The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward wit...
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What kind of food tastes like love to you? Food has a beautiful way of making us feel less lonely ...
Is it possible to be happier? Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin wondered if she could discipline herself to take tiny ste...
Can trauma you experienced as a kid still affect you now? What about the traumatic experiences of ...
Can hilarity and sorrow co-exist? Comedian and actress Cecily Strong (of Saturday Night Live fame)...
The Self-Help Industry would like to convince us that everyone is capable of change. Just drink th...
The Everything Happens team is still on a bit of a summer break, but don't worry! We'll be back in August with all new episodes. W...
In our season six finale, Kate takes us back to the very beginning. In this episode, you’ll hear...
Chaotic childhoods can leave us feeling stuck. Stuck in the roles and relationships and chaos that...
There is a strange tension when we want so badly for the people we love to support us, but want to shield them from the pain at th...
There are two different worlds people inhabit. In one world, people feel infinite bounce. They can see every silver lining and bel...
Everything is in flux. Nothing is the same anymore. How do we live amid all of this uncertainty? Well, psychologist and bestsellin...
How do we find “enough” in a life that keeps getting…. harder? Our lives are shrinking. We are shrunk by the pandemic or by ...
How do we navigate the life in-between? In-between relationships or jobs or friends. In-between independence and dependence. In-be...
When something truly awful happens, we can’t forget. That memory isn’t just stored in our brains. Our bodies keep the score to...
Comedian Jamie Lee is now Netflix’s The Wedding Coach where she’s on a mission to help couples survive the craziness of plann...
Our culture’s obsession with hyper-instrumentalization has meant everything has to be FOR something. But when you are facing unf...
We don’t always know how to move through this strange, distended season. The season before the cure or the vaccine or the answer...
Our bodies tell a story, and we find ourselves having to live inside it. At home. At work. At church. At school. But what happens...
What if the story you’ve been given about your family isn’t the whole truth? Writer Nicole Chung had been told a story like so...
Sometimes there are stories about ourselves that just need to be true, even if they aren't. Stories about our ancestors or younger...
What do you do with a world that is full of things to fear? People we won’t please. Kids who die. Parents who don’t change. Wr...
Who are we when we can't answer where we're from? Who are we when we can't locate ourselves on family trees or on familiar religio...
There are some people who see need and, rather than feeling stuck by the magnitude of the world's pain, they move toward it. Today...
Today’s episode is all about love, the loves that constitute us, the loves that break our hearts, and the loves that keep us goi...
How do you get through a terrible day? What should you not say to someone with cancer? What keeps you believing in God? We thought...
The pandemic has introduced many to living with uncertainty. But for some, uncertainty has always been their norm. Actress Nikki D...
At the core of nursing is the ability to love a stranger, to care indiscriminately. Christie Watson was a nurse in the UK for 20 y...
What does it mean to be blessed? If you were to scroll through social media, you'd assume that "blessed" are the ones with gorgeou...
Are some people more empathetic than others? By studying those on the opposite end of the compassion spectrum--those with psychopa...
Sometimes it feels like the world is irreparably broken. A climate crisis leading to more hurricanes, fires, warming oceans, a pol...
There are some secrets we'd rather not tell, but that eat us alive anyway. Writer Susan Burton was trapped in an eating disorder w...
How do doctors, nurses, and other caring professionals keep their hearts soft when there are forces that make it hard to stay that...
What does it mean to be called to something? What if that job wears you thin? What if you think you've aged out of your vocation? ...
What do you do when all hope feels lost? Abstract artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is no stranger to the hopelessness that comes with ...
Who are we as we age? Our culture has such poor language for the who-we-are-ness across time. The ways we grow and the things that...
We have thick cultural scripts for what is deemed inspirational and it usually goes like this: You can do it. Never give up. Every...
Our lives have shrunk and our choices have been dramatically restricted. But the obligations never stopped, did they? How do we ge...
What does it feel like to really live? Some people jump out of airplanes. Others prefer for their feet to stay on the floor. Some ...
Parenting isn't always Instagram-worthy, but the American myth of perfectionism rarely shows that messy middle. Kristen Howerton, ...
What do we do when the institutions that are supposed to protect us, fail? As a child, Rachael Denhollander was sexually abused by...
Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Ray won hi...
When a group of young moms died around the same time, clinicians Justin Yopp and Don Rosenstein wanted to refer their widowed spou...
What if your life hasn't turned out like you thought it would? When writer Heather Lanier's daughter was born with a rare genetic ...
Timothy Omundson knows what it feels like to make something, then have well-made plans come apart after he suffered a massive stro...
When Jason Rosenthal’s wife died, she left him a gift that he couldn’t even have known to ask for—in the form of a viral Mod...
Sarah Bessey speaks right to the soft spot where our deepest pain and deepest hope meet. The place where in the bleakest of nights...
Wes Moore had a rough childhood growing up in Baltimore. His father died when he was a child, he struggled in school and was arres...
Certain people decide to make other people's pain their own. Gary Haugen, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, is one...
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