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344. Calling for Hope
Zachary Blackowl lost his mom a few years ago, and the grief he felt after her death threw him into a deep depression. The thing that helped him start to…
August 21, 2024
The Resilience Myth with Soraya Chemaly
Years ago, when Nora was in the worst phase of her life (dead husband, dead dad, lost pregnancy) she heard a lot of people describe her as resilient. Those people…
June 18, 2024
205. Accept the Invite
When you’re in a depressive state, it’s totally normal to want to lay in bed and hide from the world. One of our listeners called in with some advice for…
February 8, 2024
Claire Has A Secret
When Claire was a teenager, she held a lot of big, difficult feelings, and for a while, she saw only one solution for them. Though Claire decides to not act…
September 5, 2023
The Teachers Are Not Alright
Like many teachers, when Kristen started her career at 22, she was hopeful and excited. She loved working with students with special needs, and loved learning how their brains worked.…
August 29, 2023
From The Archives: Nathan
Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide and suicidal ideation. Nathan always knew he was different growing up. He also knew the LDS church had certain expectations of him: He’d…
July 18, 2023
From the Archives: If/Then
Charlotte was an operating room nurse, used to handling life-or-death situations with precision. But one night, everything changed.
June 20, 2023
Courtney’s Secret Garden
Courtney Maum is having a midlife crisis. Parenting is taking so much of her time. Her writing career is going well, but that means she’s overwhelmed by deadlines and book…
April 18, 2023
Jamie The Good Times Gal
There are a ton of money stories out there. Stories about people who are screwed financially through no fault of their own. People who did everything right and still cannot…
March 28, 2023
Update: The Beautiful Ones
Four years ago, Nora sat down with her friend Gigi to tell the story of … Gigi’s face. It was a story about confidence and beauty (and beauty standards) and…
September 27, 2022
Overthinking About You
Allison Raskin was just 4 years old the first time she told her parents she wanted to die. Within weeks, the preschooler was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.…
September 13, 2022
Born Fat
Genna is fat. They are also queer and nonbinary. All of these things can make a person feel marginalized in a straight, cisgender, thin-obsessed society … but for Genna, it’s…
September 6, 2022
Brettina Has BPD
Our language surrounding mental illness has evolved a lot over the past couple of decades … to a point. There are still some mental illnesses that exist outside of the…
May 10, 2022
How’s It Going In There? 2022 Edition
In 2020, we asked how it was going in there … wherever it was you were isolating, quarantining, social distancing. Somehow, it’s been *checks watch* TWO YEARS of COVID and…
March 22, 2022
Self-Portrait of My Own Misery
We are all just products of the people who raise us. And they are products of those who raised them. Vanessa Zoltan knows that better than most. She is the…
February 9, 2022
