Euphoria’s Cassie: Portraying women with borderline personality disorder traits
What responsibility does a writer/director have when presenting a female character who appears to have BPD traits? Following the series finale of Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s controversial television dram...
2 Jun 30min
Communication strategies for people with BPD and their treatment providers
How can people with BPD and their clinicians communicate more effectively and compassionately with each other? In this solo episode, I draw on my personal experiences and my study of narrative medicin...
1 Sep 202522min
“You can't necessarily compare your trauma to someone else's”: Social worker Samantha Dellosso
How does the health care system condition how we see our mental health treatment and diagnoses? In this interview—an excerpt from a much longer conversation—I talk with Samantha Dellosso, a social wor...
28 Aug 202533min
“You’re talking about me”: Sara from the Bold Beautiful Borderline podcast
How does BPD impact reproductive choices? In this candid interview, Sara Abbott, the host and producer of the #1 Bold Beautiful Borderline podcast, talks with me about how BPD is affecting her decisio...
18 Aug 202533min
Still Life: The Posthumously Published Diary of Lara Gilbert
What can we learn from the posthumously published diary of Lara Gilbert, a young Canadian woman with BPD traits who suffered from complex PTSD in the 1990s? In this episode, I read excerpts from I Mig...
15 Mar 202526min
"I learn about resilience from my garden": Solara Goldwynn of Royal Roads University
What is the relationship between BPD and food security? BPD and food insecurity are prevalent among university students, and research shows that poor diets, both in terms of insufficient calories and ...
1 Mar 202529min
“We need a society where we don’t step over mentally ill people”: Discussing bioethics with Lucy Yanow
Why do people living with mental illness, including BPD, need to think about bioethics? Because ordinary citizens can now make life-and-death decisions for themselves and others. As laws and regulatio...
15 Feb 202531min
Complex trauma is in our house now: Courtenay Stallings, author of Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks
Why is Laura Palmer a heroine for many of us? Because David Lynch's depiction of her in the Twin Peaks franchise was one of the first and remains one of the most powerful depictions of complex trauma ...
1 Feb 202542min
