Future Tripping
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Do you know anyone who doesn’t feel overwhelmed right now? Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is an internationally renowned trauma expert and bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. She has helped people and systems, for over three decades, find their way through really hard times. In this podcast, we will have conversations about what to do in the face of our overwhelm and how to do it, and we will be guided by listeners’ questions. Each week, Laura and a guest will discuss concrete strategies we can use to mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to bring our A-game to whatever we’re doing (or as close as we can get), and move beyond what can feel like permanent survival mode. Some weeks will be geared more towards adults, and others towards adolescents and anyone who loves, lives, or works with them. Together, we’ll focus on the merits of staying present, not missing out on today, and trying to avoid future tripping. We hope that Future Tripping will offer listeners insight into what is currently overwhelming them and tactical skills for both sustaining themselves and contributing, however much they’d like, to larger systemic and structural change.
Episodes
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Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 7min
Lily Cornell Silver: Loss, Life & the Choices We Make
This week’s conversation is with Lily Cornell Silver. Lily is a college student, musician and devoted mental health advocate. This episode brings you our first of many episodes with adolescents and young adults, the people who hold the future of our world in their hearts and hands. Lily is the host of the podcast Mind Wide Open, created in honor of her father, the beloved musician Chris Cornell, to destigmatize conversations around mental health and to encourage action in supporting and sustaining oneself through all that we encounter in life. Lily and Laura discuss Lily’s experiences navigating grief, trauma and overwhelm, and Lily shares what she’s found to be helpful in the aftermath of loss and how she has interrupted isolation around despair, including when that moved into the realm of suicidal ideation. They discuss trauma mastery and rising to the challenge of being compassionate with others while also being self-respecting and realistic. Join Laura and Lily as they strategize on living in the moment and maintaining hope for the future, even in the face of broken systems and immense uncertainty.
Feb 10, 2022 • 59min
Ed Yong: Overwhelm and Trauma in Journalism and Society
Welcome to our inaugural episode! Join Laura and Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong as they talk about bearing witness to complex societal issues and what Ed does to keep going. He shares what it's been like to navigate the vicarious trauma that comes from increased and prolonged exposure and the challenges of trying to maintain his own equilibrium. Listen to hear what Ed and Laura suggest as strategies to be present in the work that needs to be done to bring scientific truth and human stories to the world, and how to sustain oneself while you do it.
Feb 4, 2022 • 9min
Introducing Future Tripping
Join Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Rich Francey as they discuss what the Future Tripping podcast is all about. In this short episode, Laura’s old friend Rich interviews her and she shares with us a little bit about herself, her work, and why she created this podcast. They reflect on the state of overwhelm so many of us are experiencing right now, and how we can identify strategies for staying present and trying not to future trip.
Feb 1, 2022 • 2min
Trailer
Welcome to Future Tripping. Do you feel overwhelmed right now? Do you know anyone who doesn’t? Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is an internationally renowned trauma expert and bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. For over three decades she has helped people and systems find their way through really hard times. In this podcast, we will have conversations about what to do in the face of our overwhelm and how to do it, and we will be guided by listeners’ questions. Each week, Laura and a guest will discuss concrete strategies we can use to mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to bring our A-game to whatever we’re doing (or as close as we can get), and move beyond what can feel like permanent survival mode. Some weeks will be geared more towards adults, and others towards adolescents and anyone who loves, lives, or works with them. Together, we’ll focus on the merits of staying present, not missing out on today, and trying to avoid future tripping.
