Episode 526: Laurel Braitman
Laurel Braitman is a science writer, the author of\xa0Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds, and the founder of Writing Medicine. Her new book is\xa0What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love.\n\u201cMy life was becoming unmanageable, in a way. I was using success in many ways like a drug, and I\u2019d say like an analgesic on the sorts of difficult feelings I hadn\u2019t wanted to face truly since childhood. And we are rewarded in this culture for these kinds of outward forms of success that often have nothing to do with what\u2019s going on inside of you.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@LaurelBraitman\n\nlaurelbraitman.com\n\n01:00\xa0Pop-Up Magazine\n\n\n01:00\xa0Animal Madness\xa0(Simon & Schuester \u2022 2015)\n\n05:00\xa0\u201cThe Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much\u201d\xa0(Atlas Obscura \u2022 March 2016)\n\n07:00\xa0Braitman\u2019sTED\xa0archive\n\n\n11:00\xa0\u201cBirds & Bees\u201d\xa0(Ira Glass \u2022 This American Life \u2022 May 2015)\n\n32:00\xa0\u201cDuck Syndrome\u201d\xa0(Arifeen Rahman \u2022 KQED \u2022 July 2019)\n\n40:00\xa0Dear Sugar\xa0archive\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices