Living with Chronic Illness: A Conversation For Everyone with a Body, with Sarah Ramey
Look, there are some things in life - a LOT of things in life - that just can’t be fixed or made better, you have to figure out how you’re going to live with them. Sarah Ramey spent DECADES trying t...
4 Dec 20231h 3min
What Happens to Childhood Grief When You Grow Up? with Allyson Dinneen
Our early childhood experiences of grief - and how our family systems dealt with loss - have a huge impact on our adult behaviors and relationships. This week, author Allyson Dinneen (@notesfromyou...
27 Nov 202330min
Gun Violence, Graphic Imagery & The Washington Post; with Nelba Márquez-Greene
Recently The Washington Post released graphic images, videos, and audio recordings from mass shootings, in a report called “Terror on Repeat.” Should news outlets attempt to push awareness through the...
22 Nov 202356min
Sometimes Loss Is Freedom: A Conversation with Rebecca Woolf
What if you were just about to get divorced, but your partner gets sick? Like really sick? Rebecca Woolf was just about to leave an unhappy marriage when her husband got sick and died. What followed w...
20 Nov 202348min
Is It Time to Retire the Stages of Grief? (Spoiler: Yes)
Everybody knows the stages of grief. Even if you didn’t go to grad school, I bet you can rattle them off. Thing is - those stages don’t help anyone: not the pros trying to support patients or clients,...
13 Nov 202325min
Can We Make This Place Beautiful? with Maggie Smith
How do we live in a world that’s at least half terrible, and that is a conservative estimate?If you recognize that line, you already know Maggie Smith. This week on the show, we’re talking about writi...
6 Nov 202351min
Wonder In an Age of Violence: Valarie Kaur & See No Stranger
“Wonder is the root of love, the lack of wonder is the root of violence.” Valarie Kaur is no stranger to violence. As a Sikh, as a woman, as a person of color, violence has shaped both her activism an...
30 Okt 202359min
The Old Gays Talk Life, Joy, and the Missing Generation of Gay Elders
Being fabulous can save your life. The Old Gays are a social media sensation: flamboyant outfits, lip synched dance parties, and risque theatrics you might not expect of men in their 70s and 80s. ...
23 Okt 202356min
