ALL EPISODES
From the most recent to the rough early ones, they're all here.
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As our summer come to an end, a new state of mind emerges.
Turns out that summer memories have real health benefits... even if you discover this by running away from a cottage outhouse.
With 2 chosen family members and I now all in our fifties, we travel to Iceland to explore.
Our discoveries bring out my friends' tales of surviving a coma, the ease of nakedness... and the power of a rainbow bikini.
After more than a decade of not speaking to one another, Kate & I get in touch.
This brings a totally unpredictable and incredible new beginning.
'Reunion' is the end of a 3-episode arc.
For the whole story, check out episodes 12 ('Companionship') and 13 ('Implosion & Loss').
As my illness intensifies as well as my lack of attention to others, Kate & I find our friendship strained beyond repair.
'Implosion & Loss' is the middle of a 3-episode arc.
For the whole story, check out episodes 12 ('Companionship') and 14 ('Reunion').
When I move to a Montreal for university, I make a brilliant new friend named Kate.
But we struggle to stay connected when I have a startling episode of mental illness.
'Companionship' is first part of a 3-episode arc. For the whole story, check out episodes 13 ('Implosion & Loss') and 14 ('Reunion').
What is a friend?
This was my question to listeners. Will you agree with their answers?
We'll dig out the curious story of the word 'friend.' And how a deep friendship created a literary legacy... from prison.
As a teenager on a flight to Japan, I find myself in a five-hour conversation with a geneticist.
In that time, I make a friend for life.
This episode explores the range of the ways friendships can begin. And extend.
Are you polyamorous? Monogamous? Married? Divorced? In a serious relationship? A casual one? Are you asexual? Demisexual?
In a combo of something above? Something else?
In any permutation, what makes a healthy romance tick?
What does a African drum circle have to do with healing depression?
Why does Sylvester's disco classic still make us feel 'Mighty Real'?
How can a polka offer an invitation to love?
At important times of our lives, we can all dance it out.
How does music hardwire our brains?
Why does a dormant man spring to life at the sound of his favourite songs?
And a special treat: a performance of singer-songwriter Daniel Baylis's "Oliver Sacks" in its entirety.
Winter brings out extreme reactions in many of us.
What drives our experiences of winter? How does this affect our lives as a whole?
This episode zeroes in on ideas and reflections of listeners, and the ways their stories illuminate our understanding of the coldest season.
What does it mean to be happy?
Is there one universal trait?
Or is happiness expressed differently by each of us?
In this listener-guided episode, we peel back the layers of happiness to find out what might exist at its core.
A story of an unusual way I found myself in a year of happiness.
This springboards into Episode 5 ('Your Happiness Episode').
Schizophrenics are dangerous. Too many are on the loose.
Or so we've been led to believe.
Instead, let's skip the media tropes, and have a truthful chat about real life for people with schizophrenia.
Being at our most vulnerable can feel scary.
But in this episode, we dive into ways that vulnerability can set us free.
Aristotle's catharsis is matched with filmmaker Sarah Polley's essence of an aquafit class.
In the first episode I ever made, we dig out the misleading use of the word "psycho."
Anthony Perkins, star of the "Psycho" movies, describes an unexpectedly touching way he approaches fans of Norman Bates.