Thanks For Asking

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Thanks For Asking episodes

August 19, 2021 Sh*tty First Drafts With Anne Lamott
Welcome to the Terrible Reading Club, sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy. Think of it as our book club for truly terrible times. Haven’t read the book we’re discussing? Good news: In this reading club, that’s not a requirement.
Today, we’re chatting with Anne Lamott about her latest book, Dusk, Night, Dawn, which explores how we see ourselves in the context of seriously dark moments.
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53 min
August 17, 2021 Motherland
Children are often taught to respect and honor their parents. For Elissa Altman, this is complicated by the fact that her mother has narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. Elissa couldn’t escape her mother’s emotional and verbal abuse when she was a child. Now, as an adult, she must learn how to untangle herself from her aging mother’s web and still provide the care she needs.
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53 min
August 10, 2021 Thenedra
Adoption is often viewed as a happy ending, and sometimes it is! But for Thenedra, her experiences as a child in the foster care system and later as a trans-racial adoptee were — and still are — much more complicated than that. This is an episode about what can happen when trans-racial foster and adoptive parents are not just unprepared to raise traumatized children, but also unprepared to raise Black children in a predominantly white society.
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1 hr 2 min
August 06, 2021 "An Ordinary Age" With Rainesford Stauffer - TTFA PREMIUM
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10 min
June 08, 2021 From The Edge
If you know what it feels like to be on the brink of an emotional meltdown, you’re not alone. Many of us feel like we’re at the end of a rapidly fraying rope … like we’re falling behind in life and it’s solely our fault … like the reason for our problems is our inability to make lemonade out of climate change and racial injustice and a global pandemic.
Nora recently asked folks to share what it’s like to be standing at the edge of an existential crisis, and you responded with your stories.
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56 min
June 01, 2021 Bread, Sweat, and Tears
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of folks got really into bread baking. Banana bread! Biscuits! Sourdough! (So much sourdough.) Ashley got into bread baking too, but for an entirely different reason. A week before quarantine began, Ashley’s wife died of a heart attack after years of living with cerebral palsy. Ashley wasn’t just lonely … she was ALONE. So she turned to baking as a way to heal.
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55 min
May 25, 2021 Name It
Ryan’s life often feels like a Venn diagram. Ryan the person loves listening to metal and The Grateful Dead. Ryan the person is a sneakerhead who reads Punisher comic books at night. Ryan the person is also queer — bisexual — and a recovered alcoholic.
Brother Ryan, on the other hand, is a man who has taken strict religious vows. Brother Ryan is a man who believes in the beauty of communal living. Brother Ryan spends his life dedicated to service through education.
These two versions of Ryan must find a way to exist together, or he could lose everything.
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51 min
May 25, 2021 Name It
Ryan’s life often feels like a Venn diagram. Ryan the person loves listening to metal and The Grateful Dead. Ryan the person is a sneakerhead who reads Punisher comic books at night. Ryan the person is also queer — bisexual — and a recovered alcoholic.

Brother Ryan, on the other hand, is a man who has taken strict religious vows. Brother Ryan is a man who believes in the beauty of communal living. Brother Ryan spends his life dedicated to service through education.

These two versions of Ryan must find a way to exist together, or he could lose everything.

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Read the transcript for this episode here.

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47 min
May 18, 2021 Leticia & Anthony (Part 2)
In our last episode, you met Leticia and her son Anthony. At the end of part one, things were finally looking good for both mother and son: Anthony had just welcomed his own daughter into the world; Leticia had married a wonderful man and was settling into life in the suburbs. But mental illness is a vicious beast, and in this episode, Leticia revisits 2017 — the last year of Anthony’s life.
Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up.
Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here.
Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here.
Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis.
56 min
May 18, 2021Leticia & Anthony (Part 2)
In our last episode, you met Leticia and her son Anthony. At the end of part one, things were finally looking good for both mother and son: Anthony had just welcomed his own daughter into the world; Leticia had married a wonderful man and was settling into life in the suburbs. But mental illness is a vicious beast, and in this episode, Leticia revisits 2017 — the last year of Anthony’s life.
Can’t get enough TTFA? Sign up for TTFA Premium for $7.99 a month. You’ll get access to exclusive bonus content, ad-free episodes, extended guest interviews and more! Visit TTFA.org/Premium to get started.
Shop for your favorite TTFA gear at TTFAmerch.com.
When you shop our Bookshop.org store, you support the author, independent bookstores AND our show! Shop here.
Read the transcript for this episode here.
You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis.
TTFA is public media. Which means we are supported by you. You can join us with a contribution at ttfa.org/donate

And check out our sponsors this week:
Thirdlove: thirdlove.com/terrible
Purple.com: purple.com/thanks10 with code thanks10
Rothy's: rothys.com/terrible
Axios: axios.com
52 min

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A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators(me) are standing by to take your calls.