Rebel! Rebel! Rebel! On this episode, Jen is MAD. Join her. Don't become a rule-following robot.

Yanking Down Signs and Other Ways to Rebel Against BS

Alternate title: "find work INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH GRIEF." Join Jen as she asks herself if she anesthetizes herself through work and staying busy so she doesn't have to feel grief. Yikes.

"Find Work," Rhina P. Espaillat

"As small as a world and as large as alone" -- contradictions are the name of the game in this therapy session, along with the horrible thing chasing Jen, of course. Join her as she muddles her way through confusion, runs away, and jumps in the sea.

"maggy and milly and molly and may," E. E. Cummings

The ripeness of an apple is its downfall, but is that true of me, too? On this episode, be a fly on the wall for Jen's therapy session where she explores ambition, accomplishments, and ambiguity while being surrounded by voices yelling, "NOW WHAT?"

"The Orchard," Mary Oliver

Snakes shedding, peeling bananas, and cursing God -- these are just a few issues Jen talks about in her therapy session this week.

"Summer," Robin Coste Lewis

"tangerines," Jen Steed Knapp

Anyone else still traumatized from middle school? That trauma and more on this episode of My Therapist Is a Poem. Join Jen as she knows she doesn't know anything, but tries to know anyway -- this time from the words of Mary Oliver.

"I Don't Want To Be Demure or Respectable," Mary Oliver

So you wanna know what my podcast is about… In My Therapist Is a Poem, I, Jen, will be having therapy sessions — with poetry. We don’t give enough credit to poetry for opening doors to life experience and asking questions that no one else — not even a licensed therapist — might think to ask. Every episode will feature a poem-as-therapist, but no session will be the same. So, are we ready to begin? Great! "The poem will see you now."