137. The Burden of Family Secrets featuring David Tereshchuk
David Tereshchuk joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being drawn to journalism to help him cure the matter of unanswered questions in his own life, his early years living in the rural bor...
5 Dec 202435min
136. The Wise Narrator on the Page featuring Rachel Zimmerman
Rachel Zimmerman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about rebuilding her family’s life after her husband’s death by suicide, the physical toll of grief, feeling like a doomed family, finding j...
3 Dec 202447min
135. Reckoning with What We Need to Write and Learning to Stop Punishing Ourselves featuring Sarah LaBrie
Sarah LaBrie joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the year her mom was diagnosed with schizophrenia and the legacy of mental illness in her family, rethinking ambitions in light of tragedy...
26 Nov 202429min
134. In Service of Your Story featuring Steve Hoffman
Steve Hoffman joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not getting sidetracked from the story you want to tell, the difference between accuracy and truth, coming to terms with who you are, how...
19 Nov 202438min
133. Breaking Through Internal Barricades and Going Deep featuring Seth Lorinczi
Seth Lorinczi joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about going from a state of deep hiding to deep sharing, untangling the scars of the Holocaust and world wars through psychedelics, how ancestr...
14 Nov 202445min
132. Writing Lyrically About the Perceptual Richness of Altered Sight featuring Naomi Cohn
Naomi Cohn joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about becoming legally blind in mid-life and how that changed her writing process, going from poetry to lyric essay, falling in love with Braille,...
12 Nov 202452min
131. Legitimizing Our Own Experience Through Memoir featuring Anne Pinkerton
Anne Pinkerton joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about processing the loss of her older brother David, how brothers and sisters get short shrift when it comes to grief in our culture, her Wri...
7 Nov 202447min
130. Writing Memoir As a Mother-Daughter Team featuring Dorothy and Rachel Leland
Dorothy and Rachel Leland join Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about Rachel’s battle with Lyme disease beginning at 13 years old, controversial medical diagnoses, advocating for treatment, living...
5 Nov 202440min
