis (1)
- James Doty (1)
- James Hillman (1)
- Jan Willis (1)
- Jana Long (1)
- Jane E. Brody (1)
- Jennifer Peepas (1)
- Jesus (1)
- Joan Chittister (1)
- Joan Halifax (1)
- JoAnn Loulan (1)
- Joanna Macy (1)
- John Sarno (1)
- Jon Kabat-Zinn (1)
- Joseph Goldstein (1)
- Joseph Jaworski (1)
- Joseph M. Marshall III (1)
- Julie Schwartz Gottman (1)
- Kabir Helminski (1)
- Kris Carr (1)
- Kristin Neff (1)
- Lama Tsultrim Allione (1)
- Leah Guy (1)
- Lewis Howes (1)
- Linda Hogan (1)
- Lindo Bacon (1)
- Lise Van Susteren (1)
- Lissa Rankin (1)
- Lodro Rinzler (1)
- Lorin Roche (1)
- Mark Hyman (1)
- Mark Victor Hansen (1)
- Mark Wolynn (1)
- Marshall Rosenberg (1)
- Martin Seligman (1)
- Michael A. Singer (1)
- Michael Murphy (1)
- Miles Neale (1)
- Mirabai Bush (1)
- Molly Young Brown (1)
- Monnica Williams (1)
- Natalie Goldberg (1)
- Nataly Kogan (1)
- Neil Pasricha (1)
- Nicole LePera (1)
- Norman Fischer (1)
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1)
- Panache Desai (1)
- Parker J. Palmer (1)
- Paul Gilbert (1)
- Peter Crone (1)
- Philip Goldberg (1)
- Poppy Jamie (1)
- Ralph De La Rosa (1)
- Ralph Metzner (1)
- Ramani Durvasula (1)
- Rebecca Solnit (1)
- Rich Roll (1)
- Richard Davidson (1)
- Robert Augustus Masters (1)
- Robert Bly (1)
- Robert Firestone (1)
- Robert Kopecky (1)
- Roberto Assagioli (1)
- Roland Griffiths (1)
- Ruby Wax (1)
- Rupi Kaur (1)
- Russell Brand (1)
- Sam Harris (1)
- Sandy Boucher (1)
- Scott Edelstein (1)
- Scott Shute (1)
- Shefali Tsabary (1)
- Shelly Tygielski (1)
- Shinzen Young (1)
- Simone Biles (1)
- Sister Jenna (1)
- Source Unknown (1)
- Stephan Bodian (1)
- Stephanie Y. Evans (1)
- Stephen Covey (1)
- Sue Morter (1)
- Sylvia Boorstein (1)
- T. S. Eliot (1)
- Terry Real (1)
- The Dalai Lama (1)
- Thomas Moore (1)
- Toni Bernhard (1)
- Tony Gaskins Jr. (1)
- V (1)
- Viktor E. Frankl (1)
- William Bloom (1)
- William Cope Moyers (1)
- Willis Harman (1)
- Wim Hof (1)
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1)
- Zinovia Dushkova (1)