With LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicking off this week it’s easy to feel… well, a lot of things. With the anti-queer, anti-trans, anti-reproductive rights, pro-violence of the world, anything joyful or joy-adjacent can seem strange. It’s also still a pandemic, so there’s that too. Even without the cacophony of the wider world, if you’re grieving,…
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What’s it all for? Loss and meaning in midlife with Chip Conley
This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: What’s it all for? Loss and meaning in midlife with Chip Conley Midlife has a lot of messy stuff in it: divorce, the death of your parents, menopause, health scares, empty nests, career changes, feeling increasingly irrelevant – “midlife” has terrible branding, according to author,…
Living with chronic illness: a conversation for everyone with a body, with Sarah Ramey
This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Living with chronic illness: a conversation for everyone with a body, with Sarah Ramey Look, there are some things in life – a LOT of things in life – that just can’t be fixed or made better, you have to figure out how you’re going…
Collective Grief and Communal Joy: with Baratunde Thurston
This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Collective Grief and Communal Joy: with Baratunde Thurston Can you heal pain by focusing on joy? Baratunde Thurston gave what’s been called “the greatest TED talk of all time.” He’s written about being Black in America, he’s got a podcast about community involvement called How…
Guest Lineup for Season 3 of It’s OK that You’re Not OK, the podcast
Want to hear brilliant people talking about their often invisible losses (and what helped them survive)? Season 3 of It’s OK that You’re Not OK is FULL of fascinating conversations with wonderful people. Friends, I am SO excited about this season’s guests – they each brought me so much joy. Dr. Gabor Maté Baratunde…
Why do we celebrate trauma (aka: resilience)? with Dr. Gabor Maté
This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Why do we celebrate trauma (aka: resilience)? with Dr. Gabor Maté Did anyone teach you that understanding your grief is the key to being (or becoming) a healthy human being? Probably not. In this expansive episode, Megan speaks with world-renowned author and physician Gabor Maté…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month: We need to talk about HOW we talk about mental health
So May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and y’all know how I feel about these arbitrary “pay attention to it now, forget it tomorrow” events. HOWEVER. Open, direct conversations about mental and emotional health are important. They’re necessary. But if all these “we need to talk about mental health” campaigns don’t also focus on *HOW*…
It’s Ok that You’re Not OK: the podcast
This week on It’s OK that You’re Not OK: It’s Ok that You’re Not OK: the podcast What would be different if we could all just tell the truth about our lives? Welcome to SEASON THREE of It’s OK that You’re Not OK: the podcast (formerly known as Here After with Megan Devine). I…