238. Being Clear on Why We’re Showing Up to Tell This Story Now featuring Jill Christman
Jill Christman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about contextualizing a memoir in a post-Roe world, what it means to make a choice as mothers, ending a pregnancy, knowing you will write abou...
28 Apr 52min
237. Creating Immediacy in Our Narratives Through Contained Timeframes and Present Tense featuring Mimi Nichter
Mimi Nichter joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being hijacked on a plane when she was twenty years old in the first incident of international terrorism, how we can be socialized into si...
21 Apr 37min
236. Listening to Our Own Language and Going Where We Need to Go featuring Rachel Tzvia Back
Rachel Tzvia Back joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about living with depression, losing a sister, when a mother is emotionally and psychologically absent, how myths can be cloaks, listening ...
16 Apr 38min
235. Searching for a Universal Truth in Your Memoir featuring Julie Scolnik
Julie Scolnick joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about falling madly in love with a married Frenchman when she was 20 years old and living in Paris studying music, working our way back from a...
14 Apr 30min
234. Knowing When a Structure has Clicked in Place featuring Stephanie Weaver
Stephanie Weaver MPH joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about family estrangement, gaslighting, her recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, chronic illness, not wanting a book to be abou...
9 Apr 36min
233. Revealing the Divisions and Truths Within Us featuring Nikkya Hargrove
Nikkya Hargrove joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effects of incarceration on the family system, growing up lost and unsure who her family was, accepting the responsibility of becom...
7 Apr 31min
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 Mar 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 Mar 35min
