Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 213 ft. Tamara Jong

Brooke Warner

Tamara Jong joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Jehovah’s Witness, her mother’s untimely passing, losing faith, disguising who we are, trying multiple approaches to a writing practice, navigating material that resists us, becoming vulnerable, the tenderness of losing, learning to trust ourselves, weaving in motherhood and mother figures in our work, finding community and home, spirituality without religion, when we feel comfortable enough to be ourselves, and her new memoir in essays Worldly Girls.

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Episode 267 ft. Patricia Knight Meyer

Episode 267 ft. Patricia Knight Meyer

Patricia Knight Meyer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about being a Black Market Baby during the Baby Scoop Era, coming to terms with adoption trauma, the consequences of growing up without identification, mothers who were shamed into relinquishment,...

Episode 266 ft. Amy Irvine

Episode 266 ft. Amy Irvine

Amy Irvine joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about maternal lineage and what gets handed down to us, exploring the impact of our women ancestors, feeling trapped by motherhood, reckoning with and disrupting deep cultural conditioning, living a remote life and...