Surviving Trauma and Having a Few Laughs with...

Megan Devine, author, psychotherapist, and one of the top grief experts today, wants you to know that grief is normal. It’s not a mental illness. That’s not to say grief is easy, of course, it’s absolutely not. And it isn’t to say grief is simple because it’s not that either. It’ ...  Show more

“Me no cry because cookie is finished,” Cookie Monster once said. “Me smile because cookie happened.” Eels has been a band for 35 years and just dropped their 16th studio album, with the Cookie Monster-inspired title Cookie Happened. In that time, Mark Oliver Everett (aka E) has ...  Show more

We keep it real on Calm Down with Erin and Charissa, good or bad. Unfortunately this week, it was terrible. Charissa opens up about a traumatic life event but in true CT fashion she finds some silver lining and humor in the situation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor ...  Show more

<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">October 8, 2015: Joel talks with Amanda Rosenberg. She's a comedy writer, and she reminds us how healing it is to laugh. (Yay suicide humor!) She also talks about feeling numb, being falsely diagnosed, wanting fr ...

Recovering from a car crash that smashed her face, listener Rebecca Kaduru stumbled across an episode of The Happiness Lab in which we interviewed wounded Iraq veteran JR Martinez. His story brought Rebecca great solace in her own painful journey to recovery. Following our recent ...  Show more