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Safe Space Radio is the show about subjects we’d struggle with less if we could talk about them more. We combine storytelling with empathy and expertise to foster courage in navigating chall...
“I had known the pain, and survived it. It only remained for me to give it voice, to share it for use, that the pain not be wasted.” A...
“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis. What if it’s our best chance to build a better world?” Naomi Klein Reports of wildf...
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” George Eliot This hour-long show is about the mental health benefits and...
Courage is the choice to act even when we feel afraid. It forces us to confront fear, shame, and stigma—and to feel our own strength. This h...
Many white parents have never learned how to talk about race and racism with their kids. Silence perpetuates racism—but it can be hard to kn...
This episode is about loneliness: what it is, why so many of us feel it, and the surprising toll loneliness takes on our physical and mental...
powerpress] This hour-long program is about asking for help: why it’s so hard to admit when we need something from another person, and the s...
We all make mistakes. Knowing how to mend our relationships is vital to the mental health of our families and communities. This episode is a...
This hour-long special is about the unspoken challenges of caring for a family member with dementia. The show explores the experience of amb...
This show is about the courage of teenagers who come out at a time in life when it is hardest to be different. So many of the legal and soci...
For the final show of 2016 and this season of Safe Space Radio, we revisit my 2011 conversation with Matthew Sanford. Matthew is a yoga teac...
This week we go back to 2008 and the second episode of Safe Space Radio to revisit a conversation that remains so important to me: how (and...
This week we revisit my 2014 conversation with Ellen Jennings, who is the mother of a son with high-functioning autism. She talks about how...
This week's show revisits my 2014 interview with Bobby Payzant, an inmate at the Maine State Prison. We discuss the crime for which he is se...
This week we present my 2012 conversation with Meredith Hall about her pregnancy at age 16. Meredith describes being shunned by her family a...
This week I revisit my 2013 conversation with Episcopal Priest Carl Russell about the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his...
Today's show revisits my 2009 conversation with Leah Deragon of Birth Roots about her struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety. As a...
This week we revisit my 2012 conversation with Glenn Close about how and why she became an advocate for those with mental illness. Glenn's s...
This 2013 conversation with Sheila Heen, faculty member at the Harvard Negotiation Project, was a fun one. Sheila and her husband, who are b...
In this interview from 2011, I speak with Catharine Murray about how writing poetry helped her heal from a loss that initially felt unspeaka...
This week we are re-airing a 2012 interview with violence prevention educator Daryl Fort. We talk about how our culture teaches that men are...
This week we revisit a 2015 conversation with Sandy White Hawk, one of five commissioners of Maine's historic Truth and Reconciliation Commi...
This week we revisit one of the first episodes of Safe Space Radio, a conversation with Canadian broadcaster Neil McKenty about his struggle...
This week we revisit a conversation from 2011 with Elyn Saks, a law professor and MacArthur fellow who lives with schizophrenia. We discuss...
We begin a new season of the show with some of the best episodes from the early days of Safe Space Radio. We'll be updating them with new co...
This week's show is the second half of my conversation with Navy veteran Meosha Thomas. We talk about the injuries she suffered in Iraq when...
Over the next two weeks we will conclude our series on PTSD among women veterans by talking with Navy veteran Meosha Thomas. This week, Meos...
This week I speak with LaRhonda Harris of the Maine Department of Veterans' Affairs. She talks about changes that have been made in the last...
This week's show is part two of my interview with Kate Weber. Last week she told the story of being sexually assaulted on her army base over...
This week we continue our series on PTSD among women veterans. My guest is Kate Weber, who was raped by a fellow soldier within her first we...
This week I talk with Kathy Russin, the Military Sexual Trauma Program Coordinator for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Maine. She talk...
This week's show is the second half of my conversation with Ruth Moore, a survivor of Military Sexual Trauma, and the namesake of the Ruth M...
This week we begin a new series on PTSD among women veterans. My guest is Ruth Moore, who tells the story of being sexually assaulted by her...
This week's show is a conversation with Armenian-American photographer and filmmaker Nubar Alexanian. We talk about the film he is making wi...
A conversation with Jungian analyst Don Kalsched about how he helps people work through trauma by exploring the feelings of the characters i...
This week we talk with LJ, who has been dealing with depression for most of his life, and describes it as a battle with a powerful enemy. He...
A conversation with Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Portland's Coffee By Design. We talk about the ways that one coffee shop worked to b...
Clare Miller is the director of the American Psychiatric Association’s Partnership for Workplace Mental Health. She works with employe...
On this week's show I talk with Lisa, who shares two dramatically different stories of telling co-workers about her depression. Her experien...
This week I talk with therapist and former orchestra conductor Susie Melnick about how depression has affected her work in both professions....
This week we begin a new series on Depression in the Workplace. My first guest is Geoff Smith, who heads LL Bean's Employee Assistance Progr...
A conversation with Sara, an Iraqi citizen who fled to the US because her brother's work for the American forces in Baghdad put her family i...
Feminist scholar Cynthia Enloe discusses about how women are affected by war and militarization. Her work focuses on sexual violence—and its...
This is the second episode of Safe Space Radio to feature Catherine Besteman, Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at C...
This episode of Safe Space Radio features Catherine Besteman, Francis F. and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Sh...
An interview with lawyer Phil Mantis of the Immigrant Legal Assistance Program, or ILAP. ILAP provides free legal help to people seeking asy...
This week I speak with Alice, an asylee from Burundi who now lives in Maine. She talks about her work in both countries to support and empow...
This week I speak with Anna, who escaped Syria while 8 months pregnant in 2013 and now lives in Maine. She talks about trading the daily thr...
We begin a new series on refugee women in Maine with a conversation with Fatuma Hussein of United Somali Women of Maine. She describes the c...
This week we conclude our series on the Maine-Wabanaki TRC by visiting a group of non-native allies who are working on how to best respond t...