Guest: Raychelle Cassada Lohmann author of Teen Anxiety: A CBT and ACT Activity Resource Book for Helping Anxious Adolescents.
About the book: Today’s teens are faced with all sorts of decisions, dilemmas and difficulties, from exam worries to friendship and relationship problems. The result is that anxiety is an increasingly...
21 Jan 201550min
Guest: Karen Koenig, author of Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End Your Food Problems.
About the book: The reason you turn to food when you’re stressed or distressed is that you don’t have better ways of managing life’s ups and downs. According to Karen R. Koenig, an expert on the psych...
20 Jan 201548min
Guest: William Powers, author of New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City.
About the book: Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award...
7 Jan 201548min
Guest: Karen Maezen Miller author of Paradise in Plain Sight, Hand Wash Cold, and Momma Zen
My special guest for the last show of the year is the author who influenced me the most in 2014, Karen Maezen Miller author of Paradise in Plain Sight, Hand Wash Cold, and Momma Zen About the book: ...
31 Dec 201451min
Guest: Amy Alkon, author of Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck
About the book: We live in a world that’s very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say “f*ck”) are frequently at a loss for guidelin...
24 Dec 201449min
Guest: Julia V. Taylor MA, author of The Body Image Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image in an Image-Obsessed World.
About the book: Like most teens, you want to feel good about the way you look. But what happens when the way you look just doesn’t feel good enough? Whether it’s online, on TV, or in magazines, images...
17 Dec 201450min
Guest: Shawn T. Smith, author of Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for the Workplace and the Street
About the book: Whether an aggressor is a seasoned predator or an irate individual, hostility is almost always preceded by warning signs—if we know what to look for. Surviving Aggressive People dissec...
10 Dec 201450min
Guest: Marc Bekoff, PhD, author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence.
About the book: In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world...
3 Dec 201448min
