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BAD AT KEEPING SECRETS
Each week, we invite thought leaders and experts in the fields of art, design and self-help, to talk about their areas of expertise, share a secret and share what is exciting for them. peopleiveloved.substack.com
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To Love Someone More Than Love Itself
More Than Love: A Conversation on Grief, Legacy, and Becoming Ourselves
There are some stories that never stop unfolding, they just shift shape...
What Safe Feels Like.
Today I’m joined by Jessica Baum, a psychotherapist and the author of Safe: A New Way of Looking at Attachment.
In our conversation, Jessica op...
Wanting Both: Motherhood and Art
Before we start I just wanted to invite you to come hang with Ruthie Ackerman and I at Womb House Books on Wednesday, September 24 · 6:30 - 8:30pm PDT...
Ask this post a question
What if you had a magic 8 ball… but it actually knew you? And instead of spitting out “Ask again later,” it handed you a question so sharp, or so tend...
Holding the s**t show of grief.
Hi. It’s Carissa and this is bad at keeping secrets. How do you feel sad? What does grief look like? This week I have the pleasure sit down with Carla...
Saying the Quiet Things Out Loud
Need permission to share your story? This episode is for you.
This week, I talk with psychologist and author Dr. Jessica Zucker about grief, vul...
There is Enough for YOU with Jennifer Pastiloff
Proof of Life. Proof of Enough.This week, I had the joy of talking with Jennifer Pastiloff, bestselling author of On Being Human, about her powerful n...
I have a crush on...
Hi, it’s Carissa, and this is Bad at Keeping Secrets. Are you an anxious person? I am. So when I saw the headline “This book is for anxious women,” I...
What is enoughness?
Wanting Both: Motherhood, Art, and the Questions That Linger
Hi, it's Carissa, and this is Bad at Keeping Secrets.
For the longest time, I...
The Short Magnificent Life of Flowers
Hi, it's Carissa, and this is Bad at Keeping Secrets. Before I had a kid, my garden was my holy place. Still is, just things are a little more wild no...
What to do when you get dumped.
Hey everyone, it is Carissa and this is Bad at Keeping Secrets. What to do when you get dumped? There is no real guide, telling you how to actually ju...
What if we stayed? The sacred space is already here.
I am what they call a runner. I felt a connection with Julia Roberts in Runaway Bride—the idea that if you don’t like your situation in life, you can...
How to feel alive again.
We can control whether we merely endure our days or experience and enjoy them. We can control whether we arrive on our deathbeds feeling like we've wa...
What is the point of art?
Hi, it’s Carissa, and welcome to Bad at Keeping Secrets! Today, I’m chatting with Liana Finck, an amazing cartoonist, author, and regular contributor...
It's not you. It's your stress.
What is your stress telling you? Just curious… Mine is that I need to change my expectations for myself…
Before we got sick, and then my busines...
What if the great love of your life was friendship?
“Inside our words and actions, the people we love live on through us.”
-Lissa Soep, Other People’s Words
What makes us… well us? What make...
How to create meaning.
Recently, I read something somewhere that admitting you were lonely was one of the most shameful things someone could do. And yet, I do it all the tim...
Do you wonder if you are doing more? You are.
We are in this amazing moment where we are trying to make a more equitable future by the ways that we structure our time and resources. We have never...
Setting Yourself Up For Failure.
“To witness one life's miserable devastation and see her reach, instead, for joy. Let your life rest on what is already good. It's just another day in...
Avoidance of pain leads to more pain.
I grew up thinking that addiction was not something that ran in my family. So I didn’t have to worry about it. My parents were both not really into dr...
Why do we avoid rest?
I have known Ashley Neese for years. We met when we gave a talk together in the winter of 2019. I have been obsessed with her ever since. Her new book...
Is depression a character flaw or illness?
“It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.” - Rachel Aviv
Have you ever wondered why your life...
How to slow down and...
In celebration of darkness, this week I want to revisit my chat with Katherine May, a best-selling author and podcast host, of whom I adore in so many...
What is a lie? The unraveling of our shared reality...
“...sometimes, when something is such an integral part of your life, it's hard to see where the raw material ends, and the inspiration begins.”
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How to feel alive again.
We can control whether we merely endure our days or experience and enjoy them. We can control whether we arrive on our deathbeds feeling like we've wa...
Can AI tell how you're feeling?
This week, I’m revisiting a topic that is a little scary but also extremely hopeful. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of talking with Grace Chang...
Knowing what your body needs
Lately I have been feeling under the weather without actually being sick with a fever - does that ever happen to you? I have a sneaking suspicion it i...
What makes life worth living?
The idea that the universe is ultimately meaningless is something that I have been sifting through all of my life. Meaning is super sexy, offering an...
How to actually do the thing.
The older I get the more dubious I am of how much control we actually have over our lives. And question if the systems of knowledge familiar to us are...
When does positivity become toxic?
This week, I am super excited to revisit and share Whitney Goodman’s work with you. As someone who is drawn to the beauty inherent in sadness, I have...
Should I quit or should I stay?
So, you came here for help. I am guessing. You want to know if you should leave your partner, quit your job, unfriend someone, leave the city you grew...
How to steal like an artist
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
―André Gide
I’ve...
"Should I have a baby?"
A few months ago, I wrote about resources for people who were on the fence about if they wanted to have kids or not. Perhaps it is something that you...
Where is the line between inspiration and copy?
Where do we draw the line between inspiration and copying someone else’s original idea? Do any of us ever have original ideas? I had the chance to spe...
We're a molecule away from madness
Sara Manning Peskin takes on the idea of "madness" in her book A Molecule Away From Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain. It reads like a detective no...
Where does the mind stop and the world begin?
What would it mean to think outside of your brain? I am fascinated by the idea that we can think with our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationsh...
Everybody is trying to manage their pain
This week I am talking to Aamina Ahmad, author of The Return of Faraz Ali. Her book is about a murder, but it is like no other “murder mystery” I have...
What does a secure relationship look like?
Hi friends, hi,
I hope this week treated you gently and with care. And if it didn’t, well, then I am extra glad for us that it is the weekend.
How can we use our own imperfections to understand others?
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make sense of this world that we live in - holding multiple truths, reconciling feeling like we know nothi...
Perfect is the enemy of the good
Emma Straub’s paperback release of her NY Times Bestseller This Time Tomorrow is coming to us soon on May 16! She kicks off her book tour very soon to...