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Stories and Stanza delivers authentic storytelling, intimate conversations with writers revealing their craft and transformative explorations of emotional intelligence, mental health and resilience.
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Volcano Mad or Eat-Your-Peas Mad? Building an Emotional Language with Your Child (opens the original)
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How many times have we told a child, “Use your words”? I’ve said it more than once. In this episode of Fail With Me, clinical psychologist Dr David S. Marcus gently turned that phrase around for me. Emotional language isn’t something children simply pick up because they’re bright or have a good vocabulary. It’s a skill, and it has to be built with them, using their words, not ours.Dr Marcus has spent 40 years working with families under stress in Cincinnati. Our conversation moved from early chi
Why Awareness Isn’t Enough: Shadow Journaling with Oliver Mann (opens the original)
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This Is What It Feels Like to Be Alive. (opens the original)
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It Happened — And You Had To Be There (opens the original)
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Yesterday, Stories and Stanza held its first ever in-person live event. And I mean that literally — this is one you had to be in the room for.We recorded parts of it, but I want to be upfront about something: we didn’t get a full, clean recording of the event. Live sound is hard to get right — chairs shifting, the room’s own noise, people leaning in to ask questions from different distances to the mic. It’s simply a different beast to a studio conversation. And honestly, that’s part of the point
What If Your Happiness Isn't Yours? (opens the original)
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There are conversations that stay in your head. And then there are conversations that settle somewhere deeper — in the place where you've been quietly asking yourself the same question but haven't yet said it out loud.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="
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