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Bonus: Libby Copeland, Author of The Lost Family, on Identity in the Age of DNA Testing
On this special bonus episode of Family Secrets, Dani speaks with Libby Copeland, author and journalist, about the psychological and emotional complexities that face families who have kept secrets, a…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Family Secrets Live: In Conversation with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Part II
Dani and Bessel respond to questions from the audience about trauma, and how art—and writing in particular—can help people heal.
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Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Family Secrets Live: In Conversation with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
In January, Dani hit the road for a series of live conversations with some of her favorite writers, artists, and thinkers. Her first stop: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she sat down with renowned …
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Bug Dust
Season 3 Episode 10
For years, Steven Romo just didn’t talk about the bleak landscape of his childhood—not with friends, and certainly not with his colleagues at the TV station where he works as an anchor. Until a headl…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Bonus: Stephanie Wittels Wachs, host of “Last Day” on storytelling in the time of Coronavirus
In this special bonus episode, Dani speaks with Stephanie Wittels Wachs, actress, activist, and co-host of the hit podcast Last Day, which shines a light on the real human stories behind epidemics we…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Red Potion
Season 3 Episode 9
Janny Scott grew up on an 800-acre British-style estate outside Philadelphia with a loving, gregarious father who was always the life of the party. But underneath her father’s light exterior was a da…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Fever Coat
Season 3 Episode 8
When Axton Betz-Hamilton was in middle school, her family’s mail started going missing. Her parents told her that they’d been the victims of an identity thief, and that the perpetrator was likely som…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Bubbe and Zayde and Grandma and Pa
Season 3 Episode 7
Growing up, Adam Frankel idolized his father and his father’s father, eventually following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter for politicians like John Kerry and Barack Obama. But…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Cold People
Season 3 Episode 6
For most of her young life, Lisa Brennan-Jobs bounced back and forth between two very different homes—that of her mother, who raised Lisa alone for the first few years of her life and struggled to ma…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Too Busy to Die
Season 3 Episode 5
Addiction breeds denial, in both the addict and his loved ones. And when that addiction comes wrapped in a busy, successful, ambitious package like Eilene Zimmerman’s ex-husband, a respected Silicon …
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago