232. Self-Compassion and Recognizing the Illusion of Control featuring Amanda McCracken
Amanda McCracken joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about what happens when you’re hopelessly, stubbornly in love with longing, fear of intimacy, the idea of falling in love vs. being in love,...
31 Maalis 34min
231. Recovering and Reclaiming the Teenage Version of Ourselves in Memoir featuring Wendy C. Ortiz
Wendy C. Ortiz joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the English teacher who preyed on her when she was thirteen, writing about the person we are now when writing about our past, placing th...
24 Maalis 35min
230. Leaning into the Most Authentic Version of Our Story featuring Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Mallary Tenore Tarpley joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the middle place between acute sickness and full recovery, living with the imprints of a disorder, resisting thinking in black a...
17 Maalis 38min
229. Becoming Someone Else featuring Karen Palmer
Karen Palmer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing her identity to escape a dangerous ex-husband, being stalked, the consequences of deciding to disappear, coming to grips with the...
10 Maalis 31min
228. Bringing the Reader into Our Discovery Process featuring Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her father’s interviews beginning in the 1930s with over 500 back-white couples who crossed the color line in Chicago, moving to memoi...
3 Maalis 39min
227. Crafting a Shared Memoir featuring Rebecca N. Thompson, MD
Rebecca N. Thompson, MD joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about life-threatening pregnancy losses and weaving her own story of navigating a challenging path to parenting with the stories of ...
24 Helmi 40min
226. Homing in on Why We Need to Tell Our Story featuring Blair Glaser
Blair Glaser joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her time on a Catskills ashram during her twenties in the 1990s, yearning and the thrilling and perilous idolization of other human beings...
17 Helmi 39min
225. Writing Closer to the Bone featuring Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the evolution of our narratives, how each book teaches you how to write it, approaching memoir from many different angles, how there’s no pr...
10 Helmi 41min
