

Safe Space Radio
Safe Space Radio
Safe Space Radio is the show about subjects we’d struggle with less if we could talk about them more. We combine storytelling with empathy and expertise to foster courage in navigating challenging conversations and combating shame and stigma. Our new miniseries is Can We Talk?
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Mar 11, 2009 • 31min
Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Strength with Susan Ramsey
Susan Ramsey is the owner of Holistic Physical Therapy Services. In this episode of Safe Space Radio, Susan describes who is at risk for leakage and why. She leads the listener through a kegel exercise, talks about the health of peeing, and affirms the value of the pelvic floor.
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Mar 4, 2009 • 30min
Post-Menopausal Sexuality with Judith Black
In this episode of Safe Space Radio, storyteller Judith Black hilariously describes her own experience with menopause and her painful realization that she had “lost her hot.” She retells Snow White from the point of view of the Queen, and gives us a new superhero, Queen Crone, who finds her way to a new and deeply satisfying sexuality as an older woman.
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Feb 11, 2009 • 30min
The Fear of Not Being Good with Mike Elkin
Psychotherapist Mike Elkin suggests that many of us experience a fear of not being good as powerful threat. He describes how this fear plays itself out in couples and parenting relationships, and how we tend to express fear as either anger or guilt. He suggests that the most powerful antidote to fear is turning toward it with loving attention.
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Anticipatory Dementia with John Zeisel
Designer and sociologist John Zeisel talks about his work designing residences that optimize brain functioning and relational presence for people with Alzheimers.
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Jan 28, 2009 • 30min
Homelessness with Mair Honan
Street minister Pastor Mair Honan talks about her work with the homeless in Portland, Maine. She shares some of the inner struggles she has to confront in herself to do this work.
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Fear of Being a Bad Parent with MC
An anonymous interview with MC about the many ways she can blame herself for difficulties in parenting.
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Jan 14, 2009 • 30min
Vision Quest and Fear with Anne Yeomans
Therapist Anne Yeomans talks about going on a vision quest, a four night journey into the wilderness alone without food. Anne describes her encounters with fear and how her sense of connection to the stars and love ones sustained her.
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Aug 26, 2008 • 30min
Losing a Child with Katie Murray
Katie Murray talks to Safe Space Radio about losing her 6 year old son Chan to Leukemia. Katie describes her struggle to fight against despair, and the great value of other people asking her to talk about it and not avoid the subject.
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Aug 19, 2008 • 30min
Surviving Domestic Violence with Sherry Edwards
Sherry Edwards is a community response coordinator at Maine’s York County Domestic Violence Project, Caring Unlimited. She talks about her own experiences and what it takes to ask for help.
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Aug 12, 2008 • 30min
Talking to Kids about Adoption with Bob Childs
Psychologist Dr. Robert Childs specializes in the difficulties and shame that adoptees face in talking to their adoptive families about their biological parents. He addresses the myth that love is all an adoptee needs, and discusses the impact of searching for one’s biological parents as a way to address old fears and grief.
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