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Witnessing the pain of this regret on numerous occasions gave me the courage to become as fully honest and open as possible, which has completely changed who I am in the best ways. But unexpressed feelings just eat away inside. Silence and introversion used to be my coping mechanisms. The third regret of wishing I’d had the courage to express my feelings has also liberated me enormously. We just need the courage to get out of our own way. This has propelled an ever-expanding habit of courage that has shown me how we are all so much more capable than we realize. I realized that the pain of breaking through any amount of resistance would never be as heart-wrenching as lying on my deathbed with regrets. Ware: The regrets of the dying helped me understand how sacred time is.

(Read more about each of these regrets here.)Ĭaprino: How were these lessons transformative for you personally? So giving real life examples of how you can apply the learning now was the most powerful representation of the message I’d been bestowed.Ĭaprino: What are these top five regrets and how do they keep us from living a happy life?ġ. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.ģ. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.Ĥ. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.ĥ. I wish that I had let myself be happier. Most people cannot truly imagine themselves on their deathbed. It was only as a memoir showing how the regrets of the dying transformed my own life was I able to fully articulate their power and to make them more relatable. So when I was contacted by an agent to write a book and share more about the regrets, it was an honor to be able to tell the stories more fully. Some of my patients had asked me to share their learning onward, to ensure others didn’t make the same mistakes. More than a million people read the article in its first year (and at least 10 million since). As the regrets of the dying had changed my life so much it was the first thing I was called to write about. A music magazine asked me to write an article about it, which inspired me to start a blog. Kathy Caprino: Bronnie, how did you find yourself compelled to write a book about the top regrets of the dying?īronnie Ware: I’d just finished working with dying people for 8 years and had set up a songwriting program in a women’s jail.

Finding Brave™ with Kathy Caprino 105: Top 5 Regrets of the Dying and What We Need To Learn From Them, with Bronnie Ware

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