New York Times writer and author of "Second Life" Amanda Hess talks to us about motherhood, writing a book, quitting drinking while writing a book, benzos, anxiety, and how to be a steady-seeming parent in the chaotic digital nightmare-verse.  
 
Show Notes:
 
* "<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721361/second-life-by-amanda-hess/">Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age"</a>
* <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html">"Sinead O'Connor Remembers Things Differently"</a>
* "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/amanda-hess">Amanda Hess: NYT Archive"</a>
* <a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/">The Small Bow Newsletter!</a>
 * <a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/donate">Help Support TSB!</a>

New York Times writer and author of "Second Life" Amanda Hess talks to us about motherhood, writing a book, quitting drinking while writing a book, benzos, anxiety, and how to be a steady-seeming parent in the chaotic digital nightmare-verse. Show Notes: * "Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age" * "Sinead O'Connor Remembers Things Differently" * "Amanda Hess: NYT Archive" * The Small Bow Newsletter! * Help Support TSB!

New York Times writer and author of "Second Life" Amanda Hess talks to us about motherhood, writing a book, quitting drinking while writing a book, benzos, anxiety, and how to be a steady-seeming parent in the chaotic digital nightmare-verse.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
Show&nbsp;Notes:
 
* "<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721361/second-life-by-amanda-hess/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age"</a>
*&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">"Sinead O'Connor Remembers Things Differently"</a>
* "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/amanda-hess" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amanda Hess: NYT Archive"</a>
*&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Small Bow Newsletter!</a>
&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Support TSB!</a>

Days of Our Second Lives w/ Amanda Hess

The Small Bow Podcast is a recovery show – part interview, part storytelling – hosted by A.J. Daulerio, and based on the recovery newsletter thesmallbow.com. A.J. created TSB after he got out of rehab and wanted to hear stories about sobriety, mental health, and spirituality that he couldn’t easily find on the internet. 
We talk about recovery from all kinds of things: car crashes, identity crises, drugs, alcohol, ego. And even if you’re not in recovery, these stories and conversations have things to teach. Most people equate recovery with redemption – the part where people who’ve quit drugs or alcohol then tell you how they did it and how good their lives are now – but TSB focuses less on the beginning and ending of rock bottoms, and more about the middle part, making it through the woods. 
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The Small Bow Podcast is a recovery show – part interview, part storytelling – hosted by A.J. Daulerio, and based on the recovery newsletter thesmallbow.com. A.J. created TSB after he got out of rehab and wanted to hear stories about sobriety, mental health, and spirituality that he couldn’t easily find on the internet. We talk about recovery from all kinds of things: car crashes, identity crises, drugs, alcohol, ego. And even if you’re not in recovery, these stories and conversations have things to teach. Most people equate recovery with redemption – the part where people who’ve quit drugs or alcohol then tell you how they did it and how good their lives are now – but TSB focuses less on the beginning and ending of rock bottoms, and more about the middle part, making it through the woods. Join A.J. as he speaks with writers, entertainers, social workers, magazine editors, recovering addicts, recovering jerks – people – about how they made it through hard things and got better because of it. Maybe some of this will help you get better too.

The Small Bow Podcast is a recovery show – part interview, part storytelling – hosted by A.J. Daulerio, and based on the recovery newsletter thesmallbow.com. A.J. created TSB after he got out of rehab and wanted to hear stories about sobriety, mental health, and spirituality that he couldn’t easily find on the internet.&nbsp;
We talk about recovery from all kinds of things: car crashes, identity crises, drugs, alcohol, ego. And even if you’re not in recovery, these stories and conversations have things to teach. Most people equate recovery with redemption – the part where people who’ve quit drugs or alcohol then tell you how they did it and how good their lives are now – but TSB focuses less on the beginning and ending of rock bottoms, and more about the middle part, making it through the woods.&nbsp;
Join A.J. as he speaks with writers, entertainers, social workers, magazine editors, recovering addicts, recovering jerks – people – about how they made it through hard things and got better because of it. Maybe some of this will help you get better too.

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