260. Returning to and Forgiving Our Authentic Selves featuring Jamie Leigh Lorente
Jamie Leigh Lorente joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about not getting to know her biological father who emigrated from Cuba during the Cold War from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor until the...
22 Sep 42min
259. Going Back to Rescue the Past featuring Deborah Derrickson Kossmann
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how complicated family dynamics culminated in her mother’s severe hoarding disorder, grieving what you didn’t get as a chil...
15 Sep 38min
258. Playing with Writing Constraints and Form featuring Deborah Sosin
Deborah Sosin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about writing 70 micro memoirs of 70 words each to mark her 70th birthday, her love of compression and concision, working in themes, sitting wi...
8 Sep 40min
257. Unburdening Ourselves From Decades of Shame featuring Kim Murphy
Kim Murphy joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about unburdening herself from decades of shame, her often absent and unpredictable mother, what we owe or don’t owe our parents at the end of the...
1 Sep 40min
256. The Catharsis of Memoir: From Resentment to Understanding featuring Jason Allen
Jason Allen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up working poor on Eastern Long Island with an alcoholic father, the threat of different types of violence, his father’s quickness ...
25 Aug 46min
255. The Relief That Comes From Sharing the Toughest Thing featuring Dr. Kara Zivin
Dr. Kara Zivin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal mental health and her own her mental health crisis during pregnancy and postpartum, how she became a patient and professor in t...
18 Aug 42min
254. Writing the Hard Stuff featuring Nicole Walker
Nicole Walker joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how we talk about current traumas and past traumas in ways that don’t retraumatize us, making our work matter to others, giving ourselves...
11 Aug 34min
253. Getting to the Story Beneath the Story featuring D/Annie Liontas
D/Annie Liontas joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about suffering 3 brain injuries in one year and how that changed their relationship to their body and to the world, post-concussive syndrome...
4 Aug 31min
