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Mental Health

The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs

February 9, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health

Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.

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Rediscovering the world beyond your devices

February 8, 2022 Mental Health, Science and Technology

Journalist Johann Hari discusses why we’re only able to focus on tasks for minutes at a time, what happened to our attention span, and how these racing thoughts can be monetized by big tech.

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In a disaster, she put the bottle down

February 8, 2022 Health, Mental Health

Danielle Tcholakian discusses the first year she lived without alcohol – a year during which so many people lived in fear and isolation at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Nature Is Our Nurturer

February 3, 2022 Environment, Health, Mental Health

Lucy Jones joins us to talk about her story of overcoming addiction by forming a deep connection with the beauty of nature, and the biological reasons humans need to be outside.

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A battle-tested guide to confidence

January 31, 2022 Mental Health

Nate Zinsser, director of West Point’s Performance-Psychology program, lays out his step-by-step guide to overcoming the mental pressures holding us back.

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How to heal your broken heart

January 31, 2022 Mental Health, Science and Technology

Journalist Florence Williams talks about her painful divorce and how that led her to uncover the latest research on loneliness and its connection to health.

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How our emotions guide our decisions

January 25, 2022 Mental Health

Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow discusses emerging science working to better understand how our decisions, big and small, are influenced by our emotions.

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Ronald Reagan’s daughter on Alzheimer’s and caregiving

January 24, 2022 Health, Mental Health, Think

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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Our hobbies, ourselves

January 21, 2022 Economics, Mental Health

Julie Beck, senior editor at The Atlantic, talks about why our free time is often seen as a hole to fill with activity and productivity, and why that might be more a reflection on capitalism rather than personal goals.

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How trauma is etched onto our brains

January 19, 2022 Health, Mental Health

Rutgers University professor Tracey Shors explains how the body processes trauma and the therapeutic approaches to help mitigate the negative effects it has on our lives.

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A YA Novelist Takes On Fatphobia

January 18, 2022 Culture, Literature, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Author Crystal Maldonado joins us to discuss her YA novel about a young woman dealing with the typical subjects of boys and friends, but also a deepening understanding of how she’s viewed by the outside world.

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She kept her baby and lost her future

January 12, 2022 Health, Mental Health, Politics

Author Merritt Tierce discusses her pregnancy at age 19, when she felt adoption and abortion were not options for her, and the dreams she gave up to have her baby.

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