HeyJaredWonder In The Weeds
"Wonder in the Weeds" with trauma therapist Cristie Ritz-King.This is the show where we talk about how to live, love, and grow right alongside grief, change, and the "wild messiness of this human life".Moving beyond the role of the "blank slate" therapist, Cristie combines…
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You Don't Get Over Grief — You Build Your Life Around It | Mandi Leigh (opens the original)
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Content note: This conversation touches on suicide loss. If you’re struggling, in the US you can call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time. There are some conversations that stay with you long after you hit stop on the recording. My conversation with singer-songwriter Mandi Leigh is one of those. Mandi’s music career grew out of profound loss. She lost someone deeply important to her in 2017, followed by several more losses in 2020. During a health journey, she picked up a guitar
Why Won't Anyone Listen to Women? | Gen X Meets Gen Z (XwhyZ) (opens the original)
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My Gen Z kid handed me an article, and it turned into a whole conversation about who actually gets listened to. I want to tell you how this episode started, because it is very on brand for us. We spent the first few minutes arguing about the countdown, me taking a sip of coffee right in the middle of the intro, and a genuinely unhinged bit about my Minnesota loon mug. If you have ever wondered whether Faith and I have our act together before we hit record, please let this put the question to res
Grief Never Ends. Here's How to Live Alongside It | Chelsea Laliberte-Barnes (opens the original)
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I found Chelsea Laliberte-Barnes the way I find most things that stop me in my tracks: on the internet. It was a short video of her talking to her camera, ten years after a federal law passed in memory of her brother, finally getting to meet the congresswoman who co-sponsored it. Eighteen years after his death, she was a blubbering mess. And she was also a woman who had spent those eighteen years building a movement. That is the whole show, right there. That is the thing I keep trying to say. Ch
The Sophomore Slump Nobody Warns You About | Gen X Mom + Gen Z Daughter (opens the original)
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Everyone prepares you for freshman year. Nobody prepares you for the second one. In this XYZ segment of Wonder in the Weeds, Faith and I talk about the sophomore slump from both sides of it. I am the Gen X mom who has now sent two kids off twice, and Faith is the Gen Z daughter who calls sophomore year “the year I made all my mistakes.” We had been circling this conversation for months and finally sat down and did it, cameras and all. Freshman year comes with scaffolding. Dorm parents, RAs, stud
Sending Your Kid to College: What I Wish I Knew as a Parent (opens the original)
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Sending a kid to college is different every single time, even when it is the same kid and the same school. In this episode I talk through what I wish I had known as a parent dropping kids off at college, both as a mom on my third and final one and as a therapist. I get into why you should not try to be the parent you see on TikTok, why now is not the time to cram 18 years of wisdom into three weeks, and how to tell the difference between pain and discomfort when your instinct is to swoop in and
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