Author Qian Julie Wang joins us to tell the story of her childhood in an undocumented family, how the experience shaped her life, and how she now views the American Dream.
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Ronald Reagan’s daughter on Alzheimer’s and caregiving
Patti Davis joins us to discuss the support group she founded and the struggle with prolonged grief that comes with the illness.
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Why we find pleasure in pain
Paul Bloom joins us to discuss why we sometimes seek out pain — in everything from scary movies to marathons.
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Anxious all the time? Here’s how to free your mind
psychotherapist Nancy Colier explains how excessive thinking to the point of stress is an addiction and offers tips on how practices like mindfulness can calm an overactive mind.
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When you’re bipolar, chaos is always lurking
Naomi Jackson joins us to talk about the series of events that led to her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the things she almost lost as she battled her way back to health.
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She Couldn’t Pray The Gay Away
Julie Rodgers joins us to discuss how religion has shaped her life, from coming out in a conservative evangelical household, to now, as she works to bridge LGBTQ communities with the church.
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From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach
Brandon P. Fleming joins us to discuss his childhood surrounded by poverty and crime, his dreams shattered by injury, and his ultimate redemption, which he found in teaching himself and others to be express themselves.
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The science of your dreams
Neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro joins us to discuss how dreams are connected to how we learn and even how we understand our existence.
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In A World Of Distraction, Your Attention Is Precious
Casey Schwartz joins us to talk about her experience of once being addicted to drugs that promised her better thinking, and about the pluses and minuses of distraction.
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Your Developmentally Delayed Child Has Finished School — Now What?
Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.
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How Ideas Infect Our Brains
Andy Norman, director of the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to discuss the ways conspiracy theories can corrupt sound thinking – and how we can strengthen ourselves to fight back against bad ideas.
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Anxiety Can Actually Be Good For You
Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a professor of neural science and psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University, and she joins us to discuss how we can master stress to put it to good use.
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