Let's Talk About Grief

This week officially marks the 10-year anniversary of the very first episode of Beautiful Anonymous, and we might have the perfect call for the occasion. Our caller learned as a teenager that the man she knew as her uncle was actually her biological father. And that's just the be ...  Show more

A potter who just had their biggest sales day ever calls in to talk about what life has been like since their political post went viral. They talk about the simultaneous blessing and curse of viral attention as a small business owner, the economics of online rage, and the emotion ...  Show more

The loss of a sibling can be devastating. It means the severing of a shared history and common memories. But the grief can be overshadowed by that of children, parents and partners. Kim Chakanetsa talks to an Irish writer and an academic from Botswana about how the death of a ...

This is a remarkable true story of how an elderly former engineer met a new partner, who eventually put in a care home without telling his family where he was. His daughter embarked on a long search to track him down - when she finally found him last Christmas he had advanced dem ...  Show more

Garrett Schlichte was exactly twice the age of his sister. When he was 28 and his sister was 14, she would dish to him on the phone about her teenage love life. But the feelings she was experiencing — like electric attraction and aching jealousy — were unfamiliar to Garrett. W ...

In today's episode, Breakup Coach Dorothy and guest Braveheart Melissa, a mom to two teenagers, talk about how she went from depressed to empowered after a breakup. 

Join them as they talk about Melissa's journey from splitting with her children's father, meeting her no ...