Dec 8, 2019
Do you hide memories away in boxes under beds, at the top corners of closets? Or do you keep them all around you, cluttered up on your mantel and stuck to the front of your fridge? From our personal stories to our public histories, memory affects the way we view and move through our world. I talk with journalist...
Nov 10, 2019
Nov 10, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
Bonus episode: Hear my extended interview with writer and psychotherapist Dr. Kathlyn Conway. Her book Beyond Words: Illness and the Limits of Expression explores storytelling about illness and trauma beyond the triumph narrative. As a cancer-survivor herself, she has come face to face with "the limits of the self and...
Oct 7, 2019
Can encounters with the wild heal us? Can trauma yield discoveries that are beautiful and expansive? I talk to a psychotherapist and two licensed falconers about the surprising connections between traumatic experiences and the art of falconry. It turns out that training birds might be a little-known secret to healing....