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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 comple…
6 years, 5 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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6 years, 5 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…
6 years, 5 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 …
6 years, 6 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 l…
6 years, 6 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. B…
6 years, 6 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 ident…
6 years, 7 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…
6 years, 7 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 t…
6 years, 7 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 E…
6 years, 7 months ago