May 31, 2022
In this very personal episode, I got help thinking about the nuances of consent. This isn't a directly therapeutic episode so much as a theoretical one: how might we express our ambivalence about sexual experiences that we’re not sure constitute assault, but were harmful nonetheless? What are the pressures to come...
May 24, 2022
What makes for a good listener? Is it simply making yourself into a blank canvas that absorbs whatever is splattered onto it? Or is it more active than that? We know that meditation teachers and therapists are often good listeners, but how can we laypeople hone the art of listening in conversation?
These were some of...
May 17, 2022
Conversations about how to suck less — aka how to be actively anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic (and so much more!) — can sometimes be tricky to navigate. People in marginalized groups are often asked to do a lot of unpaid labor to explain these issues to their friends,...
May 10, 2022
The world is a lot. It seems that everyone I talk to feels some sense of despair over the state of the world, an anxiety and general overwhelm that often bleeds into their feelings about their own lives as well. I think about the millennial saying of “can't even” — and I get it. But I also don’t want to identify...
May 10, 2022
A quick explanation of the premise of the new podcast "Help Existing" with host Rachel Krantz. The world is a lot, and we could all use some help existing in it. Each week, award-winning journalist and author of OPEN Rachel Krantz will interview different experts, authors, teachers, and friends, all of whom can offer...