This week on Here After with Megan Devine: You can’t keep everybody safe with author Mary Laura Philpott If you’ve been worried about bad things happening to the people you love, is it possible that an actual bad thing might bring temporary relief? Obviously, the answer is “no not really,” but in this conversation with…
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Neurodivergence & Being Seen, Not Shamed with Lauren Ober, host of “The Loudest Girl in the World”
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Neurodivergence & Being Seen, Not Shamed with Lauren Ober, host of “The Loudest Girl in the World” Look, life is weird and difficult. Social situations are hard to navigate. The world is too loud or too scratchy. You’re too loud or too bright or just “too much.”…
Untangled: Suffering & The 8-Fold Path with Koshin Paley Ellison
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Untangled: Suffering & The 8-Fold Path with Koshin Paley Ellison If you look at social media with its reliance on meme-based psychology, you’d think that the Buddhist approach to life is to not let things get to you – that the true spiritual path helps you…
Other People Have It Worse: Veteran Jason Kander on PTSD & recognizing you need help
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Other People Have It Worse: Veteran Jason Kander on PTSD & recognizing you need help On the outside, veteran Jason Kander had everything going for him: successful political career, lovely family, the respect of his peers. But on the inside, he was struggling: nightmares, depression and…
Women, Life, Freedom: Grief and Power in Iran, with Nazanin Nour
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Women, Life, Freedom: Grief and Power in Iran, with Nazanin Nour What’s happening in Iran and why are you hearing about it so much? This week on Here After, Iranian-American actor and writer Nazanin Nour on the protests unfolding in Iran, grief in the Iranian global…
Pet loss and veterinarians who cry: with veterinary oncologist and author Dr. Renee Alsarraf
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Pet loss and veterinarians who cry: with veterinary oncologist and author Dr. Renee Alsarraf Nobody likes to talk about pet loss… but everybody wants to talk about pet loss. What a difficult scenario that is! Veterinary oncologist Dr. Renee Alsarraf joins us to talk about grief,…
Grief in Fiction, Grief in Life, with best-selling author, Emily X.R. Pan
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Grief in Fiction, Grief in Life, with best-selling author, Emily X.R. Pan NYT best-selling author Emily X.R. Pan had a problem: she wanted to write about her grandmother’s complex and fascinating life in 1920s Taiwan, but the task seemed too overwhelming. A deeply personal experience of…
Over and Over Again: illustrator Aubrey Hirsch on the power of storytelling
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Over and Over Again: illustrator Aubrey Hirsch on the power of storytelling “Getting people to feel angry with me makes me feel less alone, less helpless. (It) makes me feel like, okay, there’s a whole team of us. We’re all gonna do it.” – Writer and…