Bubbles of Love: Your Burnout Treatment, with Emily Nagoski
When Emily’s twin, Amelia, ended up in the hospital twice, she knew that stress wasn’t something to be dismissed as “all in your head”. First of all, the head is connected to the body (by the neck), s...
16 Mar 56min
Group Therapy Royalty and First-Time Movie Star Elliot Zeisel From GROUP
The patients in the therapy sessions in the new film GROUP: The Schopenhauer Effect are actors, but it’s not a scripted film. The actors were given characters and circumstances and then they improvise...
9 Mar 43min
Jonathan Edward Durham Was In Horrible Mental Shape But Didn’t Realize It
Although he has a huge following on social media now, Jonathan Edward Durham’s life as a writer used to be a lot more low tech. It involved locking himself in a room in Los Angeles, pounding away on s...
2 Mar 51min
Huge Scientific Breakthroughs Are Changing How You’ll Think About Eating Disorders
You might remember Alexandra Paul as one of the stars of Baywatch or the Tom Hanks-Dan Aykroyd Dragnet film. You may not have realized that as a child and on to her long trip through the worlds of mod...
23 Feb 1h
Are Dating Apps a Mental Health Grenade? And, How Are Kids Doing in ICE-Era Minnesota?
Dating apps and websites are booming right now as people look for ways to leverage to find love or even just companionship. Liesel Sharabi of Arizona State University compiled a meta-analysis of a hug...
16 Feb 51min
Niko Stratis on Dad Rock, Glasswork, Depression, Addiction, and Becoming Herself
Niko Stratis knew a couple of things growing up in the Yukon in Canada: that she was, in truth, a woman, despite being regarded by the world as male, and that being trans or different in any way was a...
9 Feb 58min
SPECIAL EPISODE: Mental Health and ICE in Minnesota
The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant a huge number of arrests, protests, confrontations, deportations, children and adults sent to detention facilities, and deaths. It’s also meant massive anxiety, fe...
6 Feb 23min
Amanda Knox on Facing Her Prosecutor, Her Past, Her Trauma, and Her Future
In 2007, Amanda Knox, an American studying abroad in Italy, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After years in an Italian jail, she was ultimately freed...
2 Feb 54min
